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Understanding the Value of In-Memory in the IT Landscape
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1 February 2012 Understing the Value of In-Memory in Sponsored by QlikView
2 Contents The Many Faces of In-Memory 1 The Meaning of In-Memory 2 The Data Analysis Value Chain Your Goals 3 Mapping Vendors to the Value Chain 4 Selecting the Right Technology Combination 10
3 1 The Many Faces of In-Memory This paper aims to clear up the meaning of in-memory, a term that describes a vital collection of BI capabilities. If you are a CIO or CTO, you may have noticed the term in-memory popping up in articles vendor announcements. You may think it is something new, but in fact in-memory has been around for a long time. The term in-memory is used to describe many forms of technology related to business intelligence. QlikView introduced the term in-memory to the world of BI in 1993 as a way to empower people to explore data in a new way using an associative architecture. Today, SAP, Oracle, others use the term to describe something quite different. Other companies that make solutions for complex event processing, marketing automation, high volume data processing, visualization all use the term in-memory to describe different ways of helping their customers. Do all these companies mean the same thing when they say in-memory? In one sense, they do. All these companies use in-memory to speed up processing. In the most important sense, though, the answer is no. Speed creates a different kind of value for each company. Does it matter how different companies use the term? In our view, it does. By gaining a sophisticated understing of in-memory, technology leaders gain clarity about the emerging lscape how to select combine technologies from that lscape to meet their needs. In that spirit, CITO Research is writing this paper to answer three questions: What does in-memory mean? How is the term used by different vendors? How can various in-memory capabilities work together?
4 2 The Meaning of In-Memory First the basics. Remember that all processing in computers takes place in the CPU. Information is moved between the CPU memory as a program runs. Most of the time, the information in RAM is moved from disk or from some other location on a network. An in-memory application works with data that is stored in RAM so that transferring data does not introduce delays. Many in-memory processors also compress data, often by 10 orders of magnitude or more, which greatly speeds processing. s that pull data from disk into memory are slow compared with applications with all the data in memory. Delays present a huge challenge for computationintensive applications, such as financial trading algorithms or scientific calculations, but delays are just as challenging for end-users who have to wait for an answer after they start a query. When memory was expensive, in-memory was impractical. As the cost of memory dropped, it became economical to do calculations in-memory, more vendors are exploiting the technology. That is why there is so much talk about in-memory these days. In-Memory, Speed, Business Value: The Heart of the Matter The second thing to remember about in-memory technology is that it leads to speed. All vendors who offer in-memory solutions provide benefits based on speed. The key to making the best use of in-memory technology is understing how speed creates business value. Think of it in the same way that auto manufacturers highlight vehicles with a V-8 engine, which provides power. The power of a V-8 engine could be used for acceleration in a sports car, but in a completely different application, the power could be used by a construction truck to move heavy loads. The same engine is used, but applied optimized to accomplish different goals. With in-memory technology, speed is used to create value, as shown in Figure 1.
5 3 Better ways to explore data Faster processing of queries In-Memory Speed visualizations Real-time analytics High volume processing Figure 1. In-memory creates value through speed The Data Analysis Value Chain Your Goals So far, so good. In-memory provides speed, speed provides business value. Now we can address the most important question: How does in-memory technology help me achieve my goals? This question really cannot be answered without a way to express different types of goals. Our solution is to categorize the ways people benefit from BI technology, which we call the Data Analysis Value Chain, shown in Figure 2.
