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The programme was introduced by United States President Bill Clinton's administration in 1995, as a response to arguments that ordinary Iraqi citizens were inordinately affected by the international economic sanctions aimed at the demilitarisation of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, imposed in the wake of the first Gulf War. The sanctions were discontinued on November 21, 2003 after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and the humanitarian functions turned over to the Coalition Provisional Authority.
As the programme ended, there were revelations of corruption involving the funds.
UN Resolution 706 of August 15, 1991 was introduced to allow the sale of Iraqi oil in exchange for food.
UN Resolution 712 of September 19, 1991 confirmed that Iraq could sell up to $1.6 billion in oil to fund an Oil-For-Food Programme.
After an initial refusal, Iraq signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in May 1996 for arrangements to be taken for the implementation of that resolution.
The Oil-for-Food Programme started in December 1996, and the first shipments of food arrived in March 1997. Sixty percent of Iraq's twenty-six million people were solely dependent on rations from the oil-for-food plan.
The programme used an escrow system. Oil exported from Iraq was paid for by the recipient into an escrow account possessed until 2001 by BNP Paribas bank, rather than to the Iraqi government. The money was then apportioned to pay for war reparations to Kuwait, ongoing coalition and United Nations operations within Iraq. The remainder, the majority of the revenue, was available to the Iraqi government to purchase regulated items.
The Iraqi government was permitted to purchase only items that were not embargoed under the economic sanctions. Certain items, such as raw foodstuffs, were expedited for immediate shipment, but requests for most items, including such simple things as pencils and folic acid, were reviewed in a process that typically took about six months before shipment was authorized. Items deemed to have any potential application in chemical, biological or nuclear weapons systems development were not available to the regime, regardless of stated purpose.
Alternatively, if the sanctions were too harmful for Iraqis to sustain, critics argued, the sanctions should be removed (excepting clearly military items). Critics claimed that the Oil-for-Food Programme was responsible, under the blockage of dual-use equipment, for preventing Iraq from repairing the water purification and medical systems destroyed by the initial sanctions and during 1991 Gulf War, and others challenged the programme on the grounds that it would not permit Iraq to import the food and medicine necessary to prevent millions of easily preventable deaths. Former programme heads such as Hans von Sponeck questioned whether the sanctions should exist at all. Von Sponeck, speaking in University of California, Berkeley in late 2001, decried the proposed "Smart Sanctions", stating, "What is proposed at this point in fact amounts to a tightening of the rope around the neck of the average Iraqi citizen"; claimed that the sanctions were causing the death of 150 Iraqi children per day; and accused the US and Britain of arrogance toward Iraq, such as refusing to let it pay its UN and OPEC dues and blocking Iraqi attempts at negotiation.
Supporters viewed the programme as a way to keep Saddam Hussein in check without resorting to war.
The Clinton Administration opposed further liberalization of the proposal, which was pursued by both Iraq and France.
On 28 March 2003, Secretary-General Annan, the United States, and Britain asked the Security Council to ensure that nearly US$10 billion in goods Iraq ordered and already approved, including US$2.4 billion for food, could enter the country when conditions allow. The resolution under discussion made clear that the chief responsibility for addressing humanitarian consequences of the war would fall to the United States and Britain if they took control of the country. This refers to the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention on the responsibilities of the occupying power.
On 22 May 2003, UN Security Council Resolution 1483 granted authority to the Coalition Provisional Authority to use Iraq's oil revenue. The programme's remaining funds of $10 billion were transferred over a 6 month winding-up period to the Development Fund for Iraq under the Coalition Provisional Authority's control; this represented 14% of the programme's total income over 5 years.
The programme was formally terminated on 21 November 2003 and its major functions were turned over to the Coalition Provisional Authority.
Benon Sevan of Cyprus, who headed the programme, defended it, claiming that it had only a 2.2% administrative cost and that it was subject to more than 100 audits (internal and external), blaming restrictions from the Security Council for making the situation difficult. He also claimed that 90% of Iraq's population relied on the programme for its monthly food basket. While Benon Sevan was in charge of the programme, he stonewalled efforts to review and investigate the programme. He ordered his staff that complaints about illegal payoffs should be formally filed with the whistleblower's country, making them public and allowing Iraq to bar any whistleblowers. In 2000, Dileep Nair, the UN corruption watchdog, wanted to determine the programme's level of vulnerability. Sevan, along with UN Deputy Secretary-General, Louise Frechette, rejected any such investigation, claiming that it would be too expensive to be worthwhile. Sevan ordered the shredding of years' worth of documents concerning the programme.
In response to these criticisms, and to evidence acquired after the United States invasion of Iraq, UN Secretary-General accusations were made that skimmed profits were being used to buy influence at the UN and with Kofi Annan himself.
According to an interim report released on February 3, 2005 by former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker's commission (see #Investigations below), much of the food aid supplied under the programme "was unfit for human consumption". The report concluded that Sevan had accepted nearly $150,000 in bribes over the course of the programme, and in 2005 he was suspended from his position at the United Nations as a result of the investigation of fraud in the programme.
Peter van Walsum, the now-retired Ambassador of the Netherlands to the United Nations and chairman of the Iraq sanctions committee from 1999 to 2000, speculated in a recent book that Iraq deliberately divided the Security Council by awarding contracts to France, Russia, and China but not to the United Kingdom and the United States. He also stated he encountered a number of cases in which he felt the lack of Iraqi cooperation was designed to exacerbate the suffering of its own people. He also claimed that it was his opinion that the sanctions were not an effective deterrent.
