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Thursday, March 14, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM (PDT)
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Ever wonder what the difference is between Sparkling Wine, Cava, and Champagne? Join Charlotte Chipperfield, Owner of The Wine Key, in San Francisco as she navigates the effervescent world of Bubbly.
The $40 registration fee grants you attendance to the hour long class on Thursday, March 14th which includes:
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You don't have to be French to make this delicious flat pastry filled with fruit or savory things. At this session you will learn the tricks of galette making from Carina Cavagnaro, local pastry chef. She will teach you how to make and shape the dough, then fill it with local fruits. Then you take it home to bake and enjoy it with friends.
Please bring with you a 3-4 quart size mixing bowl and a rolling pin if you have. If you have neither of these, come anyway! We'll have extra.
PLEASE NOTE: All summer programs are free of charge for youth age 10 and older, including adults. Space is limited for some sessions, so please sign up ahead of time. We want to be sure to have enough materials for everyone. If you forget, or decide you want to show up on the spur of the moment, you are welcome to come and see if we have room for you. Chances are you'll get lucky!

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WINNIPEG -- Officials at St. Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg are trying to figure out how a
circumcision was performed on the wrong baby.
As a results of the mistake, the hospital has suspended circumcisions of male newborns.
Spokeswoman Helene Vrignon says she can't release details.
She says the identities of two baby boys on the same ward were mixed-up.
Vrignon says the family of the boy who was incorrectly circumcised hadn't decided
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that is soo horrible. totally why if this baby is born in the hospital, i am going everywhere with him/her. i am hoping for homebirth so i won't have to deal with this.
we circ at my hospital and the times i have had to assist, there is a whole process for identifying the baby and making sure we have the correct little boy. how sad. i wish we would stop doing circs in our hospital. i am so lucky that peds rarely do them at night and when i see one early AM, i get busy real quick so the charge has to help.
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Personally I was kind of freaked out by the idea of microchips being implanted in my children via needles. (just like they were in my cats!)
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Personally I was kind of freaked out by the idea of microchips being implanted in my children via needles. (just like they were in my cats!) Hopefully, that is an irrational fear, but I had it nonetheless.
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Originally Posted by purplemama
When I gave birth to DS2, I was in the hospital room alone with him (DH had gone home for a shower) and a doctor came in and said, "I'm here to circumcise your son." I looked at him and said, "Um..., we're not circumcising him," and he looked at his paperwork and said, "Oh, sorry," and walked out.
Originally Posted by hunnybumm
Also, with my local hospital the baby is taken to the nursery at every shift change for 2 hours (now it is only 2 times a day, when DS was born it was 3 times a day). I have talked to quite a few woman who have tried to keep their baby with them to no avail. So it isn't always possible to be with your baby 24/7 at every hospital. Sad but true.
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Yeah,I hope they sue the living daylights out of that hospital and scare them out of resuming circs.
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OMG! I would be the mother from hell if that happened to my baby!
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Following July 4th break, Fox Nation gets around to pushing Drudge's homophobic Google smear
Perhaps it was the July 4th holiday but Fox Nation has finally gotten around to advancing the disgustingly homophobic Drudge Report post that Media Matters' Ben Dimiero wrote about [1] last week:
Proving yet again that his commitment to breaking "news" that appeals to the conservative noise machine trumps any commitment to facts and reality, Matt Drudge is currently hosting the following link on his website:
The article [2] he links to makes no mention of gay employees being paid "more than" straight employees. What it does indicate is that Google will be adjusting the paychecks for its same-sex couples in order to cover a "disparity" in federal taxes on domestic partner benefits.
True to form, Fox Nation just can't miss an opportunity to pass along homophobic misinformation [3] from the conservative noise machine. The right-wing website now has a link hyping Drudge's spin of the story on its main page and has also posted a link on its Twitter profile [4]
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Gushing With Wine
We've been there too. We were sitting around the house thinking to ourselves, "I really want something sweet. What do I want that's sweet? What did I used to eat when I wanted something sweet? No, not cookies. No, not ice cream. No, not cake. Oh! Right: GUSHERS!"
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Answer: G. Debbas Wine-Filled Chocolates.
They're like adult Gushers! On the outside, they're a simple chocolate candy, but then you bite in, and a river of liquid rushes into your mouth. But this isn't just any liquid: it's wine! Your kids can't have 'em because that's illegal, and you can still get that Gusher-like experience you desire. It's wonderful.


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Sure, classic New York cheesecake, made with cream cheese is great. But I have a soft-spot for ricotta cheesecake. It's tangier than New York cheesecake and, dare I say it, lighter. If you've never had one before, you might be surprised by the texture. It's slightly "gritty". But not in a bad way, I promise! It's just different.
I like to flavor this cheesecake with lemon. It hightlights the slightly tangy flavor of ricotta. You could use orange juice instead of lemon. That's lovely too!
By the way, occasionally this cheesecake cracks when cooled. Don't worry about it. Just sprinkle confectioners' sugar over the top to hide the cracks!
