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cactusflinthead

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  1. He deployed to Afghanistan with the 25th Infantry Division. His Troop Commander during the deployment, Rich Groen, posted to Twitter that he was a good soldier who did his work with “care and precision.” He served in their S1 shop, which is the personnel section of an Army unit that handles pay, administrative management, and mail among other tasks. He was not a line combat trooper and its likely he probably only left the base for mail convoys or other administrative missions in support of the unit. ___ He had remarried in 2017 but was divorced in 2022. During those proceedings he had sent an email to his ex-partner’s lawyer where he wrote that he could not make payments on the house they owned, saying at the time he was $27,000 behind in payments. He went on to disclose that he was $16,000 in credit card debt and that the three businesses he founded were profitless, one of them losing $28,000. The records say that he's a father of three and was ultimately ordered to pay his last wife $1,353 a month in child support. It appears Jabbar last worked for the large consulting and accounting firm, Deloitte. They hire many veterans and support numerous government contracts. He served in a "staff-level role" since being hired in 2021, a spokesperson for the firm confirmed to ABC News. His title at Deloitte was "senior solution specialist.” Multiple reports say his salary was $120,000 though I have not found a confirmation of that.
  2. I can't do that skycast camera. It sucks as much as it did the first time I saw it. Back to the old school radio time warp
  3. Man Right in the feels.
  4. Yeah, the only drawback to winter pruning is waiting for stubs to regrow if the shrubs are getting a hard cut. Taking out dead branches can be done any time. The random dying branch could a number of things, but I would bet on phytophthora. If it's getting new growth there's enough root system to weather the occasional attack. Keep an eye out for spotting on the leaves. That's usually what takes a toll on them. https://extension.umd.edu/resource/leaf-spot-red-tip-photinia I prefer t-methyl to the copper based fungicides. Propiconazole or azoxystrobin will work too. It's better as a preventative than remedial. Once it's got it you have to grow new leaves and keep them clean. Leaf litter control is very helpful for tamping down that part of the cycle.
  5. Edit The Navy's work in developing the first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, meant that Rickover and Carter had access to the latest and greatest in top-secret nuclear energy technology. So when Canada's Chalk River nuclear research facility experienced a power surge that damaged its reactor, the U.S. sent Carter and his team. He was one of a few people in the world who could do it. ___ Carter and his 22 other team members were separated into teams of three and lowered into the reactor for 90-second intervals to clean the site. It was estimated that a minute-and-a-half was the maximum time humans could be exposed to the levels of radiation present in the area. It was still too much, especially by today's standards. The future president had radioactive urine for months after the cleanup. https://www.military.com/history/how-jimmy-carter-saved-canadian-nuclear-reactor-after-meltdown.html
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