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Ben McLemore Will Enter NBA Draft, he announced Tuesday.
Ben McLemore sat aside Coach Bill Self and announced he will forgo his remaining college eligibility at the University of Kansas and enter the NBA draft.
"I'll miss my coach, teammates, and definitely going to miss the fans," McLemore said.
"This is not bittersweet. It's sweet-sweet," said Coach Self.
Ben McLemore and Coach Bill Self met with with reporters at 2:30 on Tuesday afternoon.
There are dozens of NBA mock drafts out right now, and the majority have McLemore as the #1 overall pick while almost all of them have him in the top 5.
McLemore scored more points than any other freshman in KU history, including Danny Manning.
"I really like Miami Heat but I don't have a preference just yet," said McLemore.
"I don't think you're gonna slip to 30, bud." Bill Self interrupted.
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Kansas' Ben McLemore Declares for the NBA Draft
LAWRENCE, Kan. – Kansas redshirt freshman guard Ben McLemore declared for the NBA Draft at a press conference in Allen Fieldhouse Tuesday afternoon.
"I want to thank my teammates a lot for supporting me and always pushing me each and every day at practice," McLemore said. "I love those guys. It was great playing with those guys. I want to thank my family and the coaching staff, too, but most of all I want to thank the KU fans. Without the KU fans, Kansas wouldn't be like this. The KU fans are great and I'd like to thank them a lot for cheering me on and cheering this whole program on. I love that about Kansas. That's the reason I came here."
A Consensus All-America Second Team selection and All-Big 12 First Team honoree, McLemore led Kansas in scoring in 2012-13 with 15.9 points per game, which ranked third in the Big 12. The 6-foot-5 St. Louis, Mo., native led the Big 12 with an 87.0 free throw percentage and also ranked among the league leaders in field goal percentage (eighth at 49.5), three-point field goal percentage (second at 42.0), three-point field goals made (sixth at 2.0) and rebounds (20th at 5.2).
McLemore's 15.9 points per game this season broke the KU freshman record of 14.6 ppg posted by Jayhawk legend Danny Manning in 1985. McLemore's 589 points and his 87.0 free throw percentage also broke KU freshman marks.
During the 2012-13 season, McLemore was a three-time Big 12 Rookie of the Week and one-time league player of the week. He became only the second Jayhawk in the 17-year history of the Big 12 to have earned Big 12 Player and Rookie of the Week in the same season. Mario Chalmers also accomplished the feat during the 2005-06 season.
McLemore had 11 games of 20 points or more in 2012-13, including three 30-point contests. His 36 points against West Virginia (3/2) broke the KU freshman single-game scoring record and his three 30-point efforts also set a KU freshman single-season mark.
Ben McLemore 2012-13 Postseason Accolades
-Consensus All-America Second Team
-Associated Press All-America Second Team
-John R. Wooden Award All-American
-NABC All-America Second Team
-Lute Olson All-America Team
-USBWA All-America Second Team
-USBWA Freshman All-America
-Third Team All-America by Sporting News
-All-Big 12 First Team (Big 12, AP)
-Big 12 All-Rookie Team
-John R. Wooden Award Final Ballot
-Phillips 66 Big 12 Rookie of the Week (3/4)
-USBWA Oscar Robertson Player of the Year Finalist (1 of 14)
-USBWA Wayman Tisdale Freshman of the Year Finalist (1 of 8)
-Naismith Award Top 30 Candidate
-Phillips 66 Big 12 Rookie of the Week (1/21)
-Sporting News Mid-Season All-American
-Phillips 66 Big 12 Player of the Week (1/14)
-Phillips 66 Big 12 Rookie of the Week (12/24)
-CBE Hall of Fame Classic All-Tournament Team
Kansas freshman record-wise, McLemore's:
...589 points are a Kansas freshman record. He is the only KU freshman to have scored more than 500 points.
...15.9 ppg set the KU freshman record of 14.6 ppg held by Danny Manning in 1985.
...87.0 free throw percentage is first on the Kansas freshman list.
...73 three-pointers made in 2012-13 are third on the KU freshman list (Jeff Boschee, 79 in 1999 and J.R. Giddens, 74 in 2004).
...42.0 three-point field goal percentage is fourth on the KU freshman list.
...5.2 rebound average rank 11th on the KU freshman list.


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Our schedule for this upcoming year is set! Please visit our Website for the latest information:
2012 - 2013 Schedule (updated July 31, 2012)
The Phoenix Jewish Genealogy Society holds monthly Sunday afternoon Open-Houses during which we begin with a brief refresher on a particular resource or method of research. Following that, experienced researchers are available to give individual assistance. All Sunday afternoon workshops/refreshers meet at Beth El Congregation from 1-3 PM in the computer lab (enter through the Schurgin Center door in the rear of the main building at Beth El. Participation in any (OR ALL) workshops/refreshers is free to members, $5 for non-members (which includes membership). Our open house Sundays begin with a Research Review and Refresher - each month we feature a review of research techniques or materials. Bring your lap-top (we have wi-fi) or use one of our internet-connected computers. During the Sunday meetings, we are on-line for those members who cannot join us on-site. There will be plenty of people on-hand to assist with research questions.
Sunday Meeting dates
1-3 PM at Beth El 1118 W Glendale Ave, Phoenix 85021
August 26, Sept 30, Oct 28, Nov 18, Dec 16, Jan 13, Feb 10, Mar 17, Apr 21, May 19
Exploring the 1940 Census: join Emily Garber and Janette Silverman on Tuesday, September 4 at 7 PM at the Arizona Jewish Historical Society - Cutler-Plotkin Heritage Center 122 E. Culver Street, Phoenix, AZ 85004 to RSVP call 602-241-7870 or email here
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Genealogy 101 -- Beginning genealogy classes – and Cyber-Genealogy if you ever wanted to know how to research your family tree, learn about different formats for maintaining your tree, the questions to ask and who to ask, and how to understand the available resources - records, photographs and other data, please consider joining us.Cyber-Genealogy teaches you how to use a variety of internet tools to help you in your research.
Are you interested in learning about your ancestors? Researching your family history is not as hard as you think! It just takes time, patience,and persistence. Join us and learn how to create a Family Tree and find out who your ancestors were. The classes will be held at Beth El on Glendale Ave in Phoenix
Wednesdays, 6:30 - 7:45 PM November 7, 14 & 28, 2012 - so, you've started your family tree and want to take advantage of internet resources but don't know where to begin (or how). This workshop will guide you through using some of the more popular internet research tools and give you some tips on finding others.
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WIU Alumna Named Teacher of the Year for U.S. Department of Defense Education Activity Schools
August 27, 2012
MACOMB, IL – Western Illinois University alumna Angela Barker Wilson was recently named the 2012 Teacher of the Year for the U.S. Department of Defense Education Activity Schools (DoDEA) and was one of four finalists for the National Teacher of the Year ceremony held at the White House, Washington, D.C., last April.*
Wilson, who earned her bachelor's degree from Western in elementary education in 1997, has been teaching for 11 years in schools in Illinois and Utah and DoDEA schools in South Korea, Turkey and Italy. She currently serves as a seventh-grade language arts teacher at Vicenza Middle School affiliated with Camp Ederle Army Base, near Venice, Italy.
"There aren't words to describe what this honor means to me," Wilson said. "There are millions of teachers in America, giving their hearts and souls to students every day. I am here because of amazing professors, mentors and colleagues. I am humbled to represent them. Representing DoDEA is something extra special and this award is shared with my students—the children of America's heroes."
During her time at Western, Wilson was recognized for her academic achievement as the elementary education department scholar in 1997. She completed her master's degree in education at Southern Utah University in 2010, and she is currently enrolled in an online doctoral degree program at Walden University.
Wilson is the daughter of Bruce Barker, who served as WIU's instructional technology department chair (now the instructional design and technology department) from 1992-96. Barker also served as the assistant dean in the WIU College of Education and Human Services from 1996-98. (Barker now teaches at Southern Utah University.) Wilson's husband, Chance, is also a WIU graduate.
