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NFWF Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund to Receive $203 Million for Texas to Restore Gulf Coast Natural Resources
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WASHINGTON, D.C., May 13 – Texas will receive $203 million over a five-year period to restore Gulf coast natural resources impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) announced today. NFWF will administer the Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund involving $2.544 billion from plea agreements resolving certain criminal cases arising from the 2010 explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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As mandated in the plea agreements, NFWF has begun consulting with natural resource management agencies in each of the five Gulf States and with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In Texas, those agencies are Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and Texas General Land Office. The input of these agencies will be the primary means through which project selection under the Gulf Fund will be coordinated with actions of the Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment trustees and the RESTORE Council.
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"We will work to develop consensus among the state and federal resource agencies to identify projects that meet the conditions of the plea agreement to benefit the natural resources of the Gulf Coast," said Jeff Trandahl, NFWF executive director and CEO.
Under the terms of the plea agreements between the Department of Justice and BP and Transocean, the Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund will receive a total of $1.272 billion for barrier island and river diversion projects in the state of Louisiana; $356 million for natural resource projects in each of the states of Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi; and $203 million for similar projects in the state of Texas. Payments into the fund will occur over a five-year period, with more than half the funding coming in years four and five.
The first payments totaling $158 million were received in April and the next installments are scheduled for February 2014 under the terms of the agreements.
The primary criterion for project selection is to "remedy harm and eliminate or reduce the risk of future harm to Gulf Coast natural resources" that were impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, as required in the plea agreements.
Further criteria will emphasize projects that advance priorities in natural resource management plans such as those called for under the RESTORE Act, are within reasonable proximity to where impacts occurred as appropriate, are cost-effective, maximize environmental benefits, are science-based and that produce measurable and meaningful conservation outcomes to habitats and species of a type impacted by the oil spill.
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Look, there's plenty of negativity about Dillon Gee out there, and rightfully so. People are concerned about the blood clot in his pitching shoulder. The timeframe looks like months, not weeks, to get him back. We'll wait and see, but it is a sad thing to have happen to a player who appeared to be breaking out in a big way this year.
His replacement in the starting rotation appears to be Miguel Batista, not Matt Harvey. Running Harvey out there, with just over 200 professional innings, carries risk, namely that he'll fail to properly and fully develop. See Pelfrey, Mike for more details. Pitching Batista carries with it ample risk, too, the biggest being the act of Batista pitching itself.
So while the offense hasn't been a problem- far from it, the Mets are third in the National League in runs scored- they'll need to score some more runs to help race past an opposition who will get the chance to face Batista, Jeremy Hefner or Chris Schwinden instead of Dillon Gee for a while.
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As for Ike Davis, he's been hitting like the Mets hoped Davis would for a solid month. Since June 9, Davis is hitting .294/.351/.686, which is encouraging for all sorts of reasons. Obviously, there's the power. But the patience is merely okay- 8.4 percent of his plate appearances ended in walks. If I were guessing, I'd say that was because the Davis who missed everything for two months led pitchers to challenge him more.
But wait, there's more! He's only struck out in 19 percent of his plate appearances, which is quite good for a guy with a slugging percentage approaching .700 over that span. And he's doing this on a batting average on balls in play of just .295, suggesting that there's nothing inflated about his results based on luck.
So as the Mets ponder how to stay in the race without Dillon Gee, for at least a time, they'll need to find some answers on the offensive side of the equation. In Murphy and Davis, they may have some of those solutions in-house already.

