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Caucasus Report
Can Georgia's Former Ruling Party Reinvent Itself?
By Liz Fuller
United National Movement leader Davit Bakradze says that the party's responsiblity to voters "has increased tenfold," since it's the only real pro-Western opposition force in the new legislature.
Ever since Georgia's ruling Georgian Dream party secured a constitutional majority in electoral runoffs late last month, its most prominent opposition rival, the United National Movement, has been riven by disagreements over both short-term tactics and longer-term strategy.
Those disagreements focus on the past and future role of the United National Movement's founder, former President Mikheil Saakashvili, who last week resigned as governor of Ukraine's Odesa region. The crucial question is: Should the party elect a new leadership and set about rebranding itself over the next four years with an eye to the next parliamentary ballot in 2020? Or is Saakashvili, who is still technically the party's chairman despite having acquired Ukrainian citizenship and been stripped of Georgian citizenship, an asset that the party's leaders would be foolish and short-sighted to ditch?
Immediately after the voting on October 8, the United National Movement appeared to be on the verge of splitting into a radical faction headed by Saakashvili, who advocated a boycott of both the runoffs and the new parliament, and the moderate pragmatists, who argued that the party owed it to its electorate to take up its parliament mandates. At a meeting on October 12, the party's most senior members voted 33-9, with seven abstentions, for the latter course of action.
Georgian Dream went on to defeat United National Movement challengers in 48 of the 50 second-round runoffs, giving it a total of 115 seats in the new legislature, compared with 27 for the United National Movement. Senior members, including Davit Bakradze, who topped the United National Movement's list of candidates, again argued that since the party will be the only real pro-Western opposition force in the new legislature, its members' obligation vis-a-vis the electorate "has increased tenfold."
The United National Movement has since embarked upon an intensive evaluation of the factors that contributed to its defeat, a process that individual members say is "perfectly normal" and presages neither a split in the party's ranks nor its disintegration. The two putative factions nonetheless differ over the reasons for the party's defeat, for which each implicitly blames the other, and the need for leadership change.
Mikheil Saakashvili has said that individual United National Movement leaders "should learn from their mistakes and assume their share of responsibility" for the party's defeat.
While virtually all senior United National Movement representatives, including Saakashvili, continue to highlight what former Tbilisi Mayor Gigi Ugulava termed the recourse by Georgian Dream to "every known falsification and some new ones," they differ over their extent and impact. Ugulava, for example, expresses doubt, as does another senior party member, Sergi Kapanadze, that falsification was the only or even the primary cause of the party's defeat.
That perception of a blatantly rigged election is not shared, either, by domestic or international election monitors, although they did note individual procedural violations. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) described the vote as "competitive" and "well-administered" and said that "fundamental freedoms were generally respected," while the U.S. State Department said the elections cemented Georgia's position as "the leader of democratic reforms in the region."
At the same time, both Saakashvili and the moderate faction admit to tactical errors. In an address to party members and supporters on November 3, Ugulava, who is currently serving a 4 1/2-year jail term for misspending millions of laris of public funds in the run-up to the 2012 parliamentary ballot, argued that the United National Movement made a serious mistake in not saying clearly prior to the election who its candidate for prime minister would be if it won: Saakashvili or Bakradze. In that context, Ugulava seemed to imply that the prospect of Saakashvili occupying that post may have deterred voters. He also recalled that immediately after the October 8 vote, some party members suggested that Saakashvili's declaration that he would return to Georgia in the event of election victory may have had a similar effect.
Ugulava went on to call for electing an entire new party leadership and said he personally would step down as head of the United National Movement's Tbilisi branch.
The former mayor of Tbilisi, Gigi Ugulava, is currently serving a 4 1/2-year jail term for misspending millions of laris of public funds.
The following day, November 4, the United National Movement's political council issued a statement saying it had decided to set up a special group to identify what mistakes were made during the election campaign and to outline its strategy. Its conclusions would then be submitted to a party congress next month. The statement further denied accusations that the moderates had cut a deal with Georgian Dream's founder, wealthy businessman and philanthropist Bidzina Ivanishvili, who is widely believed to influence, if not dictate, government policy.
Saakashvili, for his part, responded with a statement saying that individual United National Movement leaders "should learn from their mistakes and assume their share of responsibility" for the party's defeat, rather than laying the blame on others. He rejected as tantamount to "the usurpation of the party by one faction in its own interests" the idea of the party's political council (Bakradze's brainchild) making key decisions during "meetings held behind closed doors." He proposed instead convening a congress of several thousand delegates to elect a new chairman and leadership body "who bear no responsibility for the mistakes made during the election campaign and who can rise to the challenges the party currently faces."
Saakashvili also sought to give the impression that the call for electing a new leadership was the initiative of "one or two whimsical people" within the party's upper echelons who "made numerous mistakes," including ignoring the advice of grassroots activists. (Commentators identified those "whimsical people" as Ugulava and former National Security Council head Giga Bokeria.)
But some analysts say that, on the contrary, the "Saakashvili wing" within the United National Movement is very small. Certainly the vote on whether or not the party's elected deputies should take up their mandates or boycott the new legislature suggests that the moderates predominate within the political council, which would explain Saakashvili's demand that it should not play the key role in determining the new leadership.
As yet, it is unclear who might aspire to the role of party chairman. Technically, Saakashvili has never been formally removed from that post, although Georgian law bars non-Georgian citizens from heading political parties. On the other hand, as Washington-based analyst Michael Cecire pointed out to Eurasianet, Saakashvili still enjoys support among the party's grass roots, and in recent years it has become increasingly dependent on him for funding.
Of the other potential candidates, Ugulava remains in jail, while a second leading figure, Bokeria, lacks charisma and is reportedly extremely unpopular. (A year ago, a Russian-hosted website named Ukrainian WikiLeaks posted what was billed as a transcript of a conversation at Istanbul airport between Saakashvili and Bokeria about the possibility of provoking mass antigovernment protests in Tbilisi. Bokeria was summoned for questioning about that audio file, which was never authenticated.)
In the long term, however, merely selecting a new chairman may not be the most important issue for the United National Movement. Independent analyst Zaal Anjaparidze argues that unless the party breaks definitively with the past and publicly apologizes for the serious crimes committed by some of its leaders during its nine years in office, the majority of voters will continue to reject it.
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Q: Efficiently merging fields from one array into two other arrays Let's say you've got three arrays of objects:
let a1 = [
  { id: 1, name: 'foo' },
  { id: 2, name: 'bar' },
  { id: 3, name: 'baz' }
]

let a2 = [
  { name: 'foo' },
  { name: 'bar' }
]

let a3 = [
  { name: 'bar' },
  { name: 'baz' }
]

The goal is to use a1 as a source, and add an id field to the elements of a2 and a3 with corresponding name fields in a1. What is an efficient way of accomplishing this? (Note: 'efficient' here meaning 'something more elegant than loops-within-loops-within-loops'.)
The result should look like this:
a2: [
  { id: 1, name: 'foo' },
  { id: 2, name: 'bar' }
]

a3: [
  { id: 2, name: 'bar' },
  { id: 3, name: 'baz' }
]

A: You could use a Map for referencing the id of a given name. Then assign.

var a1 = [{ id: 1, name: 'foo' }, { id: 2, name: 'bar' }, { id: 3, name: 'baz' }],
    a2 = [{ name: 'foo' }, { name: 'bar' }],
    a3 = [{ name: 'bar' }, { name: 'baz' }],
    map = new Map(a1.map(o => [o.name, o.id]));

[a2, a3].forEach(a => a.forEach(o => o.id = map.get(o.name)));

console.log(a2);
console.log(a3);
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A: For an alternative answer, it could be like this.
It doesn't include loops and may be the shortest code in the answers.

const a1 = [{ id: 1, name: 'foo' }, { id: 2, name: 'bar' }, { id: 3, name: 'baz' }];
const a2 = [{ name: 'foo' }, { name: 'bar' }];
const a3 = [{ name: 'bar' }, { name: 'baz' }];

let f = x => a1.filter(a => x.some(y => y.name === a.name));

console.log(f(a2));
console.log(f(a3));
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A: a2.forEach((a2Elem) => a2Elem.id = a1.filter((a1Elem) => a1Elem.name === a2Elem.name)[0].id)

