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The cooler design that XFX has got on offer isn't anything too out of the ordinary when it comes to comparing what we've seen from some other companies. We've got a dual fan setup which underneath finds a bunch of aluminum and copper heat pipes to help keep the card as cool as possible. The dual fan setup is a popular one and we've found that it does an excellent job of cooling. Hopefully the XFX version continues to keep up that tradition.
Looking around the rest of the card, we've got two 6-Pin PCI-E power connectors up the back and a single CrossFire connector closer to the front. Connectivity comes in the form of a Dual-Link and Single-Link DVI Port along with a HDMI and two mini-DisplayPort connectors.
XFX has spent the time overclocking the card and we can see that the core has been lifted to 940MHz which is 40MHz up on the default 900MHz clock a reference card will carry.
It's great to see that XFX hasn't ignored the 1GB of GDDR5 that now comes in at 4600MHz QDR, which is 400MHz QDR up on the reference 4200MHz QDR clock.
Let's check out our test system before we get stuck into the performance of the card.


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Many of you have been very kind to me on this forum and I thank you for that. I pray that all of you and your families do well and are continually blessed. It has be fun. I'm not writing this for attention...I just remember the "Where is Medusa" question and didn't want any concerns in my direction. I'm not suicidal, depressed yes but otherwise doing well. I just feel that another forum has taken up to much of my time that could be better spent doing other things and I am addicted!.....so I have to quit cold turkey. The kids are well...DD20 graduated from college this week. DS16 is healing from mono and we have moved him downstairs. He is asking to talk to a counselor because of saddness and fear of growing up....I know he will be fine. SD11 is doing well.....DH is still working OT and not happy about it. His health suffers but hopefully that will level off. When I get this other site out of my system I may return as someone else.LOL Blessings to you all...Kim |
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Best of luck to you, Believer. I remember you were very kind in your words right after my Dad died and I posted about it... thank you again for that. And even though on the surface you and I (openly very religious-Christian and openly agnostic-Jewish, respectively) have some differences in beliefs, I must say that I found your posts on the whole very wise and empathetic and agreed with you more often than not. Take care- -Serenity |
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Sanofi Appoints David Meeker Chief Executive Officer of Genzyme
October 24, 2011 10:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time
PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sanofi (EURONEXT: SAN and NYSE: SNY) announced today the appointment of David Meeker as Chief Executive Officer of Genzyme, a Sanofi company, effective November 1, 2011. He will report to Christopher A. Viehbacher, Chief Executive Officer of Sanofi, and will join the Group Management Committee. Christopher A. Viehbacher will retain the position of Chairman, Genzyme.
"After working closely with David over the past six months, I am confident that he is the best person to lead Genzyme," said Christopher A. Viehbacher, Chief Executive Officer of Sanofi. "David's commitment to employees, physicians and patients has been a key success factor in the successful integration of Genzyme as part of the Sanofi Group. His combination of medical and business experience will be essential to move Genzyme's broad portfolio of products forward and deliver much-needed therapies to patients."
Under David Meeker's leadership, Genzyme will incorporate the Rare Disease business and the Multiple Sclerosis franchise. Previous Genzyme divisions - Renal, Biosurgery and Oncology - have been integrated within the existing Sanofi portfolio giving them greater global scale and capabilities.
David joined Genzyme in 1994 as Medical Director to work on the Cystic Fibrosis Gene Therapy program. Over the years he has held key positions of increasing responsibility as he led the development of treatments in the current rare disease portfolio. As President of the Global Rare Disease Business, he oversaw the global launches of Aldurazyme®, Fabrazyme® and Myozyme®. In 2009, he was promoted to Chief Operating Officer of Genzyme and has played an important role in the integration since April of this year. David received his M.D. from the University of Vermont Medical School, and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 2000.
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Richfield Officer Kills Knife-Wielding Man
A Richfield police officer shot and killed a man who investigators say was wielding a knife Friday morning.
Cops: Repairman Impersonator Robs Woman, 71, At Knifepoint
A 71-year-old woman was robbed at knifepoint in her apartment by a man impersonating a TV repairman, according to Minneapolis Police.
Reward Offered In Ft. Snelling Grave Desecration
The Hennepin County Sheriff is releasing more information and offering a reward of up to $10,000 to find the people responsible for desecrating a veteran's grave site.
Police: Forest Lake H.S. Student Had Knife, Nunchucks In Backpack
An investigation of a Forest Lake High School lockdown Wednesday found that a male student brought a knife and nunchucks to school.
Girlfriend Of Man Shot By Police Says He Wasn't Threatening
A domestic call turned deadly early Saturday morning after police opened fire on a man they say had a knife.
Cops: Domestic Assault Suspect Wielding Knife Shot, Killed
An officer-involved shooting took the life of a knife wielding domestic violence suspect this morning in Minneapolis, according to authorities.
Principal: Maple Grove H.S. Lockdown Caused By Knife
A report of a knife on Maple Grove Senoir High School's campus caused a lockdown Wednesday, according to school officials.
Group Home Worker Accused Of Rape By Knifepoint
A 43-year-old employee at a Richfield group home has been charged with raping a coworker by knifepoint, according to authorities.
'U' Police: Knife-Wielding Man Attacks Student
A female student was walking home when she was attacked from behind by a man with a knife, according to University Of Minnesota Police.
Police: Group Robs, Beats St. Cloud Man
A 21-year-old St. Cloud man is recovering Sunday after a group of men stuck a knife to his chest, punched him, threw him to the ground and stole his wallet, authorities said.
Man Arrested For Assault With Beer Bottle At St. Cloud Bar
A 30-year-old St. Cloud man was arrested early Friday morning after he allegedly assaulted a man with a beer bottle and threatened him with a knife at a St. Cloud bar, authorities said.
Police: Girl Stabs Man Trying To Kidnap Her
Police investigating an apparent attempted abduction in North Minneapolis say the girl managed to stab her attacker and escape.
Police Called To St. Paul Charter School For Fight
Police officers were called to a St. Paul school Thursday, after a 13-year-old boy was cut by another teen with a small pocketknife.
Student Brings Knife To ROCORI Middle School
A student could be expelled for up to a year after bringing a knife to ROCORI Middle School Wednesday.
Chinese Man Has Knife In Skull For Four Years
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The 13 songs on Maria Muldaur's first children's recording, Music On the Sunny Side, all sound imaginative, authoritative, and full of delight. Maybe that's because Muldaur is such a distinctive stylist. Or maybe it's because these are such great tunes.
You won't find ''Midnight at the Oasis'' or any of Muldaur's sultry pop hits among the classics here. From ''Put on a Happy Face'' to ''Side by Side,'' On the Sunny Side is unrelievedly sunny. All this cheer might have an adverse effect on an adult's disposition if Muldaur weren't too sophisticated a stylist to let that happen. The sweeter the song (''Cooking Breakfast for the Ones I Love,'' for example), the snappier her delivery.