6 4 Store Search Distill Aggregate Analytical Techniques Real-Time Monitoring Analysis User-Driven Exploration Discovery Visualization Figure 2. The Data Analysis Value Chain In the next section, we map the way that different in-memory technologies provide business value along this value chain how different vendors use in-memory technology. Mapping Vendors to the Value Chain No one vendor satisfies every part of the value chain. In-memory technology can be applied at any of these stages. By combining products, in-memory technology can be applied in all stages using different technologies or combinations of technologies. Each of the following sections examines the way that different vendors use in-memory technology to support various elements of the value chain. Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Technology Oracle recently introduced the Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine, a packaged system of hardware software that supports analysis, modeling, planning. The Exalytics In-Memory Machine boasts 40 available computation cores 1 terabyte of memory is capable of replicating an entire data warehouse the workhorse of the traditional BI world into memory. It is optimized to work with the Oracle Exadata database uses columnar compression to exp capacity speed up analytics queries, which are launched through a SQL interface. Developers will tailor Oracle Exalytics to meet specific needs. Distill Aggregate Analytical Techniques
7 5 Typical user: Developer Optimize the response time of a financial trading or telecom billing application Build new analytical applications in an enterprise heavily invested in Oracle Massively Scalable Spreadsheets In-Memory Technology 1010data provides a large in-memory database that can process, present, analyze data in a way similar to a common spreadsheet. 1010data can hle spreadsheets with hundreds of billions of rows. End users interact directly with a snapshot of an entire dataset rather than interacting with a sample. In-memory technology accelerates analysis of large amounts of data. This, added to the familiar spreadsheet paradigm, dramatically exps the number of end-users who can directly analyze large data sets. Typical user: Analyst Store Search Distill Aggregate Analytical Techniques Reduce the time interval for analysis (days rather than months) Make searching less constrained than traditional database searches Increase business user access to data (no SQL skills needed)
8 6 SAP HANA In-Memory Technology SAP HANA uses in-memory technology to combine into one the characteristics of relational databases used for transactional applications, data warehouses based on star schemas, 1 data cubes. SAP HANA enables one model to support both transactional analytical use along with many types of common analytical data processing functions in the database. SAP HANA transforms SAP s portfolio of enterprise applications BI technology into a more cohesive offering. SAP HANA is not something that end users will use directly; it will primarily be used by developers. SAP HANA works in conjunction with analytical tools. It can be the foundation for designing custom applications it can feed into business systems such as ERP. In-memory technology is vital because analytics without star schemas requires very fast aggregation. The aggregation of data that happens in star schemas still must occur, but because of the speed of the database, it happens in real time when the query is executed. The ability to serve both transactional analytic applications from one database obviates ETL processes needed to migrate data from transactional databases to data warehouses. Distill Aggregate Analytical Techniques Real-Time Monitoring Analysis Typical user: Developer Reduce analytical tasks from hours or days to seconds Increase the amount of analysis performed Improve the speed of BI tools Process extremely large data sets with billions of rows Include both structured (transactional information) unstructured information (such as ) in one database 1 Star schemas are designed to optimize user ease-of-use retrieval performance by minimizing the number of tables to join to materialize a transaction.
9 7 Complex Event Processing Systems In-Memory Technology StreamBase Systems similar vendors use in-memory technology to build complex event processing (CEP) applications for financial firms. The object behind Stream- Base is to process streaming data from financial sources or connected devices, putting structured unstructured data in-memory. As the streams of data arrive in-memory, complex rules other analytics are applied to recognize important events that may be used to drive automated reactions. This sort of system is used in program trading other real-time operational systems. Real-Time Monitoring Analysis Typical user: Developer Accelerate improve the performance of real-time financial or manufacturing applications Marketing Automation Systems In-Memory Technology Metamarkets provides real-time analytics for digital marketing applications. Metamarkets in-memory database can sift through billions of marketing records up to 1,000 times faster than conventional databases. Agencies get a clear view into digital marketing activities. In this case, in-memory technology supports a database storage mechanism, along with a specially designed pipeline that allows parallel processing on Hadoop, which is optimized to keep up with huge volumes of data.
10 8 Store Search Distill Aggregate Analytical Techniques Real-Time Monitoring Analysis Typical user: Analysts Evaluate the effectiveness of digital marketing campaigns Underst the real-time impact of such campaigns Business Discovery In-Memory Technology QlikView uses in-memory to deliver Business Discovery to its customers, a method of analysis that allows everyone to gain insights using intuitive tools work together collaboratively concurrently. Business Discovery helps people make decisions based on multiple sources of insight: data, people, geography. Users can create share knowledge analysis in groups, across organizations. Business Discovery platforms help people ask answer their own stream of questions follow their own path to insight on their own in formal or informal groups. QlikView uses in-memory technology because it is the only way to power an associative architecture. When business users explore data in QlikView, they use associations patterns that are more like those in the human mind than in a traditional database, releasing users from the limitations of databases. In associative architecture, every data point is associated with every other data point. Picture a fiber-optic spider web, where everything is connected. Pulling on one thread lights up the related associations, showing you new paths through the data revealing new kinds of connections.
