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Education is the Cornerstone of Our Little Roses
Education helps girls and young women defy social limits on what they can or cannot do.
Educating girls is one of the fastest and most effective ways of promoting economic development and is the key to ending poverty and injustice towards women.
When girls are given equal access to quality education and are supported to reach their potential, they can literally change the world.
Having access to basic schooling has a significant impact on a girl's earning potential, allowing her to escape the cycle of poverty. An educated female population increases a country's productivity and fuels economic growth. Some countries lose more than $1 billion a year by failing to educate girls to the same level as boys.
Holy Family Bilingual School
Holy Family Bilingual School had very humble beginnings.
It was started by OLR when our founder Diana Frade realized that there were many young girls whose education could be maximized in a bilingual school. However, it was too expensive to send them all to a private school…" so we started our own". HFBS originally operated unofficially as a nursery school using volunteers during the summer months. Soon thereafter HFBS received the required credentials to add elementary grade levels and operate as a school.
It did not take Diana long to recognize a need and a responsibility to become actively engaged in the San Pedro Sula community and make the school available to the local children. Holy Family Bilingual School is now an integral part of the community and offers a superior bilingual education for grades pre-K through 11th. We recently added a Day Care Center in response to the communities request. It is available to the children in the community and Our Little Roses girls who have the ability to succeed with the rigorous curriculum. Currently, there are 259 co-ed students from the community and 22 girls from Our Little Roses enrolled. HFBS graduated its first senior class in June 2013.
HFBS is reaching new academic milestones with the addition of Kirsten Axell Matsumoto, our English Studies Coordinator. Kirsten brings expertise in many areas including Positive Discipline and Trauma Informed Care. The school is currently under the direction of Principal, Carlos Duarte.
The Ethlyn & Frank Byrd English as a Second Language Program
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Our Little Roses is committed to providing each girl with the educational opportunities best suited for her personal needs. Upon arrival, the girl is assessed and placed in the program that will benefit her. Some of our girls attend Holy Family Bilingual School (HFBS) located on the OLR campus. HFBS has a very rigorous bilingual curriculum for students in Pre-first through 11th grade (the Honduras school system ends at 11th grade).
Many of our girls are better suited for other schools that are not bilingual like HFBS but still provide an excellent education. The girls who attend a school that do not offer a bilingual education are enrolled in an alternative program or school like Madre Maria Luisa – a Catholic private school with a lovely campus not far from our Home.
The Ethlyn & Frank Byrd English as a Second Language Program is our in-house ESL program run by one of Holy Family Bilingual Schools' certified teachers. The program teaches English through play and is having amazing success. Started by a mission team from St. James Episcopal Church in Hendersonville, NC, the ESL Program continues to evolve and is now named for two of St. James' late members and avid supporters of OLR, Ethlyn and Frank Byrd. If you would like to help support this important program Click here!
Educational Statistics
Over the last 30 years we have witnessed many of our girls reach their goals by graduating from high school and for some, attaining a higher education. Here are just a few of the careers they have chosen
Cultural Identity Education Program
The Center for Cultural Identity is an integral part of how we educate the girls. The Center's focus is to make available a wide range of extra-curricular activities for the girls so their lives are well rounded. We are very excited with one of our newest programs designed to expose the rich history and sites of Honduras.
Our Little Roses Language School is designed for serious students who want to learn Spanish by immersing them in the Honduran culture. The program specializes in tailoring Spanish instruction to the needs and wishes of students, with emphasis on language for clergy, medical, mission and social service professionals. Students live and learn within a total immersion environment at Our Little Roses. Study packages include room, board and instruction.
Classes with lodging on the OLR campus
1 week = $599.00
2 weeks = $1,048.00
For more information, email us at olrfms@ourlittleroses.org
You will have ample opportunity to practice:
Cooking with the ladies in the kitchen while learning traditional Honduran recipes
With our on-site wood carving instructor
On trips to the local market
With the girls who live at Our Little Roses and staff at the home and at Holy Family Bilingual School
With Fr. Gustavo, OLR full-time Chaplain
We encourage our students to use the weekend to get to know our beautiful country and visit famous areas such as Pulhapanzak, the Mayan Ruins, the Bay Islands, Lake Yojoa, Puerto Cortes, and the North Coast beaches. All of these places are easy to visit on the weekend or you may use the weekend to participate in activities at the school or with Our Little Roses girls and staff.
We are happy to customize your time here in order to maximize your learning.