With jugband instruments and a deliberately unpolished chorus of children's voices, Sunny has a homespun flavor. But it's never corny or sappy. You simply can't listen to this without feeling happy. You can't listen, in fact, without doing a little soft-shoe in the privacy of your own home. A


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A wild river valley outside of Sydney
"The last shark attack in this area was probably dated back to the 1920s or '30s. Operators do have to say to people you are swimming at your own risk, but it is not really a major issue. I've lived in the area for over 30 years and swum in the river and I've never even seen a bull shark."
Safely on dry land at the public wharf at Spencer, a sign welcomed us to the "Hub of the Universe". For locals and tourists to the area, the township is a popular meeting spot, where the main attraction is a pub that is actually a picnic table under a big tree with splendid water views.
"There's a lovely big mangrove tree across the road right next to the wharf," said Andrew Goodman, owner of the Spencer Village Store. "The story goes that the returned servicemen after the Second World War used to gather together under the tree."
The picnic table is about the size of a pool table. One end, the locals (who bring their own beer) call the garden bar and the other end they call the beer garden. Beer can be purchased at a general store about 10m away.
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RE: shaping grape vines (Follow-Up #3)
posted by: fruitnut on 05.29.2013 at 11:07 pm in Fruit & Orchards Forum You can cut back to one shoot or let it all grow and build a trunk next year. Actually the best method is probably to let it all grow this year and cut it back nearly to the ground next year. This will result in a really strong shoot next year that makes a good plant. Most don't like this approach because they think they are losing a year. That's not the case because what's most important is the size of the roots. More top growth this year equals more roots and a bigger plant next year.
A middle road approach is to run the strongest up a stake for the trunk and keep the others. Then cut out all the side shoots next winter. NOTES: Grape growing
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The budget includes the previously approved 2.2 percent salary increase for certified staff, which includes teachers, and a 2 percent salary increase for support staff.
Over the last six years, the district has made nearly $100 million in maintenance and operations budget reductions due to declining enrollment and state funds, the governing board was told Tuesday.
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Colorado is the absolute worst place to garden. My fields are over run with little white grasshoppers, or tannish. Little evil things have destroyed half my garden. |
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- Posted by madscientist z5 NM (My Page) on Tue, Jun 15, 04 at 9:02
Big bummer! At least the 'Deer Off' seems to work to keeping deer at bay, but I don't know what or how to keep hoards of grasshoppers away. Are they a continuous issue? or are they only a problem in certain years on a cycle? |
My daughter, who is 6, got 2 pet chicks earlier this year, and they are now free-range, hunert'-and-ten-percent effort, grasshopper catchers and morning worm pullers. They can spot a hopper from half the yard away, and tear after them at full tilt. |
- Posted by herbalicious 5 (My Page) on Thu, Jun 17, 04 at 14:38
madscientist... I heard on the news that its drought related. We always have them but they are bad because of 5 dry years and the population has grown. I wish it would hail on the little devils. No wait! No hail, please! David... you have me so tempted to run out and buy some chickens, rofl. How cute that must be watching them run thru the garden and "hunt." Why can't rabbits eats hoppers and deer eat rabbits?? Then all we would need is Deer Off! |
- Posted by Glen_or_Linda 4 WYO (My Page) on Sun, Jun 20, 04 at 10:14
I saw my first grasshopper yesterday. Our little dog likes to pounce on them and chew them to death. Hopefully they won't get bad here. They did a story on the news about them in southern Utah. They are having a horrible time there. An aerial view showed a field that had been green a week before and now it is brown as can be. What is driving me nuts is the tent caterpillars in my willow tree. I researched and found there wasn't much that can be done about them but the scat mess they are making on the sidewalk and the fact that they are all over the side of my house makes me crazy! Linda in Wyoming |
- Posted by sunnymorninggardens z4-5 CO (My Page) on Tue, Dec 13, 05 at 12:40
About the grasshoppers and worms...We have 1 1/2 acres out in a country area. When we moved in at the beginning of the drought 5 years ago, we had grasshoppers everywhere. I tried to garden...no luck. Then the rabbits came. They didn't eat the grasshoppers so now we had grasshoppers and rabbits. I bought some of those cute little chicks and how I've loved my chickens ever since (avoid the roosters if you want peace and quiet). The grasshoppers are gone! but they didn't eat the rabbits. I fenced the garden with chicken wire to keep out the rabbits and the chickens. Many varieties of chickens love to dig holes, you know. The feather-footed kinds are less likely to turn any bare spot into a dust-bath hole, but all of them eat any bug or worm they see. I also bought guineas which eat lots of bugs, including ticks. They are prolific insect eaters. I have had giant pearl guineas and the smaller guineas and the smaller guineas definitely get my vote. Guineas are VERY vocal. When I read that I thought "that's ok". Well, it's not "ok". The giant Pearl guineas are extremely LOUD! and I mean LOUD! That wouldn't even be intolerable but they squawk non-stop, at least for the first year, only stopping when they go to sleep. The smaller guineas are not quite as loud, but I think one of them squawked until she got hoarse! In their defense, they are pretty birds and fantastic bug-eaters, and they don't dig. |
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It's one of the most bizarre things about playing in the AHL, ECHL, CHL and lower: sometimes you have multiple teammates who aren't going to be teammates for long.
What I mean by that is, a minor pro roster is rarely the same for many consecutive nights, as it falls apart and reconstitutes itself with every roster move made at every level. An AHL team can get shaken up from so many different directions it's mind-boggling. They're affected by NHL trades, under-performing NHL players coming down, conditioning stints from NHL players, signings, waiver pick-ups, under-performing players on their own team getting sent down, overachieving players getting called up, overachieving ECHL players getting sent up, INJURIES and I'm sure plenty more.
With the speed of pro hockey today "injuries" gets the all-caps treatment because it's the most frequent reason the deck gets shuffled.
So when you're a regular on a minor league team – say a 2nd or 3rd liner who plays on the second powerplay, kills the odd penalty, is in his mid-20s, and ain't getting sent up or called down anytime soon, you're a part of a very small thing: your team's core.
In the NHL, your core is your nucleus of your best players, those guys who are usually rewarded with longer contracts. As I mentioned: that's not the case here.
As a core guy in the A, it's not unusual to find yourself with a rotating stallmate.
During my time in Bridgeport I played with a number of those up-and-down Islanders whose priority wasn't winning games in the A, it was making sure that the next call-up was permanent. And hey, no disrespect to them on that – I'd have been doing the exact same thing. Then there are the guys playing on your team on two-game conditioning stints – Wade Dubliewicz and Aaron Johnson both had cups of coffee with us while I was in the "A," and it's weird, because you know they could care less about winning or losing.
Really, until you make playoffs, your team isn't formed. The season, while important to a good number of players, is just one long tryout to those on the fringe of going up or down.
I remember being in Utah when Trevor Smith (now with Norfolk in the A) got sent down. He had just left college after signing a three year deal with the Islanders, and man, could that kid shoot. They gave him a legit look in Bridgeport for a couple months, then decided he needed to go get some confidence, and sent him down to us.
What do you think his priorities were? Us? ….No. (Again, not a shot at a friend, a reality.)