Until 2001, the money for the Oil-for-Food Programme transited through the BNP Paribas bank, whose main private share-holder is Iraqi-born Nadhmi Auchi, a man estimated to be worth about $1 billion according to Forbes, and ranks 13th in Britain according to The Guardian. Auchi received a 15-month suspended sentence for his involvement in the Elf scandal, which has been qualified by the British newspaper as "the biggest fraud inquiry in Europe since the Second World War. Elf became a private bank for its executives who spent £200 million on political favours, mistresses, jewellery, fine art, villas and apartments". Elf, an oil company, merged with TotalFina to become Total S.A. in 2003.
Named in the list of beneficiaries were British MP George Galloway and his charity, the Mariam Fund; former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua; and Shaker al-Kaffaji, an Iraqi-American businessman. India's foreign minister was removed from office because of his role in the scandal. Many prominent Russian firms and individuals were also included on the al Mada list. Even the Russian Orthodox Church was supposedly involved in illegal oil trading. The former assistant to the Vatican secretary of state, Reverend Jean-Marie Benjamin, is said to have received rights to sell . George Galloway subsequently won two libel actions against the Christian Science Monitor and Daily Telegraph, which reported the allegations.
The president of Oilexco Ltd, Arthur Millholland, whose name also appeared on the al Mada, list denied any wrongdoing, but confirms the charges that illegal surcharges were being paid to the Iraqi government by contractors. However, the al Mada list does not discuss bribes paid to Iraq - it discusses bribes paid to individuals so that they would support Iraq. Few deny that in Iraq, like in many third-world countries, bribes and kickbacks were regularly paid to the leadership in order to get contracts, but some suggest that kickbacks would normally not occur in such countries when a UN-run programme was involved.
Contracts to sell Iraq humanitarian goods through the Oil-for-Food Programme were given to companies and individuals based on their willingness to kick back a certain percentage of the contract profits to the Iraqi regime. Companies that sold commodities via the Oil-for-Food Programme were overcharging by up to 10%, with part of the overcharged amount being diverted into private bank accounts for Saddam Hussein and other regime officials and the other part being kept by the supplier.
The involvement of the UN itself in the scandal began in February 2004 after the name of Benon Sevan, executive director of the Oil-for-Food Programme, appeared on the Iraqi Oil Ministry's documents. Sevan allegedly was given vouchers for at least 11,000,000 barrels (1,700,000 m³) of oil, worth some $3.5 million. Sevan has denied the charges.
The final official version of the report cites only France, Russia and China (countries who were also strongly anti-war) as violators who paid kickbacks The Duelfer report's list (volume 1, annex B, p. 302) of all "Known Oil Voucher Recipients" includes each recipient's nationality, as well as a chart broken down by nationality (figure 16, p.166). The list indicates that 30 percent of the recipients were Russian; 15 percent were French; 10 percent were Chinese; 6 percent each were Swiss, Malaysian, and Syrian; and 4 percent each were Jordanian and Egyptian. American and German recipients were included in the approximate 20 percent of "recipients from other nations."
On June 5th, 2007, the German chapter of the anti-corruption organisation Transparency International (TI) lodged a complaint with the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) against 57 German companies for allegedly paying $11.9m in kickbacks in the United Nations' Oil for Food Programme in Iraq.
The GAO estimates that the Saddam Hussein regime generated $10.1 billion in illegal revenues. This figure includes $5.7 billion from oil smuggling and $4.4 billion in illicit surcharges on oil sales and after-sales charges on suppliers. The scale of the fraud was far more extensive than the GAO had previously estimated. A U.S. Department of Defense study, cited by the GAO, evaluated 759 contracts administered through the Oil-for-Food Programme and found that nearly half had been overpriced, by an average of 21 percent Unlike the 661 committee, members of the Security Council had the authority to launch investigations into contracts and to stop any contract they did not like. The British and the Americans had turned down hundreds of Oil-for-Food contract requests, but these were blocked primarily on the grounds that the items being imported were dual-use technologies.
To quote the GAO report, in its summary:
Joseph A. Christoff, director of international affairs and trade at the General Accounting Office, told a House hearing that UN auditors had refused to release the internal audits of the Oil-for-Food Programme Benon Sevan, with support from Kofi Annan, had written letters to all former Oil-for-Food contractors asking them to consult Sevan before releasing any documents to GAO or US congressional inquiry panels Throughout its history, the programme had received both complaints from critics saying that it needed to be more open and complaints from companies about proprietary information being disclosed.
The United Nations has denied all requests by the GAO for access to confidential internal audits of the Oil-for-Food Programme.
While attempting to determine the complexity of the Oil-for-Food Programme for an article in the New York Times, investigative journalist Claudia Rosett of the Foundation for the Defence of Democracies and the Hudson Institute discovered that the UN treated details such as the identities of Oil-for-Food contractors; the price, quantity and quality of goods involved in the relief deals; and the identities of the oil buyers and the precise quantities that they received as confidential. The bank statements, the interest paid, and the transactions were all secret as well. Rosett has come under harsh criticism from Denis Halliday and Benon Sevan , who have claimed that many of Rosett's claims (such as Oil-for-Food funding the approval of an Olympic stadium, and where responsibility for various issues lay according to the UN resolutions) were incorrect.