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PHILADELPHIA – Four members of the Penn baseball team earned recognition on Monday from the Big 5. Ryan Deitrich put an exclamation on his senior year with the Quakers by being named the Big 5 Player of the Year, while freshman Mike Vilardo was given the Big 5 Rookie of the Year Award. Joining that duo on the All-Big 5 team is sophomore pitcher Dan Gautieri. Senior Spencer Branigan was Penn's representative on the Big 5 Academic Team.
A first-team All-Ivy selection in addition to his Big 5 honors, Deitrich was the heartbeat of Penn's offense all season long. He ended his senior season with the Quakers hitting at a .382 clip and reaching base in exactly half his plate appearances, leading the Ivy League in both categories. In addition, he tied with Vilardo for the team lead with 55 hits and also stole a team-high 11 bases. In three games against Big 5 opponents, he was 6-for-12 with three doubles and a home run, driving in two runs.
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Rounding out the trio on the Big 5 team is Gautieri. The sophomore became the ace of this year's staff, compiling an ERA of 2.17 in nine starts. The right-hander ended the season at 5-3, leading the team with 58.0 innings on the hill and a strikeout-to-walk ratio of 3.5:1. Starting the Sunday seven-inning contest throughout the season, he worked four complete games and was particularly masterful in a nine-inning shutout of Winthrop in which he struck out seven Eagles with no walks.
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Intel Ivy Bridge-E Pricing Leakedby Jarred Walton on 7/31/2013 7:05 PM EST
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lmcd - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkThere seems to be nearly zero reason to upgrade. Max 2-3% boost, I'm betting. Reply
duncan-idaho - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - link20w decrease in TDP is nothing to sneeze at for the Xeon variant. Intel builds the 2011 chips for Xeon, whatever increases the 4960x gets are a peripheral concern compared to the concerns of datacenter types who care a lot more about heat and power and support cycles than they do about a few megahertz. Reply
MrSpadge - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkOf course no reason to upgrade, but the gains will be higher.. the switch from SNB to IVB alone makes up for more than your estimate. Then there are ~100 MHz at similar price points and the CPUs should be able to hit higher turbo bins more often (if allowed to) due to the lower power consumption. Reply
Samus - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkI'm still rocking a 5 year old i7-950 system on an x58 board (which was originally a i7-920 from 2008)
Still don't have a compelling reason to upgrade. STILL. Reply
IUU - Monday, August 05, 2013 - linkThis is because the whole industry tries to persuade you, that all your needs can be met with less than 10 times the computing power and no storage(cloud nonsense). Don't seek the devil in dark alleys, for it is in the light of day it likes to hide. Reply
RU482 - Monday, August 05, 2013 - linkI think it's safe to say you are no longer Intel's target market Reply
Achaios - Thursday, August 29, 2013 - linkI am still rocking a Pentium 4 single core @ 2.8GHz (Northwood) laptop. The motherboard is an Intel 845 chipset one. Lithography is 130nm and the socket is 478PGA. Date of production is third quarter, 2002. There is still absolutely no reason to upgrade as it rocks 2GB memory and it can run every business software in the market. In addition to working on it, I use it to watch movies while working out on the treadmill.
Pretty safe to say that if all of their customers were like me, Intel would have gone out of business.
It will probably take another 10 years before it gets obsolete. Reply
YazX_ - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkif you got SB or IB, there is no reason to upgrade to haswell nor IB-E. its all the same recycled thing with better iGPU performance which only 1% of people care about. to be honest this is a good news for us as our CPUs will stick for a while before the next upgrade. Reply
Loki726 - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkYou could always choose to not upgrade your CPU in the past if you were happy with the perf. At least back then you had the option of shelling out more money for more perf. Now you can't. Reply
frumpus - Friday, September 27, 2013 - linkI got an i7-960, should i upgrade to SB-E or haswell? Reply
mikk - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkI'm afraid you are a bit off with the price list Jarred. Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkIn what sense? Some of the SNB-E parts might now be available for less, but otherwise these are the prices that are leaked. That's not the same as what you or I would pay when they ship, and since it's a leak there's inherently a level of "take this with a grain of salt" at play. VR-Zone might have made up prices, but I doubt that as well. IVB-E is a tough sell for SNB-E owners, and SNB-E and IVB-E are a tough sell for everyone, so having prices drop a bit wouldn't be surprising.
If you're talking about the current SNB-E prices vs. the listed, that's just a case of retail online prices being different from Intel's quoted prices (which probably aren't what most companies pay regardless). I've added the Newegg prices to the tablet for the SNB-E parts, though, just to help clarify things. Reply
mikk - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkIVB-E won't be cheaper than SB-E but your news implies otherwise. I'm afraid they are a bit off, also you don't need a source to know that Intel will price them in a relatively similar range to its predecessor. In this case the source is nonsense, not only the prices are wrong also some of the frequency claims are wrong. A news based on such a flawed source doesn't make sense to me. Reply
smartypnt4 - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkDo you have an alternative source? If so, I'd love to see it. Considering we're only a month out from the launch of these chips, I doubt these numbers are that far off. Reply
MrSpadge - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkAnd I am afraid you are wrong. "Intel will price them in a relatively similar range to its predecessor" - which is exactly what's in the table. There are also modest frequency boosts in Jareds version, which would make a lot of sense. It may not happen like this, but it sure looks plausible! Reply
Sarvesh - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkI agree, gone are the days of upgrading PC components every year (thankfully). I'm perfectly happy with my two year old 2600K and will probably keep it around for another 2 years.
These days the performance of most ultrabooks is quite acceptable if you leave out heavy stuff like gaming and photo/video editing. The crappy performance and lack of upgradability were the reasons i never bought a laptop for myself but now..... Zenbook Infinity can't come soon enough! Reply
Mondozai - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkI am using an i5 750K which is from 2009.
I also use a GTX 560 Ti, bought just before the release of Battlefield 3 in late summer 2011. I also got 8 gigabyte of RAM in 2011, back when it was ridicolously cheap(I got it for 32 dollars in total).
I can still play Crysis 3 on medium, which is a game that doesn't really interest me anyway. It's actually quite amazing how things have stagnated. Good for my wallet but my tech nerd inside of me is wailing and cursing his fate.
I just don't see a reason to upgrade before I hit a wall. I hope that the next gen consoles will give me a reason, but since I mostly play RTS's or MMORPG's that will give me a prolonged life cycle.
I did buy Star Citizen, which should be taxing on most computers but we'll see how well they'll do. Im guessing pretty bad initial optimizations. We get the alpha this fall/winter and beta next year.
Or I could just get a PS4 (I skipped the previous console generation) since games will be optimized for them anyway, even though I like PC a lot.
Either way, my 2011 experience with the GPU or my 4 year old CPU has taught me that if you can time your purchases well, you can get away with using the same stuff for 3 years or so for the GPU or 5 years or so with the CPU. That gives you a lot cheaper upgrade cycle, but it also makes you very wary of upgrading since you don't wanna be that guy that uses a 1 monitor setup, buys a titan and then the 780 GTX shows up just a few months later with almost the same performance but with a significantly reduced price. Reply
Myrandex - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkHah guys I'm still on a Phenom II X6 CPU. I've considered an upgrade, and when the right price rolls around for some a sweet i7 build I might jump. Not looking forward to replacing all of the components, but it will make a different eventually.
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Heavensrevenge - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkHaswell performance is understated because of misleading benchmarks of applications that give the wrong impression of things..
