Amazing Transformation: Picture of Dubai in 1991 And 2016 (25 Years Achievement)

This is a city where leadership works.
After 25 years of transformation, attention of the whole world has shifted to Dubai.
The utopian character of Dubai, it must be emphasized, is no mirage. Even more than Singapore or Texas, the city-state really is an apotheosis of neo-liberal values.
On the one hand, it provides investors with a comfortable, Western-style, property-rights regime, including freehold ownership, that is unique in the region. Included with the package is a broad tolerance of booze, recreational drugs, halter tops, and other foreign vices formally proscribed by Islamic law. (When expats extol Dubai’s unique “openness,” it is this freedom to carouse — not to organize unions or publish critical opinions — that they are usually praising.)
On the other hand, Dubai, together with its emirate neighbors, has achieved the state of the art in the disenfranchisement of labor. Trade unions, strikes, and agitators are illegal, and 99% of the private-sector workforce are easily deportable non-citizens. Indeed, the deep thinkers at the American Enterprise and Cato institutes must salivate when they contemplate the system of classes and entitlements in Dubai.
 Can we achieve this kind of amazing transformation in Africa?

How Fighting Can Help Your Marriage

There are few things in life as disheartening as unhealthy conflict with your spouse. But conflict doesn't have to destroy relationships. Healthy conflict can be a doorway to deeper intimacy. It can facilitate communication, understanding, trust and respect if we choose to manage our differences and disagreements in nourishing ways. I hope you'll realize that healthy conflict is a way to discover your spouse's most important feelings and needs.
When was the last time you were able to have a productive, Christ-like conversation in the middle of an argument with your spouse? That doesn't happen, right? In the middle of a fight, when you're frustrated, hurt or upset, your heart closes. Understand that when your heart is closed, you're likely to react in unloving ways (anger, withdrawal, sarcasm, defensiveness, etc.).
A closed heart is the reason it's practically impossible to have a healthy, kindhearted conversation with your spouse in the middle of an argument. So, how do you move from unhealthy conflict to healthy conflict?
Instead of trying to force your way through a conversation, do what Jesus himself recommended: "First take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye"Matt 7vs 5. The key to moving from unhealthy conflict to healthy conflict is to first get the log out of your own eye so that instead of simply reacting, you can thoughtfully respond to your spouse in a productive, Christ-like way.
This is how to open your heart and "fight" your way to a better marriage:

Call a timeout. Separate for a brief time to allow your emotions to settle.
Verbalize to your spouse that you will be back to talk when your heart is open.
Name what you are feeling (I feel . . . unloved, disrespected, worthless, controlled, unimportant, etc.) and notice how it calms you. Do this during your timeout.
Pray. Ask God to reveal what is true about your feelings and what is true about your spouse.
Tapping into the power of healthy conflict is a matter of opening the door to your heart.

Written by Dr. Greg Smalley

Indonesia blows up ship hunted by 13 countries for illegality

Indonesian authorities on Monday bombed the last major ship internationally wanted for years of illegally taking toothfish from southern waters, reiterating a strong message to would-be poachers who enter the country’s waters.
The navy seized the Nigeria-flagged Viking on March 14 operating in waters off Tanjung Berakit in Riau Islands province south of Singapore. It was one of the half dozen ships dubbed the “Bandit 6” by the non-profit Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which hunted the boats and was among those who alerted Indonesian officials when the Viking entered the country’s waters.