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The deities of the Puri temple are generally known as the Trimurti (trinity) and also as Chaturdhamurti, stated in Chap-3. Some scholars think that originally there was only image of Jagannatha as the object of worship called Nilamadhava and when Nila Madhava disappeared, king Indradyumna fabricated the body of Jagannatha out of a log of wood that was picked up from the sea, as per a divine direction. Scholars suggesting that originally there, were only two deities, cite the example of a temple found in the Cuttack district in Odisha belonging perhaps to the seventh century A.D., where the images only of Jagannatha and Balabhadra have been carved and Subhadra is not to be seen there.
It is, therefore, believed that when there was a great resurgence of Saktism from the 7th century onwards, there was a successful attempt to instal an image of the mother goddess (Durga or Sakti) in the Puri temple by the side of Jagannatha. According to some others, installation of the image of Durga or Sakti, who is also known as Bhadra, Mangala etc., might have taken place during the visit of Sankaracarya to Puri. In the Konarka temple built in the 13th century A.D. about a century later than the Puri temple, there is a panel of three images. Jagannatha is seen in the middle and to his left is Durga killing demon Mahisa, while to his rjght is A linga (phallus) representing Siva. From this, it is deduced by some scholars that this might have been the original trio of the Puri temple, indicating the equal importance to Vaisnavism, Saktism and Saivism. In such a case, it is deduced that originally there was one image representing Visnu or Madhava and Siva and Durga were added subsequently.
There is another theory that Bhadra or Mangala (Durga) came to be called Subhadra and at the time of Vaisnavite preponderance, she was introduced as Krisna's sister, whose name is also Subhadra. Similarly one of the names of Siva is Virabhadra. Somehow, at a time of Vaisnavic efflorescence, he was transformed into Balabhadra. The second half Of this name i.e., 'Bhadra' was retained and the first half was substituted by Bala.When he was thus called Balabhadra, he was introduced as the elder brother of Krishna.
The Puranic texts mention that the original images of Puri consisted of Laksmi and Visnu known as Purusottama. a twin figure. Some literary works, bear testimony to this view too.
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SC seeks responses from Centre & State Govts in a bid to "make criminal justice system responsive" in sexual assaults cases
Supreme Court: In a bid to make criminal justice system responsive in cases relating to sexual assaults, a 3-judge bench of SA Bobde, CJ and BR Gavai and Surya Kant, JJ has sought information with regard to status of affairs at ground level from various duty holders like investigation agencies, prosecution, medico-forensic agencies, rehabilitation, legal aid agencies and also Courts to get a holistic view.
Taking note of the fact that post Nirbhaya incident, which shocked the conscience of the nation, many amendments were introduced in criminal law redefining the ambit of offences, providing for effective and speedy investigation and trial, the Court noticed that still the desired results were not achieved and that as per the latest report of National Crime Records Bureau of Crime in India in the year 2017, total 32,559 cases of rape were registered in India. It said,
"The Nirbhaya case is not an isolated case where it has taken so long to reach finality. In fact, it is said that it has been one of the cases where agencies have acted swiftly taking into account the public outrage."
Here are some of the most important information sought by the Court:
Registration of FIR by woman police officer
whether all the Police Stations have a woman police officer or woman officer to record the information of the victim?
whether provisions are available for recording of first information by a woman police officer or a woman officer at the residence of the victim or any other place of choice of such person in case the victim is temporarily or permanently mentally or physically disabled?
Failure of a public servant to record any information of sexual assault offences
whether any case has been registered under the Section 166A of IPC against any public servant?
whether there is any mechanism in place to complain about the non-recording of information by the officer giving cause to offence under Section 166A with any other institution/office, other than the concerned police station?
Medical treatment and examination of the victim
whether any advisory or guidelines have been issued by the authorities to all the hospitals and medical centres in this regard?
whether the medical experts have done away with the Per-Vaginum examination commonly referred to as 'Two-finger test' and whether any directions have been issued by the states in this regard?
whether medical experts have done away with the practice of giving opinion on the previous sexual experience of the victim or any directions have been issued by the states in this regard?
whether the Medical Opinion in the cases relating to rape and similar offences is being given in tune with definition of rape under Section 375 of IPC as it stands today?
whether the states have adopted the Guidelines & Protocols of The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India or have they prepared their own Guidelines & Protocols?
whether requisite Medico-forensic kit are available with all the hospitals/health centres run by the Government or by local authorities?
"Medical treatment and examination of the victim is a very important aspect not only for the immediate relief to the victim but also provides intrinsic evidences for the trial."
Completion of Investigation
whether police is completing the investigation and submitting the final report within a period of two months from the date of recording of information of the offence and if no, reasons for delay?
Trial before a woman judge
whether trial of cases relating to rape are being conducted by Courts presided over by a woman?
whether sufficient number of lady judges are available to preside over the Courts dealing with sexual offences and rape?
whether all courts holding trial of cases relating to offence of rape have requisite infrastructure and are conducting in camera trial?
whether the trial relating to cases of rape is being completed within a period of two months from the date of filing of charge-sheet, if not, the reasons for the delay?
Victim and witness protection
whether any policy of victim/witness protection in the cases relating to rape is framed and implemented?
whether police protection is being provided to the victim during investigation and trial of the offence?
whether the trial Courts have taken appropriate measures to ensure that victim woman is not confronted by the accused during the trial as mandated by Section 273 Cr.P.C.?
"The protection of witness during the investigation and trial is essential in cases of this sensitive nature. Many a times the accused live in proximity of the victim. The possibility of tampering with evidence and pressurizing the witness affects fair trial."
Utilisation of Nirbhaya Fund
In the year 2013, a separate fund namely Nirbhaya Fund for projects of women safety to support initiatives by government and NGOs was created. The Court called for the status of utilization of the Nirbhaya Fund by Central or State Government(s).
Senior Advocate Siddharth Luthra will assist the Court as Amicus Curiae in the matter and the matter will next be taken up on 07.02.2020.
[In re: Assessment of the Criminal Justice System in response to Sexual Offences, 2019 SCC OnLine SC 1654, order dated 18.12.2019]
Published on December 18, 2019 December 24, 2019 By Prachi Bhardwaj
SC quashes trial against a man in a sexual assault case of a 6-year-old. Here's why
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"The heinous crime committed should not be led into prosecuting a person only because he was part of the Management of the School."
The bench of L Nageswara Rao and Hemant Gupta, JJ said while quashing the trial against a member of the School management in a case relating to sexual assault of a 6-year-old girl in her school in Haldwani.
The FIR filed by the father of the prosecuterix mentioned that a teacher had sexually assaulted his daughter. In the first statement recorded, the prosecuterix mentioned that the teacher had deliberately and repeatedly assaulted her. However, in another statement, she stated that after she returned from washroom, two Uncles came and picked her away. She also mentioned that these two persons work outside school. She said that one of them wore spectacles. The father of the prosecutrix filed an application to summon the person who wears spectacles, as identified by the victim. She then identified the appellant as the bespectacled person. The principal of the School, however, in a statement issued by her, said that the anger was directed against the Management of the School of which the appellant is a part and hence, his name was dragged in a offence he never committed.
Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, the Court noticed that the prosecutrix is a small child. It is parents of the child who have taken the photographs either from the website of the School or from the Facebook to introduce a person with spectacles as an accused. The initial version of the father of the prosecutrix and of the prosecutrix herself, as disclosed by her father in the FIR, is assault by one person. It said that even if the father of the child has basis to be angry with the Management of the School but, there is no prima facie case of any active part on the part of the appellant is made out in violating the small child. The involvement of other persons on the statement of the child of impressionable age does not inspire confidence that the appellant is liable to be proceeded under Section 319 of the Code. In fact, it is suggestive role of the family which influences the mind of the child to indirectly implicate the appellant.
"Obviously, the father of the child must have anger against the Management of the School as his child was violated when she was studying in the School managed by the appellant but, we find that the anger of the father against the Management of the School including the appellant is not sufficient to make him to stand trial for the offences punishable under Section 376(2) of the IPC read with Sections 5/6 of the POCSO Act."
The Court also took note of the fact that the prosecution after investigations has found no material to charge the appellant. It, hence, held that statement of the child so as to involve a person wearing spectacles as an accused does not inspire confidence disclosing more than prima facie to make him to stand trial of the offences. Therefore, the order of summoning the appellant under Section 319 of the Code is not legal.
[Mani Pushpak Joshi v. State of Uttarakhand, 2019 SCC OnLine SC 1362, decided on 17.10.2019]
Published on October 18, 2019 November 29, 2019 By Prachi Bhardwaj
Sexual Harassment allegations against CJI: Justice AK Patnaik completes inquiry into 'larger conspiracy' allegations
Supreme Court: A Supreme Court-appointed one-man panel, holding inquiry into allegations of "larger conspiracy" to frame Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, has completed the inquiry and is likely to submit the report by mid September.
Sources said Tuesday that Justice A K Patnaik, a retired Supreme Court judge who was appointed by the Supreme Court, examined advocate Utsav Singh Bains, who had made several allegations including fixing of benches in the Supreme Court.
"The affidavit filed by Bains and other documents were examined by the panel. Now, the panel will complete the report and submit it to the Supreme Court in a sealed cover by second week of September,"
Justice Patnaik examined the lawyer from 11 am to 1 pm and his statement was recorded.
The Court had on April 25 constituted the panel to hold inquiry into the allegations of Bains and had asked the Directors of CBI and Intelligence Bureau (IB) as also the Delhi Police Commissioner to cooperate with Justice Patnaik as and when required by him.
A special 3-judge bench of Arun Mishra, Rohinton Nariman and Deepak Gupta, JJ had said that on the completion of inquiry, Justice Patnaik will file a report in a sealed cover before the court after which the matter will be heard again.
The bench, however, clarified that the outcome of the inquiry shall not affect the in-house procedure/inquiry which is pending in the administrative side in any manner whatsoever. It said,
"this inquiry shall not be with respect to the alleged misbehaviour involving Hon'ble The Chief Justice of India. This is with respect to the contents of the affidavits, whether the affidavits are correct or not."
On May 6, CJI had got the clean chit from the Supreme Court's In-House Inquiry Committee which "found no substance" in the allegations of sexual harassment levelled against him. The In-House Inquiry Committee was headed by Justice S A Bobde and comprised of two woman judges of the apex court — Justices Indu Malhotra and Indira Banerjee.
While hearing claims made by Bains that there was a "larger conspiracy" to frame the CJI, the Court had said that there is systematic attempt/game against the Supreme Court. It said,
"We are in anguish the way this institution is being treated for the last 3-4 years is as if this institution will die. This is the court made by the likes of Fali Nariman, Nani Palkhiwala, K Parasaran. … Every day we hear about bench-fixing, every day we hear of wrong practices in this court. This has to go. The day has come when we have to rise to the occasion and tell the rich and powerful that they cannot run the Supreme Court. … Don't provoke us anymore. We want to tell the rich and the powerful that they are playing with fire. This is not the way a country can run,"
(With inputs from PTI)
Sexual Harassment allegations against CJI: 2-judge bench to hear the matter after CJI opts out mid-way
Sexual Harassment allegations against CJI: Order on advocate's claims of conspiracy to frame CJI Gogoi reserved
Sexual Harassment allegations against CJI: Justice AK Patnaik to look into 'conspiracy' angle
Published on August 21, 2019 August 21, 2019 By Prachi Bhardwaj
Unnao rape case: All cases transferred to Delhi; Probe to be completed within maximum 14 days
Supreme Court: The Court has asked CBI to investigate within 7 days the mysterious case of the accident in which the Unnao rape survivor was seriously injured along with her lawyer while her two aunts were killed in Rae Bareli on Sunday. The investigation is to be conducted by Secretary General under supervision of sitting SC judge nominated by CJI, to ascertain whether there was any lapse/negligence by registry officials in delay in processing letter of Unnao rape victim's mother to CJI.
Ranjan Gogoi, CJ gave the direction to the agency after dismissing Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta's plea for a month's time for completing the probe. CJI said,
"A month? Probe should be completed within 7 days in the accident case, however, as an exception, CBI can take another week, but in no circumstance shall the probe extend beyond a fortnight."
The Court has transferred the trial of all the cases related to Unnao rape incident from Uttar Pradesh to Delhi and the designated judge in Delhi will commence the trial on day-to-day basis and complete the trial within 45 days.
As an interim measure, the Court has directed the UP government to pay Rs 25 lakh as compensation to the victim and also directed that security & protection be granted to the victim, her lawyer, mother of the victim, the four siblings of the victim, her uncle, and immediate family members in the village in Unnao.
Earlier in the day, the CJI ordered the CBI to present the status of the investigations after the agency was given charge of the probe into the accident and the FIR that included murder charges against rape accused and BJP MLA Kuldeep Sengar.
When the SG said the Investigating Officer was out of station and sought time till tomorrow morning for the agency to submit a report, the CJI dismissed it asking CBI to depute some 'responsible' official who can gather the information over phone and present it to the court. CBI Joint Director Sampat Meena, a woman officer, appeared before the bench and gave the status of the probe into the two cases.
On July 28, a truck rammed into the vehicle in which the Unnao rape survivor, her counsel and two aunts were travelling to Raebareli. While she and her lawyer sustained grievous injuries, her aunts were killed on the spot. The Unnao rape
survivor and her lawyer, who is being treated at King George's Medical University are stable, the hospital said on Wednesday.
The Uttar Pradesh Police filed a case of murder against BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar and nine others in connection with the accident. Meanwhile, the BJP has expelled MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar amidst the controversy.
(Source: ANI)
Published on August 1, 2019 By Prachi Bhardwaj
Megh HC | Courts can't be swayed by rise in crimes against women; conviction under S. 366 IPC in a case based on 'imagination' set aside
Meghalaya High Court: A Bench of Mohammad Yaqoob Mir, C.J. and H.S. Thangkhiew, J. set aside the conviction and sentence inflicted upon the appellant for an offence of "kidnapping abducting or inducing woman to compel her marriage, etc.", punishable under Section 366 IPC.
As per the prosecution, on the day of the incident, the prosecutrix boarded the appellant's auto rickshaw for her home. It was alleged that the appellant deliberately avoided to stop the autorickshaw at the destination (home of the prosecutrix). This prompted the prosecutrix to jump out of the autorickshaw, as a result whereof she was injured and became unconscious. The appellant was booked for an offence under Section 366 and was convicted by the trial court. Aggrieved thereby, he filed the present appeal.