Download your application here: OLR Spanish Immersion Student Application
Once you have completed your application return it either by email to:admin@ourlittleroses.org or mailed to Our Little Roses Spanish Immersion, PO Box 530947, Miami Shores, FL 33153-0947.
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I am still in Mljet, I have seen lots of evidence of flowers which have finished, tiny alliums, muscari seedheads, Nigella seed heads. Last night I was woken up by the biggest thunderstorm which started with a ferocious wind and huge drops of rain. Several women emerged in their night clothes to rescue towels and swimming clothes. Luckily it was still dark as my night dress blew up round my ears in the wind.
Tonight a cat climbed up the trellis and then landed splat on the table…..before the food came luckily. The thought of a beautiful dish of fish with scrawny cat face down in it did not appeal .
This is a five minute beach sketch of a ferry on ar small island.I will rework it later as there are some nice things going on in the foreground.
Yesterday I arrived in Mljet after having a bit of an altercation in the queue for very limited numbers of tickets. The quieter but very annoyed English and Spanish people in the queue seemed pleased when I did my outraged English matriarch turn on a queue jumper. He tried to brazen it out but gave in.
This is an exquisite island, there is a nature reserve where the woodland is composed of Aleppo pines, strawberry trees, Viburnum tinus, myrtle, tree heather, junipers various and cistus. There are figs, carobs and olives too. If I had been here in the spring there would have been thousands of flowers,but now it is just a yellow thistle( the Caroline Thistle? ), and what looks like a wild carrot. The fish in sea make snorkeling addictive. I am still pretending to be a feeding octopus by making a little cloud of sediment – it attracts some lovely fish who are then under my nose for a while. There is also a salt water lagoon which is warmer than the sea, in that there are fewer fish but there are some giant bivalves, fan mussels? They look about a foot long.
Here are some pictures one of the tomato and one of Lastovo from Korcula.
I am in Trogir which is pretty enough to double for Venice in Dr Who. Here is my first sketch. The only other thing to say is that it is extremely hot. Off to an island for a swim.
The wind continues and slowly weakens. There was enough rain in the night to refill the waterbutt, things do at least look damp again for the first time in a month. Lots of apples have blown off the trees so I made an apple sauce by quartering them and coring them…it was edible but tart, not fluffy as it will be when the cookers are ripe.
I have sold a number of pictures in the last fortnight, this has led me to revise the prices on some in order to slow down the sale of the paintings that fit well into a particular niche. I may hold some back altogether in order to make coherent sets for framing and exhibition later.
On the subject of sales I am going away for a while to do some painting. If I can master the technology I will post as often as possible. However I will not be able to post i.e. mail any sold items so will lengthen all the e-bay auctions and put Etsy on vacation mode.
Today I painted some more cherries but from a photographic reference posted on Rookie Painter challenge. Is it possible to tell that these are from a photo and the previous cherries were from life? I can't tell until my eye is detuned from the new painting and sees it fresh.
I am completely out of sorts today, however I have produced this picture. There are more of the beautiful curlicues found on the tendrils which a pea uses to scramble up other plants or pea netting in this case.
The wind in the night and most of the day has kept me from sleep and made me fume at the slightest thing. My mother was a teacher latterly of infants she said wind always changed the mood in the playground making the children madder and wilder. Clearly I have not moved on from this phase.
One: He would not be able to access his money without a passport. As he has never signed on the account before they had no comparison on the signature. My word as his mother was of no interest to them. Without a passport they tell me they would keep the money forever…..a new form of taxation? If you desperately needed your money and you were at school with no bills or anything in your name, you certainly wouldn't be able to fork out the eighty pounds + needed for a passport.
Two: they have without a signature or any declaration started taking tax from him as though he is earning more than £6000pa (I wish) Other institutions assume that school children are non-taxpayers and send a form to fill in- in case you are liable. That seems more reasonable to me.
The best thing in the garden at the moment is a delicate Kniphofia, common name Red hot poker, mine is not as tall or chunky as some and it's not red either; more of a luke warm poker. It is a plant from my phase of collecting apricot coloured flowers in order to have a lavender and apricot border. I struggled to make a viable bed due to the lack of a backbone species of long flowering habit. It is easy to get that in a pink purple or a white. The Kniphofias are splendid but brief ditto the apricot Irises. Apricot Diascias are small and tend to the pink end of apricot, I bought a Jacobs Ladder which said it was apricot but it was blue. I think it needs a group of really good repeat flowering apricot roses and work out from there. Mrs Oakley Fisher looks very promising. She has just produced a shoot with about ten small buds.
The honeysuckle is another linear subject so I have done it in pen and wash.