Two days ago, I bought a new laptop with i7-4700HQ CPU vs the CPU I had previously, the i7-3610QM.
http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-4700HQ-vs-In... is one such comparison But I'll share a few findings that don't match benchmarks.
I code on V8(chromium code) and my compiles before took 1:10-1:15 this new laptop compiles the same code fresh in ~45 minutes... that's WAY better than 5% useless increase vs the misleading benchmarks I see places. Yes it's my use case but my findings show Haswell helps ALOT. and is a nice perf boost for my use case.
ALSO my Samsung 840 Pro speed went up 15% because of the new chipset :)
Ivy-Bridge = http://imgur.com/W9svCDT
Haswell = http://imgur.com/wctqtdQ
Note: I don't keep the code I compile on the SSD, compiling is mainly CPU bound this generation and not really disk bound so the code is all on an HDD. Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkIf you're comparing two different laptops with different chipsets, there's a lot more at play than just the CPU upgrades. I don't even know how CPU Boss tested those two chips, but depending on what you're doing Haswell is either slightly to moderately faster than Ivy Bridge. With a clean install of Win7 on a laptop vs. a typical OEM install on a laptop, or differing HDDs/SSDs, RAM, chipsets, etc. everything is subject to change. Reply
Heavensrevenge - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkActually I just swapped out my Primary boot SSD + OS which is Win 8.1 of about a month old, so all software configs and compilation toolchain+compiler are identical. Mainly the massive difference is moving to the newer generation CPU+chipset but that enough has an astounding performance boost.
It's ALL from the Haswell improvements with memory latency etc, it has made a larger impact for me than something like a Win(crap)RAR compression benchmark comparison :P
I'm just saying my personal findings to be far more impressive and different than the benchmarks have noted what Haswell + what Haswell's plug into offer in terms of performance. Reply
JarredWalton - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkI'm still not quite getting your comparison. What was the new laptop (and hardware), and what's the old laptop (and hardware)? Reply
extide - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkIt sounds like your old laptop was probably throttling the CPU when all 4 cores/8 threads were loaded, and now with the new haswell setup you are not throttling and thus seeing a significant perf boost because you weren't actually getting all the perf you should have on the Ivy setup in the first place. Reply
Heavensrevenge - Saturday, August 03, 2013 - linkWow... how idiotic can people be? I don't know how much more straightforward I can be with the Haswell CPU being a huge win that doesn't match online benchmarks. No I wasn't throttling, that would have been stupid.
Get your own Haswell to find out. I don't care if you take my word for my results...
But my results = 45 minutes compile of the ENTIRE chromium source tree using vs2010 (the toolchain that works best) on this i7-4700HQ down from 1 hour and 10-15 minutes on the old i7-3610QM CPU.
That's around a 30 minute decrease in time needed.
Therefore this i7-4700HQ mobile CPU approximately matches the i7-2600 non-k version desktop CPU I also have in terms of computational power at it's normal 3.4GHz clock. The old laptop was a G75VW and the new one is a G750JW, the new model with the Haswell inside it.
Take it or leave it. Reply
silenceisgolden - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkI have an i7 930 with ASUS P6X58D - Premium mobo and this is too much of a disappointment for me to upgrade. If Haswell had more improvements to the chipset I would probably have bought that by now, but it looks like I'll just wait till Haswell-E. Reply
chizow - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkI upgraded from i7 920 and EVGA X58 Classified and the upgrade to Haswell/Z87 was well worth it. The improvements to the platform alone were worth it (USB 3.0/SATA6G), but beyond that you get much better UEFI BIOS, and much less power consumption. I'd estimate my system is pulling about 100W less between the CPU and the extremely power hungry X58 Classified.
RAID0 with 3xSATA6G HyperX SSDs in RAID0 is just awesome, 1400MB/s seq reads, 1000MB/s seq writes. And I still have SATA6G ports for my Samsung 840 boot SSD and 2 mechanical drives for storage. Pretty sick stuff. Reply
Rick83 - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkI agree, my sister's 920 on X58 is having troubles, and now I can safely recommend her the quad-core IB-E as a replacement.
Sadly memory prices have gone up, so it's no longer safe to say "just get 64GB of RAM", is another advantage over Haswell, besides more PCIe lanes. Also, it's a bit of a bummer, that X79 didn't see an upgrade. More fast SATA and all-USB 3 would have been nice to have, but I suppose it's not interesting for the server market, and while merging the DMI-end of X79 with the controller-end of Z87 might be possible, the market is probably too small. Reply
yhselp - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkThe most exciting thing of the Ivy Bridge-E launch is that the budget SKU is now unlocked. People looking to get more PCIe lanes, memory overclock and still overclock their CPU but don't need six core can now do it without spending overboard. This would be useful for people looking to game at 4K on 3-4 GPUs and need the PCIe bandwidth. While a 4770K on a PLX-equipped board would do quite well too, if there's a worst case scenario where one might be concerned with lane bandwidth that is 4K. Reply
madmilk - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkIt's not too exciting -- SNB-E lets you increase BCLK to some preset values. Combine this with decreasing the multipliers and the 3820 is essentially just as overclockable as its bigger brothers. Reply
yhselp - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkPumping the BCLK too high to get a better overclock might be damaging to other components; not to mention you would get a better OC from a 4820K plus a refined architecture at the same price. I agree it's not super exciting and it's not a huge improvement, but it might be worth it for some people. Especially those looking to game at 4K on 3-4 GPUs. Reply
Death666Angel - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkThat's what ratios are for. Haven't heard about damaged components from BCLK OCing. I'm running a 181MHz BCLK on my i7 860 for 18 months (157MHz for the time before that, over 2 years IIRC) and haven't damaged anything.
And the assumption that the IVB-E overclocks better than the SNB-E is not yet proven. I agree that it is likely (at least a few % better OC), but not a certainty after SNB is still competitive with IVB and HW on the OC front (for different reasons of course). Reply
androticus - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkHaswell-E is unlikely to offer anything more than Ivy-E -- remember Haswell was really focused on much better power mgmt and longer battery life for portable uses--most of the benches I've seen don't put it much higher in IPC (and in a few cases slightly lower) than Ivy. Reply
garadante - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkHaswell-E is DDR4 quad channel, I believe. Reply
madmilk - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkHaswell-E is rumored to have 8 cores, which is a worthwhile upgrade if you need the threads but can't afford some Xeons. Reply
Aenean144 - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkI can imagine a lot of businesses with lots of racks of Intel cluster hardware seeing a, say, 30% reduction in watt per performance, and viewing that as a huge upgrade. Or am I mistaken in thinking electricity bills and increased hardware reliability due to less heat and noise are big issues for them? Reply
Laststop311 - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkI still don't see a reason to upgrade my i7-980x 32nm gulftown cpu. Just a shame 3.5 years later and there still is not enough speed increase to justify buying a new mobo, new ram, and a new cpu. But it's a double edged sword really cause it's nice that the 1000 dollar cpu has paid itself off by staying relevant for this long. Honestly I don't think haswell-e will even be fast enough to warrant an upgrade. 14nm broadwell-e will most likely be the next worthwhile upgrade meaning I get 6 years of good use out of gulftown. So its good in some ways and bad in some ways. Whenever sata express and ddr4 get released that is when I will most likely upgrade from gulftown because I don't need anymore cpu power but I'd love faster ram and sata express and maybe a couple thunderbolt ports as well.
My friends thought I was stupid spending 1000 on a cpu but it's not like the old days where you needed to upgrade every product cycle. I run comfortably at 4.44ghz on all 6 cores and my performance is still near the top of the charts. Bring on sata express and ddr4 so I can actually upgrade to something. Reply
