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This problem invited students to consider the relationship between opposite angles of cyclic quadrilaterals. Often, with these types of problems, it is helpful to draw diagrams; several students submitted diagrams as part of their solution - well done.
The problem is divided into two parts: the first part contains questions that form "building blocks" to help meet the final challenge in the second part.
Nick, from St Stephen's at Carramar summed up his solution:The sum of the angles at opposite vertices of a cyclic quadrilateral is $180^\circ$. This is the same for all cyclic quadrilaterals, regardless of the positioning of the centre dot.
Click here to see his full solution with diagrams.
Well done also to the following students, who also submitted similar (and correct!) answers to this problem: Andre, Laura, Sascha, Chris and Sailesh from St. Stephen's School, Marcus and Kye from St Philip's Primary School, and Natasha.
Now that you have completed this problem, you could try the following problems as an extension: Subtended Angles and/or Right Angles.


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For those of you looking for a vest pattern - I've found one that works well, with a few minor alterations! I've just finished a muslin prototype and it turned out great ... ( except for the mistakes I made! ;) )
It's a vest pattern made for leather (not fabric) and has a front zipper. The pattern has all sizes printed on the paper, so it's easy to adjust and alter for your shape/size. There is a separate lining pattern as well.
As for the adjustments: The pattern has to be lengthened about 2 to 3 inches (no big deal), the front collar has to be brought up and you have to make your own shoulder flap pattern piece (also no big deal). And remember to sew the lining to the leather on the sides - and not to each other!
Best of all ... it's on sale right now! :D

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Public Policy Volunteer Or Intern at Children Uniting Nations
September 16, 2013
Public Policy Volunteer Or Intern needed at Children Uniting Nations— a proactive non-profit organization created to bring attention to the plight of at-risk and foster youth. Unpaid/for college credit.
Interns are expected to work on Children Uniting Nation's 2014 D.C. Conference dealing with foster care issues.
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Salem VA Medical Center
Valentines for Veterans Concert Coming February 9, 2012
January 5, 2012
Country music artist, Aaron Tippin, will perform in a free concert at the Salem Civic Center as part of the Department of Veterans Affairs Salem VA Medical Center 2012 National Salute to Veterans on Thursday, February 9, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. The concert is being sponsored by the Salem VA Medical Center, Help Hospitalized Veterans Organization (HHV), and others throughout the community.
This concert is part of the annual weeklong National Salute to Veterans celebration, specifically connected to Valentine's Day, and is an ideal opportunity for the community to express its respect and appreciation of all Veterans who have served and protected our great Nation.
"We are very excited to be able to host one of the national concerts in our area for Veterans residing in southwest Virginia. This complimentary concert is being held to honor the men and women who have bravely served our Nation, welcome them home to their community and families, and promote volunteerism at VA medical centers and outpatient clinics throughout the country. We know that the community will want to take part to demonstrate their ongoing appreciation and support to the men and women who have proudly worn a uniform in service to our country," stated Medical Center Director,
Dr. Miguel LaPuz.
Aaron Tippin is well known as a country artist who strongly crusades for the working man and woman. With his 1990 release of "You've Got to Stand for Something," Tippin was invited to appear with Bob Hope on tours to the Mideast to entertain troops of Desert Storm. Following his tour, Tippin has been a favorite of America's fighting forces and has traveled back to entertain troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. His other recording credits include, "Where the Stars and Stripes and The Eagle Fly," "I Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way," "My Blue Angel," and many others.
In addition to this honorary concert to recognize returning service members and Veterans of all conflicts, members of the VA Medical Center staff will be available at the venue to provide information about eligibility, enrollment, VA benefits and other services available to Veterans. Voluntary Service staff will provide volunteer information to members of the community who are interested in volunteering. Miss Virginia, Elizabeth Crot, will be appearing and welcoming Veterans to the event.
Tickets are required for admission and must be obtained prior to the date of the concert. Beginning January 9, 2012, Veterans, active military, and their families may obtain tickets at the Salem Civic Center Box Office, Monday through Friday, between the hours of 10am-6pm and Saturdays from 10am-2pm. Tickets for the general public will then be released beginning January 16, 2012 and available at the Salem Civic Center. Doors will open at 6:00 p.m.
To make a donation to support the 2012 Valentines for Veterans Concert or for additional information, please call our toll free number at 1-888-982-2463. When the auto attendant answers, please dial extension 5096.


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Dear All,
Design of frame structure with Indian Standard IS 13920
I designed a RCC frame structure with Indian code IS 456. The design result was alright. As the structure was in high seismic zone, I reperformed the design with IS 13920. The structure even though has been designed by the software but the design result is full of unheard warnings, mostly of the same character, particularly as under:
Warning: ' UDL loading is not defined for member 85, 86, 89 ……….etc etc
Default value will be used'
Almost all the beam members are in the list of warning. There was no such warning when I ran the file with IS 456. Now I have to submit that when there is no UDL on the beam members in the structure how can I load them with UDL.
Please clarify whether Staad pro V8i is not inbuilt for designing the structure with IS 13920 – Ductile detailing or there is a bug in the software. As the design has been performed with default value for UDL, may I know what default value has been considered by the software.
I could remove the warnings and tackle the problem. Hence no further clarifications are required.
In reply to sureshprsharma:
Dear Er.Sureshprsharma,
You could have explained in detail how did you eliminate the warnings so that others like me can learn from your experience.
Thanks in advance.
With warm regards,
In reply to rangarajan:
Dear Sir,
The error can be removed by using EUDL or GLD parameters in the design component...
I am not sure how or when to use the EUDL parameter... I am using GLD parameters only...
Usage of GLD parameter:
After setting Design Code as IS13920 and before setting Design beam command, enter
GLD <load comb no> <list of beams>
The load comb number should refer to a load combination in the staad file that is set to 1.0(DL+LL) and list of beams should be full set of beams being designed by IS13920 code...
Hope that helps...
Dear Sirs,
I have doubts whether the load assigned to GLD will be Combined Load case No. or Repeat Load case No. I am inclined to go in for Repeat Load case keeping in view the brief idea that I got from studying the case. I would request some Senior Members to throw light in the matter and enlighten us as we are now very close to actual solution of the case.
I found this detail in STAAD.Pro 2004 software release report (build 1002.India) about GLD parameter:
<Quoted from the report in description of GLD parameter for IS13920 design>
Gravity load number to be considered for calculating equivalent udl on span of the beam, in case no EUDL is mentioned in the input. This loadcase can be any static loadcase containing MEMBER LOAD on the beam which includes UNI, CON, LIN and TRAP member loading. CMOM member loading is considered only when it is specified in local direction. FLOOR LOAD is also considered.
The load can be primary or combination load. For combination load, only load numbers included in load combination is considered. The load factors are ignored. Internally, the unfactored load is multiplied by a factor 1.2 during design
If both EUDL and GLD parameters are mentioned in the input mentioned EUDL will be considered in design
No dynamic (Response Spectrum, 1893, Time History) and moving load cases are considered.
CMOM member loading in global direction is not considered
UMOM member loading is not considered.
<End of Quoted text>
So, load combination can be used as per above detail.
Dear Srinivasan
your reply is quite clear and many many thanks to you for your quick response. I have analysed my model both with Load Combination and Repeat Load. There is no difference in analysis result and design result. The result is same for both the cases.
I have used GLD parameter for beam design in staad file. But while analyzing the file, it quits unexpectedly. How can it be solved.
In reply to anup kumar:
There has been a problem with IS:13920 code design. One can ask the program to compute Equivalent UDL for the design of beams by using GLD parameter. The program is facing problem with GLD parameter in STAAD.Pro V8i version 20.07.09.31. This has already been logged in problem tracking system. This problem has even been fixed and the fix will be available in the next elease of STAAD.Pro which is expected to be released officially in few weeks.
