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PirateLeaks (based in the Czech Republic), BrusselsLeaks (Belgium) and RuLeaks (Russia) all did not respond to Ars' requests for comments.HonestAppalachia's Jimmy Tobias wrote to Ars to say the group was "active indeed, and working on a variety of projects." To date, HonestAppalachia has yet to publish anything, despite receiving a $5,000 (£3,300) grant from the Sunlight Foundation nearly a year ago.Most of these clones never got very far and appear to have all but shut down. Balkanleaks seems to be just one of a handful still actively receiving and publishing new documents."I think this points to the fact that what WikiLeaks did was fairly unique and probably a few years ahead of its time," said Trevor Timm, co-founder of the Freedom of the Press Foundation.So how does Balkanleaks thrive where others haven't?Tchobanov, the site's co-founder, boils it down to one word: Tor. It's the open-source online anonymising tool that's become the de facto gold standard for hiding one's tracks online. Balkanleaks provides instructions in Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian, and English, and the submission website is only available on its Tor-enabled server."Tor is known and people trust Tor," he added.On its face, what Balkanleaks has done should be easily duplicated anywhere. "It's not hard," Tchobanov said. "Who says it's hard?" Balkanleaks set up a website, required leakers to use Tor, explained how and why to use Tor in local languages, and then received and published leaked documents.But more established media sites like Radio Sweden, Folha de São Paolo, Al Jazeera, and The Wall Street Journal haven't had consistent success with their own online submission systems either. And some speculate that all the unsuccessful leaking sites may, in fact, be due to the consequences from WikiLeaks' own experience."It's not as easy as it looks to set up an anonymous site that's safe for its users," Timm said. "We may have seen more WikiLeaks sites become successful if the crackdown against WikiLeaks wasn't so hard after the State Department cables. When WikiLeaks did what they did, despite not breaking any law, they were cut off from all sorts of finances and had a grand jury investigation opened against them. I think this created a chilling effect for other developers who would want to do the same thing." Still -- with Tor as a proven, secure, and verifiable technology -- it seems clear these sites need more than technological tools. A successful operation needs willing leakers and an available brigade of journalists or activists who know how to digest and process such an influx of information, and that's what Bivol provides. 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- This is Belgium said...
pretty amazing colors, this would not work in Brussels i think... but everything works in Roma, doesn't it? I like the photo's a lot !
- March 12, 2012 at 4:07 AM
- Maria said...
I think colors work everywhere.
Ari, i am sure you will have that style and poise.
- March 12, 2012 at 4:22 AM
- Melanie said...
Boom! There he is!! What a sight for tired eyes. He reminds me of Hemingway... Wonderful style! I would like to hear his voice.
- March 12, 2012 at 4:38 AM
- sacramento said...
Love everything he is wearing.
So fearless, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
- March 12, 2012 at 4:47 AM
- A Daft Scots Lass said...
So unique, so alive and so colourful! Looks like an awesome character.
- March 12, 2012 at 5:24 AM
- The Big Mac said...
This dude is marvellous! I love the strong purple colour, the layering, the textures, they all work so well together. He also just reminded me that I've been meaning to get my glasses put on a string to wear around my neck. Great pictures, keep 'em coming. Christine. xx
- March 12, 2012 at 5:43 AM
- Lindsey said...
This is the kind of outfit that makes strangers happy when they pass him on the street.
Et tu, tutu?
- March 12, 2012 at 5:45 AM
- Carol Markel said...
That violet jacket! Richard and I have to get to Rome and Milan for some shopping,
- March 12, 2012 at 7:11 AM
- Mai said...
He is beyond amazing!
He almost looks like he's just come straight out of a Studio Ghibli film!
- March 12, 2012 at 7:25 AM
- Malin said...
Oh! ♥
- March 12, 2012 at 8:49 AM
- Forest City Fashionista said...
Now THAT is a man who knows how to work some major style--what glorious colours! Ari, you have your own style and will continue to carry it off well into your "advancedstyle" years.
- March 12, 2012 at 9:02 AM
- Theanne said...
Mr. Di Filippo is MARVELOUS! An absolutely fantastic color palette...and he's so comfortable with his style!
- March 12, 2012 at 10:04 AM
IL BISONTE!!!!! Beautiful bags and accessories, sweet little shop downtown.
Ari, your blog has shown me that there is no "some day" for style. Style is always NOW (What will I wear today to express myself?). If you find yourself lacking in comparison to Mr Di Filippo, (I hope you don't relly feel that way), then play in your closet. Ask your ladies for help! Although I know you only through the blog, it's obvious you have poise.
- March 12, 2012 at 10:37 AM
- Lauren@Styleseer said...
Oh my! He is delightful!
- March 12, 2012 at 10:46 AM
- JKW said...
OMG the perfect man. . . .I want an introduction, Please. Blessings, Janet
- March 12, 2012 at 10:55 AM
- Eva said...
Fantastic blog ;DDDDD
- March 12, 2012 at 11:46 AM
- Jennifer said...
Amazing! It's always great to see well dressed gentlemen as well as ladies, there are far too few.
- March 12, 2012 at 1:38 PM
- laviolette said...
amazing colors!
- March 12, 2012 at 4:06 PM
- Low Couture said...
so many colors on a man is rare. i feel so boring over here in the States in my perpetual neutrals!!
Peter @ http://low--couture.blogspot.com
- March 12, 2012 at 5:02 PM
- Zoé said...
I always like to see a man on Advanced Style. Although, of course, I love the women and think it is all very stylish and quite amazing, a man makes a nice change to the state of affairs.
I adore what he is wearing and the use of bright colours is absolutely exquisite. Fantastic - especially the blue scarf and pink tie. It shows use of such a wide range of beautiful colours.
Advanced Style is truly one of the most inspiring blogs I have ever read and I can only thank you for sharing all this with the world.
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- March 12, 2012 at 5:42 PM
- Office Dandy said...
He makes me smile SO much! ...and PURPLE! woot woot!
The Office Dandy
- March 13, 2012 at 1:14 PM
- FairyFiligree said...
Meraviglioso! Love the purple jacket - he sure knows how to stand out in a crowd :)
- March 13, 2012 at 2:07 PM
- Emanuel I. said...
He's extremly stylish.
My respect gentleman!