Still, he had to play his bag off to get back to where he wanted to be, so he did. He knocked out a point a game with us down there (before scoring 30 in the AHL the next season), and guys were clamouring to get on his line. I was lucky enough to get on with him for a bit, and there's no doubt in my mind that he was what turned my season around after a slow (awful) start. Still – I always knew his presence as a true "teammate" wasn't permanent.
The minors just aren't like college (four year commitments from everyone equals a crazy-strong team bond), and it's not like the NHL where wins and losses are (almost) everything to a team. It's bizarre suiting up with a guy who you know will at some point leave your team for another, who wants to leave your team for another, and would take two goals and a loss over one goal and a win.
As I watch decks continue to get shuffled all around the league, I can't help but think about how different the life of a minor pro hockey player can be from one day to the next. Nazem Kadri is heading up to the Toronto Maple Leafs, which means the Marlies need a player from the ECHL, which means someone else is getting their shot on an AHL 1st line, which means….which means….
It's an interesting time of year to be a hockey player, and one of the reasons I'm glad to still be involved in the game from the media side. You never know who's gonna get their shot next, and you never know who's gonna cash in on one when they get one.


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Synesius of Cyrene |
Mosaic depicting an angel. Museum of Ptolemais |
of Cyrene (c.370-c.413) was a Neo-Platonic
philosopher who became bishop of Ptolemais
in the Cyrenaica.
He left behind a small corpus of texts that offer much information
about daily life in Late Antiquity, and about the
of the Roman world. Hymn 7 is offered here in the translation by A. Fitzgerald. Hymn 7: ChristmasI was the first to find the measure established in new harmonieswherewith to smite the strings of the lyre in praise of Thee, Blessed One Immortal, illustrious Offspring of the Virgin, Jesus of Solyma. Be propitious, O King, and accept my strain of sacred melody. We shall sing of the imperishable God, the great Son of God, the world-creating Son of the Father, Who hath given birth to the ages, the nature mingled of all things, the boundless wisdom, a God to heavenly beings, a curse to those of the underworld. What time Thou wert poured forth on the earth, even out of a mortal womb, the inventive art of the Magus was helpless, and he wondered from the rising star, what manner of infant had been born, who might be this God concealed, God, or nether shade or king. Come, bring Thy gifts, offerings of myrrh, presents of gold, fine perfume of frankincense. God Thou art, receive Thou the incense; I bring gold to my Kin, His grave will befit the myrrh. Thou has purified the land, the wavers of the sea, and the paths of the demons, the swift outflow of air, and the recesses of the internal regions. Thou wert sent, being God, to Hades, to the assistance of the dead. But be propitious, O King, and accept my strains of sacred songs. |
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About Balboa777's Garage
About me and my passion for cars
My dad first started teaching me to drive when I was 4, since then my love for cars has grown considerably. I owe it all to my father because he still continues teach me. He plans on setting up an apolstlry shop for cars and boats and he plans to teach me and take me as a partner.
My first car
1962 Chevy Nova
Car I wish I still had
My 1962 Chevy Nova
My dream car
a 69 Chevy Camaro SS with an original Yenco 4 speed and the color be blue with white racing stripes
Car clubs I'm in
Buhl Bunch Car Club
- Type of racing: Nascar
- Driver: Dale Earnhart Sr.
- Driving song: Life is a Highway by Rascal Flatts
- Car movie: the fast and the furious series and smokey and the bandit 1 & 2
- Car book: Christine
- Car magazine: Street Trucks and Hemmings muscle machine
- Car game: Forza Horizon
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- Apr 28, 2012 at 5:30 pm
- readed your challenge against Mr Mean and was taken by you selling the car your parents bought for and you selling it to payoff
their house. Now that's a good son you don't see that a lot your parents did a good job raising you now thats family.
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Blizzard's European A Very Warcraft Christmas Contest {WoW}
Dec 6th 2008 12:54PM Excuse me, but I believe the image you are using for this article comes from one of my pictures, a custom calendar page made for the player Sateene on Blackwater Raiders.
I formally request either to be credited as the image's author, or that you take it down.
You may view the original at http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t234/CryFury/Sateene2.jpg.
More signs of cold on official sites {WoW}
Jun 23rd 2008 11:25AM I was messing around with the image in photoshop, and found this image when using a kaleidoscope effect.
Am I the only one who thinks it looks like skulls and screaming figures?
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Help Portrait is a movement of photographers who are using their time, equipment and expertise to give back to those who are less fortunate.
Any news on events? New to the area and in the Kirkland area. Would love to help, even if it's just running cables or being a gofer.
Possibly the Bellevue area. The date won't be the 10th, since the partnership is with an organization, but I will let you know!
Great! I can do it anyday until the 22th. I'm here on holiday, so I don't any equipment except my camera. Don't have any experience with portraits/lights, but will gladly help anyway I can! My email is: firstname.lastname@example.com in case you want to contact me. Thanx!
I am interested in volunteering at the Jubilee event. This is my first HP event so would love to do some general volunteering (event coordination, greeter, etc) the first time around. I am a photographer and a hairstylists. So i can jump in and assist in those roles if needed. keep me posted!
Hello!! I have no experience in portraits, but would love to help in any way!! I live in Seattle, but could head to Kirkland, Redmond, or Bellevue.
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Mark Eitzel announces summer tour
We are proud to announce that Mark Eitzel and Stephin Merritt will play the newly renovated Baldwin Auditorium at Duke University on July 30 as part of Duke Performances' summer concert series and Merge's 25th anniversary! Mark will continue the celebration with a short string of east coast dates in early August, some of which include Bruce Kaphan of American Music Club fame and Patrick Main on piano.
After a string of bad luck that included a heart attack that set him back several months and the implosion of his band American Music Club, Mark Eitzel fortuitously found himself in the studio with celebrated producer Sheldon Gomberg (Rickie Lee Jones, Ron Sexsmith, Ben Harper), thanks to the generosity of an old friend. The result is Eitzel's finest solo album in over a decade. Inspired by his experience writing a musical, Mark's songwriting is simpler on this record and lyrically reflects a more straight-ahead approach. Order Don't Be a Stranger on CD or LP in the Merge store now.
"If Leonard Cohen's voice is a story about the passage of time and Levon Helm's is a story about losing what is most precious to you, Eitzel's is about the circuitous roads we take in search of ourselves." —Pitchfork
Mark Eitzel on tour:
Jun 08 Austin, TX – Cactus Cafe
Jun 27 Portland, OR – Disjecta Quiet Music Festival
Jun 28 Seattle, WA – Barboza at Neumos
Jul 30 Durham, NC – Baldwin Auditorium at Duke University (Merge 25 w/ Stephin Merritt)
Aug 01 Somerville, MA – Johnny D's
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In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, Charles Nutter discusses the Ruby and JRuby featureset, the JRuby compiler, calling Java from JRuby and vice versa, programming Swing with JRuby, JRuby web applications, JRuby on Rails, persistence, build automation, Test-Driven Development and Behaviour-Driven Development.
