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NEW ORLEANS -- For New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees, the first four losses of the season had been an unmitigated disaster. But at least for one night, the future Hall of Famer was once again on top of the NFL world.
Chasing Johnny Unitas and NFL history, Brees threw four touchdown passes, three to Marques Colston, in the Saints' 31-24 comeback victory over the San Diego Chargers on Sunday night. It was the 48th consecutive game in which Brees has thrown a scoring pass, breaking Unitas' 52-year-old record.


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Big Data, Analytics and the Architecture of Computation
Whitaker Institute for Innovation and Societal Change, NUI Galway
Thursday, 14 November 2013 from 09:30 to 13:30 (GMT)
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Florence, Italy
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Workshop jointly hosted by the Irish Centre for High End Computing (ICHEC) and the Social Sciences Computing Hub at the Whitaker Institute
The half-day workshop will introduce some novel statistical methods and computational techniques involved in big data analytics, including the issue of cleaning the data sets and automated classification, and visualization. The workshop will also discuss both the conventional and emerging innovative computational solutions for working with big data.
The computations will be implemented in the R environment and the extensibility of the environment will be discussed.
This workshop will be beneficial to a wide range of researchers across Social Sciences, Humanities, Natural and Physical Sciences.
09:30 - Introduction to data analytics What is it, why is it important, where is it used
09:50 - Data analytics: Computation The R environment, Visualization and Extensibility
10:45 - Introduction to techniques and their implementation Cleaning, basic stats, regression, time series, automated classification
12:00 – 'Big data' and computer architecture What is 'big data', where they come from, the conventional and emerging computing solutions
12:30 - Q&A, discussion
Dr. Adam Ralph, ICHEC
Dr. Bruno Voisin, ICHEC
Dr. Michael Browne, ICHEC
Dr. Srinivas Raghavendra, NUIG
Contact: Gráinne Larkin, Whitaker Institute firstname.lastname@example.com
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Thursday, 14 November 2013 from 09:30 to 13:30 (GMT)
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Barbara Edelman's animated and captivating performance of Too Tough to Tame elevates this suspenseful and steamy Frontier-set romance to another level in her portrayal of the passionate, against-the-odds relationship between the wounded Native American Storm-in-His-Eyes and Tess Summar, the white woman who nurses him back to health.
Edelman impressively displays a variety of cadences and inflections throughout Deborah Camp's work, switching from the brusque, no-nonsense drawl of the duplicitous Marshall to the firm yet sensitive tone of Storm-in-His Eyes with equal aplomb.
Tess Summar dares to defy the white man's rules and goes alone to give medical aid to a Blackfoot with a price on his head. Storm-In-His-Eyes was shot by the Marshall after being framed for a murder he didn't commit. Hidden in a mountain cave, Storm lies burning with fever, barely awake as Tess tends to him. Lost in a hazy dream, he makes love to a beautiful stranger whose body yields to him in a magical cloud of beauty. Yet it is Tess who awakens in the dark cave to a shivering awareness of a powerful body resting intimately upon her...and a shameless desire that leaves her in disgrace. As he recovers, Storm, too, surrenders to an unrelenting passion that may destroy them...or capture them forever in a forbidden love.
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For me, family traditions are very important and my first daughter will definitely have my middle name as it's been passed along the family for generations. Have you considered a dual middle name? Normally, I'm against 2 middle names, but I think this works.
Clementine Lily Louise would incorporate both middle names. When I first saw the title of your post, I immediately thought Louise was the best option, so my vote goes to Clementine Louise if you don't like the double mn.(\_/)
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I don't think Clementine Louise sounds very good together to be quite honest! Clementine Grace is probably my favourite of yours, and if you like it so much, I think you should go for it!~Adelaide ~ Octavia~ Eulalie~ Clementine~ Magnolia~ Coralie~ Josephine~
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I like Clementine Lily the best out of all the names.
At one point I was loving Clementine Juliet. That is another that received a good response.TTC #1
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Amla (Emblica Officinalis)
Amla is one of the most often used herb in Indian ayurveda. It has a reputation as a powerful rejuvenating herb. The Amla fruit is reputed to have the highest content of vitamin C of any natural occurring substances in nature. Organic amla is almost good for everyone on a regular basis. Indian Research shows that 8.75 mg of natural vitamin C complex from Amla is equivalent to 100mg of the most commonly used synthetic vitamin C. Amla possesses the highest level of heat and storage stable vitamin C known to man.
- Family Name : Euphorbiaceae
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A) It enriches hair growth and hair pigmentation. It strengthens roots of hair, maintains color.
B) Amla powder prevents dandruff
C) Amla Protects the body from radiation
D) It helps in chronic cough, child hood, tuberculosis and allergic asthma .
E) Taking Amla juice with honey is good for improving eyesight.
F) Amla is rich in antibacterial qualities; it helps the body fight better against infection and also builds up your immunity, which makes you more resistant to diseases.


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When Jim Murphree began thinking about threats to the local urban forest, he didn't have to look beyond the five hackberry trees at his North Dallas apartment complex to identify one.
"The trees were covered in mistletoe," says Murphree, 78, a retired Episcopal priest. "It's like a weed in your garden. If you don't tend the weeds, they take over."
He asked his apartment manager to look into having the trees trimmed, and a year later, he says, a crew was hired. The workers cut out — as best they could — the clumps of green mistletoe on the line of trees shading the apartment's main building.
Murphree didn't stop there.
He contacted leaders at a local church and a school, a strip mall owner and several other commercial property owners who had trees infested with mistletoe. He informed Dallas officials about mistletoe in Fretz Park on Belt Line Road. On residential side streets in his neighborhood, he knocked on homeowners' doors and offered to split the cost of having mistletoe removed from trees in their yards.
"Everybody was polite, but nobody took me up on it," he says.
In all, he says, most people didn't dispute that mistletoe can harm trees. They just didn't share his sense of urgency. "Anybody who has dandelions in their yard knows that it starts with a few and pretty soon you have a lot of them and the seeds are blowing into the neighbors' yards," Murphree says.
Micah Pace, a staff forester with Texas A&M Forest Service and an urban forest specialist, says mistletoe is indeed harmful to host trees but the effects are gradual and long-term. "Mistletoe is parasitic, but it isn't a true parasite because it produces its own food," he explains.
The plant grows in the tree year-round, but it becomes a lot more obvious in the winter months when the leaves of landscape trees have dropped and its evergreen foliage is more noticeable.
Mistletoe's scientific name is Phoradendron, which means thief in Greek. It puts down roots under its host tree's bark and taps both the water moving up from the roots and the nutrients moving down from the leaves.
Sticky, pearlescent seeds clustered among the leaves are consumed by birds and deposited on the branches, where they germinate in place, Pace explains. So the more mistletoe an area has, the more likely it will spread.
