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Hi Everyone. I hope all is well. I haven't been on here for a while. The latest for me..I am 5 months pregnant now. And found out I am having TWINS...yikes! It will be exciting I think. I sure wish Bryce could be here to share this though. I know he would be thrilled. We are having a boy & a girl. Haven't made the final decision on names yet but we're thinking Mason & Haley. Any thoughts?
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How lovely to hear from you. Bryce must have a huge smile on his face at the wonderful surprise of twins. Life is certainly going to get busy for you but you have lots of love and courage to give again and to share your heart with your two new babies and their little guardian angel. I like both the names you are considering. My little grandson is now 6mths old and he has certainly brightened many days for me after losing my son, his Uncle Glenn 8 months ago. Keep in touch and lots of good wishes for you and your husband and the little ones during the holiday season. Elspeth |
- Posted by Lulie___Wayne (My Page) on Sun, Dec 4, 05 at 9:50
Oh, what a blessing!!!! I was 45 when we lost Christin (my daughter) and although I knew that she couldn't be replaced, I had thoughts of another baby. I believe that Bryce knew them before they were even conceived. Those babies are coming to you from heaven and Bryce wants you and your husband to enjoy the rest of your life with them. I think that Haley and Mason are beautiful names. Again, all I can think is "Wow, what a blessing". Lu |
- Posted by Brycesmommy (My Page) on Sun, Dec 4, 05 at 14:48
I'm sure proud of Bryce everyday for everything he was & always will be. He made me the person I am today. I know he'll always look out for his brother & sister & make sure they are ok. I'll never let him be forgotten. Mason & Haley will grow up knowing they have a wonderful older brother who is our special angel. |
oh so good to hear from you, was thinking about you the other day, wondering how you were and how things were going with your pregnancy!! so glad things are going well and TWINS!!!! yes I'm sure Bryce is right there with you too, watching over you and he will watch over the twins too!! congrats, and hope things continue to go well for you and the babies!!!!! ((((hugs)))) DianePA |
Congratulations! I am so happy for you! Twins! I cannot imagine. What a blessing. Love the names! Best wishes to you and your husband. |
I've thought so often of you. I'm so glad things are going well...twins! You are so very lucky. I know that Bryce is with you and so glad that his little brother and sister are going to share your lives. I know they can't replace him, but they will surely bless your lives in ways you can't imagine. I think about my granddaughter who would've been 8 now and how much she would have loved our granddaughter Sarah who was born just 2 weeks before Dave and Millie died. I can just imagine the two of them playing together, so I know that your wishing that Bryce was sharing the babies with you is a natural feeling. Please keep us posted on your progress. You have many friends here wishing you the best and praying for you. |
- Posted by Bowdoin514 (My Page) on Mon, Dec 5, 05 at 15:11
Great hearing from you...I have been offline for a while myself, so I'm just still lurking yet. What wonderful news to be sharing, and I'm sure you will see a bit of Bryce in each of his brother & sister, when they arrive. LOVE the names...Mason was a name my 18-year old daughter Erica used when she had those electronic babies that she had to use in her parenting class last year. I wish you lots of luck, and I know the happiness will be there too. Emma in PA |
- Posted by socks12345 (My Page) on Mon, Dec 5, 05 at 20:46
Thanks for checking in with us Brycesmommy. Twins! That's so amazing, exciting, and wonderful. I hope you'll have plenty of help when they arrive! You have many friends here, so keep in touch. |
- Posted by FoxesEarth (My Page) on Mon, Dec 5, 05 at 22:17
Bless your heart. That's wonderful. Lovely names. Nell |
- Posted by Dedtired_2 (My Page) on Tue, Dec 6, 05 at 11:25
Hello! I never post here but sometimes read them just to see how everyone's doing. Your story has been one of the most touching. I cannot tell you how happy I am to hear that twins are on the way. What a blessing. My heart leaps with joy for you. The names are so very nice! Please be sure to let us know how things are going. Pam |
- Posted by Brycesmommy (My Page) on Wed, Dec 7, 05 at 20:16
Thank you all for your messages. I'm sure this is a blessing & that Bryce did have a huge part in it. I know he would only want us to be happy. He'll be with us for ever in our hearts & never forgotten. I wrote him a long letter last night telling him how much I love him & how happy he has always made me. I'll always be proud of him. ((BRYCE)) |
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No internal pictures, but the outside isn't drilled for the auto sear, so it's just a semi-auto version from all indications. I would say you are probably 100% okay. JD