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- 1/2 cup white rice flour
- 1/3 cup sweet rice flour
- 1/3 cup tapioca starch
- 1/3 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, chilled and cut into small pieces
- 1 large egg
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- 2 pounds ricotta cheese (be sure to use "whole milk" ricotta)
- 1 cup granulated sugar
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- In bowl of food processor, combine white rice flour, sweet rice flour, tapioca starch, confectioners' sugar, baking powder, and xanthan gum. Pulse to combine.
- Add butter. Pulse until no large pieces of butter remain. Add egg. Pulse until dough forms, about one minute.
- Press dough into bottom and up 1/3 of the side of 9-inch springform pan. Chill for 15 minutes.
- Bake until golden brown, about 20 minutes.
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- In bowl of stand mixer, cream ricotta cheese and granulated sugar together until smooth. Add eggs, one at a time. Beat well between each addition. Stop mixer and scrape down bottom and sides of the bowl.
- Add white rice flour and lemon juice and zest. Mix until smooth.
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The domino has finally fallen. Dwight Howard, in his typical back and forth waffling style, has chosen to leave the Los Angeles Lakers via free agency for the Houston Rockets. In doing so Howard leaves money on the table (in the neighborhood of $30 million), but presumably has a better supporting team around him in Houston. He joins James Harden, Jeremy Lin and company on a 45 win team that also traded for Thomas Robinson this off season. The Rockets hope that Howard will instantly give them the inside scoring option that the team needed to be a championship contender. In the end, Howard had narrowed his choice down to staying with the Lakers or moving on to Houston or the Golden State Warriors. Golden State had made themselves attractive in the last few days by adding veteran Andre Iguodala to an exciting young team. The Rockets might not be done however. Brian Windhorst reports that current Houston big man Omer Asik is not very happy about the Rockets' recent acquisition- "Asik has no interest in being Howard's backup or playing next to him, a source close to the Rockets' center told ESPN.com. It is not yet clear if Asik would demand a trade. It is possible the Rockets will look to engage the Atlanta Hawks in a sign-and-trade deal for free agent Josh Smith. The Hawks are open to making a sign-and-trade deal with the Rockets for Smith, league sources said. Smith and Howard played together on summer teams as teenagers and have talked in the past about becoming teammates in the NBA. Asik, a quality defender who averaged career highs in points (10.1), rebounds (11.7) and blocks (2.7) while starting all 82 games for Houston last season, has a complicated contract that could become a challenge in a trade." Could the Cavaliers have an interest in trading for Asik? The 7-0 center from Turkey turned 27 years old on July 4th. He is durable playing in all 82 games of his 3 year career twice, and playing 66 games the other. He is a good defensive player and rebounder that is developing his offensive game. He averaged 12.3 points per game in the playoffs for the Rockets. In addition to the Atlanta Hawks, Yahoo's Adrian Wojnarowski reports that the New Orleans Pelicans are serious about acquiring Asik. [Related: Earl Clark signing low on risk, low on excitement]
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Applied Network Security Monitoring is the essential guide to becoming an NSM analyst from the ground up. This book takes a fundamental approach to NSM, complete with dozens of real-world examples that teach you the key concepts of NSM.
Network security monitoring is based on the principle that prevention eventually fails. In the current threat landscape, no matter how much you try, motivated attackers will eventually find their way into your network. At that point, it is your ability to detect and respond to that intrusion that can be the difference between a small incident and a major disaster.
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Hey Enhobby readers. It's been a looooooooonnnnng while since my last article. I've been busy with a project I can't quite announce just yet and it's been taking up literally all my time (including some weekends). Last week, I took a couple days off from my current project to let you all know I'm still here. When I first started this blog, I promised an inside look at the company and those who work behind the scenes. In a series of articles I will be presenting interviews I have done and will do with some of my coworkers, especially those who some of you might have seen or know. I will start this series off with one Bobby Guarisco, or Bobby Gens Ace as some of you might know him.
-Hey Bobby. Thanks for taking the time to sit down to talk with me. Why don't you introduce yourself and give us a brief idea of what you do for HobbyPartz.
Sure, my name is Bobby Guarisco. I work in the marketing department of HobbyPartz and our affiliated websites, NitroPlanes, XHeli, and NitroRCX. I'm in charge of sponsorship programs, as well as promotional events (PR events so called). A lot of times, I help promote certain causes (raise awareness for breast cancer, education, etc.) through the hobby itself. Currently my job also requires me to focus on product promotion, making sure our products are up to par, and keeping the sponsors happy.
-How did you get into RCs? Was it an interest you had before? Or did working in the industry spur your interest?
My dad worked for toy company Mattel when I was growing up, so I was introduced pretty early to Tyco RC cars. And probably due to his influence too, the toy industry was always an interest to me. I wasn't initially into the high grade RCs that we work with today, but that toy industry interest definitely sparked something that allowed me to make the smooth transition into "hardcore" RCs and develop a love for it. It's something on a totally different level, but has always been an interest.
A lot of times, I get embarrassing question like "how do you fly, or what do you fly, or what car do you run". I'm embarrassed to say I'm not the best helicopter or plane pilot nor the best car driver in the industry. Even without being a top pilot or driver, I'm grateful that this job and my position in the marketing department allow me the opportunity to have fun and meet such awesome people who are great at RCs. Despite not being the best pilot or driver, I do know our products quite well and am able to use that knowledge to help out pros who work with us and fans that come to me with questions about our products.