"Parasites don't want to kill the host generally," says Pace. "So what you get are long-term health issues for the tree. Because water is being robbed from the crown, it will be less able to withstand drought. Branches are weakened so they become more likely to break in a storm. The decline is gradual."
For reasons that Pace said remain unexplained, mistletoe infects several species of trees while leaving others alone. In North Central Texas, cedar elm, bois d'arc and hackberry trees are most commonly affected, he said.
Nothing short of removing the host branch kills the mistletoe, he says. Pruning it or applying chemical controls will retard the plant's spread, but it will eventually grow back, he says.
While mistletoe is a problem and can lead to safety issues if it weakens major branches, Pace puts it "somewhat down the list" on issues park administrators must deal with in times of limited budgets. "Oak wilt kills quickly and spreads. It's the sort of problem that gets priority," he says.
Perhaps, but that won't stop Murphree from his work of increasing the public's awareness. It's simple, he says. "I hate mistletoe."
Thomas Korosec is a Dallas freelance writer.


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The Leavitt Group has opened a new office, Risk Services – Leavitt Insurance Agencies, in Houston. The agency will be co-managed/owned by Vladimir Chemadurov and Rob Eppers.
In the South Central region, Utah-based Leavitt Group also has existing offices in Shreveport and Alexandria, La.
Prior to joining the Leavitt Group, Chemadurov worked for GEM leading its practice in professional and contractual liability driven risks. He is a seasoned professional with experience in professional liability, contractual and product liability, commercial property, workers' compensation and Texas non-subscription insurance.
Chemadurov holds Certified Insurance Counselor (CIC) and Certified Risk Manager (CRM) designations and is a member of Houston Contractors Association (HCA) and the Texas Assisted Living Association (TALA).
Eppers is the COO for the Leavitt Group's Risk Services of Louisiana offices, overseeing the day-to-day operations of the business and developing strategic management initiatives. He also coordinates between underwriters and agents, implements successful business plans, and manages all marketing initiatives and corporate image.
Eppers has been with Risk Services of Louisiana for more than four years and in the insurance industry for 12 years.
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UT History Professors respond to NAS report on U.S. History courses
Thu, February 28, 2013
UT History Professors Jeremi Suri, Mack Brown Distinguished Professor for Global Leadership, History, and Public Policy, and Joan Neuberger, Professor of History and Editor of Not Even Past, responded to a recent study published by the National Association of Scholars (NAS), entitled "Recasting History: Are Race, Class, and Gender Dominating American History? A Study of U.S. History Courses at the University of Texas and Texas A&M University" (PDF).
The 64-page report claims among other things that American History courses taught at both institutions are overly focused on themes of race, gender and class. Professors Jeremi Suri and Joan Neuberger have written rejoinders on behalf of the UT History Department.
—"What kind of history should we teach?" by Jeremi Suri
—"Letter from the Editor," by Joan Neuberger
—"Responses from Authors of the NAS Report," by Joan Neuberger
A number of local, state, and national publications have written on this also, including:
American Historical Association, 1/29/13
What's in the History Survey? A Roundup of Reactions to the NAS Report
Austin American-Statesman, 1/22/13
Pols, don't 'fix' history-class content
Real Clear Politics, 1/18/13
"Defending Democracy by Teaching History" by Jeremi Suri
The Daily Texan, 1/17/13
"Reject Easy Ideas"
The Alcalde Advocates podcast, 1/17/13
The Chronicle of Higher Ed, 1/10/13
Report scrutinizes American history courses at 2 Texas universities
Texas Tribune, 1/10/13
In report, university history departments face scrutiny
UT Austin News, 1/10/13
University of Texas at Austin statement on National Association of Scholars Report
Austin American-Statesman, 1/10/13
A postscript of two on history classes at UT, A&M
Austin American-Statesman, 1/9/13
UT, A&M shortchanging students on American history, report says
KAMR Fox 14 – Amarillo, 1/10/13
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Practitioners and professors continue to explore new paths for legal education. Based on both pedagogy and market needs, I recommend this approach:
1. Move the first 1-1/2 years of law school into the undergraduate curriculum, creating a law major. Students who complete this curriculum will not be eligible to practice law, but they will benefit from a liberal arts education with a focus on thinking like a lawyer. These graduates will be able to apply their legal knowledge and critical thinking to business, public affairs, compliance, and a host of other careers. They will also be qualified to perform document review and other routine legal tasks that some JDs currently undertake.
2. Create a 2-year JD that builds upon the undergraduate degree and prepares graduates for law practice. Like other graduate departments, these programs will enroll fewer students than the undergraduate major. They will include substantial clinical and experiential work, as well as classes focused on advanced doctrinal and policy issues. Most students in these degree programs will focus on a particular field of law, although general practice will remain one of those options.
Here, briefly, are my rationales for this proposal. I hope to explore my reasoning at greater length in future posts.
Too Much Legal Education for Some
Our current JD curriculum offers too much education for many law-related workers. Compliance managers, human resource officers, and many other contemporary employees apply legal principles without ever attending law school. Most of these workers have only a bachelor's degree. Some obtain certification from national organizations, and some earn a master's degree in a field related to their compliance work. Very few, however, enroll in law school. Even one-year LLM programs have failed to attract a large number of these workers.
The hard truth is that these workers don't need law school to learn how to interpret and apply legal principles. A strong liberal arts education–one that develops critical thinking and communication skills–is sufficient. These workers, in fact, often benefit from training in other fields such as finance, accounting, environmental science, chemistry, or biology. The "law" of environmental compliance is easier to understand than the biochemistry of that work.
The most sensible way for law schools to tap this flow of workers, which is growing steadily, is to enroll them in undergraduate programs. We shouldn't, however, underestimate these students by teaching them dumbed-down versions of environmental law. Instead, offer future compliance managers our 1L curriculum–complete with development of critical thinking skills–followed by courses in environmental law, tax, securities, or other areas relevant to their interests.
Seven years of higher education is also too many for law graduates who perform document review and other routine legal tasks. Employers currently require a JD for this work, but that's because they have no other option for workers with basic law skills. If we offered the first 1-1/2 years of law school as a college major, those classes would produce excellent document reviewers, contract managers, and other workers exercising routine legal skills. Once again, the undergraduate work that I envision would encompass all of the analytical skills we teach during the first year of law school, as well as the basic doctrine taught during that year.
Too Little Legal Education for Others
While our BA+JD system offers too much education for some law-related jobs, the combination offers too little for others. Most law graduates lack the specialized knowledge and clinical skills that employers now demand in new lawyers. As market forces have shifted routine legal work to non-lawyers, computers, and overseas workers, employers seek new lawyers who are ready to tackle more sophisticated tasks. The traditional JD curriculum does not serve those needs.
So far, law schools and employers have responded to this challenge by lengthening the training path for new lawyers. Some JDs are obtaining LLMs in specialized fields. Others are completing fellowships or low-paid apprenticeships to gather the experience they need for a full-fledged legal position.