A: I'd first take the indexes of the given names, then just map the array to be merged into:
function combine(mergeInto, base) {
    let indexes = base.map(e => e.name);
    return mergeInto.map(e => ({
        name: e.name,
        id: base[indexes.indexOf(e.name)].id
    }));
}

let a1 = [
    { id: 1, name: 'foo' },
    { id: 2, name: 'bar' },
    { id: 3, name: 'baz' }
]

let a2 = [
    { name: 'foo' },
    { name: 'bar' }
]

let a3 = [
    { name: 'bar' },
    { name: 'baz' }
]

function combine(mergeInto, base) {
    let indexes = base.map(e => e.name);
    return mergeInto.map(e => ({
        name: e.name,
        id: base[indexes.indexOf(e.name)].id
    }));
}

console.log(combine(a3, a1));

A: A single loop proposal - create a hash table and then merge fields into the arrays - demo below:

let a1=[{id:1,name:'foo'},{id:2,name:'bar'},{id:3,name:'baz'}], a2=[{name:'foo'},{name:'bar'}], a3=[{name:'bar'},{name:'baz'}];

// create a hash table
let hash = a1.reduce(function(p,c){
  p[c.name] = c;
  return p;
},Object.create(null))

// merge the results
function merge(arr) {
  Object.keys(arr).map(function(e){
    arr[e]['id'] = hash[arr[e].name]['id'];
  });
  return arr;
}

console.log(merge(a2), merge(a3));
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Five Ashly nX 1.52 dual-channel amplifiers deliver 1500W per channel and two Ashly nX 8004 four-channel 800W amplifiers now power Stout's extensively distributed array of existing loudspeakers and subwoofers. Zones include 70V under-balcony areas, the area near the entrance, the upstairs balcony dining area, bathrooms and hallways. In addition, fourteen mid-high boxes and two dual twelve-inch subwoofers fill the main seating areas with full-range sound.


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Could Donald Trump get a fair trial?
By Steve Huntley
Could former President Donald Trump get a fair trial if criminal charges were filed against him?
That question is less and less a theoretical or speculative one, especially now that the FBI has raided Trump's Florida home, the first-in-history federal police agency search of a former president's residence.
This FBI raid was said to be focused on whether Trump had classified files from his days at the White House that he should have turned over to the National Archives. But most speculation about potential criminal proceedings against him has centered on his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.
Attorney General Merrick Garland has been under pressure to indict Trump for the riot at the Capitol and he makes no secret that an investigation is under way into who might be criminally responsible for the Jan. 6 upheaval. So, a search to get classified documents would be another avenue to get at Trump, unless the FBI was looking for papers that have something to do with the riot.
Now that he's ordered this raid, an even more momentous decision faces Garland: Whether he will become the first attorney general in American history to launch criminal proceedings against a former president — of the opposition party.
Or, as Republicans and others see it, Garland is targeting a prominent political enemy of his boss, President Joe Biden, over events stemming from Biden's election victory over Trump, who may again run against Biden in 2024. Unprecedented is hardly the word for this.
Many Americans see this as the work of the Deep State, not in Turkey, but in Washington, as public confidence in American institutions continue to plummet.
The raid understandably has been met with suspicion and fury from millions of Americans who voted for Trump in 2020. Imagine the reaction to an actual indictment.
But no person is above the law, declared Garland in discussing the Jan. 6 riot.
No person is above the law, but no one should be subjected to a politically tainted prosecution. Garland acknowledged as much in saying that holding anyone criminally responsible for the riot must be done "in a way filled with integrity and professionalism."
But can Garland claim his Justice Department meets that standard?
Garland refused to prosecute the demonstrators who tried to intimidate Supreme Court justices at their homes, a violation of federal law. Garland couldn't be motivated to do his job even after an armed man saying he intended to assassinate Justice Bret Kavanaugh was arrested outside the jurist's house.
These attempts at intimidation were the product of progressive rage over the high court's decision to overturn the Roe vs. Wade abortion ruling. Garland, by promising lawsuits to protect abortions in states that restrict or ban them, shows that he's on their side.
So, Justice Department action against Trump would reveal a Democrat attorney general who won't prosecute those trying to intimidate Supreme Court justices but is ready to put in the docket a Republican leader accused of trying to threaten members of Congress and election officials.
You don't have to be a Trump partisan to see how that would enrage Trumps supporters as unfair.
And conservatives haven't forgotten how quickly Garland bought into the school board oligarchy's absurd charge that parents unhappy with school closures and curriculum might be domestic terrorists. Also, conservatives can see the contrast between the aggressive, harsh, no mercy prosecution of the Jan. 6 protestors and the often lenient or even no prosecution of the Black Lives Matter rioters whose rampages and arson killed a couple dozen people and caused $2 billion in damages.
Furthermore, Trump's base remembers the FBI resorting to passing on to Congress misrepresentations and lies about the Russian collusion hoax. Now, it's reported that whistleblowers from the FBI say that during the 2020 election season, the agency tried to discredit as disinformation the disclosure of Hunter Biden's laptop and the corruption it portrayed.
No wondered Republicans and Trump backers are adopting the words of an old song — you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows out of the Justice Department and FBI.
But no person is above the law, insist the advocates of the congressional Jan. 6 committee busy coming up with the worst case against Trump.
No one is above the law, but also no man should be denied the right to trial by an impartial jury. Slim hardly describes the chances of empaneling an impartial jury in Washington, the site of any federal trial against Trump. He received only 5.4 percent of the District of Columbia vote in 2020.
And that was before the Jan. 6 riot, Trump's stolen election claims and the committee hearings that have poisoned an already anti-Trump D.C. jury pool. And poison is an appropriate word given that prominent on the committee is Rep. Adam Schiff, who probably more than anyone else publicly promoted the big lie of Russian collusion for more than two years.
Garland's defenders might point to the criminal investigation against presidential son Hunter Biden. But that probe is being conducted by a hold-over Trump district attorney in Delaware. Biden couldn't dump that prosecutor without facing charges he was showing favoritism to his corrupt son.
If Garland doesn't recognize the suspicions of political motivation a Trump prosecution raises or the challenge of empaneling an impartial jury in D.C., then he is a political animal, not an impartial prosecutor.
Beyond those concerns, a trial would have its own challenges.
Even the Trump-hating New York Times acknowledged in a front-page news article that a guilty verdict on encouraging the Jan. 6 riot would hinge on proving what Trump's intent was. Given his history of outrageous talk for its own stake, intent would be hard to prove, the Times said.
A guilty verdict that didn't persuade a significant portion of Trump voters that he was indeed guilty of a crime would be a failure. Worse, it would have the potential to turn Trump into a martyr. God knows what that could lead to.
Either way, a guilty verdict or acquittal, a powerful precedent would be established. Once the door is opened to criminal trials of a former president, it can never be closed.
No doubt many Republicans, embittered by a trial of a man who earned 74 million votes, would never forget it. They'd wait for the opportunity for payback.
The history is clear about how deliberate disruptions of long-established political norms only cause more trouble.
One example: A partisan Republican House Speaker named Newt Gingrich seized on a sex scandal to launch an impeachment of Democrat President Bill Clinton. Voters saw it for what it was, politics. It was doomed to fail and did.
The day came when ultra-partisan House Speaker Nancy Pelosi turned to impeachment — twice — in the Democrats' war on Trump. The second impeachment came as Trump was headed out the White House door. That was pointless as a government action but rich in political gratification for Democrats.
Another example of what goes around, comes around: Democrats frustrated in their attempts to get appeals court judges confirmed during the Obama administration eliminated the filibuster for most judicial appointments.
When Republicans recaptured the Senate and the White House, they got their payback, ending the filibuster for all federal court nominations. Without the restraint of needing 60 Senate votes for confirmation, Trump appointed three conservative justices to the Supreme Court, enabling the majority that produced the abortion decision so angering liberals.
Politicians never learn that overturning long-standing norms in governing for political purposes comes back to haunt them — and the country. The mind staggers at the potential hazard to the nation's political health of a prosecution of former president that tens of millions of Americans view as politically motivated.
This time the Democrats' apparent aim is preventing a second Trump presidential term.
The conventional wisdom is that the Jan. 6 hearings are having little impact on Trump's base. But who knows? The picture painted of Trump waiting more than three hours before calling for his supporters to get out of the Capitol was not a pretty one.
And polling was starting to show signs that some Republicans, perhaps fed up with Trump's endless carping about 2020, wanted to put the divisive former president in the rear-view mirror. But that was before the FBI raid that has enraged Republicans and got the attention of independents and even Democrats wary of mixing politics and criminal prosecution.
Still, whatever anyone may think about Jan. 6, it was not an exemplar of the peaceful transfer of power that is fundamental in a democratic republic.
Trump certainly is morally responsible for the trouble that day. The question is whether he broke any laws in promoting his stop-the-steal claims and stirring up the crowd he summoned to Washington to the point rioters stormed the Capitol.
So, yes, no one is above the law. Yes, the country deserves answers about what happened on Jan. 6.
But what's best for the political wellbeing of the country in coming to grips with that day and Trump's role in it? A trial shadowed by suspicions among millions of Americans of Democrat political payback against Trump? A Republican former president marched off in handcuffs to jail by a Democrat administration?
Or is there another way to come to a reckoning without tearing the country apart? Should Congress try empaneling a truly bipartisan commission to get to the truth for the American people? How about a special prosecutor, assuming one could be found who would be trusted by Trump's supporters?
There's little history to guide us.
No American president has ever been criminally prosecuted. The only remotely similar situation was the Watergate scandal of the 1970s that brought down President Richard Nixon. His successor, Gerald Ford, wisely pardoned Nixon, though Nixon, had he been indicted, would have been prosecuted by a Justice Department headed by an appointee of his own party.
Therein lies one possible way out of the nation's current dire straits.
Biden could pardon Trump.
By accepting a pardon, Trump would be acknowledging guilt.
By rejecting a pardon, Trump would have made his own decision to throw the dice and take his chances if Garland did prosecute him.
But it would take guts for Biden to issue a pardon. Ford's poll numbers plummeted after the Nixon pardon, and many believe Ford lost the 1976 election because of it.
A quarter of a century later, the John F. Kennedy Library gave its Profile in Courage award to Ford for the pardon. The late Sen. Ted Kennedy, who had opposed the Nixon pardon, said, "But time has a way of clarifying past events, and now we see that President Ford was right. His courage and dedication to our country made it possible for us to begin the process of healing and put the tragedy of Watergate behind us."
As was the case in 1974, this time a chorus of the angry would shout that a pardon would not be justice. And they would complain that it would not even put Jan. 6 behind us, especially if Trump rejected a pardon.
A pardon or a decision by Garland not to prosecute would inevitably leave the ultimate judgment to history.
Any historic assessment of Trump and Jan. 6 would also have to consider the considerable accomplishments of his presidency: A booming economy, pre-pandemic, without inflation that produced historic lows in minority unemployment and real wage gains for lower income workers. Energy abundance. Progress is controlling the border. Three Supreme Court justices. Demands that NATO allies shoulder their share of the cost of defending Europe. No new wars. The Abraham Accords in the Middle East. And the creation of covid vaccines in record time.
But the prospects for history's judgment clearly don't favor Trump. Shakespeare's wisdom rings true: "The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones."
Steve Huntley is a Chicago journalist now living in Austin, Texas.
For almost three decades Huntley his long and distinguished journalism career in Chicago journalism at the Chicago Sun-Times, where he was a feature writer, metro reporter, night city editor, metropolitan editor, editorial page editor and a columnist for the opinion pages and editor of the Sun-Times Editorial Page.
He has contributed several fine pieces to johnkassnews.com, from his examination of Chicago's secret political jail housing Christopher Columbus and other politically problematic statues, to Americans suffering from Joe Biden Gas Pain, and "Orwellian Warning: Newspeak, Public Safety and Chicago's Rising Violent Crime."
Most recently he wrote about woke newsrooms in "George Sortos and Those Tribune Flies."
Previous to his work at the Sun-Times, Huntley was a reporter and editor with United Press International (UPI) in the South and Chicago, and Chicago bureau chief, and a senior editor in Washington with U.S. News & World Report.
Huntley is also author of an award-winning book, "Knocking Down Barriers: My Fight for Black America", by Truman K. Gibson Jr. with Steve Huntley, a memoir of a Chicagoan who was a member of President Roosevelt's World War II Black Cabinet working to desegregate the military.
It is an honor and privilege to have Mr. Huntley, who spent decades in the news business in Chicago, writing here.

