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Obsessive Compulsive Much?
This post proves that I am obsessed with daily blogging AND with clippies.
Not. Even. Joking.
You see, here's the thing. I had planned on doing something creative last night because I've not really done much in the last few days, but dh found this movie that he wanted me to see because it was surprisingly mature and really a good overall movie...SO....I watched that with him instead of creating.
Okay...so that's cool. BUT...I didn't have anything for the blog!
That just cannot be. Well, I could write up a long and fun diatribe about something that annoys me, but to be honest, this whole 30 Day Shred thing has me feeling rather good this week, so I just wasn't in the mood to gripe! HA! (Either that or I couldn't think of a good topic...one or the other. You pick. Just say'n.)
SOOOOO.....that left me, once again with nothing artsy to show off and nothing to rant about.
THUS....the 6am ribbon flower clippie.
AHA! You see, I had another dilemma on my hands. I was really wishing I had a purple hair accent to go with my outfit today, but I didn't have one, so that made me sad. Hmmmmm....let's fix that!
I have seen tutorials for these all over the place and so I was feeling a bit left out, so I decided to make one this morning so I would have something cute for my hair!
Begin with a circle of felt, a ribbon of your choice, and a glue gun. You will also need a clippie later on.
Tie a knot in the ribbon and glue that to the center of the felt. It's okay if you have a bit of a tail.
Now just twist the ribbon and glue in spots as you go around the felt circle until you have the size you want!
Finish it off by tucking the loose ends under the twisted ribbon and gluing in place. Then trim off any extra felt that may be visible. (Be careful of how close you get to the edge with the glue...I got a little too close, so if someone looks REALLY closely they will see it on my clippie. Sad day.)
Finish it off with a cute button, gem stone, or whatever other adorableness you happen to have laying around! If I wasn't in a hurry I would have at least added embroidery floss to this button, but I was in a hurry, so I didn't. HA! Finally, don't forget to glue a clippie to the back. Otherwise it is just ribbon flower and not a ribbon flower clippie and if you just want a ribbon flower, that's cool, but I wanted to tell you how to make a clippie in the event that you have a fashion emergency such as my own, so I have to include the part where you glue on the clippie and so I added that part here at the end, but you don't have to if you don't want to, I'm just say'n is all. *breath.* HA!
I created my flower clippie with grosgrain ribbon, giving it a more casual and perhaps more youthful look. If you click on the link to the tutorial above they used Satin ribbon and it looks amazing! I will be making some of those, too!!!
So...when all else fails...make something at 6am so you can post it on your blog before you leave for work! HA!
Now...for more fun stuff to make head on over and check out Everything Etsy's I Made It Blog Party!!!
And check out these fun ones, too!
29 comments:
- Marlene said...
Heehee....guess I shouldn't have made that comment about OCD on my blog today.
Love your craftiness. That's just the cutest little hair thang.
- February 25, 2010 at 8:35 AM
- Blessed Ladybug said...
very nicely done.. thanks for sharing....
- February 25, 2010 at 8:48 AM
- Diana Fisher said...
If someone compliments your clip today, you HAVE to tell them, "Thanks, I made it this morning." How fun!!!! Oh to see the look on their face! You are just the cutest, great flower!! I have to try that now, you know... enabler!
- February 25, 2010 at 8:59 AM
- Tracy said...
This is pretty. I bet it looks great on you. But 6:00am I was still sleeping, and you were creating.
- February 25, 2010 at 9:01 AM
- Faerie Moon Creations said...
Your new hair clip is totally cute! I LOVE that you had such a surge of creative energy THAT early in the morning!!! I cannot seem to function without coffee first thing in the morning. I hope you get a TON of compliments. :) Theresa
- February 25, 2010 at 9:41 AM
- rosegarden - Laura Fiskateer 5939 said...
Jingle - cute, cute, cute. This would make a great scrappy page embellishment too! Thanks!
- February 25, 2010 at 9:56 AM
- Tracy said...
Oh you asked a question about my binding. The pages are attached to one another. So the binding is just holding the back and front covers.
Does this make sense.
- February 25, 2010 at 10:34 AM
- Love the Decor! said...
How cute is that!!
I could see smaller ones on a scrapbook page too!!
- February 25, 2010 at 12:05 PM
- Leah the Orange said...
imma makey! i have so many GIANT, awesome ribbons, and my hair is such that it simply BEGS for pretties!
- February 25, 2010 at 12:10 PM
- Heckety said...
That's really neat! I mis read the end there and thought you meant you glued it too your head because you forgot the clippie...but I see I was wrong...this time??
And by the way if you email me your snail mail address I can post you your Jelly Baby Laureate Medal! Yup, you are officially the Jelly Baby Queen of Poets!!!!
- February 25, 2010 at 12:28 PM
- Anji Gallanos said...
What a great little clip. Love it love it.
- February 25, 2010 at 12:40 PM
- Chrispea said...
Super cute, and looks pretty easy. Now, if only I had hair! Bwhahahahaha!
- February 25, 2010 at 12:41 PM
- Julie said...
Love this! It looks great!
- February 25, 2010 at 1:11 PM
- LollyChops said...
That's so funny... I saw this just today too and I am dying to get off work and go home and make one for myself!
Great minds Jing!
- February 25, 2010 at 1:26 PM
- Regina said...
Girl...I just love your post...ROFL..always keeping me laughing and entertained!!! I love this idea...so cute and such an easy peasy fix for accessorizing FAST!!
- February 25, 2010 at 1:34 PM
- Linda said...
OMGosh I cannot believe you made that at 6 am. Im not say'n im not up at that time (Im at work) but just I wouldn't have thought of something like that so early...lol...cute too.
- February 25, 2010 at 1:53 PM
- Debbie said...
You are funny! And talented.
- February 25, 2010 at 2:39 PM
- Jessica said...
Thanks for sharing. THis is so great. I want to try this soon!
- February 25, 2010 at 3:17 PM
- Embellished Bayou said...
Very cute, love it!
- February 25, 2010 at 6:20 PM
- Michelle said...
That is so clever......I must give it a try!
- February 25, 2010 at 7:03 PM
- tattytiara said...
Inspired, and so cute!
- February 25, 2010 at 8:22 PM
- Susie said...
LOL! Been there, done that:-)
- February 25, 2010 at 9:55 PM
- Kim @ Everything Etsy said...
You're so funny! And I love your last minute creation! I've seen these, but I didn't know how to make them...thanks! :)
- February 25, 2010 at 10:54 PM
- Marlene said...