According to the DoDEA website, the Department of Defense Education Activity Schools consists of the Department of Defense Dependents Schools located overseas, and the Department of Defense Domestic Dependent Elementary and Secondary Schools located in the U.S. and its territories and possessions. DoDEA provides education to eligible DoD military and civilian dependents from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. DoDEA also provides support and resources to local education activities throughout the U.S. that serve children of military families.
According to the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), the organizations represented on the 2012 National Selection Committee for the National Teacher of the Year Award include: American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, American Association of School Administrators, American Federation of Teachers, Association for Childhood Education International, ASCD, Association of Teacher Educators, National Association for the Education of Young Children, National Association of Elementary School Principals, National Association of Secondary School Principals, National Association of State Boards of Education, National Congress of Parents and Teachers, National Education Association, National Middle Schools Association, National School Boards Association and National School Public Relations Association.
For more information, contact Dana Moon in the College of Education and Human Services at (309) 298-1690 or via email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
* Rebecca Mieliwocki, from Burbank, California, was named the 2012 National Teacher of the Year. The transcript of "Remarks by the President at Presentation of the National Teacher of the Year Award" is available at www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/04/24/remarks-president-presentation-national-teacher-year-award
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The Browns may have taken their time selecting a new head coach, but they didn't waste much announcing that they'd found one.
Shortly after Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that Mike Pettine had reached a deal to become the Browns' head coach, the Browns confirmed the news. Pettine is the eighth head coach to lead the Browns since they reentered the NFL for the 1999 season and the 18th coach in the overall history of the franchise.
Pettine was one of 10 candidates — Dan Quinn, Todd Bowles, Josh McDaniels, Ken Whisenhunt, Ben McAdoo, Mike Munchak, Rich Bisaccia, Dirk Koetter and Greg Schiano were the others with Adam Gase choosing not to meet with the team — to interview for the job and entered the process later than some of the others on that list. In a statement, Browns CEO Joe Banner explained that the team cast a wide net by design.
"We wanted to be thorough right from the start and we interviewed as many people as we could," Banner said. "From that group, we hired the best individual for this job. Our players and fans are going to really enjoy Mike Pettine and his leadership style. We're excited to have him out in front of our team, and we look forward to working closely with him."
The Browns have scheduled a 4:45 p.m. ET press conference to formally introduce Pettine.


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In Killzone: Liberation on the PSP, the Vektan war is far from over. Faced with increasing ISA resistance, the Helghast adopt new tactics to capture island bases to the south of the planet. Spearheading the new strategy is bloodthirsty General Armin Metrac, who captures a group of ISA VIPs for use as pawns in negotiation for the removal of ISA forces from the region, wherein they decide to use an array of tactics in order for cooperation and closer. to finally end this ongoing feud.
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This is a handheld tactical shooting game with great graphics and excellently produced audio. The game is tightly focused with satisfying shooting action and I can genuinely say I found the game quite challenging: you certainly need to concentrate and keep your wits about you. However the game has its limits. The single player is too short for such a thrilling game and it does not have online play. The story is also painfully short. In this game it's all about the shooting. There is a lot of it and it is intense, with lots and lots of nasty enemies, which do not die easily, to contend with. If a co-op play and a multiplayer component were thrown in, this would make a much improved package and game. Perhaps that will come later.
This game takes place in a futuristic culture where the humans have colonized all the stars. In The Killzone universe there is a militant subclass which sets itself apart from the mainstream society to form its own government. All this is happening on another planet called Helgan and, as time goes by, this breakaway group of people change from humans into some other, rather unpleasant creatures known as Helghast and it is those newly evolved creatures with whom you do battle, your duty being to prevent an invasion of another planet. Your part is that of a human soldier who is called Templar and who takes on a mission to bring down and destroy these enemies.
In Killzone Liberation it takes a very short time to set up the objective for every mission in the game. For the most part of the game, however, the focus is not based on the storytelling but rather on the mission of Liberation itself. You begin each level with a specific type of gun. When you start you are using a not very useful weapon but as you progress through the game you will unlock more powerful starting guns and also a basic mission objective or two. As you go on, Helghast fighters come in all forms, from groupings of grunt soldiers to rocket-launcher-wielding baddies, and killing them can be very challenging at times. Shooting is handled very well in Liberation as you will find out.
The single player campaign is quite short and devoid of a storyline, and the multiplayer suffers from lack of infrastructure. The tough enemies create some intense battles of the sort you will find in many PSP battles, so nothing new there. The difficulty of the game might put off players especially if they are not used to playing such shooter games. The fact that the game is also quite brief is also a point against it, but, all in all I found the game an enjoyable one, enjoyable enough to recommend that you try it.
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Jamie Havig was about to redeploy. The Navy combat medic put on his headphones, blasted the volume and tried to ignore the plane's bouncing descent.
"I've been on a lot of flights where I was being shot at and landing in really hot zones, but this one made me nervous," Havig said.
This time he was landing in the middle of a storm at John F. Kennedy Airport in Queens, New York. Havig is a veteran who served two tours in Iraq attached to a Marine sniper team. It's where he picked up his nickname, "Doc."
The 35-year-old now lives in Irvine and works for the nonprofit Team Kids.
But on Nov. 7, just as the nor'easter was hitting the East Coast days after Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc, he was working for Team Rubicon.
Team Rubicon is an emergency-relief nonprofit staffed by veterans. When a disaster hits, highly trained volunteers who honed their skills in war zones respond by flying in from across the country to help in any way they can. Their goal: be the first on the ground.
"We are the best at organizing chaos," Havig said. "We're up and running and responding within minutes."
Havig talked about his mission with Team Rubicon like he was back in the service, and he described the scene on the ground in much the same way too.
"It seriously was a disaster area, like a war had just happened there," he said, describing the aftermath of Sandy's massive flooding, high winds and fires. "Almost like a nuclear sand bomb had just gone off."
Until he returned Wednesday, Havig spent long days with other veterans organizing groups of 20 to 30 civilians.
They assisted any way they could, taking work orders submitted by Rockaway residents at Forward Operating Base Hope to shovel sand, tear out ruined drywall or haul broken furniture.
"The owners would just sit there watching the whole thing in tears," Havig said. "It was a sad sight, but at the same time, if we weren't there helping them, nothing would be done."
At the end of the day, the vets on Team Rubicon slept in a rock-climbing gym a fellow Marine found for them.
"We don't stop when we're tired. We stop when the job is done," Havig said.
He refused to pass up the chance of helping in New York.
"I don't ever want to be the 'I-should-have-done-something' guy," he said.
He was that guy once in Iraq when an injury stopped him, Havig explained.
"Medically, I couldn't have went on, but it still haunts me that I wasn't there," he said.
Havig's motivation is twofold. He is the program director at Team Kids, and he returned to Irvine with a mission to inspire.
Over the next few weeks, he'll speak to students in assemblies and events, explaining that they can make a difference.
Team Kids is built around issuing a challenge to the younger generation.
Typically, at four elementary schools in Irvine — Turtle Rock , Culverdale, Eastshore and Alderwood — Team Kids explains a problem like homelessness or poverty. Then kids will pick a nonprofit to raise funds for and develop their own plan to do so.
It's different from the normal message sent to kids to simply keep away from bad decisions and stay out of the way, said Julie Hudash, the founder of Team Kids.
"We marginalize kids as not being able to make good choices. Team kids does the opposite," she said.
Her intent is to show kids their contributions matter.
There's a simple message she wants to communicate: "When it comes to caring … we actually think that you're more compassionate than anyone older than you."
Since the nonprofit's start in 2001, some 50,000 kids have received that message and they've raised $400,000.
The challenge until Dec. 31 will, of course, be hurricane relief. When Sandy hit, Team Kids jumped into action with its own emergency response plan.
In 2005, Team Kids started a program called LemonAID Stand Restore America in response to hurricane Katrina. It empowers kids to set up their own lemonade stands where they take donations for disaster relief.
That money is then sent to Team Kids, where 100% of it is forwarded to the Red Cross.
Within 24 hours, the team was laying plans for Sandy LemonAID stands.
"Not everyone is a special-ops Marine, but in small ways, everyone makes a difference," Hudash said.
Anyone interested in creating or visiting a LemonAID stand can get more information at teamkids.org or by calling (949) 861-4887.
"[Kids] want to do good. That's who they are right now. There's no stopping them," Havig said. "We just give them the ball and say 'run.'"
