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Skip to comments.Anti-Jihad Ads Considered Constitutional
Posted on 10/01/2012 2:02:13 PM PDT by Cindy
SNIPPET: "New York City is the center of a public uproar as Internet blogger Pamela Gellar rises with an anti-jihad ad campaign."
SNIPPET: "Gellar and her group are protesting the Jihad, which in definition is the religious duty of Muslims.
According to the Dictionary of Islam, jihad is defined as A religious war with those who are unbelievers in the mission of Muhammad . . . enjoined especially for the purpose of advancing Islam and repelling evil from Muslims.
The literal meaning of jihad, according to the British Broadcasting Network, is struggle or effort, and it means much more than holy war.
The word jihad describes three different struggles, including a believers internal struggle to live out the Muslim faith as well as possible, the struggle to build a good Muslim society and Holy war the struggle to defend Islam, with force if necessary My politically incorrect nature wants to applaud the American Freedom Defense group for not softening the blow in their anti-jihad campaign."
SNIPPET: "What some refuse to see is the imminent danger that lingers with current events.
Our desires are honorable to feel carefree and live under the laws of peace and hope but we cannot act obliviously when real harm is knocking at our door.
Now is not the time to lose whatever support we have."
(Excerpt) Read more at collegian.csufresno.edu ...
"Sometimes The Jihad Media Recede, But Never Die"
Ramzan 26, 1433 A.H, Wednesday, August 15, 2012
SNIPPET: "The Jihad information media have an important role in Jihad itself."
SNIPPET: "Many people doubt the jihad media, thinking that the jihad media have no influence on the enemy's moves."
SNIPPET: "The existence of i'lam (information media) and especially the jihadi i'lam can never stop until the Judgment Day. The position of the media becomes very important as a broadcasting and manhaj-raising tool in making the program of the da'i or jama'ah successful."
SNIPPET: "I have emphasized what I am saying in the previous paragraph, i.e. the internet is not the only tool that we have in the arena of jihadi i'lam, even though it is the most quick and effective means. There are means other than the internet, though traditional it is able to meet the needs and bear good results while waiting for the subsequent displacement of many of the obstacles. If indeed obstacles are very disturbing, then we could go back using the internet as a tool that is easily operated."
SNIPPET: "Author: As-Sheikh Abu Sa'ad Al-Amily may Allah forgive him Jumadil Ula 1433 Hijriyah
Translated and Submitted by a Mujahid"
The Hidden Internet of Iran: Private Address Allocations on a National Network
Quds Day in Brasil
Iran illegally imports gear for nuclear program....
Hezbollah in Latin America: Terrorism and Organized Crime
Cracks in the foundation of the Turquoise Palace
After Benghazi
Swiss Charge 2 Brothers With Terror Propaganda
New jihadi forum - Shabakada Islaamiga Gurmad
MEMRI report on Twitter use by jihadi groups and organizations
Rioting youths 'could be the next terrorists'
China breaks into network of White House Military Office
Alleged Russian spies wanted EU and Nato secrets
Espionage Hackers Target Watering Hole Sites
Scary Android Malware Story
September 2001 - September 2012
TRUTHUSA.com ^ | September 1, 2012 | n/a
Posted on September 1, 2012 1:56:13 AM PDT by Cindy
SNIPPET: "Looking away, not caring, or hoping for the best are not viable options in fighting terrorism (in general) and the global jihad (specifically). Terrorism must be fought head on 24/7 and preventing terrorism is far better than just reacting to one terror-related event after another." -Cindy (July 1, 2011)
SNIPPET: ""You must understand that the internet is the primary communication tool/propaganda tool/recruiting tool/fund raising tool for the global jihad. Once you understand that; then you should not be surprised at all that the jihad is in the same country you reside in." -Cindy (July 10, 2007)
Jihadis Online: A Few Thoughts
Society For Internet Research ^ | JULY 5, 2011 | S.O.F.I.R.
Posted on July 24, 2012 3:24:56 AM PDT by Cindy
SNIPPET: I. When considering the matter of jihadis online, remember that most of what we think we know is based on analyses of the comments made by an handful of vocal activists. The vast majority of jihadis online, be they on forums or social networking sites[i], say nothing. Skillful translations and insightful analyses by definition tell us little about this potentially lethal yet silent majority.
(Excerpt) Read more at sofir.org ...
1 posted on July 24, 2012 3:25:07 AM PDT by Cindy
Google Removes 640 Videos from YouTube Promoting Terrorism
TELEGRAPH.co.uk ^ | 7:11AM BST 18 Jun 2012 | n/a
Posted on June 18, 2012 11:32:24 PM PDT by Cindy
Al-Qaeda posts online recruitment adverts offering training for suicide bombers to target the US, Israel and France
-Advertisements ask for volunteers to get in touch via e-mail with details about their own experience
-Posted on a variety of jihadist forums
By JILL REILLY
PUBLISHED: 21:07 EST, 6 June 2012 | UPDATED: 21:08 EST, 6 June 2012
SNIPPET: Adverts have appeared on several jihadist web forums, offering to recruit and train potential suicide bombers.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is offering training for suicide bombers to target the US, Israel and France.
The advertisements ask for volunteers to get in touch via e-mail with details about their own experience and proposed targets, and were posted on a variety of jihadist forums, including Al-Fidaa, Shmoukh al-Islam and Honein.
2 posted on June 18, 2012 11:35:12 PM PDT by Cindy
Al-Qaidas online forums go dark
UPI ^ | Published: April 2, 2012 at 2:37 PM | n/a
Posted on April 2, 2012 4:31:33 PM PDT by Cindy
SNIPPET: WASHINGTON, April 2 (UPI) A blackout of al-Qaidas main Web sites is in its 11th day, and officials think the forums may have been brought down in a cyberattack.
While no one has claimed credit for disabling the sites...
SNIPPET: The loss of information typically confuses and frustrates the readers of the Web sites.
It leaves the rank-and-file to guess which messages and which messengers are genuine al-Qaida, and provides undercover operators with new opportunities to disrupt the movement, said A. Aaron Weisburd, senior fellow at the Homeland Security Policy Institute.
(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...
1 posted on April 2, 2012 4:31:42 PM PDT by Cindy
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Senate Hs Committee Report Finds Online Jihadist Activity Leads To Violent Islamist Extremism
HSTODAY.US - HOMELAND SECURITY TODAY ^ | 02/28/2012 ( 9:12am) | by Anthony Kimery
Posted on March 4, 2012 6:40:42 PM PST by Cindy
Internet is a powerful catalyst for jihad: Dutch security service
DUTCH NEWS.nl ^ | February 14, 2012 | n/a
Posted on February 16, 2012 12:31:58 AM PST by Cindy
SNIPPET: The internet has become a powerful catalyst for international violent jihad, according to a new report from the Dutch security service AIVD.
(Excerpt) Read more at dutchnews.nl ...
1 posted on February 16, 2012 12:32:05 AM PST by Cindy
To: All
ADDING links to post no. 1:
2 posted on February 16, 2012 12:33:04 AM PST by Cindy
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Jihadism in 2012: A Persistent, Low-Level Threat
STRATFOR.com - Analysis ^ | January 16, 2012, 1334 GMT | n/a
Posted on January 23, 2012 2:13:04 PM PST by Cindy
SNIPPET: While these various elements of the jihadist network are distinct, the Internet brings them together, especially at the grassroots level. Videos, websites and online magazines indoctrinate aspiring militants in the jihadist ideology and provide a forum for like-minded individuals and groups.
1 posted on January 23, 2012 2:13:11 PM PST by Cindy
The Jihad Will Be YouTubed
FOREIGN POLICY - The AFPAK Channel ^ | December 15, 2011 | by Raffaello Pantucci
Posted on January 1, 2012 3:26:29 PM PST by Cindy
Subcommittee Hearing: Jihadist Use of Social Media...
Homeland.House.gov - COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY - Chairman Peter T. King ^ | December 2011 | n/a
Posted on December 5, 2011 5:27:07 PM PST by Cindy
Subcommittee Hearing: Jihadist Use of Social Media - How to Prevent Terrorism and Preserve Innovation
Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence | 311 Cannon House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 | Dec 6, 2011 2:00pm
On Tuesday, December 6, 2011 the Committee on Homeland Securitys Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence will hold a hearing entitled Jihadist Use of Social Media - How to Prevent Terrorism and Preserve Innovation. The Committee will meet at 2:00 p.m. in 311 Cannon House Office Building.
Witnesses Mr. Evan F. Kohlmann Flashpoint Global Partners
Mr. William McCants Analyst Analyst for the Center for Naval Analyses
Mr. Andrew Aaron Weisburd Director Society for Internet Research
Mr. Brian Michael Jenkins Senior Advisor to the RAND President RAND Corporation
1 posted on December 5, 2011 5:27:22 PM PST by Cindy
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Social Networks & The Online Jihad
World Threats.com ^ | October 26, 2011 | Posted by Candice Lanier
Posted on October 31, 2011 1:38:14 AM PDT by Cindy
SNIPPET: In July, the British government warned that Al Qaedas exploitation of social networking websites is on the rise.
SNIPPET: The massive and multifarious network of websites and social media has presented a challenge to authorities in trying to combat it. Additionally, civil liberty concerns have conflicted with government efforts to spy on communications.