Workaround: You can use EUDL parameter instead of GLD parameter
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Board trims redistricting options to two, for now
By Tom Lappas, Citizen Editor 11/18/12
And then there were two. Probably.
The Henrico County School Board earlier this month eliminated from consideration one of three redistricting options created by a committee of citizens for the new Kaechele Elementary School in Short Pump. The board agreed that Option 3 (Revised Option F) would have too significant a domino effect, shifting too many students at other elementary schools and potentially costing the system Title I funding at Ridge Elementary School.
But the board also directed the school system's planning staff members to review the two remaining plans and consider tweaking them or creating a hybrid option of those two if possible. The board is scheduled to hold a public hearing to receive more feedback from the community during its Dec. 6 meeting at Hermitage High School, beginning at 6 p.m.
During its Nov. 8 work session, the board heard from its redistricting committee, which met 11 times during a two-month period to create the three options and also presented drafts during two public meetings to receive citizen feedback.
The majority of committee members favored Option 2 (Revised Option E), which would move about 36 percent more students than Option 1 (Revised Option A) among the affected elementary schools but would present the best set of compromises to all involved communities, according to redistricting committee vice chairwoman Alice Ann Howard. That map also would do the best job creating boundaries by major roads and geographical landmarks and would not change middle or high school feeder patterns.
Option 1 would provide the best enrollment balance across all elementary schools affected by the redistricting and would ensure that none of those schools were over capacity through 2016, redistricting committee chairman Bill Panak said. But it also would require a few irregular boundaries and would mean that not every community would receive a preferred option. It also would change feeder patterns for 333 students.
In addition to setting boundaries for Kaechele Elementary, the committee was tasked with providing relief for other nearby schools forecasted to exceed their capacity soon and to provide relief for those at or above 95 percent capacity currently. The committee considered the boundaries of 12 elementary schools when creating its maps.
Several School Board members expressed a desire to use West Broad Street as a dividing line between elementary school zones – ensuring that schools north of the road drew only from communities to the north, while schools to the south drew only from the south. Committee members said they had the same desires but were unable to make them a reality without involving even more schools in the process.
"We ran out of room," Howard said of the committee's attempts to use the road as a north-south boundary.
Still, School Board Chairwoman Diana Winston directed planning staff members to take another look and determine if that goal still might be accomplished.
Howard conceded that all three options underutilized Three Chopt Elementary, which is comfortably under capacity. But, she said, moving other students into the school's zone would have required shifting boundaries of schools beyond the 12 originally under consideration.
Map 3 would have moved 160 low-income students from Ridge Elementary to Pinchbeck, likely threatening Ridge's designation as a Title I school. Title I is a federal designation that provides extra funding to schools with a certain percentage of low-income students. Ridge would fall below that threshold with the move, while Pinchbeck would not quite reach it even with the addition of those students, Deputy Superintendent Pat Kinlaw said.
Once the board adopts new boundaries, rising fourth- and fifth-graders at any of the affected schools will be able to remain at their current schools if they choose. Students who move to the district to begin fourth or fifth grade, however, must attend the school designated by the new boundaries.
Richmond Montessori School earns VAIS reaccreditation
Citizen Staff Reports 06/26/2017 EducationGeneral News
Richmond Montessori School, an independent Montessori school for children ages 2 to 14, recently earned reaccreditation from the Virginia Association of Independent Schools. The VAIS accreditation program is one of only a few recognized at the national level through the National Association of Independent School's Commission on Accreditation and is also recognized and approved by the Virginia Board of Education through the Virginia Council for Private Education. > Read more.
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Neil Burton, the founder of Strangeways Brewing in Henrico, will serve on the 2017-18 Leadership Council of The Virginia Craft Brewers Guild (VCBG). Burton will share the chairmanship of the Marketing & Tourism Committee with Kevin Erskine of Coelacanth Brewing. Other local brewers in leadership positions include Eric McKay of Hardywood Park Craft Brewery (VCBG chair), Hunter Smith of Champion Brewing Company (co-chair of the Government Affairs Committee) and Kate Lee of Hardywood (co-chair of the Quality Committee). > Read more.
James River Juvenile Detention Center to graduate its largest class
Citizen Staff Reports 06/25/2017 General NewsGovernment
James River Juvenile Detention Center will celebrate its largest class of high school graduates June 27, as 13 residents receive their high school diploma or GED certificate.
The ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. at the detention center, 3650 Beaumont Road in Powhatan County. The graduates will mark their academic milestone by walking across a stage in a cap and gown before an audience of family members. A reception will follow. > Read more.
The ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. at the detention center, 3650 Beaumont Road in Powhatan County. The graduates will mark their academic milestone by walking across a stage in a cap and gown before an audience of family members. A reception will follow. > Read more.
Henrico School Board selects redistricting Option E
Citizen Staff Reports 06/23/2017 EducationGeneral News
JUNE 23, 10:30 A.M. – The Henrico County School Board Thursday concluded its latest redistricting process by selecting a plan for middle school redistricting that will impact a number of students in the western and northern parts of the county, as well as a few in Eastern Henrico.
The process sought to reduce overcrowding at Hungary Creek Middle School, create room at Wilder Middle School for a gifted academy and address the poverty level disparity among some middle schools. It will impact about 775 students, according to school system officials. > Read more.
'Senior Cool Care' program to help older adults in Metro Richmond
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For the 27th year, Senior Connections, The Capital Area Agency on Aging is helping older adults combat summer heat through a program now called "Senior Cool Care" (formerly the Fan Care program) that provides fan and air conditioning units for eligible senior citizens.
The program is available to low-income older adults age 60 and older who reside in the City of Richmond and the counties of Charles City, Chesterfield, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, New Kent and Powhatan. > Read more.
'Senior Cool Care' program to help older adults in Metro Richmond
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TAMPA — Okay, so let me get this straight …
There's plenty of time this week to discuss offensive play-calling and defensive philosophies. But the real issues of Super Bowl XLIII get addressed today at the annual circus known as media day.
This is where one reporter wearing high heels and a mini-skirted wedding dress proposed to the quarterback, another brought a monkey puppet to ask questions and a third probed who players thought should portray them in a movie. And that was just last year.
There's open access to all players and coaches, and it seems like open season.
As if we in the "mainstream" media don't ask stupid enough questions, media day gets even more excessive with the inclusion of bloggers and foreign (representing a record 28 countries) and entertainment media. This year's list includes crews from Access Hollywood, E!, CMT, the late-night talk shows, Inside Edition, People magazine and Ellen.
The diverse group reflects the broad interest in the event, NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said. "And we always appreciate media interviewing media about how much media there is."
The economy is bad and the media business worse, but you won't be able to tell this week. McCarthy said they issued 4,589 credentials (second most in history) from a record 633 media organizations.
The Lingerie Bowl was canceled because organizers were concerned that the people watching the game wouldn't be wearing enough clothes?
Maybe it's just us, but having women who already are playing football in skimpy underwear do so at the Caliente clothing optional resort didn't seem to be much of a stretch.
But Lingerie Football League president Stephon McMillen (and how do you get that job?) told our Emily Nipps that they didn't want to be in a "potentially negative" and "less than comfortable environment that would ultimately jeopardize the mainstream perception and reputation" of their brand.
It's true: You really can't make this stuff up.
Sex, lies and videotape? What exactly do the players do with those videos they were shooting Monday as they got off the plane? Are they going to tape all their activities this week? And how quickly will Matt Leinart's end up on pay-per-view?
Retired Buc Mike Alstott does a lot of wonderful things for charity and good causes, and meeting with an 11-year-old boy, Brandon Saunders, who lost a leg in a boating accident is another. Wednesday, Alstott and Saunders will be at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium to, and we quote from the news release, "team up with Winter the famous tailless dolphin to pick a winner of Super Bowl XLIII. Two footballs will be thrown into the water and she will bring her trainer back one of them representing the team she thinks will win."