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PROGRAM: The Synchro-maids of the YWCA have planned a night of fun and activities for you! Activities will include swimming, dance, crafts, indoor sports and more! Scouts will also have a chance to watch a few routines performed by the Synchro-maids synchronized swim team and try 'synchro' yourself! Includes all activities, drinks, pizza, snack and breakfast.
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Harris County native Patsy Swayze, the mother of late actor Patrick Swayze, reportedly died Monday of complications from a stroke she suffered on Sept. 8, according to an email sent to the Houston Chronicle from somebody claiming to be a family friend.
The National Enquirer also reported this morning from Swayze family insiders that Swayze was under hospice care in her California home and died surrounded by family members.
She was born Patricia Yvonne Helen Karnes on Feb. 7, 1927.
Patrick Swayze died Sept. 14, 2009, at the age of 57 after fighting pancreatic cancer for some time.
The elder Swayze owned and operated a dance studio in Simi Valley, Calif., for many years and was an in-demand choreographer and dance instructor, most famously choreographing the dance moves in Urban Cowboy.
She founded and directed the Houston JazzBallet Company and taught at the University of Houston for 18 years, according to reports. She also operated the Swayze School of Dance, located off Ella.
Her last IMDb credit was for 2003's One Last Dance, starring Patrick and his wife, Lisa Niemi Swayze.
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She was preceded in death by her husband, Jesse Wayne Swayze, in 1982 and daughter Vickie Lynn in 1994.
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Cascades™ and Qt are two major frameworks available on the BlackBerry® 10 platform. Qt on BlackBerry 10 provides a complete set of standard Qt 4.8 APIs with the exception of the QtWebKit module. BlackBerry 10 provides a selected set of APIs from the QtMobility project as well. I will provide an overview of Qt 4.8 APIs coverage on BlackBerry 10, with a focus on APIs that are different or not available on BlackBerry 10, and will refer to alternative Cascades APIs in relevant cases. More details are provided here:
To start, I wanted to share two fundamental facts about the use of Qt within Cascades and Qt on BlackBerry 10 in general:
1. Cascades uses its own backend to render on the screen. This backend does not use Qt because Cascades needed several features, which Qt addresses only starting with Qt5. Developers have to decide upfront if an application will use Cascades or Qt to render on the screen, because it is not possible to mix Qt and Cascades APIs to access the screen in one application. Developers can write "pure" Qt Quick or QWidget apps and have the app directly deployed and run on the BlackBerry 10 platform with little or no platform adaptations. Cascades apps can use all Qt APIs which do not access the screen; e.g. the modules QtCore, QtNetwork, QtSql, QtXml.
2. QtMobility APIs have been developed, published and maintained in a separate project outside of the Qt 4.8 base line; therefore QtMobility does not belong to a standard Qt4 package. QtMobility should be separately built and integrated into mobile and embedded platforms based on Qt4. Since the work on QtMobility was focused on standards and services used by Nokia devices, the use of these APIs on modern platforms provided by other vendors requires changes. This applies to the BlackBerry 10 platform as well. The current release of BlackBerry 10 therefore provides a subset of QtMobility API implementation.
In addition to the Cascades UI framework, RIM® has created a rich set of middleware Qt-based APIs to access the key BlackBerry 10 features. Since these APIs do not render to the screen, they can be used in Cascades apps as well as in applications based on Qt widgets and Qt Quick.
Using Qt widgets with C++ on the BlackBerry 10 platform
Qt widgets are fully supported on the platform and included in the BlackBerry 10 NDK. Even though almost no changes in the code are needed to get a Qt widget-based application running on BlackBerry 10, this approach will rarely provide acceptable results. Qt widgets have been developed for desktop applications and only few of them are suitable for a mobile platform. For example, QButton, QCheckBox or QProgressBar can be effectively used, but using QMainWidow or QDialog in an app for a mobile device does not make much sense. Moreover, the implementation of animations and effects in widget based UIs requires considerable effort or can even be not possible in some cases. Cascades and Qt Quick provide much better solutions tailored to use cases on mobile devices.
Qt in the current Beta releases of the NDK and on Dev Alpha devices uses a default style for Qt widgets. The final version will contain a style tailored to the appearance of the BlackBerry 10 native UI elements.
Developing with Qt Quick
Qt Quick 1.1 is fully supported on the BlackBerry 10 platform as a part of Qt 4.8 package. Additional Qt Quick plugins provided in the QtMobility package are supported according to their general availability on BlackBerry 10.
Developers who used Qt Quick on a desktop platform should note that the "qmlviewer" application is not available on BlackBerry 10. The security and deployment models on BlackBerry 10 require using own C++ code to load Qt Quick files. An example of this code in provided in Qt as well as in the template application which can be created in the category "BlackBerry Qt Quick Application" via the "New Project" wizard in QtCreator 2.6 and newer.
Qt Quick applications intensively using animations and transitions should use QGLWidget as a view port in QDeclarativeView. Using QGLWidget will enable hardware acceleration and therefore usually provides better rendering performance.
When it comes to the UI development, Qt Quick is a good choice when an application needs its own custom appearance with a custom set of UI elements, or when the application code should be ported from another platform to BlackBerry 10. Since Qt Quick 1.1 does not provide high-level UI components, developers have to provide an implementation of these UI elements. If an application needs an authentic BlackBerry 10 look-and-feel and a seamless integration with the platform, using Cascades UI framework is a much better approach.
This module is deprecated and not supported. Please use QtMultimediaKit from QtMobility instead.
QtOpenGL is fully included in the BlackBerry 10 NDK. However, QtOpenGL APIs cannot be used in a Cascades app. Please check the Cascades documentation to find how to use OpenGL in Cascades apps.
QtScriptTools is fully included in the BlackBerry 10 NDK. However, QtScriptTools APIs cannot be used in a Cascades app. Cascades apps use QScriptEngine as described in the BlackBerry 10 documentation.
QtSvg is fully included in the BlackBerry 10 NDK. However, QtSvg APIs cannot be used in Cascades apps.
QtWebKit is not supported, but RIM is planning to include a solution in later releases of BlackBerry 10.
QtTest is fully included in the BlackBerry 10 NDK. However, QtTest APIs cannot be used in Cascades apps.
Not supported
- Phonon
- Qt3Support
- QtDesigner
- QtUiTools
- QtHelp
- QAxContainer
- QAxServer
- QtDBus
APIs from the Qt Mobility 1.2 project:
Most of these APIs have been included in the Qt 4.8 and are supported on BlackBerry 10.
A subset of QtLocation is supported by QtLocationSubset. Details about QtLocationSubset can be found at https://developer.blackberry.com/cascades/documentation/device_platform/location/
The QtMultimediaKit module is included in the BlackBerry 10 NDK except for QMediaRecorderControl (and so no QMediaRecorder) and Camera APIs. Development teams in RIM are working to provide support for these and other modules in the future. It is important to note that QtMultimedia APIs in Qt 4.8 have dependencies on the QtGui module and so they cannot be used in Cascades apps. Cascades app should use MediaPlayer APIs instead.
The QtSensors module is fully included in the BlackBerry 10 NDK. RIM has extended the default API set with new and useful features. Most QtSensors APIs can be used in Cascades apps. The exact list of supported APIs is available in
RIM is currently working on adding support for NFC and Bluetooth®. BlackBerry 10 also provides the QtNfcSubset module which provides access to NFC on enabled BlackBerry 10 devices. More details will be provided in the BlackBerry 10 documentation.
Following modules are not supported:
- QtServiceFramework
- QtContacts
- QtMessaging
- QtSystemInfo
- QtPublishSubscribe
- QtOrganizer
- QtFeedback
- QtGallery
- QtVersit
Related Resources
We are planning to provide more detailed documentation about Qt applications on BlackBerry 10 in the next blog posts. In the meantime, please find below some selected links related to Qt on BlackBerry 10:
- Community Wiki for Qt on BlackBerry
- Building Qt4 for BlackBerry
- Building Qt5 for BlackBerry
- Qt Creator 2.6.0 released
- http://qt-project.org/wiki/BlackBerry
Related Posts:
- What's up with Qt and the future of Cascades?