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While Arabs or Muslims might be the focus of the current wave of Czech xenophobic discourse, the anti-Gypsyism from days past has not completely disappeared, as recent media debates illustrate. A Czech university professor with roots in The Caucasus shares an early memory about his first time visiting Prague and meeting the Roma and Czechs.
Just as elsewhere in Europe, the ongoing migration crisis has sparked heated debates in the Czech Republic, spurring xenophobia and racism. And while fear of Middle Easterners as culturally alien has been at the center of these sentiments, an older anti-Gypsy racism is also still with us.
I visited Prague for the first time in the autumn of 1993. The family of my Yerevan aunt had moved here to a prefab block of flats in Řepy only a few months earlier.
One evening we went out to sit in a park in front of her house. A Roma family was sitting on one of the closest benches, a number of the next benches were empty, and the far-away benches were occupied by "whites". Without giving it much thought, we sat right next to the Roma family; perhaps because the bench next to them was the closest to my relatives' flat.
A Roma teenager was playing loud rap music on his stereo. After only a minute we spontaneously and with broken Czech asked him to turn it down. Immediately afterwards, his whole family jumped at him, telling him to turn the stereo off completely, which he did. We started talking with them and discovered they lived in the same building; they were nice people.
After that encounter, they would greet us from far away, or run up to open the building's door each time they saw us coming back home. A few times they even helped us with heavy shopping bags. Each time they had grateful expression on their faces. I was then a 14-year-old boy from Moscow, and I remember thinking that this was a sign that no one had been paying them much attention until then.
This is still one of the most vivid memories I have about my first visit to Prague.
Maybe we had been fortunate in our experience with the Roma – because since then I have listened to various, but mostly negative, opinions my Czech friends and acquaintances have regarding the Roma. Perhaps there is some worth in talking to people, and not fearing a potential confrontation.
I think that plenty of the negative experiences (or accumulative negative emotions) Czechs have towards the Roma is rooted in their inability to clearly express their opinion, be it in the spirit of agreement or disagreement. And this is not an issue of political correctness.
is associate professor of International Studies at the Institute of International (Area) Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.