The US House Committee on International Relations investigated the Oil-for-Food Programme and discovered that money was provided by Sabah Yassen, the former Iraqi ambassador to Jordan, to pay the families of Palestinian suicide bombers between $15,000 to $25,000. From September 2000 until the invasion of Iraq, the families of Palestinians killed or wounded in the conflict with Israel (including 117 responsible for suicide bombings in Israel) received over $35 million. It is alleged that this money came from the UN Oil-for-Food Programme.
The following individuals were chosen in April 2004 to head the United Nations' Independent Inquiry Committee :
On April 22, 2004, the United Nations Security Council passed a unanimous resolution endorsing the Volcker inquiry into corruption in the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme for Iraq, calling upon all 191 member states to cooperate. (NYT)
The definitive report was presented by Paul Volcker to the Security Council on 7 September 2005.
A leaked internal UN audit, which surfaced on mineweb.com, shows massive discrepancies between Cotecna reports and UN agency reports for the value of the shipments into northern Iraq. The audit found that Cotecna did no "value" inspections on nearly US$1 billion worth of aid shipments for the Inter-Agency Humanitarian Programme into northern Iraq. However, in a subsequent report published by the Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) (October 27, 2005) it was concluded that "there were no major complaints by the United Nations or its member states about Cotecna's performance" and that "the audit did not report any deficiencies in Cotecna's inspections". Benon Sevan was briefed in December 2002 on the findings of the audit.
The audit is available here Its summary states:
After reading the leaked audit, congressman Henry Hyde wrote to Kofi Annan wondering why "The U.S. Congress — which provides 22 percent of the U.N.'s budget and which has publicly requested copies of the 55 internal audits — should be required to depend on media leaks for source documents."
Although the report makes no specific allegations of criminal activity by Sevan, Volcker does not rule out the possibility that charges might be filed by authorities in countries with relevant jurisdiction. The report called Sevan's conduct "ethically improper", noting that Sevan had received large cash payments totalling $160,000 dollars each year he had headed the programme. Sevan claims the money came from an aunt in Cyprus who has since died, but the panel found no evidence to back this claim.
Volcker also reported in January that a review of 58 confidential UN internal OIF audits showed UN officials ignored early signs that humanitarian goods shipped to Iraq before the 2003 Invasion war were given little if any inspections by the Swiss company Cotecna. However, Volker concluded in the October 27, 2005 IIC report that "the audit did not report any deficiencies in Cotecna's inspections". Cotecna paid Kojo Annan, Kofi Annan's son, consulting fees until November 2003. Volcker said that future reports would deal with questions regarding Kojo Annan.
The US has been harshly critical of the KPMG probe led by associates of Ahmed Chalabi, accusing it of undermining the main probe established by Paul Bremer. That probe had been run by the head of Iraq's independent Board of Supreme Audit, Ehsan Karim, with assistance from Ernst & Young. The Board of Supreme Audit is within the Iraqi Finance Ministry. In June 2004, Karim's investigation agreed to share information with the Volcker panel. However, on 1 July 2004, Karim was killed by a bomb magnetically attached to his car
Claude Hankes-Drielsma, a British national and long-time friend of Ahmed Chalabi, was appointed by the IGC to coordinate its investigation of the Oil-for-Food Programme. Drielsma testified in front of the US Congress (on 21 April 2004) that the KPMG investigation "is expected to demonstrate the clear link between those countries which were quite ready to support Saddam Hussein's regime for their own financial benefit, at the expense of the Iraqi people, and those that opposed the strict application of sanctions and the overthrow of Saddam". He also testified that Chalabi was in charge of the investigation for the IGC.
In late May 2004, on the same day that Chalabi's offices at the Iraqi National Congress were raided by coalition forces, Drielsma claimed that an individual or individuals hacked into his computer and deleted every file associated with his investigation. He also claimed that "a back-up databank" was also deleted When asked by Caludia Rosett if he had been physically threatened as well, Drielsma replied with "no comment". Drielsma has also been an outspoken critic of the UN's refusal to release any internal Oil-for-Food audit information to the IGC.
Some other people, including Bernard Guillet, an aide to French senator Charles Pasqua, are also under formal investigation. Guillet and Pasqua deny any wrongdoing.
It is estimated that as much as $10 billion to $21.3 billion went unaccounted for and/or was directed to Saddam Hussein and his government in the form of kickbacks and oil smuggling. Record keeping of illegal behaviour is hard to come by and rare at best. To date, only 1 of 54 internal UN audits of the Oil-for-Food Programme have been made public. The UN has refused all requests for its audits.
Staff from the Senate investigations committee presented documentary evidence that the Bush administration was made aware of illegal oil sales and kickbacks paid to the Saddam Hussein regime but could do nothing to stop them. The Senate report concludes the United States ended up with a majority of the oil lifted from Iraq after vendors paid illicit surcharges of 10 cents to 30 cents a barrel to Saddam, though U.S. firms directly purchased less than 1 percent of the crude. However, the two countries to profit most from the programme were allegedly France and Russia. These two countries supported of efforts to lift the UN-imposed sanctions against Iraq and were also against the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq.
Investigation Ongoing
US Senator Carl Levin (D-Michigan) is quoted in an interview for the New York Times as saying, "There is no question that the bulk of the illicit oil revenues came from the open sale of Iraqi oil to Jordan and to Turkey, and that that was a way of going around the Oil-for-Food Programme [and that] we were fully aware of the bypass and looked the other way."