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5 Simply brilliantBashimitsu | 29/04/2007 | See all Bashimitsu's reviews (61)Top 100 Reviewer Top 10 Games Reviewer Top 10 Electronics Reviewer Top 100 Gadgets Reviewer Top 10 Mobile Reviewer Completely agree with you, Chris; it's a brilliant game that practically anybody could have a great time playing.The controls are basically tilt screen left or right with the shoulder buttons and press them both at once to jump.There are a few mini games to unlock, a Loco house to play around with and plenty of secrets to find.I'd say that Loco Roco was by far the most fun I had with my PSP and that it will be the game that the PS3's SIXAXIS pad was made for!An easy 5 stars :)
5 LocoRocorussdude13 | 03/03/2009 | See all russdude13's reviews (9)This game is brilliant. Its so original and fun. Although its 2D, it works. Tilting the planet to get the LocoRoco to the end of the level is great fun. I recommend it as well as Patapon. Its made by the same people.
5 Ahhh, LocoRoco!westy999hello | 22/06/2007 | See all westy999hello's reviews (9)Simply the crazyest, simplest, beautifullest and maddest game ever. Some of the levels like the Ice levels, you just speed through, then theres the mushroom levels with bouncy mushrooms... It's all gone tilt-like in this game. Despite it's not a long game, It makes you want to play it more with it's secret items which can help you to build up your LocoHome. Screenshots, you can Take SCREENSHOTS! With a simple press of 'select' during gameplay, it takes a quick snapshot of the screen and stores it so you can transfer the image file through to your PSP Images folder, make your own LocoRoco backgrounds!Please, if you need a decent game for your PSP, already have Monster Hunter, Killzone and Metal Gear Solid, then buy this, it's childish, but by god it's fun!
4 Weird but greatsddam22 | 21/12/2007 | See all sddam22's reviews (61)Top 100 Games Reviewer This is a weird game, bit repetitive but otherwise very charming and funny.
5 Locoroco ~ PSP VersionRandomSpoo0 | 03/07/2007 | See all RandomSpoo0's reviews (10)Although I haven't actually bought this game yet at the price that play.com are selling it at it won't be long until I do order it but I have played 2 levels from it thanks to the PSP website.The level that I played was very entertaining and did keep me happy for a few hours collecting the little blobs to make my one bigger is a simple yet brilliant idea for this game and the function to split them up for smaller pieces is even better.The controls can get a bit annoying sometimes with the flicking but it is all with the challenge of the game and makes it a bit more fun to attempt it.At the value of the game it is definitely worth buying it and on the bases of price and entertainment values I will give this game a nice 5 out of 5.


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This is Not a National Emergency
February 18, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Tom Engelhardt
Let me put American life in the Age of Terror into some kind of context, and then tell me you're not ready to get on the nearest plane heading anywhere, even toward Yemen.
In 2008, 14,180 Americans were murdered, according to the FBI. In that year, there were 34,017 fatal vehicle crashes in the U.S. and, so the U.S. Fire Administration tells us, 3,320 deaths by fire. More than 11,000 Americans died of the swine flu between April and mid-December 2009, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; on average, a staggering 443,600 Americans die yearly of illnesses related to tobacco use, reports the American Cancer Society; 5,000 Americans die annually from food-borne diseases; an estimated 1,760 children died from abuse or neglect in 2007; and the next year, 560 Americans died of weather-related conditions, according to the National Weather Service, including 126 from tornadoes, 67 from rip tides, 58 from flash floods, 27 from lightning, 27 from avalanches, and 1 from a dust devil.
As for airplane fatalities, no American died in a crash of a U.S. carrier in either 2007 or 2008, despite 1.5 billion passengers transported. In 2009, planes certainly went down and people died. In June, for instance, a French flight on its way from Rio de Janeiro to Paris disappeared in bad weather over the Atlantic, killing 226. Continental Connection Flight 3407, a regional commuter flight, crashed into a house near Buffalo, N.Y., that February killing 50, the first fatal crash of a U.S. commercial flight since August 2006. And in January 2009, US Airways Flight 1549, assaulted by a flock of birds, managed a brilliant landing in New Yorks Hudson River when disaster might have ensued. In none of these years did an airplane go down anywhere due to terrorism, though in 2007 two terrorists smashed a Jeep Cherokee loaded with propane tanks into the terminal of Glasgow International Airport. (No one was killed.)
The now-infamous Northwest Airlines Flight 253, carrying Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and his bomb-laden underwear toward Detroit on Christmas Day 2009, had 290 passengers and crew, all of whom survived. Had the inept Abdulmutallab actually succeeded, the death toll would not have equaled the 324 traffic fatalities in Nevada in 2008; while the destruction of four Flight 253s from terrorism would not have equaled New York States 2008 traffic death toll of 1,231, 341 of whom, or 51 more than those on Flight 253, were classified as "alcohol-impaired fatalities."
Had the 23-year-old Nigerian set off his bomb, it would have been a nightmare for the people on board, and a tragedy for those who knew them. It would certainly have represented a safety and security issue that needed to be dealt with. But it would not have been a national emergency, nor a national-security crisis. It would have been nothing more than a single plane knocked out of the sky, something that happens from time to time without the intervention of terrorists.
And yet here's the strange thing: thanks to what didn't happen on Flight 253, the media essentially went mad, 24/7. Newspaper coverage of the failed plot and its ramifications actually grew for two full weeks after the incident until it had achieved something like full-spectrum dominance, according to the Pew Research Centers Project for Excellence in Journalism. In the days after Christmas, more than half the news links in blogs related to Flight 253. At the same time, the Republican criticism machine (and the media universe that goes with it) ramped up on the subject of the Obama administrations terror wimpiness; the global air transport system plunked down millions of dollars on new technology which will not find underwear bombs; the homeland security-industrial-complex had a field day; and fear, that adrenaline rush from hell, was further embedded in the American way of life.
Under the circumstances, you would never know that Americans living in the United States were in vanishingly little danger from terrorism, but in significant danger driving to the mall; or that alcohol, tobacco, E. coli bacteria, fire, domestic abuse, murder, and the weather present the sort of potentially fatal problems that might be worth worrying about, or even changing your behavior over, or perhaps investing some money in. Terrorism, not so much.
The few Americans who, since 2001, have died from anything that could be called a terror attack in the U.S. whether the 13 killed at Fort Hood or the soldier murdered outside an Army recruiting office in Little Rock, Ark. were far outnumbered by the 32 dead in a 2007 mass killing at Virginia Tech University, not to speak of the relatively regular moments when workers or former workers "go postal." Since 9/11, terror in the U.S. has rated above fatalities from shark attacks and not much else. Since the economic meltdown of 2008, it has, in fact, been left in the shade by violent deaths that stem from reactions to job loss, foreclosure, inability to pay the rent, and so on.
This is seldom highlighted in a country perversely convulsed by, and that cant seem to get enough of, fantasies about being besieged by terrorists.
Institutionalizing Fear Inc.