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I have a pc that is setup with a 60 gb SSD for Windows and a 2TB RAID 0 for the rest of the stuff. Last night I decided to partition some of the RAID to install Windows 8 Consumer Preview and see what the fuss was about. I partitioned it just fine, and everything was going smoothly, until I decided to use the windows tool to make my pendrive bootable with the Win8 ISO. In the middle of the process, I was doing something else (unistalling firefox to be more exact) and suddenly a blue screen comes up! Now my PC is stuck on the famous startup recovery loop, and I cant find a way to make it boot. I tired: - Manual CHKDSK - That tutorial on this forum where you mess around with the prompt wnidow - restarting 1 billion times - booting up from the windows DVD and trying to repair the hard drive And as you can imagine nothing happened and I am still stuck with my har drive being unbootable. Now I cant help thinking that this was due to my pen drive being in the middle of that process in some way, but I have since removed it, burned it and buried in a forest, and still my problem persists. Since I havent found another solution online, I think now that the only way for me to get my PC back running is by reformatting my SSD (while hopefully keeping all my RAID files intact) and reinstalling windows. BBUUUTT!!! I have 100s of hours worth of Skyrim in that drive, and if I loose that I will seriously freak out! While I dont play it a lot anymore, when the expansions come, Dovahkin will rise again! So, what I want to ask is: Is there something else that I could try in order to boot up my pc? or Can I copy my files from my messed up SSD to somewhere else, before formatting it and starting a new life? Thanks everyone! Appreciate the help! |
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Is this of any help. Its a great tutorial with suggestions that should be of interest Startup Repair Infinite Loop Recovery |
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Have you done a Startup Repair:
Startup Repair Note: You may need to do startup repair 3 to 4 times. Startup Repair - Run 3 Separate Times If you have a External HD, you could copy & paste your data. Copy & Paste - in Windows Recovery Console than copy & paste your data to new install. |
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Thanks, I tried that tutorial already and it did not work for me!
I'll try using that copy tutorial later today to see if I can salvage something! |
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In the Son et Lumière show at the Temple of Philae, the actor playing the Nile River spoke with a British accent, and what a booming voice he had. I detected a note of erotic innuendo, too: "When I embraced your walls, your columns faltered," the Nile told the goddess Isis. Still, they did not seem well suited for their parts as they went declaiming around Philae, lighting up the pillars, then the façade, then a hall. The great French archaeologist Jean-François Champollion came in now and then sounding like Hercule Poirot.
I was content to admire the view from my balcony at the Cataract Hotel in Aswan the next morning, and relieved that the Nile was sticking to gurgling noises. There is nothing wrong with seeing a ruin from a distance, I mused, sizing up the Aga Khan mausoleum, golden-dust–colored amid the arid dunes of southern Egypt. A turbaned old gentleman engraved on an intricately inlaid artwork right above my bed appeared to be pondering what he would sell me that afternoon in the souk. The French doors to my wood-enclosed balcony creaked suggestively as the wind pushed them open. At other luxury hotels, immense staffs of engineers make sure creaking is eliminated. But here, in deference perhaps to Agatha Christie, it's permitted. Christie wrote parts of Death on the Nile at this hotel, then continued aboard the steamship Sudan, which I was to board the next afternoon to cruise the Nile for four days, from Aswan to Luxor.
The brocaded walls of my historic room in the hotel's old wing were littered with representations of ladies on pink satin settees in wonderful sitting rooms enclosed by those ubiquitous accessories of Moorish architecture and pleasure in general, wooden moucharaby lattice screens. Arches opened onto lush gardens. I could have done with a little settee myself a few hours later at the souk in Aswan, while looking at scarves and capes and djellabas, my head swimming from the variety to which my relentlessly kind merchant subjected me. This is, of course, what is meant to happen. One is not there, as in a mall, merely to get what one needs. One is there to engage in a personal relation with a fellow human being. And once you engage in it, you cannot go off thinking the one next door is better. In a souk, destiny draws you to the merchant who has the slightly lesser shawl, or the slightly more expensive one. No matter: destiny draws you there and there you stay, settee or not, and usually, especially if you don't find exactly what you require, you will emerge with several things you definitely did not need, and a vague sense of fatigue and disappointment and duty done that a cup of tea will set to rights. That is how a souk works. The next day you return to look for the scarf or tablecloth you didn't see the first time around, but which the drawn-out shopping spree of the day before has washed your eyes to appreciate.
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Ahmed, the guide who came to escort me to the boat the next day, said I was the first person he'd ever met who didn't think the light show at Philae the most thrilling thing ever. It made me feel jaded. But I had started traveling through Egypt while still in my mother's belly, and my father had driven through the night on the desert road from Cairo to greet my arrival in Alexandria, so I felt I had some excuse.
