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Drake and Oliver El-Khatib are kicking off OVO Sound Radio tonight. Tune in here for what's sure to be an episode to remember.
It's that time, y'all -- 6pm and all eyes are pointed toward the 6, where Drake and OVO co-founder Oliver El-Khatib, aka October Firm, are situated, ready to give fans another live episode of their label's Beats 1 radio show. Drake has promised that Views from the 6 will drop some time this month, and tonight, listeners are expecting him to premiere something off of the long-anticipated album.
Along with October Firm, who will begin the show, tonight's special guest is Virgil Abloh, who DJs under the name Flat White. Abloh is the creator of the fashion brand Off-White as well as an esteemed member of Kanye's inner-circle. Look for a few exclusives to be sprinkled throughout his mix as well.
The last time October Firm hosted an episode of OVO Sound was at the end of January, when the duo made its on-air debut. They played a couple of non-Drake exclusives, but the highlight was the premiere of "Summer Sixteen," the lead single off Views. Earlier this week, Drake dropped two surprise tracks, "One Dance," featuring WizKid and Kyla, and "Pop Style," featuring Kanye West and Jay Z, aka The Throne. Both tracks were single-quality, though it hasn't been confirmed whether or not either one will end up on the album.
Drake premiered September's What a Time to Be Alive, his joint album with Future, on an episode of OVO Sound, so it's possible he could do the same with Views. However, tonight might not be the night, as Pitchfork, the site that claims to be "the most trusted voice in music," recently reported that a reliable source had confirmed that the album will be released closer to the end of the month. Regardless, episode 19 of OVO Sound Radio should prove to be an exciting occasion. Tune in here, and make sure to check back for live updates and -- hopefully -- some new music from the 6 God.


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New Zealand automated systems manufacturer Scott Technology has purchased Australian company Machinery Automation and Robotics (MAR) for $13m.
Stuff.co.nz reports that Scott Technology's chief executive Chris Hopkins told shareholders of the acquisition at the company's annual meeting last week.
The purchase is expected to increase Scott's annual revenues by about 20 per cent.
''MAR is an established and very successful Australian automation and robotics company that is closely aligned to Scott, with products and markets that are complementary to Scott,'' Hopkins said.
According to the Otago Daily Times, for many years Scott has focused on making assembly line systems.
In recent years, the company has diversified into robotic meat machinery, niche-market machinery for the mining sector, and specialist superconductor motors. It also plans to move into the dairy sector.
MAR currently operates in mining, as well as food production and packaging.
''MAR's strengths in electrical, programming and controls, complements Scott's strengths in mechanical design and vision,'' Hopkins said.
In May this year, Scott purchased RobotWorx, a North American industrial robot integrator for $US5.4m.


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'Perception' Trance Tune of the week at Dance-Tunes.com!
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Markus Schulz is having a blast of a summer. When not playing in front of thousands of music lovers, he's enjoying the success of his new single 'Perception', featuring the invincible Justine Suissa. After heading up the Beatport charts and rocking it with a Top 10 position, it's now the official Trance Tune of the Week at Dance-Tunes.com.
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Sometimes, here at Musick, we have some friends round, drink some wine, put on a song and sing along and it all sounds pretty terrible. Beck does the same thing only without the wine and the bit about it sounding terrible and his friends are people like St Vincent and the guys from Liars. For the past few months, Beck's been hitting the Rolodex hard and calling in amigos to help him record whole albums in a day and this month it was the turn of INXS' '80s behemoth, Kick, to get the faithful treatment. Here's a great little video showing the recording of the album's opening track, 'Guns In The Sky':
Two things; the drums sound amazing and Beck's got some lovely knitwear on.
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'It is an attempt to browbeat India and further the interest of US solar companies'
The US has challenged India's solar energy policy before the World Trade Organisation (WTO), saying it favours domestic sourcing of solar panels. The challenge, filed on February 6, says the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) flouts global trade norms.
"A provision in India's solar energy programme asks power producers to acquire equipment from within the country," said Ron Kirk, US trade representative. "Trade enforcement is critical for ensuring that our clean energy goods and services can compete on an equal footing around the world," he added.
Replying to the challenge, the Indian government maintains that its policies are not discriminatory against foreign solar equipment makers. Indian NGOs have also sprung to the defence of the government. They point to the unfair trade practices of US. The complaint at WTO is an attempt to browbeat India, they say.
The US has asked for a consultation with the Indian government on the matter. As per WTO rules, India has 10 days to respond from the date of complaint. "We are working on our response," said Rajeev Kher, additional secretary with the ministry of commerce.
Tarun Kapoor, joint secretary, with the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), on the other hand said, "We are not violating any WTO rule. There is an exception under WTO if the government is the power procurement agency. Besides, the domestic content requirement pertains to only 500MW of solar power in the first batch of solar mission." India's solar programme envisages the installation of 20 gigawatts of solar capacity in several phases by 2022. However, the definition of public procurement is not clear.
Kapoor also added that India, like other countries, also has a right to protect its solar equipment makers who are struggling to cope with cheaper imports from China, the US, Malaysia and Taiwan.
An anti-dumping probe launched by Indian commerce ministry is already under way. The Indian solar equipment manufactures had complained last year to the government that cheap products from China, the US, Malaysia and Taiwan are eating into their business.
Is US resorting to unfair trade practices?
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a New Delhi based non-profit, says that by dragging India to the WTO, US is trying to browbeat India to further the interest of its own solar companies. "Since the start of JNNSM, the US has used the loopholes and the climate finance to the advantage of its manufacturers, who have sold highly subsidised solar panels to India.
This in turn has made Indian solar manufacturing companies uncompetitive," said Chandra Bhushan, deputy director general of CSE. It is estimated that currently 80 per cent of the Indian manufacturing capacity is in a state of forced closure and debt restructuring with no orders coming to them, while the US manufacturers are getting orders from Indian solar power developers.
"The United States has been able to do so by using the climate 'fast start financing' to its advantage," said Bhushan. Fast start financing is a US $30 billion fund set up under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
The fund, adopted at the Copenhagen climate meeting in 2009, was supposed to help developing countries deal with climate change impacts and limit greenhouse gas emissions. The US has very ingeniously used this fund to promote its own solar manufacturing. The US Exim Bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) have been offering low-interest loans to Indian solar project developers on the mandatory condition that they buy the equipment, solar panels and cells from US companies. This has distorted the market completely in favour of US companies.