The High Court noted that the star witness — the prosecutrix — did not support the prosecution case of kidnapping. As per the Court, the case was registered on the basis of imagination. It was further noted that the appellant did not know the home of the prosecutrix or the point where he had to stop and as stated by him, there was noise of trucks and maybe due to that, he was unable to hear the voice of prosecutrix. Referring to the ingredients under Section 366, it was observed: "There is not an iota of evidence to suggest that the prosecutrix was in any manner compelled to marry or likely to be compelled to intercourse so as to constitute offence punishable under Section 366 intention directly or indirectly shall be gatherable from the evidence."
Furthermore, "an important question is whether the accused knew where the house of the prosecutrix was situated nor it is stated in any manner that she had asked the driver to stop and he refused. It is nowhere emerging from the evidence that the auto rickshaw driver while driving the auto rickshaw … had deviated from the main road.."
Holding that the prosecutrix got apprehensive of her own and there was nothing on part of the appellant which could constitute offence under Section 366 IPC, the Court observed: "Learned trial court appears to have been swayed by the rise of cases of sexual harassment against women and minor children …Any offence against women and minor children is totally unacceptable but in the name of the same, an innocent person cannot be convicted or sentenced. Any person who dares or tries to commit such offence cannot be shown any leniency but at the same time without any basis, a person cannot be convicted and sentenced."
In such view of the matter, the appeal was allowed and set at liberty. [Jerman Syngkli v. State of Meghalaya, Crl. A. No. 1 of 2019, Order dated 01-05-2019]
Published on May 10, 2019 By Devika
Sexual Harassment allegations against CJI: SC In-House committee gives clean chit to CJI
The In-House committee, headed by Justice SA Bobde, also comprising Justices Indira Banerjee and Indu Malhotra, found "no substance" in the sexual harassment allegations levelled by a former Supreme Court employee against the CJI Ranjan Gogoi.
The notice published on Supreme Court website read that the report has been submitted to the next senior judge competent to received the report i.e. Justice Arun Mishra. A copy of the report has also been handed over to the Chief Justice. It also stated that according to the verdict in Indira Jaising v. Supreme Court of India, (2003) 5 SCC 494, the report of any Committee constituted as a part of in-house procedure can't be made public.
The former employee had submitted her complaint against the CJI in an affidavit form to 22 Supreme Court judges on April 19.
Published on May 6, 2019 By Prachi Bhardwaj
Supreme Court: A special 3-judge bench of Arun Mishra, Rohinton Nariman and Deepak Gupta, JJ has appointed former Supreme Court judge, Justice A. K. Patnaik, to hold an inquiry into the allegations made in the affidavits.to probe an advocate's claim that there was a "conspiracy" to frame Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi in a sexual harassment case.
The Court also asked the Director of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the Director of Intelligence Bureau (IB) and the Commissioner of Police, Delhi, to cooperate with the Hon'ble Judge as and when their services are required at any point of time for the purpose of investigation of the matter.
Asking Justice Patnaik to submit a report to this Court on the basis of the inquiry as to the allegations mentioned in the affidavits, the bench said that it will next take up the matter after the report is submitted.
On 24.04.2019, Advocate Bains had submitted an affidavit in Court in a sealed cover. The bench had directed that,
"It is to be kept in a sealed cover in total confidentiality, as it contains highly sensitive information pertaining to the alleged conspiracy, according to him, to frame Hon'ble The Chief Justice of India into a case of sexual harassment."
Naming Tapan Kumar Chakraborty and Manav Sharma and others in his affidavit, Advocate Bains had mentioned that,
"the disgruntled employees have ganged together in order to frame Hon'ble The Chief Justice of India in the false charge of sexual harassment after their dismissal from their services."
He has also alleged that they have asserted that they could fix the Bench of the Judges.
The Court had, on 24.04.2019, said,
"Considering the seriousness of the allegations as the system has absolutely no place for such fixers, we cannot leave the matter at that. It becomes our responsibility to keep this Institution clean as well as to ensure that the image of this Institution is not tarnished by such allegations to undertake the probe in the matter."
[In Re : Matter of great public importance touching upon the Independence of Judiciary, 2019 SCC OnLine SC 604, order dated 25.04.2019]
Sexual Harassment allegations against CJI: Advocate claiming 'conspiracy' to appear before SC tomorrow
Published on April 25, 2019 May 3, 2019 By Prachi Bhardwaj
Supreme Court: A special 3-judge bench of Arun Mishra, Rohinton Nariman and Deepak Gupta, JJ has reserved its order on the issue of setting up an inquiry committee to probe an advocate's claim that there was a "conspiracy" to frame Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi in a sexual harassment case. The bench will pronounce its order later in the day.
During the course of the hearing, advocate Utsav Bains, who made the claim about a conspiracy to frame Justice Gogoi, submitted an additional affidavit on the direction of the court. In his affidavit, Bains submitted that he cannot share the names of the "fixers" as "privileged communication under the Advocates Act" cannot be disclosed.
Attorney General KK Venugopal said the claim of privilege under Section 126 of the Evidence Act is not applicable to any communication between Bains and the alleged fixers. He said that a court can ask for any document relevant to a case.
Supporting the Attorney General's argument, Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) president Rakesh Khanna submitted that there is "no sacrosanct right" to withhold any document. He said that the court has the power to seek production of documents over which privilege
is claimed.
"Whatever he (Bains) divulged to us, in any case, our power to inspect the documents is there,"
Mishra, J said,
"There is systematic attempt/game, so many things have not come out. The truth has not come out. These things are in the air for a long time and people of the country must know the truth. There has been a systemic attack against the Supreme Court,"
Senior advocate Indira Jaising told the court that the inquiry headed by Justice S A Bobde into the sexual harassment charge and the case before the court should be conducted together.
Mishra, J, however, clarified that that the outcome of this inquiry into the conspiracy charge will not affect that inquiry into the sexual harassment charge. He remarked,
"Three to five per cent lawyers are giving a bad name to this institution. Don't provoke us any further, we are worried as judges. We will see
how it can be an independent inquiry."
On Tuesday, a three-member committee of the court led by Justice Bobde, the senior-most judge after the Chief Justice, was formed to look into the allegation of sexual harassment made by a dismissed employee against Justice Gogoi. The other two members of the committee are Justices NV Ramana and Indira Banerjee. Justice Ramana is the third in the seniority list in the Supreme court and will the Chief Justice after the retirement of Justice Bobde.
Published on April 25, 2019 By Prachi Bhardwaj
Gujarat Govt to give Rs. 50 lakh compensation, job & accommodation to Bilkis Bano
Supreme Court: A 3-judge bench of Ranjan Gogoi, CJ and Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna, JJ directed the Gujarat government to give Rs 50 lakh compensation, a job and accommodation to Bilkis Bano who was gang raped during the 2002 riots in the State.
The bench was informed by the Gujarat government that action has been taken against the erring police officials in the case and that pension benefits of the erring officials have been stopped and the IPS officer who was convicted by the Bombay High Court in the case has been demoted by two ranks.
Bano had earlier refused to accept the offer of Rs 5 lakh and had sought exemplary compensation from the state government in a plea before the top court.