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- Posted by turtleman49 AZ (My Page) on Sun, Sep 28, 08 at 8:49
Theres hundereds of types you can have there.. so let me ask you this.. What type of fruit do you and your kids like? I'll make you a list with the rootstocks that are best for your area |
- Posted by theaceofspades 7 Long Island (My Page) on Sun, Sep 28, 08 at 10:19
marc, Asian Pears are the easiest best fruit tree to grow for kids. You can grow Asians WITHOUT SPRAY whereas you would need 5 sprays for peaches, plums, apricots, cherries. Pears don't get borers or Japanese beatles. Squirels and birds don't bother my Asians but totally ruin the apricots, plums and peaches. Asians pears store for months while plums apricots peaches just a week or two. Unlike european pears and most apples, asian pears don't need storage to obtain full flavor, you just pick asians off the tree to enjoy. I have Fuji apples that are among the best variety in the world but I prefer asian pears. Fuji's are delicious complex tangy sweet orangey flesh and store for months. Asians pears are crisp juicy sweet mild butterscotch non filling refreshing so I eat three at a time. |
- Posted by glenn_russell 6b, RI (My Page) on Sun, Sep 28, 08 at 13:10
Hi Marc- Welcome to the Fruit and Orchard forum. I like the idea of Asian Pears enough that I'm planting one myself this year. If you do decide to go with apples, I really would recommend going with a "Disease Resistant" variety. If you want to make fruit growing one of your main hobbies, then yes, you can grow well known varieties, but be prepared that you will spend a lot of time spraying serious fungicides which are very difficult for the homeowner to obtain legally. I think I may preach this a bit louder than the others, but, in my mind, DR apples are 50% easier to grow. I'm just south of you in RI, and around here, you'll need to deal with Apple Scab and Cedar Apple Rust as well as quite a few other diseases. If you just go to your local nursery, and pick up a Red Delicious, or some other well known apple, you will need to spray it almost constantly (with homeowner-available fungicides) around here to avoid the those diseases. For me, in RI, that meant 7-10 days... and even that, only solved the scab, while the rust reeked havoc with my trees. Here's what I recommended to a friend of mine last year: He wanted 2 apple trees. I recommended Liberty and a Williams Pride which are both disease resistant. I have both, though the WP has not fruited yet. When I went to a local orchard last week, I tried 9 varieties of apples. The Liberty tasted really great to me. For both my father and I, it was in 1st place until the end of the tour when we tried an Empire. I took me 4 apples (2 Liberty, 2 Empire) to determine that I liked the Empire just slightly more, but only slightly. But, the big thing here is Liberty is DR and Empire isn't. So, I'm still glad I have the Liberty. Liberty is still at harvest time now for another 2 days… (possible a little longer since you're north of me). If you act fast, you might be able to try one at your local orchard. I still haven't tried my Williams Pride, but it has a couple of nice qualities: 1.) It's extremely DR (I haven't sprayed my tree at all… zero, zilch, nada, and it probably looks better than any of my other trees). 2.) It is a very early variety (ripening in mid July around here I believe), so you will spread your harvest out which I like to do. 3.) Some might argue that early apples in general don't taste as good, but if you search this forum, you'll find many accounts of it tasting better than many of the fall apples. Then there's the issue of insects. You will need to deal with Plum Curculio and Apple Maggot fly. Unfortunately, DR can't really help with that. But, with just two trees, you can "bag" your apples. Do a search on this forum about bagging your apples, and you'll find a lot of great info. If you were to decided to go with just 1 apple tree, make sure you have something to pollinate it nearby, or you won't get any fruit. Either a neighbor with another apple tree, or a crab apple nearby. Finally, If your looking for a source, Google "Adams County Nursery" and "Cummins Nursery". The tree will come as "bare root", and it will probably take you 3 years or so to get your first couple apples. Or, if you decide that you would like a mature espaliered Liberty, then there is a place down here in RI that has one. Good luck! |
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Ray Allen paced the Celtics with 23 points, Kevin Garnett added 12 points and six rebounds, but the other member of the "Big Three," Paul Pierce, was held to 10 points on 3-of-17 shooting.
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Posted on 05 / 19 / 2012We stayed in Montezuma for 3 nights and ventured out into the town on two of those nights. Both of which we came to Cafe Organico.
I'd read the previous reviews of this place but kept an open mind. We'd walked passed earlier in the day but despite saying they were open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, it was sadly closed (this could have been due to it being quite quiet in town)
The Cafe itself has a quaint Costa Rican look about it, with a porch and large covered eating area. There are interesting works of art on the walls with cool lamps hanging over each of the tables. There is also an outdoor performance area where they have live music and open mic night every Monday.
The menu here is not as bad as other people seem to have reported. Sure, this is not a wholly veg place, but the number of veg/vegan options is definitely good for a very small town on the edge of the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica!!