An estimation done by CSE shows that about half of all solar modules installed under the JNNSM were manufactured by US companies. The US is the biggest winner of the Indian solar mission so far, says CSE.
Bhushan says the US is worried about two things. One, the anti-dumping probe launched by the commerce ministry which suggests that there is sufficient prima facie evidence of dumping of solar cells from the four countries. Obviously, with major imports coming from the US, its domestic companies are threatened the most.
Another is, increasing demand from Indian manufacturers to make domestic content requirement also applicable to the thin-film technology. If this comes about, this will completely stop the imports of subsidised solar modules from the US.
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The US has asked for a consultation with the Indian government on the matter. Awaiting the outcome, trying not to be cynical about it. Indian Govt should favour Indian manufacturers. This will do a world of good!
Indian supply companies are
Indian supply companies are less likely to bribe Indian authorities on a large scale but US and European companies regularly admit that according to their company policies it is not a crime or sin to bribe governments in other countries to make concrete their trade deals. ItalyÔÇÖs former Prime Minister very recently warned against Italian investigation agencies going after Italian industrialists who pay politicians and bureaucrats in foreign countries for securing supply orders and warned that it would be detrimental to Italian industryÔÇÖs and ItalyÔÇÖs interests in the long run. In his opinion, if an official in a foreign government asks for a bribe or commission for finalizing a deal, it is to be accepted as the custom of that country and Italians have to observe it instead of reporting it, which in other words means, they will value and honour the custom of those countries but not their laws. It is good to remember here that the most talked about names in connection with the ill famous Bofors deal were Italian. How can a democratic government tolerate and deal with such unscrupulous ideas? The American company Enron also created much uproar and disturbance in connection with their energy deals in India. How can the Indian government make deals with companies whose policies are to promote bribes and who regularly set aside enough amounts for the same in their budgets?


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I am standing here as a protégé of Senator Edward Kennedy who gave me my start in this country as a person who was the chairman of the refugee subcommittee and on whose staff I proudly served.
Senator Kennedy taught me and I traveled with him to the most squalid refugee camps around the world and he always said to me something that stayed with me throughout my 30 years servicing as the Democrat foreign advisor to each and every democratic, in the final analysis we Americans must stand for what we believe in. It is easy to let politics and excuses get in the way of what is just.
I can guarantee you that if Senator Kennedy was alive today, he'd be standing in Camp Liberty demanding justice right now for those people.
He would not have been intimidated by threats or accusations or misinformation and he would have advised us not to be afraid of threats, intimidations or the fear of injustice. When Ed Rendell, my fellow Democrat, stood proudly before you years ago, committed himself to this cause, and when I was on travel and saw what had happened to him in the newspapers, I said, I must stand here with him because what he's doing is right.
I am not now talking just to you. I am talking also to my dearest friends who I care about greatly in this Obama administration and from whom I have spent time, over 30 years working together. Whether they work in the Treasury Department or the State Department. The courts of this country will decide ultimately the fate of the MEK's de-listing or not.
But with good Americans whose names are being impugned because of their commitment to things they believe in. I do not consider that to be the way any president Obama, Carter, Clinton would have stood up and agreed with, neither should they and neither should the president; neither should the president of the United States not face what essentially is an inconvenient truth.
But for the fact that many in this administration had hoped that a policy of engagement with Iran would have yielded results, but for that fact, I guarantee you the MEK would not be even an issue of de-listing or not today. But for the fact that this administration has regrettably lost an ability or at least believes it has lost an ability to leverage what residual support it may have with the Maliki regime in Iraq, the MEK would be de-listed.
Yesterday the president of Kurdistan was in Washington. Mr. Barzani met with the President of the United States as well as the vice president and he conveyed an important message that should not be lost on my colleagues because it applies to the members of the MEK, to the leaders of camp Ashraf, to the citizens who are there in Camp Ashraf as well as to the Kurds and the Sunnis in Iraq, that there is a dangerous deterioration of human rights, civil liberties and dignity in Iraq and it's not merely affecting the people of Camp Ashraf but also the current vice president of Iraq as well as the Kurds who are seeking their own freedom as well. Shame on the government of Iraq that thinks that they can somehow commit more injustice to the people of Camp Ashraf and this administration. This administration must understand that while it may have had the best of political intentions, the best of foreign policy intentions, to try to resolve critical important foreign policy considerations, that the humanitarian crisis that faces the very good intentioned people of those camps, I'm not talking about card carrying members of a now listed terrorist organization. I'm talking about men, women and children who deserve better than what we have given them.
If Senator Kennedy knew that only one person was being processed per day by the United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees, he would be calling the United Nations High Commissioner on the phone and demanding that they expedite that procedure so that these people could be expedited out of this country. Where is the call coming out of this administration to the UNHCR?
His son, Patrick Kennedy, the former congressman, has come before you often. You can accuse Patrick Kennedy of many things, but you cannot accuse him of not knowing wrong when he sees it and the right that must be corrected and he has stood before you as a son of the late Senator Kennedy asking the administration the hard questions that it needs to respond to.
So let me add the following: To my friends in the administration, where on the office of foreign access control list is there any listed organization represented here today that somehow or other should be sanctioned? I'd like to see any name of any representative in this room on that list because they cannot produce it.
Number two, I would like to ask my friends in the legal advisors office of the State Department, why did they not, as part of their brief that they responded to the court mandamus order, did not provide the courts the information they claimed that they had in their possession that would compel them to keep the MEK listed.
Number three, why are they leaking inflammatory and inappropriate information about the rights of the people sitting up here today to speak their minds even if they were being paid to leave their offices and to spend time before you. Are they trying to shoot the messenger because they don't like the message?
Number four, I believe my friends in the administration have got to come to the realization that the people of Camp Ashraf are in danger. That the situation in Iraq is deteriorating by the day. That these people as Alan Dershowitz indicated, deserve to have the full faith and protection of the United States given the contractual obligation that we entered into.