Reducing terrorist activity on social media sites has been particularly difficult because users have adopted new forms of communication to conform with the new formats. Many Arabic speakers on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and other sites use Arabizi, a form of colloquial Arabic written in the Latin alphabet and numbers. This allows the use of a standard English-language keyboard for typing messages. There exists, however, no standard version of Arabizi. It varies from country to country, even among groups within countries and is affected by differences in dialect.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldthreats.com ...
1 posted on October 31, 2011 1:38:15 AM PDT by Cindy
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Whither the jihadi forums?
INTERNET-HAGANAH.com ^ | August 1, 2011 | n/a
Posted on August 1, 2011 1:10:28 PM PDT by Cindy
Top Arabic Jihadi forums, 05 June 2011
INTERNET-HAGANAH.com ^ | June 4, 2011 | n/a
Posted on June 4, 2011 4:30:34 PM PDT by Cindy
SNIPPET: Note: PWP stands for PassWord-Protected, meaning that a login is required to view - let alone participate in - discussions. Since some in the audience dont understand the significance of this, allow me to spell it out: if only members can read the forum, then anyone observed reading the forum is a member. They have zero deniability (they couldnt have accidentally wandered into the site), and they had to make the effort to join (an expression of intent).
While the goal here is to present a range of sites, the fact is that the jihadis themselves have largely coalesced at Shmukh and Ansar Arabic.
(Excerpt) Read more at internet-haganah.com ...
1 posted on June 4, 2011 4:30:37 PM PDT by Cindy
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Top jihadi forum list updated
INTERNET-HAGANAH.com ^ | April 3, 2011 | n/a
Posted on April 3, 2011 6:02:27 PM PDT by Cindy
Top Jihadi Forums of 03 April, 2011
Posted April 3, 2011
Top jihadi forum list updated
SNIPPET: More precisely, the list has once again shrunk to less than 10.
Posted April 3, 2011
Quote - Snippet:
Top Ten Jihadi Forums, as of 14 February, 2011
INTERNET-HAGANAH.com ^ | February 14, 2011 | n/a
Posted on February 14, 2011 2:16:36 PM PST by Cindy
SNIPPET: Assembled with the help of my dear brothers in Fateh al-Islam (and their minders in the Syrian intelligence service). The [PWP] notation indicates the site is password protected. Theres nothing worse than the mournful wailing of analysts, graduate students, and reporters who find themselves locked out of their favorite forum. Join early, join often, save important discussions as you find them, try not to say anything too embarrassing, and if youre a civilian, make some effort to let your friendly neighborhood secret police know that youre a good guy, not a bad guy, so they dont have to waste time and money investigating you. Forums are not just websites, they are battlefields, and spectators are not particularly welcome by any of the combatants.
(Excerpt) Read more at internet-haganah.com ...
1 posted on February 14, 2011 2:16:39 PM PST by Cindy
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Top Ten List Updated
INTERNET-HAGANAH.com ^ | October 17, 2010 | n/a
Posted on October 18, 2010 12:40:40 AM PDT by Cindy
SNIPPET - Quote: 17 October 2010
TOP TEN LIST UPDATED There are only 7 sites listed, of which one, at-Tahadi has been closed for repairs for a couple of weeks.
(Excerpt) Read more at internet-haganah.com ...
17 October 2010
Top Ten Jihadi Forums, 04 September 2010
INTERNET-HAGANAH.com ^ | September 4, 2010 | n/a
Posted on September 5, 2010 12:07:49 AM PDT by Cindy
1 posted on September 5, 2010 12:07:52 AM PDT by Cindy
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Top Ten Jihadi Forums, 19 July 2010
INTERNET-HAGANAH.com ^ | July 19, 2010 | n/a
Posted on July 18, 2010 2:59:25 PM PDT by Cindy
Top Ten List 2010-07-06
INTERNET-HAGANAH.com ^ | July 6, 2010 | n/a
Posted on July 6, 2010 3:06:55 PM PDT by Cindy
05 July 2010
SNIPPET: Given that the adminstrators of the al-Faloja forum are already convinced that they have been somehow infiltrated or compromised, there seems little harm done in providing a glimpse of the current geographic distribution of the non-proxy using readers of the site.
2 posted on July 6, 2010 3:08:54 PM PDT by Cindy
Top Ten Jihadi Forums 11 April 2010
INTERNET-HAGANAH.com ^ | 11 April 2010 | n/a
Posted on April 11, 2010 2:51:21 PM PDT by Cindy
INTERNET-HAGANAH.com ^ | August 3, 2009 | n/a
Posted on August 3, 2009 3:24:12 PM PDT by Cindy
2 posted on October 18, 2010 12:44:10 AM PDT by Cindy
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17 October 2010
SNIPPET: A: Access to explosives.
The good news is that explosives can be hard to come by, but that doesnt keep the brothers from dreaming of the day when they can lay hands on some.
3 posted on October 18, 2010 12:56:13 AM PDT by Cindy
A Look at Iran
A look at the short life of a dead jihadi.
SNIPPET - quote:
September 28, 2012
Inquiry & Analysis Series Report No.886
The Life And Legacy Of American Al-Qaeda Online Jihad Pioneer Samir Khan Editor Of Al-Qaeda Magazine Inspire And A Driving Force Behind Al-Qaedas Push For Lone-Wolf Terror Attacks In West
By: Steven Stalinsky and R. Sosnow*
SNIPPET: Samir Khan, 1985-2011: Born In Saudi Arabia, Raised In N.Y., Martyred In Yemen
SNIPPET: Samir Khans Legacy
Following Khans death, online jihadi activists and AQAP members eulogized him; there also have been, and continue to be, arrests of would-be lone-wolf jihadis with copies of Inspire.
"London bomber's Irish widow says she is ready to carry out suicide attack
Says she is breathing jihad and getting ready for her martyrdom"
By DARA KELLY, IrishCentral Staff Writer
Published Monday, September 10, 2012, 7:38 AM
Updated Tuesday, September 11, 2012, 10:08 AM
SNIPPET: "The 28-year-old Lewthwaite has been missing for nearly a year but revealed in an online that she is tired of living on the run and is "breathing Jihad."
She writes: "I'd rather be receiving my martyrdom, think I'll get ready... and buy a vest."
She posted the poem, entitled "Maybe Paradise Tomorrow," using a Twitter account. In the poem she pays tribute to Aboud Rogo Mohammed, the former leader of Al-Qaeda-linked terror faction Al-Shabaab, killed last week in a Kenya drive-by shooting, and she vows to join him in "Jannah" (Islamic paradise)."
According to the Sunday Mirror, she may be hiding out with five terrorists in Central Kenya. The CIA, Kenyan police and Scotland Yard are on the hunt for the woman from Northern Ireland who may have turned to Islam at the age of 15 because of her parents' separation."
ADDING to post no. 8
"'I'm ready to become a suicide bomber': Chilling words of 7/7 bomber's widow on world's most wanted list"
By SUZANNAH HILLS
PUBLISHED: 03:14 EST, 9 September 2012 | UPDATED: 03:30 EST, 9 September 2012
"EXCLUSIVE: YouTube, Facebook link Filipino terrorists to al-Qaeda"
Posted on 09/11/2012 3:35 PM | Updated 09/30/2012 1:42 PM
SNIPPET: "It was the first of its kind for the Philippines, triggering a wave of videos, letters and audio messages from Filipino jihadists which were promoted on al-Qaeda linked sites and jihadist websites like Shumukh al-Islam and Ansar al-Mujahideen English Forum (AMEF).
They declared allegiance to al-Qaeda online and on social networks."
"Social Media link Filipino terrorists to Al-Qaeda, global Jihad"
(Posted September 11, 2012)
All wonderful and heroic phrases.
But the longer that islam possesses the constitutional protection it enjoys today, the more certain this country can be of its final destruction by it.
When, in the history of civilization, has any country been able to survive by protecting its sworn enemy?
Has basic logic completely escaped our leadership?
There is a new paradigm. I kind of explain it here.
Our weak, appeasing leaders won't matter anymore.
How Islamand the ever-present threat it poses to humanitycould be brought to an end in one, simple step.
Read it before.
The most significant statement in the entire article is:
"I have no expectation that any American president would order the destruction of Mecca, even if American cities had been destroyed with nuclear bombs sent from a Muslim country with a clear return address."
The moral of the story is, don't count on the US to straighten matters out in this world.
Islam makes it incumbent on all adult males, provided they are not disabled or incapacitated, to prepare themselves for the conquest of [other] countries so that the writ of Islam is obeyed in every country in the world.
. . . But those who study Islamic Holy War will understand why Islam wants to conquer the whole world. . . . Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war.
Those [who say this] are witless. Islam says: Kill all the unbelievers just as they would kill you all! Does this mean that Muslims should sit back until they are devoured by [the unbelievers]? Islam says: Kill them [the non-Muslims], put them to the sword and scatter [their armies]. Does this mean sitting back until [non-Muslims] overcome us? Islam says: Kill in the service of Allah those who may want to kill you!
Does this mean that we should surrender [to the enemy]? Islam says: Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword!
People cannot be made obedient except with the sword! The sword is the key to Paradise, which can be opened only for the Holy Warriors!
There are hundreds of other [Qur'anic] psalms and Hadiths [sayings of the Prophet] urging Muslims to value war and to fight.
Does all this mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.