11 9 User-Driven Exploration Discovery Visualization Typical users: End users, analysts Collaborative analysis decision-making across a shared data set Building user-driven analytical applications on the fly Determine where sales are underperforming take immediate, corrective action Identify analytical gaps in traditional database queries Visualization Software In-Memory Technology Software vendors that focus on interactive visualization use in-memory technology to provide instantly updated graphics. Tableau Software other vendors use in-memory technology to present interactive visualizations. Data can be presented on a graph or in some other complex visualization. Parameters can be changed to include or exclude data, the visualization changes immediately. Users can manipulate information displays in real time in multiple dimensions using data from predetermined queries. User-Driven Visualization
12 10 Typical users: End users, analysts Communicating information that is difficult to underst in non-graphical formats Figure 3 provides a visual summary of the vendors products just discussed. Store Search Distill Aggregate Analytical Techniques Real-Time Monitoring Analysis User-Driven Exploration Discovery Visualization Oracle Exalytics Oracle Exalytics 1010data 1010data SAP HANA StreamBase Systems Metamarkets QlikView Tableau Tableau Figure 3. Mapping Vendors to the Value Chain Selecting the Right Technology Combination The best in-memory approach for you may involve a combination of technologies. For example, QlikView s Business Discovery offering the high-speed databases provided by Oracle Exalytics SAP HANA are not mutually exclusive. SAP HANA is extremely powerful but does not inherently render data in a way that business users can exploit. Yet datasets processed in an in-memory appliance delivered to QlikView for presentation in Business Discovery applications, using an associative architecture, could be very effective in completing the last mile to business value because business users can work with data right away. The user-friendly, collaborative nature of
13 11 QlikView supports gaining new insights. It complements exps the usefulness of heavy-duty appliances such as Exalytics or HANA, which are optimized to work with other Oracle SAP software reach deep into the machinery of a data-rich organization, cutting a lot of the red tape in the process. This way, the investment you ve made in enterprise technology is not only preserved; it s actually enhanced. Another common pattern is to use products for visualization along with heavy duty data crunching systems like Hadoop. In some cases, systems like Hadoop can feed data into SAP HANA or Oracle Exalytics then feed that data into a system like QlikView for interactive processing. The best way to determine which combination of in-memory technology will deliver the best value for you is to first examine the goals of your business. The powerful V-8 engine of in-memory technology is now available in many incarnations to serve those goals. CITO Research CITO Research is a source of news, analysis, research, knowledge for CIOs, CTOs, other IT business professioals. CITO Research engages in a dialogue with its audience to capture technology trends that are harvested, analyzed, communicated in a sophisticated way to help practitioners solve difficult business problems. This paper was sponsored by QlikView created by CITO Research
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It's still early in mining season, but miners are ripping through hard ground to bring in the gold. Ken's push to move enough dirt to pay his crew by end of month is sidelined when miners he owes money to come knocking, seizing one of his sluice plan... (more)ts. Big Al smells gold in the ground, but has to move his massive sluice to test his theory. But when prized excavator Big Girl goes down for the count, Big Al is shut out of the new cut until parts arrive. Cam's brother-in-law and business partner, Dennis, destroys a key piece of gear trying to crack bedrock and get at a rich seam of gold underneath. Dennis has to find a way to scrape $10,000 out of hostile ground to replace the part or face permanent shutdown.