-What are you looking forward to in the RC world? Any hints you can give us about what's to come at HPs?
One thing I notice is that technology is changing and improving rapidly, and the industry is constantly shifting because of that. For example you see new designs and technology displayed in shows every successive year. There's newer and better motors, better electronic systems, transmitters are constantly improving and have newer and better features. You're definitely going to be seeing a lot of improved and new products, especially in the toy grade range. Our R&D is doing a lot of work in that regard, especially with our battery packs. They're getting smaller and lighter, while becoming more powerful at the same time. Oh yeah, and you asked me about events?
-Yeah, if you could tell me a bit more about them. You seem to go to a lot of events.
Yeah, the last big event I went to was the IRCHA 2012 event. An event I'm looking forward to is the AMA event coming up on Jan 11th 2013. It's one of the few events that I will actually be able work with a bigger team. The marketing team will be more involved and it's not just a 3 man team like some of the farther away (from southern California) events I go to like IRCHA was.
-What was your favorite event? What makes it so memorable?
Definitely, my favorite event was the RCX show from earlier this year down in Long Beach, CA. It's really interesting to go to events and actually interact with consumers and it's one of the few events that I was able to talk to some of the people I've been in contact with on Facebook, email, and phone for quite a while, but never actually met in person till that day.
More recently, another fun event I remember would definitely be IRCHA 2012. I've never seen anything like it. So many golf carts…so many people and so many registered flyers. The amount of skilled pilots from all over the world (Europe, South America, etc.) out there really was unreal. I got to meet a lot of them there and witness their flying first hand. One thing they did was have a bunch of 3d fliers fly their helis at the same time; I never witnessed anything that crazy before and it was a bit overwhelming. And of course, the off time with the fireworks, the parties, and meet and greets was pretty fun, allowing me to get to know everyone not only on a professional, but also a social basis. It made those four days of craziness definitely worth it.
-So as we all know shows and events don't happen in a day. There's a lot of planning and communication that has to happen to set these things up. What's your role in all of that to get HPs, XHeli, NitroPlanes, and NitroRCX to those events and making sure everything runs smoothly?
It's kind of funny. A lot of people think we're a bigger company than we really are, so I do a lot of the work from the planning to booking the hotel, getting the rental car, and even making sure some of our sponsored drivers and pilots have their plane tickets. We only have a 3-4 man team at a lot of these events, so I get stuck doing a bit of secretary work both there and at the office. Setting up, packing and unpacking boxes, and coordinating some of our staff there. Once the event, starts, I lead the communication between the staff and sponsored drivers and pilots make sure everyone has what they need to get their job done; on top of that I find time to meet new sponsors, potential pilots and drivers that we're thinking about sponsoring, and talking a bit with other companies as well.
-So you do pretty much everything.
Haha yeah, pretty much everything except the fun stuff like our pilots and drivers get to do.
-We work in different areas, so I actually don't see what's happening in your end of the office. Now that we've gone over your activities outside the office, why don't you give us an idea of your typical work day.
When I'm not busy planning for events? Haha. Well, a typical work day typically starts with me grabbing some coffee. I'm sad that we don't have a coffee machine at work, but I deal with it. Work for me starts with checking my emails and making sure communication lines get attended to in the morning. With over 100 sponsored people on my list, lots of emails and phone calls come in with issues more complicated than a "yes or no" answer and I make sure all of them are answered. After that, the marketing department has meetings throughout the day to upcoming schedule items and make sure we plan sufficiently for them. Sometimes I also go out with VIPs and our test pilots and drivers checking out new products, and sometimes go out to the local airfields and tracks to talk with some local hobbyists to get an idea of what they're looking for and what they want to see from the industry. Things change a bit from time to time, but basically, that's my day at the office.
-Haha, that sounds very fun indeed. Well, thank you for your time Bobby, is there anything you'd like to say to our readers (and your fans)?
Working in this industry also allows for some pretty fun things to happen. It's really fun to watch something go from concept to production in R&D to finally hitting the market. I have a lot of friends in the office that I really enjoy working with, so despite my 45 minutes to an hour drive that I take every day to get the office, I'm really excited to wake up every day and get to work.
Just keep your eyes open, we have a lot of things planned and look forward to showing you guys in the future. Our product developer has been showing us some cool new concepts that we're excited to put into production so keep your eyes out for new product announcements. Come follow us on our Facebook page [link them all] so you guys know what we got planned right when we announce it. Oh, and come say hi to us at the AMA show on Jan 11-13 next year if you're in the area! I'll be personally attending that. If you want to reach me directly, I'm Bobby Gens Ace on Facebook and you can always reach me there.
Hope all you readers enjoyed that little inside look into the life of Bobby Guarisco. And I also want to include a thank you to Bobby for taking the time out of his busy schedule to sit down with me for this interview. Make sure you guys go add Bobby Gens Ace on Facebook if you want a great guy on your friends list! For my next interview, I'll be talking to two of our very own, and well known nitro girls, Leanna and Nancy. Please stay tuned and look forward to that! Till next time, happy hobbying!


