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A lot of people prepare themselves for the worst in terms of natural disasters. They stock up on canned foods, generators, first aid kits and other things that can come in handy if a calamity strikes. But what if something worse than a natural disaster was about to hit your residence? There are many doomsday scenarios which have been portrayed in movies, book and articles all over the internet. The shelters shown below, can not only withstand natural disasters but even man-made disasters of apocalyptic proportions.

1. Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Norway)

Can someone share with me, what General HSE and Supervision HSE Level 3 entail? Many thanks.

Cry cry baby. Can you compare how often islamic and christian topics hit the front page?

Samgreguc:
The speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Aminu Tambuwal has finally defected to opposition party, the All Progressive Congress, APC.

Since the formation of the party, the Speaker has always shown his sympathy for APC and has always associated with its leaders while also at the same time distancing himself from major PDP functions.

Before his defection, many political observers saw in him a presidential candidate the opposition party may be willing to gamble with.

It is yet to be confirmed if he will throw his cap into the ring as a presidential aspirant.

http://dailypost.ng/2014/10/20/breaking-speaker-aminu-tambuwal-defects-apc/

. Good for him.

That guy has started yearning dust again. Instead being on his knees to plead with the big bros

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Matttthew:
Make i sit first.

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Try again later. You all missed it.

We are used to it.

Good news. Good news.

Adeboye don dine with devil. Same of the same.

Ayamatanga people. So na Isawuru marry Bose for real life. End shall never wonder.

No problem Sir.

hisblud:
Thanks, you have shown me the way, will gladly do but pls will ask for your help as I continue. Thank

hisblud:
wow that's great, how was it possible? Could you be kind 'to share?

I may not be able to go into details about what I did. But read up or watch video lecture how to setup a Terminal Server and hosts to connect the server. That is all you need to do.

khattab02:
Jazakallahu khairan.. Very nice, interesting and touching. May Allah increase & strengthen her and her family in eemaan and grant them Aljannah.. Ameen and you too op.

May Allah make us to continue being muslim and make us die in Islam.. Ameeen!

Amin my brother. I am proud to be a Muslim.

Brb.

hisblud:
Hi I was think out the benefits of cloud computing whereby different computers have access to one system's resources. So I was wondering if one can be able to create a cloud environment offline whereby multiple systems can access the resources of the main system. For example, main system has office 2007 and system a,b,c etc can all have access to the office 2007 software but their work is saved on their own system. Someone spoke of team viewer but the problem of teamviewer is that it controls the mouse which is not what am thinking. Pls is it possible

Yes. It is possible. I have done that several times in my lab.

Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/14/opinion/muslim-convert-irpt/index.html?c=intl-homepage-t&page=1

Mod, front page material. Let them learn.

(CNN) - I am a Muslim, but I wasn't always. I converted to Islam in November 2001, two months after 9/11.

I was 21 and living in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It was a bad time to be a Muslim. But after four years of studying, poking and prodding at world religions and their adherents, I decided to take the plunge.


I am the product of a Creole Catholic and an Irish atheist. I grew up Catholic, then was agnostic, now I'm Muslim.

My journey to Islam began when I was about 15 years old in Mass and had questions about my faith. The answers from teachers and clergymen -- don't worry your pretty little head about it -- didn't satisfy me.

So I did what any red-blooded American would do: the opposite. I worried about it. For many years. I questioned the nature of religion, man and the universe.

After questioning everything I was taught to be true and digging through rhetoric, history and dogma, I found out about this strange thing called Islam. I learned that Islam is neither a culture nor a cult, nor could it be represented by one part of the world. I came to realize Islam is a world religion that teaches tolerance, justice and honor and promotes patience, modesty and balance.

As I studied the faith, I was surprised many of the tenants resonated with me. I was pleased to find that Islam teaches its adherents to honor all prophets, from Moses to Jesus to Mohammed, all of whom taught mankind to worship one God and to conduct ourselves with higher purpose.

I was drawn to Islam's appeal to intellect and heartened by the prophet Mohammed's quote, "The acquisition of knowledge is compulsory for every Muslim, whether male or female."

I was astounded that science and rationality were embraced by Muslim thinkers such as Al-Khawarizmi, who invented algebra; Ibn Firnas, who developed the mechanics of flight before Leonardo DaVinci; and Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi, who is the father of modern surgery.
Here was a religion telling me to seek out answers and use my intellect to question the world around me.

Taking the plunge

It was 2001, and I had been putting off converting for a while. I feared what people would think but was utterly miserable. When 9/11 happened, the actions of the hijackers horrified me. But in its aftermath, I spent most of my time defending Muslims and their religion to people who were all too eager to paint a group of 1.6 billion people with one brush because of the actions of a few.