- March 13, 2012 at 6:00 PM
- Kausur said...
I adore what he is wearing and the use of bright colours is absolutely exquisite. Fantastic - especially the blue scarf and pink tie. It shows use of such a wide range of beautiful colours.
- March 14, 2012 at 2:28 PM
Pity. Whatever your style, cigars are repulsive.
- March 14, 2012 at 10:24 PM
- Esmeralda said...
Absolutly wonderful!!!!!
- March 15, 2012 at 5:47 AM
- Natalia said...
funky gentleman!
- March 19, 2012 at 3:03 PM
- Caroline said...
OFFICIALLY my new style icon.
- March 19, 2012 at 5:41 PM
- Femme Tunisienne said...
Love everything he is wearing.
- March 20, 2012 at 9:47 AM
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- March 20, 2012 at 1:44 PM
- tini tani said...
Oh, what a wonderful person!
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American competitiveness and the smart grid
Three things happened earlier this week that provided one of those synchronicity moments, with implications for the future of my country.
First, I had a background briefing with a superconducting cable firm, which is a bit of a misnomer, since that is a nascent technology only on the verge of commercialization. Second, three reports on superconducting cables landed on my desk from the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). Third, Thomas Friedman, columnist for The New York Times, wrote yesterday on the topic of American competitiveness.
As a journalist covering the smart grid, I recognize that democracy is messy and that the interaction between government and the market is often fraught with peril. (See my colleague Bart Thielbar's column today for that angle.) But there's no doubt that many of today's start-ups and research-and-development advances got a boost from government funding and national laboratory work, as in the thing called the Internet. The labs license their work on FRAND terms - that means fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms - to seed commercialization on the market.
The smart grid connection? If we want to sustain our world leadership, clean and efficient production and use of energy is one path forward. Innovations that raise the grid's IQ and help resolve imbalances between electricity production and demand can preserve and sustain our lifestyles going forward. Information and communication technology is being brought to bear on grid issues and, regardless of how messy the resulting evolution is, it's going to take place somehow and there's no turning back to business-as-usual.
Yesterday, Friedman quoted Paul Otellini, chief executive at Intel, the chip maker, who in turn quoted a study by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation that found the United States ranked sixth among the top 40 industrialized nations in innovation competitiveness. The same study found that, judged by the "rate of change in innovation capacity" - a measure of preparedness for the future - the United States ranked last. Let the devil take the hindmost.
Otellini suggested that, among other things, the U.S. ought to raise the research-and-development tax credit by five percent to encourage startups.
Add a few factoids: Some of the companies that work on superconducting cables began as startups. EPRI finds that "for power grids, the need for greatly enhanced transmission system capacity is a rapidly emerging challenge. Several technologies exist to meet this need, including . superconducting DC cable systems [which are] still in the conceptual development stage but [have] the potential to dramatically change the transmission landscape in North America."
The advantages of superconducting DC cables - which I use simply as an example of today's thesis, yes there are other competing technologies - are high efficiency and effective at transmitting huge amounts of electricity over long distances, or even short, small-footprint connections in urban areas.
These lines must be buried underground and proponents claim that cost estimates may soon rival that of overhead towers. This claim, if borne out, would make underground cables a solution in highly sensitive areas, such as the vast stretches of still-worthy backcountry in the West where I live. (Do not underestimate NIMBY power.) It has security implications. (Again, don't get hung up on the assumptions, stay with the point.)
Finally, in my conversation with the vendor who is pursuing superconducting DC cable technology, I heard the following comments:
"The race is on. China, Korea and Japan are big on high-temperature superconducting cables."
"We're at the chicken-or-the-egg point in development."
"Superconductivity research and development has been hit by budget cuts. We'd like to see continued support for initial installations to help scale production."
Sure, what benefits Intel benefits Otellini. What benefits superconducting DC cable technology benefits the companies and workers pursuing it. The looming federal deficit ties our hands to a degree.
But smart choices under prevailing constraints have always challenged us. Where there's a will, there's a way. Sometimes what's good for a few really is good for the many.
Every major industrialized nation in the world is pouring money into R&D on advanced technology to win the clean energy race and achieve a commensurate leadership position for this century. But in the United State we're dithering, whining about government "picking winners and losers" and quibbling over every last inequity.
Let's just take a historical perspective: we won the race to space and resulting advances in computing and communications and missile technology gave us huge advantages in information and communication technology and defense. We can do the same with ICT and the smart grid. Or consign our children and future generations to second-class status. Time is blowing by.
Phil Carson
Intelligent Utility Daily
Based on what I know, subject to more current data, the highest critical temp for a superconducting cable is 39K, or nearly -390 degrees Farenheit. As I have posted before, implementation is a devilish taskmaster.
Cable cooling, apart from all else, will have its own very large carbon footprint. I fail to see how the elimination of Watt losses eclipses the Watt expendatures toward cooling cables. Instinctively, it appears that the gulf is wide and deep.
There is of course a problem with eliminating losses: system fault (short circuit) current. Today's electrical equipment is designed to a handful of standard fault current capacity classes. These classes were constructed according real world conductor losses. Ironically, the lower the losses, the higher the fault current and the more expensive the equipment because it must be braced for the larger magnetic forces that are exerted by high currents. What happens when losses approach zero? Fault currents approach infiinty. In short, low system losses fight low equipment costs. Just saying....
With respect to burying lines, there are reasons why transmission voltage class insulated cables are very rarely buried: splicing these cables is insanely expensive and cable manufacturers haven't yet found a way to make an infinately long cable. Serioiusly, even burying medium voltage cables tends to be prohibitively expensive.
Finally, regarding US competitiveness, the following quote from the referenced report is telling: "In part because the EU-10 are starting from a lower base, but also because of some of the policy steps these nations have taken, they have made even faster progress, at a rate slightly above average and considerably higher than that of the United States. The Baltic states in particular have shown rapid rates of progress."
From this quote I better understand how the US managed to rank fairly low in competitiveness: we started from a higher base.
As much as I value efforts to spur the US on to even higher levels of innovation and competitiveness, I think it's important to bear in mind that calculations and rankings of the type referenced, despite best efforts, remain fundamentally subjective and are always relative (rather than absolute).