I've left you a bloggy award.
- February 26, 2010 at 12:11 AM
- BLJ Graves Studio said...
This is so cute!
- February 26, 2010 at 9:15 AM
- Karen said...
very cute and stylish. It looks pretty easy to do, too. Thanks!
- February 27, 2010 at 12:09 AM
- Crissy said...
adorable little hair clippy!
- February 27, 2010 at 5:42 PM
- Jana said...
You are amazing. This is great.
- March 1, 2010 at 8:49 AM
- The Crazy Suburban Mom said...
Man, those are cute. So today I destashed something fierce. If my stuffed stayed Id need to sleep in my car. It stung though
- March 25, 2010 at 7:07 PM


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Adonopoulos - 28 September, 2012
I' ll go crazy!!!!!!!
The video is crazy!!!!!! And the moments we lived in Paris, and Athens were unforgatable!!!
camilaborges - 11 September, 2012
I'm crazy for U2
This song is remarkable! And always listen to go to work every day! The band managed to get involved with this beat!
you_me_and_music - 11 August, 2010
only a couple of days left for U2's concert in Horsens. That's my time to go crazy!!
mari72 - 07 August, 2010
U2 forever
I`ll go grazy when waiting to see you in Helsinki soon!
jambolambo - 18 June, 2010
hey bono
hey bono get well soon hope yous come back 2 glasgow soon yous are amazin band
maela62 - 29 May, 2010
ill go crazy if i don't go crazy tonight
i love so much this video and the original version of the song.Wonderful!
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Bono we are with u!! u2 rocks!
Get well bono... u are just the soul of the band please please.. get well or i'll go crazy! hi from Colombia
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get well bono
it's hill and not a mountain, get well soon
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thank you "guy's for bringing me all the joy and inspiration that i have recieved from all of your music i really do belive that U2 is the gr8test rock and really roll band that god has ever given us way back to the start when you all borrowed 500 pounds from each of your families ,,, to go over to london and score yourselvs that first record deal.And start the revolution that was and is "the gr8 story you have given all of your millions of fans around the world even me as a young man of 20 years of age standing outside of the generator pub , in morley Perth , Western Australia because there was only even standing room in the car park i would be gr8ly honored 4 you guys to come back to Perth Western Australia again really soon it's been 24 years guy's i would love , to come to Ireland and be just 1 of the people in the croud in a gig at SLANE CASTLE with love to you all from chris The Chillman xox
- 23 April, 2010
it goes with the song
some art stuff about bono as a child... worried about the world and not wanting to have the spinach!
Bocha - 21 April, 2010
Wish you were here !!
I hope U2 comes to South America this year, with this kind of show, it's my dream to see the "spaceship" landing on Argentina, Brazil or any other country near Uruguay. After a show like that, I think you don't have to see anything else. Congratulations for being the best band of the last two decades !! No doubt about it !!
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I was finally able to go to my first U2 concert at the Pasadena Rose Bowl.....Im in a video now lol. Im looking forward to concert I will be going to in July in New York. AWESOME show
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I was and I am overwhelmed. really crazy evening in Berlin's Olympic Stadium. This song, the stage lights. This song with the atmosphere at this unique stage, I will always carry in my heart. It was really beautiful. A stage like a mountain with a bright star in the Horizon. Thank you very much for this experience.
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I really fell in love with this song when they performed it in Toronto. The version they played was so funky! Larry was playing the bongo and the boys' heads were bobbing to the beat on the big screen. Would love to see a video of that version! The entire stadium was clapping to the beat and chanting "I know I'll go crazy!" along with Bono. It was brillant!
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i like it a lot!!!!!!
u2 have the best songs,i love it!
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love this live video. want have this "live action version". remix on the tour was good, too!
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I'll go crazy.
The version you guys did in Chicago was fantastic------Whiz.
stardustrio - 10 February, 2010
Dennis B.
It was O.K. However, not even close as awesome compared to the Las Vegas show and Pasadena Rose Bowl show.
nat 2A - 09 February, 2010
i want it on my ipod!!!!!!!!!!
it is not available on itunes! do you think it will be someday?? i would like to have this video clip in my ipod!!!
bonona - 30 January, 2010
I love this song...I love U2
smittensince1982 - 27 January, 2010
Love this song in all the forms I've heard so far, but loooved the Rose Bowl version!
AMG22 - 26 January, 2010
When I play it I go crazy
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While I love the various versions of this song, this is my favorite. Peace to you and pray for the people of Haiti and the world.
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7 hours 30 minutes
The city has a tropical climate, is
generally hot and humid. There are two distinctive seasons: the rainy season, from May to November, and
the dry season, from December to April. The annual average temperature is 280C
(820F). The hottest month is April and the lowest is December. It is
warm all year.
Tan Son Nhat International Airport is located 7 km north of the city Centre.
Transport to the city and charges:
Bus: VND 5 thousand ~ 30 cents
(approximately).Taxis: VND 150-200 thousand ~ $10 (approximately).
Citizens of following countries
do not require a visa to visit Vietnam for 30 days: Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Indonesia,
Malaysia, and Singapore.
Citizens of Philippines do not require a visa to visit Vietnam for 21 days.
Citizens of following countries do not require a visa to visit Vietnam for 15 days: Denmark, Finland, Norway, South Korea, Russia, Sweden, Japan.
To enquire about visa requirements, please contact the Ho Chi Minh Consulate
Department on (84-8) 38224224 – 38223055.
Alternatively, please refer directly to the local immigration authorities or
your travel agent.
Vietnam Dong (VND)
Notes: 500, 1000, 2000, 5000, 10 000, 20 000, 50 000, 100 000, 200 000, 500 000
Government: 08:00-17:00 Monday to Friday
Banks: 08:00-16:30 Monday to Friday
Shops: 09:00-22:00 Monday to Sunday
220V, 50Hz
Taxis, public buses, and motorbikes.
Ho Chi Minh City, situated in the southern part of Vietnam,
is still called Saigon by most of the locals. It is the largest city, is also
the cultural and economic center of Vietnam. This modern city used to be
considered as the "Pearl of the Orient" by the French.
Right at the first glance, Ho Chi Minh City makes a deep
impression of a big and busy city. Coming to the city with more than 300 years
of age, you can, at any time, feel the dynamic and see how much it has been
As the main gateway to the south, and a convenient location
for transportation, Ho Chi Minh City is flavored with rich tourism resources.