The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, which had the look of the apocalyptic, brought the fear of terrorism into the American bedroom via the TV screen. That fear was used with remarkable effectiveness by the Bush administration, which color-coded terror for its own ends. A domestic version of shock-and-awe Americans were indeed shocked and awed by 9/11 helped drive the country into two disastrous wars and occupations, each still ongoing, and into George W. Bushs Global War on Terror, a term now persona non grata in Washington, even if the "war" itself goes on and on.
Today, any possible or actual terror attack, any threat no matter how far-fetched, amateurish, poorly executed, or ineffective, raises a national alarm, always seeming to add to the power of the imperial presidency and threatening to open new "fronts" in the now-unnamed global war. The latest is, of course, in Yemen, thanks in part to that young Nigerian who was evidently armed with explosives by a homegrown organization of a few hundred men that goes by the name al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
The fear of terrorism has, by now, been institutionalized in our society quite literally so even if the thing were afraid of has, on the scale of human problems, something of the will o the wisp about it. For those who remember their Cold War fiction, its more specter than SPECTRE.
That fear has been embedded in what once was an un-American word, more easily associated with Soviet Russia or Nazi Germany: "homeland." It has replaced "country," "land," and "nation" in the language of the terror-mongers. "The homeland" is the place which terrorism, and nothing but terrorism, can violate. In 2002, that terror-embedded word got its own official government agency: the Department of Homeland Security, our second "defense" department, which has a 2010 budget of $39.4 billion (while overall "homeland security" spending in the 2010 budget reached $70.2 billion). Around it has grown up a little-attended-to homeland-security complex with its own interests, businesses, associations, and lobbyists (including jostling crowds of ex-politicians and ex-government bureaucrats).
As a result, more than eight years after 9/11, an amorphous state of mind has manifested itself in the actual state as a kind of Fear Inc. A number of factors have clearly gone into the creation of Fear Inc. and now ensure that fear is the drug constantly shot into the American body politic. These would include:
The imperial presidency: The Bush administration used fear not only to promote its wars and its Global War on Terror, but also to unchain the commander in chief of an already imperial presidency from a host of restraints. The dangers of terror and of al-Qaeda, which became the global bogeyman, and the various proposed responses to it, including kidnapping ("extraordinary rendition"), secret imprisonment, and torture, turned out to be the royal road to the American unconscious and so to a presidency determined, as Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and others liked to say, to take the gloves off. It remains so and, as a result, under Barack Obama, the imperial presidency only seems to gain ground.
Recently, for instance, we learned that, under the pressure of the Flight 253 incident, the Obama administration has adopted the Bush administration position that a president, under certain circumstances, has the authority to order the assassination of an American citizen abroad. (In this case, New Mexico-born Islamic cleric Anwar Aulaqi, who has been linked to the 9/11 plotters, the Fort Hood killer, and Abdulmutallab.) The Bush administration opened the door to this possibility and now, it seems, a Democratic president may be stepping through.
The 24/7 media moment: 24/7 blitz coverage was once reserved for the deaths of presidents (as in the assassination of John F. Kennedy) and public events of agreed-upon import. In 1994, however, it became the coin of the media realm for any event bizarre enough, sensational enough, celebrity-based enough to glue eyeballs. That June, O.J. Simpson engaged in his infamous low-speed car "chase" through Orange County followed by more than 20 news helicopters while 95 million viewers tuned in and thousands more gathered at highway overpasses to watch. No ones ever looked back. Of course, in a traditional media world thats shedding foreign and domestic bureaus and axing hordes of reporters, radically downsizing news rooms and shrinking papers to next to nothing, the advantages of focusing reportorial energies on just one thing at a time are obvious. Those 24/7 energies are now regularly focused on the fear of terrorism and events which contribute to it, like the plot to down Flight 253.
The Republican criticism machine and the media that go with it: Once upon a time, even successful Republican administrations didnt have their own megaphone. Thats why, in the Vietnam era, the Nixon administration battled the New York Times so fiercely (and my own guess that played a part in forcing the creation of the first "op-ed" page in 1970, which allowed administration figures like Vice President Spiro Agnew and ex-Nixon speechwriter William Safire to gain a voice at the paper). By the George W. Bush era, the struggle had abated. The Times and papers like it only had to be pacified or cut out of the loop, since from TV to talk radio, publishing to publicity, the Republicans had their own megaphone ready at hand. This is, by now, a machine chock-a-block full of politicians and ex-politicians, publishers, pundits, military "experts," journalists, shock-jocks, and the like (categories that have a tendency to blend into each other). It adds up to a seamless web of promotion, publicity, and din. Its capable of gearing up on no notice and going on until a subject none more popular than terrorism and Democratic spinelessness in the face of it is temporarily flogged to death. It ensures that any failed terror attack, no matter how hopeless or pathetic, will be in the headlines and in public consciousness. It circulates constant fantasies about possible future apocalyptic terror attacks with atomic weaponry or other weapons of mass destruction. (And in all of the above, of course, it is helped by a host of tagalong pundits and experts, news shows and news reports from the more liberal side of the aisle.)
The Democrats who don't dare: Its remarkable that the sharpest president we've had in a while didn't dare get up in front of the American people after Flight 253 landed and tell everyone to calm down. He didn't, in fact, have a single intelligent thing to say about the event. He certainly didn't remind Americans that, whatever happened to Flight 253, they stood in far more danger heading out of their driveways behind the wheel or pulling into a bar on the way home for a beer or two. Instead, the Obama administration essentially abjectly apologized, insisted it would focus yet more effort and money on making America safe from air terrorism, widened a new front in the Global War on Terror in Yemen (speeding extra money and U.S. advisers that way), and when the din from its critics didn't end, "pushed back," as Peter Baker of the New York Times wrote, by claiming "that they were handling terror suspects much as the previous administration did." Its striking when a Democratic administration finds safety in the claim that its acting like a Republican one, that its following the path to the imperial presidency already cleared by George W. Bush. Fear does that to you, and the fear of terror has been institutionalized at the top as well as the bottom of society.
9/11 Never Ends
Fear has a way of reordering human worlds. That only a relatively small number of determined fanatics with extraordinarily limited access to American soil keep Fear Inc. afloat should, by now, be obvious. What the fear machine produces is the dark underside of the charming Saul Steinberg New Yorker cover, "A View of the World from 9th Avenue," in which Manhattan looms vast as the rest of the planet fades into near nothingness.
When you see the world "from 9th Avenue," or from an all-al-Qaeda-all-the-time "news" channel, you see it phantasmagorically. Its out of all realistic shape and proportion, which means you naturally make stupid decisions. You become incapable of sorting out what matters and what doesn't, what's primary and what's secondary. You become, in short, manipulable.
This is our situation today.
People always wonder: What would the impact of a second 9/11-style attack be on this country? Seldom noticed, however, is that all the pinprick terror events blown up to apocalyptic proportions add up to a second, third, fourth, fifth 9/11 when it comes to American consciousness.
So the next time a Flight 253 occurs and the Republicans go postal, the media morphs into its 24/7 national-security-disaster mode, the pundits register red on the terror-news scale, the president defends himself by reaffirming that he is doing just what the Bush administration would have done, the homeland security lobbyists begin calling for yet more funds for yet more machinery, and nothing much happens, remember those drunken drivers, arsonists, and tobacco merchants, even that single dust devil and say:
Hold onto your underpants, this is not a national emergency.