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Totally love both of these! A good opaque rayon has to be my favorite fabric to wear. And I really want a copy of the peplum top!ReplyDelete
Ooh these are both lovely!! These fabrics are such gorgeous colours & bathrooms. That's funny you've got fashion critics in your classroom!ReplyDelete
I love this pattern on you! That dropped waist hits at a flattering spot and your look fantastic in them both! but seriously - those shoes!!ReplyDelete
You know what? They both just work exactly how they are. I love the top and both fabric choices.ReplyDelete
Great fabric choices!ReplyDelete
That split sleeve is the COOLEST! I feel like you are really in a groove of sewing things that absolutely suit you!ReplyDelete
Ha ha- cold shoulder version ;-)ReplyDelete
The colors in both fabrics are awesome, perfect for fallReplyDelete
These are great pieces! You used great fabric in pretty prints. Love this!ReplyDelete
Lovely garments. They look fantastic. I love your fabric choices and the "cold shoulder" dress is wonderful. This is such a versatile pattern and definitely a keeper. XxReplyDelete
Both pieces look gorgeous on you Liza Jane. Nothing wrong with using patterns multiple times if you get such great results as these. I especially love the fabric of the dress.ReplyDelete
These look great! I do love this pattern as a dress, but I especially like it as a blouse! Nice job.ReplyDelete
I love this look on you! It's perfect as a dress and a blouse, and the patterned fabric you chose work so well with the design! Lovely!!ReplyDelete
I love both of these, the fabric and the cut of both! You look great in them.ReplyDelete
I love both of these!! You have totally nailed boho chic with both these pieces!ReplyDelete
I never would have looked twice at this pattern, honestly, but you make this style look soooooo great! I really really like it as a blouse! I bet you're wearing the heck out of it! I would too! If I had your job I think I'd get comments about repeat outfits all the time, because that's just how I roll! LOL!ReplyDelete
You look great in both versions, wish that shape would suit me too :)ReplyDelete
Oooh I like that top version!ReplyDelete
i think threes are definitely your thing. in fact, when i see a post form you, i expect to see it in three variations, and be seduced 3x more to make it myself. you got me into the 1/4 circle maxi skirt that way!ReplyDelete
these are delightful. that sleeve....!
I love this silohuette on you. Both versions look gorgeous. You picked the perfect fabrics.ReplyDelete
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Oh wow, these are great! Love love love it as a top!ReplyDelete
I don't know which I like more: the dress or the top! Perfect fabric for both. Great job at print centering/matching. Love the sleeve detail. And with this style the slightly higher in the front part looks intentional. Now I really want to try making a drop wait dress!ReplyDelete
Beautiful! I must have missed this with my move going on. I'm cutting this out and then thought, "I wonder who has made this?" I'm happy that this dress works so well. I'm excited about it!ReplyDelete


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The Bearded Man
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Summertime 2011
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Demon dog
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What better way to kick of the new year with a doodle of some sort of a demon dog? I actually drew this when I was in Vancouver. I really quite liked the native art and was a bit inspired …plus it was close to halloween too.
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The days are getting nice and hot in Toronto and I am finally able to leave my house without first warming up the car for 20 minutes. Its such a good feeling. Its not like Canada is known for its hot weather so when weather is nice, I really appreciate it. Its been rainy for the past few days but I can handle it since its going to be close to 30 degrees on the weekend.
In other news, I have just bought my first pack of pastels and I realized that I have no idea how to use them. I thought it would make using colour in my doodles way easier but thats not really how it worked out. Its quite a lot clumsier to use than pens but on the bright side, blending is quite fun. Anyways, below is the first somewhat acceptable thing that I created. I wouldn't say its my best but its a start.


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Charge and Exciton Transport across Heterogeneous Interfaces:
Quantum confinement in materials induces fundamental changes in electronics band-structures and the density of states function. Until recently, there were no clear opportunities to make intimate electronic contacts between two structures with different dimensionalities. The advent of stable, free-standing, atomically thin sheets allows interfacing them with other quantum confined materials to create heterogeneous interfaces both in atomic structure and electronic confinement. This opens a new world of possibility for exploring equilibrium charge-transport as well as nature of excited states across such hetero-interfaces. The group will develop schemes to assemble, tune and measure charge transport, energy transfer and excited-state phenomena at the above described hetero-interfaces. The fundamental understanding gained would have widespread implications in low-power switching, optical modulators, quantum-light emission sources as well as photovoltaics.