A better answer would be to reduce the duplicate liberal arts education that these graduates receive in college and law school. Law school, for better or worse, adopts a liberal arts perspective. We educate students as generalists, not specialists. We stress critical reading, analysis, and writing, rather than narrow "technical" skills. We engage students in policy issues to prepare them for good citizenship and dynamic leadership. It's hard to find a better "liberal arts education" than the first two years of law school.
Why, however, do we force future lawyers to take two doses of that liberal arts education, one in college and one in law school? Shouldn't four years of a liberal arts education be enough? If students could major in law during college, they could develop critical thinking and communication skills in the context of legal materials. If they decided to become lawyers, they could then progress to a graduate program focused on more advanced doctrine, theory, and clinical practice.
If we moved the first 1-1/2 years of law school into the undergraduate curriculum, we could build a 2-year JD with more advanced offerings than we currently provide. Lawyers would devote only six years to higher education, but would emerge better educated than they are today.
Interdisciplinary Work
If college students are able to major in law, they will devote fewer college credits to history, political science, foreign languages, chemistry, and other subjects. The law major, however, would leave plenty of time for some study in those fields. Even if a law major consumed 45 credits (equivalent to 1-1/2 years of law school), that would leave 75 credits for other college courses–including general education classes and study in a minor field.
Students, moreover, would benefit from contemporaneous study of law and other subjects. Law students often struggle to apply college coursework to their law school classes. A freshman course in statistics seems very distant to a second-year law student; so does a sophomore class on economics or psychology. My proposal would allow students to combine legal study with work in other disciplines throughout a full six years of higher education. Integrating legal study with other work would foster more genuinely interdisciplinary understanding.
College and law graduates, finally, would have time to pursue other subjects if they chose to do so. My proposal would save lawyers a year of higher education. Students could use that time and tuition to complement their coursework with education in any other field.
Layered Law
For more than fifty years, lawyers have defended a unified profession and general degree. We have resisted efforts to create specialized law degrees or limited-purpose licenses. In part, we have feared the unappetizing specter of legal services divided along economic lines. Dividing the profession, we worried, might relegate low-income clients to cheaply trained lawyers–while corporations and the wealthy continued to benefit from better educated attorneys.
Note that my proposal does not slice law practice in that manner. I would not allow college graduates to represent either corporations or indigent defendants in court. Both of those tasks would require a law degree. Clients of all types, on the other hand, might benefit from some law-related work performed by college graduates.
The contemporary legal market has already generated several layers of law-related employment. Compliance managers interpret regulations with the benefit of only a college degree. Paralegals perform a wide variety of law-related tasks, sometimes with only an associate's degree. Foreign-educated lawyers conduct document review and due diligence. Some JDs work in similarly limited positions.
Restructuring legal education would recognize these shifts, without compromising client interests. On the contrary, clients deserve the cost savings that have been achieved through the streamlining of legal services. At the same time, clients require the insights of highly educated lawyers. Expanding legal education to include both a rigorous college major and an advanced degree will serve all of those ends.
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Seen 300 yesterday. While I think that the movie is ok and a passable piece of entertainment I don't get all the hype about 300. It really has become a trend lately that whenever a movie is shown that features a bad story and bad dialogues, but a lot of action and special effects half of the critics proclaim an evolution or revolution of modern movie-making - just think about "Snakes on a Plane." 300 is certainly not as bad as "Snakes on a plane," so don't get me wrong here. It's a rather well made movie, the special effects are great, the scenery looks awsome, the action is breathtaking… unfortunately there isn't much more to the movie really. There is hardly any story (300 Spartans venture North to fight against an invading Persian army - that's it), and the dialogue in the movie seems to be limited to sentences like "This is Sparta," "We are Spartans," "Ahooo!!!," and "Arrrrrgh!" Of course the whole movie is as bloody and brutal as possible to make up for the lacking story and dialogue. You won't find any humor in 300, except involuntary one - especially the godking Xerxes who looks like he stumbeld from a gay techno parade first into a piercing studio, and then into the set of 300, was fairly amusing.
No doubt, 10 or 12 years ago I would have applauded enthusiastically.
Even today I think the movie is still a fun ride - after all it's only 117 minutes and therefore just too short to become boring. Watching it with friends and being drunk also helps a lot.


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Van Gaal against European super league
Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal is against the formation of a breakaway European super league.
Speculation regarding a new league came after a meeting of officials from United and top-flight rivals Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City.
But Van Gaal has voiced his opposition, adding that the Champions League should revert to include only title winners.
"Everybody knows, when you follow my career, that I am against all the super leagues and things like that," he said.
On the subject of the Champions League, he said: "It has to be between champions in my opinion. I said that 20 years ago and I say it now again.
"I think sport is to win, not to be second or third."
Van Gaal won the Champions League as Ajax manager in 1995, two seasons before the tournament was expended to allow the runners-up from eight domestic leagues to participate.
England – along with Germany and Spain – now have four teams qualifying for the competition every season based on league position.
Leicester and Tottenham occupy the first two of the four Champions League places available for next season, with United and Liverpool currently outside the Premier League's top four.
Asked about this week's events, Leicester boss Claudio Ranieri said it was mostly "speculation".
"This is sport, no? I understand they want to do something, but if something strange happens, they shouldn't blame the little teams, they should blame themselves," he said.
"They are trying to do something, but I think people must think about what fans want, not only about money, because the culture and the fans are more important than other things."
Chelsea interim boss Guus Hiddink appeared to support Ranieri and Van Gaal, saying: "I think we must all be careful to go into exclusivity when teams like, this year, surprisingly, Leicester is mixing in.
"They have the full right to be where they are now and are a good contender for the next Champions League this year."
This week, Arsenal said they were "strongly opposed" to a European super league, the impetus for which is believed to come from clubs in mainland Europe due to the current financial strength of the Premier League.
Charlie Stillitano, chairman of American company Relevent Sports that organises the pre-season International Champions Cup competition, was also involved in Tuesday's meeting between the five Premier League clubs.
When asked if a super league was on the agenda, Stillitano told radio station Sirius XM: "I think it is. They're talking about it all over Europe. At least a change in format.
"When they came up with the Champions League, the idea wasn't to have PSV and Genk playing in the knockout stage.
"What would Manchester United argue: did we create soccer or did Leicester create [it]?
"Let's call it the money pot created by soccer and the fandom around the world. Who has had more of an integral role, Manchester United or Leicester?
"It's a wonderful, wonderful story – but you could see it from Manchester United's point of view, too."


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NRL Scientists Develop Enhanced 3-D Technique for Materials Analysis
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The serial sectioning technique consists of incremental polishing through a thin layer (0.2 µm) of material, chemically etching the polished surface, applying reference marks, and performing optical or scanning electron microscopy on selected areas, Dr. Spanos explains. After computer-aided registry to properly align the micrographs from each section, the series of images are viewed as both video sequences that "step through" the material slice-by-slice, and as three dimensional reconstructions using advanced computer visualization techniques.