[Note: The figures on the 2010 Department of Homeland Security budget and "homeland security" spending in the 2010 budget were provided by the National Priorities Project.]
Christmas Day Crotch Bomber Tied To Israel, FBI
February 11, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Jeff Gates, Salem-News.com
(TEMPE, Az.) – The Christmas Day "terrorist" is the latest in a series of staged incidents meant to make The Clash of Civilizations appear plausible and "the war on terrorism" rational.
The storyline does not hold together. Not even a little bit. As usual, the source of this media-fueled fear campaign traces directly to Tel Aviv-with a supporting role by the FBI.
How did a young Nigerian Muslim without a passport "slip through" security at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport? Not only did his itinerary feature an illogical travel route, he paid cash for a high-priced last-minute ticket and boarded without checked baggage. How?
ICTS International, the security screening company at Schiphol, was founded by former members of Shin Bet, Israel's civil security agency, and Israeli executives in charge of El Al security. ICTS had already proven its expertise in mounting this type of operation.
In December 2001, Richard "The Shoe Bomber" Reid "slipped through" ICTS security at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris. Huntleigh USA, an ICTS subsidiary, shared responsibility for security at Logan International Airport in Boston where hijackers for two of the four 911 jets "slipped through" airport security. It gets better.
The Crotch Bomber told U.S. authorities that radical Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki counseled him on the incident. Born and raised in New Mexico, Al-Awlaki moved to Yemen in 2004 after advising the two 911 hijackers who trained in San Diego. He also advised U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan who is charged with shooting 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas in 2009.
It's not yet clear whether FBI agents were monitoring the Nigerian while he too was advised by Al-Awlaki. If not, that would be an anomaly in a repetitive pattern of FBI complicity.
FBI agents not only monitored Major Hasan and Al-Awlaki before the Fort Hood shootings, they also monitored the San Diego hijackers while they were advised by Al-Awlaki. It gets better.
Though the Nigerian was foiled while trying to ignite 80 grams of PETN, an explosive sewn into his underwear, that amount was barely enough to dislodge the arm on his seat – of course that assumes it could have been ignited.
Without a blasting cap, this "terrorist incident" was doomed to failure even before he "slipped through" security. Could this get even better? Oh yeah.
We were told about his father alerting the C.I.A. station chief in Lagos. However we were not informed that his father, a banker, oversaw a Nigerian defense firm that hired Israeli Defense Forces personnel to train Nigerians – in security.
Nor were we told that, for decades, Nigeria has been a central hub for Israelis laundering the proceeds of their transnational organized crime. That's not all.
The Iraq War Connection
Four days after 911, San Diego special agent Steven Butler came to the San Diego home of Iraqi-American Munther Ghazal, the Iraqi closest to Saddam Hussein then living in the U.S.
That's the same day Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz proposed in a principal's meeting at Camp David that the U.S. should invade Iraq. Iraq?!
Agent Butler paid rent and cashed checks for the two San Diego hijackers while they were being advised by Al-Awlaki. What did Butler want to know? Was Ghazal funding Mel Rockefeller with whom he had traveled to Iraq in 1997.
While in Baghdad, they confirmed that Saddam Hussein had mothballed Iraq's WMD program after the 1991 Gulf War – and was prepared to negotiate his departure without this war. That was four years before 911. The FBI has yet to interview Mel Rockefeller.
Meanwhile, the usual suspects are once again profiting off the misery of both sides in a "Clash" that they played a key role in creating. It was Jewish Zionist Bernard Lewis who first coined the term, The Clash of Civilizations.
Only later was Harvard professor Samuel Huntington branded with that premise when his book by that name was published in 1996, five years before 911.
Israeli-American Michael Chertoff, former Secretary of Homeland Security (aka the rabbi's son), now promotes firms that manufacturer highly intrusive body scanners that are terrific for spotting crotch bombers unless, of course, an Israeli firm is in charge of security.
News reports suggest that the stock of body-scanning firms soared $3 billion in value after this latest "terrorist" incident. Imagine the glee among clients of the Chertoff Group.
Meanwhile the U.S. has been transformed from the wealthiest nation to the world's largest debtor. Nobel economist Joe Stiglitz projects a $3 trillion tab for a war based on fixed, flawed and outright fabricated intelligence – every cent of it borrowed, including $700 billion in interest.
Tel Aviv: The Common Source of Terror
That's not all. Controlling shares in ICTS are held by Menachem Atzmon, board chairman since 2004. While treasurer of Israel's long-dominant Likud Party, Atzmon was convicted of campaign finance fraud. His co-treasurer, Ehud Olmert, resigned as Prime Minister in 2008 after being acquitted of fraud amid multiple corruption charges.
Did I forget to mention that ICTS was also handling security for London's bus system when the U.K. was targeted for its terrorist attack? Did I neglect to note that six months prior to the Shoe Bomber's flight on American Airlines, Richard Reid was stopped at Schiphol while boarding an El Al flight to Tel Aviv? Shin Bet allowed him to board so he could be monitored in Israel.
Did the Israelis inform their loyal ally about Richard Reid? What do you think?
Remember the October 1983 truck bombing of the Marine Barracks in Beirut that left 241 Americans dead? A former Mossad case officer conceded they had a description of the truck. Did our ally tell us? What do you think?
Our withdrawal from Lebanon left the field open to those who specialize in displacing facts with what targeted populations (including our own) can be deceived to believe.
Recall our belief in Iraqi WMD? Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda? Iraqi mobile biological weapons laboratories? Iraqi yellowcake uranium from Niger? Iraqi meetings in Prague? All were false. All were traceable to Tel Aviv. Are you still having trouble connecting the dots?
As the U.S. sinks into bankruptcy, we are ridiculed abroad for failing to acknowledge the obvious: Americans have long been the target of a fraud operated by Israelis, pro-Israelis and those supportive of their goals for the region.
What better way to wage war on the U.S. than from within? How else can Israel expand except by duping its super power ally to wage wars for Greater Israel? Never mind the cost in blood and treasure. As an ally, the U.S. is easily portrayed as guilty by association.
Those promoting the Crotch Bomber scare are part of the problem. In the Information Age, this latest false flag operation is typical of how treason proceeds in plain sight yet, to date, with impunity. Those media outlets marketing this latest lie are an enemy within.
Special thanks to: The Sabbah Report
Special thanks to: intifada-palestine.com
Jeff Gates is a widely acclaimed author, attorney, investment banker, educator and consultant to government, corporate and union leaders worldwide.
Jeff's latest book is Guilt By Association — How Deception and Self-Deceit Took America to War (2008). His previous books include Democracy at Risk: Rescuing Main Street From Wall Street and The Ownership Solution: Toward a Shared Capitalism for the 21st Century. For two decades, an adviser to policy-makers worldwide. Counsel to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee (1980-87).