beginner99 - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkYeah I think gulftown buyers made a great choice retrospectively. Will probably be one of the longest lasting CPUs ever. While I have a worse CPU I'm still not excited at all to upgrade to haswell or Ivy-E but then I also don't want to wait forever, eg. haswell-e or skylake. A bit frustrating. Reply
piroroadkill - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkLots would have said you were foolish back then, investing in 980x, but I had a quiet confidence that it would be an awesome CPU for a long time...
I just didn't realise it would still be completely awesome even today. A healthy overclock and a giant cooler, and it's still doing everything you could possibly want. Reply
Zertzydoo - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkI'm the 980X train too and it's a great ride! Even after all those years, I see no reason to upgrade. I have an ASUS Sabertooth which was relatively cheap and comes with a five year warranty so I'm good for another couple years.
The only thing I'm not entirely happy with is power consumption, but I don't think that alone is worth the upgrade. Especially that getting equivalent peak performance out of Haswell (or IVB-E) is expensive. Reply
chizow - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkThis is why I didn't bother upgrading to LGA2011 2 years ago with SNB-E, and why I'm glad I didn't wait for IVB-E this time around.
The platform and CPU arch is already dated tech before it even launches. Unless you have specific use patterns that benefit from 6c/12t, you're much better off going with Haswell strictly for the platform updates. 10-12 USB 3.0 ports and 6 SATA3/6G ports is a breath of fresh air given the stagnancy of LGA2011.
Also, PCIe 3.0 support is not guaranteed with LGA2011, at least not with Nvidia cards. It will be interesting if Intel decides to finally validate PCIe 3.0 for the platform with IVB-E, but as it is now, you need a reg hack for Nvidia GPUs and even then, some boards won't work stably at PCIe 3.0 speeds. Reply
Kevin G - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkThe price for Intel to manufacture these is radically lower and not just due to the die shrink: they are native 6 core chips. The high end Sandy Bridge-E chips were native 8 core dies with 2 cores disabled for the consumer market. Now the high end Ivy Bridge-E Xeon chips are going to ship with 12 cores at the top with 10 and 8 core binned parts from that. No consumer chip will use this high end die which is expected to be over 400 mm^2.
There was a native quad core Sandy Bridge-E chip but released to consumers only as the Core i7 3820. This chip came a few months later due validating the different die.
Anyway, the one thing Intel really needs to update isn't necessary their CPU line up for socket 2011 but rather the chipset. X79 is buggy and was seriously cut down at the last minute. Originally it was to ship with eight 6 Gbit SAS ports but only the Xeon version got that (and only at 3 Gbit speeds). Intel could have just fixed the bugs in the original X79 chipset and ship it as part of the Ivy Bridge-E refresh. Though it would be to see an entirely new chipset with native USB 3.0 (X79 still use external controllers), pure SATA 6 Gbit, 10Gbit Ethernet, QPI uplinks and perhaps even Thunderbolt. Reply
Sabresiberian - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkI think the chipset is the reason to wait for Haswell-E. Of course will have to see what it actually ships with and how the overall package performs, but there "should" be some interesting and useful improvements. Reply
psyq321 - Sunday, August 04, 2013 - linkHaswell EP platform will bring massive improvements compared to Romley platform (SNB/IVB-EP).
However, considering that Intel is not under any pressure to release it quick, I guess it will take more than a year from now. Reply
psyq321 - Sunday, August 04, 2013 - linkActually, 12 core IVB-EP has its own die (HCC). 10 and 8 core parts come from MCC die (MCC = medium core count). HEDT (consumer) IVB-E comes from third die (LCC). Reply
dishayu - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkIf there was a LGA2011 equivalent of Z87, i'd jump on the 555$ part. Reply
tribbles - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkI've decided to go with Haswell (E3 Xeon on C226 chipset). For my purposes, the chipset advantages of Z87/C226 outweigh the core and memory channel advantages of SB-E and IB-E. Reply
DaveninCali - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkThe original VR Zone table had two major typos and you guys just copied and pasted them in. The 3960X and 3970X clock speeds are wrong. They should be 3.3 and 3.5 GHz respectively. The new 4960X is actually slightly higher in clock speed. Journalism is really going down hill if stores are just being copied and pasted with no fact checking. Reply
JarredWalton - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkIt had more than two major typos; sorry for missing a few others, but I've fixed them now. Thanks! Reply
thurst0n - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkI'm running a 920 on Intels X58 Board and I'm having no issues running all 4 cores with HT @ 3.8. Got a 6950 a little while back (originally had the 4870). I know everyone has different standards (and wallet sizes) but I can't justify upgrading right now. I'm going back to school and this will have to get me through.. and I'm fine with that. This is a solid rig. Reply
Hrel - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkI'm waiting to upgrade my SB laptop until 14nm is realized and prices have dropped from launch highs. On desktop I'm not really sure, I may put together a Mini-ITX build with Haswell as my media center or I might end up waiting to do that until 14nm as well. Doesn't matter as much on the desktop but in general it's always best to wait as long as possible with computers. There's always something better next year. Reply
MrSpadge - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - link> What's going to be in your next build?
Crunchong BOINC 24/7 on a 3770K 4.10 GHz @ 1.03 V and on the iGPU @ 1.35 GHz ~1.00 V. A 4770/K would be an upgrade I could appreciate but not justify (unless there's a good offer for selling my current system). Not interested on socket 2011 for private use - boards are too expensive and burn too much power.
I'd be interested in a 4770R instead, with "multicore enhancement" and a little BCLK OC it should reach 4.0 - 4.1 at power efficient ~1.00 - 1.05 V. I suspect the eDRAM could help tremendously when running 7 - 8 memory bandwidth hungry threads along my normal stuff. But no end-user solutions are available at all and tests regarding the CPU speedup are scarce (thanks for trying, guys!).
Even more interesting would be a similar solution with Broadwell. Although socketed CPUs with GT3e would be even better and might make me switch without much further doubt. Reply
Ytterbium - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkIt's almost like they should give up these chips, if they made all Xeon's unlocked, people could buy a server chipset board with overclocking bios features. While the chipset supports ECC you don't have to use it, it was a bit like the X58 Intel board supported ECC if you put a Xeon in there.
Could get a E5-2687W 8Cores, 3.4Ghz, 4Ghz turbo. Reply
Kevin G - Friday, August 02, 2013 - linkThis is one thing that I believe should be standard throughout all desktop and mobile processors: optional ECC support. Reliability features like this are nearly free as the CPU's themselves support it but just disabled in some cases (even Intel's Atom line has ECC support but keep it disabled traditionally). The physical DIMM slots don't change but the motherboard manufacturer has to run a few more traces between the socket and DIMM slots - a few pennies change. BIOS/EFI would need a bit of change but most of that work would be done anyway to account for scenarios where a user would insert an ECC DIMM into a non-ECC board.
I will say that AMD is nice enough to offer ECC on the desktop as well as non-ECC in their server chips. It was nice to use eight 4 GB non-ECC DIMMs in a socket G34 graphics workstation without issue. That same box has since been upgraded to eight 16 GB registered ECC DIMMs. Reply
Ytterbium - Sunday, August 04, 2013 - linkI agree it would nice to have the option. Reply
twtech - Saturday, August 03, 2013 - linkHaswell-E with 8 cores is the next logical upgrade point for someone who currently has a 3930k. It wild probably be another year+ then before I make another major upgrade. Reply
don_k - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkI'm still on a 775 Core 2 Duo :) With a good GPU and an SSD the CPU matters not a lot. Was tempted by an i7 but held off for this one. If it lasts even half as long as my trusty overclocked Northwood I'd be ecstatic. Reply
Etern205 - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkI've learned in Thai, 5 is pronounced as "HA" so Core i7 4930K has a price of $hahaha :P Reply