Finally, all of you who are out here today who traveled at your own expense to come here and to applaud these people deserve to be treated with the same dignity, with the same support, with the same commitment as any one of us who stood up, whether it be at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee or any Christian organization who pointed out that the government in Iran, a terrorist state sponsor of terrorism, is the only country, only country that should be the focus of our enemy at this point in time and not anyone in this room who wants the freedom and dignity and restore the freedom and dignity of the Iranian people.
I want to say with all of my heart and sincerity that I was advised by my friends in the administration not to be here today. They suggested that I would regret the fact that I came here because this is too controversial, too difficult an issue, too sensitive a program, too complicated a matter. As if somehow we all just got off the turnip truck. I think that it was said best by my friend Mitchell Reiss who said, I think that our friends in the administration have just got their facts wrong that if they cannot decide that the Haqqani network is a terrorist organization, then I'm not sure they know themselves what a terrorist organization is.
I want to close by saying as I leave here to go home for my own passover, that we Americans, whether we are Jews, gentiles, or members of the Muslim faith, we know that we're dealing with controversial issues. We know that the relationship with Iran and Israel and the United States is reaching a critical point, that the inhabitants of Camp Ashraf and MEK are caught up in a very complicated more important to many people, a more important series of issues. Nothing, however, nothing means matter to me more than to the memory of Senator Kennedy and the life and humanitarian suffering and to the human rights of the people who you are here representing today that should be job one and everything after that will fall into place. Thank you.


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Orthodoxy – G.K. Chesterton
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The names in story are not specified because you anyone of you can be into this situation.
She was inspired by the song Face Down by Red Jumpsuit Apparatus.
Face down received 487k reads plus 18k votes. It is a short story which you can just finish it in one read.
Face Down is a short story based on a girl who is trapped into a abusive relationship. The girl is trapped into a abusive relationship. She suffers a lot because her boyfriend is cruel,jealous. She is lost in her own world crying. Having no friends. Her boyfriend abuses her. Beats her! She is trapped so badly. She needs to get out of it as possible.She a normal girl. She deserved to be happy.It wasn't easy for her to get out of it because she was so involved in him. She had her OWN DREAMS. Which were declining.
We all are normal.We aren't perfect. People should learn to understand the person's feelings. If you know someone who is trapped into ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP with VIOLENCE please help him/her.It's really important to help others.You may never know where will things take you.
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COULD it be time for Scary Spice Mel B to swap nicknames with her bandmate Sporty?
The 31-year-old was snapped on the beach sporting s six-pack on holiday in Miami with her husband Stephen Belafonte.
It is only 11 months since Mel gave birth to her second daughter, Angel.
But despite obviously working out hard to achieve her runner-up place on the US TV show Dancing With The Starts, she has still retained some of curves.
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In this tutorial we will be looking at how event listeners adn broadcasters can be made to work together.
First thing first, there is the code. Completed, the code wee will be creating looks like so:
broadcaster = {}; AsBroadcaster.initialize(broadcaster); listener = {}; broadcaster.addListener(listener); listener.onEvt = function(){ trace("Event!"); } broadcaster.broadcastMessage("onEvt"); broadcaster.broadcastMessage("onEvt");
Now the problem is that this code, like much of the code in the world, is useless without a little explanation of what it does.
The lines which do this: broadcaster = {}; and listener = {}; are creating 2 variables (broadcaster and listener) and setting them as objects.
AsBroadcaster.initialize(broadcaster); Makes it so that things can start listening for events being called from the broadcaster object.
REALIZE - The events that can be broadcast don't need to be real events. They can be made up to suit your purposes!
The next line broadcaster.addListener(listener); is used to tell the listener object to be listening for events called by the broadcaster object.
Next is the code creating a function:
listener.onEvt = function(){ trace("Event!"); }
That tells listener to be listening for the event called onEvt and then do the function it has called onEvt. If the listener object doesn't have a function for the event it is simply ignored. When the event is called the listener object traces (outputs in a separate box, available through Flash) the text "Event!".
The last 2 lines are exactly the same: broadcaster.broadcastMessage("onEvt"); which is basically telling the broadcaster to loop through all its listeners and send a call to the function onEvt.
If you want to try out the code feel free to. It requires no movieclips or anything special to run, just flash and AS 2.0 functionality (will probably work for AS 3.0 also).
In the next tutorial we will look at creating our own, easy/easier to use listener and broadcaster events.


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The district administration of Dhaka yesterday sealed both the Dhanmondi and Gulshan branches of Lakehead Grammar School, shutting all its activities on allegations of patronising militancy, inspiring extremist views and helping form militant outfits.
Two teams led by two executive magistrates conducted raids at the campuses of the English medium school in the evening as ordered by the deputy commissioner, said Sharif Rayhan Kabir, ADC (education and ICT) of Dhaka.
Elias Mehedi, one of the magistrates, said the officials sealed the branches after driving out all the staff.
Later, the school property was handed over to the Lakehead's admin officer, who gave an undertaking that all activities of the school will remain suspended for an indefinite period, told Elias.
Asif Ishtiaq, head of the school administration, said the management will sit today to decide about filing a writ petition against the closure of the school and how it can resume activities.
The education ministry ordered the Dhaka DC on Sunday to take measures to shut the school, also for carrying out activities against the nation.
Salma Jahan, joint secretary of secondary and higher secondary education, in the order said the school had no government permission.
Earlier on January 23, the ministry sent a letter to the home ministry requesting an investigation into Lakehead's alleged terror links.
The school was co-founded in 2000 by Rizwan Haroon, who has been dubbed as a top militant in some media reports, and Jenifer Ahmed, wife of alleged Hizb ut-Tahrir coordinator and Dhaka University teacher Syed Golam Mowla.
Though "listed as a militant suspect by the home ministry", Rizwan sneaked into the country from the UK dodging immigration police at the airport in Dhaka, the reports said in May this year, based on information from an intelligence agency.
Sources in the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police at the time, however, said they did not have any such information about Rizwan and that he was not wanted in any of their cases.
According to school insiders and official sources, a number of wanted militants linked with outfits like "Neo JMB", al-Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula and Hizb ut-Tahrir worked at the school as teachers.
Maj (retd) Jahidul Islam, military commander of "Neo JMB", worked at Lakehead in December 2015. He, however, quit his job as its general manager (admin) on March 7 last year, added the sources.