I was done being held hostage by the opinions of others. In defending Islam, I got over my fear and decided to join my brothers and sisters in the faith I believed in.

My family did not understand, but it wasn't a surprise to them since I had been studying religion. Most were very concerned for my safety. Luckily, most of my friends were cool about it, and even curious to learn more.

The scarf

These days, I am a proud wearer of hijab. You can call it a scarf. My scarf does not tie my hands behind my back, and it is not a tool of oppression. It doesn't prevent thoughts from entering my head and leaving my mouth. But I didn't always know this.

Studying Islam didn't immediately dispel all my cultural misconceptions. I had been raised on imagery of women in the East being treated like chattel by men who forced them to cover their bodies out of shame or a sense of ownership.

But when I asked a Muslim woman "Why do you wear that?", her answer was obvious and appealing: "To please God. To be recognized as a woman who is to be respected and not harassed. So that I can protect myself from the male gaze."

She explained how dressing modestly is a symbol to the world that a woman's body is not meant for mass consumption or critique.
I still wasn't convinced and replied, "Yeah, but women are like second class citizens in your faith?"

The very patient Muslim lady explained that, during a time when the Western world treated women like property, Islam taught that men and women were equal in the eyes of God. Islam made the woman's consent to marriage mandatory and gave women the opportunity to inherit, own property, run businesses and participate in government.

She listed right after right that women in Islam held nearly 1,250 years before women's lib was ever thought of in the West. Surprisingly, Islam turned out to be the religion that appealed to my feminist ideals.

Getting married

It might shock you to know that I had an arranged marriage. That doesn't mean I was forced to marry my father's first choice suitor, like Jasmine from "Aladdin." Dad didn't even have a say.

When I converted, it wasn't a good time to be a Muslim. Feeling isolated, alienated and rejected by my own society pushed me to want to start a family of my own. Even before converting, I had always wanted a serious relationship but found few men looking for the same.

As a new Muslim, I knew there was a better way to look for love and a lifelong partnership. I decided that if I wanted a serious relationship, it was time to get serious about finding one. I wanted an arranged marriage.

I made a list of "30 Rock"-style deal breakers. I searched. I interviewed. I interrogated friends and families of prospects.

I decided I wanted to marry another convert, someone who had been where I was and wanted to go where I wanted to go. Thanks to parents of friends, I found my now-husband, a convert to Islam, in Mobile, Alabama, two hours from my New Orleans home. Twelve years later, we are living happily ever after.

Not every Muslim finds a mate in this manner, and I didn't always see this for my life. But I am glad Islam afforded me this option.
Living in a post-9/11 world

I never had to give up my personality, American identity or culture to be a Muslim. I have, at times, had to give up on being treated with dignity.

I have been spat on, had eggs thrown at me and been cursed at from passing cars. And I have felt terror when the mosque I attended in Savannah, Georgia, was first shot at, then burned down.

In August 2012, I moved back home to New Orleans, where being different is the norm. I finally felt safe -- for a while. But now, with the continuous news coverage of the un-Islamic group known as ISIS, I have been subjected to much of the same treatment I received in other cities. And I now feel less safe than I ever have.

It enrages me to know there are some who call themselves Muslims and who distort and misappropriate Islam for political gains.

It weighs on me knowing that millions of my countrymen see only these images as a representative of my religion. It is unbearable to know that I am passionately hated for my beliefs, when those hating me don't even know what my beliefs are.

In my journey to Islam, I came to learn that Muslims come in all shapes, sizes, attitudes, ethnicities, cultures and nationalities. I came to know that Islam teaches disagreement and that shouldn't lead to disrespect, as most Muslims want peace.

Most of all, I have faith that my fellow Americans can rise above fear and hatred and come to learn the same.

Gory! Op, Always add users discretion advised in your title when you have a pic like this.

What is this?

Because he is Azikwe

God bless Nigerian military.

An American passenger was booted off a US Airways flight and screened after reportedly joking that he had Ebola and telling the rest of the flyers they were “screwed.”

During a flight from Philadelphia to the Dominican Republic, the 54-year-old American – who remains unidentified – reportedly yelled, “I have Ebola, you are all screwed,” according to the Dominican news outlet Diario Libre.

He also yelled out, “I’ve been to Africa!” an airport official told Fox News Latino.

He didn’t yell “bomb,” but he might as well have. After the supposed joke was aired, there was noticeable panic and concern on the airplane, which was carrying 290 passengers. The plane was isolated as soon as it landed in Punta Cana, where a medical team outfitted with hazmat suits boarded the aircraft and removed the passenger.

READ MORE: Ebola scare: LaGuardia on strike, 58% of Americans want to ban flights from W. Africa

After conducting a medical check, the passenger was found not to be infected with the virus. Though he was coughing on the flight, he had no fever when he was inspected. He had never been to Africa, either.