- Porting Qt Applications to BlackBerry 10 is Easier than Ever
Happy Qt development for BlackBerry 10! Please note that RIM is committed to Qt and is continuously working to expand the selection of own add-on modules as well as standard modules provided by Qt in the future.


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Stock Market Slips As US Shutdown Continues
NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market is closing slightly lower as investors weigh the possibility that political gridlock may keep the government partially closed for some time.
Investors were also discouraged by hiring last month that was weaker than many expected.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 58 points, or 0.4 percent, to 15,133 Wednesday. It was down as much as 147 points earlier.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell a point, or 0.1 percent, to 1,693. The Nasdaq composite fell three points, or 0.1 percent, to 3,815.
Defense contractors fell as investors worried that the government shutdown, which entered its second day Wednesday, wouldn't be resolved quickly.
More stocks fell than rose on the New York Stock Exchange. Trading volume was average at 3.1 billion shares.


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Watch One Direction Rap the 'Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' Theme
One Direction aren't known for their rapping skills, but that doesn't mean the boys can't spit a few verses … As long as these verses are from '90s sitcom theme songs. During a visit to NovaFM in Australia, the five guys from One Direction rapped the entire opening theme from Will Smith's smash television show 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.'
This isn't the first time the guys have performed the 'Fresh Prince' rap, however, since they used to perform it at live shows when they first started out as a boy band. "It was originally my idea," Louis Tomlinson explained. "When we first came off the show and were doing live gigs, if any of the mics packed in and if any of the music packed in or failed, we decided that was going to be our get out. We'd just start doing 'Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,' so then we decided to pull it out at a couple of the gigs."
Of course, the DJ at NovaFM asked the 1D boys to perform it for the fans who were tuning in, and they of course obliged. The DJ actually asked them to "freestyle" it, which had the boys looking a little worried since freestyling usually entails rapping off of the top of your head over a pre-recorded beat. However, their looks of doubt turned to smiles when they realized he was just asking for them to rap the 'Fresh Prince' intro we have all grown to love.
Before they began to rap, 20-year-old Louis took a deep breath and said, "This one's for my mum." The quintet quickly broke into the "In West Philadelphia, born and raised / On the playground is where I'd spend most of my days," line. Their tones were spot-on, channeling Will Smith's original version perfectly. What do you think of their rap? Check it out below.
Watch One Direction Rap the 'Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' Theme Song


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Mickelson Trail Among Top 10 In The Country
A Black Hills bike trail has earned a spot on an adventure company's top-ten list compiling the perfect paths to ride.
Active travel company Austin-Lehman Adventures gave the Mickelson Trail its number seven position on the list.
The company's European cycling director logged more than 10,000 miles on the seat of a bike to create the list.
The Mickelson Trail received kudos for its blasted hard-rock tunnels and more than 100 converted railroad bridges.
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At times, too much life-living has a tendency to cut into one's computerized weblog documentary. That, my friends, is what has been happening to the ole Shopkeep... busi-ness has been keeping me busy.
This week, I stopped off at the Luggage Store to get some books from Monica. She was busy taking down her show.
I got this rad little power-house of a rack for my bike. Good for hauling Monica's books back to the shop.
I've also been freelancing back at the old SF Bay Guardian. Look it's a future newspaper! I'll miss newspapers when they disappear. Laying out shit for print is so much more gratifying than for a website.
Here's some random shots of junk from around the Potrero Hill neighborhood of SF (where the Guardian's office is located). Fucking love old letters and signage. (Graphic Designerd).
Newspaper Box
Spray paint
Another day this week was spent restocking books for the shop at one of our book distributors - Last Gasp. The funny van on the left was parked outside.
Another big reason, I didn't blog in April was because I was cranking out a new issue of my zine - Sobstory? This one is issue number eight, issue number one came out in 1998. Yesirree-bob, 10 years of sporadical radical self-publishing!
56 pages of photos
and ramblings. Want you should get one?
(....okay, I'll stop with the self-promotion now)
On Friday, Oceans of Potions opened @ Needles + Pens. It's a group show curated by the most prolific art-jammer and tattoo artist, Edie Fake. (pictured above). Also in the show are: Math Bass, Maya Bookbinder, Kim Kelly, Sam Lopes, Dylan Mira, Leidy Churchman, Jason Fritz Michael, and Marty Winslow.
Some of Edie's art.
This was done entirely in BALL-POINT PEN! (...pretty sick)
The best part about this show is the zines. Edie's zines are works of art - silkscreened, crazy secret folds, and offset printed.
These hand-painted and silk screened ones' by Kim Kelly were really beautiful too.
Orion Shepard agrees.
There are indeed, Oceans of Potions!
Margaret Tedesco with some of the Oceans' crew. The Oceans of Potions show runs through June 1st. Why not come' on down and check it out in person? ...Yes, what a splendid idea! In person!
Sunday, Rod "the hugger" stopped by the shop with this mirror-eyed Jesus picture. He was a bit confused as to what to do with his creation. - It now hangs in the front window, that's how we roll at N+P. We've become trippy-psychadelic-jesus-jammers. Okay. see ya real soon, Andrew{moscomment}
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Our Caregiver's e-Mall is filling up with great stores and a growing number of items just in time for the holidays. Whether you browse and find a book or tape to help you with caregiving, or come across a wonderful gift for a friend or family member, the e-Mall can be your source for easy shopping and gift-giving.
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – The UC Santa Barbara women's tennis team is entering the Big West Championships with their best record since the 2009 season.
The Gauchos finished in third place in the Big West at the end of the regular season with a 14-8 overall record and a 5-3 mark in conference play.
After finishing last season with an uncharacteristic sub-.500 record (11-14), the Gauchos seem to be back on track under the tutelage of first year head coach Simon Thibodeau.
"It feels good to have the 14-8 record and it shows that the girls have really improved," Thibodeau said. "We worked hard all fall and its great that it has come together in our matches. Their team spirit was always good and I'm proud of the way they have competed."
In talking about the team's turnaround from last season, Thibodeau said, "We changed the mentality with more positivity and more structure. As a result, the players believe in themselves and are playing at their full potential. They all came together and built more confidence together."
Thibodeau is no stranger to conference championships as he won seven Western Athletic Conference titles as the head coach at Fresno State.
Having already won six WAC Coach of the Year awards, Thibodeau has made a strong case for himself earning the same accolade in his first season in the Big West.
On the court, UCSB is led by its lone senior Erica Cano who has garnered a career-high 18 wins this season, while going 8-1 in the Big West. She is also riding a five-match win streak in singles heading into championship play.
"She is extremely mature and that's why she is our team captain," Thibodeau said in describing Cano. "Her willingness to work hard and be coached has made her one of the more valuable players we have."
Standout sophomore April Scatliffe has been playing in the No.1 spot in all of her singles matches this season going 8-11. As a freshman, she was playing the No. 3, but Thibodeau saw her potential to be matched up with the best.
"Playing No. 1 is really the toughest position in our sport," Thibodeau noted. "Despite being so young, she has reacted really well. I know this experience will only help her grow in future seasons."
Not to be overlooked, Kiersten Meehan was compiled the team's second-best singles record with a 17-9 mark. What's more impressive is that the junior garnered that record while playing No. 2 for the majority of the season. She also is 1-0 while playing in the No. 1 spot.
"She our Gaucho spirit," Thibodeau said. "She really brings our team together. And on the court it's impressive how well she has been playing the #2 after being the #4 last season. "
Meehan and Scatliffe have proven to be the best doubles combination on the team by compiling an 8-5 record.
"They have great energy together," Thibodeau said. "They're good friends both on and off the court, and they have this unspoken communication which shows in the chemistry they have."
Another player adding to the much improved play of the team in the 2013 is Stacy Yam. Last year as a freshman, she didn't play in a single match, but this year she has been one of UCSB's primary players in the #5 spot. She has 19-7 overall record.
UCSB will open Big West Championship play against No. 6 Cal State Northridge on Friday in Indian Wells, Calif. The Gauchos convincingly defeated the Matadors 6-1 on February 23.


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My e-friends Bob & Karren Crowley from Sidney BC sent me this
I apologize if it has already been on the Forum.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/POXqGsgAtaY 8 mi 43 sec
I can't say that I recognize Henry in any of the scenes.