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The hunter stands on the bottom platform and pulls the seat section up to waist level. He or she then sits on the seat and raises the bottom platform up to the bottom of the seat section. The hunter then stands on the bottom platform and pulls the seat section up to waist level. This action is repeated until the hunter reaches the desired height.
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38 U.S. Code § 2414 - Communication between Department of Veterans Affairs and medical examiners and funeral directors
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(a) Required Information.— With respect to each deceased veteran described in subsection (b) who is transported to a national cemetery for burial, the Secretary shall ensure that the local medical examiner, funeral director, county service group, or other entity responsible for the body of the deceased veteran before such transportation submits to the Secretary the following information:
(b) Deceased Veteran Described.— A deceased veteran described in this subsection is a deceased veteran—
(1) with respect to whom the Secretary determines that there is no next of kin or other person claiming the body of the deceased veteran; and
Source(Added Pub. L. 112–260, title I, § 103(a),Jan. 10, 2013, 126 Stat. 2419.)
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Evolution Hoax
Communism In Ambush
Chapter 5. Communism's Hostility To Religion
In the Qur'an, it is revealed that throughout history, cruel and tyrannical leaders have arisen who have denied God and religion. In one verse (28: 41), God calls them "leaders summoning to the fire." This kind of character typified by the person of Pharaoh in various accounts about Moses in the Qur'an. There have been other cruel rulers who opposed Prophet Abraham and the Companions of the Cave (a group of believers recounted in the Qur'an) and who, just like Pharaoh, killed people simply for having faith in God. It's possible to find these tyrannical characters in every era of history. These leaders of irreligion have committed similar acts of cruelty against their societies, used the same methods in trying to alienate people from religion, and led the unwary to destruction in this world and the hereafter.
Looking at ideologies of the last century that have brought the most trouble, pain, cruelty and brutality, we find merciless and irreligious leaders at their head. Those 20th-century leaders who most resemble Pharaoh as described in the Qur'an are the bloodthirsty, irreligious leaders of the Russian and Chinese Revolutions, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse-tung and the fathers of their ideas, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Charles Darwin exercised leadership in irreligion in yet another way by his theory of evolution.
Communism's hostility to religion is beyond dispute. Look at the writings of any Communist ideologue, and you will find this expressed openly. Marx himself called religion the "opium of the people," described it as created by the ruling class to narcotize the poor, and proposed that religious belief must be destroyed if Communism were to advance. Engels wrote that human beings are descended from monkeys, claiming that religion developed as merely a stage in the process of evolution.
To destroy religion, what kind of policies do Communists implement? Lenin gave the first comprehensive answer.. In 1900, as leader of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party (later to become the Communist Party), he wrote an article titled "The Attitude of the Worker's Party to Religion," published in the Proletary magazine. In that article he wrote:
In 1905, he published an article entitled "Socialism and Religion" in the magazine Nozvaya Zhizn in which he called religion a "fog" that must be dispersed. In that article, he also described the atheist propaganda that Communists must spread against religion:
Note that Lenin said the battle Marxists much wage against religion has to start by disseminating "scientific literature" and the writings of the 18th-century Enlightenment atheists. "Scientific literature" means theories that impose materialism in the guise of science (such as Darwinism); and these "French Enlighteners" include Diderot and D'Holbach, who wrote materialist propaganda against religion long before Marx.
Among Communists, this method Lenin taught is still in use. If we examine certain publishing houses, scientific magazines and media institutions throughout the world, we clearly see that Marxists are behind publications that espouse Darwinist and Enlightenment philosophy.
Communism's Hidden Hostility to Religion
While Marxists are not in power, their currents of thought don't usually follow a definite aggressive policy against religion. It's even possible for some Communists to seem to show respect for religion and its adherents. What is the purpose for this moderation?
The answer to this question can be found among the writings of Lenin. In "The Attitude of the Worker's Party to Religion," he wrote that, starting with the interpretations and practices of experts like Marx and Engels, war must never be openly declared against religion. This was an unnecessary "gamble of a political war." 104 Other materialists (for example, the anarchists or "bourgeois atheists") had voiced hostility to religion and initiated anti-religious campaigns. Lenin found their activities simple and naïve. He rejected the accusations of "moderation" and "inconsistency" these people leveled against Marxists and stated that the "Marxist tactics in regard to religion are thoroughly consistent, and were carefully thought out by Marx and Engels." 105
Lenin continued this moderate stance until the Communists came to power in 1917. But after this, his moderation disappeared and replaced it with widespread oppression of religion and religious people throughout the Soviet territory. Earlier, Lenin had stated thatCommunists must not openly declare themselves to be atheists and must even accept believers in religion into their ranks. But once he came to power, he followed a much different path. In The Harvest of Sorrow, the American historian Robert Conquest describes some of the main points of Bolshevik religious policy:
After the Bolshevik revolution, Lenin's tactic of "being moderate towards religion" turned into fanatical hostility. As we saw earlier, to Lenin, the famine of 1920-21 that cost millions of lives would weaken people's faith in God.