An uncontested divorce is a divorce where the parties are capable of discussing their differences before-hand and coming to mutually acceptable agreements in respect of all issues between them. Once this type of consensus is reached, the parties no longer have any issues which need to be fought about in Court. These types of divorces are known as uncontested divorces because it is unnecessary for the party being sued for divorce (defendant) to defend the action because the outcome desired by the party suing for divorce (plaintiff) is mirrored by the party being sued.
What kind of issues are agreed upon between the parties in an uncontested divorce?
A marriage is usually a very complex relationship. It therefore follows that there are often many things for the parties to discuss and try to deal with in an uncontested divorce. We will assist you to identify all the relevant issues which may be involved in the divorce.
What is the process involved in an uncontested divorce?
The parties discuss and reach consensus on the issues pending between them.
The agreement between the parties is reduced to a Settlement Agreement and is signed by both parties.
Summons is drafted and the Settlement Agreement is attached to the Summons.
Summons is issued at Court and served on the Defendant.
The Summons and Settlement Agreement are served on the Family Advocate. The Family Advocate considers the Settlement Agreement and indicates whether same is in the best interests of the minor children.
The matter is set down for hearing and the Plaintiff testifies in Court as to the relief claimed in the Summons. If the Court is satisfied a Decree of Divorce is granted.
Can one firm represent me and my spouse?
From the date of signature of the Deed of Settlement, the divorce usually takes 6 – 8 weeks to finalize. It can be quicker or slower, depending on the performance of the Registrar of the Court, the Sheriff and the Office of the Family Advocate. 6 – 8 weeks is the usual time-frame.
What is the cost of an uncontested divorce?
At Vermeulen Attorneys we charge R 9500 for an uncontested divorce, from start to finish. The only additional cost is the Sheriff, which is usually between R 100 – R 300. A deposit of R 4500 is billed on first consultation for the consultation and preparation of the Settlement Agreement. R 2500 is billed when the Summons is prepared. A final amount of R 2500 is billed for the appearance at the High Court.
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National Politics - 2016
Marco Rubio Is Two-Faced On Immigration
MIXED MESSAGES … || By FITSNEWS || If you're a "Republican" primary voter, chances are U.S. Senator Marco Rubio isn't going to tell you much about his involvement in a failed 2013 immigration reform effort. In fact according to McKay Coppins of Buzzfeed, all Rubio offers 2016 voters on the issue…
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|| By FITSNEWS || If you're a "Republican" primary voter, chances are U.S. Senator Marco Rubio isn't going to tell you much about his involvement in a failed 2013 immigration reform effort. In fact according to McKay Coppins of Buzzfeed, all Rubio offers 2016 voters on the issue is "a few stilted talking points" before "angling to change the subject."
Why would he do that? Because GOP primary voters didn't like the bill he backed … and they especially didn't like the executive overreach Barack Obama employed in responding to it (or the capitulation of the GOP House in response to that).
Rubio was an aggressive supporter of immigration reform – and one of only fourteen "Republicans" in the U.S. Senate to vote for it (South Carolina's own liberal Lindsey Graham was another).
Yet while Rubio is hoping primary voters – especially "First in the South" voters – forget all about the legislation, his campaign is reportedly using it to rake in big money from establishment "Republican" donors.
"As Rubio labors to publicly distance himself from the legislation so loathed by conservative primary voters, he and his aides have privately highlighted this line in his resume when soliciting support from the deep-pocketed donors in the party's more moderate business wing," Coppins reported.
And while Rubio won't talk about it on the stump, one of these donors told reporters earlier this year that "he has not backed away from wanting immigration reform at all."
In other words Rubio is cashing in on his left-of-center voting record so he can buy a bunch of ads telling us what a "conservative" he is … knowing full well that he's only going to "flip back" after the primary.
Sheesh …
Oddly enough, this website has never breathed fire on the issue of illegal immigration. We've consistently urged pathways to status and other "progressive" reforms as possible solutions – although we've always acknowledged that border security (i.e. turning off the illegal alien spigot) is one of the few things government is supposed to do.
Our beef with Rubio? It's not necessarily his views on this particular issue … it's the fact he's being two-faced.
Yet another reason, in our estimation, to oppose his candidacy.
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Elfego April 23, 2015 at 8:45 am
Marco. you need the same lawyers and Advisers the Clinton's use.
fc April 23, 2015 at 10:07 am
Rubio won applause from conservatives in South Carolina when he scolded immigration activists for interrupting his speech at a Republican fundraiser. "You're doing harm to your own cause," he told the protesters, who identified themselves as immigrants brought illegally to the country as children. "You don't have a right to illegally immigrate to the United States."
In a series of appearances on Fox News and conservative talk radio, Rubio has embraced GOP calls to bolster security and deploy the National Guard along the Mexican border to respond to the arrival of tens of thousands of Central Americans.
On a recent tour through central Florida, an important swing-voting region with a fast-growing Latino population, Rubio told reporters in English and Spanish that his emphasis on border security is an acknowledgement that House conservatives do not support a comprehensive immigration bill.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/sen-rubio-stresses-tougher-border-security/
Rubio gets it!
Rocky April 23, 2015 at 10:25 am
His record – Supported – no – lead the Gang of 8 Immigration Reform Bill, ran away from it, wanted to deport kids who lived nearly their entire life here, wanted to deport their parents, then back tracked again, and now wants to let the kids get codified legal residency immediately, and provide their parents with a pathway to citizenship. He's like a ship going in circles. Next week he'll advocate conentration camps for undocumented immigrants if he's in SC. Then back in FL he'll profess his love for them.
lol…maybe the brain injured Hillary can serve her prison time in one of those concentration camp…I would prefer Guantonamo but hey i am easy…
Yeah, she could share a cell with Cheney.
well-i-am into it April 23, 2015 at 8:56 am
Who isnt? But he has many great things going for him. Immigration is a thorny issue worldwide, and at least America is thinking about doing something about it. It will take us all coming together on this and some give and take. There is no silver bullet for this.
Rubio urged President Barack Obama not to take actions that would shield from deportation millions of people who entered the U.S. illegally. Congress, Rubio said, should first "make real progress on stemming the tide of illegal immigration."
Rubio's aides say the senator always has stressed border security and that he insisted on tougher enforcement measures as a condition for his Senate vote last year.
Sounds reasonable to me.Maybe not to liberal socialists.
You need to read up, Rubio has changed his tune on all of that.
That stroke or mini strokes Hillary had/is(?) having are really making her appear deranged…too bad you dont have another candidate that isn't a socialist american hater…
We asked you, but you turned it down. So we have our second choice, Jeb.
Don't you clowns have a radical Islamist in the wings? All those trips to the wHite House by the Muslim Brotherhood and all you have is Biden and Warren?
We don't have any, no. Herman Caine is yours.
DonHonda April 24, 2015 at 2:53 pm
Doesn't matter. It's been happening for years:
NOTE & WARNING: The links provided below contain direct quotes from Obama and his officials.
The Left-Leaning LA Times posted an article that shows that the Obama administration, the Illegal Alien lobby, and the major media outlets have been in collusion to depict the "high" deportation numbers. The exact opposite is true since the beginning of the current President's policy. Interior deportation has and will be lower than 1973 rates. This is leading towards more people overstaying their visas and currently, more Illegal Alien minors crossing the border. Obama has just recently instructed border patrol to not turn back those Illegal Aliens on record as having entered illegally as priors, but to let them pass IF they don't have a major criminal record. After the first Illegal Entry, it is a felony each time thereafter.
Even Obama in 2011, called the deportation numbers deceptive when talking to Hispanic voters. President Obama said statistics that show his administration is on track to deport more illegal immigrants than the Bush administration are misleading.
"The statistics are a little deceptive," he said Wednesday in an online discussion aimed at Hispanic voters."
"If you are a run-of-the-mill immigrant here illegally, your odds of getting deported are close to zero — it's just highly unlikely to happen," John Sandweg, until recently the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement
http://thehill.com/policy/technology/184393-obama-calls-for-pathway-to-citizenship-in-online-talk
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-obama-deportations-20140402,0,545192,full.story#axzz2xkzioeHR
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/12/deportations-come-mostly-from-border-dhs-chief-say/?page=1
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/346043/cooking-boo
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/13/immigration-chief-sanctuary-cities-influx-kids/
"The federal government's chief deportation agency has seen its success plummet under President Obama, and its chief, Sarah R. Saldana, will tell Congress on Tuesday that they've had trouble adapting to the changing face of illegal immigration and a lack of cooperation from both American cities and from foreign countries.
Ms. Saldana, director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), says in testimony prepared for the House Judiciary Committee that the dramatic drop in deportations is a reflection of a trickier set of circumstances and pressures from all sides.
She said she had to pull agents off their regular duties during last summer's illegal immigrant surge at the border, which meant fewer people focusing on deporting the longtime illegal immigrants living in the interior of the U.S. And she said the lack of cooperation from states, counties and cities when agents ask them to hold an illegal immigrant for pickup has also hindered efforts."
Rocky April 23, 2015 at 9:39 am
For the record, Marco's most recent flip flop, is that now he is for a legislative replacement for DACA policy for Dreamers, and promises that he will NOT repeal DACA until a legislative solution including a pathway to citizenship, is in place. In otherwords, he called for DACA to be repealed last year, but now he says as President, he will not reverse DACA, only retire it once Congress passes a DACA bill. This guy is all over the map.
fc April 23, 2015 at 9:59 am
Your whole post is false and a lie.Rubio is very clear on immigration…
p.s. Muslim Obama just killed a Jewish hostage in a drone strike…imagine that…he couldn't even wait until he gave Iran the nukes and $50 billion…
It is not false. In a Spanish language interview this week – "I believe DACA is important. It can't be terminated from one moment to the next, because there are already people benefiting from it."
To Breitbart news last week – his Chief of Staff – "We wouldn't repeal the executive order for the kids on day one, and we would work to replace it with legislation—well, he wouldn't work to replace it, he would replace it with legislation that gave them a permanent legal solution to their status."
Back to the Spanish language interview Rubio detailed a process where the remaining undocumented immigrants would receive initial work permits (like Obama's executive order), then after that, he adds, "And after a substantial period of time in that status, assuming they haven't violated any of the conditions of that status, they would be allowed to apply for legal residency. Just like anybody else would" Then, he said, "After you're a legal resident, after a number of years by law, you're allowed to apply for citizenship."
So sorry Flip, you are not fully informed.
By the way, the wait period once resident status to apply for citizenship – is five years. Now, in the words of the President of the United States – "please, proceed……"
illegals wont vote or be given a path to citizenship for decades…read it and weap
Rocky Loves Pedro April 23, 2015 at 10:46 am
Just telling you want Marco said. Marco's timline for Dreamers – immediate residency, apply for citizenship in 5 years, two years later they're a votin'. For their parents, 7 years work permit, 5 years green card, apply for citizenship and get it two years. 14 years and they're a votin. Decades – yeah – dream on.
will never happen..
"President Obama's unconstitutional use of executive power to accomplish what he couldn't do in Congress sets a dangerous precedent that threatens the fabric of our republic," he said in a statement Thursday."
judge,5th circuit and then SCOTUS…no immigration reform after election because SCOTUS will have made point moot….
Marco just told you he's all for it. What planet are you on. And you know Jeb is, he's got a whole family of in-laws dependant on it.
Word today is North Korea can hit California with a nuke…if that happens maybe the Clinton Foundation can buy California and rename it Pedroville?49 states and Pedroville can be a new country…all the illegals you want…lmao
Yeah, who's saying that. I see reports they're building more bombs. Guess W shouldn't have let them get the bomb – eh? Another GOP failure.
Your post is false.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/02/27/opposition-to-immigration-reform-is-a-winning-strategy-for-republicans/
"By any measure, fears of (Illegal) immigration are driving many white Americans to the Republican Party. And, indeed, the Republican strategy on immigration appears to have been successful. Republicans now control the House and the Senate, the governor's office in 31 states, and two-thirds of the state legislatures. They are winning the political war."
"An even bigger factor is that the ties of racial and ethnic minorities to the Democratic Party are tenuous. Research by Taeku Lee and myself shows that most Latinos and Asian Americans don't feel like they fit into either party. In national surveys, those who refuse to answer a question about party identification, those who claim that they do not think in partisan terms, and independents make up the clear majority of both groups. All told, 56 percent of Latinos and 57 percent of Asian-American identify as nonpartisans.
Even among blacks, there are signs of ambivalence. Almost 30 percent of blacks feel that the Democratic Party does not work hard for black interests."
Gee, No wonder why I fall into the Proud Independent group.
Talk about being Two-Faced:
The Liberals' Case AGAINST Illegal Immigration:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/25/the-liberal-case-against-illegal-immigration.html
This is the Progressive Case AGAINST Illegal Immigration:
http://www.salon.com/2015/03/01/the_1_percents_immigration_con_how_big_business_adds_to_income_inequality_pits_workers_against_each_other/
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/immigrants-different-audacity-hope/2014/11/17/id/607937/
Report: Obama's Book Says Illegals Can Hurt Americans
http://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2014/11/didnt-anyone-in-the-hispanic-media-read-obamas-book-2936030.html
Didn't anyone in the Hispanic media read Obama's book?
Lone Ranger April 26, 2015 at 6:13 pm
Rubio-for-Mitt's-Money thought stabbing conservatives was
funny and joyfully flip-flopped on ILLEGAL immigration
But when that same Tea Train takes his head off for him
he'll be back again to looking for another safe nation !!!