In a video captured by a passenger, an African-American can be seen being taken out of the plane by medical officials.

"We delivered the passenger to the airline, which has its policy, but he will be returned to the United States, where he will be submitted to another rigorous check," Walter Zemialkowski, the director of operations at the International Airport of Punta Cana, said to Diario Libre.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Public Health said there was a passenger suspected of having Ebola, but that the results were negative for the virus.

"It is absolutely false the information that states that through the Punta Cana Airport a person suspected of being sick with Ebola arrived in our country," said Eduardo Rosario Bourdierd, the ministry’s communications director.

Other passengers were kept from leaving the plane for almost two hours until they were allowed to leave.

"We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused, but the safety of our customers and crews is our main priority," US Airways said in a statement to Fox.

Of course, concern over Ebola is the highest it’s been since the outbreak began in West Africa. This week, the first patient to be diagnosed with the virus in the United States died, sparking calls for action and even travel bans from politicians and pundits. The US announced on Wednesday that it would begin screening incoming travelers at five major American airports.

Cases of Ebola have topped 8,000 now, according to official data from the World Health Organization, though many cases could actually be unreported. The death toll continues to climb near 4,000, and officials have stressed the outbreak is unprecedented and may continue to get worse.

http://rt.com/usa/194736-airline-passenger-removed-ebola-joke/

clara472:
Rivers State governor and chairman of Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) Mr. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has alleged massive corruption ongoing at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
Source: http://www..com.ng/index.php/political-news/item/399-amaechi-alleges-massive-stealing-at-nnpc-fingers-presidency-as-mastermind

Nothing new. We know all Nigerian politicians are thieves including Amaechi and the guy that eats 1billion naira food in a month.

It amuses me why people tend to choose some places in any automobile.

1. In public buses, you tend to see people fighting to sit at the front of the vehicle. I don't really know why.

2. Housewives claiming the seat next to the driver. You hear her saying "that is my seat. No one should sit there".

3. In public buses, danfo particularly, if you find yourself sitting at the back seat. You will see weird things. That is where you see first lucky passenger that should sit at the rear end (beside the window) bending legs as if there is ebola disease on the incoming passenger or where to seat. It affects everyone to be candid. Either educated or not.

4. In airplanes, you find passengers arguing about sittg positions just because the troublesome passenger wants to sit beside the window.

Men admiring female pastors and pastors admiring choirs.

Salam alaik. Please PM me. In sha Allah, I will give you some contacts and you will have your way out.

Stop that already. Let Obama respond.