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"Game changer" is a term you hear often when people talk about how technology has changed their industry.
Until recently, augmented reality existed mainly in movies like The Minority Report and computer science labs at universities, where technologists grappled with comically clunky headgear.

 Now, however, several new Web and mobile applications are changing minds and helping to bring AR into the mainstream.

 In essence, AR holds the promise of marrying the digital and physical worlds by taking complex data and overlaying it with views of the real world via Webcam technology and multiple screens.

 "The last thing I can [recall] getting this much hype is Second Life," said Matt Szymczyk, CEO of Zugara, a Los Angeles-area digital agency. "But I think there will be more practical uses to this."

 The latest wave of AR is mining the Internet's rich deposits of user data to overlay with views of the real world. While most AR implementations have thus far relied on hard-copy printouts, advances in cellphones, particularly the latest release of the iPhone, hold hope of making it a handy technology.

 Zugara is dabbling in this area with its Webcam Social Shopper app. The prototype, which the shop created as a test for clients, lets consumers "try on" clothing—via their Webcams and monitors—as if they were in a store. In a twist reminiscent of Minority Report, users can switch to new outfits by motioning with their hands. They can also share their outfits through social networks like Facebook.

 The app attempts to solve a problem with real monetary consequences: the overwhelming majority of visitors to online retailers don't make purchases. One of the reasons: they're unsure if the clothes will look good on them.

 "We wondered where the utility aspect is" with AR, said Szymczyk. "We wanted to bridge the gap between online shopping and offline shopping."

 Szymczyk points to a confluence of factors making AR inevitable. Webcams, once rare, are now quite common and a standard feature in many computers.

 What's more, developers can skip requiring a separate user plug-in by employing the latest version of Flash, which is installed on nearly 90 percent of computers.

 Zugara consciously attempted to create an app that was useful. To date, most brand AR applications have centered on immersive entertainment experiences, said Lars Bastholm, chief digital creative officer at Ogilvy North America. Many were entered in the Cyber category at the Cannes Lions competition, where Bastholm was jury president, yet few offered tangible benefits to consumers beyond a gee-whiz factor.

 "For now, it's mostly the newest toy in the playpen," he said. "Everyone is excited by what it can be. A lot of the stuff now is a little gimmicky and not that useful."

 Some of the executions have an undeniable wow factor. GE generated buzz with its Smart Grid site. It showed off the power of GE renewable technology by creating a hologram of windmills through the use of a Webcam and paper printouts. Goodby, Silverstein & Partners and North Kingdom created it.

 Similarly, Topps used AR to bring its trading cards to life. Holding up a specially marked card in front of a Webcam made a virtual representation of the baseball player in question appear and show off his skills.

 The biggest hope for the field moving into useful, mainstream applications is in the mobile arena. Acrossair created a mini sensation with the release of a video clip showing its mobile subway finder. It uses the new iPhone's video camera and location technology to provide layer-on-top information about the nearest subway. Users can hold their phones up and get directions. This combination, according to Marc Lucas, executive creative director at Razorfish, holds the promise of being the "decoder ring" for any number of applications.

 Other AR mobile apps are springing up. One iPhone app shows where nearby Twitterers are located. A Dutch software developer has a mobile browser that displays local business information while a user scans an environment.

 While these types of mobile uses hold promise, Szymczyk said they would run up against one of the oldest limitations: battery life. Using a phone's video camera for long periods will bleed its power dry. That won't stop more applications from agencies wanting to try out the latest tech, predicted Bastholm.

 "There's no doubt augmented reality as overlay in the real world will be the biggest craze in the next year," he said.

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Ron Halcomb, 80, of Midway, passed away on Thursday, August 22, 2013, in Tallahassee. The funeral service will be at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, August 26, 2013 at Fresh Fire Worship Center, with Dr. Charles Pettis officiating. Family will receive friends on Monday from 10:00 a.m. until service time at the worship center. Faith Funeral Home is handling arrangements (850-539-4300 or www.faithfuneralhome.com).
Ron was a native of Hamilton, Ohio. He was a safety engineer for Lockheed-Martin and retired after 39 years of employment in both Denver and Cape Canaveral A.F.S. He moved to Tallahassee in 1992 with his wife, Betty, who passed away in 1999. Ron was an elder and board member at Fresh Fire Worship Center. He was an E-9 Master Gunnery Sgt. in the United States Marine Corps and fought in the Korean War. He was an avid outdoorsman and golfer, motorcycle enthusiast and Harley Davidson fanatic.
He is survived by his wife of 6 years, Paula Halcomb of Midway; two sons, David Alan Halcomb of Titusville and Daniel Edward Halcomb of Orlando; one sister, Judy Zinsmeister (Andrew) of Hamilton, step-mother, June Halcomb of Hamilton, OH and two grandchildren, Sean Halcomb of Titusville and Kelli Halcomb of Miami.
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» New proposals for light rail connections to LAX put in question whether an extension project will offer any major benefits.
Of the nation's largest cities, Los Angeles is one of the remaining few with no direct rail connection to its airport.* Over the past two decades, L.A. County has expanded its Metro Rail network considerably, but the closest it has gotten to a station at its largest airport — LAX — is a stop about a mile away from terminals on the Green Line light rail service, which does not reach downtown and requires customers to make a connection to a surface bus to get to and from check-in areas.
According to current plans, that will change in the next few decades. Metro dedicated $200 million to a light rail connector in its Measure R spending packaged passed by voters in 2008. The agency began studying potential direct links from its
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Since it was just me and my younger daughter for supper on Father's Day I decided to make some burgers. I started with a pound of ground beef, some smooth, meltable blue cheese I found in the fridge (had to trim off a little mold first), and a healthy dose of Steven's Black Forest rub.
I mixed everything by hand until I had a log that could be cut into 4 relatively equal pieces, because I had 4 buns that needed to be used.
But not 4 burger buns - 4 hot dog buns.
And not 4 plain burgers, either - 4 cheeseburgers.
I also grilled some of my new favorite bacon.
One advantage of putting a burger on a long roll is that the bacon fits a lot better! The assembly order was bottom bun, bacon, burger, mustard, bacon, top bun.
General consensus was that the burgers were really good (even Mrs. Chicken's burger that she reheated for lunch the next day) and I'll go so far as to say they were some of my best ever. There wasn't really a noticeable blue cheese flavor but there was sort of a tangy essence, and the Black Forest mix really went well with the beef. And we all know what bacon brings to a burger!