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CHOICES Advisory Board Holds Special Meeting
GAINESVILLE- Choices is a healthcare program paid for by taxpayers in Alachua County.
The program helps uninsured county residents gain acess to healthcare services that would otherwise be unaffordable .
During budget talks, County Commissioner Winston Bradley offered suggestions to the CHOICES board on what to do with their excess funds.
Chairperson of the CHOICES advisory board, Dr. Allan March says Winston, "asked me to look at the feasability of developing a trust fund using the remaining CHOICES fund balanceby discontinuing the enrollment of new members in the CHOICES program."
The program services more than 4300 residents with medical, dental, vision, and pharmacy benefits as well as access to several other community based programs.
The advisory board voted to continue the program until the end of 2013.
March says, "there's a proposal to take $3.3 million from the CHOICES fund balance and use that money to pay the past medicaid expenses of the county."
Supporters and recipients of CHOICES services say they want the money to stay where it is and any extra to go toward externally funded community health programs...Money that was collected from surtax between 2005 and 2011.
On August 14th the Director of the CHOICES program, Robert Bailey will present the advisory board's recommendations to County Commissioners.
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Hicklin Lake will get four "Floating Islands" to aid cleanup effort
Hicklin Lake, the polluted body of water anchoring Lakewood Park in White Center, finally received good news on Feb. 25 with King County announcing they have secured funding to bring in four "floating islands" that will be used to capture "excess nutrients in the water that lead to Hicklin Lakes's water quality problems."
King County's Department of Natural Resources and Parks (DNRP) said a $50,000 grant from the Washington Department of Ecology Algae Control Program will cover the majority of an $86,000 project.
The islands will be "250 square feet in size, built of a durable polycarbonate, and anchored in place," according to a press release.
DNRP goes on to explain:
"The islands are perforated with dozens of holes that are planted with a variety of native wetland species. The plants' roots will reach into lake as they grow, where they will take up excess nutrients.
A bio-film of microscopic organisms that forms along the bottom of the floating islands and the plant roots will also take up nutrients from the water.
King County staff will take monthly water quality samples from locations throughout the lake to test the islands' effectiveness at absorbing pollutants for three summers.
The project is expected to start this spring and will be completed by June 2015 at a total cost of more than $86,000.
Hicklin Lake water quality has been a concern for years, with elevated levels of fecal coliform bacteria and phosphorus, as well as a history of harmful algae blooms that have posed potential health threats to people, pets and wildlife.
The lake has been treated twice with alum to reduce phosphorus levels – first in 2005 and again in 2011. It is hoped that the floating islands will prove to be effective and will help to reduce the need for alum application or types of in-lake nutrient controls."
One becomes four
Before White Center and the rest of North Highline went to the polls in November to soundly reject Burien's annexation bid, DNRP announced plans in August to pilot a single floating island. The plan came together in great part due to pressure from Friends of Hicklin Lake and their found, Dick Thurnau, who researched the floating island concept and presented it to the county.
The single island's future was in question before the annexation vote as it was likely the lake and park would come under Burien jurisdiction with a "yes" vote. A resounding "no" was the result, putting Hicklin back in King County's court.
Sally Bartley Abella, a freshwater ecologist and senior engineer for DNRP, explained how the program expanded to four islands:
"The short story about how the islands grew from one to four is that I was able to procure a grant from the Washington Department of Ecology Algae Control Program using the King County funds I had available as a match for the dollars I requested in the proposal," she said. "Ecology is also very interested in how well these islands might work, and they appreciated our proposal to do some independent monitoring both near and far from the islands over several years to check for nutrient reduction in Hicklin Lake."
Friends of Hicklin Lake had expressed concern that a single island in the original plan would not produce clear results on the technology's effectiveness. Abella agreed that having four instead of one will provide more robust results.
"Being able to install four islands and monitor for multiple years are a big advantages in testing these systems," she explained. "It was not clear if one island could make a difference in a short amount of time, either in water nearby or farther away. Based on the suggestion of a company who makes the structures, four should make an impact on nutrients throughout the lake. So, having four islands equally spaced around the shoreline of the lake not only gives us good replication for effectiveness near the islands, but it also gives us a reasonable chance to see if they are effective on a whole lake basis.
"It makes for a much better study, of course. But even more important, it greatly improves the odds for their being effective in dealing with the pollutant problems in Hicklin Lake," Abella added.
Abella said DNRP is currently in the process of soliciting bids from floating island manufacturers. From there, "Our current plan is to complete the permit process with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife by the end of April, finalize location and design plans with KC Parks by the end of May, and have planting and installation completed by the end of July."
Thurnau, the 86-year-old watchdog of Hicklin Lake who taught his children how to swim there back when people dared enter the water, said the recent development is "wonderful news," although he still harbors lingering concerns over the budget for, and size of the islands based on his own conversations with Floating Island International. Thurnau said FII told him 1,000 sq. foot islands would be needed at an estimated cost of around $175,000 in total.
Abella said DNRP's budget of $86,000 "comes down to available dollars to carry out the project," and that the quote given to Thurnau was for islands with aerators, a more expensive model than the "passive" model DNRP will implement.
"We can afford passive islands, which the company says are also effective," she said, also adding that the 250 sq. foot islands are consistent with King County's plans from the beginning.