The service was laid-back. Some could interpret this as bad service (indeed, I had to ask for cutlery!) but this is a laid back town and we certainly were in a laid-back frame of mind so why worry?! However, the service was very friendly and our server was very happy to engage us in conversation (part of the reason we went back the next night)
Unfortunately, I have to agree with the previous reviews regarding the food. I had a salad which had chickpeas, tofu, spinach and parsley. Actually, that was it! No flavour, quiet dry and definitely lacking any imagination. I did get a bottle of balsamic vinegar to go with it though! My partner had Guacamole which was overly salty and seemed like a jar of salsa mixed in with avocado. He also ordered the plaintain chips which came plain (no dip).
They advertise that they have freshly baked cakes and cookies every day (vegan and non-vegan). Sadly, no cookies. However, they did have a vegan cake (very dry). The next night, the same selection of cakes remained and still no cookies.
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Questions emerge over HUJI's statement on al Qaeda leader Ilyas Kashmiri's death
Left: a purported photograph of Ilyas Kashmiri after his death. The picture is actually that of Abu Dera Ismael Khan, a Lashkar-e-Taiba fighter who was a member of the suicide assault team that attacked Mumbai, India, in November 2008. Right: Ilyas Kashmiri before his death. The image on the left is published courtesy of the SITE Intelligence Group. |
Questions are emerging about the validity of a statement released by a Pakistani terror group that claimed its leader, Ilyas Kashmiri, was killed in a US Predator airstrike late last week. A photo purporting to show Kashmiri after his death is actually a picture of a jihadi killed during the Mumbai, India terror assault in November 2008, and discrepancies in the text of the statement have also emerged.
Kashmiri, a senior al Qaeda military commander as well as the leader of Harkat ul Jihad-al-Islami [HUJI] and Brigade 313, is said to have been killed in the June 2 Predator airstrike in the Wana area of South Waziristan. Less than one day after the strike, Abu Hanzla Kashir, a HUJI spokesman, issued a written statement that announced Kashmiri's death, and vowed to attack the US.
"On behalf of Harkat Jihad al-Islami 313 Brigade we confirm the fact that our leader and Commander-in-chief Mohammad Ilyas Kashmiri, along with other companions, have been martyred in an American drone attack at 11:15 pm on June 3, 2011 and Insha Allah (God willing) the present pharaoh America will see our full revenge very soon. Our only target is America," Kashir said, according to a translation of the statement by the SITE Intelligence Group.
The statement was then posted on the Shamukh al Islam forum, a website frequented by jihadists close to al Qaeda, along with an image purported to be that of Kashmiri's face after his death.
But it has been discovered that the photograph, said to depict the slain Kashmiri, is in fact that of Abu Dera Ismael Khan, a Lashkar-e-Taiba fighter who was a member of the suicide assault team that attacked Mumbai, India, in November 2008. Also, the original statement released by HUJI contained misspellings of the terror group's name, Arif Rafiq, the Editor of The Pakistan Policy Blog, told The Long War Journal.
"Though [HUJI is] a Pakistani organization, the group's name is actually in Arabic," Rafiq said. "The group's name is Harkat-ul Jihad al-Islami. But the guy who wrote the letter [Abu Hanzla Kashir] misspelled the name in the two instances he used it," Rafiq said. "First, he wrote Harkat-e Jihad al-Islami (grammatically incorrect in both Arabic and Urdu); then, he wrote Harkat-e Jihad-e Islami (grammatically correct in Urdu, both not the official name)."
US intelligence officials contacted by The Long War Journal said they still could not confirm if Kashmiri was killed in the June 2 strike in South Waziristan. The US intelligence officials said that the discrepancies with the photo and the statement make it difficult to determine whether Kashmiri was actually killed or if he survived the strike.
"We can't go in there; we don't have DNA to test," one official said.
Another US intelligence official said it is possible that the reports of Kashmiri's death may be a part of a "denial and deception" campaign by al Qaeda and HUJI intended to throw the US off the scent of Kashmiri. The official added, however, that Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and allied terror groups have not used martyrdom statements to fake the death of senior leaders in the past.
Several local Taliban leaders, including Mullah Nazir's spokesman, another HUJI leader named Qari Mohammad Idrees, and the Political Agent for South Waziristan, all claimed that Kashmiri was killed, as have unnamed Pakistani intelligence officials.
Kashmiri is one of the most hunted al Qaeda leaders in the Afghan-Pakistan border area. He leads al Qaeda military forces in the region, and is one of three members of al Qaeda's external operations council, which is assigned to directing attacks against the US and Western allies.
For more information on Ilyas Kashmiri and the initial report of his death, see LWJ report, Top al Qaeda leader Ilyas Kashmiri killed in US Predator strike.
READER COMMENTS: "Questions emerge over HUJI's statement on al Qaeda leader Ilyas Kashmiri's death"
Posted by Bing at June 5, 2011 9:54 PM ET:
The beast is evolving its tactics it seems.