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BOCA RATON, Fla. – The Saint Leo volleyball team dropped a regular season match to the Lynn University Fighting Knights in the conference matchup by a score of 3-2 (25-21, 26-24, 19-25, 13-25, 9-15), Sunday afternoon from Boca Raton, Fla.
The match started with two close wins from the Lions (10-12, 2-8 SSC), who defeated the host Fighting Knights (13-9, 2-7 SSC) and sent them into the first break feeling nervous. After they returned, the Fighting Knights dominated the rest of the match, winning three consecutive sets to give the Lions yet another loss.
Despite the loss, Saint Leo still finished with an attack rate of.106. In addition freshman Tayler Hegg notched 11 digs and eight kills, while senior Sami Vierk had 15 kills and seven blocks in the effort. As a team, the Lions had 70 digs and eight aces, while the Fighting Knights finished with 66 digs and nine aces.
Angie Caple and Lizzy Raffa led the Fighting Knights attack with their numerous contributions. With an attach percentage of .588, Caple collected 22 kills, and four blocks. Meanwhile, her teammate, Raffa, gathered 15 kills and seven blocks, as well as an attacking rate of .375.
Saint Leo looks to rebound when they take on the University of Tampa Spartans on Friday, Nov. 2 from the Lions' home court in the Saint Leo University Marion Bowman Activities Center. The match is set to begin at 7:00 p.m.
For more on the volleyball program, please visit SaintLeoLions.com. Also, be sure to 'Follow' the Lions on Twitter and 'Like' the Lions on Facebook.
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My brother and I had cause for a special meal, so we treated ourselves to T-bone steaks. I thought I would give these the extra touch of an aged balsamic vinegar and olive oil marinade as pictured here:
For me, this marinade adds a touch of distinction to the meat and works great even with hamburgers as well. I let these bathe for six hours and then on to the grill they went.
I also gave them a good dose of kosher salt and course ground pepper. I just luv how the extra seasoning helps draw out the flavors and enhances the taste. That's all I need for steak, not garlic or other spices, though I can appreciate them. I may lack the finesse for getting killer skid marks, but I am most pleased to get a little bit of char around the more fatty areas.
Time to plate and reveal the cross sectional view. This photo does not do the actual appearance of the steak justice. I mean, what you see as pink is actually more of a reddish hue, as I cooked these to a medium rare. I served these up with a power salad and avocado on the side. There was much for which to be grateful here, and we really enjoyed this treat!
Moving on, I don't know why, but I frequently get in the mood for fish 'n chips. Wild caught, Alaska Cod is my fish of choice normally. I like to slather it with mayo and then coat with cornmeal. Off to the pit to grill indirectly.
Hard to tell the difference perhaps, but after a short while, fish is done.
Time to plate it up with the steak fries. Dressed the fish with a little lemon and tartar sauce. With that itch scratched, hopefully I'll be good for a week.
On to the sports food. I still had some leftover tritip from last week's cook.
So, I had some tostada crowns and opted to make taco salads. This is a great, flat rate way to make several tacos at once. I seasoned the meat with carne asada rub and a good dose of hot sauce (chilehead that I am). Then I mixed in shredded romaine lettuce, cilantro, cheddar cheese, cherry tomatoes, black olives, and avocado chunks. Followed up with more hot sauce. Game on, and good nutrition too! Oh, and that carne asada rub on the meat is so flavorfull and good!
Finally, this may not be BBQ, but what's not to luv about a hot pastrami sub come game time? Served on a hot, crispy crusted Italian bread loaf, with globs of mustard, sliced tomatoes, and Bubbies pickles and sauerkraut. This was a touchdown for me.


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SEVERAL train stations across Taunton Deane and West Somerset could be re-opened if radical proposals went ahead.
Richard Cottrell, Independent candidate for the West in the May 2014 European elections, is calling for a shake-up of rail services in Taunton Deane and West Somerset.
The former Euro MP, who is a member of the European Parliament's transport committee, said: "I am strongly in favour of a chord line proposal connecting re-opened stations at Wellington, Norton Fitzwarren and Creech St Michael with Taunton station, also calling for an entirely new stop at Taunton Staplegrove.
"Somerset County Council has been looking at a very similar proposal and it's now time to move forward," he said.
Mr Cottrell is also supporting an agreement with the private West Somerset heritage railway to restore direct services between Minehead and Taunton, with some services operating to and from Bridgwater.
He said: "The question as always is money in this age of politically-induced austerity. But the Government is talking about investment in infrastructure, so let them prove it."
Stations across Somerset were some of many in the UK which were axed in 1964 as part of the infamous Beeching cuts, and Wellington is thought to be the largest town on the Penzance to London Paddington line without an operating station.
Mark Edwards, deputy leader at Taunton Deane Council, has been drawing up a plan for a Metro rail service between Exeter and Taunton which would see the disused Wellington station re-open.
He said: "I'm very supportive of any plans to find ways of improving the rail network. I am, however, very aware of the major connectivity issues in such a process, which is why I'm concentrating on the work with Devon County Council to re-open Wellington and Cullumpton, which both sit on the main line and are realistic in their ambitions."