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Q: What's the relationship between size of integer and complex objects? I recently heard about Python integer cache. After having searched on internet, I have found this well-written article : http://www.laurentluce.com/posts/python-integer-objects-implementation. It explains what I wanted to know about this subject.
In this article, it explains why a integer object is not only 16 or 32 bits wide, as in C. Indeed, Python needs to store the object header (because a int Python integer is an object) and the value of this integer (with long C type, so at least 32 bits according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_data_types).
On my machine, I get :
>>> x = 5
>>> type(x)
<type 'int'>
>>> sys.getsizeof(x)
12

Ok. So a Python int object is 12 bytes wide.
My question comes from a comparison between integer and complex sizes. I typed, on the same machine :
>>> z = 5 + 5j
>>> type(z)
<type 'complex'>
>>> sys.getsizeof(z);
24

I believe that complex is an object. So, as int, each complex object has to store its object header. But, if the header of a int plus its value equals 12, why does the header of complex (same size as int, I suppose !) plus its value (2 times the size of an integer ?) equals 24 ?
Many thanks in advance !

A: Because a complex contains two floats, not two integers:
>>> import sys
>>> z = 5 + 5j
>>> z.imag
5.0
>>> z.real
5.0
>>> sys.getsizeof(z.imag)
16
>>> sys.getsizeof(z.real)
16
>>> sys.getsizeof(z)
24

You can see the complexobject source code in the Python repo.

A: Its because of that complex numbers are represented as a pair of floating point number:

An imaginary literal yields a complex number with a real part of 0.0. Complex numbers are represented as a pair of floating point numbers and have the same restrictions on their range. To create a complex number with a nonzero real part, add a floating point number to it, e.g., (3+4j). Some examples of imaginary literals:


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Q: Swift iOS Facebook SDK loop on login with safari view controller I'm trying to add login with facebook in iOS app written in swift.
the problem here is that when I fill the login proccess in SSFSafariViewController and click Done it re-opens the login dialog in SSFSafariViewController and keeps doing that for ever.
here is my code:
// Loads user data if he is logged in, othewise asks him to login
static func login(ViewController controller: UIViewController) -> Bool {
    // If user has logged in before: dont ask him to login again
    // use previus login data
    if(AccessToken.current != nil){
        // Load user data
        create();
        return true;
    }
    // If user is'nt logged in: ask him to login
    else {
        var result: Bool = false;
        let loginManager = LoginManager()
        loginManager.logIn([ .publicProfile, .userFriends, .email], viewController: controller) { loginResult in
            switch loginResult {
            case .failed(let error):
                print(error)
                result = false;
            case .cancelled:
                result = false;
            case .success( _, _, _):
                result = true;
            }
        }

        // If user has logged in: laod his data
        if(result){
            create();
        }

        return result;
    }
}

A: I have solved my problem, it looks like is was a problem with the delegate where SSFSafariViewController presented by Facebook SDK wasn't calling back! and the SDK Never got the result of the SSFSafariViewController so it was trying to resolve the problem by re-presenting the login view SSFSafariViewController and that what cased the loop over and over again.
so the solution was to add this function to AppDelegate:
@available(iOS 9.0, *)
func application(application: UIApplication,openURL url: NSURL, options: [String: AnyObject]) -> Bool {
    return FBSDKApplicationDelegate.sharedInstance().application(application, open: url as URL!, sourceApplication: UIApplicationOpenURLOptionsKey.sourceApplication.rawValue, annotation: UIApplicationOpenURLOptionsKey.annotation);
}

then every thing works out!

A: Try this:
You can return value while you used closure inside the method . so you need to create function with closure as below :
Note: you need to solve bracket error
   func login(ViewController controller: UIViewController,  callback: (_ isResult: Bool) -> Void) -> Void {
      if(AccessToken.current != nil){
        // Load user data
            callback(true)
    }
    // If user is'nt logged in: ask him to login
    else {
        var result: Bool = false;
        let loginManager = LoginManager()
        loginManager.logIn([ .publicProfile, .userFriends, .email], viewController: controller) { loginResult in
            switch loginResult {
            case .failed(let error):
                print(error)
                callback(false)
            case .cancelled:
               callback(false)
            case .success( _, _, _):
              callback(true)
            }
        }
   }

Calling method
self.login(ViewController: self) { (isResult) in
            // isResult your boolean
            if(isResult){
            create();
        }
      }