Providing news, or perpetuating a stereotype? Here is what an Associated Press story that is distributed worldwide said: "The week of Super Bowl XLIII is to Tampa's naughty nightlife what Black Friday is to America's shopping malls."
The Super Bowl is always an exercise in entrepreneurship, and Gallagher's Steak House — in Tampa and New York — rarely misses a chance to take a bit. This year's specials? The Larry Fitzgerald Filet Mignon, Betrand Berry Pie, Ben Roethlis-burger, Rooney Ribeye. There's also an Anquan Boldin Sliced Beefsteak, though wouldn't it have been more appropriate to make his a wine?


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[WE NEED MORE] Randomism!!!
Keep up with underground hip hop worldwide. Updates daily
beautiful girls pass me by like clouds in the sky
one stops and says hi, mind bent like drugs, i'm having the craziest time
wondering why, thinking takes up my time, time that i don't have, so i start to say bye
she says this shits no joke, it's not a lie, im complicated, but don't let me waste your time. . .
Always have my head high in the clouds, feet planted firm to the ground
I should've known, this shit was too good to be true,
Unfortunately, my reality check was nowhere to be found
anytime you get that high, it's hard to come down,
lif'es ridiculous shit, i can't be fucking around
Can't wait for my dreamgirl to find me
the one who loves me, even when i'm being a clown
A girl like that once found me, loved me for all that i am
but when it came to other guys, her pants were nowhere to be found.
I told her this shit has to stop, im definately not down
now she's having the 'time of her life', clowning around
searching for the next cute scene boy to put her lips around
Me? I'm just trying to get on with my life
But i can't, good and bad memories haunt my days and nights
looking for love and happiness in all the wrong places, naturally it's nowhere in sight
sometimes i hate this world, but onward and upward i fight
for what this thread is it should have more posts. Lovin whats on here !!
Keep up with underground hip hop worldwide. Updates daily
zombie superman pic compliments and found on goodiesmag.com
Pulse, your signature scares me!
Hey is any one from London? was reading this artcile:
And I wanted to know who the artist was who did this pic below?


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text: SHAKEN - Unregistered August 23, 2012 2:27 PM Sour grapes on Piquet's part. In fact I'll go as far as saying what a low life he is. Ayrton Senna had such skills that it was once reported he asked his mechanic/engineer to adjust his suspension by 1 mm (yes folks, that's an incredible 1mm !!), it wasn't done (probably just to get the proof of his incredible skills) and Senna reported back that the job wasn't done. No past or modern driver could do that. As for Piquet Jr's skills in F1, well he could I suppose tell the difference between a crankshaft and a chicane... 32 agree 4 disagree


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Hi, just found this forum to post introductions. I'm a newbie of course, but have been perusing the forums for awhile. I'm married with 2 little ones and live in southern California. I came across this board after some friends invited us to a costume party for his birthday last month, and I decided to go as Boba Fett. I started researching some custumes, and came across this forum. Of course, there wasn't enough time or money to do a real Fett costume in time for the party, so I bought a Rubies Fett costume (with the cheesy 2-piece "helmet" and suit that looks like pajamas) for the event. But in the process, I got hooked into this board, and am now in fact in the process of doing a scratch-build helmet!
I've always been a big fan of Star Wars since I first saw the original in 1977 when I was 7 years old (ya, that makes me 38!), and Boba Fett was always one of my favorite characters. I didn't really like the whole Boba / Jango clone thing, I preferred it when he was just a ruthless bounty hunter of mysterious origins.
Anyway, I look forward to completing my helmet, and then moving on to hopefully one day have a complete costume. I really like the idea of scratchbuilding, both from a budget perspective and the "I made this" perspective. I look forward to reading about all the great scratchbuilding that people are doing, and plan to contribute my own progress as well. Many thanks to the owners of this forum and especially Alan for his excellent templates without which none of this would be possible.


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Hilarious Resume Mistakes + Advice From Top Sites
One thing I always worry about: my resume and my experience. I constantly obsess over making sure it's perfect, tailored to the position and ready to go. I've also edited a lot of resumes and given a lot of advice on how to make a resume the best it can be for my friends, boyfriend and coworkers. There's no magic resume formula, but there are things you can do to make sure yours at least gets to the right person and isn't immediately rejected.
Check out these posts for more help, advice and laughs:
11 mistakes to avoid on your digital marketing resume
- 11 senior digital marketers about mistakes they've seen in this post.
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- NEVER put LOL on your resume!
The only resume advice you'll ever need
- Another great post from Forbes with solid information
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- Good advice here too - leave off the objective statement and put a more creative heading
Tips for submitting your resume online
- Don't attach a Word document! Always send as a PDF so formatting doesn't get lost.
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This is a discussion on What other hobbies do you all enjoy? within the Off Topic & Humor Discussion forums, part of the The Back Porch category; I love being in the yard- planting, re-planting, digging, mulching, looking at bugs. Playing with my son in his treehouse we built last summer- it ...
I love being in the yard- planting, re-planting, digging, mulching, looking at bugs. Playing with my son in his treehouse we built last summer- it has a corrugated metal roof and listening to it rain way up in our maple is heaven! Bird watching. Could do home improvement projects all day every day. Running + any workout DVD by Jillian Michaels.
BUT, I got a kick-ass hammock from my wonderful husband for Christmas so it looks like this summer will be more about relaxing! I've never been very good at it, so I'll need lots and lots of practice!! Maybe I'll build a little wine stand to put next to it. Hmmm. Project!
I've been into baking - mostly bread, and some gluten free for my husband, who is intolerant. I also enjoy pastel painting, photography, and I've done some hand sewing (made my hubby a Green Bay blanket). Those three I haven't been able to do much lately with my hands full of kids. Antique collecting.
"Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power." - Yoshimi Ishikawa
Camping, Disc Golf, Ham Radio, traveling (RV), kicking back by a camp fire with a wee bit of 30 year old single malt and a quality cigar.
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I do some leathercrafting, collect wheat pennies ( Have somewhere between 8K and 10K now, with more I need! ), camping, a little fishing, and my wife and I enjoy going to some of the small wineries around Missouri.
And, very active in the Knights of Columbus.
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I play golf, take my kids fishing, and I have 2 antique Volkswagen Bugs I work on and take to car shows. I am currently hand painting one of them with 60s graffiti. I also enjoy music (mostly 60s Rock) and collecting hotwheels and matchbox Volkswagens.
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No Guns, No Safety, No Peace.
Besides Guns I love basketball, baseball, dirt track racing, Nascar, and building and racing Go-Kats with my son(s) and soon my daughter when she is old enough:)!
Racing motocross. Been doing it since I was 8. Even through all the broken bones and severe injuries, there is not another sport that I would rather be involved in.
Is this forum a hobby? I spend a lot of time reading it.
Other than that, I'm a computer engineer by trade, but I do web design, fix cars, build stuff (shed, fence, holsters, etc.), run/bike, photography, golf, camping, traveling, and probably a few other things I haven't thought of. I'd like to get into paragliding, sky-diving, and get my pilots license.
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Mountain biking, motorcycles, snowmobiling, And reloading ammo. And just spending time with family and friends. Oh and the occasional good drink and a fine cigar.
I like to modify things. Started out with a Honda in High School, a Gixxer 750 in college, my F150 now (less over the top), my home that we've sunk about 40K in since 2008 and electronics. I mainly tinker with phones and tablets at the moment. Rooting, jailbreaking, unlocking, flashing custom OS's etc. I've made a profitable hobby out of flipping electronics (buying and selling on Craigslist), which led me to this hobby for protection.
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I enjoy hunting, fishing, camping, crafting, making my truck awesome, photography, antiques, and collecting.
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Too many, and not enough time:
Hiking, geocaching, wood working, reading, gardening, guitar, astronomy, fishing, hunting
I am thinking of taking up bee keeping, but I have too many other hobbies as it is...
"... advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill." -J.R.R. Tolkien
I enjoy reading and playing video games quite a bit. I don't know if that qualifies as a hobby or just stuff to do when not at work.