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While the past decade has seen a number of atomically-thin materials emerge with a variety in structure and properties, a majority of the efforts have been focused on stacking disparate materials to make heterostructure devices. However, the same can in principle be achieved in a two-dimensional atomic plane to explore a wide variety of new electrical, optical and quantum phenomena at one and zero dimensional interfaces. The group will develop high temperature growth and synthesis techniques combined with micro and nanofabrication to create quantum confined structures within the two-dimensional atomic plane and explore their properties. The understanding gained would have implications ranging from lasers and quantum light emitters to catalysis and photo-electrochemistry
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*UPDATE* The good folks over at DB have uploaded more footage and links to download some for yourself.
Here is the Vimeo post.
Bolex Films #2 – Strip & Razor from Digital Bolex on Vimeo.
The footage links are available on the Vimeo page here.
Here is the FB Post Video. Only a few seconds.
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Ray Ashley – English Federation of Disability Sport
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Ray Ashley work as Head of Engagement for the English Federation of Disability Sport (EFDS). The EFDS is a national charity and body dedicated to disabled people in sport and physical activity throughout England.
The EFDS was established in September 1998 with the vision that disabled people are active for life. It supports a wide range of organisations to include disabled people more effectively in sport and physical activity by providing leadership, support and insight.
Since graduating in the field, Ray has worked within the Sports Development sector for 20 years and specialising in disability sport for the last 13 years. Ray currently manages the development and success of the 'engagement and partnerships team'. He oversees engagement with national governing bodies of sport and other partnerships, including building relationships with the disability sector.
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CredAbility is a quality assurance programme aimed at supporting businesses to showcase their ability to work with disabled people and to become a provider / employer of choice.
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Hilary joined Aspire, a national spinal injury charity and inclusive community leisure facility in 2011, after working within the education sector in partnership with the Youth Sport Trust, to deliver the government's PE and School Sport Strategy.
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Lighfoot's Take on the University of Louisville COI Report
June 26, 2017
Authors: Brian Kappel and Clint Speegle
On June 15, 2017, the Division I Committee on Infractions (COI) found that the University of Louisville committed multiple recruiting violations involving adult entertainment and prostitution between December 2010 and July 2014 and that head men's basketball coach Rick Pitino failed to monitor his program. The COI decision addresses multiple, important issues of institutional control and head coach responsibility that NCAA member institutions and their employees should consider going forward. Read more.


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- Electricity
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In order to become an Alamo Operator, you must be 21+ years of age and must be able to provide credit references. Once approved, you are responsible for:
- Sourcing and providing sales clerks
- Sourcing and providing 24-hour security during the season
- Sign placement and erection
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Taxpayers who sell their principal residence can pocket - tax free - as much as $500,000 in profit if they file federal taxes jointly or $250,000 if they file singly. The property must have been owned and used as their principal residence for any two of the prior five years.Homeowners can shelter the profits on the sale of a home as often as once every two years. If the two-year use and ownership tests are not met but the home is sold because of special circumstances (ie. health, jobloss, etc.) the exclusion is pro-rated. Otherwise, gains above $500,000 or $250,000 are taxed at current capital gains rates, which vary depending on your tax bracket.
Helpful Hint - Homeowners should continue to maintain records of selling and improvement expenses because some states still tax capital gains on home sales. In addition, those expenses can be used to determine your tax basis once you sell the home.
As always be sure to talk to your own tax advisor to make sure you are eligible for deductions you plan on taking.


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"DiveInto: Supporting Diversity in Intrusion-Tolerant Systems"
From Navigators
João Antunes, Nuno Ferreira Neves
in Proceedings of the Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), Oct. 2011.
Abstract: Intrusion tolerant services are usually implemented as replicated systems. If replicas execute identical software, then they share the same vulnerabilities and the whole system can be easily compromised if a single flaw is found. One solution to this problem is to introduce diversity by using different server implementations, but this increases the chances of incompatibility between replicas. This paper studies various kinds of incompatibilities and presents a new methodology to evaluate the compliance of diverse server replicas. The methodology collects network traces to identify syntax and semantic violations, and to assist in their resolution. A tool called DiveInto was developed based on the methodology and was applied to three replication scenarios. The experiments demonstrate that DiveInto is capable of discovering various sorts of violations, including problems related with nondeterministic execution.