Lenin, with his rebellious spirit against God and religion, lost his mental balance and suffered great pain. God returned to Lenin in this world some of the cruelty he inflicted on people with his hostility to religion. The Qur'an (58:5-6) speaks of the terrible recompense that such cruel people will receive on the Last Day:
Those who oppose God and His Messenger will be subdued and overcome as those before them were also subdued and overcome. We have sent down Clear Signs. The disbelievers will have a humiliating punishment. On the Day God raises up all of them together, He will inform them of what they did. God has recorded it while they have forgotten it. God is a Witness of all things. (Qur'an 58:5-6)
When Stalin rose to power, he was just as anti-religious as his predecessor. He displayed his hostility by killing millions of believers, destroying religious institutions and places of worship, and by initiating endless atheist propaganda. One of the most important weapons in Stalin's propaganda attack was the theory of evolution. In his autobiography, he wrote:
Maoism's Hostility to Religion
Mao, Leninism's and Stalinism's representative in China, nurtured hostility to religion and implemented it in his policies. One of his comments on religion he clearly displays his fanaticism:
... [B]ut of course, religion is poison. It has two great defects: It undermines the race . . . [and] retards the progress of the country. Tibet and Mongolia have both been poisoned by it.109
When Mao came to power, he instituted a war against religion and its practitioners. But this was done in "secret," as Lenin's Communists had done. The Communist party initiated a policy called the "Three self movement," meaning that all religious institutions must be structured so that they could be "self supporting, self administrating, and self organized." This policy appeared to be based on granting freedom of religion, but it was actually a campaign designed to destroy religion completely. All religious institutions and places of worship throughout the country—Confucian and Buddhist temples, mosques and Christian churches—came under the control of state controlled management bodies. Within a short time, these religious institutions became "Maoist propaganda centers." A statement given to the American International Commission on Religious Freedom on March 16, 2000 by a Chinese Christian by the name of Harry Wu says:
Both the Uyghur Muslims in eastern Turkestan and the Buddhists of Tibet became targets of bloody brutality. The Chinese Communist Party tried to control them by reducing their populations and destroying their religious beliefs. Other Communist regimes in Asia continued Mao's hostility to religion. In the genocide committed against their own people in Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge targeted the minority Cham community of Muslims with particular cruelty. The Black Book of Communism describes the brutality they inflicted against the Cham:
In Albania, Enver Hoxha's dictatorship, another Communist regime, displayed Maoism's hostility to religion. Albania came out of World War II as a satellite of the Soviet Union, but during the Sino-Soviet conflict of the 1960s, Albania sided with China and became the representative of Red Chinese Maoism in Europe. Enver Hoxha closed all places of worship (mosques as well as Catholic Churches in the north of the country) and even forbade people from worshipping in their homes. Declaring your belief in any religion became a crime, and those who disobeyed the prohibition were subjected to various kinds of oppression and torture. Enver Hoxha, believing he could eradicate all religious belief by implementing these methods, announced that he had founded the first State in the world that was truly atheist.
Communism and the Irreligious Systems Revealed in the Qur'an
At the root of the characteristics of the Communist system is its anti-religious ideology. The reason for its brutality and dullness is this same crazed hostility toward religion.
Religion is part of the way of living and thinking that God has given the human beings He created. The best life for Man is one based on religious belief; because the One Who knows the human spirit best is our Lord Who created it. Only a system founded on religion can give peace, while systems rejecting religion will inevitably bring pain, sorrow, fear and insecurity. Above all, these systems opposing all religious truth, trying to force people live in contradiction to it, constitute an even greater danger. Historically, Communism has been one of the most striking examples of just such a system.
Interestingly, Communism shows important similarities to the godless systems that God has described in the Qur'an. Comparing the godless system of Pharaoh given in the Qur'an with some other systems of our age, we see a great similarity.
The Passion for Big Buildings
One common characteristic of all irreligious administrations is their seeking to captivate onlookers with grandeur. Their haughtiness and humiliation of other people are expressed in various ways.
As an example, God tells in the Qur'an about Pharaoh's administration in Egypt in the time of Prophet Moses. In his pride, Pharaoh opposed both God and His apostle Moses, while subjecting his own people to oppression. An example of Pharaoh's arrogance was his command to have a "high tower" built. The Qur'an (28:38) reveals Pharaoh's command to Haman, one of his closest man:
Pharaoh said, "Councilmen, I do not know of any other god for you apart from Me. Haman, kindle a fire for me over the clay and build me a lofty tower, so that perhaps I may be able to climb up to Moses's god! I consider him [Moses] a blatant liar." (Qur'an 28:38)
This desire for a "high tower," an expression of Pharaoh's pride, is also reflected in Communist dictatorships' passion for "big buildings." Beginning with the Soviet Union, all Communist states constructed excessively large state buildings as symbols of the regime's strength and endurance. For a long time, the palace built by Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in Bucharest retained the title of the world's largest building. Yet this palace has a very cold and joyless appearance; size was its most important consideration and it remains an expression of the "superiority complex" of Communist ideology.
Forced Migration
In the Qur'an, God reveals some actions that brought destruction upon their perpetrators, including the removal of people from their homelands. For example, those who denied God threatened the prophets that were sent to them: "We will drive you from our land unless you return to our religion..." (Qur'an, 14:13) As is told in verse 22:40, they tried especially to remove Muslims; "those who were expelled from their homes without any right, merely for saying, 'Our Lord is God'…"
Communist regimes have engineered the greatest forced migrations, and Muslims have been the target of most of them. In Stalin's time, first the Crimean Turks and later, many other Muslim peoples were forced to leave their lands overnight and were dispatched, hungry and miserable to the most barren regions of Russia. Hundreds of thousands of innocents died on the way, and those who survived to reach their destinations died of hunger, infectious diseases, and freezing cold.
The Destruction of Freedom of Belief
As told in the Qur'an, one characteristic feature of Pharaoh's administration was its outlawing freedom of belief. The system determined what kind of beliefs people could hold. Pharaoh's question to the magicians who believed in Moses shows this clearly; "Have you believed in Him before I authorized you to do so?" (Qur'an, 7:123) Again, while speaking to his people, Pharaoh said that he taught the people the truth they needed to know, and that they shouldn't search for any other truth besides what he taught them:
"I only show you what I see myself and I only guide you to the path of rectitude." (Qur'an, 40:29)
Pharaoh's modern representatives are the Soviet Union and all the other Communist regimes of the 20th century that attempted to establish totalitarian regimes. In any totalitarianism system, society is totally shaped by the State. People are physically governed by State oppression and mentally by propaganda. The model of Pharaoh's totalitarian system, as described in the Qur'an, was revived in the 20th century by dictators like Lenin, Stalin, and Mao. The Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha, as we mentioned earlier, forbade his countrymen from practicing any religious faith. He closed all places of worship and advertised the government he'd founded as the "world's first atheist State."
The Idolization of Leaders
In the Qur'an (28:38), God tells us that Pharaoh tried to make himself a god in the eyes of the people, as can plainly be seen in Pharaoh's words to those around him: "Councilmen, I do not know of any other god for you apart from me." Egyptian history shows us how its pharaohs described themselves as "gods in this world."
Communist regimes wielded the same kind of psychology. Dictators such as Lenin, Stalin, Mao and North Korea's Kim Il Sung initiated programs of mass brainwashing to make themselves seem as gods in the eyes of their peoples. This "cult of personality" was an expression of the policy of "idolizing the leaders."