Thurnau said he is looking forward to the possibility of TAF students at the nearby Bethaday Learning Space working with DNRP scientists for school projects, and hopes the floating island technology will eventually lead to a clean Hicklin Lake the community will once again use to congregate and swim.
"That's what we would like to see," he said.
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Demba Ba was born in Sèvres, which is a community in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France, about six miles from the center of Paris.
Demba Ba – on his way to PSG this summer?
Demba Ba still has a £7M release clause in his contract and Newcastle have been trying to get him to sign a new deal at Newcastle.
But Demba Ba has every right to refuse to sign the deal and Newcastle would have to sell him in the summer for £7M, but apparently Ba himself would get around half of that and there would be little left for Newcastle.
And that would mount up to a huge mistake by the Newcastle club, since the lad is probably worth all of £20M now, so exactly why that clause was put into the contract will be a good question.
It's about two weeks ago that Alan Pardew asked fans to try to persuade Demba Ba to sign his new deal.
But there are now rumors coming out of the club that Ba wants to move to his home town club Paris Saint Germaine.
We get told of rumors all the time but we've been sent a number of them over the last week or so about Ba, but of course we have no idea if they are true.
And the £3M or so he would get as part of the deal, and the huge wages rich Qatar-owned PSG could pay him, may have already turned his head.
Qatar Sports Investments is now the sole owner of Paris Saint-Germain, and they originally purchased 70% of the club last May, but they have now become the sole owner after the American investment fund, Colony Capital, sold its remaining 30% stake in the French club only recently.
The club's new owner, Nasser Al-Khelaifi, has said that he is ready to invest €100M (about £83M) to strengthen the team in the summer, and it looks he could Demba Ba on the cheap, which is one reason Ba could get even bigger wages at PSG.
We hope this is all not true, but the longer we hear nothing about Demba Ba signing his new contract at Newcastle, the more chance there will be that we'll lose him in the summer.
But the way we look at it is that if he doesn't want to stay and play for Newcastle, so be it.
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Benghazi on the Record: Asked and Answered
There clearly were stand down orders given to people not only in Benghazi but also in Tripoli and the State Department's counter-terrorism team, the FEST team, which is probably the worst of all.
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Multiple bipartisan investigations have determined that no "stand down" order was issued to military personnel in Tripoli on the night of the attacks. U.S. military officials throughout the chain of command report that an order was issued "to remain in place" in Tripoli to provide security and medical assistance, which saved the lives of wounded evacuees.
Sources that have answered this question:
- House Armed Services Committee Republican Staff Report
- Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Bipartisan Report
- Commander of Special Operations Command Africa
- Commander of the Four-Person Special Operations Team in Tripoli
- AFRICOM Commander General Carter Ham
- Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey
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Rep. Martha Roby:
No "Stand Down" Order
Chairman of the House Armed Services Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Martha Roby reported that the four-person Commander was "not told to 'stand down.'"In a statement to the press, she explained: "Rather, he was ordered to remain in Tripoli to defend Americans in anticipation of further attacks." The Commander "acknowledged that had he deployed to Benghazi, not only would Americans in Tripoli have been left defenseless, but his forces could not have arrived in Benghazi soon enough to make a difference. These are important facts to clarify because there have been rumors and reports to the contrary."
Source: Press Release (emphasis added), Rep. Martha Roby, June 27, 2013
Multiple Sources Already Answered This Question
House Armed Services Committee Republican Staff Report"There was no 'stand down' order issued to U.S. military personnel in Tripoli who sought to join the fight in Benghazi."
Source: House Armed Services Committee, Feb. 10, 2014
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Bipartisan Report"The Committee has reviewed the allegations that U.S. personnel, including in the IC or DoD, prevented the mounting of any military relief effort during the attacks, but the Committee has not found any of these allegations to be substantiated."
Source: Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Jan. 15, 2014
Commander of Special Operations Command AfricaRear Admiral Brian Losey addressed this allegation first in a briefing before the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations in June of 2013, and then again in a transcribed interview with Congressional staff in March of 2014, where he stated: "There was never an order to stand down. The order, as I communicated it to the director of operations, was to remain in place and continue to provide security in Tripoli because of the uncertain environment."
Source: Transcribed Interview with Congressional Staff, March 14, 2014
Commander of the Four-Person Special Operations Team in TripoliThe Commander of the four-person Special Operations Team on the ground in Tripoli addressed this allegation twice, first before the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations in June of 2013, where he stated: "Madam Chairman, I was not ordered to stand down. I was ordered to remain in place." He further explained that if his team had left on the plane to Benghazi, "it could have been catastrophic" because "The Special Forces medic was instrumental in providing the support to the wounded that returned. We would not have been in Tripoli in order to provide that support if we would have got on the plane. The decision by my higher headquarters to not get on that plane was the correct decision, in hindsight." He again reaffirmed his statements during a transcribed interview with Congressional staff in March of 2014.