One of the names given by the Independent Inquiry Committee into The United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme was Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. Malaysia was the fourth highest purchaser of oil under the programme. The report names Mastek Sdn Bhd as one of the companies that paid bribes to Iraqi officials amounting to US$10 million. The people involved in running the company are Noor Asiah Dato' Mahmood (Abdullah Badawi's sister-in-law), Faek Ahmad Shareef (Noor Asiah's ex-husband) and Jaya Sudhir (businessman). During one phase of the programme, Malaysia's oil allocation rose from 7.5 million barrels to 39.5 million. This coincided with the time when Abdullah Badawi cemented his position as the Deputy Prime Minister, after the sacking of Anwar Ibrahim. Abdullah Badawi's role in the scandal skirts dangerously close to the definition of corruption.
On January 6, 2006, South Korean businessman Tongsun Park was arrested by the FBI in Houston after he was indicted for illegally accepting millions of dollars from Iraq in the UN Oil-for-Food Programme. The criminal charges against him were unsealed in a U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
On January 16, 2007, Benon Sevan was indicted by a Manhattan federal prosecutor for taking about $160,000 in bribes. Michael J. Garcia, the U.S. attorney from the Southern District of New York, issued a warrant through Interpol for the arrest of Sevan at his home in Cyprus, as well as a warrant for Efraim "Fred" Nadler, a New York businessman who was indicted on charges of channelling the illegal payments to Sevan. Nadler's whereabouts are unknown.


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So we have it guys. And we have it in our hands in October. So here it is in all it's glory. Every pic available so far of the game and the latest gameplay trailer. Discuss. This is beauty at it's best. 60 FPS. Enjoy. Please discuss, we have loads of features including the brand new HD video editor shown here in this thread in the first video.
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"Great! This guy shows up looking like a mime from hell and you lose him right out in the open? Well at least he didn't do that 'walking against the wind' shit. I hate that."
The Future of the WWE Women's Division: Brittani Knight AKA Paige!
We all judge others even if it isn't our place to judge, but supposedly at the end we are all judged by one!!!
Wrestling, women and money who could ask for more???
I get that Big E Langston dropped the NXT CHAMPIONSHIP
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The Mad Collector wrote:deldaisy wrote::( Talking about attendance on the forum at different times.....
When the UK DW Convention is on...... I will be here alllll alone......
WAIT.... NOT quite alone.....
with Pooh and Q!!!!! Oh crap!
Not quite right there Del. Pooh is coming to the convention
deldaisy wrote:Yeah but WHY would you Pooh. AND you all will most probably be far too drunk to type properly anyway. OR just rubbing it in how great a time you are having then come back on with all your private jokes with stuff that happened AT the convention and everyone posting pictures standing next to Terry and showing off your silly costumes and start every post with: "As I was saying to Terry......"
*sucks hard on her toffee*
meerkat wrote:No, the Mother in the creche, the kidlets in the Pub with a shandy each!
deldaisy wrote:...and posting millions of pictures of the gorgeous places and beaches near me... (you can help out on that one Q)...
deldaisy wrote::D Ohhhh sugar!
I am off to make TOFFEE! How long since I have made it????? My 11 year old has just told me she has never tasted it!
Back later.
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The thing that puzzles me, if this guy went to the trouble of setting a trap for these two, why did he then head on to the nearest police station? Something about this stinks.
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I've read a lot of Discworld novels but they are all paperbacks.
Now I find myself wanting to start collecting them as hard covers.
From what publisher should the books be when I want a nice collectible edition?
Everyone wants 1st editions but which one is that?
Usually I get my books from Orbit, HarperCollins, Voyager and Grafton.
They're all U.K. editions and mostly 1st editions.
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The artists are gathering in the area behind the large stage – media outlets packed the folding chairs – probably more than 500 people are surrounding the stage. Artists like Jesse Lenat, The Ditty Bops, Danielle Evin and Pauline Reese are all talking with fans, snapping pictures and such.
I stop to catch up with Pauline Reese. She has a new crew with her, and loud-60's inspired clothes that match her personality – noticeable and stylish. She beams when she sees me. We had a great time last year together – she even gave me a t-shirt. I ask how her year went – she hands me a card and says she has new info – and whispers with a smile – "I got a divorce – my decision – I am happy."
The Ditty Bops show up well rested from their bike ride over to the concert from downtown. Amanda (I believe –I do get them mixed up) is carrying a cute Asian-inspired yellow umbrella to shield her and Abby from the sun. Very smart!
Daryl Hannah of Kill Bill fame is here too. Yes, she came. She is close with Willie and supports many of his biodiesel initiatives. She is here to support the family farm good food cause. As a vegetarian from the age of 11, she understands the importance that good food plays in not only a healthy diet but a healthy country. She even has her own weekly video blog called DH Love Life, on Sustainable Solutions.
I chatted with her a bit about how I met the people at her booth, and how Frankie was going to give me a tour of a bio-fuel producing family farm in Maryland – near where I live.
As the Farm Aid four approach – Dave, Neil, Willie and John, the crowd parts as the event staff and security escort them to the stage. Willie makes the effort to come over to each act on stage and welcome them and thank them for attending – I see him chat a bit with Amanda and Abby of the Ditty Bops, and shake hands with Jesse Lenat.
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Effie is the escort from the Capitol who has been assigned to District 12. Gale and Katniss make fun of her affected Capitol accent and how she is overly enthusiastic about the Hunger Games, a truly violent and grim event. They know that she looks down on District 12 and is just biding her time until she gets bumped to a district that has better representatives for the Hunger Games, a district that will put up a fight and have a chance of winning. She often comes across as dim-witted and misguided, but as the novel progresses, she shows that she does possess keen instincts about particular aspects of tribute preparation and seems to grow very fond of Katniss and Peeta.
