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Beware the general public I am sharing this email for your safety..!

NEW FRAUD given below is happend to someone & he has narrted this in his own words : ” I received a call from someone claiming that he was from my mobile Service provider and he asked me to shutdown my phone for 2 hours for 3G update to take place. As I was rushing for a meeting, I did not question, but just shut down my cell phone. After 45 minutes I felt very suspicious since the caller did not even introduce his name. I quickly turned on my cell phone and saw several missed calls from my family members and the others were from the number that had called me earlier –I called my parents and I was shocked that they sounded very worried asking me whether I am safe. My parents told me that they had received a call from someone claiming that they had me with them and asking for money to let me free. The call was so real and my parents even heard ‘my voice’ crying out loud asking for help. My father was at the bank waiting for next call to proceed for money transfer. I told my parents that I am safe and asked them to lodge a police report. Right after that I received another call from the guy asking me to shutdown my cell phone for another 1 hour which I refused to do and hung up. They kept calling my cell phone until the battery had run down. I myself lodged a police report and I was informed by the officer that there were many such scams reported. MOST of the cases reported that the victim had already transferred the money! And it is impossible to get back the money. Be careful as this kind of scam might happen to any of us!!! Those guys are so professional and very convincing during calls. If you are asked to shut down your cell phone for updates by the service provider, ASK AROUND! Your family or friends might receive the same call. ” Be Safe and Stay Alert! Please pass around to your family and friends !!! MUST SHARE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE People have been receiving calls from+375602605281, +37127913091or any number starting from +375, +371 number one ring & hang up. If you call back it’s one of those Numbers that are charged 15-30$ & they can copy ur contact list in 3sec & if u have bank or credit card details on your phone, they can copy that too. +375 is from Belarus From Afghanista.. 371 is the code for Lativa… Don’t answer or call back. Please FORWARD AND SHARE this to your friends and family.

The 2013 Moore tornado was an EF5 tornado that struck Moore, Oklahoma, and adjacent areas on the afternoon of May 20, 2013; with peak winds estimated at 210 mph (340 km/h), killing 24 people (+1 indirect fatality) and injuring 377 others.

My message to the President of the USA on 22 May, 2013:

@nayyarahmad: @BarackObama please inform people of Oklahoma that prayers of entire Pakistani’s r with them Our famous EDHI relief & rescue is ready 4 help.

“We are all weird. And life is weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we call it love.”

— Robert Fulghum

“One mistake does not have to rule a person’s entire life.”

— Joyce Meyer

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.”

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881);
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Boost Your Team’s Performance with a Task Map

If your team isn’t functioning as well as it should, ask whether employees are in the right roles. People are happier and more productive if they have opportunities to use their skills, but misalignments of abilities and responsibilities can happen over time. Get back on track by creating a task map: a visual tool that allows you to see where skills are lacking or duplicated on a team. It can realign people’s tasks to fit their skills, and result in greater productivity, high performance, and reduced turnover.
Assess people’s skills by looking at their accomplishments and assessments.
List their primary and secondary abilities on a whiteboard to see redundancies and gaps that have arisen. (For example, you may have four great analysts, but only one stellar project manager on your team.)
Create a list of the responsibilities and tasks required of your team members. How do their skills match with their tasks?

Adapted by HBR from “ Use a Task Map to Improve Your Team’s Performance” by Allison Rimm.

“Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.”

— Robert Tew

Provincial governments beware : Mango ripening chemicals are cancer causing and injurious for human health..!

Dear all the heads of political parties and the CM’s of the provinces,

AoA.

Sir,

The following news published today, by the Times of India, reveals a very grave danger for human health in mango ripening, with extremely harmful cancer causing chemical, named calcium carbide.

Industrial-grade calcium carbide contains traces of arsenic and phosphorous which are harmful to the body. It damages the skin, kidneys, heart and liver and also causes ulcer and gastric problems.

As such, all high and mighty who are in power in the provinces of Pakistan, are earnestly requested to order an immediate and most severe crack down on this criminal activity of the unscrupulous mango traders in Pakistan, where ripening of mangoes using hazardous chemicals is rampant, as well.

TOI News

AHMEDABAD: In the last few days, the health department of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has seized large stocks of mangoes artificially ripened using cancer-causing calcium carbide. On Wednesday, the AMC team inspected the Kalupur fruit market and seized 989 kg of mangoes that had been artificially-ripened. The team also seized more than 40 kg of the deadly carbide from the market.

Mangoes normally ripen towards the end of April, said senior officials at APMC Vejalpur. Hence those which are available in the market before mangoes are due have been ripened using acetylene gas produced from calcium carbide, said a mango vendor in Drive-In area. “In fact, mangoes cannot be ripened in 12 hours with carbide pouches. It is the skin of the fruit that turns yellow when acetylene gas is released from the pouches,” the vendor said.

Industrial-grade calcium carbide contains traces of arsenic and phosphorous which are harmful to the body. It damages the skin, kidneys, heart and liver and also causes ulcer and gastric problems.

Bhavin Solanki, Medical Officer of Health (MOH), said for artificial ripening, raw mangoes are packed in cartons and one small packet of calcium carbide placed between each mango layer. “Some traders put packets of calcium carbide to provide maximum artificial heat to quickly ripen the fruits,” Solanki said. Carbide is used in welding and even a small quantity if consumed can cause serious health problems.

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Syed Nayyar Uddin Ahmad

Lahore.

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Overcoming is to prevail over a struggle or conflict.

“Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it…If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.”

Mary Pickford (1892-1979);
actress