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Project(s): Project:MASSIF, Project:DIVERSE
Research line(s): Fault And Intrusion Tolerance in Open Distributed Systems (FIT)


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They are an interesting community and certainly have a distinctive mascot and a great sense of humor. Lets hear it for the Hilltoppers!
addendum: This avatar was created by Dr. Ron Milliman, a Professor of Marketing, at Western Kentucky University, who was kind enough to respond to an e-mail, and inform me that the Hilltopers' Forensic Team is a World Champion, 9 out of the last ten years. I also learned that the world headquarters of Fruit of the Loom is in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Every Corvette on the road began its life in Bowling Green, which can lay title to America's Stuttgart. And, most important, WKU graduates "...100% of our WKU basketball players, an accomplishment no other university in our NCAA division can match. If the NCAA basketball national rankings would have been based upon graduated rates, WKU would be #1, and most of the top 20 universities in the regular pole would be ranked close to the bottom of the graduation rate rankings!...."
I must add, that if Kevin Love had gone to WKU, he would have broken their enviable record, when he departs for the NBA.


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Late on Saturday night popular Pakistani singer Junaid Jamshed was assaulted shortly after arriving at Islamabad airport. Jamshed, who later became a charismatic Sunni evangelist, had previously been charged with blasphemy after making irreverent remarks about one of the wives of the Prophet Muhammad. A video of his rough treatment is doing the rounds on social media.
On Sunday morning Islamabad was locked down. Squads of riot police and soldiers were ordered in, and shipping containers were dragged across major roads – the standard prophylactic against the episodes of civil unrest which plague the Pakistani capital.
A crowd of some 25,000 protesters had gathered in Rawalpindi, Islamabad's twin city, and after prayers, started marching towards the capital. As night fell they arrived in front of the National Assembly building and fighting broke out. Tear gas was fired, and the rioters smashed Islamabad's new metro bus stations, assembled at great expense only a year earlier.
Meanwhile, in Lahore, an unidentified driver drew up next to a funfair filled with people enjoying a day off, and parked. Many of them were Christians celebrating Easter Sunday. A bomb in the car went off a short distance away from Gulshan-i-Iqbal Park where children were playing on the swings. The death toll currently stands at 71, but that will surely rise as Lahore's creaking healthcare system struggles to cope.
This weekend's madness needs to be seen against the backdrop of the ongoing struggle against extremism in Pakistan.
The December 2014 terrorist attack on a school in Peshawar which killed 140 people, mostly schoolchildren, forced the Pakistani authorities to recognise, belatedly, that their policy of nurturing terrorist groups as geopolitical tools was backfiring. The same groups who were intended to prolong the fight for Kashmir were now machine-gunning schoolboys in the head; something had to change. Since then the government and army have launched a major offensive in Waziristan and have clamped down on domestic extremists.
The Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, has gone further: he recently attended a Diwali event alongside Hindus in Karachi, and used his speech to praise the role of minorities in Pakistan. The Punjab Assembly passed a bill outlawing domestic violence against women and creating – for the first time in Pakistan – an offence of marital rape.
Then came the acid test for Pakistan's new-found anti-extremist zeal: the case of Mumtaz Qadri, the bodyguard who in 2011 assassinated Salman Taseer, governor of the Punjab and a leading campaigner for reform for Pakistan's blasphemy law. Early on 29 February he was taken from his cell and hanged. Tens of thousands attended his funeral and isolated protests broke out, though the media was so effectively muzzled that almost nobody heard about it.
The protesters who marched on Parliament last night (Sunday) – members of the hardline Barelvi sect, like Qadri himself – were chanting his name. Their leader demanded, among other things, that the government declare Qadri a martyr, execute Christians who are in jail on blasphemy charges, and deport every member of Pakistan's beleaguered Ahmaddiya minority. As we drove home from Easter Sunday celebrations we could hear the chanting: thousands of people in the heart of Pakistan's capital city demanding that the government institute a policy of ethnic cleansing.