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Dev Anand: The Legend Passes On; His Music Will Live On!
The Legend Passes On; His Music Will Live On!
Written by Dr. Seshadri Kumar, December 11, 2011
Copyright © Dr. Seshadri Kumar, 2011. All Rights Reserved.
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As most people are now aware, the legendary Dev Anand is no more. He died last Saturday (December 3rd, 2011) night in London, at around 3.30 am IST, of a massive heart attack at the age of 88, and was cremated yesterday (December 10th) in London.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/Dev-Anand-death-Bollywood-plunges-into-mourning/articleshow/10977462.cms
The loss, for me, is quite personal. I remember, even as a child, watching movies like "Hum Dono," "Guide," and "Hare Rama Hare Krishna," all on our tiny black-and-white portable TV on the only TV channel in India, Doordarshan. Those days were also unforgettable because we were one of the very few families that had a TV in our neighborhood in the 1970s - my uncle had brought the TV along with him in one of his visits to India from the US - and all the neighborhood kids used to watch the movies with us in a community atmosphere on Sundays.
I will never forget that song from "Hum Dono," "Main zindagi ka saath nibhaata chala gaya" - particularly because that song was a very upbeat song that I remembered even during the darkest days of my life. "Barbaadiyon ka shokh manana phizool tha; barbaadiyon ka jashn manaata chala gaya" was a mantra that could make me feel better, whatever the circumstances. And this next line could very well summarize the philosophy of Krishna in the Gita, of man's need to maintain equanimity in all situations: "Gam aur khushi mein farq na mehsoos ho jahan; main dil ko us maqaam pe laata chala gaya."
There are many things that made Dev Anand unique – his rapid fire dialogue delivery, his legendary style, the hats, scarves, his very long career in the Hindi film industry, his discovery of new stars, the wonderful music in his films, and above all, a singular dedication to films and film-making. Nothing quite impressed me about Dev Anand as much as the fact that he continued to make films which no one really watched. He did not make them for others, but for his own sheer joy of making those films. This is a love for his art that is way out of the ordinary and truly epitomizes the "karma yogi" of the Bhagavad Gita.
We used to love Dev Saab's dialogue delivery - and it was such a unique brand that when Sholay became a runaway hit in 1975, and mimics all over Bombay were imitating Gabbar Singh's famous "Kitne aadmi the" dialogue, one bit that was always part of every routine was an imagination of how Dev Anand would say the "kitne aadmi the" dialogue - in his trademark, rapid fire way, nodding his head all the time.
Dev Anand was also a uniquely successful star in Hindi movies, having played the lead role in 110 movies – more than any other Hindi film star. Not only that, of the total of 114 Hindi films he appeared in, 82 were box office hits – a success rate of 72%!!! It is hard to imagine any other actor, then or now, with such a high success rate.
Evergreen Star
Dev Saab was born in 1923 and was acting as a lead actor until the early 80s - when he was nearly 60! The amazing thing about this is that he did not look that old! During the early 70s, when he was in his 50s, he was still acting with 20 something actresses and believably passing off as the younger women's amour. Yes, we do have people like Rajnikanth, who is now 60, acting with 20 year olds, but they are not believable. But in the early 70s, you had Dev Anand acting with the same 20 year-olds that his 30-something contemporaries such as Amitabh Bachchan and Rajesh Khanna were also paired with – and no one was making fun of Dev Anand for that! He was truly the evergreen star.
Many have commented that Dev saab should have realized that he was getting old and reconciled with reality; that he was deluded in still trying to play a leading man, well past the age of 70. While this might have been true to some extent, if Dev saab had indeed followed this philosophy, he would never have acted in so many movies as he was getting older and we would have been deprived of so many wonderful memories. He would never have acted as a leading man in Warrant (1975) or Des Pardes (1978), when he was 53 and 55 respectively, and we would not have had some great songs to hum and enjoy; or have had 5 major hits in 1973, when he was 50. One could not have part of Dev Anand – you had to accept him in entirety.
A Highly Cultured Man
From all accounts, Dev Anand was born into a cultured Punjabi family. The son of an advocate, he studied English literature at the Government College in Lahore, a highly prestigious educational institution in pre-partition India (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dev_Anand).
Testament to his erudition has recently been given by actress Vyjayanthimala Bali in this interview: http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Bollywood/Dev-Anand-was-stylish-and-well-read-Vyjayanthimala/Article1-778610.aspx
He was also a lover of classical music. In fact, he hired the great Ustad Ali Akbar Khan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Akbar_Khan) as a music director in some of his earlier films. Listen to the songs from Aandhiyan (1952) and you can hear the strains of Khansahib's unmistakable sarod in the prelude to some of the songs. It is this love for good music that stood him in good stead and helped him make very good choices when selecting music for his films.
Being a lover of good classical literature as well, he actually hired renowned Hindi poet Gopaldas Saxena "Neeraj" to be a lyricist for him for the film Prem Pujari (1970). He apparently met Neeraj at a mushaira in Mumbai in 1955. How many people in the film industry can you think of who are knowledgeable and cultured enough to attend a mushaira?! It was the famous poet Neeraj (whose essays and poems I have studied in Hindi lessons in school) who wrote the famous Dev Anand songs, "Rangeela re," "Phoolon ke rang se," and "Shokhiyon mein ghola jaaye," among others. To get the perspective of a highly literate man such as Neeraj on Dev saab, read this article from the Hindu: http://www.thehindu.com/arts/cinema/article2698717.ece
The Complete Filmmaker
Dev Saab did everything there was to do in films. Early on in his career – he started as an actor in 1946 – he decided that he did not want to be just an actor, but wanted to be involved in all aspects of filmmaking, and so started Navketan Films in 1952. The story of that production house and of the three Anand brothers – Dev, his elder brother Chetan Anand, who directed so many of his films, and Vijay Anand, his younger, brilliantly talented brother who also directed him in many great films – is now the stuff of Bollywood history. Raj Kapoor, another Bollywood actor who got into movie production and direction, also started RK Films fairly soon after becoming an actor, and the two actors were contemporaries and rivals. But Navketan has been more path-breaking in Indian cinema than any other Bollywood studio.
Dev Saab got into all aspects of filmmaking – acting, writing, direction, production, and music direction (more on that below.) My wife and I were reminded of the quality of his films recently when we rented and watched "Jewel Thief" again – such an entertaining and crisp film, really quite a rarity in Bollywood. And while no one in his or her right mind would think of denying Vijay Anand the credit for that amazing movie, it is Dev Anand who was the heart and soul, both of Navketan as the guiding force and, as the character Vinay, of the movie Jewel Thief and, without whom, Jewel Thief could never have succeeded. And such songs! Can one ever forget "Honton mein aisi baat" - such an exquisite composition by SD Burman. One could write a term paper simply on the use of the different instruments in the orchestration for that song! If this were not impressive enough, the entire song was shot in a single take (http://www.thehindu.com/arts/cinema/article2687282.ece).
The Music of Dev Anand
And this brings us to the issue of the music of Dev Anand's films. It is true that one must give credit to SD Burman, Shankar-Jaikishen, RD Burman, and the other composers for the wonderful music in Dev Saab's films, and to singers like Kishore, Rafi and Talat for the brilliant execution of those musical ideas, but Dev Saab's own influence on the songs is well-documented in many articles and TV programs. He was quite a connoisseur of good music, and used to appreciate Indian classical music as well, so that no song really got approved in his films until Dev Saab had approved them. (see, for example, Lata talking about this at http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Bollywood/Dev-saab-was-very-fond-of-classical-music-Lata/Article1-777720.aspx).
He had a very strong rapport with SD Burman and used to sit in innumerable sessions with the veteran music composer discussing the songs for his films. (For more on this, see http://www.sdburman.net/website/Articles/devanandonsdb.html).
So, while the movies, the hats, the nodding, the dialogue delivery, and the flamboyance are all very much part of the Dev Anand legend, probably the legacy of Dev Saab that will remain in our memories longest are the songs in his films. In the same way that Jagjit Singh's passing affected me because I will always remember his beautiful and haunting songs, and in the way that Shammi Kapoor will always remain in my heart as the amazing actor and dancer who did songs like "Baar baar dekho," Dev Saab's wonderful film songs, and the spirit he portrayed in them, will never die, for me and for millions of other fans.
His Greatest Songs
So here is a list of the best Dev Anand songs to complete this article - the greatest legacy of Dev Saab, IMHO. I have tried to make it as comprehensive as possible. If I have missed any deserving songs, please let me know and I will add them if I think their addition is warranted. The list is of course subjective, but I have tried to maintain a uniform standard of quality.
Preparing this list has been an education for me. I had no idea that some of the songs in this list were actually Dev Anand songs – I had only heard them; likewise, some of the songs in the list are not very well-known, and so I did not know about them, but they are great songs nonetheless. I discovered some gems while doing the research for this.
I have arranged the songs chronologically, because I do not see any point in debating/arguing on the placement of songs in any hierarchy of quality. Also, it would be a very difficult thing to rate the songs in terms of quality, because the songs in this list are all of a very high standard. Keep in mind that they date from 1948 to 1984 – so there is a wide variety in musical styles.
Note that I have even included songs in which Dev Saab is not featured if the movie is a Navketan movie, because it is a well-known fact that he had a strong influence on the songs in the movies from his own production house and so deserves credit if those songs are good. I have also included songs in which Dev Saab's character does not sing, so long as he is in the frame. So some of these songs (21 songs) only have a female voice singing, but Dev Anand is very much part of the song.
Analysis of Dev-saab's Hits
A little analysis on the songs revealed a few interesting things. Of the 137 songs presented here, 67 have been composed by SD Burman, or about 50%. This shows the very strong connection between Burman dada and Dev Saab. The other leading composers for Dev Saab were Shankar Jaikishan with 16 hits and Pancham with 15. Further, it is instructive to see what the hit rate of the principal composers is. SD Burman composed for 24 films in which Dev Anand acted; these produced 67 hits, or 2.79 hits per movie; Shankar Jaikishan composed for 7 films, with 16 hits, which is a hit rate of 2.29; and RD Burman composed for 8 films, with 15 hits, with a hit rate of 1.88. Of the composers with fewer movies, a noteworthy mention is that Salil da only composed one film for Dev saab – Maya (1961) – but this had 4 hit songs!
Of the playback singers who have given Dev saab his singing voice, Kishore Kumar has the most hits – 51, followed by Mohammad Rafi with 44, Hemant Kumar and Talat Mehmood with 7 each, and Manna Dey, Mukesh, SD Burman, Dwijen Mukherjee, C. Ramachandra, and GM Durrani with 1 each. Clearly, by sheer numbers, one would have to say Kishore Kumar was the voice of Dev Anand, though, of course, there are memorable songs by all these great singers. Indeed, Dev saab is said to have commented on Kishore Kumar's death that he had lost his voice.
The other interesting thing is the year-wise distribution of these hits. The figure below shows how Dev Saab's hits were distributed over the decades. Dev Saab starts off slowly, with the 8 year period between 1948 and 1955 producing "only" 15 memorable numbers – but some of these have become all-time classics – songs like "Yeh raat, yeh chaandni phir kahan," "Yaad kiya dil ne kahaan ho tum," "Jaayen to jaayen kahaan," and "Jeevan ke safar mein raahi."
The peak, of course occurred in the 1956-60 and 1961-65 periods, with 33 and 40 hits respectively, with important milestones like "CID," "Paying Guest," "Funtoosh," "Nau do Gyarah," "Kala Pani," "Bambai ka Babu," "Kala Bazaar," "Hum Dono," "Jab Pyaar Kisise Hota Hai," "Maya," "Asli Naqli," "Tere Ghar ke Saamne," "Sharaabi," "Teen Devian," and, finally, the unforgettable "Guide."
The 1966-70 years saw a slump, relatively speaking, with "only" 16 all-time memorable numbers in those 5 years (which would be pretty good for any other hero!), highlights of which period were the flawless music of "Jewel Thief," supported by good songs from "Prem Pujari" and "Johny Mera Naam."
Dev Saab bounced back with 23 hits in the 1971-75 period, on the back of impressive soundtracks such as "Hare Rama Hare Krishna," "Gambler," "Tere Mere Sapne," "Joshila," and "Heera Panna," among others.
Even in the last phase of his storied career, the 1976-84 period of 9 years, produced 9 memorable numbers, including the all-time favourite "Aise na mujhe tum dekho" and Kishore's powerhouse performance in "Rahi tha main awara." This means that even in the last productive period of his career over the 36 years we are looking at here, he was producing an average of one memorable number a year.
Not a mean achievement.
The List: Songs That Will Live Forever Within Us
(Click on the song title to go to youtube)
Marne ki duayen kyon maangun (Kishoreda's first solo)
Ziddi
O ghar ghar ko diye
Hum Bhi Insaan Hain
Do bicchde hue dil
Shair
Tadbeer se bigdi hui taqdeer bana le
Baazi
Yeh raat yeh chaandni phir kahan
Bharam teri wafaon ka mita detey to kya hota
Yaad kiya dil ne kahaan ho tum
Patita
Hain sabse madhur wo geet jinhe ham dard ke sur mein gaate hain
Jayen to jayen kahan
Jeevan ke safar mein raahi
Munimji
Dil ki umangein hain jawan
Teri duniya mein jeene se
House No. 44
Chup hai dharti chup hai chand sitare
Phaili hui hai sapnon ki baahen (not pictured on Dev, but it's a Navketan movie)
Aayi jhoomti bahar
Insaniyat
Ankhon hi ankhon mein ishaara ho gaya
Leke pehla pehla pyaar
Dukhi man mere
Funtoosh
Ae meri topi palat ke aa
Ye nayi nayi preet hai
Pocket Maar
Ankhon mein kya jee
Nau do Gyarah
Hum hain rahi pyaar ke
Aaja panchi akela hai
Dhalti jaaye chundariya
Kali ke roop mein
Kya ho phir jo din rangeela ho (not pictured on Dev, but an amazing song in this Navketan film, sung by Geeta and Asha)
O Nigahen mastana
Mana janab ne pukara nahin
Chhod do aanchal zamana kya kahega
Hai hai hai ye nigahen
Kehte hain pyaar jisko
Baarish
Hai apna dil to awara
Solva Saal
Hum bekhudi mein tumko pukaare chale gaye
Kala Pani
Accha ji main haari chalo maan jaao na
Nazar lagi raja tore bangle par
Dekh hamein aawaaz na dena
Amar Deep
Dhire dhire chal chaand gagan mein
Kahan jaa rahe the
Chal ri sajni ab kya soche
Bambai Ka Babu
Deewana mastana hu dil jaane kahan
Dekhne mein bhola hai
Saathi na koi manzil
Khoya khoya chand, khula aasmaan
Kala Bazaar
Apni to har aah ek toofan hai
Rimjhim ke tarane leke aayi barsaat
Chupke se mile pyaase pyaase
Manzil
Dil hai aapka huzur
Jaali Note
Chand zard zard hai
Abhi na jaao chhodkar
Hum Dono
Main zindagi ka saath nibhaata chala gaya
Kabhi khud pe kabhi haalaat pe rona aaya
Allah tero naam ishwar tero naam (not featuring Dev, but this is a Navketan film)
Sau saal pehle, mujhe tumse pyaar tha
Jab Pyaar Kisise Hota Hai
Jiya o, jiya o jiya kucch bol do
Teri zulfon se judaai to nahin maangi thi
Ye aankhen uff yumma
Tum to dil ke taar chhed kar
Roop ki Rani Choron ka Raja
Ja re, ja re ud ja re panchi
Ae dil kahaan teri manzil
Koi sone ke dilwala
Tasveer teri dil mein
Na tum hame jaano
Baat Ek Raat Ki
Akela hoon main is duniya mein
Tujhe jeevan ki dor se baandh liya hai
Asli Naqli
Kal ki daulat
Lakh chupao chup na sakega
Ek bhut banaoonga
Pyar ka saaz
Dekh li teri khudai ab mera dil bhar gaya
Kinare Kinare
Chale jaa rahe hai muhabbat ke maare
Dil ka bhanwar kare pukar
Tere Ghar Ke Saamne
Ek ghar banaaoonga, tere ghar ke saamne
Dekho rootha na karo
Tu kahan ye bata
Sawan ke mahine mein
Kabhi na kabhi kahin na kahin
Mujhe le chalo
Gaata rahe mera dil
Din dhal jaaye haaye raat na aaye
Kya se kya ho gaya, bewafa
Tere mere sapne
Kaanton se kheech ke ye aanchal
Wahan kaun hai tera
Piya tose naina laage re
Aise to na dekho
Teen Devian
Are yaar meri tum bhi ho gazab
Likha hai teri ankhon mein kiska afsana
Khab ho tum ya koi haqeeqat kaun ho tum batlaao
Sun sun sun re balam dil tujhko pukaare
Pyar Mohabbat
Yeh dil na hota bechara
Jewel Thief
Aasmaan ke neeche, hum aaj apne peeche
Dil pukare, aare aare aare
Raat akeli hai
Honton mein aisi baat
Rulake gaya sapna mera
Dooriyan nazdikiyan ban gayi ajab ittefaaq hai
Duniya
Yeh duniyawale poochenge
Aankhon aankhon mein
O Mere Raaja
Johny Mera Naam
Pal Bhar ke Liye koi mujhe pyaar kar le
Nafrat karne waalon ke seene mein pyaar bhar doon
Phoolon ke rang se, dil ki kalam se
Prem Pujari
Shokhiyon mein ghola jaaye
Rangeela re, tere rang mein
Dil aaj shayar hai
Choodi nahin ye mera dil hai
Mera man tera pyaasa
Phoolon ka taaron ka sabka kehna hai
Hare Rama Hare Krishna
Dum maro dum, mit jaye gam
Kanchi re kanchi re
Jaise Radha ne mala japi shyam ki
Ae maine kasam li
Jeevan ki bagiya mehkegi
Gori gori gaon ki gori re
Yeh Gulistan Hamara
Panna ki tamanna hai
Heera Panna
Ek paheli hai tu
Main tasveer utarta hoon
Kiska rasta dekhe
Joshila
Kuch bhi karlo
Dheere se jaana khatiyan mein
Chhupa Rustam
Neend churake raaton mein
Shareef Badmaash
Main nikal jaaoonga
Hamara naam banarasi babu
Banarasi Babu
Moni aur Soni ki jodi ajeeb
Amir Garib
Main aaya hoon
Wallah kya nazaara hai
Ishq Ishq Ishq
Ruk jaana o jaana hum se do batein
Sun bhai baaraati
Aayegi aayegi aayegi
Jaanemann 76
Ki gal hai, koi nahin
Jaanemann
Jaaneman, jaaneman, jaaneman
Aise na mujhe tum dekho
Darling Darling
Rahi tha main awara
Sahib Bahadur
Nazrana bheja kisine pyaar ka
Des Pardes
Sa Re Ga Ma Pa
Man Pasand
Jab chaye mera jadoo
Lootmaar
Waadon ki shaam aayee yaaron ke naam aayee
Anand aur Anand
I would like to thank my wife, Sandhya, and my good friend (and certifiable film nut!), Dr. Avinash Khopkar, for valuable suggestions on the list of songs.
Posted by Seshadri Kumar at 12/11/2011 04:26:00 pm
Labels: Ali Akbar Khan, Asha Bhosle, Chetan Anand, Dev Anand, Hemant Kumar, Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammad Rafi, RD Burman, SD Burman, Shankar-Jaikishan, Talat Mehmood, Vijay Anand
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It's been decided... you need a cooking blog!
I second Laura's sentiments! You need a cooking blog!
And Coke floats were a special treat growing up. My dad loved them, and on nights when we splurged on dessert it was almost always Coke floats! My kids have never had one, but I think we might have to have a special after dinner treat one of these evenings (pending I don't have to say, "Eat your food," 3 million times).
I love lasagna in any form! You have so many great photos and I love the step by step instructions!