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at that time, the computer technology to make this type of analysis
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today to develop this enhanced three-dimensional analysis technique.
The team of scientists working on this project, headed by Dr.
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This new three-dimensional reconstruction technique is an important tool that allows scientists to have a better understanding of microstructural development, and in turn improves their control of the mechanical and physical properties of advanced materials used in the Fleet.
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carlowrote a review of Canada Goose Chilliwack Bomber Down Parka - Men's on December 20, 2011
size up!!!
just ordered a chilliwack xl, after having it exchanged for my xl constable, i was excited as hell cause im a wimp and freeze easily. i was told to stick with an xl, but it fits completley different then the constable.
with a sweater on underneath, i was able to zip up but looked like i couldnt breath!,
make sure you size up with this jacket!! it will be worth it, now im stuck waiting another week to wear this jacket, which sucks,
however stick with backcountry.com, they are the best customer service people i have ever dealt with.
it was truly a pleasure. and i spoke with 4 or five different people, however even tho the size ended up wrong, emily is still the best!!


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It looks like I was not the only one perplexed with RIM's announcement of Virtual BlackBerry for Windows Mobile, I was reading this blog post from Fabrizio today, and I share his perspective on the issue: the only real use scenario for this software would be one of the many IT organizations migrating from RIM to WIndows Mobile that want to continue to provide a BlackBerry experience to users who want to stay in a familiar user interface while they do the transition - a temporary measure to help migrate away from BlackBerry.
Of course, this is vaporware as far as I know (maybe they will show it today at WES) - it will be critical to see how good a job they do on the user interface and how much of a Blackberry experience you can provide. At the end it should not be that difficult - the BalckBerry OS, user interface and apps are all based on the J2ME platforom and many Windows Mobile devices ship with a J2ME virtual machine in ROM. However, it iwll be challenging to do many things without low-level APIs.
Who knows - maybe RIM is thinking of becoming a WIndows Mobile licensee and add their secret sauce on top of it: imagine of a combination of Palm (moved from Palm OS to provide a unique UI on top of WM) and Good (providing additional device management and security in a NOC model over WM and other platforms).
Yesterday's annoucement is more clear to me: In its press release RIM validates the leadership of Visual Studio and >NET int the enterprise and try to "ride that wave" , but in reality it is unly FUD: sure thay can develop a plug-in for Visual Studio and anyone with basic web services skills can leverage .NET in a back end - that's the idea behind web services. The problem is that this changes nothing about the BlackBerry client platform: it is still J2ME and RIM's Java development tools and J2ME platform are pretty bad compared to the .NET compact framework with Visual Studio on Windows Mobile.
Surely you are thinking, this is a marketing guy from Microsoft preaching about the virtues of their platform - but in this case (at least) I have a bit more experiece. Until recently I worked at Motorola among Bala Kumar, Jim Van Perusem and the WMSG team that really developed the J2ME spec. I was responsible for the first J2ME development tools in the market (CodeWarrior Wireless Studio), building the SDKs, and working with most wireless operators and device manufacturers on their Java applciation strategy and ecosystem. The fact is that J2ME is a standard driven by a committee which is the worst way possible to drive innovation: everyone wants to differentiate (look at how many APIs exist, resutling in JTWI) yet decisions take a long time. Back in 2001 we were talking about MIDP 2.0 - it's been 7 years now and we are nowhere close MIDP 3.0. As a result, J2ME ended up becoming a lowest common denominator.
On the other side, Microsoft was built around developers (Basic was the first product written by Bill Gates) and the company makes incredible investments in the developer community and in developer technologies. The .NET compact framework evolves quickly and adopts newer technologies (Like LINQ). The power of Visual Studio, the ability to use ASP.NET mobile controls, the built in ROM (in WM6) SQL Server with features like cursors and merge replication make Windows Mobile a far more capable mobile platform.


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I love Future Card Buddyfight. I love Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt. I love those animes. Infact, I will do fanart of PASWG, with Megaman characters!
Iris the demon. Eye change, so shut up!
Restart everything! Iris the angel versus Layer the demon.
Zero and X! <3 Or should I say, Xelene and Lero.
No, Layer, no!
Here come the Light siblings!
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The average adult in the U.S. (and elsewhere) works a 40+ hour week, pays lots of bills, drives a car that isn't paid for and lives in a house that has more square feet than they need, which also isn't paid for. All of this to support a lifestyle that exceeds what they really need. They spend many hours each week cleaning, cooling, warming and paying for their homes that they seldom get to enjoy. Happiness is a moving carrot dangling in front of their face.
The good news is, there is a solution to the average adult's daily mayhem…by opting out.
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Lately I've been hearing the term "voluntary simplicity" being thrown around social sites and blogs. It deals with scaling back your life even though you don't have to, but probably should. It struck me that owning and living in a tiny house is probably the biggest step forward you can make to living a life of voluntary simplicity.
Read an enjoyable book on your tiny house front porch or pay hard-earned cash to watch 100's of channels with commercials convincing you to buy stuff? Stand in line at the grocery store or pick fresh veggies from your garden? Work forever or retire young? Go to work or go on a walk? Look up at the sky or look down at your desk?
Your home is the center of many of your daily choices and owning a simple home can be the biggest first step towards living your life of voluntary simplicity.
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Recently during one of our Elevation Forum meetings, we asked the question: which competitors do you worry about the most?
Many of the leaders in the room listed either the largest or the fastest growing competitors they compete against. But one honest executive shared a provocative reflection. He said we are not as worried about who's outside, but more focused on the enemy in the mirror.
His comment reminded me that dominant companies lose their leadership position two-thirds of the time because they pick the wrong competitor to worry about. Many times the competitor is an emerging outlier, or an agile entrepreneur seizing a white space, but more times than not, we become the enemy when we overstate our own assets and the value we bring to others.
According to a piece of research called Silence Fails, the vast majority of product launches, reorganizations, mergers and improvement initiatives either fail or grossly disappoint, with roughly 90% of all major projects violating their own schedule, budgets or quality standards. And what's even more disappointing is that 88% of those surveyed were currently working on projects that they predict will fail, but only 1-in-10 shared their comments due to internal politics.
Often times the enemy is within, not outside the walls of your own building. Personal and corporate success often hinders evaluation and new ideas, creating serious blind spots. As executive coach Marshall Goldsmith often states, sometimes you can be successful despite yourself.
The behaviors many of the top companies embrace are different than the rest of the pack. Instead of focusing solely on their competitors, they set the rules of engagement, and honestly evaluate who's in the mirror. Here are eight behaviors that set them apart from their competitors:
The companies that spend time looking in the mirror don't allow blind spots to get in the way of unleashing growth and deeper retailer alignment. These organizations bring meaningful value to their consumers, and their retail partners are happy to serve as advocates of their brands.