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Related URLs, http://www.hfmgv.org/exhibits/pic/2001/01.nov.html
& http://media.ford.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=9780
& http://www.flickr.com/photos/thehenryford/5267051618/in/photostream/
& http://www.racinginamerica.com/content/1901-ford-sweepstakes-race-car-changed-ev erything
I just received it too, from Farrell in Cedro Woolley, Wash. Good story.
You don't see Henry Ford in any of the motion picture portions of the YouTube video because it is actually modern footage. It was recycled from a documentary on the race - I saw it on public television or cable television ten or fifteen years ago.
The documentary was shot and shown in color and included a recreation of the race, parts of which are shown in the YouTube video.
The footage in the YouTube video has been altered - changed to black and white and pixilated, etc. - to make it look like historic footage.


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In an endeavor to expose students to personal computers at an early stage, the American PC manufacturer Dell has embarked upon a pan India "Aarambh" program that will help bring together students, teachers and parents in familiarizing with PC technology. The year-long program is in the line of Digital India Campaign. Read more
The World's smallest 13-inch notebook "Dell XPS 13" gets powered up with the latest 6th Gen Intel Core processor
October 20, 2015, Dell has announced a new model of the "XPS 13" which will come with 6th Gen Intel core processor, be characterized by 11-inch model with Intel's "sixth-generation Core processor and be released in mid-January priced at $799.99. Read more
World's first wireless charging 2-in-1 Laptop Dell Latitude 7285 Now on Sale
The world's first wireless charging laptop is finally here. Dubbed as "Dell Latitude 7285", the 2-in-1 hybrid laptop has started selling in the US. This 2-in-1 laptop supports wireless charging if placed on a charging mat just like some of the high-end smartphones these days. The Latitude 7285 offers a 12-inch 1920p display, Intel Core i5-7Y54 chip, 8GB RAM and 128GB storage. The laptop was first ... Read more
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Dell Laptops
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History of Dell Laptops
Dell was started by its founder Michael Dell in the 1984. The immediate next year, the company launched its first PC, which was known as the Turbo PC. The earliest of laptops were released in the 1990s and there have been many releases since then.
The Dell Dimension, XPS and Inspiron series are perhaps the older of the models. The Vostro was released in 2007 and the Latitude series the next year. The Alienware models started to make way from 2009. Except the Dimension line, all of these series are sold at present.
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The Black Atlantic and the African Diaspora
Walter C. Rucker
The Black Atlantic and the African Diaspora refer to overlapping geographic and historical concepts each representing a complex series of dispersals, connections and reconnections, interactions, engagements and disengagements, and conflicts. As a geographic, spatial, and historical subset of the African Diaspora, the Black Atlantic refers to the sustained contacts and connections among the peoples of Atlantic Africa, Europe, and the Americas beginning with the "Age of Reconnaissance" (1306–1484) and the "Age of Contact" (1482–1621) and extending into the present. One of the first acts in the creation of the Black Atlantic can be located within the story of Mansa Qu, Islamic emperor and explorer from the western Sudanic empire of Mali, who commissioned two oceanic voyages to discover the western extent of the Atlantic between 1307 and 1311. Reconnaissance expeditions of this sort, launched by both Atlantic Africans and later by Iberians in the 14th and 15th centuries, helped create knowledge networks and webs of interconnections that would become critical to the later formation of the Black Atlantic.
At the core of many of these earlier efforts to explore the world around them were the religious pursuits and goals—both Christian and Islamic—on the part of Atlantic Africans and Iberians. Delegations of Christian monks and pilgrims from Ethiopia visited the Italian peninsula, Iberia, and other parts of Europe beginning in 1306 seeking pan-Christian alliances against common Muslim foes. These early delegations fueled later Iberian imaginations about the existence of Prester John—an eastern defender of Christendom believed by the early 15th century to preside over an East African kingdom. In part, the protracted search for the mythical Prester John in Africa by the Portuguese after 1415 set in motion sustained contacts between Iberia and Atlantic Africa highlighted by the creation of Iberian-African settlements along the Atlantic African coast and in the Atlantic Islands, the transfer of enslaved labor to the Americas via the Atlantic Slave Trade, and the beginnings of sugar plantations and slave societies in the Caribbean and Brazil by the mid-16th century. Centuries of sustained contact of this nature spawned a range of cultural formations, the processes of ethnogenesis, and the creation of new transnational identities in the littoral regions and beyond of the four continents that frame the Atlantic Ocean.
Creolization, the unique confluence of Atlantic cultures, served as the foundation for reinvented peoples across the Western Hemisphere who remembered, activated, and re-created "Africa" while attending to New World realities of racial slavery and hierarchy. This process of creolization created a range of ethnocultural permutations, from Atlantic Creoles to a wide array of neo-African ethnic groups in the Americas (e.g., Eboes, Coromantees, Congos, Nâgos, and Lucumís). Within this diverse cultural matrix and the processes of cultural mixing, religious and spiritual worldviews were among the most significant articulations of Black Atlantic and creole cultures. Indeed, there is no other way to decode the intricacies of Cuban Santería, Brazilian Candomblé, Haitian Voudou, New Orleans Hoodoo, Jamaican Myalism, or Obeah without framing them in the context of the cultural negotiations among many Atlantic African peoples made necessary by the suffocating confines of racial slavery and more recent socio-racial hierarchies embedded within Western Hemisphere colonialism, Jim Crow in the United States, and other manifestations of white supremacy
Buddhist Chaplaincy
Monica Sanford and Nathan Jishin Michon
Buddhist chaplaincy is a profession in which Buddhists with specialized training care for the spiritual needs of suffering individuals (careseekers), typically within non-religious settings such as hospitals, hospices, military, workplaces, or universities. Although the roots of spiritual care date back to the beginning of the Buddhist traditions, professionalized Buddhist chaplaincy is a very recent phenomenon. Despite some beginnings in the mid-20th century, most developments have occurred rapidly only within the 21st century. This contemporary movement is occurring in numerous places around the world, including North America, Europe, and Asia, covering a wide range of countries, cultures, and Buddhist traditions.
The profession of chaplaincy was originally a Christian vocation but began expanding to serve the needs of multireligious careseekers and train caregivers of various religious backgrounds in the 20th century. Thus, while chaplaincy is now a profession open to all comers, including Buddhists, humanists, and atheists, many of the educational, training, and professional standards for certification or licensing are still normed against Christian expectations and legacy organizational structures, particularly in North America, Europe, and the British Commonwealth. In the countries where Buddhist chaplaincy is flourishing in the early 21st century, different groups are developing degree programs, training opportunities, and professional expectations that accord with their local regulatory bodies and other forms of existing chaplaincy certification. In Asian nations, Buddhists are stepping forward to build standards for providing spiritual care in the context of cultural institutions that are not typically religious (e.g., hospitals and schools).
Diverse settings and differing requirements lead to distinctions between Buddhist chaplaincy in different countries. However, some of the core competencies for spiritual care are very consistent: compassion, listening, ritual proficiency, cultural understanding, and reflection. Buddhist and non-Buddhist chaplains alike agree to a fundamental skill set to care for people who are suffering in the various institutions where they work and volunteer. Distinctions between Buddhist and other forms of spiritual care are based on the care model employed, whether strictly co-religionist (i.e., Buddhists caring for Buddhists) or interfaith (i.e., Buddhists caring for all). In the latter case, professional chaplains (of any religion) are trained to provide spiritual care from the spiritual or religious worldview of the careseeker. As such, most Buddhist chaplains must possess basic knowledge and competency in many world religions. Nevertheless, Buddhist spiritual care may be distinct in its theory (Dharma based) and place more emphasis on mindfulness, meditation, and other contemplative techniques to benefit both careseekers and chaplains. Spiritual care that is "Dharma-based" means based on the teachings of the historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, and/or the Buddhist traditions and teacher who followed after him. This includes a broad range of texts and teachings across the Buddhist world. As an emerging field, there is little literature on Buddhist chaplaincy, so it is currently somewhat difficult to say what theories and practices will come to dominate the profession.