Posted by JT at June 5, 2011 9:54 PM ET:
With OBL finally getting taken out, I suppose that the terrorist/militant/extremist groups are much more likely to pretend someone got killed, to take the pressure off for a while.
Until now, they have at least been honest when big fish got hooked, for the most part. Everything else (e.g., number of infidel fighters killed, etc.) has been a different story.
Posted by villiger at June 5, 2011 10:50 PM ET:
In retrospect, this is beginning to look like a (partially) successful attempt by Syed Shahzad's murderers' to create a bigger story, in order to push and hasten that dastardly act out of the news cycle, by faking an overshadow.
We'll see...
But the Shahzad story is not going to disappear that easily. Lets wait to see what was in Part 2 of his story (re: training camps?, although the RealNews interview said it all). And more importantly how Pak society responds to this murder. And to the increasing clarity on the cracks and corruption of Kayani's army, and an ISI that is out of control.
The Pak army has created an incredibly pervasively violent society. What hope is there for Pakistan?
Posted by naresh c. at June 5, 2011 11:29 PM ET:
Rehman Malik, the Pakistani information minister, said he was 98% sure that Kashmiri was killed. He also said that he was '200%' sure that Pakistani nukes were safe. The second statement shows that he lacks elementary knowledge of percentages and probability. That makes you doubt how he came up with 98% figure for the first statement. Can the generous US please give Pakistan some money for learning elementary arithmetic before it gives them F16s and P3C Orions?
Posted by KD at June 6, 2011 12:22 AM ET:
Definitely not Illyas Kashmiri:
Looks like it is part of a growing deception strategy to provide even more protection if the hypothesis of IK being the next contender of ALQ's (and or others') chief strategist.
5 reasons to believe that the purported photograph is fake:
1) Photo published earlier in a french e-media article. (www.rfi.fr)
2) Look closely into the dental construct patterns: The dental gaps between the central, lateral and canine in the purported photograph significantly reinforce the fact that it is not IK (as shown in his actual pic(s)).
3) Critical outer ear anatomy do not match for reasons that the Antihelical fold is significantly flat (in the lower half of the pinna) in the purported photograph when compared to IK's right view of the pinna characteristics from other photographs.
4) The ala and dorsum portion of the nose is significantly different (very prominent) in the purported photograph while that of IK from any other photographs it is not.
5) Why would IK clean shave out of the blue? Even if he did as part of a deception strategy the skull construct do not match.
Hence unthoughtful extrapolation, that past behavior of terror missionaries to have not used martyrdom statements to fake deaths, shall act as a new deception tool.
Posted by GB at June 6, 2011 12:40 AM ET:
There is certainly something fishy going on here. I find it hard to believe that HUJI made a mistake and posted the wrong picture. This brings to mind the recent (false?) stories of Mullah Omar being killed. Perhaps they really are trying to spread disinformation to throw off American intelligence.
One should look at past HUJI martyrdom statements to see if there is any significant discrepancies. If they are trying too hard to prove Kashmiri's death, then theres a good chance that they are hiding something.
Posted by kulamarva balakrishna at June 6, 2011 1:54 AM ET:
Even though deception is not ruled out,who could be behind
the deception Al Queda or ISI if indeed the death report is
divert and deceive . I have indication that ISI is on the
offensive to rehabilitate its image even after the killing of
Syed Saleem Shahzad. It touches the heart of the matter
citing The New York Times masthead " all news fit to print" implying there are exceptional reasons to spike them say
for example in American language "homeland security
interest" that is "press freedom" must be circumscribed
a la Islamic fashion in Pakistan! I intend to publish the
letter in context at myspace.com/taravadu. As for Shahzad,
Asiatimes Online publishers are creating a trust fund. I hope
to contribute there instead of a split Pakistani scribes group
with claimed membership of over 16,000.
-Kulamarva Balakrishna
Posted by BullsEye at June 6, 2011 3:21 AM ET:
What better way to survive than to appear dead and gone but in fact be alive and plotting.
Ilyas is in a different league compared to other jihadis in his area. This guy has to be taken out ASAP.
Posted by michael at June 6, 2011 9:32 AM ET:
Ilyas Kashmiri is certainly sufficiently cunning to fake his own death. But if he had wanted to fake his own death, he would certainly have done so in a professional way - not with typing errors, wrong pictures etc.
In all likelihood he's dead.
Posted by James at June 6, 2011 12:22 PM ET:
It appears obvious to me that they have now resorted to a strategy of 'playing possum,' at least in certain scenarios.
This should come as no surprise. As a matter of fact, I've wondered what took them so long to think of it. I mean, these are individuals that will resort to strategies such as dressing up like woman to escape detection and slaughtering innocent civilians at bakeries and bus stops to name but a few.