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This is a race car. It has everything it needs and nothing it doesn't. It doesn't resemble your Camaro in any way. It swills exotic nitromethane by the gallon. It is a self-contained capsule that Jason Rupert pilots literally by the skin of his teeth. There is no tachometer, nothing monitoring the engine save an oil pressure gauge that wags in front of him like an accusing finger.
You think your Camaro accelerates hard? Rupert fairly shimmers inside this booster rocket. Like a man who has experienced clinical death, he recounted his first brush with mortality. "I slammed the gas down. It was like a hammer hit me in the back of the head, it was so fast. I thought if something happens I'm going to crash. It was much more than I thought it was going to be. With these cars, you never know what is going to happen."
His motivation had nothing to do with braking or handling. Like some of you, he built the car to do one thing extremely well. It was about going as fast as hell in a straight line. He wanted to capture the NHRA Heritage Series, all the while having a good time with his family and friends. Briefly, the Heritage is the embodiment of Nostalgia Funny Car ('79 and earlier body style), whose constituents actually replicate the cars they shadow, unlike contemporary Funny Cars that look the same, each one a pitiful monstrosity that bears little resemblance to the car they are supposed to mimic. It's difficult to identify with them when they are difficult to identify.
When asked about the unique feature of his car, Rupert said, "How much the body resembles a '69 Camaro even though it sits on a modern Fuel Funny Car chassis." In fact, the body was constructed in 2010 and bound to the newest and latest safety equipment, like dual 'chutes, hood burst panels, and an escape hatch on the roof. The rest of the "rules" are loose, much the same as they were in the old days. One of the mandates is the capacity of the fuel system. The belt-driven (1:1) Sid Waterman pump delivers 21 gallons at 8,000 rpm to the Enderle bird catcher.
Jason's circle of family and friends form a broad palette that includes dad, Frank, (majority of the machine work); Ed Vanderwoude; Matt Bynum; Devery Howard; Brad Littlefield; Felipe Jiminez; Phillip Cook; Billy Payne; Dave Schwartz; James Hughes; Greg Vanderwende; Danny Douglas; Jack Rainwater; Matthew Rupert; and Craig McKee, who did all the fabrication and assembly.
Jason didn't come by his avocation accidently. Dad raced Top Fuel in the '60s when his son was 5. Dad teamed with Richard Bays to field Black Plague, the first Vega-bodied Funny Car. Years later, Rupert the younger went to Australia with Gary Densham and they operated Densham's AA/FC. On his return, Jason sought his license and progressed to Top Alcohol Dragster. A couple of cars later, he ran the Camaro you see here but on alcohol, not nitromethane. He qualified for the show at the NHRA Winternationals but went out in the first round. Concurrently, Infineon Raceway's Dave Schwartz was trying to throw a bright light on the Nostalgia form and aspect. Jason fell for it like a ton, kissed nitro on both cheeks, and has never looked back.
Given its purpose, this Camaro wouldn't be able to take a corner at 40 mph, but it'll skin quarter-mile tarmac in a whisker over 5.5 seconds. And it takes an engine with hemispherical cylinder heads and a big, fat roots-type supercharger to make that happen. Brad Anderson Enterprises (BAE) figures heavily in this project.


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I'll be here with my Tama-go!
I cant be here. Sorry. My tama wont leave her baby on time.
Posted 29 March 2012 - 08:50 PM ( #8 )
i would love to join!!! This will be my first hatch! But i might not be able to. If i can't i will post the day before or the day of... thanks! Hopefully i don't forget!!! (haha) i will start with my v4.5 or v3... depending if it got married yet... also how many generations is it for and i have school that day... can i start it after school is over????
can't be here either sorry promised ringotchi123 i'd do a hatch with them! Thanks though.
Posted 30 March 2012 - 09:30 AM ( #10 )
EMF-Purple iDL.
Orandatchi-doesn't know what to hatch yet
Me-15th iDL or something else
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My Shigurehimetchi got married and had a Pantsutchi. The Pantsutchi turned into a Tamatchi. I gave him a few care misses to get Young Oyajitchi tomorrow... THE END.
Posted 03 April 2012 - 02:44 PM ( #15 )
15th Anniversary iD L
I have a Young Oyajitchi named Donut. o_o He freaks the white flags out of me.
iD L
I have a Watawatatchi named Holly. I get her last happy item tomorrow. =)
Music Star
I have a Hitodetchi on it named Cuddles. She might evolve into Ichigotchi or Chamametchi today. She practices all the time. =P
There's a Ichigotchi on it named Lavu. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna get Mametchi again, like usual. She likes dancing.
Umm... I have Melodytchi on it, the special character. =P She's been around for.... 20 days. o_o;
There's a Ringotchi on it married to a Kuchipatchi with a baby boy Kinotchi.
Zouritchi on it, the weird sandal whattamajig. o_o She was bad, so um, I gave her a time-out. I wasn't a big fan of that either. =P
Posted 03 April 2012 - 04:27 PM ( #16 )
Posted 03 April 2012 - 06:21 PM ( #17 )
nothing much with my 15th iDL today =p
Posted 04 April 2012 - 06:22 AM ( #18 )
End of story! I am currently looking after her son... so yeah, this hatch is done for me.