So, tourism contributes a major part of the Government's revenue. Visitors can find
intriguing attractions through antique architectures, excellent museums,
markets, shops, pavement cafes, delicious traditional food, and then from the
Bach Dang Quay, they can join the Saigon cruise to indulge themselves to the
immense water, leading to traditional villages, bushy orchards, floating
markets, and Can Gio ecotourism farm with variety of flora and fauna.
The city is well connected with the rest of the world through air routes
and sea, and thereby draws huge foreign funds in the fields of oil and gas,
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Veteran appalled by tattered flag
By PAMELA GOULD
Stafford County resident Mike Curry drove to Chancellor High School on Aug. 24, looking forward to an evening of high school football featuring one of his grandsons on the visiting Riverbend team.
But before the kickoff, he was aghast at what he saw in the bleachers beyond the end zone of the Spotsylvania County school. There stood a group of Chancellor students known as "The Charger Chaos," decked out in the school colors of burgundy and black and with body paint on their faces and chests.
Their creative expression of school spirit didn't offend him. It was one student's display of a tattered American flag on a wooden pole that rested casually on his shoulder that shocked Curry to his patriotic core.
The Navy veteran said he was so upset he didn't dare address the matter himself lest he do something he'd regret.
Instead, his wife approached a school employee and pointed out the desecrated flag. That person acknowledged the problem and the flag was seized, Curry said.
But his shock didn't end there.
Curry, 63, sent all seven members of the Spotsylvania School Board an email with photos of the incident, suggesting it was "a teachable moment" and his hope that county students would be educated on respect for the nation's flag.
"I strongly encourage that ALL students get a few minutes instruction on both flag law and much more importantly the suitable care and attention that our flag deserves," he wrote in his Aug. 28 email.
Federal law outlines proper etiquette for handling, displaying and disposing of the American flag. The Supreme Court has ruled, however, that the constitutional guarantee of free speech prevents punishment for violating the flag code.
Three of seven School Board members had responded to Curry as of the middle of this week and two of those did nothing to ease his frustration, he said.
Board member Dawn Shelley sent a polite reply but made no offer of action.
Ray Lora, also a veteran, first responded, "I share your feelings" about the lack of respect for the flag and country shown at Chancellor High.
When Curry said he wasn't looking for commiseration but action, Lora messaged that he faced "an uphill battle."
"I have endured 9 years of criticism by my brothers in the Legion about the lack of respect for our flag and lack of patriotism shown in our schools," he wrote, referring to his colleagues in American Legion Post 320.
Curry found Lora's messages distressing.
"His initial response was appalling and the other one was only repulsive," Curry said.
But he said board member Amanda Blalock's reply was on the right track.
She wrote that she was "appalled," shared that her family has a long line of service members including one of her sons, and said she would seek to fix it in the schools.
"I will be requesting our Superintendent speak with our Principals or direct his staff to speak with them," Blalock wrote to Curry. "A dialogue needs to take place teaching acceptable behavior and respect with regards to our beloved American Flag. I plan on this never being an issue again."
Curry said he is waiting to see if that happens.
"That's a good start if it manifests," he said. "That shows a level of involvement and commitment."
Curry also contacted all seven members of the county's Board of Supervisors. He said just two—retired Marines Gary Skinner and Tim McLaughlin—called back. They expressed their support, saying they would get in touch with the schools superintendent.
Thursday afternoon, Curry met with Superintendent Scott Baker and found him receptive to his concerns.
Baker spoke to administrators at Chancellor High School before the meeting and learned the student's attitude about the incident, schools spokeswoman René Daniels said.
"The student is very sorry," Daniels said. "It was not meant to be offensive to anybody."
Curry said he plans to attend Monday's School Board meeting to voice his displeasure over members' response to what he considers a serious issue.
"The whole thing at the football game was so egregious, I couldn't just say it was wrong," he said. "That wrong is much more than ignorance. That level of ignorance—that level of degradation, desecration—needs to be changed."
Pamela Gould: 540/735-1972
Here are some key guidelines for showing respect for the American flag as spelled out by federal statute.
No disrespect should be shown to the flag of the United States of America; the flag should not be dipped to any person or thing.
Regimental colors, state flags, and organization or institutional flags are to be dipped as a mark of honor.
(a) The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.
(b) The flag should never touch anything beneath it, such as the ground, the floor, water or merchandise.
(c) The flag should never be carried flat or horizontally, but always aloft and free.
(d) The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding or drapery. It should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds, but always allowed to fall free. Bunting of blue, white and red, always arranged with the blue above, the white in the middle and the red below, should be used for covering a speaker's desk, draping the front of the platform, and for decoration in general.
(e) The flag should never be fastened, displayed, used or stored in such a manner as to permit it to be easily torn, soiled or damaged in any way.
(f) The flag should never be used as a covering for a ceiling.
(g) The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture or drawing of any nature.
(h) The flag should never be used as a receptacle for receiving, holding, carrying or delivering anything.
(i) The flag should never be used for advertising purposes in any manner whatsoever. It should not be embroidered on such articles as cushions or handkerchiefs and the like, printed or otherwise impressed on paper napkins or boxes or anything that is designed for temporary use and discard. Advertising signs should not be fastened to a staff or halyard from which the flag is flown.
(j) No part of the flag should ever be used as a costume or athletic uniform. However, a flag patch may be affixed to the uniform of military personnel, firemen, policemen, and members of patriotic organizations. The flag represents a living country and is itself considered a living thing. Therefore, the lapel flag pin being a replica, should be worn on the left lapel near the heart.
(k) The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.
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Take your second class within 24 hours. The second class is the equivalent of 2 to 3 classes, and you will bypass much of the soreness you'd experience otherwise.
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Jk wrote any kind :P
i dont have one but i have a secret and it works
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Dang girl are you a star because you light up my whole world...... lol
jk jk
I say, is your name Field?
Cause I'd like to plow you till the cows come home.
Your dad must have been a terrorist, because you're the bomb!
My **** just died. Can I bury it in your vagina?
Boy: Did it hurt?
Girl:did what hurt?
boy:When you fell from heaven...
girl: aww!
Boy: cause you're ugly as hell.....
Are you hammered? Cause it looks like I'm about to nail you.
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Yes, I'm a girl. I just find it funny.
Great Legs, What Time Do They Open?
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Boy: Did it hurt?
Girl:did what hurt?
boy:When you fell from heaven...
girl: aww!