Jahid, killed in a police raid in the capital's Rupnagar on September 2 last year, allegedly had trained the militants who took part in the Gulshan café attack on July 1 last year.
Moniruzzaman Masud, a math teacher at Lakehead, was arrested along with Golam Mowla and several other Hizb ut-Tahrir men in September 2008 in Rajshahi while distributing leaflets calling for establishing a "caliphate" dethroning the then government.
Besides, Tehzeeb and Rizwan Sharif, both wanted by police for suspected militancy links, happened to be teachers at Lakehead.
According to international media reports, Tehzeeb and his brother Rajib Karim and Rizwan Sharif had contacted radical preacher Anwar al-Awlaki, a key figure in al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, saying they wanted to join jihad overseas.
Talking to a press, Tehzeeb's father, however, denied the allegation.
A few years back, Rizwan Haroon and his family got the ownership of Lakehead. In March this year, RM Group Limited, a company that supplies construction equipment and materials, purchased the school.
Khaled Matin, managing director of RM Group, yesterday told this newspaper that they purchased Lakehead without knowing that there had been allegations against the management of involvement in militancy.
He claimed to have sacked 12 teachers facing such allegations, and brought changes in the entire management. The school now has no terror connection and he welcomed the ministry investigation, he added.
After his two kids were admitted to Lakehead, Khaleda said, he started to like the school for its "Islamic environment" and later decided to buy it.
The school has around 1,100 students and 180 teachers. Monthly tuition fees for each student range from Tk 10,000 to Tk 15,000.
Visiting the Dhanmondi and Gulshan campuses around noon yesterday, this correspondent saw some guardians waiting for their children.
"Where will my son go at this time of the year?" said a guardian, worried following the ministry order.
Fearing disruption in their children's education, many parents contacted the school office and wanted to know what will happen next.
Talking to this correspondent at its Dhanmondi branch, a guardian seeking anonymity said she chose the institution since it is "different" from the other schools.
"The curriculum is the same like that of other English medium schools. But children here learns religious etiquettes," she said.


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I have no idea what my spiritual gift is. I think I was absent the day they were handed out. Evangelism? nope. Administration? Have you seen my desk? nope. I have taken the inventories, and they are not very helpful. I have tried to think of ways to serve in our church using my skills. It's hard because honestly, and I'm not saying this so everyone will say nice things about me, I don't feel like I have useful gifts. One day, before I was pregnant I saw a sign up sheet for Meals on Wheels. This seemed right up my alley. I love to cook! I look forward to the week that we have main dish for our small group. I love cooking different types of food than what I normally serve my picky family. I get to experiment with new things. Anyway, so I signed up.
I never got a phone call. That is, until a week ago. The person that heads it up called me and asked when I could bring a meal to a family from our church. They have 11 children. Lucky for me, 4 of them are no longer at home. I hemmed and hawed, thinking, "don't you know that I have 3 small children and I work two days a week." She wasn't going to let me off the hook. So I chose last Friday. I felt quite indignant that someone would ask me to do that when I had so much on my plate--especially since it was for 9 people! Enter, attitude check. I felt God nudging me, and I felt ashamed. Every Sunday people serve my family. They teach Rori and Liam about Jesus, happily change Brendan's poopy diapers, and Bill and I sit in the sanctuary enjoying the service. Here I was grumbling about making a meal, something I enjoy, something that I signed up to do and hadn't been asked once in the previous year to fulfill. So, I changed my attitude and made a delicious meal, hopefully blessing the family by having one less thing to think about.
I ended up being blessed in return for making the meal. Sunday, when we went to church, the dad came up to us and asked if I made it from scratch and said they loved it. Then one of the little girls said to me, "my mom said that whoever made that meal knows how to cook!" I was humbled, touched, and ashamed of my initial attitude. I am ready for the next Meals on Wheels phone call. Unless it's a meal for the Duggars. I don't think I have a pot big enough to cook for them!
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A seminar in climate philosophy would accordingly benefit from the State of the World summaries, and here I would like to suggest a selection. The SotW reports appear once every year, and each contains maybe 20 individual studies (21 in 2014, 34 in 2013, 17 in 2012, 15 in 2011, 26 in 2010, etc.). From the 1990s to the present--the 2015 volume has just come out (April)--there is quite a number of papers that suggest themselves. Making a narrow selection is not easy, especially since the articles are consistently of a high research quality. The criterion I use is, once again, synthesis. What follows in part II of this post is a list of the 'total-field image' articles, the 'big-picture'-studies that rigorously reflect the series title: the successive states of the world through the years.
Beginning with 2004, the SotW reports were topically arranged with a special focus each year. The focus for 2004 was the consumer society. For 2005, it was 'redefining global security'. In 2006, the focus was China & India. This was followed by 'our urban future' in 2007, 'innovations for a sustainable economy' in 2008, 'into a warming world' in 2009, 'transforming cultures from consumerism to sustainability' in 2010, 'innovations that nourish the planet' in 2011, and 'moving toward sustainable prosperity' in 2012. In 2013, the focus was a question: 'is sustainability still possible?' In 2014, the background for this question became evident; the volume's title is the neutral 'governing for sustainability,' but as soon as one opens the book, the tone darkens. The dedication to Lester Brown begins with a quote from his 2008 Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to save civilization:
We are in a race between tipping points in nature and our political systems.The introduction, by project directors Michael Renner and Tom Prugh, is titled "failing governance, unsustainable planet," which kind of sums it up. Governance is failing through the regulatory capture by corporate interests, which has made the consistent implementation of sustainable policies to date largely impossible, especially in Anglophone countries such as the United States. The 2014 volume introduction, by David W. Orr, begins with the apt reminder that climate change is indeed the greatest market failure the world has ever seen--a market failure that persists by regulatory capture deepening into failing governance in liberal democracies enthralled by the dogma of market worship. To Brown's simile of a race, Orr adds that of a ship in a storm:
We are like a ship sailing into a storm and needing to trim sails, batten hatches, and jettison excess cargo. But how will we decide to do comparable things in the conduct of public business? (p. xxii) ... the twenty-first century and beyond is all-hands-on-deck time for humankind (p. xxiv).The solution to failing governance is not so much new agencies, but the cleansing of existing agencies from the corruption and ignorance that are particularly visible on the political right:
And this will require a rigorously enforced separation between money and the conduct of the public business. The struggle to separate money from policy making and law will, in time, come to be seen rather like historic battles against feudalism, monarchy, and slavery. (p. xxiii)All the evidence points to Orr being right. This will be the new liberation movement. But while past liberation movements largely served the goal of justice, this one will serve the goal of existence.