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AFMI's Educational Mission: A Success
January 18, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
(A Press Note with photographs and a few comments of AFMI delegates)
By Nilofar Suhrawardy, MMNS India Correspondent
NEW DELHI: Delegates of American Federation of Muslims of Indian Origin (AFMI) wrapped up their India-visit last week (January 10) on a satisfactory note. AFMI has been engaged for more than two decades in promoting literacy among Indian Muslims by establishing and/or aiding the existing educational institutions. As a part of its aim to achieve 100 percent literacy rate, the AFMI delegates hold an international convention every year in a different city of the country. This is followed by zonal conventions in several areas. Since the early 1990s, the AFMI has awarded medals (gold, silver & bronze), certificates and cash prizes to students having scored high percentage in Class 10th and 12th board examinations. While recipients of the awards are selected from across the country for the international convention, the zonal convention includes students of that particular zone.
Expressing satisfaction with increase in literacy rate of Indian Muslims, its key founder member, Dr. A.S. Nakadar said: "AFMI has made a difference." Literacy among Muslims has increased by 60%, with 2008 being witness to greater upward trend than earlier, he said. He drew attention to increasing number of Muslim students scoring above 90%. Besides, Nakadar pointed to Muslim applicants to "higher educational institutions being higher than before." He supported this point by referring to 50% quota in Muslim-minority educational institutions being now filled by Muslim students, which "earlier was not the case." Nakadar, a retired cardiologist in Detroit, Michigan, visits India regularly to pursue AFMI's literacy mission.
A key recipient of AFMI's aid is Mijwan Welfare Society run by actor Shabana Azmi in the town called Mijwan (Uttar Pradesh), from where her father- renowned poet late Kaifi Azmi hailed. Azmi showed AFMI delegates the areas in which the students of this institution are engaged in. She expressed the need to further expand this organization with possible aid from AFMI, which is under consideration. The AFMI delegates were here last Thursday (January 8). AFMI delegates addressed the Zonal Educational Conference at Shibli National Inter-College, Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh the same afternoon.
The two-day international convention was held (January 2-3) at Indore in Madhya Pradesh. Among Indian dignitaries who addressed AFMI's 18th annual convention were Union Minister of State for Corporate and Minority Affairs (Independent Charge) Salman Khursheed, Justice MSA Siddiqui, Chairman National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions, Mayor of Indore Krishna Murari Moghe and others. It was the first international conference to be held in Indore this century. It was also the first one, where people from diverse political backgrounds, spoke only on importance of enhancing the literary rate of India's largest minority community- the Muslims.
The Indore convention was followed by a tour of several towns and villages of Uttar Pradesh, with Amroha being the first to be visited by AFMI delegates (January 5). They addressed the Zonal Educational Conference at the institution run by Hakeem Sirajuddin Hashmi. AFMI delegates addressed a similar conference at Hira Public School at Hanswar (January 6).
Summing up his opinion, AFMI President Dr. Iqbal Ahmed expressed that though "Indian Muslims have developed the awareness about importance of education," "poverty remains a major hindrance in achieving education." He cited instances of people who had approached him in Indore about their children having secured admission to B. Tech but were dropped as their loan application was rejected by banks. "Rich segments of Muslims, Wakf boards and other Muslim groups must come forward and share the responsibility," he said. Ahmed is a medical doctor (gastro-enetrology) in Cleveland, Ohio.
Dr. Shakir Mukhi, also a medical doctor (New York) said that AFMI delegates were "impressed" by increase in involvement of Muslims in pursuing higher education. Describing AFMI awards for bright students as providing the needed "incentive" to students to move forward, he said that AFMI plans to come forward with more incentives to help students and educational institutions pursue higher goals.
Reflecting on AFMI's achievements in UP alone, Ali Quraishi said: "We strengthened about 25 schools and built two new ones. It is not easy to complete this job." Nevertheless, expressing confidence, he said: "AFMI's aim is to promote education among Muslims so that no child is left behind. Our aim is to specially educate female students to help educate a whole family." Quraishi, runs a business in Albuquerque, New Mexico and has built a number of educational institutions in Pune, Mumbai and elsewhere.
Psychiatrist Dr. Razia Ahmed (Cleveland, Ohio) said: "I am proud of AFMI which has definitely contributed to increasing awareness of importance of education among the Muslim community." Laying emphasis on the need of involvement of other organizations to help in progress of Indian Muslims, she said: "I wish everyone joins us (AFMI) for this cause."
During their India-visit, the AFMI delegates also met several leaders, including Ahmed Patel (Congress). They voiced their concern about "plight" of Muslim community in Gujarat. In a letter addressed to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, AFMI stated: "The Muslim community in Gujarat feels that opportunities that ideally should be available to all communities are denied to it because of its religious identity. Obstacles are created in its way to establish new educational institutions. State grant is not available to deserving institutions and meritorious students are discriminated in scholarship. In fact, the state government has failed to disburse the full Federal scholarship and grant money to deserving students which they were promised." The letter also states: "The delegates of AFMI strongly feel that implementation of Mishra Commission as well as Sachar Commission" reports "would pave the way for ensuring rights of minorities in Gujarat in all walks of life."
The signatories to the letter addressed to Congress chief include the AFMI delegates visiting India. These include Dr A.S. Nakadar (AFMI-Trustee), Dr. Aslam Abdullah (Trustee), Dr. Iqbal Ahmed (AFMI President), Dr. Shakir Mukhi (former AFMI President), Sheikh Muhammed Quraishi (former President) and AFMI members from various parts of USA and Canada. These are: Rizwana Quraishi (New Mexico), Dr. Razia Ahmed (Ohio), Dr. Khalid Khan (Nevada), Dr. Abdul Aziz (Florida), Dr. S. Ashraf (Washington DC), Dr. W. Baig (Ohio), Dr. Shahida Akhtar (Florida0, Dr Abdur Razzak (Massachusetts) and Mr & Mrs Gahffar Shaikh from Canada.
AFMI's next international convention is scheduled to be held this December in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
Kareem Shora Appointed
June 11, 2009 by TMO · Leave a Comment
ADC Press Release
Kareem Shora was appointed by DHS Secretary Napolitano on Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC)
Washington, DC | June 5, 2009 | www.adc.org | The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is proud to announce that earlier today at a ceremony held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano swore-in ADC National Executive Director Kareem Shora as a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC).
HSAC members, limited by charter to no more than 21, are appointed by the DHS Secretary and are comprised of national security experts from state, local and tribal governments, first responder communities, academia and the private sector. HSAC provides advice and recommendations directly to Secretary Napolitano on homeland security issues. ADC President Mary Rose Oakar said "This appointment is a great reflection on Kareem's ability and the work of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. We are very proud of Kareem and believe his appointment will be very helpful in the protection of the civil rights of people with Arab roots as well as others".