Who are you going to believe, the Hamas Terrorist-supporting CAIR or the Jihadist-supporting, Lame Stream Media or this (former) Mad Mullah, and dozens of other such statements and written words of the "Profit" in the Quran and Hadiths ?
That's right. But the 1st Amd is not up for negotiation, even after arresting the Innocence of Muslims guy for a "parole violation."
We'll keep pushing the islamokazis buttons, if our leaders like it or not. Screw them. WE own the 1st Amd, not THEM.
See #7, if you want to share it, please do.
My argument is as follows: How can we possibly allow a movement (Islam) to enjoy the protection of our 1st Amendment when that same interest group is clearly out to kill us?
Are we, as non-muslims, compelled to commit suicide or accept our murder because of our 1st Amendment? Pray tell, where is the f—king logic in it all?
Would one of you wise (and I am not being facetious) FReepers reply to this burning question that drives me to drink?
And please don't repond with: "That's why we have a 2nd Amendment." because that is unacceptable.
"Kurdish Asylum Seekers Face Terrorism Charges"
SWISS INFO.ch - English ^ | Oct 1, 2012 - 16:56 | n/a
Posted on October 1, 2012 5:57:59 PM PDT by Cindy
SNIPPET: "Two brothers of Kurdish origin are being prosecuted by the Swiss authorities on charges of being involved via the internet with an Islamic terrorist group linked to al-Qaeda."
And with this: ..compelled to commit suicide or accept our murder.. you're locking yourself firmly between the horns of a false dilemna.
Liberals also share the muslim goal of tearing down our bill of rights, and installing a totalitarian socialist utopia in its place.
Like many groups before them over 1,400 years, they believe they can ride the tiger of islam, and jump off at just the right moment, and kick the tiger aside.
Like the many accomodationist groups who came before them, they will be devoured by the muslim tiger.
The muslim tiger only growls because the West allows it to. It cannot even fix its own problems. It is totally impotent if the West really showed its strength.
No economic, military, scientific, cultural or moral strength. It is only Western weakness that enables it to thrive.
THE WASHINGTON FREE BEACON: "WHITE HOUSE HACK ATTACK Chinese hackers break in to White House military office network in charge of the president's nuclear football" by Bill Gertz (September 30, 2012, 8:33 pm) (Read More...)
No question about that. Their strength is only a reflection of our weakness.
So let me get this straight. We are compelled to live with a lethal desease because our Contitution stipulates that even something that will kill us has the right of protection.
I can just imagine future historians discussing the brief existence of the USA. It goes like this:
A: Notice how advanced that society was? They were certainly different from the rest of the world.
B: Right.
A: But also notice that they were destroyed from within because they insisted on a set of rules based on a sense of fair play.
B: Right. They preferred total destruction over survival.
A: You can say what you want about these Americans, but they heroically hanged onto their 1st Amendment principles up untill the time that it killed them.
B: Right, but also notice that those who took over from them rid themselves of that Constitution. So what good was that 1st Amendment?
"Ansar al-Sharia (Yemen) and AQAP on FB and Youtube"
(October 2, 2012)
"Terror Twitter
FBI fails to order removal of terrorist, Jihadist Twitter accounts, lawmakers claim"
BY: Adam Kredo
October 2, 2012 5:00 am
SNIPPET: "A group of lawmakers has asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to order Twitter to remove from the micro-blogging site the accounts of multiple U.S.-designated terrorist groupsand has warned that Twitters failure to do so could be a violation of U.S. law.
Twitter hosts scores of Muslim clerics and organizations, including al Qaeda, designated by the U.S. Department of the Treasury as terrorists. The groups use the micro-blogging site to recruit extremists and distribute radical materials, according to the lawmakers, who petitioned FBI Director Robert Mueller to crack down on these illegal virtual activities."
Letter - Link:
SNIPPET - quote:
September 7, 2012
Inquiry & Analysis Series Report No.881
HASHTAG #Jihad Part II: Twitter Usage By Al-Qaeda And Online Jihadi Affiliated Groups Explodes; Apps Increasingly Used As Tools For Cyber Jihad
By: Steven Stalinsky*
Table of Contents
Part I: Tweeting Jihad And Martyrdom: Minbar Al-Tawhid Wal-Jihad, Website Of Imprisoned Jihadi Leader And Scholar Sheikh Abu Muhammad Al-Maqdisi
Part II: Ansar Al-Mujahideen Arabic Forum (AMAF), An Al-Qaeda Affiliate, Tweets
Part III: Muhammad Zawahiri Brother Of Al-Qaeda Leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri Joins Twitter
Part IV: Former Bin Laden Jihadi And Gitmo Detainee Walid Muhammad Hajj Tweets In Support Of Al-Qaeda, Jihad, And Martyrdom
Part V: How Online Jihadis Are Using Twitter The Taliban Video That Revealed Planning Behind June 1, 2012 Attack On U.S. Military Base In Khost
Part VI: New Egyptian Pro-Al-Qaeda Google Blog Group Joins Twitter
Part VII: The New Breed of Al-Qaeda Groupies on Twitter Abu Malik Al-Maqdisi
HASHTAG "#Jihad" Easy to Find, Easy to Remove Terrorist-Related Content From Twitter
ADDING 2 links to posts no. 24 & 25:
"U.S. Investigating White House Cyber Attack
Officials: President Obama was not informed at the time the White House Military Office hack was discovered"
BY: Bill Gertz
October 2, 2012 5:45 pm
SNIPPET: "Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R., Calif.), chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, called on the president to take steps to punish China for the cyber attack."
SNIPPET: "U.S. intelligence agencies believe China has a force of about 2,000 people engaged in cyber warfare efforts, including digital espionage designed to obtain secrets and clandestine efforts to plant sleep agent software inside systems that can be used to attack or sabotage computer networks in a crisis or wartime."
After sufficient national lip-service is paid to 1A niceties, barring some kinda miracle, and regardless preemptive goobermint action or lack thereof, it'll eventually come down to the personal/family decision to kill or be killed.
Whether preference dictates a firearm, a katana, a poisoned dart, or bare hands .. withering glares simply won't suffice.
In my bumbling way what I'm trying to say to you is that yes, PC cowardice has allowed the threat of the savage rag bastards to become palpable and mentally weighing.
But whether, when all the yakking is done and the maggots are raging up your street, fear of them leads to suicide or one's unopposed murder is something that will be entirely in your hands.
None of that is meant to discount the individual powerlessness of a situation like 9-11 or the recent travesty in Bhengazi.
Without a few divisions and a couple squadrons of Raptors at my command, there's not a lot/anything I can do about the muzz threat beyond my own locale.
That IS 'our' government's job to deal with, and one of the overwhelmingly critical reasons for getting that marxist ENEMY out of the WhiteHut.
Anyway, I can't recommend Greenfield highly enough .. the guy absolutely 'gets it'.
A Look at Iran
"Terrorism and the Internet: the the Palestinian Islamic Jihad's Internet Network"
(September 30, 2012)
SNIPPET: "1. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) is a relatively small terrorist organization, second in importance only to Hamas. It follows a radical Islamist ideology and is massively supported by Iran."
"The Internet in the service of terrorist organizations: the Palestinian Islamic Jihads Internet network and the service providers by which the organization is supported (updated to September 18, 2007)."
Issued on: 23/09/2007 Type: Article
"Tehran WiFi War-Drive Map"
(November 28, 2011)
"An Iran Link to Ansar al-Mujahideen Forum"
(October 4, 2012)
X.25 Records Reveal Possible Base for Terror Cheerleaders"
by John Leyden
(October 4, 2012)
"Iran's X.25 NUA Directory"
October 24, 2008
"State Department: Ansar al Sharia an alias for AQAP"
By THOMAS JOSCELYN
October 4, 2012
SNIPPET: "The US State Department announced today that it has amended its terrorist designations of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) "to include the new alias, Ansar al Sharia (AAS)."
AAS "was established to attract potential followers to sharia rule in areas under the control of AQAP," according to the State Department. "However, AAS is simply AQAP's effort to rebrand itself, with the aim of manipulating people to join AQAP's terrorist cause."
AAS "has publicly stated that the particular brand of sharia they hope to implement is the same as that espoused by the Afghan Taliban and the Islamic State of Iraq, a militant umbrella group...that includes" al Qaeda in Iraq.
AAS has "has taken responsibility for multiple attacks against Yemeni forces." In March 2012, AAS executed a "series of attacks and armed assaults" in southern Yemen that "killed 100 people, many of whom were Yemeni soldiers." An AAS suicide bombing in May 2012 "killed more than 100 Yemeni soldiers" during a parade.
The United Nations has also added AAS to its list of designated terrorist organizations.
The emir of AAS is Nasir al Wuhayshi, Osama bin Laden's longtime aide-de-camp in Afghanistan. Wuhayshi is also the emir of AQAP."
CAIR, the Muzzard B-hood and others will be explosive mad over this.
THE WASHINGTON FREE BEACON: "REVOLT OF THE SPOOKS Intelligence officials angered by Obama administration cover up of intelligence on Iranian, al Qaeda surge in Egypt and Libya" by Bill Gertz (October 5, 2012) (Read More...)
ABC NEWS: "EMAIL SHOWS STATE DEPARTMENT REJECTING REQUEST OF SECURITY TEAM AT U.S. EMBASSY IN LIBYA" by Jake Tapper (SNIPPET: "Earlier this week, the chair of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and another member of the committee wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton listing 13 incidents leading up to the attack, ranging from IED and RPG attacks to a "posting on a pro-Gaddafi Facebook page" publicizing early morning runs taken by the late Ambassador Stevens and his security detail around Tripoli.") (October 5, 2012) (Read More...)