The Court had earlier asked the Gujarat government to take disciplinary action in two weeks against the erring police officials, including an IPS officer, convicted by the Bombay High Court in the case.
A special court had on 21 January, 2008 convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment 11 men for raping Bano and murdering seven of her family members in the aftermath of the Godhra riots, while acquitting seven persons including the policemen and doctors.
(Source: PTI)
Published on April 24, 2019 April 24, 2019 By Prachi Bhardwaj
Supreme Court: A 3-judge bench of Arun Mishra, RF Nariman and Deepak Gupta, JJ has sought response from advocate Utsav Bains, who claimed that there is a conspiracy to frame up the Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi in a sexual harassment case. The Court has posted the matter for hearing tomorrow and has sought Utsav Bains's presence before it.
The bench was hearing a case relating to the sexual harassment allegations against CJI Gogoi. The charges have been leveled by a dismissed
woman employee of the Supreme Court.
Advocate Utsav Bains on Monday filed an affidavit saying there was a larger 'conspiracy' playing out to compel the CJI to resign. He claimed that when he refused to take up the case on finding several loopholes in her story, the person offered him Rs 50 lakh, which was raised to Rs 1.50 crore. Bains further claimed that on inquiry, he found that "certain fixers", who claim to be engaged in illegally managing judgments in exchange for cash, were behind the plot as the Chief Justice had taken decisive action to crack down on such fixers.
"The said fixer Romesh Sharma was running a 'cash for judgment' racket in cahoots with businessmen and politicians and had exercised considerable influence for years, which ultimately was brought to an end by the present CJI, as he took decisive action against them after becoming CJI."
He further claimed,
"There was a conspiracy against the Chief Justice of India to force him to resign and thereby threaten every judge with dire consequences for being free and fearless in dispensing justice while pronouncing judgments against the rich and powerful in the country."
On Saturday, a Special bench met for a sitting to discuss online media reports of sexual harassment allegations against CJI Ranjan Gogoi. The bench said,
"The independence of the judiciary is under very serious threat and there is a larger conspiracy to destabilise the judiciary,"
The hurriedly constituted 3-judge special bench headed by CJI Ranjan Gogoi, in the case related to allegations of sexual harassment against the CJI, was reduced to a 2-judge bench when CJI left it to justices Arun Mishra and Sanjiv Khanna to take a call on the issue of passing judicial order.
As the hearing progressed, the CJI opted out midway from passing any judicial order and said,
"I am not going to be a part of the judicial order. Justice Arun Mishra is the senior most judge available in Delhi and he will dictate the order,"
The bench, however, did not pass any judicial order and left it to the wisdom of the media to decide on the publication of reports in order to protect the independence of the judiciary.
Supreme Court: A hurriedly constituted 3-judge special bench headed by CJI Ranjan Gogoi, in the case related to allegations of sexual harassment against the CJI, was reduced to a 2-judge bench when CJI left it to justices Arun Mishra and Sanjiv Khanna to take a call on the issue of passing judicial order.
The notice issued by the Supreme Court registry, that became public around 10:15 AM said,
"Take note that a special bench consisting of the Chief Justice of India, Justices Arun Mishra and Sanjiv Khanna is being constituted to have a special sitting at 10:30 AM. Today, i.e. the 20th April, 2019 in the Chief Justice's Court to deal with a matter of great public importance touching upon the independence of judiciary, on a mention being made by Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General."
When contacted, Supreme Court Secretary General Sanjeev Sudhakar Kalgaonkar said the story come out in several news portals Saturday morning around 8-9 AM and they came to know about it at around 9-9:30 AM. He said the matter was mentioned before the CJI by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta and the court took it up.
On the query that the CJI's name is not reflected in the order uploaded on the Supreme court website, Kalgaonkar said the CJI mentioned in the court whatever his lordship wanted to say and, thereafter it was taken over by the other two judges on the judicial side.
He also made it clear that the CJI is the "master of roster" and "whatever bench the lordship will constitute, the said bench will hear the matter" and it will listed for further hearing in due course.
Nirbhaya Case: Death penalty for the 4 accused upheld
Supreme Court: Almost after 5 years of the commission of the horrendous crime that shook not only the nation but the world, the Court upheld the death penalty of the 4 accused persons in the Nirbhaya rape and murder case, where a 23-year old girl was gangraped and tortured in a moving bus in Delhi on 16.12.2012. She succumbed to her injuries 13 days later in a hospital in Singapore. The Court said that It sounds like a story from a different world where humanity has been treated with irreverence.
Writing down a 429 page long judgment, the Court noticed that attacking the deceased by forcibly disrobing her and committing violent sexual assault by all the appellants; and insertion of rod in her private parts that, inter alia, caused perforation of her intestine which caused sepsis and, ultimately, led to her death, shows that the accused persons had found an object for enjoyment in her and, as is evident, they were obsessed with the singular purpose sans any feeling to ravish her as they liked, treat her as they felt and the gross sadistic and beastly instinctual pleasures came to the forefront when they, after ravishing her, thought it to be just a matter of routine to throw her alongwith her friend out of the bus and crush them. The Court said that the casual manner with which she was treated and the devilish manner in which they played with her identity and dignity is humanly inconceivable.
R Banumathi, J, emphasizing upon the need for actions against the crime against women, said that the offences against women are not a women's issue alone but, human rights issue. Increased rate of crime against women is an area of concern for the law-makers and it points out an emergent need to study in depth the root of the problem and remedy the same through a strict law and order regime. There are a number of legislations and numerous penal provisions to punish the offenders of violence against women. However, it becomes important to ensure that gender justice does not remain only on paper. She added that public at large, in particular men, are to be sensitized on gender justice.
The Trial Court awarded capital punishment to the accused considering the gruesome manner in which the offence was committed and the Delhi High Court had upheld the decision of the Trial Court. Ram Singh, the prime accused, had committed suicide in his cell in Tihar Jail in the year 2013.
On 03.02.2017, the 3-judge bench of Dipak Misra, R. Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan, JJ allowed the accused persons to file affidavits along with documents stating about the mitigating circumstances. However, after consciously and anxiously weighing the aggravating circumstances and the mitigating factors, the Court held that the aggravating circumstances outweigh the mitigating circumstances now brought on record. [Mukesh v. State for NCT of Delhi, (2017) 6 SCC 1, decided on 05.05.2017]
Published on May 5, 2017 July 9, 2018 By Prachi Bhardwaj

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How Are Voice Assistants Transforming Customer Experience
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https://www.c-zentrix.com/blog/how-are-voice-assistants-transforming-customer-experience
With the users building a relationship with voice command receptors, these interfaces present a great opportunity for businesses to humanize the interaction and relationships they share with their customers.
In this article, we are going to look into the impact that voice technology, particularly voice assistants carry on defining the customer experience for a business and how can you employ the technology to redefine your business offering.
But before we head on to the part, let us look into how voice assistant works and some statistics hinting towards its prominence in the industry.
How Does Voice Assistant Works?
A machine voice driven interaction involves two prime processes: speech production and speech recognition. In order to perform these processes, applications make use of a number of APIs and technologies.