Other members of the HSAC include Lee Hamilton, former Congressman and President of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Martin O'Malley, Governor of Maryland; Judge William Webster, former Director of Central Intelligence; Sonny Perdue, Governor of Georgia; Raymond Kelly, New York City Police Commissioner; Louis Freeh, former FBI Director and Senior Managing Partner at Freeh Group International; Frances Fragos Townsend, former White House Homeland Security Advisor; Kenneth "Chuck" Canterbury, National President of the Fraternal Order of Police; Manny Diaz, Mayor of Miami, Florida; Jared "Jerry" Cohon, President of Carnegie Mellon University; Leroy "Lee" Baca, Sheriff of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department; Clark Kent Ervin, former DHS Inspector General and Director of the Homeland Security Program at The Aspen Institute; Sherwin "Chuck" Wexler, Executive Director of the Police Executive Research Forum; Harold Schaitberger, General President of the International Association of Firefighters; and Joe Shirley Jr., President of the Navajo Nation, among others.
Shora, who joined ADC in 2000 as Legal Advisor, was ADC Legal Director before he was appointed to his current position as National Executive Director in 2006. He is a recipient of the 2003 American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) Arthur C. Helton Human Rights Award. He has been published by the National Law Journal, TRIAL Magazine, the Georgetown University Law Center's Journal on Poverty Law and Public Policy, the Harvard University JFK School of Government Asian American Policy Review, the American Bar Association (ABA) Air and Space Lawyer, and the Yeshiva University Cardozo Public Law Policy and Ethics Journal. A frequent guest on Al-Arabiya and Al-Jazeera and numerous American television programs, Shora has spoken about civil rights, civil liberties and immigration policy with many national and international media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Voice of America, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Associated Press, CNN and the Chicago Tribune among others. He has also testified before major international human rights bodies including regular testimonies before the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the United Nations Human Rights Commission. He is also a member of the ODNI Heritage Community Liaison Council.


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The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) recently published TPM-14 (one in a series of Transfer Pricing Memoranda) on the 2010 update of the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines (the "Guidelines"). TPM-14 explains the CRA's position on the OECD's revisions to Chapters I to III of the Guidelines, as well as its guidance on business restructurings (included in a new Chapter IX of the Guidelines), both issued by the OECD on July 22, 2010.
For more information on the OECD's revised guidance please see two PKNs issued July 22, 2010: "OECD publishes revised guidelines on transfer pricing" and "OECD publishes final guidance on the transfer pricing aspects of business restructurings."
TPM-14 confirms that the CRA endorses, without reservation, the application of the revised Guidelines for the administration of the Income Tax Act (the "Act") regarding transfer pricing matters. TPM-14 also clarifies that the CRA will apply the 2010 version of the Guidelines to all years open for audit, including transactions that predate their publication, and provides that the new version should apply to all treaties (including those that predate the revisions).
In summary, the 2010 revisions to the Guidelines clarify and provide expanded guidance in respect of the application of the arm's length principle. TPM-14 endorses all revisions to the Guidelines and highlights the following as significant changes:
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Reviewed Spanish Pea Soup with Crispy Ham
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"Amazing soup!! I'm not a fan of pea soup, but my husband is. I made it for him and it was absolutely delicious!! I am NOW a fan. Anything of Ina's is wonderful and this recipe was not a disappointment. ""
Reviewed Winter Vegetable Soup
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"I made this soup for my husband. He absolutely loved it. He actually said that it was better than his mother's, who is a fantastic cook! If some of the reviews say that it is bland, it probably is because they didn't season it well enough. I did alter the recipe by using Yukon gold potatoes. This is a must try soup for a cold winter day! ""


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By: Cindy, Dave | June 14 2011 | Category: NIH Resources, Tidbits for Teachers
The NIH Science Education Resource Group has launched a public competition that seeks to bring hands-on science into classrooms nationwide. The NIH K–12 Lessons About Bioscience (LAB) Challenge asks teachers, students, parents, scientists, and science enthusiasts to submit their favorite experiments for elementary, middle, and/or high school students. The best experiments will become part of an official collection that NIH will distribute for free in print and electronically. Your experiment could help students everywhere experience the discovery of science! Experiments form the basis of scientific inquiry but aren't used often enough in the classroom because of expense, complexity, or time issues. The NIH K–12 LAB Challenge seeks to address this problem by identifying experiments that are engaging and inexpensive to do. The challenge runs until December 1, 2011, and is open to any resident of the United States or a U.S. territory. Details and entry forms are online. Help NIH bring engaging and inexpensive experiments into the classroom so everyone can enjoy doing science. Submit your favorite experiments today. |
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Fri, Sep 14, 07 at 14:54
I am looking at purchasing a used John Deere F525. Has anyone had experience with these front-end mowers and is there anything I should look out for? It has a 48" deck and a single cylinder 17hp Kawasaki engine with ~350 hours. |
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- Posted by dannyboquet z9 So Louisiana (My Page) on Fri, Sep 14, 07 at 17:52
I own (3rd hand, I got it with 1400 hours for $600 after a recent dealership service job -oil, belt, blades) a JD F525 with about 1600 hours on it. It has operated very well for me, but has recently started leaking oil. It still runs very well. The worst thing about the mower is that the transmission and engine are one unit and that it is very expensive to have rebuilt. I spoke to my dealer and he indicated it would probably be several hundred dollars to find and fix the leak as the engine/transmission would have to be pulled to find the leak. I just top it off before I cut each week and let it leak. Another thing, it has a top speed of about 5mph fwd and 2.5 mph rev. Okay for me, as my ground is a little rough and I couldn't travel much faster without being beat to death. I changed the spindle bearing this year for the first time (ever for two spindles). The bearings are sealed and cannot be greased, but that is pretty good life for sealed bearings. |
The F525 had alot of electrical issues during it run in the JD line. |
A friend of mine currently has this tractor. It is a '98 with 302 hrs on it(I went to look at it this weekend). He said he would sell it to me for $1,000 (friend discount, similar mowers hours and shape wise are selling for over $2,000 around here). He just bought an F935 so no longer needs this mower. I have put my LX178 in the paper for $1,000 so would break even and hopefully have a better mower. I really don't need the "tractor" capabilities since all I do is pull a small cart and the F525 has a rear hitch. Speaking of electrical issues, you have to push on the break pedal a few times to get it to start, there must be something loose on the safety switch or something. If I can get my LX sold I will probably go pick it up. Thanks for the replys. |
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I run a 525 mower they are a great little unit, nice option is the offset mower deck for mowing around trees cannot find another machie with this option, I have seen them advertised with up to 2500 hrs, I love my mchine the only part I do not like is the reverse pedel seems cheap |
- Posted by Keith Lubben(firstname.lastname@example.com) onMon, Jul 11, 11 at 22:29
I have 2 525 mowers one with 800 hours and one with 1100 hours. Put about 1oo hours per year on each one. They work great, awsome to trim with, the deck is in front of you, so see exactly what you are mowing.. I have had no electric issues Actually I not much for problems at all, however my machines are serviced very regularly.. The engine and transmission is all one unit, ( they call this a "unitized unit" When change oil you are changing oil in both the transmision and the engine at the same time. I am not sure ( I work at a Deere Dealership) What this unitized unit would cost, but imagine it would be very expensive maybe around 2000 dollars |
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