Boy: cause you're ugly as hell.....
Lmfao! Best one xD
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Excuse me, do bras come in size perfect? Because I'd buy that for you. Seriously, what's your cup size?
Originally Posted by Nimmy
My socks are having a party, wanna invite my pants down?
Yes, I'm a girl. I just find it funny.
So lame...pickup lines don't work, it just lets the girl know that the dude is desperate...what does work is hanging out and being friendly...having a girl see you every day and you always give her a smile. Either that, or the drunk girl in the bar, either of those work.
However, just for humor's sake...
Hey, I lost my keys, I just want to search every hole I can...do you mind?
let me see.
Are those space pants? Because your ass is out of this world!
Woman asks, "Excuse me, do you have the time?" You: "Do you have the energy?"
This is just beautiful
You may fall from the sky, you may fall from a tree, but the best way to fall... is in love with me.
Is that a wand in your pocket? Or are you just too excited to see me?
I just found it on Harry Potter Pick-ups
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Originally Posted by IAmWumbo
1: If your left leg was thanksgiving and your right leg was christmas, could I visit in between the holidays?
2: He girl I have the Dictionary tattooed on my penis, how about I put some words in your mouth?
3: Me: Girl did it hurt?
Her: What?
Me: Just get in the van.
4: Fall down and say "girl I just scraped my knee falling for you".
5: If your left leg was the left twin tower and your right leg the right tower, could I crash in uninvited?
6: Just grab a towel and put some Choloform on that ***** and well you know the rest.
7: Girl are you from Tennessee? Cause you're the only ten I see.
omg that just killed me. *****es love them words
Good thing I'm chester the molester... cuz you're coming to my place tonight @_@
Guy- what's up?
Girl- I have a boyfriend.
Guy- I have a goldfish if you want to talk about things that don't matter
guy: " ay girl... I like ya... and I wantcha... now we can doing it the easy or we can do it the hard way, at the end of the day... imma have dat booty"
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What are your favorite products for running/fitness and cooking/kitchens?
- I have a special page dedicated to that! Check it out: favorite products page.
I want to become a Registered Dietitian, but I have an unrelated bachelors degree like you and will need to start from scratch. Help! Where do I start?
- Check out my page all about How to Become a Registered Dietitian. It explains the process, step-by-step, and is especially helpful if you're applying coming from an unrelated field.
What kind of camera and lenses do you have?
- I have a DSLR — the Canon Rebel T3i. I have the standard lens that came with the camera, which is great for travel and everyday pictures, and I also have a macro lens — the 60 mm f/2.8 macro lens. It's amazing for super close up food photography, and is what I usually use anytime I post a recipe or a meal we made at home.
- I also have a point-and-shoot camera that I bring with me on runs, bike rides, etc., and sometimes when I travel, too. It's awesome, very durable, and takes great photos, even in low lighting: Canon PowerShot ELPH 300 HS 12.1 MP Digital Camera.
- Finally, I also have a waterproof camera: the Kodak EasyShare Sport C123 12 MP Waterproof Digital Camera! It's great for mud runs and anything active involving water, like kayaking!
Speaking of cameras — do you have any tips for taking better pictures?
Ask and you shall receive! Back in 2010, I wrote a post about how to take better photos using a point and shoot. For more help (including details for cell phone cameras, point and shoots, and DSLRs), check out the series of guest posts below!
What are your favorite restaurants in the Washington D.C. area?
- In D.C.:
- Restaurant Nora (Dupont – upscale American / organic, local)
- Lincoln DC (Logan Circle – trendy/fun seasonal small plates, great cocktails)
- Farmers Fishers Bakers (Georgetown – epic brunch)
- Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe (Dupont — American food & a hipster bar/bookstore)
- Birch & Barley (14th Street – upscale American & great beer/bar)
- 2 Amy's (Cleveland Park – pizza)
- Pizzeria Paradiso (Multiple locations – pizza)
- Zaytinya (Metro Center – upscale Mediterranean)
- Rasika (Multiple locations – trendy Indian)
- DC Coast (Midtown – upscale seafood)
- Sea Catch (Georgetown – upscale seafood)
- Sweetgreen (Multiple locations – casual lunch spot, salads, best frozen yogurt ever, vegan/veg friendly)
- Teaism (Multiple locations – casual tea shop & cafe, vegan/veg friendly)
- Protein Bar (Multiple locations – casual healthy lunch spot, vegan/veg friendly)
- In VA:
- Aladdin's Eatery (Shirlington, casual Lebanese)
- Sawatdee (Courthouse, Thai food — the summer rolls are the BEST)
- Faccia Luna (Clarendon, pizza/Italian)
- Cava Mezze (Clarendon, upscale Greek tapas)
- Koi Koi (Falls Church, sushi)
- Boulevard Woodgrill (Clarendon, American food)
- Sunflower Vegetarian Restaurant (Falls Church, vegetarian/vegan)
- Northside Social (Clarendon, wine bar & cafe)
- Liberty Tavern (Clarendon, bar/restaurant, American food)
- Lyon Hall (Clarendon, bar/restaurant, American food)
What are your favorite running/biking/hiking trails in the Washington D.C. area?
- My favorites for running and biking are the C&O Canal (stretches from Georgetown up to MD — check out my "Ode to the C&O Canal" post here) and the Mt. Vernon Trail (along the Potomac River on the VA side from Mt. Vernon up to Roosevelt Island).
- For hiking near DC, I love the Billy Goat Trail (the MD side of Great Falls Park — we hiked it for Matt's birthday one year).
- If you're willing to go a bit farther for hiking, Shenandoah National Park is my absolute favorite and only a couple hours drive from DC. Favorite trails to hike in Shenandoah are Old Rag Mountain (very strenuous 5 to 6 hour hike with lots of rock scrambling but super fun and gorgeous views – and we got engaged there!) and White Oak Canyon Trail (about 4 hours hiking — lots of fun waterfalls — check out this post for more).
- Another great hike about 2 hours from D.C. in Luray, VA is a loop that includes Duncan Knob and Strickler Knob (strenuous and about 10 miles/7 hours — see my post about it here!)
What's your favorite yoga studio in the D.C. area?
- In D.C., I love Epic Yoga and Studio DC in Dupont Circle – both have a good mix of hot and non-heated classes for all levels of fitness. In Adams Morgan, Stroga is a great studio with a gorgeous space (the yoga room is literally a ballroom) – it's not heated and the classes also vary in difficulty.