(to be continued in part II)


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When the parties have been married and/or in a domestic partnership for no more than five years, and there are no children and relatively modest assets and liabilities, the parties may consider a "summary dissolution procedure" (Fam.C. § 2400).
Summary dissolution is a relatively straight-forward inexpensive procedure for dissolving a marriage and/or domestic partnership. The ultimate goal of marital/domestic partnership dissolution is just as the name implies—i.e., to proceed to judgment summarily. No formal court hearings or appearances are required; and a judgment of dissolution may be entered within six months after filing a joint petition (Fam.C. §§ 2401, 2403).
The Family Code emphatically advises couples who are divorcing to consult with a lawyer, saying that "(i)t is in the best interests of the parties to consult an attorney regarding the dissolution of their marriage" [Fam.C. § 2406 (b)(1)]. This is because working with an attorney who is an expert in divorce would ensure that the party is properly guided on what needs to be done.


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A couple convicted of minor charges related to allegations they used an "incense" business as a front for a synthetic marijuana operation now wants a new trial, saying a judge delivered improper jury instructions to the panel that decided their fate.
Jurors earlier this month reached a mixed verdict in the trial of William and Ann Sands, an estranged couple accused of running a synthetic marijuana operation out of their Boca Raton home.
William Sands' attorney Jacob Noble, has since filed a request with Circuit Judge Glenn Kelley for a new trial, saying he the judge delivered faulty jury instructions that could have led jurors to deliver an erroneous verdict.
Specifically, Noble wrote, Kelley described the substance in some of the counts as PB-22, and not specifically list the alleged imitation controlled substances by the names AB-Pinaca and AB-Fubinaca.
"Since the Court only identified the substance as an "imitation controlled substance" and not AB-Pinaca and/or AB-Fubinaca, the Court erroneously instructed the jury on a matter of law," Noble wrote on Nov. 17.
During their trial, the couple testified in their own defense that the company was merely selling incense clearly marked as being "not for human consumption.
The couple received convictions for two third-degree felony charges of sale/manufacture of an imitation controlled substance and two related misdemeanors, but were acquitted of three more other offenses, including a 2nd degree felony.


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While reviewing existing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Online implementations, I have noticed a repeating assumption by which Custom Workflow Activity, executing within an a-synchronous process, is not subjected to the sandbox 2 minutes execution timeout limitation.
This false assumption led to wrong architectural designs in which long running processes are assigned to be handled by CWA components.
As this article states, Custom Workflow Activity code registered to work in sandbox mode is subjected to the 2 min. execution timeout limit, just like Plug-in code. If you want to test this declaration yourself, just put a Sleep statement in your CWA code and get the following exception for both sync. and a-sync. processes:
The plug-in execution failed because the operation has timed-out at the Sandbox Host
So here are my tips regarding the Sandbox timeout limitation:
- Plan for big scales: You may have hundreds of records to process on day 1, but in a year or two, you might have thousands and your CWA/Plug-in component will start hitting the execution timeout limit.
- Use the right tool: Both CWA and Plug-in components are not meant for heavy lifting. For potentially long running processes or complex computations, these mechanisms should be used only as event wrappers, triggered by a business event and passing on execution to a more robust and manageable mechanisms such as Azure App Services, Azure Functions or other external mechanisms.
- Handle all exceptions: You can easily hit the the timeout limit, especially when integrating external services which you have no control of and may not response in a timely manner.
In general, If you don't handle exceptions, your business logic may disgracefully break and your users/clients might experience some ugly ass raw exceptions.
While handling exceptions, you can single out timeout exception by testing the exception status:
catch (WebException exception)
string str = string.Empty;
if (exception.Response != null)
using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(exception.Response.GetResponseStream()))
str = reader.ReadToEnd();
if (exception.Status == WebExceptionStatus.Timeout)
throw new InvalidPluginExecutionException(
"The timeout elapsed while attempting to process the request.", exception);
throw new InvalidPluginExecutionException(String.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture,
"A Web exception occurred while attempting to process the request. {0}: {1}", exception.Message, str), exception);
- Diagnose: You can diagnose your CWA/Plugin components by using the Trace service in your code. Tracing can be easily switched to display all tracing, just error or turned off by setting the Plug-in and custom workflow activity tracing in the Organization Settings dialog and then viewed in the Plug-in Trace Log area.
Tracing all incoming parameters values (as this article suggests) can help you better diagnose your CWA operations.
- Monitor: Sandbox Run time statistics can help you monitor your Plug-in/CWA performance over time, failures and running time metrics.
Run the following FetchXML query to get statistics about your component. Replace the name attribute value with your component name.
Note the averageexecutetimeinmilliseconds and failurecount results – it might indicate that your business logic is failing or close to failure.
<entity name="plugintypestatistic">
<attribute name="averageexecutetimeinmilliseconds" />
<attribute name="failurecount" />
<attribute name="failurepercent" />
<attribute name="crashpercent" />
<attribute name="crashcount" />
<link-entity name="plugintype" from="plugintypeid" alias="PluginType" to="plugintypeid">
<attribute name="isworkflowactivity"></attribute>
<attribute name="typename"></attribute>
<condition attribute="name" operator="eq" value="MyProject.Workflows.ProcessSomething"></condition>


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Category: Trial Technology
TrialPad 4.0 Delivers Next Level iPad App for Litigators
TrialPad 4.0 delivers a next level iPad app experience for litigators, and we were not surprised when it was recently featured as a #1 business app on the App Store! Just check out the description of the latest, muscled-out version of TrialPad from the passionate developer team at Lit Software: Continue reading
Guide to the Cloud for Lawyers
Is it time to move your Legal Practice Management Software to the Cloud? Enjoy this visually attractive 11-slide presentation from our friends over at MyCase about how you can grow your practice in a secure and reliable cloud computing environment: Continue reading
Legal iPad App for eDiscovery announced
Press release | Denver, July 24, 2013 ESI Attorneys, a Denver-based law firm with a focus in eDiscovery and Information law, today announced the launch of eDiscovery Assistant(TM), the first legal iPad application designed to help lawyers conduct eDiscovery.