This tendency towards idolization started first with Lenin, leader of the first Communist revolution in Russia. Indeed, some of the writings Lenin left behind show a noticeable "aura of religion"—but a religion of idols. Lenin organized the Communist Party as a kind of non-religious sect. Upon his death, Party members held a huge ceremony in which they addressed Lenin's corpse with liturgical words such as: "Comrad Lenin, we swear we will carry out your orders."112 Lenin's body was mummified, like an ancient Egyptian pharaoh's, and placed in an elaborate tomb.
Stalin and Mao followed Lenin's example. Both leaders had giant statues of themselves erected in every city of their countries, trying to produce a portrait of their people's "god-leader." Mao wrote The Little Red Book, and every Chinese citizen was responsible for reading this "holy" book and implementing its precepts in his life. Many Chinese still visit the statues of the "Great Helmsman" erected in every part of the country, and on Mao's birthday there are mass suicides.
In North Korea, Kim Il Sung was also idolized after he came to power. He was known as the "Sun of the People," who believed he could lead them along the right path without ever making a mistake. The same thing happened with Ho Chi Minh, North Vietnam's Communist dictator.
Oligarchic Structure
The system of oligarchy is "minority rule," in which political power rests in the hands of a limited group. A look into the Qur'an shows that godless systems have a basically oligarchic structure. When we examine the many verses that speak of "the chiefs of the nations," we see that these people have taken all political power into their own hands, governing society according to their own ideas. When we look at the verses relating to Pharaoh, we see that his administration was an oligarchic class, composed of advisors, magicians and soldiers. In order to keep the people bound to Pharaoh's administration, the magicians controlled their thinking. The soldiers ensured the same control by brute force.
Communist regimes are the modern counterpart of the godless oligarchic system mentioned in the Qur'an. Communists started out by offering "power of the people," but in every country where they came to power, they established minority power relying on domination. All political power in the country passed into the hands of a party that bore the name of the "proletarian party" or Workers' Party, but had no relationship with the workers. The decision-making mechanisms—known as the Communist Party Central Committee and the Politburo, together with the General Secretary over them—retained all the power and used it mercilessly. In Communist regimes, all the supposedly "democratic" mechanisms, such as elections and party congresses, were only a show.
The "Destruction of Crops and Breeding Stock"
When describing the quality of godless administrations in the Qur'an (2:205-206), God draws our attention to something very important:
When he holds the upper hand, he goes about the earth corrupting it, destroying (people's) crops and breeding stock. God does not love corruption. When he is told to heed God, he is seized by pride which drives him to wrongdoing. Hell will be enough for him! What an evil resting-place! (Qur'an 2:205-206)
Notice that "going about the earth corrupting it" and "destroying crops and breeding stock" in these verses precisely describe the slaughters and collectivizations implemented by Communist regimes of the Soviet Union, Red China, and Cambodia. Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot forced an atmosphere of chaos and terror on their countries. By implementing Lysenko's evolutionist nonsense, they destroyed all the products of agriculture, killed countless numbers, and nearly erased a whole generation. Later, this same verse reveals that the people who perpetrated this were arrogant and irreligious. This description perfectly fits these dictators, who regarded themselves as gods.
Communists believe that the world is advancing constantly through evolution, and that older societies were less advanced than our modern ones. For this reason, they try to belittle the holy books revealed through ancient prophets thousands of years ago. Fourteen centuries ago, however, the Qur'an revealed their ideology and spiritual disposition as ignorance, deceit and psychological depravity. No matter how much Communist leaders may count themselves at the most advanced stage of history, they share much in common with Pharaoh, back in the time of Prophet Moses.
Actually, history shows no "advancement" of human intelligence or psychological make-up. People thousands of years ago had the same characteristics as those who live today. From a cultural and technological point of view, there have been both advancements and regressions. For example the technology in the time of Prophet Solomon, and the technique the Egyptians used to build pyramids are yet unknown. From their surviving pieces of art, some civilizations seem to have accumulated very advanced cultures and technologies, but there is never constant progress.
But as we said at the beginning, God has created human beings of different types of make-up, with certain particular ways of thinking. Among them, history develops according to rules that God has determined. The Qur'an (33:62) says that God's pattern (Sunnah), or the natural and social rules that God has imposed, have never changed:
"This is God's pattern with those who passed away before. You will not find any alteration in God's pattern." (Qur'an 33:62)
People's commitment to such a brutal, dark and barbarous ideology as Communism caused them to suffer unimagined torments. Those who believed in Darwin's perversion and chose godlessness, prepared their own end. In one verse (Qur'an, 30:41), God describes this:
Corruption has appeared in both land and sea because of what people's own hands have brought about so that they may taste something of what they have done so that hopefully, they will turn back. (Qur'an, 30:41)
Corruption has appeared in both land and sea because of what people's own hands have brought about so that they may taste something of what they have done so that hopefully, they will turn back.
Nobel laureate Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, a passionate critic of Communism, captured in his writings these divine rules' social nature. In a speech delivered in London in 1983, the Russian author stated why disaster had fallen on his people:
Communism happened because people forgot God. It is a living example that shows how merciless, brutal and barbarous a godless society can be, and what kind of society materialist philosophies like Darwinism give birth to. Looking at the misery Communism has brought, we can understand the great difference between a society with religious moral values and one with none. And this is the means whereby we will understand that, for human salvation, the only solution is to live a life founded on religious moral values.
But as long as people keep denying God and wandering into these philosophies distant from the morality of religion, Communism and other perverted ideologies will find a place to exist. As the verse above says, if people do not want "corruption to appear in both land and sea because of what their own hands have brought about," first they must distance themselves from these ideologies and draw others away from them as well. To achieve this, people must be acquainted with the scientific invalidity and the dark side of Darwinism, accepted as scientific support for the ideologies that have inflicted all this misery on humanity.
In this 21st century, one of the most important duties for people of intelligence, conscience, perception and insight is launching an intellectual struggle against "the disease of materialism and naturalism," as the great Islamic scholar Bediuzzaman called it.
102. Black Book of Communism, Harvard University Press Cambridge, p. 556
103. Black Book of Communism, Harvard University Press Cambridge, p. 560
104. Black Book of Communism, Harvard University Press Cambridge, p. 574
105. V.I. Lenin, The Attitude of the Worker's Party to Religion, Proletariat, No.45, May 13, 1909
106. V.I. Lenin, Socialism and Religion, Nozvaya Zhin, No.28, December 3, 1905
107. V.I. Lenin, The Attitude of the Worker's Party to Religion, Proletariat, No.45, May 13, 1909
108. V.I. Lenin, The Attitude of the Worker's Party to Religion, Proletariat, No.45, May 13, 1909
109. Robert Conquest, The Harvest of Sorrow : Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine , Oxford University Press, New York, 1986, p. 138.