Are you spending too much time benchmarking competitors and not enough time honestly looking in the mirror?
Dan Mack is EVP strategic sales at The Swanson Group and managing director of Mack Elevation Forum. You can contact him at (630) 607-2774 or learn more at TheSwansonGroup.com or MackElevationForum.com.


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SEQ: Flash flooding, massive rainfall3:06
Several people have been rescued from floodwaters in the southeast overnight, including a man who was found clinging to a tree near Boonah.
SEVERAL people have been rescued from floodwaters in the southeast overnight, including a man who was found clinging to a tree near Boonah.
In Ipswich, the Bremer River is expected to peak around 11am and flood some of the CBD.
Ipswich City Council mayor Paul Pisasale said no damage was expected but the peak of the Bremer flood from overnight rain would cut off King Edward Pde for about two hours.
Cr Pisasale said minor bridges were closed and roads had been damaged but no water had entered properties.
About 3.30am Friday, swift water rescue crews heard reports a car had been swept into a river, with a man holding on to a tree at the intersection of Boonah Fassifern Rd and the Cunningham Highway, Fassifern.
Firefighters were forced to enter floodwaters and pull the man to safety. He was assessed by paramedics for injuries.
In another incident, fire crews rescued two people and two dogs that were stuck on the roof of a caravan in floodwaters near Coleyville Road, Coleyville, about 1.50am.
At Gatton, firefighters also pulled a woman to safety after she was stranded on the roof of a car in floodwaters at Golf Links Drive.
A firefighter was forced to enter swift water to reach a man from the roof of a car a short time ago at Moy Pocket Road, Moy Pocket, near Gympie.
He has been brought to dry land safely, the Queensland Fire and Emergency Service said.
There were 218 requests for assistance for the SES in the past 24 hours, with the majority in coastal and range areas in the southeast.
Emergency crews are reminding people: "If it's flooded, forget it".
The rescues come as flooding cuts several roads across the greater Brisbane area after a night of heavy rain drenched the southeast.
Deluge keeps southeast on flood alert
Heavy rain predicted for Qld
The Department of Transport and Main Roads says there is water across the road on Paradise Rd, Larapinta, forcing it to be closed between Logan Motorway and Adise Road.
Marshall Road at Rocklea has also been closed after Balham Road, along with Heroes Avenue at Taringa between Gailey Road and Indooroopilly Road.
Boscombe Road at Brookfield has also been closed due to water across the road. Motorists are urged to find an alternative route.
The southeast continued to be drenched overnight with steady rain falling across a wide area.
Overnight rain has boosted southeast Queensland dams, with water grid storages boosted to 89. 6 per cent overnight, up 3.2 per cent in 24 hours.
Cedar Pocket, Enoggera, Gold Creek, Little Nerang and Wappa dams are all spilling.
An Seqwater spokeswoman said that based on flows, it was possible that Borumba, Manchester and Wyaralong dams might also spill in the next 24 to 72 hours.
The heaviest falls have been around the Sunshine Coast with Toolara Forest, outside Gympie, recivuing 199mm in the 24 hours to 5.30am Friday.
Nambour received 180mm, Double Island Point 150mm and Tewantin 131mm.
The highest rainfall recorded in the area was 215mm at Mt Glorious, compared with 113mm in the Brisbane CBD.
Beaudesert had 148mm while farther west, Gatton copped 100mm, Toowoomba 79mm and Amberley 113mm. On the Gold Coast, Coolangatta received 86mm.
A major flood warning remains in place for the Bremer River and Western, Laidley, Warrill and Lockyer Creeks, following heavy rain.
The Bureau of Meteorology is also warning of moderate flooding for Eyre Creek, Condamine and Balonne Rivers, the Mary River and Moonie River.
Meanwhile, there is a minor flood warning current for the Tully and Murray Rivers.
Flood warnings have also been issued for coastal rivers and adjacent inland streams between Yeppoon and the NSW border, and the Mooloolah and Maroochy Rivers and Coochin Creek.
There is a final flood warning for the Don River, according to the Weather Bureau.
But the worst of the rains should be passed.
"The rain is pushing offshore as the trough moves, so the worst in terms of the widespread rain is now behind us," duty forecaster Adam Woods said.
"For today, we'll just see some showers, with storms possible later this afternoon, due to the instability with the lingering moisture."
"Nothing as widespread … it'll be quite isolated."
Mr Woods said showers and storms were expected to continue over the weekend before clearing on Tuesday.
"(We're expecting) showers from Monday to Tuesday, then turning more isolated on Tuesday," he said.
Brisbane and the southeast were on flash flooding alert overnight.
The State Emergency Service told The Courier-Mail it had received 188 calls for help in the 24 hours since 12am yesterday as residents across Queensland battled to keep localised flooding at bay and plug their leaking roofs.
Most of those calls came from in and around the Sunshine Coast, with about 40 from elsewhere in the southeast.
In Brisbane, SES crews responded to multiple call-outs last night after an average rainfall of 29mm was recorded across the city in the six hours to 9pm.
Traffic advice on the Sunshine Coast Regional Council's website last night showed eight roads in the region, including Steve Irwin Way at Beerburrum, had been closed due to water over the road. Another 12 roads were listed alongside advice to motorists to drive with caution.
By 10pm, 27 roads across the Moreton Bay region had also been closed. Among those affected were the communities of Caboolture, Cedar Creek, Morayfield and Rocksberg. Brisbane roads have so far escaped a similar fate with no reports of flooding.
The poor weather conditions also contributed to about 7500 households from the Sunshine Coast to the Gold Coast losing power throughout yesterday.
Energex spokesman Graham Metcalfe said about 5500 homes and businesses around Coolangatta, Bilinga and Kirra lost power about 7.40pm and that, while 60 per cent had seen their power restored within the hour, about 1900 remained without electricity almost three hours later.
He said crews repairing fallen power lines around the Coolangatta area were battling "atrocious conditions".
Mr Metcalfe urged member of the public to stay away if floodwaters were likely to have come into contact with street side electrical equipment such as pillar boxes or transformers.
Heavy rain was thundering down from central Queensland to the NSW border yesterday, swamping about 12 homes and businesses and closing dozens of roads.
"It's roughly the entire southeast of Queensland," weather bureau meteorologist Mark Tenorden said.
More than 100 calls for help were made from Yeppoon on the central coast to the Sunshine Coast between Wednesday afternoon and last night.
Yeppoon was inundated by a record-breaking 299.4mm burst of rain, and the Sunshine Coast hinterland was drenched after experiencing a long dry patch.
The week's rain has been the heaviest since summer, but it impacted mostly the coastal strip and failed to ease chronic drought conditions in the interior.
Heavy rain was expected to continue last night in the southeast but ease today, with a showery weekend on the way.
About 40 calls for help were made by Sunshine Coast residents late yesterday for leaking roofs and skylights after 160mm of rain fell in eight hours.