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UTC Building & Industrial Systems Announces Plans for World-Class Intelligent Building Showcase and Customer Experience Center
New facility to be located in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
The world's largest provider of building technologies is planning a first-of-its-kind, intelligent and sustainable customer center to showcase innovative United Technologies (UTC) products and integrated systems from brands such as Otis, Carrier, Chubb, Kidde and Automated Logic. Upon completion, the new UTC Center for Intelligent Buildings will offer a world-class customer experience in the heart of the high-technology center of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. UTC Building & Industrial Systems is a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX).
"We envision the UTC Center for Intelligent Buildings as a destination for the global building community," said Geraud Darnis, president and CEO, UTC Building & Industrial Systems. "As a leader in advanced building products, we have a unique opportunity to offer our customers truly integrated, whole-building solutions. This state-of-the-art facility will serve as a living showcase, providing our customers around the world with the ability to interact with current and emerging technologies in a way that has never been done before."
In addition to the innovative technologies to be showcased, the facility itself will feature advanced, environmentally responsible building systems and materials. Developed to the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED® standard, it will be both intelligent and sustainable.
"We are committed to protecting our natural resources and look forward to developing this sustainable building in a way that is in keeping with Florida's environmental focus," said Bob McDonough, chief operating officer, Americas, UTC Building & Industrial Systems.
Located on the I-95 corridor and within close proximity to three major international airports, the preferred Palm Beach Gardens location will be easily accessible for visiting global customers. "This location makes sense for a number of reasons, including its optimal climate for year-round product demonstration, which is ideal for technologies such as Carrier energy-efficient air-conditioning systems, as well as a proximity to customers and operations in the Sun Belt and Latin America," added McDonough.
Additionally, the facility will be located near an existing United Technologies footprint for collaboration opportunities, and the company will receive incentives from the State of Florida, Palm Beach County and the city of Palm Beach Gardens. The Business Development Board of Palm Beach County, Enterprise Florida Inc. and the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity have all played a key role in the project. A purchase agreement has been signed to acquire 30 acres of land at the intersection of Interstate 95 and Donald Ross Boulevard in Palm Beach Gardens subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
"UTC Building & Industrial Systems was founded on a legacy of innovation, from Elisha Otis' creation of the elevator safety brake to Willis Carrier's invention of modern air conditioning and the fire safety advances of Walter Kidde," said Darnis. "We are excited to continue to build on that legacy with the development of this first-class facility, which will showcase our high-technology products and bring a valuable, interactive experience to our global customers."
For more information about UTC Building & Industrial Systems and its industry-leading brands, visit www.BIS.UTC.com or follow the company on Twitter: @UTCBIS or on YouTube: YouTube.com/utcbis.
Preliminary rendering of the future UTC Center for Intelligent Buildings in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
About UTC Building & Industrial Systems
UTC Building & Industrial Systems is the world's largest provider of building technologies. Its elevator, escalator, fire-safety, security, building automation, heating, ventilation, air-conditioning and refrigeration systems and services promote integrated, high-performance buildings that are safer, smarter and sustainable. UTC Building & Industrial Systems is a unit of United Technologies Corp., a leading provider to the aerospace and building systems industries worldwide. For more information, visit www.BIS.UTC.com or follow @UTCBIS on Twitter.