110. J. V. Stalin, E. Yaroslavsky, Landmarks in the Life of Stalin (Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing house, 1940), pp. 8-12.
111. J.V.Stalin, Anarchism or Socialism?, From J.V. Stalin, Works, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1954, Vol.1, p.302
112. White Paper, Office of Tibet, London, February 2, 1996
113. Statement of Harry Wu Before the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, March 16, 2000


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Two parents helped their four-year –old daughter live her life as a boy.
Sarah and Yuri Brown said that at age two their daughter Sophie told them she was a boy.
"At first I didn't argue with her much, as I thought it was just a phase. But she was insistent," Sarah said.
Psychological tests diagnosed Sophie with Gender Identity Disorder.
Brown showed her an anatomy book to explain that she was a girl. However, Sophie insisted that she was indeed a boy despite her female parts. She thought her parents changed her.
At age four, Sophie refused to wear dresses, many which were passed down from her older sister Olivia who is eight.
Although Olivia has the interests of many young girls her age such as fashion and makeup, Sophie prefers superheroes.
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"She started wearing androgynous, plain white tank tops to school. I sat down and said, 'What's wrong with your clothes, why won't you wear them?' And she said, 'They're too girlie,' Sarah told reporters.
Sophie's parents said that she's always identified with the male characters on TV and even portrayed male roles when playing games.
Her parents decided to allow Sophie to live her life as a boy when she began imitating a man shaving.
"…she got into our medicine cabinet and tried to use my razor, pretending to shave her face, and she cut her lip," Yuri said.
Sarah and Yuri found a therapist and decided to research Gender Identity Disorder. They found that if parents are not supportive of the child's desire to live a transgender they can likely suffer from anxiety, depression, drug abuse, and emotional scars.
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The DOC will not explain why but Oklahoma DOC Southeast Assistant District Supervisor Margaret Johnson said the department was made aware of a situtation that resulted in their decision to pull all inmate workers out of Kingston.
Johnson said they are still looking into the matter, but so far no legal action has been taken.
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The introduction for Grand Theft Auto III is a series of introductory scenes played as a new game is started. Consisting of only non-interactive cutscenes, the player has only the option of skipping them and moving on to "Give Me Liberty", the first mission in the game.
Bank heist
The introduction opens with a shot of the Liberty City Bank, as a Banshee driven by Miguel zips by and stops in front of an adjoining alleyway to pick up a team of three bank robbers who have just robbed the bank: Catalina, Claude and an unnamed associate with Colombian Cartel attire. After shooting a security camera, Claude attempts to rejoin the other two, but learns Catalina has double crossed Claude by gunning him and the third accomplice down.
This leaves Catalina and Miguel to feast on the spoils of the heist while Claude, slumped on the ground on the alleyway, survives but is arrested by the Liberty City Police Department.
Catalina reveals her ambitions to rise up the ranks of the criminal world, but felt Claude was not up to part for her, hence the betrayal and decision to join Miguel's powerful Colombian Cartel gang instead. The betrayal was planned in advance of the heist, since the getaway car (a Banshee) only seats two.
Claude's thirst for revenge on Catalina will become a part of the game's plot.
Custody and escape
Claude, now in police custody, is intended to transfer from police headquarters in Staunton to Liberty Penitentiary to serve his 10-year sentence. Claude is to be taken there via a police convoy that is also transporting two other inmates: 8-Ball, following an arrest which left both his hands fully bandaged, and an oriental man of unknown origin, arrested for possessing no legal documents.
While crossing the Callahan Bridge from Staunton to Portland, the convoy is ambushed by a well coordinated Colombian Cartel team, whose intention is to capture the oriental prisoner as ransom, seemingly caring little of the fate of the other prisoners.
To ensure their escape, the team left a powerful bomb on the bridge, resulting in an explosion that damages the bridge and cuts Portland off from the rest of Liberty City.
During the ambush and explosion, Claude and 8-Ball manage to break free, but find they have nowhere else to go but Portland, leading up to the first mission of the game, "Give Me Liberty".
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- The bank scene takes place in a non-functional location originally confused as being within Liberty City itself. The set is situated far west from Shoreside Vale, and is only accessible by way of the Dodo under normal circumstances. The bank was supposedly located in Shoreside Vale, in the location of the airport (the airport was originally located in Staunton Island), as seen in beta pictures and drawings.
- The vehicles used during the bridge ambush scene are driverless.
- The Enforcer in the police convoy is different then that of the Enforcer during gameplay. It resembles the Enforcer from GTA LCS.
- If the "Destroy all cars" cheat code is used during the bridge cutscene, all of the vehicles will explode and still continue driving. This can be done with other cutscenes that involve cars.


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FLOR's Pretty Pieces rug takes our grid-like system of squares and transforms it into invigorating patterns that seem to go on endlessly.
This rug is a combination of four individual FLOR styles – Cambium, Force Field, Petal Pusher and Cut Flowers that possess random patterns so no two tiles are alike. These free flowing saturated colors and textures give the feel of walking into a beautiful garden.
The inspiration for this rug came from Josef Frank, widely regarded as one of the greatest influences in the history of architecture and design. He co-created the Vienna School of Architecture and was influential in what became modern housing. He believed functionality was key to design and architecture, and we here at FLOR obviously second that notion.
(Above: Interior spaces that used some of Josef Frank 's patterns)
Frank became an innovator in textile design and for a period of nearly 40 years he created more than 200 patterns. The linear, grid-like look popular during that period was too rigid for his taste so he improvised in a big way, as you can see in his creations. Scandinavian Design called Josef Frank's styles "Always in motion," which was the theme that spawned the creation of FLOR's Pretty Pieces Rug.
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ATLANTA (AP) -- LSU will face Clemson in the Chick-fil-A Bowl.
Officials announced their selection of No. 9 LSU (10-2) on Sunday night after a day of frenzied speculation about how the Southeastern Conference bowl hierarchy would shake out. No. 14 Clemson (10-2) was a lock to be the Atlantic Coast Conference representative in the Dec. 31 game after Florida State won the league championship.