Source: House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, June 26, 2013
AFRICOM Commander General Carter HamGeneral Carter Ham confirmed to congressional staff in his transcribed interview that the decision to keep that team on the ground in Tripoli was made by the Commander of Special Operations Command Africa, Rear Admiral Losey, and explained: "I do agree with Admiral Losey's decision. At the time, the situation in Tripoli was very uncertain. There was a real concern, significant concern on the part of the Embassy that the Embassy and its personnel in Tripoli might be threatened. And so there was a necessity to make sure there was adequate security there."
Source: Transcribed Interview, April 9, 2014
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin DempseyGeneral Dempsey testified before the Senate Budget Committee in June of 2013 that "they were not told to stand down," but instead that "the mission they were asked to perform was not in Benghazi but was at Tripoli airport" because "they would contribute more by going to the Tripoli airport to meet the casualties upon return." General Dempsey explained: "By the time they contacted their command center in Stuttgart, they were told that the individuals in Benghazi were on the way back and that they would be better used at the Tripoli airport because one of them was a medic, that they would be better used to receive the casualties coming back from Benghazi, and that if they had gone, they would have simply passed each other in the air."
Source: Senate Budget Committee, June 12, 2013
Accountability Review Board Vice Chairman Admiral Michael MullenAdmiral Mullen told Congressional staff in his transcribed interview that the Special Operations Team Commander "was given direction to hold in place. There was never direction given to him to stand down." He added: "an untold story here is the heroic efforts of the medic actually on that airport coming from Benghazi to Tripoli, which there are those that believe kept a couple of those wounded alive."
Source: Transcribed Interview, June 19, 2014
PolitiFactPolitifact ruled Rep. Chaffetz's claim to Fox News that "we had people that were getting killed, we had people who are willing to risk their lives to go save them and somebody told them to stand down" as false, based on the testimony of Gregory Hicks and the Accountability Review Board report.
Source: Politifact, May 6, 2013
Select Committee Member Martha RobyAfter directly questioning the Commander about this claim, Rep. Roby released a statement that he "was not ordered to 'stand down' by higher command authorities in response to an understandable desire to lead Special Forces group to Benghazi in the wake of the attack. Rather, he was ordered to remain in Tripoli to defend Americans in anticipation of further attacks." She further stated that the Commander "acknowledged that had he deployed to Benghazi, not only would Americans in Tripoli have been left defenseless, but his forces could not have arrived in Benghazi soon enough to make a difference. These are important facts to clarify because there have been rumors and reports to the contrary."
Source: Press Release, June 27, 2013
Who Has Been Asking This Question or Raising This Issue?
Sen. Kelly Ayotte May 8, 2013
Even more troubling is the fact that they asked for permission to deploy four U.S. Special Operations troops to Benghazi the next morning, and they were told to stand down."Source: The Hugh Hewitt Show
Sen. Marco Rubio May 10, 2013
In essence, there are now witnesses saying that they were ready to go in and help at least prevent the second wave of attacks, but they were told to stand down. So either they didn't have the people available, which is a dereliction of duty, or, and an irresponsible thing to do, or they did have the people, but they decided not to send them."Source: The Hugh Hewitt Show
Rep. Jason Chaffetz Sept. 10, 2014
Somebody in that food chain said 'stand down.' ... It's one of the myriad questions that continues to perpetuate the problem. If we can't figure out that, then how will we make sure it never happens again?"Source: The Hill
Rep. Jason Chaffetz May 7, 2013
[M]ilitary personnel were ready willing and able, and within proximity, but the Pentagon told them they had no authority and to stand down."Source: CNN News


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Re: Re: Re: Image Processing: Mathematica?
On 27 Jan 1997 seanross at worldnet.att.net wrote:
You might try converting the bitmap you have to a standard TIFF, using
some graphics program that supports those formats (i.e. read in the
file and save it as a TIFF).
Then I would checkout the ReadTIFF package by Simon Chandler on
Mathsource. Be forewarned this package needs the fast binary files
package by Todd Gayley also on mathsource. I have not been able to get
this latter package to work on my system ( PC running NT4.0 with math. ver
3.0). However it does seem to install smoothly on a typical powermac.
An alternative would to check out the electronic supplement to A.B.
Watson's article in The Mathematica Journal. He has a ShowImage[]
command which will display imagedata stored as a matrix (list of lists)
of grayvalues.
Dag Spicer
spicer at leland.stanford.edu
> Amy Hawthorne wrote:
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> > I have had success using filters to export graphics to other programs
> > such as Scientific Word. I find that exporting as a Windows Metafile
> > works the best and takes up relatively little memory. I have also been
> > able to animate tables of graphics. I hope that was the kind of thing
> > you were interested.
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> > By the way I am using Mathematica 2.2.3 on Windows 95
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> > Amy Hawthorne
> No, actually, I am trying to get data IN to mathematica, not out. I
> want to import a black and white bitmap image and be able to analyze it.
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5 Ways to Keep Your New Year's Resolution
This week started a new year and many people have been or plan to be thinking about New Year's resolutions. Have you thought of some things you wanted to change in your life this time in years past but found in a few months you weren't where you wanted to be with your resolutions? Here are 5 ways to keep your New Year's resolution that should help keep you on track.
1. Make a Manageable List
I have found once I get started on a list of resolutions I can make it pretty long. When I look it over I realize there is no way to get all that done in the amount of time I want to accomplish it in. This is a sure fire way to set yourself up for failure which we obviously don't want.