What I want to do this year is get more into camping and I'd like to try out hiking. And not that "I went hiking for four hours" where you are really just walking around a city trail, I mean backpacking type hiking.
I'd also like to try woodworking with hand tools. I've used all the power tools, but I'd like to get more into using hand saws, hand drills, rasps etc.
Short story. I was building a couple target stands and hand cut some 4x4s for it, but went over to my dad's for some help with drilling and aligning some pieces. He asked me who cut all the 4x4s and I said that I did with a hand saw. From the look he gave me you would have thought I just grew a third eye! He kept asking why I didn't come over and just have him cut them with one of his power saws.
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AUSTRALIA has taken the first steps needed to repair its tattered cricketing reputation. Called upon to examine cricket operations at the top level, Don Argus and colleagues have recommended significant changes in the way the national team is chosen and coached. Crucially, the report gives the board, itself in urgent need of renewal, an opportunity to undo the unholy mess it has created in the past few seasons.
Avoiding cosy generalities, the Argus report has effectively ditched the entire selection panel and overhauled the backroom staffing. Since both areas were performing badly it is an important contribution. Over the years Australia has been able to put the right men in the right place. Somewhere along the way that skill was lost. Jobs for the boys became the custom, complacency took hold. For a while it did not matter; then Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath stopped taking wickets.
Argus's main recommendation is the appointment of a full-time chief selector. Andrew Hilditch has made it clear that he is not available for any such role. Anyhow, he is not up to the task. Not that the chaos has been entirely his fault. The panel had become an uneasy alliance between his cautious methodology, Jamie Cox's ambitious analysis and Greg Chappell's restless radicalism. Commonsense left the panel on the day Merv Hughes was ousted. Clearly the next chief selector ought to come from outside this collection.
Chappell's dual role as talent manager and selector has also been ended. It was a conflict of interest. In any case, Chappell is better suited to identifying and advising young players than to sitting on a panel planning the next move. From the start it was a dubious appointment. Nothing in his record, cricketing or otherwise, indicated that Chappell had the settlement and patience required to build a team. His mind is an unusual mixture of visionary and vogue; in that regard he is the counterpoint to his older brother. However, he can detect cricket ability at a thousand paces.
Besides the full-time chief selector, the new panel will include two independent assistants - that ought to exclude Cox unless he resigns from his position with South Australia - plus the captain and coach. The inclusion of the team leaders is contentious. Struggling players might not confide in a coach also called upon to choose the team. Doubtless Argus and company carefully weighed the pros and cons - they consulted widely - so their conclusion can more easily be accepted.
Argus has also recommended the appointment of an overseer of cricket operations, the job so ably carried out by Hugh Morris in England. Selectors, coaches, captains and the rest will report to him or her. It is a sensible move calculated to ensure compatibility. Communication is important in the professional age. The next task is to identify a candidate as discreet and perceptive as the Welshman. Mark Taylor is the obvious choice.
As far as coaching is concerned, Argus advocates the creation of a more senior role, with specialists assisting in specific areas. In effect, Tim Nielsen's position has been abolished. He can apply for the new position but is unlikely to get it. Although popular and honest, he has been unable to take the step from domestic cricket to the international arena. It's hard to avoid thinking that the senior coaching job already existed, just that he was not able to fill it.
The next step is to call to account those responsible for the debacle. Abysmal decisions have been taken in recent times, the three-year contact given to Nielsen, the faith shown in Chappell, the foolish season launch, the doomed nomination of John Howard, the appointment of Craig McDermott as bowling coach, the undermining of the state 2nd XI competition, the contacts given to T20 bubblers and denied to accomplished cricketers, the grovelling before Indian power (not least in forcing players to play T20 a few days before a Test series was to begin), the toleration of conflicts of interest. It tells of incompetence in high places.
The day of reckoning has come. Plain as day the board is in urgent need of overhaul. Jack Clarke, the chairman, was not considered good enough to be sent to the ICC. A likeable lightweight, his term ends soon but he ought to have been ditched long ago. CA needs to toughen up. Whether his successor, Wally Edwards, is any better remains to be seen. At least Matthew Hayden has been replaced on the board by Michael Kasprowicz. Whereas the former opener talks gibberish, the speedster is eminently sensible.
Hopefully the Argus report will have the same effect on local cricket as did the Schofield report on the English game in 2006. Happily CA intends to adopt it. CA has also promised to implement the recommendations of the governance report, even if that means accepting independent board members. That, too, is a step in the right direction. The nonsense has to stop. It's time to get back to the basics, and back to work.


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I'm looking for a passenger side sliding door top rubber bumper for a 2000 Grand Voyager. Mine is missing... Because of this, the sliding door actually closes just a little too much and this causes the rear rail slide to barely touch the van frame and vibrate when hitting bumps. I suspect it is the missing bumper.
Any door bumpers out there???
Thanks. Mark


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Lead-free, lightweight high-velocity pellet with maximum accuracy for competition and hunting. Almost supersonic velocity with a very flat trajectory for medium ranges. No lead-fouling, improved drive in the barrel, no contact with lead thanks to special tin alloy.
- Caliber: .177
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- Quantity: 300
- Nose: Domed
- Use: Field Target and Pest Control up to ranges of 50 yards
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- ManufacturerHaendler & Natermann
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I found these very accuarte coming out of my Crosman Titan NP for the distance I shoot at which is 50 feet
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Well they look good but just miss in my accuracy testing best I could do was 1 1/8 inches at 25 yards in my Gamo Bull Whisper bone collector. was interested to see if they would go super sonic in the Gamo rifle but they did not so if that is a concern for you there is a base line for you to compare from.
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As the High Line Grows, Business Falls in Love with a Public Park
The High Line is growing.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg is set to cut the ribbon on a 10-block extension of the popular elevated public park on Manhattan's West Side Tuesday, and businesses are already clamoring to be near to the new section of the converted freight rail line, which runs from 20th to 30th streets near Tenth Avenue.
If that wasn't so obvious a decade ago to what extent the High Line itself would become a business. Today, it's a public park run by a nonprofit, Friends of the High Line. Major donors range from Estee Lauder to Levi's to property developers, and the board is a who's who of arts, real estate and high finance in New York.
When the new section of the park opens on Wednesday, visitors will have the chance to take in the view from the Falcone Fylover, named for a wealthy hedge fund manager and his wife, Philip and Lisa Marie Falcone, who both sit on the board.
Real Estate
The most visible evidence of this is in the air above the High Line where bold facades in glass and steel are popping up all over the area. Many, like Neil Denari's HL23, explicitly promote their connection to the park.
Rents can range from $60 per square foot to $175, said broker Rafe Evans with Walker Malloy. It all depends on the location, and the quality of the space: "Side streets are less expensive on a per-square-foot basis than avenue spaces," Evans said.
The city approved 6,000 residential units between 2007 and 2010, according to New York University's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy.
Broker Matt Bergey with CB Richard Ellis said he's seen commercial rents rise $2 to $3 per square foot over the past year to the $55 to $60 range. Earlier this year, the Starrett-Lehigh — where Martha Stewart and Tommy Hilfiger are based — changed hands for $900 million.
It's All About Position
Two million people visited the park last year, but retailers won't catch them unless they're in the right spot.
Anastassia Romanites, with Pagoto organic natural ice cream, has sold ice cream from a truck at 20th Street near the stairway to the High Line since the part opened in 2009.
Now, she's planning to add a second ice cream truck at 30th Street — the new northern end of the park — because plans include an elevator.
"It's gonna be more convenient because of the elevator," she said. "A lot of people come with the kids. I see them. They struggle to go up the stairs."
Listen to Ilya Marritz speak to WNYC's Richard Hake about The Highline on The Takeaway.