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NFTE: Injecting Entrepreneurship Into Inner City Education
The Huffington Post, November 2, 2010
While Americans focus on the results of the midterm election, something far more important is at stake. A large segment of America is in the midst of an economic and education crisis that threatens to relegate a vast majority of our future generations to the front seat of the bus: the driver's seat.
Consider the following data from the Census Bureau compiled by Scott Shane, Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at Case Western Reserve University:
- One in five white-owned businesses employs at least one person
- One in 18 black-owned businesses employs at least one person
- Average revenue for an employer firm: 4 million
- Average revenue for non-employer firm: 45,000
- Decline in revenue for U.S. businesses: 1.6 percent
- Decline in revenue for black-owned businesses: 16 percent
- Average white-owned business revenues: 395,000
- Average black-owned business revenues: 62,000
Consider also these data represent conditions in 2007, before the economic earthquake in 2008 that shattered dreams and shuttered many businesses. Today, Black America is in economic turmoil.
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A9 TV; 16 February 2012
Surat al-Kahf, 9; "Do you consider that the Companions of the Cave and Ar-Raqim were one of the most remarkable of Our Signs?" This also wonders whether "you consider that Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) and his followers are one of the most remarkable of Our Signs."
Surat al-Kahf, 10;
"When the young men took refuge in the cave..." Look, this place can also be regarded as a cave, in the metaphorical sense. "and said, 'Our Lord, give us mercy directly from You..." They also seek mercy from Allah. "and open the way for us to right guidance in our situation." In other words, Islamic Unity and Turkish-Islamic. I am interpreting the aspect that refers to our own century.
Surat al-Kahf, 11;
"So We sealed their ears with sleep in the cave for a number of years." We kept them and preserved them together.
Surat al-Kahf, 12;
"Then We woke them up again so that we might see which of the two groups would better calculate the time they had stayed there."
In other words, a reference to the followers of the Messiah (pbuh) and Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh), insha'Allah.
Surat al-Kahf, 13;
"We will relate their story to you with truth. They were young men who believed in their Lord." Now what are our brothers here? They are also young people who believe in the Lord. "and We increased them in guidance." What is guidance? A manifestation of Allah's title of al-Hadi. Look at the dictionary and you will see it means the Mahdi. Someone who has been brought to the excellent guidance of Allah, Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh).
Surat al-Kahf, 14;
"We fortified their hearts... [with fortitude and detemination]" Look, my beloved ones have two determining characteristics; fortitude and determination. Two characteristics on the road to Islamic Union and the mercy of Allah. "when they stood up…" against the way of the antichrist. When they began their struggle against Darwinism and materialism, "and said, 'Our Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth'..." It is Allah Who creates all things. "and We will not call on any god apart from Him." In other words, we will not be communists or Darwinists or materialists. "We would in that case have uttered an abomination. [had we said the opposite]" If we say that we are Darwinists and materialists. That would be a lie, they say.
Surat al-Kahf, 15;
"These people of ours..." The people around us are our mothers and fathers, our brothers and uncles. Or our close friends. "have taken gods apart from Him." They have become Darwinists and materialists. "Why do they not produce a clear authority concerning them?" Why do they not produce such explicit evidence as fossils, the structure of protein and the like? "Who could do greater wrong than someone who invents a lie against Allah?"
Allah says, "Who could be worse than a liar who says that the universe came into being by chance, that living things came into being by chance?" The figurative sense of the verse.
Surat al-Kahf, 16
[One of them said] "When you have separated yourselves from them" from the Darwinists and materialists "and everything they worship except Allah," in other words, when you have renounced all beliefs apart from Islam and the Qur'an. "Take refuge in a cave" gather yourselves together. "and your Lord will unfold His mercy to you..." He will provide food and drink and everything. Hide in the case and your Lord will provide all you need. What can a person do in a cave? Nothing. But Allah says, "I will look after you." I will meet all your needs. I will give you wealth and comfort. "your Lord will unfold His mercy to you and open the way to the best for you in your situation." For example, Allah gives me the opportunity to talk about the religion to the whole world, every bit of the world, through the internet and television. He makes the work easier. Because it would be hard for them to go knocking on people's doors, one by one. But in this way they will have preached to everyone.
Surat al-Kahf, 17;
"You would have seen the sun, [when you looked at them] when it rose, inclining away from their cave towards the right, and, when it set, leaving them behind on the left." They are in their home environments. "while they were lying in an open part of it. [the cave]" They are now lying in an open part of the cave. ak şu anda onlar da mağaranın geniş boşluğundalar. Methleena, Marmoosh, Dabarnoosh, Shaadnoosh, Kafashtateeoosh and Khitmeer. In an open part. All together. "That was one of Allah's Signs." Allah is saying that He created this, and that this is a Sign. "Whoever Allah guides..." Whoever He manifests His title of al-Hadi to. "is truly guided." He is the Mahdi. Someone who enjoys the guidance of Allah. Open the dictionary. Mahdi means someone who is given guidance. "But if He misguides someone," If he makes someone the antidajjal, if he gives them Darwinist and materialist ideas, or communist ideas, or satanic ideas, "you will find no protector for them to guide them rightly." Only satan will help them.
Surat al-Kahf, 18;
"You would have supposed them to be awake whereas in fact they were asleep." Life is sleep, a dream, you see. Everything is a dream. Allah creates things as a dream. Matter does exist on the outside. But we only see a dream. "We moved them to the right and to the left," In other words, Allah did everything for them. They were fully submitted to Allah. I caused their every movement, Allah says. "at the entrance, their dog stretched out its paws." "I also created the system to protect them," Allah is saying. "I kept them under my protection," says Almighty Allah. "If you had looked down and seen them, you would have turned from them and run," What do people do when they see the followers of Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh)? They turn and run. Where do we see this? In the hadiths. Why 313 people? So people fear them and run away. "and have been filled with terror at the sight of them."
They would be greatly frightened. And that is now being manifested in us, since we are followers of Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh). I am also a follower of Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh), and those manifestations appear in me. People who have no fear of hoodlums, the mafia, lowlifes, drugs dealers, but who live side by side, cheek by jowl, with them. Surat al-Kahf, 19;
"That was the situation when we woke them up so they could question one another." Which verse is this? No 19. We woke them up, brought them back to life. "One of them asked, 'How long have you been here?' They replied, 'We have been here for a day or part of a day'." A very short time. There is a hadith that says that time accelerates in the End Times. "They said, 'Your Lord knows best how long you have been here. Send one of your number into the city with this silver you have, so he can see which food is purest and bring you some of it to eat." This means the followers of Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) will have money. They will have material means. Allah will give them money and means. They are in the cave, but Allah sends them money. They have ready money. There is no mint in the. Allah sends them money. "Send one of your number into the city with this silver you have, so he can see which food is purest and bring you some of it to eat." So they are in the city, and urban dwellers. Great attention is paid to cleanliness. They are careful even about the cleanliness of their food. And my dear ones are the same. "But he should go about with caution so that no one is aware of you,"
My dear ones are very polite and well-mannered. They treat everyone very well. They are very respectful. "But he should go about with caution." So people must not realize you are followers of Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh). Because if the committee of the antichrist realize, they will move against you. Keep it secret. And since we are pioneers for Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh), we also come under attack by curs, crazies, hypocrites, extremists, people of no character and people with a thirst for blood. Log on to Facebook and see. The army of the antichrist are rampaging through it. All satan's people, iblis' people, are jumping up and down and shouting things in a chorus. They all have the same target, since we are pioneers for Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh).
Surat al-Kahf, 20;
"for if they find out about you they will stone you," if they realize. These dogs are utterly crazy. They can attack you or defame you or anything. "or make you revert to their religion," They will force you to adopt their religion, or try to make you do so. "and then you will never have success." You can never be saved. Not for all eternity. Because if you do such a thing you will stay in hell for ever. That is what it means.
Surat al-Kahf, 21;
"so they might know that Allah's promise is true." That the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) is true, that Islamic Union is true, and the coming of Jesus the Messiah (pbuh). "and that there is no doubt about the Hour." That the signs of the Day of Judgment are true, "We made them chance upon them unexpectedly," We have shown people the followers of the Mahdi (pbuh) and the Messiah (pbuh). "When they were arguing among themselves about the matter," these young people were arguing. "they said, 'Wall up their cave'," Look, they have master stonemasons as their helpers. This means the masons will also help Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh). Master stonemasons, masons, insha'Allah. Hazrat Khidr (pbuh) is a master stone mason, as you know. "Wall up their cave, their Lord knows best about them." So they are also good builders. They will construct buildings and a city, insha'Allah. "But those who got the better of the argument concerning them said, 'We will build a place of worship over them'."
This means the people of faith will be allied with the people of the Temple. That is what the Qur'an shows.
Surat al-Kahf, 22;
"They will say [to later generations], 'There were three of them, their dog being the fourth.' They will say, 'There were five of them, their dog being the sixth,' guessing at the Unseen. And they will say, 'There were seven of them, their dog being the eighth.' Say: 'My Lord knows best their number. Those who know about them are very few'." What does Bediuzzaman say? "very few people will know Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) and his followers," he says. And what does this verse say? "Those who know about them are very few." They can only be known through the light of faith," says Bediüzzaman. Their numbers will be between three and seven, more or less. How many people are there here? Six. That is between three and seven. Like the followers of the Companions of the Cave. That is the figurative meaning, of course. "So do not enter into any argument concerning them, except in relation to what is clearly known." Do not speak about or against them. Say nothing about them. That is what the verse means. "And do not seek the opinion of any of them regarding them." Our brother who asked the question, and our other brothers, must try hard to grasp the meaning here. You must understand for yourself, with wisdom.
It was as cold as this once in 1956, and again now, masha'Allah. In other words, it is as cold now as it was in 1956, after 56 years. The same rivers froze then, and have frozen again now. Fifty-six years later.
Many people do not even know where they are. Where is Kazakhstan? Where is Tajikistan? Where is Uzbekistan? They do not even know the names of the Turkic states. This is very wrong, a sickness. Allah commands Islamic countries to "be one, be united." "When there is an attack or anything they must all respond together," He says. They cut the ears off Muslims in Afghanistan. They cut their fingers off and preserve them. Then they say from here how disgraceful it all is. But you would raise the roof if they cut your daughter's, your children's fingers off and dry them. They are also our children and brothers and very dear to us.
(Regarding Pope Benedict)
For the Pope to be good, for one thing he must be against Darwinism. But the Pope once sat down and brought all the Darwinists, materialists and godless, Bookless types together under his roof. Tell us all about Darwinism and materialism, he said. And they went on about Darwinism and materialism at great length, saying "There is no Allah, and no Book." Saying it all came about by chance. Then when Oktar stood up and told them to stop lying, the man's (the Darwinist who was speaking) blood pressure fell to 6 over 2.5. He turned white. White all over. And fled. Now the Pope has to put that error right. Let him hold another meeting there. And let us speak this time. So we can speak of the invalidity of Darwinism and materialism.
(About onions and garlic)
Our Prophet (pbuh) would go nowhere near them. He tells us not to eat onions and garlic. They are most repulsive. Our prophet (pbuh) would not let people who had eaten onions and garlic in the assembly. It is totally wrong to eat onions and garlic and then turn up there.2012-04-05 10:27:24