My educated guess is that the drone strike did target him but either missed and/or our guys were given erroneous information (whether deliberately or accidentally, I can't say which).
Also, the lenghts our government went through in disposing of bin laden's corpse may have encouraged this strategy on the part of the terrorists.
Posted by kp at June 6, 2011 3:45 PM ET:
One might think that a believable HUJI "deception operation" might not look so badly put together as this one. After all the whole point of a deception op is to make the other side believe it.
One would follow standard protocol. Wait a day or two or seven or thirty and release a proper video or a proper matyrdom announcement. You wouldn't release a handwritten piece of paper (the images are on the net) in which you misspell the name of your org twice (though one might forgive a Arabic speaker writing in Urdu one of the mistakes). And you certainly wouldn't send a photo of an already dead LeT terrorist that people are going to figure out (in hours!) is not real.
Is there a codeword or some other authentication of the the fax? In which case I'd discount it.
But I wouldn't be so quick in discounting the possible killing of IK. The CIA I'm sure know if they got IK or not from the video they took. They will not be deceived by a simple deception op. They watched the meeting form up and struck it. Then watched the aftermath and probably dispersal. The apparent Monday follow-up attacks seem to bear out a chain or intel that they've followed.
Perhaps they were just targeting an important meeting (and weren't going after IK he just happened to be there). Perhaps they were after the AQ spokesman (and other senior folks). Or perhaps they new this was a HUJI/AQ meeting. Or perhaps they knew IK had moved to SW and this was the chance to get him in a meeting with other AQ and senior HUJI.
The CIA know what they know. And they're not telling.
Posted by Abu Samuel at June 7, 2011 10:26 AM ET:
At this time the authenticity of the letter said to be from a HUJI spokesman cannot be verified.
Several questions have to be asked:
Does the statement fit the form and pattern of HUJI statements?
Given that the 'spokesman' for HUJI in this statement is previously unknown, are there any already known spokesmen that this could/should have come from?
The fact that the photo provided is demonstrably false also raises questions regarding the authenticity of the statement. I can think of no possible motive as to why a jihadist organisation would issue the wrong photo of a 'martyr' in a statement conveying news of his death.
I would be wary of accepting the statement as either evidence of Kasmiri's death or as a sign (given the red flags) that this could be a evidence of a new "denial and deception" campaign.
A policy of 'wait and see' is probably most advisable in this case.
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This should come as no surprise. As a matter of fact, I've wondered what took them so long to think of it.
Is there a codeword or some other authentication of the the fax? In which case I'd discount it.


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The state of NY is going to be cracking down on companies that post fake reviews about their products and services. They're going after the companies as well as the people who post them. Hmm, we've seen a lot of positive reviews about Viking products recently! |
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- Posted by foodonastump (My Page) on Mon, Sep 23, 13 at 11:14
Well at least we're smart enough to know that anyone who praises Viking or disses Bluestar or CC is definitely a troll. Those just can't be right. |
And just registered same day, too. But in all honesty, my 36" Viking rangetop has been performing flawlessly for 11-1/2 years now. ;-) |
- Posted by foodonastump (My Page) on Mon, Sep 23, 13 at 12:12
I don't know about you, sushipup - a good Viking and, IIRC, a bad Miele? Very suspect! ;-) (I hadn't seen those current Viking posts until now. They do raise an eyebrow.) |
- Posted by sjhockeyfan (My Page) on Mon, Sep 23, 13 at 14:22
I hated my Viking cooktop - feel better :-)? |
That's what you get for getting a cooktop. The rangetop is far better. ;-) |
I know several people that have Viking range & range tops. One mentioned a problem while still under warranty. None of the others have had any issues. |
As far as we know, Luvstoput is still loving his Viking Induction stove, and has had no problems, (I think it's luvsto putt or close to that). I will have to admit, with the exception of some European Induction Ranges, (which can't be imported to the US), that Viking is BY FAR, the best looking Induction range!!, (albeit "pricey"! Also, alto it took some "Prodding", Viking did replace a fridge post haste after they saw the Garden web thread about the (Slow till then) service. So lets be "Fair", Miele has never helped out the folks with the low temp oven problems, and like the Kitchen Aid ovens of "Yesteryear" with the self clean problems, neither company has admitted a problem or made any effort to take care of those who still have the problem, (as far as we know)? Not sure I want the govvyment, (New York), and especially California (buncha freaking idiots), getting into what is posted in our forums and "going after offenders". I think we are all smart enough here to separate the "wheat from the chaff"!!! Gary |
- Posted by homeimprovementmom (My Page) on Mon, Sep 23, 13 at 23:20
I think fake reviewers either to tout a product or to tear one down are mischief makers and the practice is wrong. Personally, used a viking range and it had one problem with calibration which was fixed readily. It has performed well otherwise for close to 16 years. I have read on this forum posts by people who spoke intelligently about garbage disposals and Viking is noted as the very best with its own design from Hobart. If they would come down on their price and bring back the batchfeed, I would be happy! |
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Sometimes, when browsing Reddit, I'll see some really great commentary that deserves to be mirrored and shared with others. Whether a person wants to abide by this little ruleset, or whether it's the end-all be-all of rules is another story… but, it was still some interesting dialogue and I thought I'd take a moment to share it:
- You need to act like a 100k+ person. Do you have a fancy suit and a nice watch? No? Get some. I'd recommend a nice ostentatious Tag watch. If you walk into that room and it seems like nobody has ever paid you $100k+ before then I'm sure as hell not going to be the first person to do it.