- In Arlington, I love Edge Yoga – try Mark's classes for really hard yoga that's great for athletes.
Any recommendations for what to do while visiting DC?
My recommendation would be to walk around the whole city and sightsee! DC is very walkable. Here are some of my favorite DC-related sightseeing/photography posts to give you some ideas:
- Washington Photo Safari
- Photo Journey of a Beautiful Weekend in D.C.
- D.C. Victory Lap
- I = Best D.C. Tour Guide Ever
- A Beautiful Weekend to be in D.C.
- Biking the Potomac
- A Beautiful Day to be Free
What are your favorite restaurants in the Chapel Hill, NC area?
- Weaver Street Market (Carrboro co-op grocery store with a salad bar/hot bar — like Whole Foods — great for lunch or a quick healthy dinner)
- Sandwhich (Chapel Hill, best sandwich place ever & wine/beer — review post here, and here)
- Elaine's on Franklin (Chapel Hill, upscale/trendy American — this place is a bit pricey, but insanely delicious. Highly recommended!)
- Mt Fuji (Durham, Asian/sushi)
- Maple View Farm (Hillsborough — the best ice cream on earth. Go to their country store and sit in the rocking chairs!)
- Guglhupf Bakery (Durham, bakery & cafe — great brunch as well as dinner — review post here, and here)
- Butternut Squash (Chapel Hill, vegetarian/vegan — review post here)
- Foster's Market (Chapel Hill & Durham, coffee shop & cafe — awesome biscuits — review post here)
- Jessee's Coffee & Bar (Chapel Hill, coffee shop & cafe — great brunch — review post here)
- Vimala's Curryblossom Cafe (Chapel Hill, Indian, local/organic/vegetarian friendly — review post here)
- The Spotted Dog (Carrboro, American, vegetarian/vegan friendly — review post here)
- Il Palio (Chapel Hill, in the Siena Hotel, upscale Italian. Matt and I went here for Valentine's Day!)
- Mellow Mushroom (Durham, sandwiches/pizza)
What are your favorite running/biking/hiking trails in the Chapel Hill area?
- For running, I love the American Tobacco Trail in Durham, and the Carolina North Forest (also great for mountain biking).
- For biking, I love parking at Maple View Farm (hello, after bike ride ice cream treat!) and taking bike rides from there on the roads around farm country. If biking on roads isn't your thing, I wouldn't bike here, but traffic is generally very light and cars are pretty aware of bikers since it's a popular area to bike.
- For hiking, I love Eno River State Park (posts about it here and here) and the New Hope Trail (post about it here).
What's your favorite yoga studio in Chapel Hill?
- Franklin Street Yoga – I miss it so much! Lori, the owner, leads awesome and hard classes, but they have classes for all levels and you really can't go wrong.
Why are you so awesome?
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GLENDALE, Ariz. — Speaking English is important to Jose Quintana, and it shows. He's learning with a self-study program, and it's coming along well enough that he gave an interview in English on Wednesday without an interpreter.
''Yes, it's important because this is my work,'' the White Sox left-hander said. ''I need to speak in English for media, coaches, everything. And I like the English. I like talking to the other guys.''
Entering his third season with the Sox, the 25-year-old Quintana, who is Colombian, has used one of the Sox' translators — usually coach Lino Diaz — to converse with English-speaking media. During the offseason, he practiced with his brother in Colombia.
''It's getting better,'' he said.
Some Spanish-speaking players hesitate to attempt English for fear they'll be misunderstood. Others don't want to look bad, they say. Cubans Dayan Viciedo and Alexei Ramirez prefer to use an interpreter; Alejandro De Aza and Avisail Garcia do not. Cuban Jose Abreu is using one, but said he is working daily to command English.
If Quintana follows his 2013 season with something as good this year, Sox fans won't care if he doesn't speak at all. He pitched to a 3.51 ERA over a team-high 33 starts covering 200 innings last season, a year after breaking into the majors and into the rotation with a 3.76 ERA over 22 starts and 136 1/3 innings. His ERA last year ranked fifth among American League lefties, and his 9-7 record was uneventful because of an AL-record 17 no-decisions. His run support, fifth-worst of any pitcher in the AL at 3.78 per game, was an issue.
''A lot of games were close, but that's the game,'' Quintana said. "This year will be better for me, I hope, as far as wins. I want to help the team win.''


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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has agreed to set a hearing on the reasonableness of American Electric Power Co.'s (AEP) nonfirm, offpeak hourly rate for electric transmission...
Coal Gasification Gets Real
see a clear path to retrofitting a system to remove carbon from syngas produced at an IGCC plant," Mudd says. "We don't see that for a PC plant, so if we build a PC plant, will it become a stranded asset if we have carbon reductions mandated in the future? It's hard to put that into a , but a long-term strategy must address these uncertainties."
Although existing plants might qualify for grandfathering provisions in future environmental laws, as they did under the Clean Air Act, a cleaner plant nevertheless would help manage the owner's exposure to legal and regulatory changes.
"IGCC is a hedge against change-of-law risk," says Ed Feo, a partner with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in Los Angeles. "If you look at the lawsuits being brought against the owners of existing coal plants in the Northeast and Midwest, you can understand the kind of after-the-fact legal risk that owners face. With clean-coal technology, presumably you'd be ahead of the regulatory curve."
Another factor that plays in IGCC's favor is the potential for a plant to produce other fuels and chemicals to sell. Most of the gasifiers in operation today, in fact, are being used by chemical companies to get hydrocarbon products from petroleum and waste feedstock. "Having synthesis gas as an intermediary opens up all kinds of potential markets," says Dale Simbeck, vice president of technology for SFA Pacific, a consulting firm in Mountain View, Calif. "If you have clean syngas, you can convert it to hydrogen, methane, methanol, diesel. … It's all commercial technology, but the question is cost and market price."
While the cost analysis is uncertain, the ability to manufacture other products gives IGCC a potential hedge against falling electricity prices. "You will see different transactions structured to account for revenue from different product streams," Feo says. "Clearly IGCC will benefit from being able to sell these products, in addition to burning fuel and selling electricity."
Going Commercial
With environmental and market factors included in the calculus, IGCC is beginning to look like a winning technology for the future. DOE demonstration projects have shown that IGCC works, and the petroleum and chemical industries have been operating petroleum coke gasifiers commercially for decades. Nevertheless, most generation companies are reluctant to become first-movers in the IGCC game.