ADDING 1 link to post no. 37:
"Al Qaeda's plan for Libya highlighted in congressional report"
By THOMAS JOSCELYN
September 21, 2012
SNIPPET: "An unclassified report published in August highlights al Qaeda's strategy for building a fully operational network in Libya. The report ("Al Qaeda in Libya: A Profile") was prepared by the federal research division of the Library of Congress (LOC) under an agreement with the Defense Department's Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office.
Al Qaeda's senior leadership (AQSL) in Pakistan has overseen the effort. AQSL "issued strategic guidance to followers in Libya and elsewhere to take advantage of the Libyan rebellion," the report reads. AQSL ordered its followers to "gather weapons," "establish training camps," "build a network in secret," "establish an Islamic state," and "institute sharia" law in Libya.
Each part of this strategy is being implemented, and al Qaeda's plan has advanced to the final stages. The three conceptual phases of an al Qaeda affiliate's development are outlined in a chart prepared by the US military and shown here."
"Al-Ansar007, Indonesian jihadi blog"
(October 8, 2012)
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps & Co
About that drone shot down over southern Israel
An Iran link to Ansar al-Mujahideen Forum [No, but interesting all the same]
When bad things happen to bad buildings in the Bekaa valley
Former biker infiltrated al-Qaeda
Ansar al-Sharia (Yemen) and AQAP on FB and Youtube
Ansar al-Sharia Designated as an Alias for Al-Qaida in the Arabian
Anti-zionism is not anti-semitism?
US Treasury Sanctions Two Hamas-Controlled Charities
Belgian diplomat suspected of being Russian spy
Doing business with Huawei and/or ZTE?
Russian agent and 10 others indicted in New York
October 9, 2012
Special Dispatch No.4993
"Key Taliban Accounts Active On Micro-Blogging Site Twitter"
SNIPPET: "In recent years Taliban militants have been using the micro-blogging service Twitter to spread their message against the U.S. Following are some of the key Taliban accounts active on Twitter. Some Twitter accounts established in the names of Taliban leader Mullah Omar and Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri are not listed here, as they do not appear to be authentic."
"vaja.ir, site of the MOIS
SNIPPET: "AP claims it is a new site, but the domain has been in existence since 2008. A walk through cached whois records is not entirely without interest."
"Iran's spy agency finds voice in cyberspace"
Associated Press
Published: 10.10.12, 23:29 / Israel News
ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS.com - ARUTZ SHEVA 7: "GREECE'S NEO-NAZI GOLDEN DAWN PARTY OPENS OFFICE IN MONTREAL" (PHOTO CAPTION: "Greece's neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party has set up an office in Montreal, just after it opened an office in New York City." SNIPPET: "Greece's neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party (Chrysi Avgi) has set up and office in Montreal ") (October 14, 2012) (Read More )
THE DAILY BEAST.com: "NIALL FERGUSON ON EUROPE'S NEW FASCISTS" by Niall Ferguson (SNIPPET: "So when a party called "Golden Dawn" -- which has something that looks a lot like a swastika as its logo -- starts denying aspects of the Holocaust and heaping opprobrium on immigrants, it's best to keep a straight face. Sure, they're Greeks, not Germans. Sure, their party leader, Nikolaos G. Michaloliakos, is about as - charismatic as a barrel of rotten olives. But if elections were held tomorrow, these guys could become the third-largest party in the Greek Parliament.") (October 8, 2012) (Read More )
ADDING links to post no. 44.
Hat Tip to Freeper WhenIfHow:
Scary stuff
Yep, like history repeating itself.
Note: Urls/Links made not clickable by me for purposes of this post.
Aaron Y. Zelin
English translation of audio from AQAP's Harith bin Ghazi al-Nazari: "Who [Volunteers to Attack] America?" bit.ly/SFBQDN
2:48 PM - 16 Oct 12
NAFIS in a nutshell - Opinion>A devout Muslim man who was comfortable on the internet and who was interested in jihad against America.>He came to America to commit his jihad.>He got caught up in a sting operation.>He was arrested.
For more info, see post no. 44 here:
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY: Washington - "TREASURY FURTHER EXPOSES IRAN-BASED AL-QA'IDA NETWORK Action Target Key Al-Qa'ida Facilitator Supporting Terrorist Activities in South Asia and the Middle East" (SNIPPET: "The U.S. Department of the Treasury today announced the designation of Adel Radi Saqr al-Wahabi al-Harbi (al-Harbi), a key member of an al-Qa'ida network operating in Iran and led by Iran-based al-Qa'Ida facilitator Muhsin al-Fadhli (al-Fadhli).") (October 18, 2012) (Read More )
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Let's be honest: It's been a while since Marc Jacobs had a huge hit handbag. The brand continues to put on the show of New York Fashion Week, and Jacobs' influence the course of trends and the fashion industry as a whole cannot be understated, but when it comes to Jacobs-helmed brands, both Louis Vuitton and Marc by Marc Jacobs have done a better job of making handbags fly off the shelves over the past few years. Will Marc Jacobs Spring 2013 change that?
Maybe. The entire show was more restrained and focused than most people are probably used to seeing from Jacobs, and the handbags followed the stark, striped 60s mod feel of the dresses and suits. Most of the runway bags had handles too short to be carried in the crook of the arm, which is a detail that's commensurate with the collection's referenced era but also likely hurdle to retail success. It wouldn't surprise me if they were lengthened at retail, though, and if that happened, there are some stripe-y numbers that I'd definitely consider carrying myself. If you're looking for an evening bag, the clutches in particular were quite strong. Check out the full runway collection after the jump.
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From The Heart
I can make an evergreen wreath from the boughs that I collect in my backyard. I add in other items to dress it up and it is a one-of-a-kind holiday decoration. A wreath is an object created with my own hands and imagination, from resources grown on land that I have nurtured and sustained.
Pretty cool. And when I give the wreaths I make to family and friends it even more meaningful. Downright awesome.
I can take the natural treasures I collect on trips and turn them into enchanting reminders of those trips.
A seashell, some kelp, a few leaves from my morning hike, some sand, and a eucalyptus seedpod turn into little fairy creatures – one for me and one for my host when I visited California. Preserved in whimsy, the trip becomes eternal as a shared memory – half sitting on my kitchen shelf, and as its partner sits on a different shelf, on the other side of the country, in the home of one of my best friends.
I can reap the bounty of my garden, add a few (or sometimes no) ingredients, and have wonderful food for the winter. I can take that same food, lovingly preserved in glass jars stamped with the iconic Ball logo, and wrap it up to share with others for the holidays.
It feels good to give of that which sustains me.
I can take my junk mail and old catalogs and turn them into new paper to serve as greeting cards, gift tags, wrapping paper, and more.
Taking something I would normally recycle, this time of year I take a little extra time to repurpose it and turn it into a useful product. On it I write words of gratitude, love and peace on it and send them into the hands of those most dear to me.
I can take local wool roving dyed with natural materials and turn it into ornaments, cat toys, or gift soaps. The ornaments are beautiful, natural, and repurpose my broken ornaments (from the cats) into new and non-breakable ones. The cats get something even more fun to play with (a little catnip in the middle of the jingle bell is terrific). And friends get some non-slippery soaps to use and be grateful for.
These are all things I do because I value homemade items. I value things that people take time to make with passion and creativity.
I value a gift that embodies not just an item, but time and love as well. I suppose I hope others value that, too, when they receive my gifts. But giving something of myself feels better, more genuine, as if it is actually a gift and not an obligation. The giving really becomes the gift then.
I love the images that spring to mind when I read one of my favorite holiday books, of Claus sitting and carving wooden toys for the children who need to smile. A fire in the fireplace, wood shavings on the floor of a one-room cabin, a generous man using his time and talent to bring joy to others. Maybe that's what sits so well in my heart about something homemade.
At Audubon's Homemade Holidays, you can learn to make the things I described above – wreaths, ornaments, homemade paper, preserves, and fairy creatures. You can also learn to make a Wee Beastie ornament from local artist Ellen Paquette. It is our effort to bring some authenticity to the act of giving and remind you that a full half, and maybe even more, of the effort is the giving. And giving things that are natural, recycled, repurposed, or local gives a gift to your community, too. When you remember that, what you receive is so much better.
We will also have homemade items for sale from local vendors. These folks take their time to make products that they value, so you can share them with those you love. From alpaca wool socks to local honey to broken china mosaic trays, there is something for everyone.
Take a moment to make something this season. To transform your time and effort and skills and passion into a tangible item. And then give that item away. Tis the season.
Homemade Holidays, Dec. 7 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., is offering many workshops. Prices for the 1- hour workshops (wreaths, canning and Wee Beasties) are $16 regular price and $12 for Friends of the Nature Center. The 45-minute workshops (paper making, felted items, and fairy creatures) are $8 and $6. For more details, call 569-2345 or visit jamestownaudubon.org. Reservations are required by Dec. 2.
Audubon is located at 1600 Riverside Road, just of Route 62 between Warren and Jamestown. Trails are open from dawn to dusk. Call for winter hours.