Developed by eDiscovery attorney Kelly Twigger, the app provides lawyers with the tools they need to develop a thoughtful approach to eDiscovery, which can be one of the most expensive elements of litigation. eDiscovery can also be daunting for law firms to adapt and get up to speed on – one of the leading reasons Twigger developed the app. Continue reading
Logitech UE Mobile Boombox: Bluetooth Speaker and Speakerphone Review
If you are looking for a Bluetooth speaker and speakerphone that provides stronger volume capabilities for your movies, music, phone calls and other sound files, look no further. The Mobile Boombox by Logitech is ready to go right out of the box for smartphones or tablets with Bluetooth enabled. Continue reading
The Best of LITIG8R TECH: Year One
It is my pleasure to share with you our top 8 most popular posts during the past year of LITIG8R TECH:
8. Capture ideas on the go with Index Card for iPad, iPhone -This article written by recent law school graduate Ben Beasley is an accompanying piece to his most popular post and our #2 top post of all-time about the Scrivener app. Continue reading
Depositions and trial software by eDepo
According to the eDepo website, "eDepo's patent-pending software brings synced video depositions and powerful presentation software to your fingertips." From attorney Karl Seelbach, CEO and Founder of eDepo.com: Continue reading
MobiLit for iPad Snapshot
by Caitlin Moon
I just learned about MobiLit for iPad from the MyCase blog, and while I haven't yet had a chance to test out it's functionalities, it shows tremendous promise if it can do all that it claims, and do it well. With MobiLit, you can: Continue reading
iPad in One Hour, Cloud Computing and Social Media for Lawyers
Get four wonderful books from two legal tech leaders when you win the Litigation iPad Survival Kit giveaway.
All four published by the American Bar Association, you'll want to add these resources to your library: Continue reading
iPractice: 16 Tips and Apps for Lawyers with iPhones and iPads
Between January 2011 and January 2012, iPhone adoption among lawyers grew from 31 percent to 44 percent. According to attorney Jeff Richardson who has written about the 2012 American Bar Association (ABA) Legal Technology Report, "if an attorney is using a smartphone, there is about a 50-50 chance that he or she is using an iPhone." With the iPhone 5 launch earlier this month Continue reading
Apps for Litigators & Trial Teams
Always a work in progress, this resource was most recently updated: 1/29/14
Learning about the latest legal apps may be a time-consuming task until a LAW or LEGAL category is added to the App Store. And with Apple changing its App Store search algorithm periodically, it seems even more difficult to uncover appropriate apps for attorneys, unless you already know the precise app name. In an effort to save time for busy litigators and trial teams, we have compiled a solid app list here with links to the App Store where you can read descriptions, view screenshots, go to the developer website, learn about support and more. There is also a listing of apps geared for future litigators entitled Law Students.
We are pleased to introduce Litigator apps in ALPHA ORDER (with brief description), BY CATEGORY and a LAW STUDENTS section (with brief description).
ALPHA ORDER with brief description
- ABA Journal -law industry publication
- Above the Law-Legal News
- AllLaw-Federal & state legal reference
- American Arbitration-view rules, codes and protocols
- The American Lawyer –monthly magazine by Law.com
- The Bill of the Rights
- Black's Law Dictionary, 9th Edition
- Bouvier Law Dictionary, Compact Edition
- BT Chat HD–discreetly chat via bluetooth or wi-fi
- Casefolio-mobile legal review
- CaseManager-case management
- CFR Live! Lite-Code of federal regs
- CLE Master–CLE tracking, reporting for multiple states
- CLE Mobile–4,500+ CLE Courses avail. for subscribers
- Client File-client manager
- Crimes and Criminal Procedure-Title 18 United States Code
- Crime and Trials-new and info
- Corporate Counsel-business issues & legal affairs
- Court Days Pro–Rules-based Calendaring
- CourtLink–review/track federal & state court docket, new cases
- Courtroom Objections
- Constitution
- Constitution and Federalist Papers
- Constitution for iPad
- The Deponent–deposition preparation
- Dictamus-Dictate and send
- DocketLaw-Calculate event dates based on Federal Rules
- DRI Events–Defense Bar events
- eDiscovery Assistant
- The Essential Law Dictionary
- Exhibit A–your exhibits anytime, anywhere
- ExhibitView–PC/iPad compatible trial presentation tool
- EyeTrial-courtroom presentation
- EyeTrial Lite
- Fastcase–Case Law
- FedCtRecords
- Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure
- Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
- Federal Rules of Evidence
- Federal Sentencing Guidelines – Tekk Innovations
- Federal Sentencing Guidelines – Ambay Software
- Free Law Dictionary
- GoodReader-document reviewer
- Go – Lawyer Jokes HD
- HeinOnline 2012-image-based legal research database
- HD USA LAWS –encyclopedia of U.S. laws
- iBillable Hours–designed for lawyers
- iCLE–manage courses, ratings and unfinished tasks
- iClient for Attorneys – Lite-client manager
- iClient for Attorneys–full client manager
- iCVNet-instant viewing depositions, transcripts
- idocument REVIEW– review documents on the go
- Index Card-corkboard writing app
- iJuror–Jury selection
- iJuror – Stickies
- iJury–Jury selection
- iLaw Dictionary
- IP Law Daily-IP Law Daily subscription
- iPleading–mobile litigation template generator
- iTestimony–Track witness info
- iTimeKeep-integrated billing system
- ITrial-case information
- iWriteLegal-legal writing app
- Jury Duty–Jury selection
- JuryPad-Jury selection
- JuryTracker–track the jurors during trial
- JuryStar-Jury selection
- Jury Strike-Jury selection
- The Language of Law-legal terms flashcard replacement
- LawBox-mobile law library
- Law Dictionary: FT
- Law Help-legal terms
- The Law Guide -from TheLaw.com
- LawLibe-Law library
- Law Practice Magazine by the American Bar Association
- LawStack–Federal rules, statues, regs
- Law Technology News
- Lawyer Jokes HD
- Legal Edge-by JDSupra.com
- Legal IT Insider Newsletter
- Legal Terms 1000
- Legal Terms Dictionary
- Legal Viewer-PDF viewer
- Lexis Advance™ HD–Legal research
- Lexis Legal News Briefs –legal, business, financial news