"Right now there is mixed interest in making that type of procurement for the long term," says Michael Zimmer, a partner with Thompson Hine in Washington, D.C. "Development times are too long, the market timing is uncertain, and the regulatory environment is unclear."
Additionally, an integrated coal gasifier and power plant has never operated on a commercial basis in this country. Consequently, IGCC presents technology risks for stakeholders, whether those stakeholders are commercial banks, equity investors, or utility ratepayers.
"The real test will be whether vendors will provide sufficient warranties to support investment decisions, and whether they will stand behind claims of efficiency and availability," Feo says. "Over the next year we will see standards and benchmarks develop that will make it possible to look at these projects and determine


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Kim Dotcom flashes his rack
Kim Dotcom has shown off his rack – in IT parlance, not with reference to his ample frame – by posting the picture below which he says depicts a node of mega.co.nz. Delivered today. One of many racks with many SERVERS! #EMMEEHGEEAYY twitter.com/KimDotcom/stat… — Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) December 18, 2012 A subsequent tweet …
MkUltraSensitive Novel Information and Explosive AI Precursors are a Potent Mix ....
..... CyberIntelAIgently Designed to Sublimely Server and Protect ESPecial Forces in Future Beings with Success
Nor is how Dotcom will pay for the new Mega.
Oh please, El Reg/Simon Sharwood, APAC Editor, haven't you yet grasped what the future bigger picture is all about and is going to be?
SMARTR Content, Freely Virtually Distributed will both generate and store massive revenue and colossal interest. And there may also be probably definitely any number of networking nodes dedicated to preserving and expanding anonymities and stealthy services with fabulous rewards of danegeld, fully authorised and ensured by such off the books and/or out of this world payments, to assure and insure existing vulnerable and bankrupt legacy dependent systems survival rather than catastrophic immediate collapse, albeit survival in a radically different role and phorm.
Didn't Kim DotCom make that clear to you yet? Or did you just not bother to ask him or not think enough about how IT is all going to work in a Brave New Orderly World with Virtual Machine Power Control of Command and Control Systems/SCADA Administrations/Pretentious Puppet Government?
Re: MkUltraSensitive Novel Information and Explosive AI Precursors are a Potent Mix ....
I'd invoke Poe's Law on you, but that wasn't exactly a Fundamentalist rant. Still...
Re: Re: MkUltraSensitive Novel Information and Explosive AI Precursors are a Potent Mix ....
Re: MkUltraSensitive Novel Information and Explosive AI Precursors are a Potent Mix ....
I'd invoke Poe's Law on you, but that wasn't exactly a Fundamentalist rant. Still... ... beep54 Posted Wednesday 19th December 2012 06:51 GMT
Howdy, beep54.
Did I forget something to make everything pretty obvious? ;-)
Sorry about that :-)
Re: MkUltraSensitive Novel Information and Explosive AI Precursors are a Potent Mix ....
Proof the Myans were right that the earth is coming to an end this Friday.
AmanamanfromMars 1 made sense.
KD is using every ad op he can
And I don't blame him. That's how you get something big going. I do think his internet and PR skills are saving him money in this regard too. I personally have little use for his service at this time, but bringing encryption to the masses is indeed an interesting idea and we might see some surprises in his upcoming user base.
Perhaps not all the money went to pay the legal bills
"Dotcom's famously flamboyant lifestyle bespeaks considerable wealth, inasmuch as he bought a colossal mansion"
..er....no. He's renting it. He wasn't allowed to buy it because at the time he didn't have permanent residence or something and was thus a "foreign investor". Shame for the spooks who spied on him illegally that he didn't remain so. He has now, apparently, been cleared to buy the mansion, but can't because his funds are frozen.
Can't argue about the cars though.
Re: Mansion?
That line has been tidied up.
Re: Mansion?
How about tidying up this one also?
"Dotcom has also let it be known he's going to launch mega.co.nz t9o the press..." (last paragraph)
thank god there are still some decent folks out there
kim dotcom ladies and gentlemen.
Re: thank god there are still some decent folks out there
"thank god there are still some decent folks out there"
Are we thinking of the same person?
I think you're confusing a slightly legally questionable business plan coupled with capitalist greed and a flair for publicity as 'decency'. You might as well apply the same label to any rich businessman who tries to stoke up 'rebel appeal' to line his own pockets.
Re: thank god there are still some decent folks out there
I'm sure this is only by accident, but Dotcom is actually pursuing an important point that will have ramifications way beyond his limited implementation. Yes, I'm sure his reasoning is greed and getting money, but that doesn't alter the principle being good. Used to be that the law was written for the good and protection of the masses. More recently, the law has been more and more written for the good and protection of a very small subset of the population. Hence, the 'rebels' springing up all over the place.
The above is a good example. Very few would say that copyright is a bad idea. However, there is defending copyright and over the top jackboot enforcement. We're rapidly getting to the point that the penalty for killing someone will be less than being found in possession of dodgy MP3s. This cannot be right. When people can be bullied and threatened over their child (or even them) 'attempting' to download something, you really know its gone too far. No copyright violation has even occurred and their lives are made a misery.
It's not just copyright violation that's going this way. All aspects of life and the legal system are. For instance when one country can invade another on the basis of seriously sexed up 'intelligence' (personally, I'd call it lies) and yet nobody takes responsbility. Everyone just turns round, shrugs their shoulders and keeps counting the cash.
Since it is the USA who have taken particular offence at his activities, he could really piss them off by working with the Cubans, Iranians and North Koreans.
"Don't bother spending billions on rockets, buy me some servers and we'll REALLY up set the Merkins"
Low Orbit Ion Cannon Fodder which can also be written as Low Orbit Ion Canon Fodder
Since it is the USA who have taken particular offence at his activities, he could really piss them off by working with the Cubans, Iranians and North Koreans.
"Don't bother spending billions on rockets, buy me some servers and we'll REALLY up set the Merkins" .... Velv Posted Wednesday 19th December 2012 09:37 GMT
With a simple shift into Greater Game Intelligence with IntelAIgents, would the real worlds that peoples live in be transformed and enriched with ...... Don't bother spending billions on rockets, buy me some servers and we'll REALLY set up the Merkins ...... which is wholly new and quite different ball game with more than just a few absolutely fabulous fabless curve balls to throw and hit out of stadia into orbit.