Cosmic War
Mark Juergensmeyer
A "cosmic war" is an imagined battle between metaphysical forces—good and evil, right and wrong, order and chaos—that lies behind many cases of religion-related violence in the contemporary world. These transcendent spiritual images have been implanted onto the social and political scene, magnifying ordinary worldly conflict into sacred encounter. There is nothing specific to Christianity, Islam, or any other religion about this idea of cosmic war. Every religious tradition contains images of grand battles that have a divine valence to them. Hence every religion has some kind of mythic or legendary scenario of warfare that can be transported into contemporary conflict and elevate a social or political confrontation into cosmic war.
Japanese Buddhisms in Diaspora
Elisabetta Porcu
Buddhism has been a missionary religion from its beginning. Japan was among the countries where this "foreign" religion arrived and was assimilated, adapted, and reshaped into new forms specifically connected to the new geographical and cultural environment. Buddhism traveled long distances from India through China and Korea, bringing with it flows of people, ideas, technologies, material cultures, and economies. More than ten centuries after its arrival in Japan, the first phase of propagation of Japanese Buddhism started and was linked to the history of Japanese migrants to Hawaii, North America, and Brazil since the 19th century. This was a history of diaspora, a term that implies not only the physical—and often traumatic—dispersion of people who left their homes for unknown places, but also a reconfiguration of their identities through the adaptation to these new places and their cultures.
The main role of Buddhist priests sent from Japan was to assist and provide comfort to the newly formed communities of migrant laborers, who very often experienced racial discrimination and lived under harsh conditions. Temples became important loci of Japanese community life, as well as centers for the preservation of Japanese culture. Diasporic communities felt the urge to keep a bond with the homeland and a reconnection with some past traditions, while, at the same time, striving toward integration in the new society.
Japanese Buddhist denominations in diasporic communities had therefore to accommodate different needs and adjust their teachings and practices to better suit their host cultures. Some of them underwent substantial changes, while others placed more emphasis on some practices instead of others. Moreover, Japanese Buddhist schools had to find a way to balance between their traditional role in Japan, which was—and still is—closely related to funerary rituals and memorials, and the new stimuli and requests coming from the new generations of Japanese migrants (nisei and sansei) and the non-Japanese spiritual seekers, the latter mostly interested in meditative practices and not in funeral Buddhism. In short, what needed to be done was to overcome a status of "ethnic" religion without, however, losing its own identity.
Japanese Suicide
Paul S. Atkins
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion. Please check back later for the full article.
Suicide in Japan has a relationship with various belief systems, including secular belief systems, such as Bushidō ('the way of the warrior') and emperor worship, as well as religious systems, such as Shintō, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Christianity, from the earliest times to the early twenty-first century.
Cultural and religious environments in Japan have tended to take a neutral or even positive attitude toward suicide to some extent, similar to that seen elsewhere, for example, in ancient Rome, but in contrast to the stigma attached to suicide by the Abrahamic religions.
Iconized Japanese practices of suicide, including seppuku/harakiri (ritualized self-disembowelment), junshi (suicide for the purposes of following one's lord in death), shinjū (double suicide or murder–suicide by lovers), and the kamikaze of World War II (lit. "divine winds," usually referred to as tokkōtai "special attack units" in Japanese) show the links between suicide in Japan and the construction of Japanese identity and are further expanded upon in literary and dramatic texts, in addition to religious and philosophical treatises and historical records. Suicide in Japan also intersects and overlaps with other forms of violence, such as warfare, capital punishment, and murder.
In addition to causes and motives, of interest are preferred or unusual methods of suicide in Japan, their distinctive aspects in comparison with other cultures, and the symbolic and ritual elements of Japanese suicide.
Martin Luther and the Rise of World Christianities
Maria Erling
Scholars use the concept of World Christianity both to account for the growth of Christianity beyond Western Christendom and to recognize the changing map of vitality and leadership within Christian churches beyond the European and North American context. Scholars who use this concept have also committed to documenting the history of all of the churches around the world, making special efforts thereby not only to note the contributions of founders and missionary agencies, but also to investigate the important input of local teachers, evangelists, and pastors, so that a more inclusive history may be made available to these faith communities for their own self-understanding and direction. The spread of Christianity beyond the borders of Europe, a subject once envisioned by Kenneth Latourette as the result of the great century of missionary advance, cannot be understood solely as the accomplishment of the Protestant and Roman Catholic missionaries sent from western Europe and North America. Through all the centuries of Christian expansion and migration, scholars need to document and explain not only the theological foundations of various faith traditions, but also how multiple Christianities have adapted and thrived and become rooted in multiple cultural contexts, and exhibit a special vibrancy today in the postcolonial, post-missionary churches in Africa and Asia. Luther's influence on the rise of World Christianities is an important element in the vitality of contemporary churches in Africa and Asia, but his theological contribution to Christianity beyond the West awaits a fuller articulation and application to the questions and concerns of these emerging centers of Christianity.
Non-Martial and Martial Methods to an Ultimate Political Goal of the Tiger Movement in Sri Lanka
Peter Schalk
The Tiger Movement had one ultimate political goal, and two main alternating methods to reach this goal, which was to obtain recognition by world community for the right of self-determination for a group of people living in the northern and eastern provinces of the island of Sri Lanka (in accordance with UN A/Res/42/159, from 1987). These people were Tamil speakers. Self-determination implied the right to secession and to the establishment of a separate and sovereign state called Tamilīlam. Peaceful methods to reach this goal were negotiations, diplomacy, lobbying, conferences, workshops, and above all mediatation; Gandhian methods like hartal "strike" (closing down of shops) and satyāgraha "holding onto truth" (non-violent resistance like sit-downs) have also been used during the period 1956 till today. The Tiger Movement has promoted the non-martial method of fasting to death in protest, but this was not in the orthodox Gandhian way, which did not make a choice between martial and non-martial acts dependent on the circumstance. All non-martial methods could be militant, but not violent.
Depending on the circumstances, alternate methods, closely related to each other and to the goal, were used. The non-martial methods were used transnationally, the martial methods nationally, only on the island of Sri Lanka, with one exception—the assassination in 1991of Rājiv Gāndhi, which was executed in Tamiḻnāṭu.
Vēluppiḷḷai Pirapākaraṉ was conscious of several methods to reach the goal, but there was only one goal. In 2003, however, the Tiger Movement for the first and only time, suggested a temporary suspension of this goal, an interim regional autonomy instead of separatism for a period of trial of five years. This did not change the ultimate goal, but suspended its realization in time to create space for negotiations. The government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) rejected this proposal, called Interim Self Governing Authority (ISGA); The GoSL already had an ultimate goal, the preservation of the constitutional and centralized unitary state. This rejection threw both sides back to their starting point.
The martial method to reach the ultimate goal consisted of several different forms of armed struggle, which were parallel with the non-armed struggle; each time the non-armed struggle failed, the martial struggle gained momentum, from the 1970s to 2009. We count today four periods of war from 1983–2009, separated by truces and cease-fires, but not by peace. Combatants made extensive use of the martial method of voluntary death, which in media language goes under the name of suicide attack, belt bombing, etc. The media has made this an identity-marker of the Tiger Movement.
The Tiger Movement's martial methods comprised assassinations squads, whose task was to assassinate VIPs related to the GoSL, guerrilla attacks, martial methods of a standing army with specialized brigades, and attacks by deep penetrating units, often ending in voluntary death. The motto for all methods related to its ultimate goal was "the task of the Tigers is (to establish) Tamiḻīḻam." The combatants' determination was to act according to the norm do or die, which might end up as do and die—as it did in May 2009, the end of the Tiger Movement.
The leader of the Tiger Movement, Vēluppiḷḷai Pirapākaraṉ, held the firm view that methods may change (continuously), but the goal does not. He held the same ultimate goal, which was political, to establish Tamiḻīḻam based on the right of self-determination of a people. It was universal, he emphasized. He also referred to legal forms of violence in a national struggle for liberation from colonial and foreign domination (according, for example, to the United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/RES/33/24 of November 29, 1978).