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Intel Corp. has demonstrated its first smartphones and tablets based on the company's code-named Medfield system-on-chip to journalists. The reference design devices appear to work without issues and actual manufacturers are projected to unveil their actual products based on the 32nm Atom-based SoC sometimes in the first half of 2012.
"We expect products based on these to be announced in the first half of 2012. [Manufacturers] can use as much or as little of the reference design as they like," says Stephen Smith, vice president of Intel architecture group, in an interview with Technology Review web-site.
The web-site claims that it had tried out prototype smartphones and tablets equipped with Intel's code-named Medfield system-on-chip, and running custom versions of Google Android 2.3 "Gingerbread" or Google Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" operating system.
The smartphone reference design seen by Technology Review was very similar to Apple iPhone 4 in terms of design and size, but since it was made mostly of plastic, its weight was lower. The smartphone could playback "Blu-ray quality" video, browse the web smoothly and could quickly operate the camera. The tablet sported 10.1" screen and was about the size and weight as Apple iPad 2. The device was "nicer to use than older tablets" running Google Android 3.0 "Honeycomb".
"Now we have this in place, we can accelerate. We haven't been able to show a production-grade design before," said Mr. Smith.
Intel itself claims that it has tested its reference Medfield-based smartphone against the "leading phones on sale today" (probably Apple iPhone 4/4S, Samsung Galaxy S II, etc.) and found that its phone could offer faster browsing, graphics performance and lower power consumption. While Intel does not give any actual performance numbers, the results seem to be impressive, given the fact that Android 2.3 "Gingerbread" does not support hardware acceleration for 2D graphics or multi-core processors, unlike, for example, Apple's iOS 4/5 as well as Android 3.0/4.0.
In a bid to speed up development of solutions for the next-generation mobile computers, tablets, smartphones and consumer electronics, the Intel earlier this month decided to combine its netbook and tablets division, ultra mobility division, mobile communications division and the mobile wireless division into one mobile and communications group (MCG). The new mobile division will be able to more efficiently address the needs of the new mobile and consumer devices, according to Intel. The divisions will be more focused on working on reference designs, interoperability between components, software and so on, which will accelerate time-to-market of products powered by Intel's silicon.
According to Intel, Medfield has been optimized for both low power and high performance and is projected to deliver long use-time, rich media and gaming, and advanced imaging capabilities. The new Medfield/Cloverview SoCs, which will hit production late in 2011, will enable sub-9mm tablets that weigh less than 1.5 pounds.
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Communication and Perception
Like all sharks, Somniosus microcephalus has a lateral line which aids in the detection of movement in the surrounding waters. Sharks also have especially keen chemical perception. No communication has been observed within the species. ("Greenland Shark, Elasmobranch Research, and Education Group", 2005)
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Outdoor program for troubled teens closing
SARANAC LAKE – An outdoor recreation program for troubled teens that's operated here for 10 years is shutting down, leaving more than two dozen full-time employees and many more seasonal staff members out of work.
Adirondack Leadership Expeditions, which is based in Saranac Lake and has sites in Onchiota and Gabriels, is one of five programs run by Aspen Education Group that will close this summer, according to an email sent to its employees last week by Andrew Eckert, CEO of CRC Health Group, which acquired Aspen in 2006. The email, a copy of which was obtained by the Enterprise, cites financial reasons for closing the facilities.
"While the need for residential treatment for teens with behavioral or substance abuse issues is arguably as big if not bigger than it was seven years ago, gone are the days of student loans for these programs which, when coupled with other national economic factors, has severely impacted parents' ability to afford this type of help," Eckert wrote. "Following serious deliberation about the current market and how we can best apply our resources to serve the broadest network of people, we have made the difficult decision to cease operations at certain of our therapeutic boarding schools and outdoor programs."
In addition to ALE, Aspen is also closing one other wilderness program, SUWS Adolescent and Youth Programs in Shoshone, Idaho, and three boarding schools: Academy at Swift River in Cimmington, Mass., Talisman Academy in Hendersonville, N.C., and Stone Mountain School in Black Mountain, N.C. Students in each site will complete their programs before its operations come to an end, Eckert wrote.
Tracy Edwards, ALE's executive director, didn't return a phone message left at her office in the program's Church Street administrative site. ALE also operates a base camp in Onchiota which includes cabins, an infirmary building and campsites, and a logistics building in Gabriels where equipment is stored and staff training takes place. The latter two sites are on land ALE has leased from Paul Smith's College.
Adirondack Leadership Expeditions opened in June 2003. It offers a "character-development wilderness program for troubled teens that promotes personal growth through a focus on insight-oriented experiences," according to its website. The program is geared for teenagers from ages 13 to 17 who have low self-esteem, substance abuse problems, defiant behavior, attention-deficit issues and other problems. It doesn't serve youth involved in the criminal justice system.
Several current and former ALE employees, who spoke to the Enterprise on condition of anonymity, said the number of students enrolled in its programs has dwindled over the last two years. While economic factors like those cited in Eckert's email played a role, the employees also said they didn't feel enough had been done to market ALE's programs to parents who could afford its expensive tuition. The program costs more than $460 a day, plus admission fees and other charges. Sessions can run from 30 to 90 days.
The employees told the Enterprise that ALE has a year-round staff of about 30 people, including administration, admissions, clinical, field instruction and operations staff, plus another 20 people hired seasonally. Some of the year-round workers who will lose their jobs have been offered severance pay, and some have been offered jobs at other facilities and programs run by ALE's parent company.
"We recognize and regret that the decision to consolidate services affects our valued employees," Eckert wrote in his email. "We are sincerely appreciative of our employees' years of hard work and determination, and their dedication to young people whose lives they have forever positively affected."
ALE's last student will reportedly complete the program in early September, and it will shut down for good by the end of the month.
In addition to the affected workers, the current and former ALE employees the Enterprise spoke with said local businesses that benefitted from its operations will also be hurt by the closure. They said that includes Nori's Village Market, where much of the food for the program's participants is purchased, and MC Motors in Gabriels, which has maintained ALE's fleet of vehicles, among other businesses.
ALE made news last year when a group of about 10 people who live near the program's Onchiota camp showed up at a Franklin town board meeting to raise concerns about the organization's oversight of students enrolled in the program. They cited several cases of teens running away from the camp and trespassing on their property, including one 16-year-old who stole a local resident's car and tried to drive it south before he was caught on the Adirondack Northway. In an emailed response to the Enterprise at the time, Edwards promised to review the organization's procedures and, where possible, enhance them.
With the closure of ALE and the four other programs, Aspen Education Group now has nine remaining programs across the country. Its parent company, CRC Health Group, is a large national health care corporation owned by Bain Capital, the private equity firm that 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney co-founded and managed in the 1980s and '90s.
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Orzo with Roasted Vegetables
Recipe courtesy of Ina Garten
- Barefoot Contessa
This recipe is a slight variation of a wonderful summer dish invented by Sarah Leah Chase in her book The Open House Cookbook.
- 1 small eggplant, peeled and 3/4-inch diced
- 1 red bell pepper, 1-inch diced
- 1 yellow bell pepper, 1-inch diced
- 1 red onion, peeled and 1-inch diced
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1/3 cup good olive oil
- 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1/2 pound orzo or rice-shaped pasta
- For the dressing:
- 1/3 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice (2 lemons)
- 1/3 cup good olive oil
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- To assemble:
- 4 scallions, minced (white and green parts)
- 1/4 cup pignolis (pine nuts), toasted
- 3/4 pound good feta, 1/2-inch diced (not crumbled)
- 15 fresh basil leaves, cut into julienne
DirectionsWatch how to make this recipe.
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
Toss the eggplant, bell peppers, onion, and garlic with the olive oil, salt, and pepper on a large sheet pan. Roast for 40 minutes, until browned, turning once with a spatula.
Meanwhile, cook the orzo in boiling salted water for 7 to 9 minutes, until tender. Drain and transfer to a large serving bowl. Add the roasted vegetables to the pasta, scraping all the liquid and seasonings from the roasting pan into the pasta bowl.
For the dressing, combine the lemon juice, olive oil, salt, and pepper and pour on the pasta and vegetables. Let cool to room temperature, then add the scallions, pignolis, feta, and basil. Check the seasonings, and serve at room temperature.
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Whittier College is pleased to present two discreet bodies of work by Los Angeles artists Bob Alderette and Margaret Lazzari. Place, Change, Light juxtaposes these artists' approaches to the act of painting. Through the physical abutting and layering of both representational and non-representational imagery on traditional and non-traditional surfaces, Alderette's work explores the idea of paintings as portable, non-permanent objects. Conversely, Lazzari's work is rooted in a more traditional approach to painting. While her large works reference landscape space, they are devoid of anything specifically representational. Through color, saturation, density and layering, she explores ideas of tension, energy and movement in space.
The exhibition runs January 22 - February 28. An Artist Talk will take place Wednesday, January 22 at 7 p.m. Reception to follow.


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I've written an article about the history and future of the tea bag (http://www.tearetailer.com/article_29.html). Adagio has the option of putting any tea in our collection into pyramid tea bags, but the question is, what does the customer want? Will a tea connoisseur who buys loose leaf Darjeeling or Oolong ALSO want their favorite tea in bagged form for convenience at the office or on the road?
We're going to test this in our new retail store, but I'd love to get some feedback from our customers and friends in the tea industry on this one.