- You need to convince me that you're going to add more than $100k+ value to my company. If you're in a passive, non-revenue driving position like community manager I need you to do that more than ever. You need to give me the impression that you're going to be a fun guy who can be depended on and someone who is totally across their field.
- To that end you need to show an appreciation of what my business goals are, what my business pressures are, and what you can be doing to help. I want you to tell me about your field in an easy but knowledgable manner and I want you to show an awareness of where your field is going in the next five years. I don't want to skate to where the puck is, I want to hire someone who can take me to where it's going.
- I want you to hit me with some impressive numbers. You want to be a community manager? I want you to tell me about a community you've grown or built from scratch. I want to know how long these people spent interacting with my brand. I want to know what the ROI was. I want to know what you'd like to do given carte blanche, but for you to show an understanding of how business works.
- What has your previous experience taught you which will be applicable to my business? Because really if I'm interviewing you I've already seen your CV and I know that you're qualified for the job. I just need you to convince me that you're the kind of person I want to hire, and that you're able to transfer your knowledge and skills from one silo to another.
- You need to make me feel like I'm the one wearing the trousers, but that if I hired you we could conceivably be friends. Don't underestimate that.
- Ask some questions about the company and my role. People fucking love to talk about themselves. In an interview I have to sit quietly listening to you for inordinately long periods of time.
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It isn't hard to imagine what editors and stylists see: In addition to the vast formal greenery, the couple have strenuously preserved the charm of the original structures. Despite the mammoth chore of joining the barns into a graceful home, Welch and Filippone kept as many of the beams and structural elements as possible. In their effort to make the place habitable year-round, for example, they resisted the usual barn renovation tactic of covering up the beams with insulation and slapping drywall over everything; instead, they lifted the roof and put the insulation between the existing beams and the new shingles. "It was a big job, but it leaves the most beautiful part intact and gives an enduring sense of history," says Filippone.
In fact, far from seeming like four barns jerry-rigged into a single dwelling, the home looks as though it could be a manor house handed down through the generations. The main barn stands as an illustration of their approach: As big as a banquet hall, it is dominated by a huge plaster-cast mantel that was once in a Manhattan brownstone designed by McKim, Mead & White. Filippone and her father, a surgeon who shares her love for beautiful old things, spent a year chipping the paint by hand from the plaster. "Everything flowed from that mantel," says Filippone, "the furnishings, the layout, the feeling."
When it comes to furnishings, Filippone and Welch aren't much for color or pattern, for themselves or for clients. "Our projects tend to be more about structure, shape, and craftsmanship," she explains. In their own home, the walls are shades of taupe and green and the upholstery is mainly mohair, linen, and leather. "To make the architectural elements really stand out, the background has to be muted," she says.
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Expect the next 12 months to bring expansion across a variety of industries. Fitness and weight-loss franchises will grow as Americans continue their battle to get slim, tech consulting will be in greater demand than ever, eBay drop-off stores will spread rapidly, and children's tutoring/enrichment programs and senior care will maintain their spots in the limelight. Some of these trends are already visible in this year's Franchise 500®. So, without further delay, here's an in-depth look at the trends to watch in 2005.
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Whether it's the food or the lifestyle, Americans tend to be overweight. Countless reports, studies and articles affirm this almost daily, and the news is not falling on deaf ears. The overwhelming popularity of low-carb diets alone illustrates the degree to which Americans are focused on the single goal of shedding pounds. In addition, the skyrocketing cost of health insurance has individuals and companies searching for ways to control their medical bills.
Weight control is definitely one of those ways. A 2004 report by nonprofit research group RTI International and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that obesity costs the United States as much as $75 billion in medical expenditures annually. "With the cost of health care being what it is, people want to make it a priority to take care of themselves," says Shirley Archer, an author, speaker, and health and wellness educator for the Health Improvement Program at Stanford University in Stanford, California. Consequently, fitness has maintained its place among the fastest-growing categories in this year's listing-and the weight-loss franchise category has been reborn, after having disappeared altogether in 2000.