- LexisNexis Accurint® Mobile-mobile investigative tool
- LexisNexis Get Cases & Shepardize®
- LexisNexis Legal News –Daily legal news
- Litigation-by American Bar Association
- Litigation Management-magazine
- Litigator–state & federal regulations
- LoisLaw-case law
- Masters Legal Latin-fun way to learn important legal phrases
- Manual for USA-1st ed.–Fed. rules, statues, regs
- Mealey's Legal News-top litigation news
- Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law
- MobiLit-court presentations
- MobileLaw-mobile law library
- The Mobile Lawyer Toolkit
- Mobile Transcript -review/edit deposition/transcripts, track time
- myCLE New York
- myCLE Texas
- My Legal Projects–for legal research projects
- My Voir Dire –jury selection
- My Legal Writing Coach: Memos-legal memo writing
- NACDL Edge-National Assn. of Criminal Defense Lawyers
- The National Law Journal-legal weekly publication
- NEJM iPad Edition-The New England Journal of Medicine
- Nolo's Plain English Law Dictionary
- OpenRegs-Federal Register
- Oral Argument
- Osborn's Concise Law Dictionary
- OyezToday HD–Info, media re: US Supreme Court
- Picture It Settled -mediation app
- PocketJustice HD–text & multimedia from Oyez Project
- Pocket US Code of Federal Regulations-US Federal code
- PLI Mobile CLE-Practicing Law Institute
- PUSH legal-mobile and desktop law library
- Ratchet Law-curated legal intelligence
- Real Time Congress–latest legislation & news from D.C.
- Rocket Matter-time and billing software
- Rulebook–Federal and State Court rules
- Search4-Pocket Prosecutor
- Second Chair Mobile Jury-jury selection
- Simplenote-notes, lists, ideas
- Smart Dockets-legal calendaring and more
- smartLeges-U.S. Constitution, The Articles of Confederation, more
- TextMap-transcript management
- Thomson Reuters ProView-eBook platform for legal ref. materials
- Time Master + Billing
- TrialDirector-trial presentation
- TrialEvidence-ref. guide for courtroom evidentiary foundations
- TrialPad–to prepare and present your case
- TranscriptPad–transcript review
- TrialTouch–cloud-based trial presentation tool for subscribers
- TrialWorks-case management
- U.S. Code-Shawn Bayern
- U.S. Constitution – Fitz Collings
- US Constitution–legal research via search engine in docs
- USLAW 24/7-Network of Lawyers/Law Firms
- Westlaw Case Notebook -annotate e-transcripts
- WestlawNext–legal research
- Westlaw Portfolio-legal resources
- Wolfram Lawyer's Professional Assistant–reference tool
BY CATEGORY (some apps fall into more than one category)
- iBillable Hours
- Casefolio
- CaseManager for iPad
- Client File
- iClient for Attorneys – Lite
- iClient for Attorneys
- iTimeKeep
- Court Days Pro
- DocketLaw
- Mobile Transcript for iPad
- Rocket Matter
- Black's Law Dictionary, 9th Edition
- Bouvier Law Dictionary, Compact Edition
- The Essential Law Dictionary
- Free Law Dictionary
- iLaw Dictionary
- Law Dictionary: FT Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
- Law Help
- Legal Terms 1000
- Legal Terms Dictionary
- Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law
- MobileLaw
- Nolo's Plain English Law Dictionary
- AllLaw
- American Arbitration
- The Bill of the Rights
- CourtLink
- Constitution Constitution and Federalist Papers
- Constitution for iPad
- Crimes and Criminal Procedure
- FedCtRecords
- Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure
- Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
- Federal Rules of Evidence
- Federal Sentencing Guidelines – Tekk Innovations
- Federal Sentencing Guidelines – Ambay Software
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Fulfilling its promise to scrutinize broker-dealers' cybersecurity policies this year, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has issued a targeted exam letter to firms stating that the self-regulator is assessing how firms manage cybersecurity threats.
In the exam letter, FINRA states that it is conducting its assessment "in light of the critical role information technology (IT) plays in the securities industry, the increasing threat to firms' IT systems from a variety of sources, and the potential harm to investors, firms and the financial system as a whole that these threats pose."
Specifically, FINRA says it will be looking at firms' policies in the following areas:
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The Securities and Exchange Commission will also be assessing advisors cybersecurity procedures during exams it conducts this year.
Meanwhile, the House Committee on Homeland Security unanimously approved on Wednesday H.R. 3696, the National Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection Act of 2013.
The bill was sent to the full House for consideration.
The committee said in a statement that the Act "addresses the cyber threat by giving the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) the tools to secure our nation in cyberspace, while protecting privacy and civil liberties and prohibiting any new regulations at DHS."
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Nine people have died after a furious flash flood tore through a group of family and friends cooling off in a creek in the Tonto National Forest in Arizona.
Gila County Sheriff's Detective David Hornung said that the group from the Phoenix and Flagstaff areas had met up for a day trip along the popular Cold Springs swimming hole near Payson in central Arizona and were playing in the water when muddy flood waters came roaring down the canyon.
The group had set out chairs to lounge on a warm summer day when miles upstream an intense thunderstorm dumped heavy rainfall on the mountain.
Search and rescue crews, including 40 people on foot and others in a helicopter, recovered the bodies of five children and four adults, some as far as two miles down the river.
A 13-year-old boy is still missing.
The victims ranged in age from a 60-year-old woman to a two-year-old girl. Authorities did not identify them. Four others were rescued on Saturday and taken to Banner hospital in nearby Payson for treatment for hypothermia.
Rescuers got to the four victims quickly after the crew heard their cries while they were nearby helping an injured hiker.
Crews were walking on Sunday along the banks poking through debris, including tree trunks. They have scoured a five-mile stretch down the East Verde River and will continue south.