Posted 04 April 2012 - 04:02 PM ( #19 )
15th Anniversary iD L
Still the weird ol' Young Oyajitchi. =\ I paused him because I didn't have enough care misses for Kuchipatchi. ='(
Music Star
She evolved into Chamametchi yesterday. She got accepted to the Gotchi Peforming Arts at 3:30. I called the band Pixels. =)
Here are the girls walking to the music room.
Drumroll please.......
FAIL. Tsukkimotchi again. =( What a nice thing for a hatch. >=(
iD L
She was about to get her happy symbol at 8:00 in the morning, BUT NO, THE BATTERIES DIED. D=<
I put in new Duracell Coppertop batteries. I hope the last for 7 years, as it says on the package. xD
I woke up to a crying Kinotchi. =P He evolved into a weird, odd Mattaritchi. (you can barely see him 'cause of all of the dust on the screen. =P)
There's the lovable fool. =P
Nothing going on with Lavu. =\ She did get sick when I went to Dollarama and left her at home. =(
Nothing new. =U
(yes, that's the EXACT same pic. ;~
Bye for now. =)


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(SportsNetwork.com) - Go ahead, admit it. This matchup - New England at Houston - was one you had circled as a possible preview of this season's AFC Championship Game.
There was plenty of reason for such a forecast, given the Texans' pre-2013 status as a two-time defending AFC South Division champion, and the Patriots' status as, well -- the Patriots.
They'd met just a few months earlier with loser-goes-home stakes, too, when New England defeated Houston, 41-28, in January's divisional playoffs.
This season, though, not so much.
Rather than preparing for a victory lap in the season's final month, the Texans suffered the NFL's ultimate indignity last week - dropping a 13-6 decision to the visiting Jacksonville Jaguars, who'd won all of one previous game - for their franchise-record ninth consecutive loss.
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Pro Bowler Arian Foster was lost for the season with an injury and has since been replaced by Ben Tate, who had seven carries for a single yard against Jacksonville while soldiering with broken ribs. Tate's backup,. Dennis Johnson, had 74 yards on 13 rushes.
Houston has averaged 81 yards per game on the ground in the last three weeks, but it faces an opponent in New England that was remarkably porous last week - allowing 280 rush yards against Denver in an overtime victory.
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"I don't know if (Tate) ever got into a rhythm with what he's doing," Kubiak said. "We know what he's going through. He's not practicing during the week, he's just playing on Sundays. So I know that's tough but I think Ben will bounce back."
Ever the diplomat, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is expecting a pitched battle.
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New England coach Bill Belichick cited his team's resilience after last week's triumph, in which it trailed, 24-0, before rallying to win, 34-31, on a field goal with less than two minutes remaining in the extra session.
"One thing we've shown is that, mentally, we have some toughness," Belichick said. "We've been in some bad situations.We've been able to hang in there even when it hasn't always looked great. But, really, I would say that the season for us is kind of starting now. The teams that play well in November, December and January, those are the teams that are standing in the end."
The Patriots can all but clinch a fifth straight AFC East title with a victory, thanks to losses by both of their nearest pursuers - Miami and the New York Jets - last week. New England is 27-2 in its last 29 December games.
Running back Brandon Bolden had 58 yards and a TD on the ground last week, while teammate Shane Vereen compiled 91 all-purpose yards. Vereen had 124 yards and scored three times in the playoff game in January.
Both Steven Ridley and LeGarrette Blount were benched last week after fumbles.
Elsewhere, tight end Rob Gronkowski has retaken his place among the league's elites since returning from injury in Week 7. His 433 receiving yards are best in the league at his position since his 2013 debut.
Houston is first in the league in both passing defense (171.8 yards per game) and total defense (290.4 yards per game).
"You have to know exactly what you're supposed to do and how you're supposed to execute it," Texans defensive end J.J. Watt said. "Know your plan and be prepared,"
Do it again.
Vereen was a revelation in the Patriots' playoff defeat of Houston and there's little reason to believe Brady won't be looking for a repeat this week. Vereen was thrown to 11 times last week against Denver and caught eight passes, several in third-down spots.
Promote Mr. Tate.
If he's anywhere near complete health, Houston's Tate could be an impactful weapon against a New England team that's suffered against running backs. A reliance on Tate could also take heat off the erratic Keenum, who's been enduring the predictable rookie growing pains.
Let's face it, the playoff version of the Texans wasn't good enough to derail the Patriots 11 months ago, so it's hard to imagine the version coming off a loss to Jacksonville would have the stuff this week. They might hang early, but Brady and Co. will ultimately have too much.
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http://www.mmafighting.com/2013/7/10...n-rematch-thisAccording to sources very close to the former UFC middleweight champion, Silva changed his tune about not fighting Weidman again just hours after he was knocked out by Weidman at UFC 162 on Saturday night in Las Vegas. The sources said they have never seen Silva so motivated to fight someone, and that a little over 24 hours after the loss Silva was jokingly wishing the rematch could happen this week. That's how badly he wants to avenge his loss to Weidman.
The sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the rematch has yet to be announced by the UFC, said Silva's preference would be to fight Weidman again this year, not in February, as has been discussed by UFC president Dana White.
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A cyborg (Arnold Schwarzenegger) from the future must protect John Connor (Nick Stahl) from a superior model sent to kill him.