Fitness franchise Curves International Inc. became an industry leader when co-founders Diane and Gary Heavin recognized and addressed the need to make women feel comfortable while working out. Curves' informal slogan-"No men, no mirrors, no makeup"-continues to strike a chord among women, securing the franchise a viable share of the $14.1 billion fitness industry. Curves celebrated growth of 37.3 percent in the past year and now has more than 3 million members. According to Gary, the first stage of growth-North America-is nearing completion, and phases two and three include opening about 8,000 centers each in Asia and Europe within the next seven years.
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One of the things that wasn't working was the effort to take over an old mill on the Upper Animas and make it profitable. With the support of the Animas stakeholders' group, one of Fearn's companies sought approval to process raw mine dumps at the Howardsville mill. The idea was that Fearn's company would get paid to dispose of the waste, and profits from selling metals extracted from the dumps could be used to fund more waste-pile removal. But Fearn's company never processed any of the thousands of tons of rock trucked to the site. Its startup money was consumed, Fearn says, by the higher-than-anticipated costs of obtaining regulatory approval.
"We finally got the permitting issues all solved, but by that time we'd run out of money," he explains. In the end, the former owner of the mill foreclosed on the property and was stuck with the job of disposing of the dumps.
Gold King also struggled with its operation of the water-treatment plant. Under the permit, the water flowing out of the American Tunnel was supposed to be treated with chemicals to lower its acidity and then run through the settling ponds, which would absorb the heavy metals before the water was released to Cement Creek. WQCD required weekly reports monitoring the chemistry of the treated effluent. But the plant was out of service for weeks. On several occasions, the reports indicated that the discharge exceeded acceptable levels of zinc or other indicators; many weeks, the monitoring simply wasn't done. State records indicate that Gold King failed to provide monitoring reports for 30 weeks in a 52-week period.
Fearn has several explanations for the spotty performance. An avalanche hindered access to the plant and took the operation down for several weeks one winter, he says, and problems with the aging equipment at the plant, the changing chemistry of the flow being treated, and other factors contributed to the fluctuating test results. At one point the power was off because Gold King hadn't paid its utility bill, but Fearn brought in a backup generator to keep the plant running. "There were violations, technically, but there were reasons for them," he says.
Hennis considered the failure to comply with the discharge permit a violation of Gold King's lease, and last fall he went back to court with another eviction action. He also met with Mark Pifher, then-director of WQCD, to register his frustration with the division's lack of action on the violations piling up at the treatment plant. "He signed the cease-and-desist order right in front of me, which surprised the hell out of me," Hennis says.
Gold King was ordered to stop violating the state's Water Quality Control Act and to bring in an outside expert to evaluate the plant operation. In November, a judge granted Hennis's eviction action; without access to the settling ponds, the plant was shut down, and the untreated water began to flow directly into Cement Creek, prompting another cease-and-desist order.
Fearn says his company doesn't have the funds to comply with the state's orders at present. "We still think there's potential in the area, and we're working on trying to refinance," he says.
He insists the continuing discharge is "not an issue for water quality in the basin." The bulkheads Sunnyside installed reduced the flow in the American Tunnel from 2,000 gallons per minute to less than a hundred gallons per minute; that's a far cry from the situation that existed at the Sunnyside twenty years ago, when the mine emptied 100 pounds of zinc a day into the watershed. The remaining seepage consists of groundwater, Fearn says, with a chemistry similar to that of Cement Creek itself, which is already high in zinc and low in pH -- as acidic as a can of Pepsi, and devoid of aquatic life.
"It's a violation, no question about that," he says. "Is it doing any real damage? No."
Although Gold King could be subject to fines as high as $10,000 per day for the violations, WQCD has imposed no fines at all since the first cease-and-desist order went into effect nearly a year ago. The state hasn't even tried to collect the $11,000 in civil penalties imposed for Gold King's failure to keep the mine's reclamation bond current. Officials say that they're serious about enforcing the law, but that they had hoped to find some "behind-the-scenes" solution that would head off further court battles.
"I don't believe the time in this situation has been that extensive," says Scott Klarich, WQCD enforcement-team leader. "Certainly, if you get in the civil arena, those processes are time-consuming. We would have responded differently if the environmental impacts were more significant."
According to Johnson, the federal Clean Water Act and the Colorado laws modeled upon it aren't really designed to address problems with mine flows. "The Act was passed in the 1970s, when the issue was industrial plants," she notes. "People could turn off the discharge. It didn't envision mining, where the discharge goes on and on, even after the industrial process is over. We're trying to use tools that were developed to fit a different situation."


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