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If you were injured in an accident or some type of incident you may be entitled to compensation for the injuries you have suffered. The amount of your compensation will not only be dependant on the extent of your injury it will also largely be based on the negligence of the parties involved. Your injuries may be the result of the action/inaction of another or you may have been injured as a result of your own actions combined with those of another.
What if the accident was partially my fault?
Accidents are sometimes extremely complex occurances with many combinations of actions. You may have been injured partially as a result of your own fault, however you may still be entitled to compensation for your injuries. Comparative negligence, is a theory which allows an indiviudal to recover damages for their injuries based on the amount of fault associated with the accident. The amount of damages which you receive will be reduced by the amount of your own negligence. Nonetheless, you may still be entitled to compensation for your injuries sustained by the negligence of others involved.
What if I have injured a part of my body which has already been injured?
On many occassions accidents have resulted in a reinjury of a previously injured body part or the reserection of a prior injury which had been cured. You may be entitled to compesation for your injury to the extent that the injury caused a worsening or resurrection of a previously documented injury. Don't assume there is nothing that can be done, get answers now by calling The Law Office of Richard J. Grabowski.


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My new 65g Paludarium
This is a work in progress and it was just recently planted, but here we go. This was a 65g saltwater setup that I essentially got for free. Spent the past few months slowly putting this viv together.
The only current inhabitants are the 9 Endlers in the water section. They are so tiny that that they figured out a way to get under my false bottom but they seem to be able to travel back and forth so I'm not that bothered. Future inhabitants will be 3-4 poison dart frogs, D. Leucomelas.
The only change from this photo is that the anubias nana are now mounted on a piece of wood that comes out of the water and rests on the land.
Thanks for looking!
Looks great. I am looking forward to more pictures. Can you post a list of the plants you have growing in there?
I can try. I looked some of these up myself and didn't get many results, so I'm thinking that the greenhouse I got the plants from did a lot of the cloning and naming themselves.
The aquatic section has:
glossostigma elatinoides
anubias nana
The rest:
Vriesea fosteriana v. seideliana
Tillandsia 'Chantilly' (stricta x leonamiana)
Vriesea espinosae
Hoya species ex. Patrick, Luzon
Aechmea 'Pagoda'
Selaginella brownii 'Lacy spikemoss'
Polystichum tsus-simense
Neoregelia 'Tuti Fruti'
Cryptanthus 'Rubin Star'
Neoregelia 'Tumbleweed' (liliputiana x Blushing Tiger)
Tillandsia aeranthos 'Major'
Neoregelia 'Gift of Love'
Neoregelia 'Ruby Lips'
Guzmania lingulata 'Teresa'
Neoregelia 'Angel Face'
Here's a better pic:
And here's my favorite brom, I mounted it too high for it to be easily visible from the front:
Thanks for the list. I am going to have to do a paludarium with broms next; I really like the look.
I would like to see a picture of the terrestrial growth in the front-right if possible sometime. I like the look of that area.
sweet palu!! i had the same issue with fish getting under the land mass of my 125 palu and tore it down. it had 6 tree frogs in it and didn't want to take the chance of something dying behind the scenes and polluting the water supply for my frogs. Leucs are gonna love that tank :)
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Skip to comments.Joe Wilson's Lies, A Timeline - Who Forged the Documents? (Vanity)
Posted on 10/25/2005 11:39:50 AM PDT by Wuli
Look at this timetable(*):
Prior to 2001 - From various sources, the CIA has intelligence that Iraq made attempts to purchase weapons grade uranium in Africa (not just Niger).
October 15, 2001 - The CIA receives a report from a foreign government service that the Iraqi regime had struck a deal with the government of Niger to purchase several tons of partially processed uranium, known as "yellowcake." (This was not the later "source" often referred to as "forged documents".)
On October 18, 2001 - The CIA publishes a Senior Executive Intelligence Bulletin that discusses the finding. "According to a foreign government service, Niger as of early this year planned to send several tons of uranium to Iraq under an agreement concluded late last year."
February 5, 2002 - A second report, also from a "foreign government service" contains more details of the alleged transactions. An official from the CIA's directorate of operations says that the new information comes from "a very credible source," and some of the reporting seems to corroborate earlier accounts of meetings between Nigerien officials and Iraqis.
February 12, 2002 - Analysts at the Defense Intelligence Agency write a report using the new information entitled "Niamey signed an agreement to sell 500 tons of uranium a year to Baghdad." It is included in the daily intelligence briefing prepared for Vice President Dick Cheney. Cheney asks his CIA briefer for more information, including the CIA's analysis of the report. The CIA files a perfunctory response to the vice president's request, noting some concerns about the report and promising to follow up. It is unclear whether Cheney saw this response.
February 12, 2002 - Officials at the agency's Counterproliferation Division discuss how they might investigate the Niger claims further. An employee of the division, Valerie Wilson, suggests the agency send her husband, Joseph Wilson (a former U.S. ambassador to Gabon with experience in Niger), to Africa to make inquiries. In a memo to the deputy director of the Counterproliferation Division, she writes: "My husband has good relations with the PM [prime minister]of Niger] and the former Minister of Mines (not to mention lots of French contacts), both of whom could possibly shed light on this sort of activity." Nothing documents any search for any other candidate for the trip.
February 18, 2002 - U.S. embassy in Niger sends a cable describing a "new" account of the alleged deal. It says, the account "provides sufficient detail to warrant another hard look at Niger's uranium sales." The cable warns against dismissing the allegations prematurely.
February 19, 2002 - Back at the CIA, representatives of several U.S. intelligence agencies meet with Ambassador Wilson to discuss a trip to Niger. Contemporaneous notes from an analyst at the State Department's INR suggest that Mrs. Wilson "apparently convened" the meeting. Several of the attendees question the value of the proposed trip, noting that the Nigeriens were unlikely to admit dealing with the Iraqis. Still, the CIA Counterintelligence Division (Plame's bosses) approves the trip.
At that point, add to that last fact the fact that Wilson had no experience as an intelligence operative or as an intelligence agent, someone at Langley should have been raising a big red flag about the trip. Is it significant that at this point, from the record, George Tenant had not been informed of the trip and would not be informed about it until afterwards?
Late February 2002 - Wilson takes his trip, here is how he would describe it:
"In late February 2002, I arrived in Niger's capital, Niamey, where I had been a diplomat in the mid-70s and visited as a National Security Council official in the late 90s. The city was much as I remembered it. Seasonal winds had clogged the air with dust and sand. Through the haze, I could see camel caravans crossing the Niger River (over the John F. Kennedy bridge), the setting sun behind them. Most people had wrapped scarves around their faces to protect against the grit, leaving only their eyes visible."
"I spent the next eight days drinking sweet mint tea and meeting with dozens of people: current government officials, former government officials, people associated with the country's uranium business. It did not take long to conclude that it was highly doubtful that any such transaction had ever taken place."
Wilson also met with U.S. Ambassador to Niger Barbara Owens-Kirkpatrick, who, like the State Department's intelligence bureau, thought the alleged sale unlikely. Yet how does that assertion from her reflect the February 18 cable from her embassy (see above) describing a "new" account of the alleged deal; an account that provided "sufficient detail to warrant another hard look at Niger's uranium sales" and warned against dismissing the allegations prematurely? It doesn't. Also, note here that no "source" up to this point is based on any purported "forged" documents, delivered to or in possession of the US intelligence community.
March 5 2002 - Wilson is debriefed at his home by two CIA officials. He has not written a report and he makes no written report, contrary to many assertions he makes in writing and in speeches later on.
March 8 2002 - A CIA report covering the debriefing of Wilson is published and disseminated in the regular intelligence stream. The report includes the unsurprising declaration of former Nigerien prime minister Ibrahim Mayaki that Niger had signed no contracts with rogue states while he served first as foreign minister and then prime minister, from 1996 to 1999.(Why would he say otherwise, whether or not it was true - the type of contracts in question were under international sanctions against them.) But Mayaki gave a tantalizing detail, also included in the CIA report that resulted from Wilson's trip. An Iraqi delegation had visited Niger in 1999 to explore "expanding commercial relations" between Iraq and Niger. Mayaki had met with the Iraqis and later concluded that their request for enhanced trade meant they wanted to discuss purchasing uranium. Mayaki said he had not pursued the matter because such deals were prohibited under U.N. sanctions. (Yea, right.)