State Emergency Service volunteers had received 77 requests for help across the state, including 13 in Brisbane.
Queensland Fire and Emergency Service Rockhampton director Rob Ferguson said Yeppoon was hardest hit, with 50 call-outs.
Six houses and a similar number of businesses were inundated by water.
"We had a lot of rain in a short space of time — we're lucky it eased off when it did,'' he said. The service also handled another 12 jobs at Rockhampton and nine at Gladstone
Mr Ferguson said there were no rescues required. One car was caught in flood waters but its passengers escaped unharmed.
The scenic highway at Rosslyn Bay was cut by a landslip and dozens of secondary roads were closed. The Dawson, Condamine, Burnett and Donohue highways are closed.
John Martin of ClipPets, Yeppoon, said water rose about 1m in just one hour.
"We came in to get a car but it got swamped,'' he said.
"We stayed and started lifting stuff up but the water came in pretty quick. The high tide made it worse but it went down as quickly as it had come up.''
One businesswoman, who declined to be named, said damage would not have been so great if not for the wash caused by sightseers' vehicles.
Sarah Thomasson of Chemmart Yeppoon said sandbags saved her stock . "It rained for about 12 hours — we're drying out. We got off lightly.''
Rain welcome, but not enough for farmers
THE best rain event since summer has failed to break the back of the vicious drought extending over more than 80 per cent of Queensland.
Rain has swamped coastal areas from Cooktown to the NSW border but inland it's become the haves and have nuts.
The St George cotton and grain-growing district has been teased with light falls while people to the northeast have recorded more than 100mm.
Balonne Shire Council Mayor Donna Stewart said her property had had about 70mm — not enough to build subsoil moisture to plant a winter wheat crop.
The Balonne River remained dry but was expected to begin flowing soon due to good rain in the Roma and Surat districts upstream.
"We need rain and a lot more of it,'' Cr Stewart said. "People at Bollon have had only a few millimetres.''
Gympie regional councillor Tony Perrett of Kilkivan said everyone in the drought-hit Sunshine Coast hinterland was hoping for more rain.
"The funny thing is, we conducted a drought session only last week,'' he said.
"If that's what it takes to get rain, we'll run 'em every second week.''
Cr Stewart said the rain was erratic over a huge slab of the interior, with some people getting more than enough to get a crop in. "A lot of people are overjoyed but, unfortunately, not all,'' he said.
Weather bureau forecaster Ken Kato said the weather system would head offshore today.
Additional reporting Kirsten Kehren
Originally published as Five pulled from flood waters


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Does anyone now if this method works on the GT-P5110 model (European version of the P5113, don't know if there's many differences, but for example there's no IR blaster). Thanks in advance!
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Walk Two Moons is in fact a collection of individual stories told from a number of different perspectives woven into a coherent narrative: we read not only Sal and Phoebe's stories, but Greek myths, Native American myths, old family stories, and snippets from students' journals. Each story fits into the main narratives and also resonates and amplifies the meaning and substance of other stories. At the same time, each story plays a distinct role in the narrative, demonstrating the power stories have to affect human experience and consciousness. Phoebe uses her story about the lunatic to ward off other, more threatening, explanations of Mrs. Winterbottom's disappearance. Sal uses Phoebe's story as a way to relive her own story and come to a better understanding of it. Gram and Gramp's stories provide Sal with a sense of her own family history and with a model for her own life and loves. The myths interspersed throughout the novel offer both the characters and the readers a means of understanding the origins, state, and implications of the human condition. Sal tells her own story as a means of reflecting on it and coming to accept it.
Sal incorporates stories of the past into the present moment of her narrative, sometimes stopping to add a story as a means of explanation, or actually embedding them into the narrative as a journal entry or a memory triggered during the course of the narrative. She tells the story of her mother, which precedes both the primary (the trip across the States) and secondary (the story of Phoebe) narratives of the novel, through these spontaneous or embedded flashes of memory. For example, she writes in her journal about her mother's tree kissing, a tree in the parking lot in South Dakota reminds her of the singing tree in her backyard, and Phoebe's family triggers her memory of the morning her father left flowers on the table for Sal and her mother. Sal's narration of her memories demonstrates that the past will not stay put. The narration bubbles up into the present and drives events and emotions. In fact, as Sal's long journey across the country shows, the present is often nothing more than attempt to relive and understand the past.
Both the epigraph of the book and the first message that appears on Phoebe's doorstep read "don't judge a man until you've walked two moons in his moccasins." Sal takes this advice to heart throughout the book, using her visualizations of other people's lives both to inform her own experience and to increase her compassion for others. By placing herself in Mrs. Winterbottom's shoes, Sal generates ideas about how her own mother may have felt at moments in her life. When Sal grows angry with Phoebe, she finds herself wondering if her father feels the same way toward her at times. Sal's ability to envision the stories of others allows her to empathize with Margaret Cadaver, who lost her husband in a car accident, and consequently to put her childish resentment of her aside. At the end of the book, Sal and Gramps actively practice empathy, regularly verbalizing and envisioning what others are experiencing. This practice allows Sal to treat others with greater kindness and understanding and gives her a way to measure and understand her own behavior and past.
While the novel centers on a journey of loss and acceptance, it grounds this journey in a series of beautiful natural objects and places. Sal's understanding of her past is inextricably bound to trees, fields, wildberries, and lakes, and during her journey, she passes by Lake Michigan, the Wisconsin Dells, Pipestone National Monument, the Missouri River, the Badlands, the Black Hills, Old Faithful, and the mountains of Montana and Idaho. Both Sal and her grandparents experience moments of companionship, great emotion, and even rapture in the face of these natural phenomena. Sal and all her family members clearly harbor a deep respect and appreciation for nature and understand it as one of the many priceless blessings that life, often cruel and unpredictable, bestows upon us.
Disaffected, confused, and depressed mothers populate the pages of Walk Two Moons with alarming frequency. Mrs. Winterbottom, Sal's mother, and Ben's mother all experience depression or mental stress severe enough to affect their day-to-day lives. Mrs. Winterbottom and Sal's mother are both clearly troubled by their role as mother and wife, and the struggle to understand how their pasts and their "true selves" relate to these roles results in confusion, depression, and the need to be alone. Through the suffering of these women, Creech draws attention to the stress and disappointment involved with the sense of being confined to a role or of living an insignificant life.
The messages, postcards, and journal entries embedded in the text of Walk Two Moons all demonstrate the uncertainty and difficulty involved in interpreting the words of others. Phoebe twists the benign and comical messages left on her doorstep into series of threats or mysterious clues hinting at Mrs. Winterbottom's whereabouts. Mr. Birkway, who argues with his students that ambiguity is one of the greatest beauties of written texts, sees the journals they have written as "brilliant" examples of conflicting emotions, whereas his students see them as embarrassing revelations of their most private thoughts. Sal struggles to interpret the conflicting message of the postcards her mother sends her. Each postcard expresses love for Sal, and yet reminds Sal that her mother needed to leave her to take a long, soul-searching trip. Throughout the novel, Sal becomes more and more skilled at understanding and accepting these ambiguities.