Make your list of resolutions something that you can achieve in the timeframe you allot yourself. I'm not saying make it super easy as change is never a breeze. Make it something that will challenge you but something that you know you can do one step at a time if you put your mind to it.
2. Be Specific
If you create a list of very general resolutions you will have a hard time knowing for sure that you have completed your list. Look over your list and see how you can reword any general statements into more specific and measurable statements.
3. Expect Resistance
Change doesn't happen by snapping your fingers; it takes time, work, and determination. So you should expect some resistance. Expect that you will hit a wall and you just won't feel like going any further. Before you get started know that this point will come sooner or later and be ready for it when it does. Don't dwell on hitting the wall like it will crush your resolve just be ready for it and don't let it take away your hopes.
4. Rely on the Support of Others
One way to be ready for hitting the wall of resistance is engaging your friends. Talk to someone close to you that you can share your resolutions with. Have them check in on you now and then to see how you are doing and if you need some help.
5. Don't Be Hard on Yourself
As I've said, change is hard. But don't let that scare you off and don't let it beat you down. Most things really worth having take some hard work. There is something about the hard work that makes the prize that much sweeter.
So when you hit your wall of resistance and don't feel you have made it as far as you wanted remember that you are likely capable of more than you give yourself credit for. Maybe you need to tweak your goals a bit but keep at it and remember to celebrate your victories along the way.
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Since 1998, Eye Spy Optical Optical has been a destination for simply spectacular eyewear and honest opinions in a living-room atmosphere! We have been voted "Best Eyewear Shop" three times by local publications. Eye Spy was opened by Alissa Fields, the self-proclaimed "Queen of Specs," as a result of many fruitless searches for fun and funky red and purple eyeglasses. We have four opticians that guide our customers in selecting spectacular eyewear and two optometrists to check customer's peepers.
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Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
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|"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"
|Single by Jim Croce
|from the album Life and Times
|"A Good Time Man Like Me Ain't Got No Business (Singin' the Blues)"
|March 20, 1973
|Folk rock
|Jim Croce
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"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" is a song written by American folk rock singer Jim Croce. Released as part of his 1973 album Life and Times, the song was a Number One pop hit for him, spending two weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in July 1973. Billboard ranked it as the No. 2 song for 1973.[1]
Croce was nominated for two 1973 Grammy awards in the Pop Male Vocalist and Record of the Year categories for "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown".[2] It was his last number-one single before his death on September 20.
The song's title character is a man from the South Side of Chicago who, due to his size and attitude, has a reputation as the "baddest man in the whole damn town." One day, in a bar, he makes a pass at a pretty, married woman named Doris, whose jealous husband proceeds to beat Leroy brutally in the ensuing fight. In the end, Leroy Brown learns a lesson from this painful experience ("Leroy looked like a jigsaw puzzle with a couple of pieces gone"). During the lyrics about the fight, some background voices are heard quietly speaking.
In the song, Croce refers to a custom Continental and an El Dorado, both of which were former luxury American car models (Lincoln and Cadillac, respectively).
The story of a widely feared man being bested in a fight is similar to Croce's earlier song "You Don't Mess Around With Jim."
Croce's inspiration for the song was a friend he met in his brief time in the US Army:
I met him at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. We were in lineman (telephone) school together. He stayed there about a week, and one evening he turned around and said he was really fed up and tired. He went AWOL, and then came back at the end of the month to get his paycheck. They put handcuffs on him and took him away. Just to listen to him talk and see how 'bad' he was, I knew someday I was gonna write a song about him.[3]
He told a variation of this story on The Helen Reddy Show in July 1973:
This is a song about a guy I was in the army with... It was at Fort Dix, in New Jersey, that I met this guy. He was not made to climb the tree of knowledge, as they say, but he was strong, so nobody'd ever told him what to do, and after about a week down there he said "Later for this" and decided to go home. So he went AWOL—which means to take your own vacation—and he did. But he made the mistake of coming back at the end of the month to get his paycheck. I don't know if you've ever seen handcuffs put on anybody, but it was SNAP and that was the end of it for a good friend of mine, who I wrote this tune about, named Leroy Brown.[4]
Croce explained the chorus reference to Leroy Brown being "meaner than a junkyard dog":
Yeah, I spent about a year and a half driving those $29 cars, so I drove around a lot looking for a universal joint for a '57 Chevy panel truck or a transmission for a '51 Dodge. I got to know many junkyards well, and they all have those dogs in them. They all have either an axle tied around their necks or an old lawnmower to keep 'em at least slowed down a bit, so you have a decent chance of getting away from them.[3]
Professional wrestlers Junkyard Dog and Bad Leroy Brown used ring names inspired by the song.[citation needed]
On Croce's final album, I Got a Name, a "Leroy Brown" is credited as a backing vocalist.
The song inspired Queen vocalist Freddie Mercury (who cited Croce as one of his artistic inspirations) to write the song "Bring Back That Leroy Brown" for the band's third album, Sheer Heart Attack, released a year after Croce died.
The song is quoted by rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard in his song "Snakes".[5]
Loretta Lynn's album Van Lear Rose contains the song "Mrs. Leroy Brown", about a jealous wife exacting revenge on a cheating husband.