The flash-flooding hit on Saturday afternoon at Cold Springs canyon, about 100 miles north-east of Phoenix, a popular recreation area easily reached by relatively easy hiking paths. Some know it was as Ellison Creek or Water Wheel swimming holes.
Mr Hornung said the treacherously swift waters gushed for about 10 minutes before receding in the narrow canyon. He estimated flood waters reached 6ft high and 40ft wide.
Disa Alexander was hiking to the swimming area where Ellison Creek and East Verde River converge when the water suddenly surged.
She was still about two-and-a-half miles away when she spotted a man holding a baby and clinging to a tree. His wife was nearby, also in a tree. Had they been swept farther downstream, they would have been sent over a 20ft waterfall, Ms Alexander said.
Ms Alexander and others tried to reach them but could not. Rescuers arrived a short time later.
"We were kind of looking at the water; it was really brown," she said. "Literally 20 seconds later you just see, like hundreds of gallons of water smacking down and debris and trees getting pulled in. It looked like a really big mudslide."
Video she posted to social media showed torrents of muddy water surging through jagged canyons carved in Arizona's signature red rock.
"I could have just died!" she exclaims in the video, before showing images of the man in a tree and his wife.
The National Weather Service, which had issued a flash flood warning, estimated up to 1.5 inches of rain fell over the area in an hour. The thunderstorm hit about eight miles upstream along Ellison Creek, which quickly flooded the narrow canyon where the swimmers were.
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There were no surprises at the Lagan Valley count as Sir Jeffrey Donaldson comfortably retained the Westminster seat he's held for the past 20 years.
Going into this election with a huge majority of 13,000, Mr Donaldson was odds-on favourite to be returned to the House of Commons, with the general feeling that Ulster Unionist candidate Robbie Butler was likely to be his only serious challenger.
As it turned out, Mr Donaldson retained the seat with a massively increased majority of more than 19,000, having secured almost 60 per cent of the total vote.
During his acceptance speech, he praised 'Team DUP' in Lagan Valley for their hard work during the campaign and stressed that he is committed to working on behalf of everyone in the constituency.
"It is a great honour to be returned again as MP for Lagan Valley, and returned with my largest ever vote and largest ever majority," the DUP man said.
Mr Donaldson believes the increased turnout figure in Lagan Valley (62 per cent - up six per cent from 2015) is a direct reaction to the loss of a unionist seat in March's Assembly election.
On that occasion the SDLP's Pat Catney upset the odds to take the final Stormont seat in the constituency at the expense of the DUP's Brenda Hale.
"On the doorsteps it was clear to me that the result of the Assembly election was weighing heavily on the minds of many voters in Lagan Valley - the impact of Sinn Fein coming so close to being the largest party, but also the loss of that unionist seat in Lagan Valley - and I think there was a quiet determination on the part of unionist voters to come out this time in greater numbers than they did at the last general election and they have united behind the DUP and given us a very strong vote," he said.
The result in full was:
Robbie Butler, UUP - 7,533
Pat Catney, SDLP - 3,384
Jeffrey Donaldson, DUP - 26,762
Aaron McIntyre, Alliance - 4,996
Ian Nickels, Conservative - 462
Jonny Orr, Independent - 222
Jacqui Russell, Sinn Fein - 1,567


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Life is tough when you're trying to come from behind against Android and iPhone in the mobile market, which means you've gotta take your victories wherever you can get them.
Which is why Microsoft may feel good, for a moment, about a new Appcelerator/IDC study this morning showing that it has edged out RIM's BlackBerry as the No. 3 mobile platform based on interest among app developers. But then comes the explanation. From the findings …
"Microsoft edges RIM to become the third horse, but there is not much cause for celebration in Redmond as respondents' interest in Microsoft and RIM dropped substantially compared to last quarter. Microsoft fell seven points, with only 29% of developers saying they are 'very interested' in the Windows Phone 7, while BlackBerry phones dropped eleven points to 27%. On the upside, and in part as a result of Microsoft's partnership announcement with Nokia, Windows Phone 7 interest fell four points less than BlackBerry to make Microsoft the new number three in developer interest behind Apple and Google."
Of course, surveys can always be disputed, and Microsoft has been pointing recently to its own stats showing momentum for Windows Phone among app developers. And all of this will be moot in four years, when Microsoft's Nokia deal will make Windows Phone the No. 2 player, behind only Android. At least, that's the recent prediction from both IDC and Gartner.
The Appcelerator/IDC survey from April 11-13 gauged the opinions of more than 2,700 app developers. Toward the top of the market, the survey showed Google losing some momentum overall based on the lukewarm response to Android tablets.
On the flip side, a separate survey released by Nielsen this morning indicates that consumer interest in Android is growing in the U.S., now topping the iPhone in domestic market share.


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More than half of all U.S. households and one in three individuals own stocks directly or through mutual funds, according to a survey released Thursday by trade groups for the securities and fund industries.
Equity ownership has increased over the past two decades to the point where nearly 57 million households own stocks or funds, the survey by the Investment Company Institute and the Securities Industry Association found. By comparison, the number of households owning stocks directly or indirectly stood at 40 million in 1995, and 16 million in 1983, the groups said.
Equity ownership has been fueled largely by the expansion of defined contribution retirement plans, especially 401(k) plans, the survey found. The number of households owning stocks through employer-sponsored plans, which often offer mutual funds as investment options, increased by 5.2 million to 37.6 million between 1999 and this year.
However, nearly three quarters of all equity investors hold stocks outside retirement plans, and they buy stocks mainly through professional financial advisers, according to the survey. More than three quarters of investors who own stocks outside retirement plans bought them through advisers.
The survey also found that nearly all stock owners view their holdings as long-term investments.
The survey's results are based on interviews with more than 4,900 people conducted last January. The trade groups last surveyed equity owners in 2002.


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Its been a while since my last flash animation, but after taking this picture a few nights ago, I knew I had to throw it up on the site.
So here goes:
There's something eerie about walking alone in the city at night.
The fact that you're just one of a few million souls walking from one street to the next makes you feel like such an insignificant piece of of the puzzle.
Yet, when you stop to look down at the traffic below, and you hear the horn of the passenger train in the distance, you realize that the city is alive, and that you are a part of it as much as it is a part of you.
And its then that you feel safe, realizing that you are never really walking alone.