What was given as the CIA consensus view, in most every CIA presentation, following Wilson's trip was that his trip added little knowledge to the matter and if anything made the Iraqi-Niger deals seem plausible. That is 180 degrees from Wilson's public presentation of the results of his trip.
(1)During August and September the White house vets the text of various administration speeches with the CIA, because of language in them that cites Iraqi attempts to purchase uranium in Africa. The CIA clears the text without deleting the language. (2)A September 2002 DIA paper, is titled Iraq's Reemerging Nuclear Program. It declares: "Iraq has been vigorously trying to procure uranium ore and yellowcake."Note here it does not say "from Niger".
September 24 2002 - A white paper produced by the British government says: "There is intelligence that Iraq has sought the supply of significant quantities of uranium from Africa." The CIA has reservations about the British dossier, but not because of its substance. The British paper did not link the intelligence specifcally to Niger and there was intelligence on such matters concering the Congo and other African nations, but for some reason CIA officials were concerned that the reference could compromise their sources on Niger.Note here again, at this time, those sources are not the latter source said to be "forged documents".
September 24 2002 - Staffers at the National Security Council (NSC) ask the CIA to clear language on Iraq and Niger."We also have intelligence that Iraq has sought large amounts of uranium and uranium oxide, known as yellowcake, from Africa. Yellowcake is an essential ingredient in the process to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons."The CIA once again approves the language, yet Bush chooses not to use it.
October 2 2002 - Senate Select Intelligence Committee met and questioned senior U.S. intelligence officials in closed session about the threat from Iraq.
Here for the first time, a senior CIA official (Deputy CIA Director John McLaughlin) raises doubts about the reporting on Iraq and Niger. Responding to a question from Senator Jon Kyl, who asks if there was anything in the British white paper the CIA disputed, McLaughlin says: "The one thing where I think they stretched a little bit beyond where we would stretch is on the points about Iraq seeking uranium from various African locations. We've looked at those reports and we don't think they are very credible. It doesn't diminish our conviction that he's going for nuclear weapons, but I think they reached a little bit on that one point."
It was in truth an amazing claim, or at minimum represented an amazing disconnect between the CIA staff and Deputy Director McLaughlin, given all the prior CIA vetting of language up to that point that was in agreement with the Birtish claim. It provides a glimpse of internal inconsistency at the CIA on the issue of Iraq and Niger. One day prior, October 1, 2002, the CIA had published the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraqi WMD, titled Iraq's Continuing Programs for Weapons of Mass Destruction. This classified document--the U.S. government's official position on Iraqi WMD programs--lifted almost verbatim the aggressive language used in the aforementioned DIA study, Iraq's Reemerging Nuclear Program, published just two weeks earlier:"Iraq [has been] vigorously trying to procure uranium ore and yellowcake; acquiring either would shorten the time Baghdad needs to produce nuclear weapons."Who in the CIA was McLaughlin talking to at the time and who was he not talking to? Who was in charge of vetting language regarding Niger? How were they out of the loop with McLauglin or how was he out of the loop with them?
October 2-6 2002 - White House speechwriters, finalizing text of a speech for the president to deliver on October 7, 2002, continue their back and forth with the CIA for clearance of sensitive language. On draft six of the speech, the CIA objects to this sentence: "The [Iraqi] regime has been caught attempting to purchase up to 500 metric tons of uranium oxide from Africa--an essential ingredient in the enrichment process."
October 2-6 2002 - The next iteration of the same speech, sent to the CIA for vetting leaves in the Africa-uranium claim. The CIA Director George Tenet calls Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, telling Hadley that "the reporting was weak," and that the line shouldn't be used. Hadley removes the disputed language, and the CIA later faxed over its reasoning for insisting on the change.
Note here also that "Africa" not "Niger" is mentioned. So has something changed? The National Intelligence Estimate published just three days earlier included language just as aggressive. Was it a matter of classification? The NIE was classified, while the language in the speech was meant for public consumption. Still, twice in September the CIA had cleared similar language for public speeches. After having led the administration down this path, is the CIA backing away? Note again, for the third time, the "source" of the "forged documents" is still not among the various sources for any of the Africa-urianium intelligence assessments - none! Also note that the CIA has not brought forward any new "intelligence" at this point as a bais for the change!! (See Otober 9, below)
October 7 2002 - Inspite of the CIA Director's personal intervention, in regard to the President's October 7th speech, the officials responsible for coordinating the translation of intelligence into public rhetoric--Alan Foley, a top CIA nonproliferation expert, and Robert Joseph, a special assistant to the president for nonproliferation and a senior director at the NSC--are kept in the dark. Foley and Joseph proceed unaware that any substantive objections have been raised to the Niger intelligence. At least that is what their actions imply, as for months after October 7, the aggressive language regarding Africa, Iraq and uranium continues to be O.K'd between them.
October 9 2002 - Three days after George Tenent's warning and fully eight months after Joe Wilson's trip to Niger, , an Italian journalist walks into the U.S. embassy in Rome and delivers a set of documents purportedly showing that Iraq had purchased uranium from Niger. Was the timing a mere coincidence? The embassy provides the documents to the State Department and the CIA. At State, an INR analyst thinks the documents might be forgeries. Several different CIA divisions receive copies of the documents, but the agency provides no immediate evaluation of them and does not identify them as likely fabrications.
Question? I can find no documented testimony that classified copies of these documents, which do not come into the US possession until eight months after Joe Wilson's trip to Niger, were ever provided to Joe Wilson by the CIA or anyone else. There is no record that he was in any role, after his trip to Niger, where they should have or would have been given to him. Yet, later, as he launches his campaign against Bush, he seems to know an awful lot about what makes them "forgeries".
Fall of 2002, sometime after October 9 - A French diplomat tells the State Department the French received additional, credible reporting on the Iraqi-Niger transactions and they believe the earlier reports were true. Note: no documented reason for this "report" is made and the French do not say they are basing this report on the documents delivered to the US embassy in Italy on October 9, nor do they say they have or have seen those documents.
Fall of 2002, sometime after October 9 - A report from the U.S. Navy suggests that uranium being transferred from Niger to Iraq was discovered in a warehouse in Cotonou, Benin. The report indicates that the broker for the deal is willing to talk about it, but, mysteriously he is never contacted by the CIA or military intelligence.
December 7 2002 - Iraq submits to the United Nations its 11,000-page document on its weapons programs, as required by U.N. Resolution 1441. The CIA response to the Iraqi declaration, among the scores of objections, includes the claim that Iraq has failed to account for its attempts to acquire uranium from Africa. It seems like Tenet's CIA wants to have two positions on this issue.
December 7 2002 - January 28, 2003 - The Africa-Iraq-uranium claims continued to be approved by the CIA for various speeches by administration officials.
January 28, 2003 - President's State of the Union Speech (vetted by the CIA) includes: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." Again note the President is saying Africa and not simply Niger.
February 2003 - The U.S. government gives the IAEA the contents of its original reporting on the Iraq-Africa-uranium issue, including the documents delivered by the Italian journalist to the U.S. embassy in Rome on October 9, 2002. Again I need to stress here that those documents were neither the original intelligence sources which precipitated the trip by Wilson to Niger, neither were they the sole intelligence sources regarding Africa-Iraq-uranium deals and niether was Niger the sole suspected venue for such deals.
February 15, 2003 - NSC Staffer Stephan Hadley reiterates: "Iraq has an active procurement program. According to British intelligence, the regime has tried to acquire natural uranium from abroad", in an oped in the Chicago Tribune.
March 3, 2003 - The IAEA tells the U.S. that it believes the October 9, 2002 documents on an Iraq-Niger deal for uranium were forgeries.