The speech recognition part of the process works around the analysis of sounds, filtering of speech, and its digitisation in a language that can be understood by computers. For this purpose, developers work around specially designed algorithms which engage the linguistic science concepts. Machine learning improves this entire process through teaching a machine the ways for adopting its understanding of the human speech.
The machine, in turn, can then present the language as a written text, or deliver a verbal response through synthesised speech.
Voice Assistant Statistics
- According to a report by Juniper Research, the number of voice assistants will triple by 2023. If this extrapolation is correct, 8 billion voice assistants would be deployed worldwide.
- Capgemini estimates that the spending through voice assistants will grow by around six fold compared to other channels, like local businesses, websites and apps within three years.
- Juniper Research expects sales in voice commerce area to be around $80 billion per year by 2023.
PWC found that majority of the population is aware of voice assistants. There were only 10% of respondents who said that they have never heard of it.
How is Voice Technology Transforming Customer Experience?
There are multiple ways through which voice technology has proved to be pivotal to customer experience. Here are some of them:
1. By helping people talk to a brand
From voice searches to voice interactions with an IVR or Assistant, voice recognition is bringing people closer to a brand. Customers are not just able to find information they are looking for by asking the voicebot on a company's website but are also able to find more personalized information by interacting with voice assistants on a company's helpline number.
2. By tapping into voice analytics
Through voice assistants, brands have started shifting their focus on the context and usefulness of the users' queries. The modern day voice assistants like the one from C-Zentrix are developed to not just understand the queries and respond in near-human manner but also analyse the interactions for information like emotion of the caller, gender etc. This analysis when clubbed with other information like location of call origination, time of day, queries history, browsing details, etc. give an un-parallel understanding about the customer and creates a pattern to estimate important figures like a user's life-time value.
3. For simple, fast experience
Everybody loves technology that offers fast experiences and is easy to use. By being an always available, hands-free technology, voice assistants tend to be that convenient technology for the end users.
4. For enhancing personalisations
Voice assistants are probably one of the biggest breakthroughs when it comes to offering personalized content to the end-users. Alexa and Google assistant can recognize voices to offer customers personalized preferences in shopping, content, and music, etc. Similarly, voice assistants in contact centre can authenticate a caller by their voice pattern and personalise the IVR flow for each caller giving them a stitched-to-their-needs customer experience
These are the four ways voice assistants are affecting a caller's experience for companies across the globe.
Let us go a step further and look into how voice assistants are bringing a revolutionary change across industries.
The Impact of Voice Assistants across Industries
Managing call traffic during the peak travel seasons becomes a challenge for travel businesses. They can use voice assistants to pitch packages to customers based on filters like domestic or international packages, travel budget etc. With the help of artificial intelligence, a voice assistant can also pitch the most sort after travel packages. A voice assistant can easily transfer the call to the right agent if some customisation is needed in a package.
In addition to guiding the customers through the buying process and helping them choose the right product, multiple ecommerce brands are employing voice assistants to attend basic customer care tasks like telling customers their refund status or order delivery timeline, etc.
Hospitality industry can use voice assistants for both in-hotel customer and for prospects. For in-hotel customers a hotel can use voice assistants perform several tasks like giving an alarm service when requested by a customer, enabling guests to call for housekeeping/room services, and even book pick up and drop off for a customer. For prospects, a hotel may use voice assistants to inform about room availability to a caller or handle booking related calls.
Healthcare sector is making use of voice assistant capabilities to deliver people information related to their health status, notifying them to take their medicines, informing their family members of their health through push notifications, amongst other tasks. Also with elderly care, voice is an easier interface than digital interfaces.
There are myriad ways voice assistants are used across industries. Let us look into the ways you can employ voice assistant in your business and the best strategy to do that.
How to Define Your Customer Experience Strategy around Voice Assistants?
Customer experience has become a key differentiator for businesses, which drives unquestionably high business results, like rise in revenue growth and loyalty.
The rise of Artificial Intelligence driven voice assistants have helped Customer Experience take a leap forward and have promised greater results and progress. With AI continuing to learn from the gathered customer data, feedback, and interactions, new use cases are coming up.
These use cases are directed towards the creation of natural language-based interfaces for offering in-store/in-branch immersive experience, customer engagement augmentation, etc. This enables not just the streamlining of operations, but also highly personalized and immersive experience delivery.
It is key to identify the customer touch points which can be handled by AI and may not need human intervention. Secondly, it is important to develop the customer interaction flow that should be guided or followed by the Voice assistant.
Ultimately, the growth of your voice driven customer experience comes down to the level of usefulness you are able to deliver with every interaction - something that will come through a complete understanding of your business and your customer's needs.
To summarize, Voice assistants are at their primitive stage and it has potential to take over a large part of customers' digital journey and will also have a strong positioning in the brick and mortar space.
Also Read: Four reasons to include voice in your CX Strategy
Author Bio: Akanksha is an IT enthusiast, having an experience of 7 years in marketing and promotion. She has experience in varied industries, in positions working across the line of marketing. She is a day dreamer, an avid reader and a crazy traveler when she is not working.
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A mentor is "a trusted guide or counselor" who uses a process of open dialogue and real-life experiences to help a mentee acquire and apply knowledge so they may achieve new levels of success in their personal and professional lives. Mentoring is a confidential and trusted relationship between people. The primary purpose of mentoring is to provide the mentee an environment where they can share and receive information, insight feedback that they might otherwise had received.
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Imagine the possibilities when you immerse students in a global entrepreneurship graduate program that takes students outside the classroom to solve problems, work collaboratively and get closer to industry while driving new levels of innovation. "At Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Massachusetts, a university with a heavy bent toward engineering entrepreneurship plays a part in nearly every course that students encounter," said Bloomberg Businessweek. Not a surprise, considering it's the main focus of the university's mission statement: "Developing innovative and entrepreneurial leaders for a global technological world." "Our goal is to introduce as many students as possible—particularly non-business students—to innovation and entrepreneurship," says Mark Rice, dean of the business school. As a result, WPI inspires the next generation of entrepreneurs working hand in hand with industry taking leadership and innovation to the next level for generations to come.
Understanding the impact of entrepreneurship programs, Joel Schwartz, EMC SVP and General Manager, Global New Business Development, collaborated with WPI professors, Arthur Gerstenfeld and Susan Vernon-Gerstenfeld, to develop a graduate-level course in WPI's MBA program called "Global Entrepreneurship: The Israeli Phenomenon." The course immersed students in the entrepreneurial Israeli-Massachusetts high-tech world through a series of lectures and on-site visits delivered by successful entrepreneurs and business leaders from Israel and the United States. Critical to understanding their field trip experience in Israel and Israel's entrepreneurial success, was an in-depth study of the unique historical, social, cultural, and political factors that created the State of Israel and that allow innovation to flourish. The academic side of the course addressed those topics through a variety of readings and papers that the students wrote, which set the context for the field trip. These visits were quite literally on-site as Joel accompanied the WPI class on a weeklong trip to Israel for a series of face-to-face meetings with Israeli CEO's, venture capitalists, and senior government officials of the international Israeli academic community. During the field trip, EMC's Israel COE hosted several panel discussions with entrepreneurs, military personnel, and venture capitalists.