LSU has won its five previous appearances in the Chick-fil-A Bowl, most recently a 38-3 rout over Georgia Tech in 2008. Coach Les Miles' team will be trying to lock up the seventh 11-win season in school history.
Clemson is set to play in the Atlanta game for the eighth time, having lost to LSU 10-7 in 1996 when it was known as the Peach Bowl.
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last night, a group of 5 ladies (myself included) sat around a wooden table and talked about our wedding cakes. i don't care who you are, once you get married, you'll want to talk about the details of your own wedding at some point. even though it's boring as heck.
my cake? i'm glad you asked. we bought it from publix, a local grocery store, and stuck flowers in it. cheap. pretty. classic (in the original sense of the word). if ya'll didn't know, classic is now a cool word that people use to describe anything they find to be especially hip. that's right, i said hip. my best friend uses this word all the time.
my cake, obviously. anyone else feel like they would do everything so different now?
well, one girl was talking last night about her sister's cake that had stair cases. stair cases. she yearned to have a barbie doll present with her as a little girl admiring such a thing, so that the barbie could explore the wedding cake like she would dream house. a cake that needs to be explored? this is a wedding people, not a children's television show!
another girl told me that her parent's had a wedding cake made by wal-mart. "wal-mart makes wedding cakes?" i asked. she was all, "oh my gosh, yes!" i was all, "woa." lesson learned, right? wal-mart does everthing. what was i thinking? then she was like, "you know, those fountain wedding cakes? with the real fountain?" i was all, "what in the world are you talking about?!" the 3 other ladies joined me in awe. said girl smacked the table in a fury of shock.
i simply didn't believe her. well, i was wrong. they made them 30+ years ago, and they still make them today. and with lights-i almost forgot that detail.
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look, i'm partly here because i care. but i'm mostly here to make you smarter. you can learn a few things from me. if you learn nothing from me, learn this: don't have a fountain wedding cake. you would always, always regret it. if you're reading this and you've had a fountain cake, and didn't regret it, convince me.
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Comments On Jun 18, 2014:I purchased one of these several years ago due to not being happy with how cool the motor in my KLR was staying when riding it. As I understand it, it doesn't break-in properly if it runs too cool, and it is certainly better for the engine to hold a good steady mid temperature. This little guy did the trick perfectly. I've heard that a KLR that runs at proper temp during break-in is less likely to burn oil. I don't know how true that is, but I can say that I have 27K miles on my 09' and I don't burn any oil, and the price of a thermo-bob is a lot less than replacing the head from running low on oil. Plus, the thermostat used in the thermo-bob costs about $12 to replace instead of the $40 that a stock thermostat costs. Overall, I rate this as THE mod to do for longevity on a KLR. (After the doo, of course :)
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Wattmann is a great guy. Answered my email immediately when I had a question. Instructions are pretty straight forward. Allocate 2-4 hours depending on how fast you work.
I started at 9 at night and I work slowly to minimize mistakes. I needed the bike the next morning so that wasn't the smartest move.
Anyways, this thing works just as advertised. Temperature needle moves nearly vertical within about a mile of driving, and will hover between 11 o'clock and 1 o'clock.
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An Auto Virtual Wall prevents Roomba or Scooba 450 from entering areas that are off-limits. The Auto Virtual Wall remains constantly on so you don't have to remember to turn it on/off.
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The Auto Virtual Wall uses an infrared beam, preset for 4 to 7 feet, to block Roomba or Scooba 450 from doorways and other off-limit areas. And you never have to remember to turn it on or off! Auto Virtual Walls remain on for up to six months. Requires 2 C batteries, not included. SpecificationsPackage Dimensions: 4.4 x 3.86 x 1.97 inchesPackage Weight: 0.29 poundsWhat's In The Box:
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(3 of 5 customers found this review helpful)
No more vacuums for me.
By BCJ
from Yellow Springs, OH
About Me Homeowner, Pet Owner
Comments about iRobot Auto Virtual Wall®:
I never realized that it was hard to get the batteries out. It just takes a screw driver to lossen one side and then the other. Pull it open and change batteries. A couple of C batteries last a long time. I don't know why you have to take them out between times. I have two 770 Roombas and they continue to work just fine. I have a dog that SHEDS so I have to clean brushes a lot. I am seriously thinking of upgrading.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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(3 of 7 customers found this review helpful)
Faulty construction
By JL
from Atlanta
About Me Homeowner
What good is this piece of plastic if people cannot open it to get the batteries in? I followed the video instruction, and squeezed the logo as instructed. Nothing. I squeezed with pliers. Nothing. This is a serious design flaw.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
(2 of 5 customers found this review helpful)
Good idea if it worked
By Dan the man
from Saint John NB Canada
About Me Busy household, Homeowner, RETIRED
Tried to use it to block robot from areas but robot does not acknowledge it even exists. I bought the vacuum as a gift for my wife, the virtual wall came with it . The vacuum works OK on hard surface but not so good on livingroom area rug . Seems to work OK on carpet runners and light rugs..
(5 of 8 customers found this review helpful)
Horrible design
By TWD
from San Francisco, CA
About Me Busy Worker
I lost my old Roomba set up after a fire in my apartment building and so replaced it. Although the vacuum is fine, the virtual wall is completely useless to me. I've watched the video on how to open it(which first of all should not even be necessary to do!) and still can't open it. Roomba needs to make this right and send us accessories we can actually utilize.
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Can't open to put in batteries
By Bunnita
from San Diego, CA
I love my new Scooba, I love my old Roomba but this new virtual wall is useless to me, I can't get it open. I've tried pushing on the iRobot marking, I tried using a pen to push in the sides above that marking but nothing works. This makes this functionally useless and makes keeping the scooba in an isolated location much more difficult
Battery Compartment is a NIGHTMARE
By Frustrated
from Nashville, TN
I haven't been able to use this because we can't get the battery compartment to open. Two adults pushing on each side to get the compartment tabs to push in enough to slide it out and WE CAN'T DO IT.