In the movie Crocodile Dundee II, Crocodile Dundee's friend, who has a self-perceived image as a "bad guy in the streets", is called Leroy Brown.[citation needed]
The recording session that produced the song was one of several that Croce did using session drummer Gary Chester.[6]
Cover versions[edit]
- Frank Sinatra recorded a cover version of the song. His version was released as a single from Sinatra's 1974 album Some Nice Things I've Missed, and peaked on the pop charts at #83.
- Country music artist Anthony Armstrong Jones released a cover on Epic Records in 1973, reaching #33 on the U.S. country charts with it.
- Dolly Parton performed the song twice on her 1976–77 TV series Dolly! (although, in her version, she changed the song's locale from Chicago to Nashville).
- Punk rock band The Max Levine Ensemble covered it on their CD, It's Entertainment!
- Jerry Reed covered it on his Jim Croce tribute album Jerry Reed Sings Jim Croce in 1980.
- Little Willie Littlefield recorded a version for his 1990 album Singalong with Little Willie Littlefield.
- Kim Carnes covered it on the compilation album Jim Croce: A Nashville Tribute in 1997.
- Celtic Thunder's Ryan Kelly covered the song for the album and concert DVD It's Entertainment!.
- Paul Lynde performed this song with the substitution "a water Pistol" in place of "razor in his shoe" on a Sandy Duncan show special
- Sonny & Cher[7] had a live action with themselves offering Leroy Brown a drink in a cartoon version of this song
- No More Kings[8]
- Sylvie Vartan recorded a French language version entitled "Bye bye Leroy Brown" in 1974.
- Dean Martin performed this song at Westchester Premier Theatre, New York, 1977.[9]
- The song can also be heard In Home Alone 3.
- Guy Lombardo's Orchestra performed the song on a New Year's Eve TV broadcast, only the lyric was changed to "the whole darn town".
- Vinnie Jones performed the song on the television show TOTP2 in December 2002.
- Jerry Lee Lewis performed the song on his The Knox Phillips Sessions - The Unreleased Recordings
- Amaya Uranga performed a cover in Spanish (called "Malasombra") in her 1988 album "Sobre El Latido De La Ciudad".
Track listing[edit]
7" Single (ABC-11359)[10]
- "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" – 3:02
- "A Good Time Man Like Me Ain't Got No Business (Singin' The Blues)" – 2:03
Chart history[edit]
"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" was released in April 1973 and peaked at number one on the American charts three months later. It was still on the charts on September 20 when Croce died in a plane crash in Natchitoches, Louisiana. It was the second #1 song on the "Billboard" Hot 100 pop singles chart to include a curse word ("damn") in its lyrics, after the "Theme from Shaft".
Weekly charts[edit]
Year-end charts[edit]
|Preceded by
"Will It Go Round in Circles" by Billy Preston
|US Billboard Hot 100 number-one single
July 21, 1973 (two weeks)
|Succeeded by
"The Morning After" by Maureen McGovern
|Preceded by
"Yesterday Once More" by The Carpenters
|Canadian RPM 100 number-one single
July 28, 1973
|Succeeded by
"Monster Mash" by Bobby "Boris" Pickett
|Preceded by
"Shambala" by Three Dog Night
|US Cash Box number-one single
July 28, 1973
|Succeeded by
"Yesterday Once More" by The Carpenters
- ^ Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1973
- ^ The LA Times "The Envelope" awards database Archived September 25, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ a b Croce, Jim (2007). "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown". superseventies.com. Retrieved 2008-03-14.
- ^ "Jim Croce on "The Helen Reddy Show" U.S. TV 1974 (2 songs)". The Helen Reddy Show. video clip on YouTube. July 1973. Retrieved August 26, 2016.
- ^ "Ol' Dirty Bastard – Snakes Lyrics". Rap Genius. 2014. Retrieved June 30, 2014.
- ^ "The Official Gary Chester Website - Discography". angelfire.com. 2014. Retrieved June 30, 2014.
- ^ "Sonny and Cher".
- ^ "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown by No More Kings".
- ^ "Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown' 77 by Dean Martin".
- ^ "Jim Croce – Bad, Bad Leroy Brown / A Good Time Man Like Me Ain't Got No Business (Singin' The Blues)". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2011-08-13.
- ^ "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown". Musicvf.com. 1973-04-21. Retrieved 2011-08-13.
- ^ "Top Singles – Volume 19, No. 24, July 28, 1973". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2011-08-13.
- ^ "Adult Contemporary – Volume 19, No. 25, August 04 1973". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2011-08-13.
- ^ "Go-Set Australian charts – 20 October 1973". Poparchives.com.au. 1973-10-20. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-13.
- ^ Steffen Hung. "Jim Croce – Bad, Bad Leroy Brown". dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 2011-08-13.
- ^ "charts.de". charts.de. Retrieved 2011-08-13.[dead link]
- ^ "The CASH BOX Year-End Charts: 1973". Cashboxmagazine.com. 1973-12-29. Retrieved 2011-08-13.
- ^ "Gold and Platinum". Riaa.com. Retrieved 2011-08-13.


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