The reason for actualizing the right of self-determination for Tamil speakers was the result of political, social, and economic discrimination, including 171 massacres, well documented by the North-East Secretariat of Human Rights (NESoHR). [NESoHR, Massacres of Tamils 1956–2008 (Chennai: Manitham Publishers, 2009). There is a German edition, which also contains the massacres by the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF). NESoHR, "Damit wir nicht vergessen …" Massaker an Tamilen 1956–2008. Mit einer Einführung von Professor (em) Dr. Peter Schalk (Heidelberg: Draupadi Verlag, 2012)]. These massacres amounted to genocide in the interpretation of the Tiger Movement, performed by the government of Sri Lanka from 1956–2009, and by the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF), during 1987–1990, with the assistance of deliverance of arms by India, the United States, the United Kingdom, China, and Pakistan. The Tiger Movement was well aware of geopolitical reasons why the United States and India would not allow Tamiḻīḻam to emerge. The unarmed and armed struggles by the Tiger Movement were to counteract a deeply felt injustice. The two methods were closely related to the ultimate goal, which gave the Tiger Movement a moral justification, though the world outside did not necessarily agree.
Today we see that both methods were unsuccessful and the ultimate political goal was not reached. The GoSL suppressed the peaceful methods, and the martial methods earned the Tiger Movement the classification of "terrorists" by the United States, the European Union, India, Sri Lanka, and several other states. The end of the Tiger Movement came in May 2009, but Tamil speakers still cultivate its ultimate political goal, especially in the worldwide, transnational diaspora.
The Tiger Movement (puli iyakkam) was only one half of the organization known as Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE), founded in 1972 and reconstructed in 1976. The other half was known as the People's Movement (makkaḷ iyakkam). In an environment of lasting peace, we could speak of a military organization that was subordinated to a civil society, but in a war environment, the hierarchy was reversed. The People's Movement became supportive of the Tiger Movement in many ways. Civil tasks, like political administration, police, the judiciary, and the financial sectors were under the Tiger Movement in a de facto state, which was not recognized by any state.
GoSL based its claims for unity and the recognized sovereignty and integrity of its state on recognition by the United Nations and on a Constitution from 1972 and 1978. It insisted on the preservation of a centralized state-formation characterized as a unitary state, which made separatism, even non-violent agitation for separatism, illegal.
The ultimate goals of both parties, the recognition of the right of self-determination of a people and the preservation of the sovereignty of a state were incompatible. Confederalism and federalism were also rejected by the Tiger Movement, because they were too little, and by the GoSL, because they were too much.
Pain and Religious Experience: Theory and Methods
Ariel Glucklich
This article examines the way that the hurting body enhances, deepens, and informs religious experience. It begins by examining the contested category of religious experience, contrasting the essentialist with the constructivist approaches. Both are complicated by consideration of embodiment—specifically, of the body in pain. Two concrete cases of religious pain, or sharp discomfort, are discussed as illustrations of a qualitative approach to studying pain and religious experience. This method is evaluated against two examples of a quantitative method. The article concludes that a qualitative interpretation of the meaning, rather than the analysis of causes, of religious hurting are superior, within specified parameters. Finally, the qualitative method requires an exposition that takes the form of a narrative in which the researcher acts as a close observer–participant.
Race and Religion in the United States
Ryan P. Jordan
For centuries before the European colonization of North America, sectarian, ethnic, and racial discrimination were interrelated. The proscription of certain groups based on their biological or other apparently ingrained characteristics, which is one definition of racism, in fact describes much religious prejudice in Western history—even as the modern term "racism" was not used until the 20th century. An early example of the similarities between religious and racial prejudice can be seen in the case of anti-Semitism, where merely possessing "Jewish blood" made one inherently unassimilable in many parts of Europe for nearly a thousand years before the initial European conquest of the New World. Throughout Western history, religious values have been mobilized to dehumanize other non-Christian groups such as Muslims, and starting in the 16th century, religious justifications of conquest played an indispensable role in the European takeover of the Americas. In the culture of the 17th- and 18th-century British colonies, still another example of religious and racial hatred existed in the anti-Catholicism of the original Protestant settlers, and this prejudice was particularly evident with the arrival of Irish immigrants in the 19th century. In contemporary language, the Irish belonged to the Celtic "race" and one of the many markers of this race's inherent inferiority was Catholicism—a religious system that was alternatively defined as non-Western, pagan, or irrational by many Anglo-Saxon Protestants, who similarly saw themselves as a different, superior race. In addition to the Irish, many other racial groups—most notably Native Americans—were defined as inferior based on their religious beliefs. Throughout much of early American history, the normative religious culture of Anglo-Protestantism treated groups ranging from African slaves to Asian or Middle Eastern immigrants as alternatively unequal, corrupt, subversive, or civically immature by virtue of their religious identity. Historians can see many examples of the supposedly dangerous religious attributes of foreigners—such as those of the Chinese in the late 19th century—as a basis for restricting immigration. Evangelical Protestant ideas of divine chosen-ness also influenced imperial projects launched on behalf of the United States. The ideology of Manifest Destiny demonstrates how religious differences could be mobilized to excuse the conquest and monitoring of foreign subjects in places such as Mexico or the Philippines. Anglo-Protestant cultural chauvinism held sway for much of American history, though since the mid-1900s, it can be said to have lost some of its power. Throughout its history, many racial or ethnic groups—such as Hispanic Americans, African-Americans, or Asian Americans in the United States have struggled to counter the dominant ethnic or racial prejudice of the Anglo-Protestant majority by recovering alternative religious visions of nationhood or cultural solidarity. For groups such as the 20th-century Native American Church, or the African American Nation of Islam, religious expression formed an important vehicle to contest white supremacy.
Religious Foundations of the Last Instructions of 9/11
Hans G. Kippenberg
An instruction manual consisting of four sheets in Arabic was found with three of the four teams that performed the terror attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. The writing conceived of the action as a raid (ghazwa), as we know it from early Islamic history. It instructed the teams how to perform the ghazwa correctly. Purifying their intentions by recitals, rituals, and bodily cleaning, they turn their attack into an act of worship. A part called the "second stage" anticipates the issue of assuring divine protection at the airport. Finally "a third stage" urges the teams to act in the plane according the practice of the Prophet and to achieve martyrdom.
To understand the manual and its framing of the violence, six dimensions will be analyzed: (1) Arguments for and against the authenticity of the document are discussed. (2) The attack happened in the wake of a declaration of war by the "World Islamic Front for the Jihad against Jews and Crusaders" in 1998, signed by Osama bin Laden and leaders of other jihadist groups. (3) The message spread across the Internet and was accepted by various groups that regarded the situation of Islam as threatened, among them a group of young Muslim men in Hamburg. A network called al-Qaeda emerged. (4) The present world is dominated by the power of ignorance and hubris (jahiliyya). The manual prescribed an attack in terms of the raids (ghazwa) of the Prophet in Medina. (5) The manual presumes a particular communal form of organizing militant Muslims. (6) It celebrated militancy of Muslims and presupposed a fighter's ethos in the diaspora. An argument is made that the American concept of terrorism as a manifestation of evil and immorality destined to be eradicated militarily by the United States and their allies ignores the secular character of conflict and accelerates the cycle of violence.
Tamil Militancy in Sri Lanka and the Role of Religion
Iselin Frydenlund
From the late 1970s to its defeat by the Government of Sri Lanka in 2009, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fought for Tamil independence in Sri Lanka. The ultimate aim of what was often considered to be one of the world's most disciplined and efficient insurgency groups was to create an independent Tamil homeland (which they called Tamil Eelam) in the northern and eastern parts of the island. The LTTE based itself on a unique mix of Tamil nationalist, socialist, and feminist visions of a new future for the marginalized Tamil communities of Sri Lanka. The LTTE became feared for its extensive use of suicide missions, carried out by soldiers of both Hindu and Catholic backgrounds. Because of the marginalization of the Tamil-speaking Muslims from the Tamil nationalist project, none of the LTTE soldiers were Muslims. Generally speaking, religion played—and in the 21st century continues to play—a minor role in the ultimate nationalist goal of establishing Tamil Eelam. Tamil nationalism in Sri Lanka centers around Tamil culture, language, literature, and regional identity, not religion. The LTTE's official ideology was strictly secularist, expressing a clear separation between religion, the state, and politics. The LTTE accepted individual religious practices in its ranks—for example, having a personal crucifix or a holy picture within military camps, but did not facilitate institutionalized religious practice. Yet religious formations, controversies, and practices have been important, if not crucial, to Tamil separatism and, ultimately, to the LTTE itself. In a short period of time, the LTTE developed a unique martial culture and martyr cult, drawing on numerous cultural and religious sources in Tamil society. This martyr cult encompassed references to the Christian tradition of martyrdom, Hindu bhakti (devotional) literature, and classic Tamil heroic poetry. Each martyr's self-sacrifice formed part of a symbolic universe that was fundamentally nationalistic, but Christian and Hindu references and ritual language were employed to help to legitimize the sacrificial act. The ideology of martyrdom transcended the martyrs' religious backgrounds, and instead of a place in paradise or release from the cycle of reincarnation, it promised eternal life in the memory of the nation. Within the cultural and political universe of the LTTE, the nation and its territory became sacralized, and the LTTE's meticulously articulated martial culture began to take on quasi-religious qualities. At the ideological level, the LTTE propaganda machinery managed to balance secularism, deep religious sentiment, and religious diversity, and religion functioned as a multilayered concept used for a variety of purposes by military and political leaders. Religion can also be identified as various "fields" within the movement: "civil religious," "Śaiva religious," and "Tamil Catholic religious," allowing for overlapping yet distinct Hindu, Catholic, or nonreligious identities under the sacred canopy of Tamil nationalism.