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The field of robotics took another giant leap forward recently, with the creation of Rex, a "bionic man" with fully functional artificial human organs and lifelike features, bringing science reality ever closer to the science fiction depicted in movies. As incredible as it sounds, humanoid robots, or androids (just "droids" if you're George Lucas), like Rex have been appearing on screen since well before Czech writer Karel Capek gave the English language a name for them in his 1920 sci-fi play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), with the human simulacrum Hadaly a featured character in the 1896 French movie L'Eve Futur (The Future Eve). Hundreds of movies have included androids — and their part man, part machine, cyborg cousins — since Hadaly, but which ones were the best? Help us rank the movies with the coolest, the baddest, the sexiest, the deadliest, the most terrifying androids and cyborgs.
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It's almost the beginning of Bills Training Camp and the beginning of camp means Training Camp Fantasy Football.
The first day of camp is exciting. Every other day is a 'shovel to the face' reminder that the Regular season is still weeks away. Why not make each day of camp as thrilling as the first with a Training Camp Fantasy Football League?
Just divide the Bills hefty camp roster with a draft and then use the point system below. I encourage any football fan to get a few friends together and follow our simple guide. Last year, 6 people played Training Camp Fantasy Football. I hope to increase that number to 8-or-9 this year!
You don't even have to be a football fan. You could hate football. The thought of football could make your stomach reflexes send bile up your esophagus. Football may have hurt your parents. I do find it hard to believe that someone who hates football would click on and read a story about a Training Camp Fantasy Football League.
Greg Bauch's Points Break Down (PBD) for Training Camp Fantasy Football:
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Making the 1st cut to 65 +5 points
Making the 2nd cut to 53 +5 points
Making the Practice Squad +2 points
Color Pictures in the Buffalo News +2 points
Black and White Pictures in the Buffalo News +1 point
If your player can be identified by, at least, 2 other league members in a picture in the Sports Section, Front Page or Picture Page of the Buffalo News participating in a practice throughout the course of training camp
Preseason Games
QB's +1 Pt for every 20 yards passing, +3 pts for TD throws
RB, WR TE +1pt for every 10 yards rushing or receiving, +6 pts for TD's
Defensive Player +1 pt for Tackles, Sacks, INT's, +6 pts for defensive TD's
Special Teams TD +6 pts
-2 points for missing a full day or practice.
-10 points for going on Injured Reserve
Points will be tallied daily with the League Championship going to the Fantasy Team with the most total points at the end of Preseason Game #4.
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Okaloosa County Supervisor of Elections Paul Lux is tickled that the Florida Legislature voted this year to give him and his peers across the state flexibility in establishing early voting hours.
He's also flabbergasted it took a decade to do so.
"I'm very pleased, finally. We've only been asking for flexibility for about the last 10 years," Lux said.
Two years ago, Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill that cut the number of early voting days from 14 to eight, a move that led to long lines and waits at polling places in many areas.
With reform clearly necessary, the Legislature this year took the unprecedented step of listening to the elected elections supervisors and not relying so much on the Florida Division of Elections, Lux said.
"Early on, they brought the supervisors of elections into subcommittee meetings to testify and actually listened," he said. "It was refreshing."
The resulting legislation will allow counties to decide the number of days — between eight and 14 — during which early ballots can be cast.
It also expanded the minimum hours polls could be open from six to eight (with a maximum 12), thereby "actually increasing the voting time if counties do stay at the minimum," according to Lux.
Lux said his plan "on big elections" such as those in a presidential year likely will be to stick with a "maximum number of days and a maximum number of hours" to allow as many people as possible to vote early.
"I may hedge my bets on the next gubernatorial election cycle. There's not usually as big a turnout," he said.
And in most primary elections "we probably won't need more than eight" early voting days, he said.
Lux said the new flexibility makes him answerable to the people who elected him if something goes wrong at the polls. He's OK with that.
Walton County Supervisor of Elections Bobby Beasley said local control of early voting is "a good thing … because we know our needs."
Like Lux, Beasley said he would gauge days and hours based on the election.
"I don't know if I'd go to a full 14 days. That's a full two weeks," he said. "I might take the option of voting a little longer on the higher turnout elections."
He said a new election rule he believes will prove valuable is one that limits the number of words on proposed constitutional amendments to 75.
"Long ballots just naturally slow down the process, like dragging a heavy load behind a truck," he said.
Tappie Villane, Santa Rosa County's new supervisor of elections, said she has been busy preparing for a special election for the seat left vacant by the death of Rep. Clay Ford. She hasn't had time to follow the Legislature's progress this session or review changes to early voting rules, she said.
She did think she'd work closely with Lux and David Stafford, Escambia County's supervisor, to streamline the process.
"If there are things we can do similarly to one another, we can create less confusion for the voters," she said.
Villane said she'd also consult "interested parties" before implementing changes to the county's early voting regulations.
Under the previous law, early voting ended the Saturday before a Tuesday election. That stymied a tradition called "Souls to the Polls" started by black churches.
According to Okaloosa County NAACP President Sabu Williams, the idea was to have church members go together following services to cast their ballots.
"It was all about participation and turnout, which is what I think is something clearly we would want: participation in the election process," he said.
He said with this year's election reforms, "Souls to the Polls" will be re-established and, hopefully, expanded.
"It's always been a ritual in African American communities," he said. "It's my hope it becomes less a racial thing and more a Christian or religious thing."
Contact Daily News Staff Writer Tom McLaughlin at 850-315-4435 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @TomMnwfdn.


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Every day last week I went home inspired. That's because every day I've heard about more neat things that area youths are doing.
Last week I asked for nominations for a new Monday feature called Youth Spotlight.
And this week I have had the pleasure of writing or assigning a half-dozen stories about kids who deserve extra recognition. At the end of each of these stories, we are including the names and accomplishments of several other students who have done something notable.