Pakistan is widely perceived in the West as being a den of fanaticism, yet this is a rank oversimplification. The overwhelming majority of Pakistanis are fundamentally decent, hospitable, and kind. Myopic Western narratives obscure any number of inconvenient facts: that far more Muslims are killed by terrorists than Christians; that the blasphemy laws are more often used as an excuse to seize valuable land than to score religious points; that there is a growing sense of outrage among Pakistanis at the brutalities committed in their country.
When terrorists attacked a church in Peshawar in 2013 a Muslim aid agency sent ambulances to help them, saving many lives. Even now SMS appeals for blood donations are doing the rounds; a taxi company in Lahore is offering free travel to hospitals for anyone who wants to donate blood. A friend of mine came across two men looting a bus station in Islamabad, chased them off, retrieved their loot, and promptly returned it to the authorities.
And yet the fact remains that there are organisations in Pakistan who consider it meritorious to park a car bomb next to a playground and blast dozens of giggling children to smithereens; who acclaim as a hero a man who machine-gunned a civil rights campaigner to death in an upmarket shopping area. The broad swathe of Pakistani decency and kindness is hedged in by a lunatic fringe of murderous zealots.
It is not easy to step back from three decades of officially-sanctioned Islamism; the retrogressive reforms of General Zia, who strengthened the blasphemy law and degraded the rights of Pakistani women, cannot be undone without a fight. Yet while there are Muslims who pray for the rights of Pakistani minorities; while there are Muslims who text me condolences on the Christian lives lost in Lahore; while there are Muslims who risk their lives to demand government action against radical clerics who openly declare their support for Islamic State –while such people exist, there is hope for Pakistan.
The writer who is British and works for an international NGO wishes to remain anonymous.
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This following comparison features wallpapers with a BMW E46 M3 and BMW E92 M3. Both of these cars are rather innovative, performance oriented and bring a nice leap forward in terms of pretty much everything. And yet they are so similar in a lot of aspects.
The E46 M3's S54 naturally aspirated engine has a displacement of 3.2l and produces 343 PS (252 kW; 338 hp). It helps propel the 3,415 lb (1,549 kg) car from 0-62mph in around 5.1 seconds. Top speed is 155 mph (250 km/h) electronically limited, while some 171.38 mph (275.81 km/h) delimited is achieved with this remarkable car.
There were four models of E46 M3s produced: M3 (Sport, Winter, Competition), the M3 CSL, the M3 GTR V8 (limited production) and the M3 CS (Club Sport).
Similar to the previous M3 generations that introduced a new engine, the fourth generation M3 did the same – the BMW S65 V8 engine. The engine produces 414 bhp (309 kW; 420 PS) at 8300 rpm, with peak torque of 295 lb·ft (400 N·m) at 3900 rpm. A six-speed manual transmission is standard. As of April 2008, BMW offers a new seven speed Getrag double-clutch gearbox, called M-DKG (Doppel-Kupplungs-Getriebe) or M-DCT (Double Clutch Transmission) as an option, which reduces shift pauses to less than a tenth of a second and shortens the car's 0-100 km/h (62 mph) sprint time by 0.2 seconds vs. manual. It features both automatic and manual modes similar to the SMG gearboxes in the E36 and E46, but with more speed and efficiency. Top speed is 155 mph (250km/h) electronically limited where a delimited car will achieve 178 mph (286 km/h).
Additional versions of the BMW E92 M3 include a GTS, CRT, DTM Champion Edition and Lime Rock Park Edition as well.
Add a photoshoot by ActivFilms.TV where both of these are showcased in true detail and we can let you to admire some great car design and some excellent photography. You can always download more wallpapers as well.


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Exciting developement this morning. A friend who races IT7 has a 13B with RB intake, Webber DCOE 48 with 40 mm chokes, race header and exhaust that he's willing to part with for the handsome price of FREE.