As a guest instructor I had the opportunity to kick off the program sharing key insights into "Israel The Start-up Nation" thus establishing the framework for a discussion between Joel Schwartz and the students. Other guest lecturers included David Goodtree (TEDxBoston) who led 2012 Massachusetts' water mission to Israel, Akhil Nigam (Co-developer of MassChallange) lead a class with on start-ups while Susan Hunt Stevens from Pratically Green collaborated with Kathrin Winkler EMC's Chief Sustainability Officer to deliver another powerful lecture on sustainability. Check out Kathrin's blog: Interconnected World. When the students returned from Israel Kevin Perkins, EMC's IP Attorney presented the value of IP for entrepreneurs along with Paolo Gaudiano, Founder and President of Infomous, President and CTO of Icosystem, a serial entrepreneur who discussed how he uses IP as a competitive advantage. A timely discussion in this day and age considering the nature and frequency of IP law suits as detailed on the front pages of the Wall Street Journal and other financial and legal publications.
The students, mostly graduate students had diverse backgrounds, with many from China, some from Latin America and about half from New England. Here is a video that I took after they returned from Israel. From left to right the students are Jiaqi (Nick) Lu, Joaquin Serrano, Kathryn Remillard, and Weihan Gao.
During the last seven weeks of the program the students were assigned a group project to develop an innovative startup idea including market research, technical feasibility study, financial analysis, and, most importantly, a brief investors' pitch. The students presented their startup ideas at the end of the course to "compete" for the investment to a panel of judges including me, Mark Rice (Dean of WPI Business School), and Steve Rubin (then Chairman and now Emeritus of the WPI Board of Trustees). Four ideas were presented to us but only one could win and that was CrowdSpot. Their idea was based on an existing offering in Amsterdam, where a mobile application helps you find crowds. Their version of CrowdSpot offered new capabilities which included where the crowd was and wasn't helping you to find parking, tickets to concerts, sports games etc. But the other ideas were equaling inspiring and included: Azimo social entrepreneurship (People2People (P2P) mobile microloans), Precision Threads (custom suits using Israeli 3D camera technology) and True Candidate (enhancing the admissions process using web based social media tools).
With WPI's business school offering a minor in entrepreneurship, as well as activities like the Entrepreneurship Club on campus, and a business course catalog that includes classes like "Engineering Entrepreneurship," "Entrepreneurial Selling," and "Growing and Managing New Ventures" it is no wonder Business Week rated WPI School No. 1 in the Nation for Entrepreneurship. I look forward to working with WPI and inspiring the next generation of entrepreneurs.
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Q: Precise cutting video into lots of smaller videos using ffmpeg I have large video, in the range of about 45 minutes. I want to perform a lot of cuts (~500 per 20 minutes) that need to be very accurate. Because of this, it's annoying to use the frame-perfect solutions I found - they are extremely slow.
Why would I want to cut video into that many videos? I have a program that recognizes where is silence. I want to speed up to video, at different rates when there is silence and where there are people talking. So I find out which parts of the video are silent/loud, cut it into those parts, speed them up and concatenate them again together.
Right now, after some iterations, I'm using this:
ffmpeg -i [input_video] -ss [seconds_to_start_cut] -frames:v [number_of_frames] -f [input_video_extension] [output_name]

In my program, I have silent/loud parts of video defined as starting and ending frames and I calculate seconds to start cut via FPS received from ffprobe.
Using, the cuts are pretty precise, while there is still some work to be done (the audio repeats a little bit on cut transitions) - maybe FPS slightly vary through the video?
But the problem is, this approach is extremely slow. As far as I understand how ffmpeg works, this starts counting seconds from start each time I call it, repeating previously done work unnecessarily. It's really bad with 16 seconds long video, let alone more than hour long ones.
Is there a reasonably fast way to precisely perform large amount of cuts? These cuts don't overlap, so I technically need to split the video into a lot of shorter videos. If this is not possible to do with ffmpeg, could you recommend me another tool to use? Thanks.
Edit:
Thanks to link provided by @slhck, I used complex filter to do it. It has the best results in terms of quality, however it takes about double the length of the video (0.428x) to process it. For example for segments [0-0.25, 2][0.25-0.75,1][0.75-0.1,2] ([time_from]-[time_to], [speed]), I use this filter:
[0:v]trim=0:0.25,setpts=0.5*(PTS_STARTPTS)[v1];
[0:a]atrim=0:0.25,asetpts=PTS-STARTPTS,atempo=2[a1];
[0:v]trim=0.25:0.75,setpts=1*(PTS_STARTPTS)[v2];
[0:a]atrim=0.25:0.75,asetpts=PTS-STARTPTS,atempo=1[a3];
[0:v]trim=0.75:1,setpts=0.5*(PTS_STARTPTS)[v3];
[0:a]atrim=0.75:1,asetpts=PTS-STARTPTS,atempo=2[a3];
[v1][a1][v2][a2][v3][a3]concat=n=3:v=1:a=1

It starts to look funny with hundreds and hundreds of segments, but it actually works really good!
I currently run ffmpeg like this:
ffmpeg -i madoka.mp4 -filter_complex "[filter]" -f mp4 -movflags frag_keyframe+empty_moov output.mp4

Log:
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Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'madoka.mp4':
  Metadata:
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    minor_version   : 0
    compatible_brands: isommp42
    creation_time   : 2016-12-17T08:09:58.000000Z
  Duration: 00:24:09.99, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1676 kb/s
    Stream #0:0(und): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p(tv, bt709), 1280x720 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 1482 kb/s, 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 24k tbn, 47.95 tbc (default)
    Metadata:
      handler_name    : VideoHandler
    Stream #0:1(und): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 44100 Hz, stereo, fltp, 192 kb/s (default)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 2016-12-17T08:10:39.000000Z
      handler_name    : IsoMedia File Produced by Google, 5-11-2011
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 (h264) -> trim
###### (523 more lines like this) #####
  Stream #0:1 (aac) -> atrim
###### (523 more lines like this) #####
  concat:out:v0 -> Stream #0:0 (libx264)
  concat:out:a0 -> Stream #0:1 (aac)
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
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A: First of all, cutting a video with ffmpeg -i [input_video] -ss [seconds_to_start_cut] is quite slow. Instead, you could put the -ss option before -i, which means that ffmpeg will first seek to the cut point, and only then start encoding. This will still be accurate.
That said, a better solution that does not involve generating individual clips and concatenating them would be to use complex filter graphs. An example of this can be seen here. The filters allow you to trim the video and audio into segments, and apply a speedup/slowdown filter on these segments.
As you've shown, one instantiation of such a complex filter chain would be:
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This speeds up the first and third segment by a factor of 2, and concatenates everything.
To make the encoding as fast as possible, you can use -c:v libx264 -preset faster (or even ultrafast instead of faster), see the H.264 encoding guide. The quality (and therefore the resulting file size) is controlled by the CRF parameter.


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Systematics in the 0 1s core-level spectra in transition metal oxides, $LaMO_3$ (M=V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co and Ni)
Rao, Ranga G and Sarma, DD (1990) Systematics in the 0 1s core-level spectra in transition metal oxides, $LaMO_3$ (M=V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co and Ni). In: Modern Physics Letters B, 4 (4). pp. 277-282.
Official URL: http://www.worldscinet.com/mplb/04/0404/S021798499...