The Uganda Martyrs Guild
Heike Behrend
The Uganda Martyrs Guild (UMG) was founded in 1897, after the killing of a number of young Catholics, Protestants, and Muslims, who had worked as pages at the court of the king of Buganda. The Catholic Church made the Catholic victims the center of a cult of martyrs. They were beatified in 1920 and canonized in 1964. Since its founding, the UMG has served as a point of mediation between Uganda and the transnational network of the Catholic Church. In the early 1990s, the UMG emerged as a witch-finding movement in western Uganda, which continued until the organization changed its procedures and began to refrain from naming witches in 2005. Since that time, members have increasingly shifted their focus instead to the healing and security of UMG members and those willing to join the UMG.
America's Interactions with Islam and Judaism in North Africa
Lawrence A. Peskin
Encounters between Americans, Muslims, and Jews in North Africa played a foundational role in Americans' early understanding of Islam and Judaism. At a time when the United States population had few Jews and virtually no free Muslims, North Africa was one of the places Americans were most likely to meet individuals from these groups.
Initially, American sailors and diplomats encountered North African Muslims and Jews as the result of frequent ship captures by Barbary corsairs beginning in the colonial period and culminating in the 1780s and 1790s. After 1815, the sailors and diplomats were joined by missionaries journeying to the Mediterranean region to convert Jews and Muslims as well as non-Protestant Christians.
These encounters prompted a good deal of literature published in the United States, including captivity narratives, novels, plays, histories, and missionary journals. These publications reinforced two dominant views of Islam. First, the early focus on Barbary corsairs capturing American "slaves" reinforced old notions of Islam as despotic and Muslims as "savages" similar to Native Americans. Missionary accounts prompted more thoughtful approaches to Muslim theology at the same time that they reinforced existing notions of Islam as a deceitful religion and revivified millenarian hopes that the declining Ottoman Empire foretold the Second Coming.
As a result of the captivity crises, Americans often had to deal with the area's small but influential group of Jewish merchants in order to get terms and credit to free their countrymen. These fraught negotiations reinforced older European stereotypes of Jews as sharpers and Shylocks. As with Islam, the missionary period brought more thoughtful consideration of Jewish theology as Americans engaged in chiliastic hopes of bringing the Jews to Jerusalem.
After 1850 or so, Americans interested in Jews or Muslims looked less frequently to North Africa. Growing immigrant populations, first of Jews and then of Muslims, meant that Americans could encounter people of all three Abrahamic faiths at home. At the same time, missionary interests moved east, into the Holy Land, Syria, Turkey, and ultimately East Asia. Nevertheless, the early impact of North Africa on American thinking retained its influence, as is evident from President Barack Obama's 2009 speech on American-Islamic relations delivered in Cairo.


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Experion needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 169 designs submitted by 21 freelance designers.
Experion Systems owns the URL RxDrugSaver.com and will be launching a price comparison web site for prescription drugs.
Adult U.S. citizens of all ages and ethnic backgrounds.
We require a main web site logo for the phrase "RxDrugSaver.com". The words should be preceded by an icon related to the idea of prescription medications. We do not have color constraints or size/orientation constraints for this logo. We also need a second RxDrugSaver.com logo for use on the iPhone platform. This iPhone app logo should bear a family resemblance to the main RxDrugSaver.com logo and be 57 pixels by 57 pixels with a transparent background.
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CooperM needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 70 designs submitted by 14 freelance designers.
http://www.velopart.com (site under construction)
Velopart has made it easier to buy your next bicycle part or accessory. Why wait to get home to a computer to order that new chain or pair of cycling gloves? Just pull your smartphone out of your jersey pocket and go to velopart.com. You will find a shopping experience optimized for your mobile browser. All orders received by 4pm CST are shipped the same day insuring you won't miss a mile waiting for a part.
(FYI to designers: The actual website for http://www.velopart.com is under construction.)
Velopart's target market is professional men and women, age twenty-five to sixty-five, who participate in cycling for fitness or competition on regular basis. Many will be members of bike clubs and ride 4 or more hours a week. Generally, they are salaried employees with good disposable income. Most are busy with work, family, and other obligations. They are comfortable with buying online. Cycling is a primary hobby. The majority own browser based cell phones. As a safety precaution, most carry these phones in their pockets while cycling.
Many cycling clubs gather and ride in packs. These 'club rides' create impressionable moments with cyclists following each other for long periods of time. We envision sponsoring bike clubs and racing clubs by applying our logo to the back jersey pocket of their uniforms ("kits"). The logo would create the impression that whatever cycling need they have is no further than the phone in their pocket, i.e. we are their bike store in their pocket.
To fit on the pocket, the logo needs to be no more than 4.5 inches (11.4 cm) tall and 3.5 inches (9 cm) wide. Keep in mind most cyclist already carry a phone in their back jersey pocket.
The logo should look appropriate on a mobile browser. This could be a modified or scaled down version of the "pocket logo".
A color scheme and photograph of a sample cycling jersey are attached.
Please be creative. At this point nothing is off the table. I promise to provide feedback as quickly as possible allowing you to develop your idea in stages and eliminating lesser ideas quickly before too much time is spent on them.
I'm sure I have forgotten something. Please let me know of any questions.
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A few yet-to-be-released BlackBerry Z10 smartphones are on sale on eBay Inc. in the U.S., and one sold for $1,725 on Friday.
The BlackBerry Z10 is one of two new smartphones announced by the company formerly known as Research In Motion Ltd. , which changed its name to BlackBerry.
The new smartphones are based on the company's next generation operating system, BlackBerry 10, and the launch was seen as a bet-the-farm product line for the struggling company. Read RIM is betting the house on BlackBerry 10.
The BlackBerry Z10 is the company's smartphone without a physical keyboard, but with a large touch screen and other new features that have received good reviews.
The Z10 which sold for $1,725 was offered by a seller in Laguna Hills, Calif., who would only give his name as Cameron. He said he got the early release version of the Z10 from the January 30 launch in New York and other cities. These new smartphones will not be available in the U.S. until sometime in March.
So far, many of these unlocked Z10s, which can be used without a carrier contract, are going for high prices on eBay. Another one has 13 bids and on Friday, had been bid up to $1,725.00. By comparison an unlocked Apple Inc. a iPhone 4s was being bid at about $300 on Friday on eBay and an iPhone 5 was being bid up to $525.
Perhaps some of the phones are for sale by bloggers unconstrained by ethics, or executives in the tech business who were invited to attend the BlackBerry events on January 30. Others may be coming from independent software developers who got copies of the phones for developing apps are putting them up for sale. New electronics products, such as yet-to-be released smartphones, are often sold at high prices on eBay before they are officially available.
BlackBerry officials did not respond to a request for comment.
It's not clear why some consumers would pay this much for a yet-to-be released, unlocked BlackBerry. The high prices on eBay could be indicative of a huge pent-up demand for new BlackBerries in the U.S. A worst-case scenario could be that some people may want them as collectibles if they have a pessimistic view on BlackBerry's chances for future survival.
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