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Cook takes 38th in worlds' individual
Annelies Cook of Saranac Lake placed 38th in the 15-kilometer world championships individual race Wednesday in Nove Mesto, Czech Republic.
Cook posted a time of 50 minutes, 54.1 seconds with four penalties to finish as the third-best American. Susan Dunklee of Barton, Vt. was the top American with her 15th-place result that met the early qualification requirement for the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games. Dunklee, who turned 27 on Thursday, finished in 48:22.8 with two penalties.
Dunklee joined Tim Burke of Paul Smith's and Lowell Bailey of Lake Placid in meeting the early Olympic qualification requirements.
World Cup leader Tora Berger of Norway, won Wednesday's individual with clean shooting and a time of 44:52.5. Germany's Andrea Henkel was second, also with clean shooting, at 45:45.2 and Valji Semerenko took third (46:5/+1). The 15k individual consisted of five laps and four shooting stages, alternating between prone and standing.
"Today was overwhelming in a wonderful way," Dunklee said. "The Individual was the race that was so magical for me at Ruhpolding last year and between memories of that and today being my birthday, I was a little worried that I would try too hard to have a good day. Luckily, the mood stayed light and the shooting felt great.
The men take to the course in Nove Mesto for the 20k individual today. Bailey will start with bib 13 and Burke with bib 65 in a field of 136 athletes.


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Gown: Jessica 2
Date of wedding: June 04, 2011
Photographer: Janelle Brooke
Hot tip: Be in the moment – Jason and I realized it would pass by in a flash so we focused on each other and having a great time.
What they loved: the ceremony – when I was walking down the aisle and Jason and my eyes met for the first time. I knew I was taking the first step into the rest of my life and couldn't have been more elated about it.
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This weekend's Johnson County high school sports contests got an early start as Buffalo's boys and girls' JV basketball teams played at Kaycee Tuesday night.
Buffalo's JV boys downed Kaycee's varsity 59-56, while the Buffalo girls' JV team fell to Kaycee 48-26.
The Bison boys' teams will play at Rawlins on Friday, with game times at 4, 5:30 and 7.
The Lady Bison will host Rawlins on Friday, with games at 4, 5:30 and 7 as well.
The Bison boys' swim team will be at the Conference meet in Rawlins both Friday and Saturday.
BRONC WRESTLING - The Sheridan Bronc wrestlers will close out the regular season hosting Gillette in a dual tonight.
The Broncs and Camels are both 4-0 in conference duals and tonight's matches will decide the conference regular season title.
Varsity matches are scheduled to get underway tomorrow night at 7:00 in the small gym at Sheridan high school.
BRONC / LADY BRONC HOOPS - The Sheridan high school basketball play Laramie and at Cheyenne South this week. The Lady Broncs host the Broncs will be on the road.
The Buffalo Bison boys' swim team geared up for the conference meet this past weekend by beating Powell and finishing seventh at the Gillette Invite.
Friday the boys hosted Powell, beating them 117-58.
Coach Ron Chapin said, "We started the meet taking first and second in the medley relay. This set the tone for the rest of the meet. We had some season-best times by Nate Holt, Neil Medders, Randy Olsen, Jaren Olsen, Hunter Cardinal and Timothy Cohoon."
BRONC WRESTLING - The Sheridan Bronc wrestlers will close out the regular season hosting Gillette in a dual tomorrow night.
The Broncs have made a dramatic turn this season going unbeaten in conference duals and placing high at several tournaments, head coach Scott Cleland talks about the turn around.
The Broncs and Camels are both 4-0 in conference duals and Cleland says they are expecting a great dual tomorrow night.
KAYLA WOODWARD - Sheridan's Kayla Woodward was named the MWC player of the week for her play last week and won the award for the second time this season.
She has made quite a splash in her freshmen season with the Cowgirls and Head coach Joe Legerski says Woodward has really made the move up into Division One basketball.
GENERALS / LADY GENERALS HOOPS - Sheridan college Generals and Lady Generals are both coming off victories over Northwest college Lady Generals Head coach Frank McCarthy.
This year's Powder Pass Nordic Club's Pole Creek Challenge was a success, according to information provided by the group.
Sixty-two participants took part in the 5K and 10K races in both skate ski and classic Nordic skiing.
The race netted roughly $360 from entry fees and donations which will go back into helping pay for maintenance and grooming at the Nordic Areas west of Buffalo.
The top finishes for the skate skiers were Aaron Kessler in 19 minutes, 33 seconds; Sarah Nicholas, 23:30; and Lorajane Kessler, 45:36. They were the only three that participated in the skate ski event.
Chadron State Invitational
Chadron, NE
Saturday February 4, 2012
No Team Scores Kept
SHS Girls Individual Results: (Top 8 Only)
55 Meter Dash
4th Nikki Kassen 7.84
400 Meter Run
4th Bailie Dannels 1:06.87
1600 Meter Run
3rd Addy Ostler 5:48.71
3200 Meter Run
4th Marissa Hegy 13:43
4 X 400 Meter Relay
5th Sarah Maze 4:39.16
Brynne Gardner
Tori Blea
Bailie Dannels
High Jump
5th Nicci Kassen 4' 8"
7th Erin Jensik 4' 6"
Girls Triple Jump
5th Sarah Maze 31' 6"
Shot Put
4th Shayla Christensen 33' 10.5"


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Skip to comments.German firm 'used hair from Auschwitz to make car parts'
Posted on 03/03/2009 6:56:01 AM PST by BGHater
One of the pillars of German industry, the giant but debt-crippled Schaeffler car parts supplier, was accused yesterday of using hair shorn from at least 40,000 Auschwitz death camp prisoners to make textiles at its factories in Nazi-occupied Poland during the Second World War.
The highly disturbing allegations were contained in new evidence unearthed by Polish historians at the Auschwitz museum, who said they had found rolls of fabric made from camp inmates' hair at a former Schaeffler factory in Poland's southern region of Silesia.
The discovery was the latest in a series of damaging blows for the ailing Schaeffler concern, which employs 200,000 people worldwide. The company is currently saddled with debts totalling 14bn (£12.6bn) and faces the prospect of bankruptcy.
Last month, Maria-Elisabeth Schaeffler, the concern's flamboyant and usually fur-coated millionaire owner, appeared at a trade union rally and wept openly as she appealed to the government of the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, for a state-funded bailout. In an attempt to clear up rumours about the company's wartime role, Mrs Schaeffler recently admitted to using slave labourers at its factories during the Second World War. However, the company's officially published history still only begins in 1946.
The company's own historian dismissed the allegations yesterday and said there was no evidence to support the theory that Schaeffler processed death camp inmates' hair industrially during the Second World War.
But Dr Jacek Lachendro, a historian at the Auschwitz museum, told Germany's Der Spiegel television channel that 1.95 tonnes of cloth made from inmates' hair had been discovered at a former Schaeffler textile and army tank parts factory in the town of Kiertz (formerly Katscher) after the Germans withdrew at the end of the war.
The amount of cloth, which was pictured on Spiegel television as rolls of closely-woven brownish fabric, was said to have derived from the hair shorn from some 40,000 Auschwitz prisoners. Dr Lachendro said that subsequent analysis of the hair showed that some of it contained traces of the Zyklon B gas used by the Nazis to murder millions in the death camps.
Former workers at the factory in Kiertz who were interviewed on the programme said that they remembered two wagon-loads of human hair being delivered to the company in 1943. Kiertz is three hours' drive away from the Auschwitz camp.
Hair was routinely shorn from prisoners, usually on arrival, at the death camps. The Nazi war machine used it to make army blankets and socks for U-boat crews. The Auschwitz museum on the site of the former death camp displays a store filled to the roof with inmates' hair originally intended for so-called "human recycling".
The Kiertz textile factory where the hair is alleged to have been processed formerly belonged to the Jewish-owned Davistan AG concern on which the Schaeffler empire was founded after it was taken over by the brothers Wilhelm and Georg Schaeffler. Their company made armaments for the Nazi war machine, but after the Second World War it re-emerged as one of Germany's main suppliers of parts to the car industry, specialising in needle roller bearings.
However, the devastating impact of the credit crunch coupled with Schaeffler's misjudged hostile takeover of the tyre giant Continental have since plunged the concern into its worst crisis since the war.
Maria-Elisabeth Schaeffler, an Austrian born former medical student, married into the concern and became its sole owner in 1996 after her husband, Georg, died. Last month she took the unprecedented step of joining a demonstration staged by 800 of her company's employees to appeal for government help. Previously, the company's management style had been called "feudal".
Mrs Merkel's government, which is currently being asked to provide state aid for Germany's ailing Opel car company, has still to decide whether it will help Schaeffler with a bailout.
Not much of a war machine if they could not produce enough wool to make army blankets. And is there something special about socks for U-Boats crews?
"filthy bosch" has a whole new meaning, no?
Submarines get mighty cold in the North Atlantic. Anything that provides insulation is a benefit.
Let's not ask where fetal stem cells come from or how industry will get enough for commerical use if scientific tests prove "successful".
"Submarines get mighty cold in the North Atlantic. Anything that provides insulation is a benefit."
Your response, while technically true, seems a bit nonchalant and insensitive, considering that the German sailors were using socks made from the hair shorn of the soon-to-be exterminated. I doubt that the sailors knew this, I think they would have been shocked to know this.