(3 of 3 customers found this review helpful)
Invisible Walls are Useful
By Don Alan
from Helena, MT
About Me Clean freak, Pet Owner
My Roomba 770 came with two Auto Virtual Walls. I schedule the Roomba to run daily at 8am after I have left for work. I am lucky that my dog is not threatened by the Roomba, nevertheless, I use one Virtual Wall to keep the Roomba out of the dog's room (all inside doors are left open during the day for the house-trained dog). The Virtual Wall thus allows the dog full reign of the house, but gives him a "safe" zone while the Roomba does it's work. I then run the Roomba in just the dog's room when I come home from work. (OBTW, my place is about 800 sq ft and all one level.)I use the second Virtual Wall to block off the bathroom rather than closing the bathroom door - I like to let the moisture from the shower evaporate rather than grow mold. :-) The bathroom entrance also has a drop-in that was trapping the Roomba, so I clean the bathroom floor separately.Unlike some comments, I have no issues with opening or closing the battery compartment. Also, my initial install of batteries (Duracell Alkaline) have been going strong for four months - however, I do turn the Virtual Walls off when I come home from work, and only turn then on as I leave each morning. So about 9 to 10 hours of use daily.Without the Virtual Walls, I think my Roomba experience would be very frustrating. I'm so happy my Roomba 770 came with two.
(1 of 2 customers found this review helpful)
cleaning genie!
By Notsomuchintohousework
from California
About Me 3 Dog Household
Just wanted to add this to the pro comments for those who are looking at purchasing this unit. We have 3 dogs who live in the house, 2 german shepherds and a cocker spaniel. So we have lots of hair and dust provided along with whatever dirt is tracked in.Our roomba (Mabel) works 5-7 days a week on a nightly schedule after we go to sleep (yay for programming!!!) and has done so since January 2012. ( I hope I am not jinxing it!) This way I can get away with vacuuming all the nooks and crannies about once a week instead of every other day. This product has been a great help!!
(8 of 10 customers found this review helpful)
Works OK but;
By Schue
from Marion Ia
About Me Busy household
The virtual walls need a charging base / docking station like the Roomba itself. Currently I have rechargable c cell batteries and take them out after each use. The problem even with the auto feature is, you never know when the batteries die. Then the pet is off and getting damaged in another room. Please fix this! No one likes the battery concept. You can do better.
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By cathy
from Madisonville, LA
I have an open concept home and when I want to clean just one of the rooms the wall helps me keep it in that area.


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- "The way they look at us, we're bottom feeders! Always have been. We ain't a real family to them - just a bunch of Guernsey goombas!"
- ― Jimmy Pegorino, about the Pavanos
Payback is a mission in Grand Theft Auto IV, given to protagonist Niko Bellic by Jimmy Pegorino from his house in Westdyke, Alderney.
Following the disastrous attempt by Pegorino to appease the Pavanos and The Commission with a tribute, Pegorino wishes to exert his revenge on the Pavanos. Having learnt the Pavanos are due to make a cash pickup in Alderney soon, he wants the player to "hit them hard", interrupting the pickup and killing all the Pavanos in the vicinity.
Mission objectives
In order to complete the mission the player must:
- Drive to the diner
- Chase the Pavanos
- Wipe them all out
- Lose your wanted level
The first half of the mission will require the player chase a pair of Pavano goons in a black Coquette, who will predictably head to the pickup regardless. Drive to the diner on Mueri Street in Acter, and stop in the yellow marker. Ensure you are facing north/east when you drive into the marker, because you're going to chase the Pavanos, and this is the direction that the chase begins. During the cutscene, the Pavanos goons named recognize that you are representing the Pegorinos, so they attempt to lose you on the way to the meet when driving a black Coquette.
Chase the Pavanos through the various streets and alleyways, but don't shoot the driver, because you need them to lead you to the meet. But you can, kill the passenger who is try to kill the player. Beware of the buses/vans/fences/scaffolding etc. which are designed specifically in this mission to disrupt your route. The chase ends at the Auto Eroticar showroom in Alderney City. Use your vehicle as cover, and wipe out the Pavanos by launching grenades into the showroom, alternatively use an RPG. The showroom offers the perfect opportunity for some serious carnage, as any explosives will destroy the cars, which are close together, causing a chain reaction that will wipe out most of the Pavanos. A couple of them may still survive, but they can be gunned down with ease. Additionally, cops frequent the area, so it isn't uncomfortable for some of them to stop by and help however, if the player shoots at either party they will receive a wanted level.
Another way is to circle around the back of the block facing the auto showroom, there's a staircase in the middle of the block which you can use to pick off the goons, which will one by one come across the street to get you. Ultimately just leaving three characters standing still inside the showroom. The police soon join in the shoot-out. Finish the Pavanos; the player can then take the goon's Coquette to obtain and own the car, which will serve as a perfect getaway vehicle. Lose your wanted level to complete the mission.
Video Walkthrough
- During the car chase sequence at the beginning of this mission, the Coquette you are following causes a car to spin out and collect two others as it careers across the road. One of these cars is a Comet, marking one of only a handful of times this vehicle is seen in single player. However, attempting to steal it will almost certainly give the Pavanos time to escape and consequently fail the mission. A Turismo can also be taken in the showroom.
- Some characters with the Pavano's are actually the McReary's character models.
- In the Liberty Tree's article on this mission, titled "Violent Shoot-out in Alderney City", the Alderney State Correctional Facility is shown in the article, indicating the arrest of Pavano family members. This is confirmed by Weazel News on the radio, though curiously enough, it states the arrested will be sent to another facility due to the case being classified as terrorism.
- When going to the meeting place, there will be money there the player can pick up.
- Shortly after you complete the mission. Niko gets a call from his unnamed U.L. Paper contact. The contact wants to introduce Niko to Jon Gravelli, head of the Gambetti mob family. Niko tells him he's already working for a mafia family, only for U.L Paper to say they're not a family. He suggests that Gravelli can "get what you need done." The Gambetti's "G" icon now appears on the radar map. You can visit John Gravelli in Schottler Medical Center and try "Entourage," the first of a series of missions for the Gambetti family. To do these missions, you must also complete "Portrait of a Killer" for the U.L.P.C. and have found Florian Cravic.
- Jimmy Pegorino refers to the Pavano's treating him and his family as "just a bunch of Guernsey goombas", despite Grand Theft Auto IV's rendition of New Jersey being called Alderney; Guernsey is however present in the Grand Theft Auto I rendition of the state.