March 4, 2003 - The French announce that the assessment it previously made to the United States--that an Iraq-Niger deal had taken place--was based on the same forged documents. (How timely?) (Some current and former Bush administration officials remain convinced that the French role in the matter was no accident. They speculate that French intelligence, seeking to embarrass the U.S. government, may have been the original source of the bad documents. An FBI investigation into the matter continues.)(I think the US should not cancel out the idea of domestic US sources.)
May 6, 2003 - Columnist Nicholas Kristof examines prewar U.S. claims of WMD in Iraq in a New York Times article. His article includes this curious passage:
I'm told by a person involved in the Niger caper that more than a year ago the vice president's office asked for an investigation of the uranium deal, so a former U.S. ambassador to Africa was dispatched to Niger. In February 2002, according to someone present at the meetings, that envoy reported to the C.I.A. and State Department that the information was unequivocally wrong and that the documents had been forged.
The envoy reported, for example, that a Niger minister whose signature was on one of the documents had in fact been out of office for more than a decade. In addition, the Niger mining program was structured so that the uranium diversion had been impossible. The envoy's debunking of the forgery was passed around the administration and seemed to be accepted--except that President Bush and the State Department kept citing it anyway.
Here is where Joe Wilson's tale gets very puzzling, from an intelligence point of view and it is here also that Wilson begins to conflate documents that are reportedly not known to the US until eight months after his trip with matters he claims, through his trip, to have "debunked". This tale by Kristof comes just about 90 days after the IAEA claims the October 9, 2002 documents were forgeries, but there is no record of who, if anyone, shared those documents with Wilson. Yet, he claims to have specific knowledge of what makes them "forgeries". How did he know that and/or who shared them with Wilson and why?
As to Wilson's claim that his "debunking" of the documents (that did not come to light until eight months after his Niger trip) was passed around the administration, it is simply an outright lie because the documents were never part of the intelligence stream prior to his trip and not part of any intelligence product of his trip. At least neither the CIA Director nor the White House had knowledge of those documents being an intelligence "product" of Wilson's trip. But who knows what Wilson really knew, outside of what he told the CIA that he knew? Is there cause for an investigation here?
June 12, 2003 - Walter Pincus of the Washington Post publishes a story saying, " according to a former White House official:
" During his trip, the CIA's envoy [Wilson] spoke with the president of Niger and other Niger officials mentioned as being involved in the Iraqi effort, some of whose signatures purportedly appeared on the documents."
" After returning to the United States, the envoy reported to the CIA that the uranium-purchase story was false, the sources said. Among the envoy's conclusions was that the documents may have been forged because the "dates were wrong and the names were wrong," the former U.S. government official said.
Again, at the time that Wilson "spoke with the president of Niger...." those "documents" were not, reportedly, known to Wilson or even in US possession and would not be so for another eight months. Is Wilson simply lying again, to Pincus? Or was he telling Pincus the truth; did he know about the documents when he was in Niger; the documents that would not show up until eight months later in Rome?
June 14, 2003 - Wilson speaks at a forum sponsored by the Education for Peace in Iraq Center (EPIC). Wilson does not tell his audience that he was the source for stories about "the ambassador's" trip to Africa, but his comments, like the following, reveal intimate knowledge of the mission.
" I just want to assure you that that American ambassador who has been cited in reports in the New York Times and in the Washington Post, and now in the Guardian over in London, who actually went over to Niger on behalf of the government--not of the CIA but of the government--and came back in February of 2002 and told the government that there was nothing to this story, later called the government after the British white paper was published and said you all need to do some fact-checking and make sure the Brits aren't using bad information in the publication of the white paper, and who called both the CIA and the State Department after the president's State of the Union and said to them you need to worry about the political manipulation of intelligence if, in fact, the president is talking about Niger when he mentions Africa."
" That person was told by the State Department that, well, you know, there's four countries that export uranium. That person had served in three of those countries, so he knew a little bit about what he was talking about when he said you really need to worry about this. But I can assure you that that retired American ambassador to Africa, as Nick Kristof called him in his article, is also pissed off, and has every intention of ensuring that this story has legs. And I think it does have legs. It may not have legs over the next two or three months, but when you see American casualties moving from one to five or to ten per day, and you see Tony Blair's government fall because in the U.K. it is a big story, there will be some ramifications, I think, here in the United States. So I hope that you will do everything you can to keep the pressure on. Because it is absolutely bogus for us to have gone to war the way we did.
The website for EPIC includes a biography of Wilson under the June 14, 2003, event that concludes with this sentence: "He is married to the former Valerie Plame and has four children."
Amazing. At this point in time, and in one single presentation, Wilson has simultaneously (1) again, conflated his trip with knowledge of documents that were not part of either end of that trip, (2) lied about the fact that the trip was assigned to him by the Counterproliferation Division of the CIA on its own (Valerie Plame's division) and not the "government", not the "administration" not the "White House", (3) lied about the intelligence assessment of that trip, (4) presumed that his personal views about Niger, not the CIA consensus view, should be the view of the US government, (5) threatens political retaliation against his own government and the Brits if his view is not adopted, and (6) identifies his motives as tied to an antiwar agenda.
And yet what are the known intelligence facts at this point? (1) Multiple intelligence streams, not inclusive of the October 9, 2002 documents, led the CIA to give high credibility to suspect Iraq-Niger uranium deals. (2) A February 2002 trip by Wilson neither dismantles that view nor brings enough "evidence" to cause the CIA to change it. (3) One single set of intelligence items, which were not part of the intelligence that precipitated Wilson's trip, the documents delivered on October 9, 2002 to the US in Rome, are thought to be suspect. (4) Regardless of the October 9 documents and consistent will the totality of the intelligence streams on the matter, the Butler Commission in Britain stands by the claims of Iraq-Africa uranium deals. as reasonable intelligence assumptions. Yet, Wilson is indignant that his personal view is not the official view? Is it that his view is so correct in the honesty of his own mind, or is that his antiwar agenda is correct, regardless of how much intelligence he knows he is not privy to?
June 30, 2003 - Wilson continues his propaganda campaign to justify himself to the world. In an article in The New Republic, by John Judis and Spencer Ackerman:
Wilson claimed Vice President Cheney received the October 9 documents documents directly from the British a year before Bush spoke the "16 words" in the January 2003 State of the Union. Yet we know that is a bald faced lie because the documents are not known to the US a year before the January 2003 State of Union address. Wilson also related to The New Republic:
Cheney then had given the information to the CIA, which in turn asked a prominent diplomat, who had served as ambassador to three African countries, to investigate. He returned after a visit to Niger in February 2002 and reported to the State Department and the CIA that the documents were forgeries. The CIA circulated the ambassador's report to the vice president's office, the ambassador confirms to TNR. But, after a British dossier was released in September detailing the purported uranium purchase, administration officials began citing it anyway, culminating in its inclusion in the State of the Union. "They knew the Niger story was a flat-out lie," the former ambassador tells TNR.
Wilson's lies are now running full steam ahead: (1)Cheney cannot give documents to the CIA in February 2002 that do not even come into US possession until October 2002; (2) for the same reason, Wilson cannot return to report anything on those documents from his trip, and (3) there was no official "report" from Ambassador Wilson on his trip, to be given to anyone, Cheny or otherwise and there is no documented incidence that any special CIA report was made to Cheney concerning Wilson's trip.
Now we have a complete timeline of Wilson's campaign of lies and misrepresentations about the cause of his trip, who authorized it, who organized it, what was the meaning of it and what was the intelligence result from it.
And then:
July 6, 2003 - New York Times publishes Wilson's now-famous op-ed. That account differs in important ways from the story Wilson has anonymously provided the Times, the Washington Post and the New Republic.