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Addressing the Federal Parliament on Tuesday afternoon, Mr Abbott also announced the government would waive visa fees for families of the plane's passengers should they want to come to Australia.
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Mr Abbott said he spoke to Mr Razak on Tuesday morning and offered "every assistance and co-operation".
Mr Abbott said many relatives of the 239 passengers and crew on board the plane would likely want to come to Australia in the coming days.
"I want them all to know ... that they will be in the arms of a decent country. The government has decided to waive visa fees for any relatives wishing to come to Australia."
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Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss said the Malaysian government would take over the investigation for the lost flight as bad weather hampered efforts to recover any wreckage.
He said on Tuesday morning confirmation by Prime Minister Razak that the plane had crashed killing all on board moved the investigation into a new phase, with Malaysia taking control under the Chicago Convention on international civil aviation.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said on Tuesday that HMAS Success had left the search area because of rough seas.
It will head south until the seas - with waves up to two metres and a swell up to four metres - abate. The search area is also forecast to experience strong gale force winds of up to 80km/h, periods of heavy rain, and low cloud with a ceiling between 200 and 500 feet, AMSA said.
"AMSA has undertaken a risk assessment and determined that the current weather conditions would make any air and sea search activities hazardous and pose a risk to crew," it said.
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AMSA said it consulted with the Bureau of Meteorology and weather conditions are expected to improve in the search area in the evening and over the next few days.
"Search operations are expected to resume tomorrow, if weather conditions permit," AMSA said.
Mr Truss said Australia stood ready to assist, but sophisticated underwater equipment would most likely have to be supplied by the United States.
He said a criminal investigation still had not been ruled out.
"The announcement by the Prime Minster that Malaysia believes that the aircraft is lost and that there will be no survivors does move the search to a new phase," he said.
"It moves it to a stage where we are now investigating an accident, a loss of an aircraft and some new decisions will have to be taken now about the direction of future operations.
"Malaysia needs to take control under the Chicago Convention of those investigations."
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Mr Truss said the HMAS Success had been in the area of ocean where sightings potentially related to MH370 had been made but officers had not recovered a single piece that might be associated with the aircraft.
He said the Malaysian government's announcement was based purely on the satellite imagery and calculations available "so it's really a long, long way away before much can be done by way of physical examination".
"It's still important for us to try and find as much of the aircraft as possible," he said.
"The ideal would obviously be to locate as much of the wreckage as possible.
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The Deputy Prime Minister said he expected several countries would want to be involved in the investigation, including the US, which built the Boeing 777 plane.
He said if it was determined that there had been some kind of deliberate intervention on the plane there would need to be a criminal investigation.
Families of the 239 people on board were informed on Monday night of the Malaysian government's confirmation the plane had crashed.
Mr Truss said there had been contact with the Australian families of passengers on board.
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In Perth on Tuesday Defence Minister David Johnston highlighted the many difficulties facing the search, while visiting the Pearce RAAF Base, where the search is being conducted from.
Mr Johnston described the search as a "massive logistical exercise" and will later meet with the crews involved in the search.
Earlier in the day, bad weather put a stop to the search of the area more than 2000 kilometres from the West Australian coast.
Mr Johnston said while it was understood the plane had gone down in the area, "unless we recover and positively identify a piece of debris, everything is obviously speculation."
He said the search was taking place in "probably one of the most remote parts of the planet", where the ocean was about 3500 metres deep.
Mr Johnston said another aircraft from Korea would join the international team to scour the southern Indian Ocean for debris on Tuesday afternoon.
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One year ago today...that's when the rest of my life began!!! I still remember that morning clearly. Surgery had been scheduled for 11:00, until the day before when a sudden call from the doctor said "Get there as early as you can and we will get you into the OR as soon as possible!" All of my family had to be told so they could change their plans. My plans were easy...show up!
I tried not to think about what was going to happen. I knew it had to be done, so why be scared? I do wish I had asked a couple more questions...what will the incision look like? (It began between my breasts, went south to above my belly button and took a hard right turn around to my side...50 staples!) How long will surgery last? (3 1/2 hours) I did ask the obvious..."What if it comes back?" and was told "We take it out again!!!" But, I never even considered the thought that the surgery might not actually occur. That they might get in there and find that the cancer had spread, and that there was no hope. Thank goodness. The butterflies in my stomach would have been big hairy monsters gnawing at my innards if I had consciously had to worry about that!!!
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The CT scans have all been good. My next is March 11, which has actually always been a very bad day in my life, but I am not superstitious and maintain that it will be just fine, too. After the March scan, I will be going every 6 months instead of every 3. That scares the hell out of me! But, the doc knows best!
This is an important day for me, and I just wanted everyone to know that there IS hope. We have survivors on this board that prove that everyday. Thank you all so much for being here when I needed you. I will continue to come to this board everyday, and I will hopefully continue to post good news!
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OLD Halesonians head for South Leicester this Saturday looking to keep themselves in the thick of this season's National League Three Midlands title race.
The Wassell Grove side currently occupy third spot behind powerful Warwickshire sides Broadstreet and Nuneaton.
Halesonians team manager Simon Hussey realises his side cannot afford to slip-up at South Leicester and insisted: "There can be no complacency from us. "South Leicester are a physical outfit and, like a number of sides in this division, they will be difficult to beat on their home ground, but we need to win and keep the pressure on the leaders."
Hales have lost winger Joe Oxford for the rest of the season having dislocated his knee in the victory over Scunthorpe.
But Hussey confirmed: "We should have sufficient cover with Jack Manners and Simon Sabel both available."