The O 1s core level spectra of transition metal oxides, $LaMO_3 $ (M=V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co and Ni) show three features. The main peak always appears between 528 and 530 eV and is attributed to the well-screened oxygen $1s^1$ $2p^0$ hole configuration in every case. The poorly-screened feature ($1s^1$ $2p^0$ hole configuration) is found as a broad peak centred approximately 13 eV above the main peak. Another feature is at about 531 eV; the intensity of this peak is found to increase systematically across the series and its intensity cannot be explained in terms of carbonate impurity contamination. It is suggested that a considerable part of this 531 eV feature has an intrinsic origin.
Modern Physics Letters B
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WASHINGTON • Ms Susan Mitchell- Mattera leaned her small American flag and the framed picture of her family against the black stone of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Thursday and raised her father's old harmonica to her lips.
As she played the opening notes of taps, Mr Vu Ngoc Xiem, 65, a veteran of the North Vietnamese army whose father was killed in an American bombing attack during the war, reached out and steadied her hand.
Up on the wall, at Panel 14W, Row 14, was the name of Ms Mitchell-Mattera's father, Mr James C. Mitchell Jr, a sailor who was killed when his helicopter was shot down in 1970, days before he was to go home. He was 24.
Ms Mitchell-Mattera played only a few notes, but they hung in the humid air on an overcast day when the wall was just starting to dry from the overnight rain, revealing the names of the 58,000 American dead in the Vietnam War.
It was one part of an emotional morning as Vietnamese and American children of parents killed in the war gathered to honour lost fathers and mothers and to embrace each other as brothers and sisters. There were many tears and hugs on both sides, and the laying of hands on the dark stone.
At the start of the Memorial Day weekend, the group was visiting Washington for the debut of a documentary about children who lost parents to the Vietnam War.
The film is part of the 2 Sides Project, an enterprise launched two years ago by Ms Margot Carlson Delogne, 52, as she sought to fill the void left by the absence of her father, who was killed in the war.
In 2015, Ms Carlson Delogne took a film crew and a small group of Americans who had lost fathers in the war to Vietnam. They visited sites where their fathers were believed to have been killed and met Vietnamese who had lost fathers and mothers in the fighting.


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Damika Baker-Wilson, CFRE
Damika has more than a decade of experience in nonprofit development, fundraising, and relationship-building. In her most recent position as Director of Development for HumanitiesDC, she was responsible for developing, managing, and executing fundraising and marketing goals for the DC affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. While at HumanitiesDC, Damika managed a $2M+ grants portfolio and was responsible for building HumanitiesDC's fundraising program by developing fundraising systems, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding relationships with public and private funders.
Prior to HumanitiesDC, Damika was the Director of Engagement and Strategic Services for Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture in Baltimore, MD, where she led strategic educational and engagement initiatives. There she managed a team of 10 and developed and managed major partnerships with institutional donors.
Prior to this position, Damika was Director of Development at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD, where she led all fundraising efforts including management of its $ 8.5M capital campaign, annual giving, membership, grant writing and management, and special events.
Damika is a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE) and holds a BA in Afro-American Studies from the University of Maryland. She is currently pursuing a master's degree in Museum Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Damika serves on several boards including Adkins Arboretum, the Association of African American Museum, and Talbot Arts. She and has been a speaker, presenter, and panelist at local summits and programs. She is also a member of many professional organizations including Association of Fundraising Professionals, African American Development Officers, and Women of Color in Fundraising and Philanthropy.
Damika joined the CFAAC staff on February 14, 2022.


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Living Hotels
$155 as well as upFor a 92-year-old resort, the Hotel Figueroa is extremely "on pattern," as marketing experts like to say. It was built by the Y.W.C.A. as an exclusively female hostelry a spot where solitary ladies, including striving starlets, could remain without concern of the Harvey Weinsteins of the world. The Figueroa apparently even gave the USA its very first women hotel supervisor: Maude Bouldin, a motorcyle-riding tour de pressure.
Then the lengthy decline of downtown Los Angeles took a toll. By 2014, when brand-new proprietors started a $60 million deluxe overhaul, the resort had a Morocco-by-way-of-Sweden theme (don't ask) and also was accommodating discount German excursion groups. The remodelling, which was completed earlier this year, leans into the Figueroa's feminist history, with art work from local woman artists on the wall surfaces and typical areas created to host women-centric "hair salons."The Fig, as residents recognize it, rests across the road from L.A.
. The Grammy Museum is additionally located there. Midtown stretches in the contrary instructions, offering the gentrified foodie holy place Grand Central Market and the restored Cinema at Ace Hotel, which holds indie bands as well as screens art movies. The spacious Flower Market to the south is eye-popping and only charges $1 admission on Saturdays.
Valued at $359.20 for a Saturday night in early November, not including tax, our "classic queen" space on an upper floor felt like a closet, and also the view was mostly of a wall. A kindly stocked minibar took up a lot of the real storage room, leaving no space for a traveling bag.
(My partner, Joe, sarcastically noted that the room did feature two condoms, nonetheless.) The thermostat seemed to have a mind of its very own, which made me homicidal. On the bonus side, there was a basket of complimentary snacks Oreos, Red Vines and the bed was comfortable. The space was likewise really quiet.
The bare walls looked like unfinished cement and also among the 2 light components next to the mirror was missing out on; a bare light bulb just hung there. Switching on the shower called for the navigating of 2 counterintuitive levers, as well as it was so dark in that corner of the washroom that it was difficult to tell which bottle was shampoo and which one was body clean.
Bouldin!Before dinner, we picked up drinks (a martini for Joe and a cucumber mint lemonade for me) at Rick's, a captivating indoor-outdoor lounge. As "Juicy" by the Well-known B.I.G. played on the stereo, we encamped by a crackling fire place and admired the significant, 50-year-old cactuses lining the resort's coffin-shaped swimming pool (Living Hotels).
Our web server, Christopher, patiently answered my 700 questions concerning the little plates as well as "pintxos" on the menu. We inhaled the fried kale lollipop with dill crme frache ($10) as well as toy box squash with avocado and olives ($14) before going on to entrees, consisting of fried hen with a barbequed peach and also jalapeo salad ($29) spicy and tasty, also if the fruit was inedibly unripe – Living Hotels.
We bought area solution utilizing an iPad set down on the night table and were provided a 35-minute wait time. It took an hour and also 14 mins for our simple order of coffee, yogurt and also a pork, egg and cheese sandwich to get here. The server shrugged when I whined as well as explained that the tip was currently included.
Pets are welcome to stick with their owners for a $50 charge. The hotel has a trendy, 24-hour health club equipped with treadmills, an elliptical device, kettlebells and barbells, to name a few items. Private yoga exercise courses and also health and fitness trainers are offered upon demand (Living Hotels). High-speed Wi-Fi is free. Upscale store hotels are everything about focus to information, which seems to be a work in development at the Figueroa.
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It absolutely seems like you have come residence. The auto parking, the snacks, the beverage maker, the obtain food service – all top noch! The breakfest was likewise ok. And also the place is ideal. I had a car and could obtain anywhere simple and easy. All the piece de resistance are in walking range though.