Wilson acknowledges for the first time he had not seen any forged document. "As for the actual memorandum, I never saw it. But news accounts have pointed out that the documents had glaring errors--they were signed, for example, by officials who were no longer in government--and were probably forged." Wilson acknowledged the same thing in an appearance that morning on Meet the Press, saying, "I had not, of course, seen the documents."
And still, the reason Joe Wilson was courted to write an op-ed for the New York Times and to appear on Meet the Press was not because his analysis of the Niger intelligence differed from that of the CIA or of Bush administration policymakers but because according to Wilson he was the man with the proof; but we know he had no such "proof".
Wilson is no "whistleblower", he is a lier and a man on a political agenda,
The frightening and amazing part of these facts is that a substantial body of the leadership of the Democrats and a substantial body of the mainstream media know this timeline and know Wilson's lies completely, and yet he not only remains an unassailable icon for them, but you can scratch his final deafening admissions in his own July 6, 2003 article, because for the Democrats and the mainstream media, all his prior lies fit their template and it is on that template, not the evidence, that they continue to lionize Joe Wilson. Their joint political agenda is everything and the truth is nothing.
As the Plame Timeline opens with:
July 14, 2003 - Robert Novak writes a column in which he names Joseph Wilson's wife, "CIA operative" Valerie Plame. Novak sourced this information to "two senior administration officials."The CIA questioned if Novak's reference had compromised Plame's CIA status and asked the Justice Department to investigate.
December 30, 2003 - Attorney General John Ashcroft recuses himself in the matter, and Deputy Attorney General James Comey names U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald a special prosecutor to look at the CIA's question.
But without getting into the who talked to who timeline concerning Plame, what is the root story, the root causes behind the Plame saga?
Her husband is a purveyor of lies and a political propagandist with those lies. For whatever personal and political reasons Joe Wilson decided to accept a role in which a foreign trip supplied to him by his wife's position would serve as a means by which he would launch a political campaign against a United States President, with lies.
If it is a fact that Valerie Plame was not fully covered by the requirements of the 1982 law against "outing" a covert intelligence operative, then where is there a crime in whatever response the Bush administration made to provide factual context against Joe Wilson's lies? There is none.
(*)The data for the timeline has come mainly from redacting information from a report in the Weekly Standard by Stephen F. Hayes.
< waving hand wildly >Oh...Oh...Oh...I know the answer!
Jacqueline, (Joe's his second wife), was a French diplomat and may have provided the connections for Wilson to see the forged documents that were supplied by the French through the Italians. In other words it is possible that Wilson knew that the docs were forged because he was privy to the information that French wanted to discredit the British info on Saddam shopping for yellowcake and that Wilson's objective was the same. The French just happen to manage the yellowcake production in Niger. It has also been reported that Jacqueline was a "cultural counselor" for the French Embassy, which some say is code for she was doing undercover work.
French intelligence soon began a campaign to discredit the US case for war against Iraq. In 1999, French intelligence had begun investigating the security of uranium supplies in Niger, where uranium production was controlled by a consortium led by the French mining company COGEMA, a division of the French state-owned nuclear energy firm AREVA. At that time, Italian businessman Rocco Martino provided French intelligence with genuine documents revealing that Iraq was planning to expand trade with Niger. French intelligence took an interest in the documents and asked Martino to provide more information. In 2000 he used a contact in the Niger embassy in Rome to provide French intelligence with documents purporting that Iraq had purchased uranium from Niger. These documents were later exposed as forgeries;
< snip >
Since it is now also known that French intelligence was trying to push Martinos forgeries on US and British intelligence, as simultaneously the Democratic National Committee was planning to discredit President Bushs Iraq policy by accusing his administration of manufacturing evidence against Husseins regime, heightened suspicion is cast on Wilsons use of the Niger investigation to discredit the Bush administrations case for war.
Note that at one point Wilson was playing a word game: The administration says Iraq sought to buy yellowcake. Wilson says there was no sign of a sale. These are not incompatible, but Wilson is implying that they are.
Great work.
That is the reason that some CIA analysts considered the Niger claim not credible - because Iraq already had so much that they had previously bought from Niger. ...Though that hardly undermines the WMD argument.
Thanks for the link to:
What Joe Wilson Doesn't Say About Africa
and about France and about his connections with French diplomats or Saudi-middle east business interests, or African business interests, or business interest that got Iraqi oil for food money, or other nefarious associations of his, including his long-time and dedicated political support to prominent Democrats.
We need POTUS/FBI/AG to designate a special prosecutor with a Grand Jury and we need Wilson, Plame and Deputy CIA Dir MNcLauglin under oath - who forged the October 9 documents and who knew about them before October 9 and who knew the documents were coming.
mostly, the documents were not the intelligence which predicated the Wilson Niger trip and their importance was overwhelmed by many prior and ongoing intelligence streams on the matter.
Exposing the documents as frauds is only relevant to the Wilsonian/Dim lies when those facts are ignored.
Great work, Wuli -- Thanks!
From Slate at: http://slate.msn.com/id/2088471/
The question of whether to investigate who in the Bush administration blew Plame's cover surfaced Aug. 21 at a forum about intelligence failures on Iraq held by Rep. Jay Inslee, a fervently anti-war Democrat. Wilson, who was present, had this to say:
It's of keen interest to me to see whether or not we can get Karl Rove frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs. And trust me, when I use that name, I measure my words.
That is one month after Novak's column and there were no hints yet of who has talked to Novak.
Great resource, Wuli! Thank you so much for the ping, betty boop!
We know that in 2003 we collected approx 500 tons of yellowcake from Iraq, after the war.
When did they acquire all of it, from where, and why, if they had no nuclear ambitions?
The real question was their ambitions, their intentions in the absence of too many answers to too many questions that remained from 1991 on.
The difference is simplied very easily by the demonstration of the nuclear/WMD disarmament programs of South Africa and the Ukraine. The international communinity had a high level of confidence in the transparent, open, cooperative, responsive, unobstructive actions of the governments of South African and the Ukraine. Anyone, any nation could do, as easily, what they did - if they wanted to. It was not difficult.
All it required was a real desire to do it and prove, demonstrate, assure everyone they were.
Sadaam played a game; saying he had nothing to hide and then doing everything imaginable to make everyone believe he was hiding things and then making everyone guess which you should believe, what he said or what he did.
He did not provide the grounds for trust that S. Africa and the Ukraine so readily provided.
We were not going to go another 12 years, wondering if we guessed right, as we began the WOT.
People forget that we were not required, by the UN resolution 1441, to find WMDs in Iraq. Sadaam was required to give everyone reasonable assurance that he did not have them. He didn't.
please send the timeline to all blogs and mail lists that you are a part of
Great work, thanks.
What you didn't point out, but which is pretty self-evident, is the fact that with his wife placed in the agency's Counterproliferation Division, former ambassador Wilson would have had inside information on the case - that is if Valerie Wilson/plame leaked confidential information.
But how would he otherwise have got that information?
His wife would always have been the prime suspect. No wonder that Wilson reacted so strongly to Novak's story. (And it didn't have anything to do with who suggested his name for the Niger trip, but all the other information that he used in the months following his African jaunt.)
PS: I haven't followed this story so closely until now. I guess my points above have been made by many FReepers before me, but your excellent timeline finally made me understand why Wilson acted as he did when Novak's piece was published .
You added what might have been a critical, personal concern
that Wilson might have had about the public knowing
that he had a personal source of classified WMD intel;
which would have compromised her "classified" status
and would have been illegal for her to do -
unless she could get him "cleared" specifically for the
issue she wanted to "expose".
Nice. Like it was the plan all along, just like the CIA cooked up. (Nod to Cliff Kincaid)
Gag. I hate those kind, lol, because I know exactly what you mean. Powdered wigs and perfumed hankies.
Frankly, I don't trust the assessment of a guy who spent about a week poolside drinking sweet mint tea, talking to a bunch of government officials who if they know what's good for them would never admit to dealing with Saddam.
Someone needs to kick Wilson's ass, what a sh*ibag he is..
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