The religion of eugenics has been around for a long, long time. For those of you who need to get up to speed on this issue, here is a brief explanation. Basically, eugenics is an elitist movement, rooted in the late 1800's, to selectively "breed out" undesirable traits in the general population. And when I say breed out, I mean sterilize, or even kill, those who do not meet their standards. To achieve their sadistic goals, these haters of life will even advocate the elimination of an entire race of people. Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood and a devout eugenicist, was just such a person; as she referred to blacks as 'human weeds' and 'reckless breeders.' Since Planned Parenthood is largely responsible for the murder of 57 million babies, many of which are disproportionately black, it would seem that Margaret Sanger's plan is working well.
As we fast-forward to modern times, it seems that the eugenics crowd has taken a foothold in one arena that touches the lives of almost every child in America, the public education system. With the recently implemented, United Nations inspired, Common Core curriculum, the eugenicists have managed to inject death and self-loathing right into the classroom. We truly face a long, spiritual battle if we are to defeat the "cult of death" which is so prevalent these days. One of the ways to battle such evil is to educate, which is exactly what I planned when I hosted a conference in Kalispell, MT last week. Two of my guest presenters at the conference, Daniel Brigman and Debbie Bacigalupi, generously agreed to loan me even more of their valuable time to create the video linked below. In it, you will hear examples of the national eugenics plan straight from the very textbooks used in classrooms all across America.
So whether it's called Agenda 21, Common Core, Sustainable Development or Smart-Growth, the over-arching theme is that people, you and I, are the problem; while "superior" people, the UN and their surrogates, have the solution to the problem, which is, ultimately, the elimination of 90% of the population. I say that these haters of life set a good example for the rest of us and start with themselves.
Debbie blessed me so much, especially since she is from the Northern part of The Valley where I was raised!
Pray to stay in touch with her….
Eugenics; The German nazi's use eugenics to kill every one that was not pure German, but who taught eugenica to the naxi's? Americans, Hilter sent his doctors to lynchberg , virgina back in 1938, to learn the trade.
The John Birch Society has been talking about Agenda 21 , for 25 years. the trouble is no one listened. Now they are shoving agenda 21 down out throaths. Most counties and cities are buying into agenda 21.
Tried to hear … Looks like your voices have bee be erased.
I have heard Debbie speak so many times on this subject, but each time I learn something new, and each time it becomes a little bit more frightening – all of the globalists' plans to control us and take away our freedoms and rights. Thank you for making this video and helping to get the word out. The more we become informed and know what is really going on and excersise our rights, the less power they will have over us.
I wish there was a transcript so I could read your info. I don't do video, especially in bed while my hubby is trying to sleep. Put it on the page!