The article isn't specific, but how did the Zyklon B get into or on the hair? If heads were shorn upon arrival, wouldn't the collected hair be somewhere else when the prisoners were gassed? I'm guessing the trace amounts are surface traces, as opposed to within the hair itself.
The Germans weren't as ignorant about what was going on as you may think. The German Army certainly wasn't.
I just finished Saul Friedlander's second volume of his amazing (and amazingly sad) Nazi Germany and the Jews books, entitled The Years of Extermination. Highly recommended. I thought I basically knew everything there was to know about the Holocaust but the more I read the more horrors there are to uncover. It's funny what sticks in your head. I didn't know that German Jews were forbidden to own pets under a law promulgated in (I think) 1942. This means they had to get rid of the pets they already owned. But, since the law also forbade them to give their pets to others they were forced to have them killed. A small thing perhaps in the grand scheme of things but another piece of evidence that the Germans didn't merely want to kill Jews, they also wanted to maximize their suffering.
See my post number 11. Friedlander amply documents that knowledge of the fate of Europe's Jews was well known throughout Europe by, at the latest, 1942. They all knew what was happening.
How about not bailing out any failing companies, no matter what their management might have done in the 1940s?
Let's say the horrific charge is true. Unless some of the same people are still working for the company, I fail to see how this is relevant to the company's current travails.
My guess is that if they went to submariners it was because there would never be any evidence if they lost an engagement with the Allies. Socks of this nature would have been much more obvious had they been worn by the Army—who were being captured by the tens of thousands.
Just a thought.
Allegations - nothing more.
BTW, those lampshades didn't exist either.
Hair grows back and can be shorn again.
If you'd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
Ummm, let me see now, why are the decisions and actions from nearly 70 years ago—as dreadful as the were—of men who are now long dead, of any relevance at all to the current day company?
Sounds like a way for a Polish company to stick it to a German competitor.
It's like a Maine based company "revealing" that an Atlanta based company—or its ancestor firm—used slave labor 150 years ago. Horrors!
OK, it's Polish historians, not any one Polish company who are making these claims. The Nazi's killed more Poles than Jews—so there is no love lost between these countries...
Still, my point remains—70 years ago is ancient history in any corporate history.
I sincerely doubt that Schaeffer's success as a car parts company has anything at all to do with it's Nazi past. (Whether they should get gov. money from Germany is another issue!)
Winning post. I agree.
"I sincerely doubt that Schaeffers success as a car parts company has anything at all to do with its Nazi past."
Well, except that most of the existing companies grew by the "socialization" of smaller companies (often owned by Jews) by the Nazis.
That said, I agree, it's irrelevant to today, except as a warning what a socialized General Motors might be able to do under Obama.
How to kill the auto industry
Waterbury Republican-American | March 3, 2009 | Editorial
Posted on 03/03/2009 12:36:09 PM PST by Graybeard58
If they needed them to supplement the supply of socks and assuming they weren't as good as wool, they may have decided to concentrate them in the submarines where the men could better manage their feet and socks, rather than just throw them into the system where they might find their way to ground units.
"I'm going to show my high schooler this story.
She's learning about Nazi Germany and the camps right now. I asked her if she's noticing any similarities to now and she quietly answered, Yes. "
What you mean with "now"?
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Citizenship and Immigration Committee on May 31st, 2012
Evidence of meeting #46 for Citizenship and Immigration in the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was program.
A video is available from Parliament.
On the agenda
MPs speaking
Also speaking
- Claudette Deschênes Assistant Deputy Minister, Operations, Department of Citizenship and Immigration
- Amipal Manchanda Assistant Deputy Minister, Chief Financial Officer, Department of Citizenship and Immigration
- Neil Yeates Deputy Minister, Department of Citizenship and Immigration
May 31st, 2012 / 3:35 p.m.
The Chair David Tilson
We will convene in open session.
This is the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, meeting number 46, Thursday, May 31, 2012. The meeting is televised. For the first hour we are meeting pursuant to Standing Order 81(4), on main estimates. In the second hour we'll have a report on plans and priorities.
Mr. Yeates, I might advise that we've changed the rules somewhat. I don't know whether you've been advised or not. The minister will be here for the first hour to talk about the main estimates, and then he will retire if he wishes. We will then continue on for the second hour to deal with the combined supplementary estimates and the report on plans and priorities. I have no idea how we're going to do that, but I am sure it will all fall into place.
We have before us the Honourable Jason Kenney, the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration. We also have the deputy minister, Neil Yeates, and other staff.
Mr. Minister, I will let you introduce your colleagues and then you can proceed with your presentation to the committee.
Thank you for coming. You have the floor, sir.
3:35 p.m.
Calgary Southeast
Jason Kenney Minister of Citizenship
Thank you, Chairman.
It's good to be back, colleagues.
I'm joined as well by Claudette Deschênes, who is stalwart. You've seen her here dozens of times. She is, I'm sad to say, our outgoing assistant deputy minister for operations.
Is this your last committee appearance, Claudette?
3:35 p.m.
Claudette Deschênes Assistant Deputy Minister, Operations, Department of Citizenship and Immigration
Well, I'm hoping.
3:35 p.m.
Some hon. members
Oh, oh!
3:35 p.m.
Jason Kenney Calgary Southeast, AB
You don't seem too eager.
Actually, I would seriously like to pay homage to Madame Deschênes for her--she's still very young--over three decades of public service, particularly as a very core member of the immigration team. She's been a visa officer, run major operations abroad, and for the past few years has been in charge of our entire operation of what is the largest immigration program in the world per capita.
Colleagues, on your behalf and on behalf of Canadians, I'd like to commend Madame Deschênes for her public service. Thank you very much. She's going to be sorely missed.
3:35 p.m.
Some hon. members
Hear, hear!
3:35 p.m.
Jason Kenney Calgary Southeast, AB
I'm also joined by Amipal Manchanda, who is the chief financial officer for CIC; and Catrina Tapley, the associate assistant deputy minister.
Colleagues, these are the main estimates, of course. I know those have been tabled and you've had a chance to review them in summary. We propose a parliamentary appropriation of $1.54 billion in the main estimates, which is broken down between $524 million in vote 1, which is essentially operating expenditures, and $963 million in vote 5, which are grants and contributions, the largest portion of which is funding for settlement services, either through transfers to provinces like Quebec, Manitoba, and B.C., or direct contribution agreements with settlement service organizations, plus grants and contributions in programs like multiculturalism.
One thing I might point out that should be of interest to Canadians is that we don't recruit the funds that we spend on operations through the fees that we charge. We spend over $500 million on operations, that is to say largely running our network of visa offices both internally and overseas, where we have visa officers making decisions or IT systems to support that, all of those operational costs. We do, of course, charge fees for visitor visas and permanent residency visas, as well as citizenship proofs and grants, but those fees don't come anywhere close to recouping the operational costs for the department.
In fact, Amipal, I think our total fee revenue is in the range of $250 million--is that so?
3:40 p.m.
Amipal Manchanda Assistant Deputy Minister, Chief Financial Officer, Department of Citizenship and Immigration
The total fee revenue?
3:40 p.m.
Jason Kenney Calgary Southeast, AB
3:40 p.m.
Assistant Deputy Minister, Chief Financial Officer, Department of Citizenship and Immigration
It's closer to $448 million.
3:40 p.m.
Jason Kenney Calgary Southeast, AB
But for all of our business lines, essentially, we spend more than we generate in revenues.
3:40 p.m.
Assistant Deputy Minister, Chief Financial Officer, Department of Citizenship and Immigration
Absolutely, significantly more.
3:40 p.m.
Jason Kenney Calgary Southeast, AB
Maybe it's something the committee wants to look at in the future. That is, a better alignment between the fee revenues that we bring in and the cost of delivering these programs. I personally don't think that the Canadian taxpayer should have to subsidize the operations of the department, which are essentially providing a benefit to both our visitors and our immigrants. I know those people are prepared to pay the actual cost of processing their applications for the privilege of visiting or immigrating to Canada. That's something I would underscore.
Let me just say, Chairman, that we have launched a kind of initiative of what I would call transformational reform in our immigration policies, the objective of which is to achieve much better economic outcomes through immigration. For too long we have seen too many immigrants dropped into the Canadian labour market to sink or swim, with too many of them, quite frankly, struggling to keep their heads above water. We have a rate of unemployment among newcomers that is substantially higher than that of the general population.
We have noticed that immigrants with a university diploma experience a rate of unemployment that is approximately four times higher than in the general population here in Canada. Furthermore, unemployment among new Canadians is more than 10%. In an economy where there are labour shortages, that's paradoxical. We accept more than a quarter million immigrants each year in an economy where we are experiencing labour shortages. And yet many of these immigrants, including economic immigrants who are chosen based on their human capital, are underemployed in our economy.
There are several reasons for that. The purpose of our reforms is to improve economic opportunities for new Canadians so that, to the greatest extent possible, they can arrange to have employment prior to arriving in Canada. We want to increase the percentage of economic immigrants who already have a job before they come here. Through our recent analysis of the Federal Skilled Workers Program, we noted that those who have already secured a job before arriving in Canada have average earnings of $80,000 after their third year in the country. That is twice as much family income as for immigrants who arrive without an arranged job.
To improve economic outcomes for immigrants, what is needed is a system which is quick, flexible and efficient—one that allows us to be proactive in recruiting and selecting immigrants. The system we inherited and that we have been managing for a number of years now is somewhat rigid and very slow. It has a backlog and application processing times are unacceptable. That is why we have been focussing on speeding up the system.