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I will certainly be back." "I actually appreciated my remain below because of the many facilities …" "Super clean." # 11 of 389 resorts in Los Angeles Last evaluation posted 2 days ago "Great place." "Terrific service, very private place." "Every little thing is perfect among the most effective resorts in Beverley …" # 12 of 389 hotels in Los Angeles Last evaluation posted 5 days ago "Intriguing hotel design." "7 night stay in the resort from heaven" "Beach place." # 13 of 389 hotels in Los Angeles Last review published 6 days ago "The personnel were incredibly helpful." "Central to many places, quiet as well as lovely." "Everything was perfect!" # 14 of 389 resorts in Los Angeles Last testimonial uploaded 4 days ago "Really good and also comfy" "practical" "Noisy in the early morning luggage carts passing" # 15 of 389 hotels in Los Angeles Last testimonial uploaded 6 days ago "The morning meal is excellent and the workers, specifically …" "Great location." "The area is terrific." # 16 of 389 hotels in Los Angeles Last review uploaded 4 days ago "The service was impressive." "Absolutely nothing" "Outstanding keep when we go to call house for a fun weekend.
Excellent breakfast!" "Pretty resort with terrific fitness center but not worth the rate." "Enjoyed LAAC – Will absolutely return!" # 24 of 389 resorts in Los Angeles Last testimonial uploaded 6 days ago "Actually amazing, excellent individuals -and casual- from Front Workdesk to the Cleansing Ladies, terrific place as well" "It was a in" "SATISFIED" # 25 of 389 hotels in Los Angeles Last evaluation uploaded 7 days ago "Will never ever stay in a hostel again" "Legendary!" "420 pleasant paradise" # 26 of 389 hotels in Los Angeles Last review uploaded 3 days ago "Check in was so straightforward an easy, the place itself is rather …" "Lovely residence" "Whatever good except wifi.
That's exactly how we understand our reviews come from actual visitors who have stayed at the building. Adhered to by a journey When guests remain at the residential or commercial property, they have a look at exactly how silent the room is, just how friendly the staff is, and also a lot more. As well as finally, a review After their journey, visitors inform us concerning their stay.
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Alyssa Powell/Business Insider When you're a Los Angeles-based enjoyment and also way of living journalist like me, you frequently locate on your own at the 4 Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills – Living Hotels. That's due to the fact that the resort is well known as one of the very best seen-and-be seen places for a functioning browse through in addition to a power lunch or dinner in community.
However it's not all rigid company and also procedure. As a 4 Seasons, the hotel rates to family members and travelers of all kinds seeking the consistency of a distinguished worldwide deluxe chain. Naturally with the passing celeb and also bold-faced name, it's additionally terrific for individuals watching. I count myself lucky to call it something of a second home in community.
I'll always remember the time I visited with my husband for a staycation when I was nine months expectant, or a lot more lately, over the cheery holiday when the usual areas were adorned with floral and also decoration installations from star flower designer Jeff Leatham. As such, it's not a surprise it made our listing of the finest hotels in Los Angeles for 2020. Rates for entry-level spaces below start in the $400s, according to online search results page at the time of publication.
On my recent Xmas keep, I remained in a mid-tier Deluxe Balcony King area, which was comped for evaluation purposes, yet usually publications for $595. I have actually always seen basic rooms, which are in fact larger, and also with a lower cost factor. Unless you're taking a trip with household or planning to delight in-room, in my experience, a standard-sized area is the most effective worth for first-class holiday accommodations that are spacious, luxurious, and prime for people-watching.


Each year I anxiously await the strawberries to ripen at my favorite berry farm, where I annually make a pilgrimage and pick until my heart is content. I find berry picking so peaceful. I completely enjoy picking berries along side of a friend chatting, while searching for the perfect berry, and eating it right there and then. For me, it is truly living in the moment.
Swanton Berry Farm in Davenport is my destination each year for this event. I enjoy picking both strawberries and blackberries at this farm, but they also grow olallieberries, tayberries, and kiwi for picking by the public.
I always make a day of the excursion since it is a bit of a drive for me from San Jose. It takes about an hour to drive over highway 17 to Santa Cruz and then north on highway 1 to the berry farm. I always enjoy lingering at their adorable farm stand and the Slow Coast Shop and see what treasures are to be found.
This year, my friend Andrea, her daughter, and her friend joined me. The three of them were new to picked berries and were excited to give it a try. The day was mildly cool and the fog was just pulling away from the coast.
Swanton Farm provides the cardboard flats for visitors to fill with their picked berries. I enjoyed watching the girls wander the rows of strawberries, laughing and chatting, as they picked the little red gems. Their long hair blew in the sea breeze as they paused now and then and ate a perfect strawberry. Andrea was on a quest to find large berries—she eventually discovered a portion of the field that laid unpicked with numerous huge berries. Eureka! We all joined her and picked like crazy!
We stopped for lunch at The Road House in Davenport, which is right on highway 1. They have delicious sandwiches and paninis, fish, clam chowder, pizzas, and salads. This year we also stopped at Dig Gardens Nursery in Santa Cruz on the way home. Dig specializes in succulents, houseplants, and drought tolerant plants that grow well in the northern California coastal region. The shop is quite unique, unlike any other nursery that I have seen.
Every year I make strawberry jam with lemon verbena, which I grow in my garden. I make a variety of jams over the summer but my strawberry jam is hands-down my favorite. This year I made strawberry ice cream, which I had not made before. This recipe is from Gourmet Magazine and was a perfect creamy consistency with amazing strawberry intensity. My family loved it as well as I. I have provided the recipe below.
Fortunately for us here in California, strawberries are in abundance for such a long season. Happy picking!
In a food processor fitted with the steel blade or in a blender in batches, puree the strawberries and transfer the puree to a bowl. Stir in 1/2 cup of the sugar and the lemon juice and chill the mixture, covered for two hours.
In a heavy saucepan combine the cream, the milk, and the remaining 1 cup sugar and scald the mixture over moderate heat, stirring. In a bowl beat the egg yolks until they are light and thick and pour the milk mixture through a fine sieve in a stream, stirring. Transfer the custard to the pan and cook it over moderately low heat, stirring, until it coats the spoon. Transfer the custard to a metal bowl set in a bowl of cracked ice, stir in the vanilla, and let the custard cool, covered with a buttered round of wax paper. Chill the custard for 2 hours, stir in the strawberry mixture, and freeze according to manufacturer's instructions.
Delicious!! What a perfect day and love your pics!
Beautiful pictures. Do you share your strawberry jam recipe? Sounds amazing.
Would love to share my Strawberry Jam with Lemon Verbena recipe with you. I will send it to you!!


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The games method is self explanatory, but somehow the animes was just weird. It looked like a beam of time and not a roar of time.
So Dialgas diamond on its chest and eyes glow, the mouth gathers energy from all around and itself. Then Dialga gives out a mighty, powerful roar that can damage or send the foe to another time.
The back fins don't expand because it would look like an erection, no hard feelings.
Note: This can be useful when Dialga uses it on the foe to send it back earlier to pwn quicker ^^.
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Arceus: I am still here, my two favorites wanted to help me with your punishment, but it'll be my face you can see in your nightmares.
Dialga: What have you to say for your self?
Giratina: I have nothing to say but you can't rule over me.
Palkia: Yet it is this council that rules over you today.
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Palkia: Choose a path to madness?
Dialga: You take it from here my Lord.
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