Only down side, it needs a rebuild and apparently a squirrel tried to live in one of the rotors. Still worth it! So now I have a perfectly good running 13B and another needing a rebuild. That means I can take my time and build a real race engine.


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So I vaguely remember hearing DH calling out to the mice (the two legged variety) to get out of the kitchen then a whole lot of inaudible muttering and back into dream land for me.
Of course I was plesantly surprised to find that my two able children had thought to prepare breakfast for me to have in bed (yuck to the crumbs) without any prompting from anyone. My how I love them.
The credits for this can be found here at Weeds and Wildflowers


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Morelli's: Cheap liquor and red sauce nirvana
Every liquor store parking lot is busy. Two things human beings will always need and and will always spend money on: dentistry and liquor. You can't go through life with a sore tooth and most of us can't go around without at least the occasional day-ender.
But Morelli's parking lot is busy in a way that others are not. The driving is especially pell mell, yet everyone seems to achieve it without a fender bender. The clientele is more diverse than you'll see practically anywhere else in the cities. Cops and judges, ladies in jangly earrings, grandmas and grandpas, a good many newly minted 21-year-olds, guys stopping in for their single-serve, walking-around drink of choice that gets slipped directly into a paper bag. They all come for arguably the cheapest prices on wine, beer, and liquor just about anywhere in the cities.
Swing open the same door that's been swinging open since 1930, and the aroma of red sauce hanging in the air hits you like a wall. Your nose does not deceive you, nor is it marinara floating on the wisps of wind from nearby Yarusso Brothers, another East Side Italian eating institution. Morelli's is one of the few Twin Cities venues grandfathered in to legally vend liquor and groceries in the same piece of real estate. What a piece of real estate it is.
Stacked up like a Tetris block tower: anise-flavored Pizzelle cookies, ruby jars of pasta sauce, side handles of Jim Beam, crinkly packs of pasta, more pasta, oily giardiniera in aquarium-sized jars, ham, Fireball Schnapps, mushrooms marinating in brine, green pepperoncini, roasted red peppers, frozen pizzas the size of a city bus tire, Patron, six-pound vats of house-made lasagna, Asiago, macaroni salad, Wild Turkey 101 proof, Veuve Cliquot yellow label for about $40. Zillions of other things.
The shopping carts are tiny so as to accommodate the precarious aisles, child-sized affairs so you'll feel like a giant while loading up on all of the above. And at Morelli's you'll certainly want that cart.
Pick up their weekly mailer for all the best deals of the moment. With store prices plus mail-in rebates, one can get the likes of a 1.75 liter bottle of Svedka for less than $10, or a case of Sam Adams for $7.65. This is a place of extreme drunkenomics. (The mailer is now available in PDF and one of the few ways they've gone high-tech. Morelli's does not accept credit cards and they pass that savings on to you — it's one of the reasons for the eye-poppingly low prices.)
One James Morelli and his bride opened the place in 1915 to provide familiar sustenance to the growing number of Italian immigrants filling in the Swede Hollow neighborhood of St. Paul, and by 1930 that original store had moved to the current location on Tedesco street. The store is now owned by grandson Jimmy Morelli. The Pioneer Press once called him "Gallo King" in a headline because he sells more mass-market California wine than the likes of the much larger Haskell's, MGM Liquor Warehouse, and Surdyk's thanks to his low, low prices.
The butcher counter also has some of the best prices on beef (if you can peel your eyes away from those bottles) with prime cuts staying in the single digits for a pound. Just don't forget to dust off your checkbook or hit the ATM before bellying up to the case. Your plastic is no good here.
535 Tedesco St., at Payne Avenue, St. Paul


text: The city of Hoonah has responded to a lawsuit by the widow of one of the two police officers slain by John Marvin by saying Marvin was the responsible party and the other officer's conduct was not negligent. Haley Tokuoka, widow of Officer Matthew Tokuoka, is contending that the city should have trained Sergeant Anthony Wallace better on how to handle Marvin. Wallace was also slain. Marvin was sentenced to two consecutive 99-year prison terms for the 2010 killings, which seemed to be related to a grudge he had.