However, if they [the A Team] aren't up for it and don't have the necessary smarts to engage with those and/or that which do, then as you rightly have pointed out, are there other players out there with a wholly different approach to global matters to approach and explore possibilities and probabilities and zeroday vulnerability opportunities with …. to boldly go in an alternative direction at a much higher plane of mutually advantageous, positively reinforcing understanding.
Just where the rack is and what it contains is not clear
CyberStore 445S-DAS Storage Servers
Does every half arsed media utterance and brain fart of this globulous cretin really deserve so much attention? Without getting into the ins and outs of the legality of his new venture or the competency of NZ plod he made his money on the back of blatant copyright violation and no amount of semantic dexterity by the freetard community can obscure that.
Would you trust your data to a company run/owned by someone with his track record?
...I think that's the point of the article!!
>>Does every half arsed media utterance and brain fart of this globulous cretin really deserve so much attention?
The short answer is Paul, yes.
"Would you trust your data to a company run/owned by someone with his track record?"
Definitely not, but that's because I do know his track record, including but not limited to his hacking/carding arrest in '94, the letsbuyit.com insider trading scam and subsequent collapse, the accusations of attrition.org supporting a Pakistani terror cell, the YIHAT era (aka Kim finds Bin Laden's loot), his deportation from Thailand, the Kimvestor AG loan scam including his embezzlement conviction, his world HQ being a Hong Kong virtual office, the claims of hacking Citibank & giving $20m to Greenpeace etc..etc..etc..
Unfortunately a lot of people (apparently including some Reg hacks) don't know about this stuff and think of Kimble as a stand up guy sticking it to the US authorities.
@Does every half arsed media utterance...
Yes, if only to piss off the Americans/MPAA... :)
Hell hath no fury like a dotcom scorned
I have a feeling that the MPAA have just created their very own personal worst enemy.
You can see how upset I am by this.
Surprised he hasn't looked at the Backblaze Storage Pod, seems like the sort of high volume appliance he would need.
I see...
...bars in Kim Dotcom's future, Iron Bars all around.
"anywhere except the US"
Exclusion to counter rabid protectionism. Just might catch on if the merkins keep trying to impose their own wonky self-serving laws on every single sovereign state on the planet.
mega.co.nz ? Seriously? Given his history?!
This has to be a premature April 1st wind-up!
anywhere except the US
Exclusion to counter rabid protectionism. Just might catch on ...
And I hope it does. The quicker this "rabid" behaviour becomes irrelevant, the better. I don't care about Dotcom's enterprise as such, but see it as beneficial to the current situation - particularly the one in the US.
wil.i.am endorses the mega franchise and he also works for Intel
and the CIA
mega CONZ (remove the dots)
personaly i rather dig this guy.. hes really sticking a finger in the MPAA's eye...
(Obvious?) ideas
They will probably have a strict policy of banning people for posting keys or just plain remove the ability to leave descriptions. I could actually see TOR being used to share the keys and people downloading the encrypted file and going through the one extra step of copying and pasting the key into WinRAR/7Z/... Of course if a user can do it, then a program will be made that does it automatically. I imagine you'll just register a protocol in your browser when you install the client called 'mega:' much like mailto/ftp/http/https/irc/... In fact, there already exists the ability to have login details in a URL so I don't see why this can't exist for mega: links. Then the URL handler will pass off the address (with the key) to a downloader that strips the key, requests the download, and then decrypts the saved file, all without user interaction.
Any idiot knows that lobbying is a bribe by another name. Judges and police and prosecutors: 'Civil Asset Forfeiture' laws are just one way to pay off judges. 'Eminent Domain' has been abused to death against people who just wouldn't make the city enough tax money.
Swamping Mega with takedown requests if for the explicit purpose of denial of service, could actually be treated as harassment. Legal spam can get you disbarred. Dodgy bill collectors with 'flawed' records and threats have actually been prosecuted in many states in the US.
One workaround to the issue with those huge files with Freenet is to have chunks 32KB or so in size. Your client reads a header from the first chunk and then if the file is too big to fit in that chunk, it'll find a recursive list of chunks until it downloads the entire file. Essentially the chunk can contain a manifest. The nice thing about this is that you don't have "millions of multigigabyte media files" that are likely media files. You have trillions of chunks with only a limited set of possible lengths. Oh, did I mention that each chunk has decryption keys in the previous chunk in the chain? And that the first chunk is also encrypted. If you don't have the original keys, you have no idea which files your node server is caching. AKA the RIPA loophole - otherwise ISP operators could be arrested for refusing to provide keys to your HTTPS sessions.
A neat trick is that once someone posts an encrypted file to these servers, it's in theory trivial to have local mirrors like Bit Torrent/Freenet/Waste. This would be the foundation of a true Internet 3.0. Newer routers could be designed to run some applications on this backend, transparently. Right now to use something like Freenet, you have to be kind of technical. If you could just buy some box that provided similar capabilities, it would catch on like wildfire. Of course, Freenet is probably a bad example since it's considered the slowest (and likely most secure) of darknets. I2P or chained OpenVPN with a distributed filesystem is a better analogy for the backend.
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The Mysterious Source of Syria's Chemical Weapons and the 4 Other Biggest Takeaways from Syria Hearings, Day 2
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel accused Russia of supplying Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with chemical weapons, the most eyebrow-raising moment in a long and sometimes strange hearing that included the Obama administration's first estimate of the financial cost of a potential U.S. strike on Syria, a detailed description of the U.S. target list, and a Republican congressman's meandering attempt to link Syria to the consolate attack in Benghazi and the Justice Department's "Fast and Furious" scandal.
First, Russia. Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) -- best known for screaming "you lie" at President Obama during a State of the Union address -- made the most news at today's hearing when he asked Hagel where Assad had gotten his chemical weapons.
"Well, the Russians supply them," Hagel responded. "Others are supplying them with those chemical weapons. They make some themselves."
Reports that Russia has been selling chemical weapons to Assad -- or at least providing the ingredients and equipment his scientists needed to make them -- have been floating around for years, but Hagel's comments marked one of the first times a high-ranking American official made the charge publicly.
The comments were later walked back by Pentagon Press Secretary George Little, who in a statement to reporters said: "In a response to a member of Congress, Secretary Hagel was referring to the well-known conventional arms relationship between Syria and Russia. The Syrian regime has a decades-old largely indigenous chemical weapons program. Currently, Russia provides the Syrian regime a wide variety of military equipment and support, some of which can be modified or otherwise used to support the chemical weapons program. We have publicly and privately expressed our concern over the destabilizing impact on the Syrian conflict and the wider region of continued military shipments to the Assad regime."