Throughout the novel, the characters use journeys as a means of both escaping from a painful present and of invoking confrontation with the source of their trouble. Sal's mother and Phoebe's mother leave home to come to terms with their doubts about their pasts and their roles. Sal leaves home first to reverse and later, she realizes, to concretize her mother's death. Each character uses a physical journey to induce an emotional journey, which will, they hope, allow them to live more truly and fully in their original roles.
Two of Sal's memories of her mother involve blackberries: the memory of her mother's desire to compete with and be as good as her father, and the memory of her mother sneaking a mouthful of fresh blackberries and kissing a tree. The blackberries symbolize nature's spontaneous bounty and generosity, to which Sal's mother is so keenly attuned. As gifts for Sal and her father, the blackberries symbolize Sal's mother's desire to share her love of the earth and the earth's goodness with her family, even though Sal's mother feels this gift pales in comparison to her husband's spontaneity and his steadiness. Sal incorporates blackberries into her own narrative, writing in her journal about tasting blackberries when she kisses trees, joking with Ben about the blackberry taste of their first kiss, and accepting a chicken from Ben named Blackberry. Blackberries symbolize the unexpected and unsolicited small sweet things in life, which occur even in the face of tragedy and human strife.
Sal notices three singing trees throughout the novel, each of which plays a role in the progression of her narrative. The first is the tree on her farm in Kentucky, a tree that contained a beautiful songbird in its highest branches and seemed to sing on its own. The second is the tree outside the hospital in South Dakota, which triggers her memory of home. The third singing tree is located near her mother's grave in Lewiston, Idaho. The three trees both represent and express Sal's powerful emotional reactions to the natural world, but also respond to her changing emotions: the tree on the farm did not sing on the day she and her father found out that her mother had died. Like blackberries, the singing trees represent the spontaneous and unasked for generosity of the natural world, but the also represent Sal, whose middle name is "Tree." The trees respond to loss and grief—they do not always sing—but they retain their beauty and their ability to express and induce joy.
Both Sal's mother and Mrs. Winterbottom cut their hair before or during their journey. Sal's mother, to her husband's chagrin, cuts her long black hair in the kitchen the week before she leaves, and Mrs. Winterbottom cuts hers while she is gone, returning home with a stylish new haircut. Both women cut their hair as part of their attempt to transform themselves. They are casting off their former selves, and perhaps casting off a part of themselves that marks their gender, a part traditionally associated with feminine beauty. To Sal, her mother's hair symbolizes something more complicated. Carefully saved and hidden beneath her floorboards in Bybanks, Kentucky, her mother's hair represents the happiness her mother once knew and lost. Her hair, saved but deeply hidden, reminds Sal of the idealized mother she is beginning to realize never existed.
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When Alesha Dixon was asked to be the cover girl for Look magazine's Olympics special edition, there was only really one colour she could wear.
The Britain's Got Talent judge stars on this week's issue in a skimpy all-gold outfit with the Union Jack flag in hand. We've got to give it to Alesha; her style is definitely topical.
In her interview with the magazine, Dixon opens up about meeting her idol, Colin Jackson, winning Strictly and climbing Kilimanjaro. "Climbing that mountain in 2009 for Comic Relief was like having a face-off with God", she says. "It was unbelievably challenging – physically and mentally – and the nine of us who took part really bonded. You're alone with your thoughts up there and I remember thinking that if I can do this, there's nothing I can't do".
As for her time on BGT, it looks like we might be seeing more of Alesha next series. "This year has been amazing for Britain because of the Olympics and the Diamond Jubilee, and BGT felt rejuvenated. All of us on the panel were tired and sad it had ended, but it was a genuinely good time. Would I do it again? They've asked me to and I really want to, so yes!"
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Long Beach police released a sketch Friday of a man who reportedly groped a woman at a Signal Hill bus stop in a brazen day-time attack last week.
Around 4:30 p.m. on May 7, officers were called out to the 900 block of E. Willow Street for reports of a sexual attack, according to a news release.
Authorities learned a 26-year-old Long Beach woman was approached by a man at the sheltered bus stop. He began a brief conversation with the woman when he reportedly then, without provocation, groped the woman's breast and buttocks. No weapons were used in the attack.
He is described as a black man with medium skin complexion, about 25 to 27 years old with brown eyes. He stood between 5-foot-5 to 5-foot-8 inches in height and weighed about 130 to 140 pounds, according to officials. He was last seen wearing a white T-shirt, blue basketball shorts and black socks.
Authorities remind people to always be aware of their surroundings at all times and to report any suspicious persons or activity immediately by calling 9-1-1.
Anyone who recognizes the sketch or has information on the sexual assault is asked to contact Long Beach Police Sex Crimes Detective Patrick Jennings at 562-570-7354. Anonymous tips may be submitted by calling 1 (800) 222-TIPS, texting TIPLA plus your tip to CRIMES (274637), or visiting www.lacrimestoppers.org.


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Our nations needs the church right now to be the church
By Ikem Grigbsy
To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heavens (Ecc 3:1). Right now is the season for the church to be the brightest light it has ever been. It is not the time to join the political debate and get on social media and express out human opinions. Prayer, prayer, prayer is the action that is needed. Following the example of Jesus is the greatest responsibility of the church, especially right now. As our televisions constantly paint a picture of confusion and division, it is the greatest time for the Good News of the savior to be declared with power and demonstration.
Jesus told us that men should always pray and not turn coward. James tells us that our prayers have much power with God. Psalms and Peter tell us that God's ears are open to the righteous and if you need to see more reasons to be inspired to pray here is one more. John tells us that we can have confidence and that He will hear us and answers us if we ask according to His Will. John says something that we really need to understand. We must pray according to His will. His will is simply the rightly divided Word of God. It's not time for us to pray our opinions to God. It's time for us grab the Word of God and pray the Word, speak the Word and live the Word. Sometimes Jesus would spend all night in prayer. That is something that may be considered radical in our day. Hello, I think it's time for us to be radical about what we believe, for the sake of the nation and the generations to come! Righteousness exalts a nation. We must stand up and set our face towards heaven so we can see the kingdom of heaven manifested now. It's not time to be intimidated by the news media and live in fear. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God. Hallelujah!! I'm crying out to pastors and leaders to stop joining the debate and start praying and declaring the answer. This nation needs the Body of Christ to be like Jesus more than ever right now. Our prayers and faith can change the direction of our nation if we choose to spend more time on our faces then debating in public places!