CIO‘s Press Conference on the $9.3m Cash For Arms Deal
Tuesday, 22 September, 2014 at Ansar Ud Deen Society of Nigeria Hall, Ajao Road, Surulere, Lagos
The Conference of Islamic Organisations (CIO), a coalition of several Muslim organizations, central mosques, Muslim professional bodies and faith-based organizations among others note with a heavy heart the ungodly and sinister relationship between the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) president, Pastor Ayo Joseph Oritsejafor with their latest attempted scandalous money-laundering and illegal arms procurement in South Africa.
It is no longer news that two Nigerians and an Israeli man Mr. Eyal Mesika attempted to smuggle $9.3million USD (equivalent to N1,514,502,583.61) into South Africa with the intent to procure ammunitions purportedly for intelligence services to combat insurgency in parts of north eastern Nigeria. Certain facts have been established as per the actors involved in the “illegal” arms deal and money-laundering crime, albeit, the President of CAN, Pastor Ayo Joseph Oritsejafor, owner of the Bombardier Challenger 600 Jet, President Goodluck Jonathan Government and Mr. Eyal Mesika, a representative of the Israeli Government.
The Conference of Islamic Organizations (CIO) unequivocally reject the position canvassed by the General Secretary of CAN, Rev. Dr. Musa Asake to exonerate the president of CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor from the smuggled cash and illegal arms deals in their paid advertorial on page 12 of The Nation newspaper on Sunday, 21st September, 2014. It is unfortunate that CAN is not addressing the issue at stake, i.e. money laundering, violation of cashless policy and illegal arms procurement with the Jet of its president, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor but rather dissipating its energy and resources on personalizing the matter by joining issues with a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory. In the same vein, we find the position and reaction of the Federal Government to the cash-arms-deal terribly appalling. It is a very bad attempt at sweeping a gravely criminal act under the carpet. It is not a mere “procedural error”. It is a well-coordinated attempt
at covertly undermining national security. Such an argument on the part of government and its cohort is not only lame, laughable and ludicrous but provocative, vexatious and an insult on the collective intelligence of Nigerians.
If indeed the money was meant for a legitimate procurement of arms for the Nigerian security agencies, the following pertinent questions needs convincing and logical answers:
1. Are there no official Jets in government fleets that could be used to transact such an important deal?
2. Why has the government of President Goodluck Jonathan chosen to conduct its arms procurement outside the normal official channels but through the private jet of the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN)?
3. Is the covert arms buying with the private jet of a Christian leader and president of CAN in particular not suspicious and would further heat up the polity?
4. Otherwise, why would such a huge cash of money be moved by the Federal Government in a private jet by private persons and no single official from the office of the National Security Adviser or Department of State Services or the military involve?
5. Why did the Federal Government fail to officially notify the South African Government of the cash-for-arms deal until it was apprehended by the latter government agency?
6. Is the movement of such huge amount of cash not a negation of the cashless policy of the Federal Government?
7. If in truth and honesty the cash-arms-deal is legitimate, why did the Federal Government fail to follow the protocol of notifying officials of Nigerian Embassy in South Africa so that all necessary arrangements would have been made to declare and clear the cash on arrival in South Africa?
8. If truly the transaction is legitimate, why was the National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC) in South Africa, a body vested with the power to approve the import and export of any weapons as well as issue permits for such transactions not aware of any applications from the Federal Government of Nigeria?
9. If the Federal Government is not been economical with the truth, why transacting such a deal with Tier One and ESD, both unregistered firms with the NCACC in South Africa? Or Is the Federal Government claiming ignorance that both firms are not authorized to enter into any agreements regarding rental or/and sale of military equipment?
10. Was it a mere coincidence that it was the private jet of the president of CAN, a kinsman of President Goodluck Jonathan who has consistently advocated that the Federal Government has not been doing much to tackle the insurgency in the northern parts of the country, particularly in the Muslim dominated regions of Nigeria that was used by the contractor(s) of arms procurement?
11. Or has the Federal Airports Authority of Nigerian (FAAN) laws guiding the usage of non-scheduled commercial operators been amended to allow private jets owners such as the one belonging to Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, president of CAN use their planes for commercial purposes illegally?
Against this background, CIO take exemption to the way the Federal Government tries to cover up this illegal transaction. Our fears are being confirmed that Muslims are no longer safe in Nigeria with the ongoing Federal Government and President Goodluck Jonathan-Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor CAN-leadership. We are not surprised that Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor has hijacked CAN for his selfish interest and succeeded two years ago in frustrating the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria to suspend its participation at CAN meetings at the national level “over some recent attitudes, utterances and actions of the national leadership of CAN…” CIO therefore believes that the illegal arms procurement is not unconnected with the political ambition of President Goodluck Jonathan and ably assisted by his kinsman and close friend, the president of CAN whom the Catholic bishops lamented has politicized CAN and using it to divide Nigerians on ethno-religious lines as
“CAN is being dragged into partisan politics thereby compromising the ability to play its true role as conscience of the nation and the voice of the voiceless.”

We are also wondering if the scandalous arms procurement deal associated with the private Jet of the president of CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor and large sum of cash was not part of the preparation to fully arm and fortify the Niger-Delta militants, political thugs and “snipers” which former president Olusegun Obasanjo alleged in his 18-page letter Before It is Too Late written to President Goodluck Jonathan of “…training snipers and other armed personnel secretly and clandestinely acquiring weapons to match for political purposes…” more so that the likes of Elder Edward Clark and his boys have sworn that if President Goodluck Jonathan did not win the 2015 presidential election, there would be nothing like Nigeria again.
In order to allay the fears of Nigerians and assure Muslims that there is no conspiracy whatsoever, the national assembly must get to the root of this scandal which has ridiculed the image of Nigeria in the world. We deserve to know why a calculated and deliberate attempt was made to smuggle such a large amount of cash out of the country into South Africa, it must also identify the identities of the two Nigerians involved and their ethno-religious background; and verify and confirm where was the money sourced from? Is it from the Central Bank of Nigeria or where? Was it appropriated by the national assembly or otherwise? Who authorized the transaction? And which arms of the security agency are the equipment meant for?

Until the outcome of the investigation by the national assembly is made known to the public, CIO rejects the flimsy arguments given by the Federal Government as well as the lame cover up by CAN in its paid advertorial carried on page 12 of The Nation newspaper on Sunday, 21 September, 2014.
We urge all Muslims to remain calm, peaceful and law-abiding until we get to the root of the scandalous transaction in earnest.
God bless all.

Sheikh AbdurRahman Ahmad Imam Abdullahi Shuaib
Convener Coordinator

RICHIEBOI1: U need glasses abi?

How does any of the two resembles Fashola? We need proof boy!

And now, she-cow is dead again. This is now tragicomedy.

Proof?

Well done man. My God is with you. True and genuine Nigerians love you.