In the coming weeks, you'll get to read about a girl who endured incredible adversity as a child but found her way to a normal, healthy life.
You'll read about one of our area's top high school students, about a pair of boys who helped raise more than $10,000 for a sick little girl and her family, and about a young inventor.
You'll also hear about some of the random acts of kindness committed by youths.
And that's just the beginning. Every day I get more calls and more emails. Every day I get more excited about what's still to come.
You know, it's funny. As I'm reading and listening to nominations, it's the small things that touch me the most.
Someone sent me an email about a 7-year-old Shalimar girl named Kailee Swanson who talked to a girl she didn't know because she thought the other child was lonely.
Such a small thing. What a huge impact it could have on our world.
Of course, I'm also still accepting nominations for our Making A Difference series, which runs on Tuesdays.
Because of the number of nominations I'm receiving, I have added names and mini-stories onto the each week's feature.
Again, warm fuzzies.
A florist who pays out-of-pocket for the flowers and supplies he takes to schools to teach children his craft.
The crew at a local grocery store who are so friendly their customers enjoy shopping there.
And the list goes on and on.
So, keep them coming. Make me smile and I promise to bring smiles back to all of you.
Email nominations for Youth Spotlight and Making a Difference to firstname.lastname@example.com or call me at 315-4478.
And take a few moments this week to perform some small random act of kindness.
Make your own difference in this world.
Daily News Staff Writer Wendy Victora can be reached at 850-315-4478 or email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @WendyVnwfdn.


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On December 8, 1943, James Tate was born in Kansas City, Missouri. His father was an American pilot killed in the Second World War in 1944, when Tate was five months old.
His first collection of poems, The Lost Pilot (1967), was selected by Dudley Fitts for the Yale Series of Younger Poets while Tate was still a student at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, making him one of the youngest poets to receive the honor.
The collection was well-received, and influenced a generation of poets in the late sixties and seventies with its use of dream logic and psychological play. In a 1998 radio review, the critic Dana Gioia said about the debut: "Tate had domesticated surrealism. He had taken this foreign style, which had almost always seemed slightly alien in English—even among its most talented practitioners like Charles Simic and Donald Justice—and had made it sound not just native but utterly down-home."
Tate published prolifically over the next two decades, including The Oblivion Ha-Ha (1970); Hints to Pilgrims (1971); Absences (1972); Viper Jazz (1976); Constant Defender (1983); Distance from Loved Ones (1990); and Selected Poems (1991), which won the Pulitzer Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award.
Since then, he has published several collections of poems, most recently The Eternal Ones of the Dream: Selected Poems 1990 - 2010 (Ecco Press, 2012); The Ghost Soldiers (2008); Return to the City of White Donkeys (2004); Memoir of the Hawk (2001); Shroud of the Gnome (1997); and Worshipful Company of Fletchers (1994), which won the National Book Award.
Tate has also published various works of prose, including a short story collection Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee (Wave Books, 2001), a collection of critical prose, The Route as Briefed (University of Michigan Press, 1999), and a collaborative novel (with poet Bill Knott), Lucky Darryl (Release Press, 1977). He also served as editor of The Best American Poetry 1997.
About his work, the poet John Ashbery wrote in the New York Times: "Local color plays a role, but the main event is the poet's wrestling with passing moments, frantically trying to discover the poetry there and to preserve it, perishable as it is. Tate is the poet of possibilities, of morph, of surprising consequences, lovely or disastrous, and these phenomena exist everywhere... I return to Tate's books more often perhaps than to any others when I want to be reminded afresh of the possibilities of poetry."
Tate's honors include a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Poetry, the Wallace Stevens Award, a 1995 Tanning Prize, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2001, he was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
He teaches at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
Selected Bibliography
The Lost Pilot (1967)
The Oblivion Ha-Ha (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1970)
Hints to Pilgrims (Halty Ferguson, 1971)
Absences (Little, Brown and Company, 1972)
Viper Jazz (Wesleyan University Press, 1976)
Riven Doggeries (Ecco Press, 1979)
Constant Defender (1983)
Reckoner (1986)
Distance from Loved Ones (1990)
Selected Poems (1991)
Worshipful Company of Fletchers (1994)
Shroud of the Gnome (1997)
Memoir of the Hawk (2001)
Return to the City of White Donkeys (2004)
The Ghost Soldiers (2008)
Lucky Darryl (with Bill Knott, 1977)
The Route as Briefed (University of Michigan Press, 1999)
Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee (Wave Books, 2001)


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Windows 8 Outperforming Ubuntu w/ Intel Graphics
In our benchmarks of Microsoft Windows 8, we have found that Intel's Windows OpenGL driver is generally superior to that of their open-source Linux graphics driver. Some progress has been made, but in today's testing of an ASUS Ultrabook bearing an Ivy Bridge processor, Linux has a ways to go for some games in matching the Windows binary performance and features.
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The ARC architecture updates for the Linux 4.2 kernel have landed. With the ARC architecture updates in Linux 4.2 comes support for HS38 cores, which in turn are based on the Synopsys next-gen ISA known as ARCv2. The ARCv2 ISA is faster and more feature-rich than their original instruction set architecture. The HS38 cores have a 10-stage pipeline core with MMU support, SMP up to four cores, and other new features. The HS38 processor is still 32-bit and is "optimized for high-performance embedded applications running Linux." Also: Radeon & AMDGPU DRM Fixes Queue Up For Linux 4.2
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