The only way we can get to a faster and more flexible system is to deal decisively with the huge backlogs that the current government inherited. I know the committee did a very helpful report on backlogs. You understand the issue well. This explains the context of the powers that are proposed in Bill C-38, including returning some 100,000 pre-2008 applications in the skilled worker program inventory. That will allow us to go from processing times of several years to processing times of a few months, meaning that employers, provinces, and others will be able to go abroad and actively recruit people who have the skills to be able to work at their skill level upon arrival, with the confidence that they will be admitted in Canada, if they're qualified, within a matter of months.
This summer we're also looking at pre-publishing a new points grid for the federal skilled worker program based on our extensive consultations. The revised grid is likely to place greater emphasis on the youth of immigrants because younger immigrants tend to do better, and on higher levels of language proficiency for those who want to work as licensed professionals, for example. We'll certainly privilege those with pre-arranged employment in Canada, moving them to the front of the line.
We also hope to create a new skilled trades stream, a very exciting innovation. In the past many years, skilled tradespeople effectively could not make it through the skilled worker program because it required high levels of post-secondary education and advanced language proficiency. But the new skilled trades stream will allow the welders and advanced construction workers and so forth, who have those skills that we need in our economy, to come here at a lower level of language proficiency. There will be a dedicated stream carved out for them to complement what's really happening in the success of the provincial nominee programs.
Moreover, with the powers proposed in Bill C-38 to move towards the creation of a pool of pre-qualified applicants, which can be drawn down from by employers and perhaps provinces through their provincial nominee programs, they will be able to identify critical labour shortages, go into that pool of pre-qualified applicants, figure out who meets their criteria, and bring them in as much as possible with pre-arranged employment.
We will also, of course, be moving towards a pre-assessment of the relevance of the education of applicants for immigration to our labour market, so we no longer bring people in whose degrees and diplomas are unlikely to be recognized by Canadian professional licensing bodies or employers.
Eventually we hope to get to a situation similar to that of Australia, where we're able to do a pre-assessment of credentials for licensed professionals that might be administered by the national bodies representing the
provincial regulatory bodies.
Finally, we have already launched consultations with a view to reforming immigrant investor programs. As I said many times, I don't think Canada realizes what huge potential it has as a destination for immigrant investors. We are now looking at ways to attract people who are able to make much more significant investments in the Canadian economy. And we are open to any ideas the committee may have as to how to carry out this reform.
I'll close with this, Mr. Chairman. These are just some of the many reforms we're making to improve the economic outcomes of immigration, to make the experience of immigrating to Canada better for newcomers and better for Canada. We are determined to get to that fast, flexible, and more efficient system as soon as we can.
I want to commend my officials for working sometimes quite literally overnight on both the policy reforms and the operational changes necessary to get there.
Thank you very much.
3:45 p.m.
The Chair David Tilson
Thank you, Mr. Minister.
Madam Deschênes, on behalf of the committee, I too would like to thank you for your many hours of service to this committee and to the department. We've appreciated all the assistance you've given, certainly to this particular committee and I can speak for some of the other committees as well. So thank you very much, and we wish you well in your next stage of life.
We have some questions.
Ms. James.
3:45 p.m.
Roxanne James Scarborough Centre, ON
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, of course, to Minister Kenney for being here today to answer some of the questions.
I listened to your speech and I applaud the changes you're proposing for the skilled trades stream and so on, but I want to speak about something different, which I didn't hear you mention, and that has to do with the crooked consultants.
As a member of Parliament, like I'm sure many of us here and all of the colleagues around this table, I've had the experience of dealing with people who themselves have been victims of crooked representatives, crooked consultants who give the impression that they can legally provide immigration services to these people. That's part of the question I'm going to ask.
The second part is that, besides having victims, we also have those who are basically using crooked consultants to gain citizenship themselves. They're almost as crooked as the crooked consultants. So we have victims and we have people who are abusing these types of services here in Canada.
I know you recently made an announcement that will further strengthen the ability of the organizations that accredit these types of organizations to crack down on the crooked representatives. Can you please tell us exactly what was announced and how it will help the victims who unknowingly use crooked consultants, and also the people who are actually abusing it knowingly?
Thank you.


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I recently installed an X-bridge and CTRL-X in a Jazzmaster build. By recently, I mean this morning before work. I love it! It sounds exactly as I had hoped. I have 2 questions, and at least the first one is probably stupid. When using the blend pot, the volume on 1 gives me about a 50:50 blend between mags and piezo. On 10 I get straight piezo. Assuming that the pot should sweep between pure mags to pure piezo, did I possibly wire something incorrectly? I haven't had the opportunity to check yet, but is this potentially an issue with the setting on the internal trim pot?
Also, I purchased the bridge new from an ebay seller a year ago, and I noticed this weekend that it was shipped for some reason without the tremolo arm. I have not been able to fit any of my other tremolo arms to the bushing. A USA Fender arm is too big, and a cheap Proline GC part is too small. What size tread will fit in this bushing?
Last edited by Waygorked; 02-27-2013 at 08:51 AM.
The blend issues that you are experiencing is completely normal. The way that the components are designed and assembled makes it impossible to get full isolation without using the toggle-switch. So your bridge is functioning correctly.
For your new bridge, did you get a US Standard or the Vintage bridge?
When installing my Lyric, I discovered there was very little room to install the mic centered below the saddle. I had to position the mic to clear the bridge pins and the string ball ends and I just barely succeeded, which put the two ends of the plastic portion of the mic up against the top bracing. Will the plastic of the mic touching here have an effect on the functioning and sound reproduction of the mic?
Also, my cable plugs are very tight and difficult to insert into the Lyric preamp jack. They fit smoothly and with 3 easily felt and heard clicks in the Para DI and my Fishman amp, but these same cables must be pushed hard to get them inserted all the way into the Lyric jack. The gold plating on the plugs won't last long. Is this normal for the Lyric preamp, or do I have an anomaly? I'm hoping it's an anomaly as it's hard to imagine this being normal. I really want this to work. I purchased the Lyric last week.
Last edited by Dave Shanks; 03-04-2013 at 09:37 PM.
Hi Dave,
The mic touching the braces is mostly a concern because some notes from the guitars will vibrate those braces and cause a rattle in the mic. This can sound like low-level distortion in the amplified signal. So if you have to put the mic behind the bridge pins, assuming there's room on the bridge plate, that would be a safer option.
As far as the jack: some of our jacks are a little tighter than others, but they do loosen up after about two weeks of regular use.
So positioning the mic behind the bridge pins will be ok sound-wise? It does not have to be directly under the saddle? I do have plenty of room on the bridge plate to mount the mic behind the bridge pins. This will position the mic about 2" away from the saddle. And thank you for the help on these issues. It's nice to have quick and reliable supoport from a manufacturer
Last edited by Dave Shanks; 03-05-2013 at 11:14 AM.
Putting the mic behind the pins is fine. I've done several installations where there was not sufficient room in front of the pins. I've placed the mic in front, behind, on the top itself in front and behind the bridge plate. The tone varies slightly depending on the placement, but you will get the best sound quality if you place it on the bridge plate.
Thanks for the advice.
I just came came form a trip and realized I lost the whammy bar on my bridge (electric)! Please somebody direct me where I can find one, I don't care how much it cost!!! I needed! Pease help!! Tx in advance!
Hey Servivente,
Email me at [email protected], and I'll see if I can find you what you need. Any information you can provide to me about your bridge will be helpful.


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NEW YORK (MainStreet) -- Detroit filed for the largest municipal bankruptcy in our country's history a little over a week ago. Many questions remain unanswered about the future of the city's infrastructure from pension plans to public schools. It seems new questions pop up every day. While many of us struggle to save towards paying down principals on mortgages or for a down payment on a primary residence it is possible to find a house in Detroit for $1. A consumer can even find a five-bedroom house for $10,000.
But before you get too bug-eyed and lick your chops at the prospect of your very own Motown manse, take a prudent step back.
"The truth is that no one knows if Detroit is a 'deal' at the moment, because it has been drowning in a steady downward spiral for the last 60 years," said Jason Abrams, co-founder of the Abrams Team national real estate firm and host of the HGTV show Scoring the Deal. "40 years ago, people said 'it is a deal, now is the time to buy.' Then they said it again 30 years ago, then again 20 years ago, then again 10 years ago. So far, it has not been such a great deal."
There are roughly 80,000 empty buildings within Detroit city limits, Abrams added, but many of them are crumbling and unappealing.
"Once you get into the higher priced homes - $15k to $25k - then the answer is 'yes, many of them are very much livable,'" he said. "The problem is that there are very few people who really want to live there."
Habitability, indeed, is the crux of the matter and with nearly one-third of Detroit abandoned, Abrams describes the 138-square-mile metropolis as "latterly devolving."
That means there's a dovetail effect on the community ammenities surrounding the real estate.
"There are roads that need to be repaired, there are poor schools and there are no funds within the city budget to make those improvements," said Leslie Piper, a consumer-housing specialist for Realtor.com.
The properties themselves are often derelict, even if the price is right.
"When there are six houses that have been on the market that have not been cared for that is going to effect what comes on the market," Piper said. ""Many of the homes in Detroit are so dilapidated they have to be torn down and built from scratch."


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