A Kingdom divided against itself cannot stand (Matt 12:25). This was an important principle that Jesus declared in His Word. That principle still holds true today. While our nation seems to be divided, it's the perfect time for the Church of Jesus Christ to come together. I'm from a newer generation of Christians so to speak. I would hear of how the old church would have prayer meetings, shut-ins, times of fasting and prayer. If there was ever a time for that, that time is right now. I'm not talking about a prayer walk or a public protest. I'm talking about seeking God in unity for our nation! Turning off Grey's Anatomy and spending time as a family or a church and taking the Word of God and praying it over our nation, over our schools and communities. I'm talking about doing something so radical like staying in church all week if we have too, to see God change our nation. "It seems God is limited by our prayer life that He can do nothing for humanity unless someone asks Him." This is a quote that I have heard over the years and this is the time where we should be doing a ton of asking! (Matt 7:7)
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Well in to its fourth month in power, the Nawaz Sharif government still appears to be groping to get a handle on the twin challenges it promised in its election campaign to address quickly — arrest the economic decline and improve the deteriorating security condition that is affecting investment and growth.
The markets were recharged when it paid off the unpaid bills of the power companies and successfully negotiated a $6.6 billion loan deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to avert a looming balance of payments crisis. Many businesspeople also favoured its offer of unconditional dialogue to the militants for bringing back peace. The government, it seemed, was moving in the 'right direction'.
But the events of the last one month are believed to have shattered, at least partially, the business confidence in the government's ability to effectively deal with the challenges it faces. The recent volatility in the foreign exchange market and the inaction of the present finance managers to timely intervene to stop the rupee's slide; the government's failure to significantly cut energy shortages for industry, and the increase in terrorist attacks, have disappointed many.
The benefit of the doubt that most businesspersons were willingly to give to the new government in its early days is now being replaced by skepticism and uncertainty.
"If the government thought it could take care of the sliding economy by 'outsourcing' it to the IMF, it was gravely mistaken," said a businessman who did not want to reveal his identity because of his friendship with some federal ministers.
"They (the government) may not agree, but the reality is that the economy is getting into a deeper mess," he argued.
He has a point here. While the power supply has somewhat increased, little progress has so far been made on fresh generation or the planned gas imports through pipelines or in the shape of LNG.
The fear of macroeconomic slippages has increased in spite of the agreement with the IMF. Prices are soaring, rapidly eroding the savings and incomes of the people in the fixed income bracket. The inflationary government borrowing from the central bank in the first two-and-a-half months of the current financial year has grown by 159 per cent to Rs804 billion, compared with the funds it had borrowed from the bank during the entire last year fiscal.
The rupee has emerged as one of the most volatile currencies in Asia since July. Its depreciation has not only fueled inflation, but also added an additional half a billion rupees to the public debt.
The possibility of more fiscal pressures in the form of an increase in the power subsidy (to the tune of 0.6-0.8 per cent of GDP) because of rising fuel cost on the back of the weakening exchange rate and the delay in upward revision of electricity prices cannot be ruled out.
The tax collection in the first two months of FY14 to August has fallen short of the target. The external sector remains precarious, as exports are falling and the economy is forecasted by the IMF to expand by just 2.5 per cent this year, against the budgetary target of 4.4 per cent.
"The problems facing the economy are enormous and the government cannot solve them in such a short time of four months. Frankly, we (the business community) were not expecting any miracle when Nawaz Sharif took over power. But we were anticipating some tough decisions by the government to deliver the economy from its troubles," said a manufacturer who also requested anonymity.
"The first tough decision of paying off the unpaid bills of the power companies had given us hope of a better future. But our hopes for a quick economic recovery have been dimming ever since the government swooned into inaction and confusion seemed to have overtaken its finance managers."
"Even the hopes of the IMF package delivering us from economic problems have faded because of its strict pre-conditions that focus on stabilisation rather than growth and its refusal to frontload a chunk of the loan. On top of that, the militants are not relenting in spite of the peace talk offer," he insisted.
The loss of the business confidence was evident from the rapid fall in the stock market; the increase in the demand for dollars, and the slowing investment in real estate. Some analysts argue that the future economic outlook looks grim.
"Panic rules the market. The SBP's foreign exchange reserves are negative if debt repayments and other outflows scheduled for this year are taken into account. People are converting their current accounts into dollars. Fiscal and inflationary impact of the exchange rate weakness will be large. The economic fundamentals are not looking up.
And the government is not moving a finger at all," a financial analyst at a bank, who refused to give his name, said hours before the central bank pumped dollars to stabilise the rupee last Thursday. "The situation will get very nasty over the next couple of months. How will the government get a handle on it is a mystery."
Another analyst at a brokerage house in Karachi, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity, agreed that the anxiety in the market would deepen and investor confidence would erode unless some senior official took the trouble of explaining the situation and the measures the government was planning to take over the next few days to six months to fix the economy.


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It is hoped a version of the Nasa vehicle will eventually help to get astronauts onto the red planet for the first time.
The mission tested the design, complete with a giant parachute designed to deliver heavier loads to Mars.
Since the Viking craft landed on Mars in 1976, Nasa has relied on the same parachute design to slow landers and rovers piercing through the Martian atmosphere.
That design has restricted loads to about one-and-a-half tons.
The new design hopes to increase load limits to approach the 10 tons necessary to get humans onto the planet.
Despite small problems like the giant parachute not deploying fully, Nasa deemed the latest mission over Hawaii a success.
"What we just saw was a really good test," said Nasa engineer Dan Coatta with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Viewers around the world followed portions of the mission in real time by internet thanks to cameras on board the vehicle.
A balloon boosted the disc-shaped vehicle over the Pacific before its rocket motor then carried it to 34 miles (55 kilometers) high at supersonic speeds.
The environment that high up is similar to the thin Martian atmosphere.
As the vehicle prepared to drop back the Earth, a tube around it expanded like a Hawaiian puffer fish, creating atmospheric drag to slow it down.
Then the parachute unfurled and guided the vehicle to an ocean splashdown.
At 110 feet (33m) in diameter, the parachute is twice as big as the one that carried the one-ton Curiosity rover through the Martian atmosphere in 2011.
Engineers plan to analyse the data and conduct several more flights next year before deciding whether to fly the craft and parachute on a future Mars mission.
"We want to test them here where it's cheaper before we send it to Mars to make sure that it's going to work there," project manager Mark Adler said.


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Revisiting Hirschman on Development Assistance and Unbalanced Growth
It is useful from time to time to revisit the pioneers in a field. The richness of their original thought is often diminished as new specialists in a field are educated or, rather, trained. Stylized caricatures and toy models out-compete nuanced multidisciplinary narratives in the competition for shelf-space in textbooks. After the students ingest the textbooks and go forth in the discipline as properly trained specialists, they are hard put just to keep up with the latest publications and to do their own bit to push the frontier forward. Outside of those inclined to intellectual history, the specialists have little occasion to go back to revisit the pioneers. In the field of economic development, Albert Hirschman is perhaps the prime example of a thinker who has deliberately avoided the toy models that can be readily absorbed by graduate students and their professors - sometimes to the chagrin of the latter.
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