The allegation is likely to further exacerbate U.S.-Russian tensions over Syria, which spiked this week after Russian President Vladimir Putin came out in strong opposition to a potential American intervention into Syria.
Hagel's Russia comments were the most surprising part of the House hearing, but they weren't the only interesting moment on a day when the administration won its first major victory by getting the Senate Foreign Relations Services Committee to sign off, 10-7, on a military strike against Assad. The measure should go to the full Senate next week.
Below, four other highlights from from the House session:
Military Strikes On The Cheap: Hagel told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that the limited military strikes envisioned by the administration would cost "tens of millions of dollars," the Pentagon's first public estimate of the financial price of hitting Assad.
It's a surprisingly low number given that U.S. air operations in Libya, a country with far less sophisticated air defenses than Syria, cost roughly $1 billion. A U.S. official stood by Hagel's estimate, telling The Cable that "we're taking millions and not billions for this operation." If those numbers are accurate, the potential U.S. strikes on Syria would be exceptionally modest in both scope and duration. Proponents of the strike have talked about an attack that might cost a couple hundred million. Could this plan be even smaller than previously imagined?
Military Strikes On Someone Else's Tab: Secretary of State John Kerry said that the Arab League wasn't willing to formally request a U.S. strike on Syria, but said key Arab powers were prepared to do perhaps the next best thing: pick up the tab for the entire cost of the operation.
"With respect to Arab countries offering to bear costs and to assess, the answer is profoundly yes," Kerry said. "They have. That offer is on the table."
In fact, Kerry said, Arab countries were willing to open their checkbooks wide.
"Some of them have said that if the United States is prepared to go do the whole thing the way we've done it previously in other places, they'll carry that cost," Kerry said. "That's how dedicated they are at this. That's not in the cards, and nobody's talking about it, but they're talking in serious ways about getting this done."
Kerry also gamely insisted that so many U.S. allies wanted to take part in a potential strike on Syria that the Pentagon couldn't find a role for all of them. That seems unlikely, since Turkey and France are to date the only major powers to publicly express a willingness to use military force against Assad. But Kerry may have an elastic definition of "participation." Albania, he said later in the hearing, was willing to provide political support for a strike. He didn't say anything about Albania being willing to do much else.
The Target List: Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, provided one of the most-detailed breakdowns to date of the military's target list for Syria. He said the overall mission would be to degrade Assad's chemical weapons assets by striking targets "directly linked to the control of chemical weapons but without exposing those chemical weapons to a loss of security." Translated from military-speak, that means doing everything possible to ensure that those weapons didn't fall into the hands of the Islamists flooding into Syria to battle Assad.
Dempsey said other targets would include the "means of delivery" for the weapons, like the rockets and artillery shells that allegedly carried sarin gas into rebel-held areas of Damascus last month, and the country's air defense systems, including its longer-range missile and rockets.
That description closely tracks with recent news reports about the administration considering a target list of roughly 50 sites that would be struck over the course of one to two days. The White House has harshly condemned those leaked war plans and vowed to find those responsible.
Bringing the Crazy: The strangest and most contentious moment of the five-hour hearing came during a heated exchange between Kerry and Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC), who accused the administration of having a "serious credibility issue" because of what he said were lingering questions about the White House's handling of Benghazi, the alleged IRS targeting of conservative groups, and the Justice Department's ill-fated "Fast and Furious" program.
His questioning of Kerry quickly turned personal.
"Mr. Kerry, you have never been one that has advocated for anything other than caution when involving U.S. forces in past conflicts. The same is true for the president and the vice president," he said. "Is the power of the executive branch so intoxicating that you would abandon caution in favor for pulling the trigger on a military response so quickly?"
The secretary of state, not surprisingly, didn't take well to the charge. Normally even-keeled, a visibly angry Kerry reminded Duncan that he, Hagel, and Dempsey had all served in the military and cut the congressman off when Duncan tried to interject.
"I'm going to finish, congressman," he said, almost shouting. "I am going to finish."
Kerry said that as a senator he'd supported military action in Grenada and Panama -- conspicuously ignoring his early support for the Iraq war -- and made no attempt to hide that he thought the questions were ludicrous.
"I'm not going to sit here and be told by you that I don't have a sense of what the judgment is with respect to this," he said. "We're talking about people being killed by gas and you want to go talk about Benghazi and Fast and Furious!"
It remains to be seen whether Duncan will be the only one who wants to dredge up past administration scandals. With public opinion running sharply against any U.S. strike, Republicans seem likely to use any weapon in their arsenal to attack the White House's case for war.
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WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 21, 2001 The United States Energy Association (USEA) today released "Toward a National Energy Strategy" that makes recommendations in six major areas to assure that consumers can benefit from an increased supply of affordable energy resources that are available in a ready, reliable and environmentally responsible manner.
The USEA paper, "Toward a National Energy Strategy," was developed by a broad range of energy interests. It recommends six areas of action: enhance energy supplies; encourage energy efficiency and affordable prices; stimulate global energy trade and development; promote energy technology development and long-range research and development initiatives; balance energy use and environmental concerns; and unify the energy policy process.
On releasing the report, Richard Lawson, chairman of the USEA National Energy Policy Committee, said: "Such an energy policy must meet several challenges, including overly burdensome environmental regulations that prevent access to new energy sources; the adverse national security implications of rising oil imports; an energy delivery infrastructure that is aging and increasingly overwhelmed by growing demand; a regulatory process that is often unfair and counter-productive; and a lack of foresight in developing new, more efficient energy technologies and alternative energy sources."
"Economic efficiency, energy security, energy technology and regulation and incentives are the four core principles we believe a sound national energy strategy should be anchored by," said Barry Worthington, executive director, USEA.
Worthington explained that, in many markets, increased demand outstrips reliable supplies. Key industries are being deregulated and technology is advancing at an unprecedented rate. Environmental regulations have grown increasingly costly and complex and, moreover, consumers often express confusion at the array of energy choices now available. In addition, energy companies confront both greater competition and increasing regulatory uncertainty can heavily penalize those companies that expand production to meet the increased energy demands of our growing population and economy.
Industry groups involved in preparing the report were: American Gas Association, American Petroleum Institute, American Public Power Association, Edison Electric Institute, Electric Power Research Institute, National Mining Association, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, and Nuclear Energy Institute.
For copies of "Toward a National Energy Strategy," please contact the USEA at 202.312.1230.