The difference between a very good mic and a brilliant mic is its dynamic range. Throughout my career, I've never come across a mic like the MA 1000. There's no compression or recoil from the mic whether I'm doing subtle, quiet parts or hard-hitting bombastic sections - I can feel and hear exactly what I'm doing vocally at all times. Fantastic creation, going to be a hard one to top.
This is one sweeeet mic. I overlooked the Mojave MA-1000 when it came out a few years, despite having Mojave MA-200 mics on my grand piano for ten years. I recorded some acoustic guitar on it yesterday and it sounded so great.
The MA 200 KILLED the M49's that Dave had thrown up for me as room mics. These mics are open, fat and clear -they are killing with NO eq.
The MA-200 instantly became an integral part of my drum sounds. From the moment I first put a pair up, they have continued to impress me with a wide open and balanced sound. I've tracked great sounding vocals, drums, guitars and bass through these mics, and my clients are consistently blown away by the results.
"The MA-201fet is big and fat, and packs an extra midrange punch that sounds great on vocals, drums and guitars."
"I'm flipping out. I loves them (201's on drum overheads) - even more than my 200s! My impression is that they are more aggressive and athletic (which is predictable), and more suited to a modern rock sound."


James issued a 1 million dollar challenge to psychics to prove themselves, and has had a single response which was never followed through. He also took a 'lethal' dose of homeopathic sleeping pills on stage (no effect), and said he was reassured by the fact the dosage of active ingredient was equivalent to dumping a pill of aspirin in lake Tahoe and drinking the water.
He considers homeopathics and people who speak to the dead to be emotionally and financially draining, and they should be cracked down upon.
I was entertained, and I'm sure anyone with a friend into psychic readings or homeopathy could have a good time showing this video to them. Reaction videos would be appreciated.
However for me it was missing an idea or suggestion to improve myself, or teach me anything. It was basically a long rant against psychics and homeopathics. Not that I disagree with anything he said, I just don't think many people would get anything out of it.


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Network Rail has confirmed new Route Director appointments
As Network Rail's 14 new routes go live, Britain's infrastructure…
16 September 2019 | By Global Railway Review
As Network Rail's 14 new routes go live, Britain's infrastructure manager has appointed new Route Directors to oversee the day-to-day operations, maintenance and delivery of train performance in their respective areas.

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Notes: Nationally scarce (Na) in dry open areas, south-facing hillsides, unimproved grassland, embankments and waste ground in southern England, a priority species under the UK Biodiversity Action Plan. Restricted nowadays to a handful of locations, near Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, at Portland, Dorset and at single sites in Lincolnshire, Essex, Leicestershire and Northamptonshire. Occasional migrants turn up some distance from know breeding sites, these are presumed to have originated from mainland Europe. In Hampshire the species has disappeared altogether: in the 1950s, it was locally fairly common on downland in a wide area around Winchester. On the Isle of Wight, occasional migrants continue to turn up, the most recent of which was at Totland in August 2004. Wingspan 25-29 mm. Larva feeds on Field Bindweed, over-wintering as a pupa.


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Urban Planning + Architecture
Fixing Unaffordability Means Embracing Non-Market Housing
Jane Jacobs taught us to hate public housing, but the problem was how it was done, from urban design to social policy. Part two of three.
By Patrick Condon 5 Jun 2018 | TheTyee.ca
Professor Patrick Condon is the James Taylor chair in Landscape and Livable Environments at the University of British Columbia's School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and the founding chair of the UBC Urban Design Program.
Le Corbusier's plan for Paris, featuring his trademark scheme of widely separated tower blocks set in green space. While never executed in Paris, the plan was replicated hundreds of times across North America and usually failed. Jane Jacobs correctly identified the problem: Corbusier had treated humans as if they were machines who only needed 'machines for living.' SiefkinDR, Wikimedia Commons.
In a Housing Crisis, No Love for Lazy Land
A Tax that Would Solve the Housing Crisis
How Vienna Cracked the Case of Housing Affordability
Taxing land makes sense, but how can this solve Vancouver's housing crisis?
Given the apparently inexorable increase in the asset value of land (as detailed in part one of this series), secure and decent housing seems impossibly out of reach, especially for Vancouver's working millennials.
It's time to revive a type of housing we've all but abandoned: non-market housing.
Non-market housing is not the same as social housing or public housing. Non-market housing is any housing protected from market forces, thus offering affordable rents or ownership in perpetuity. Housing co-ops, land trusts and nonprofit housing corporations are all variants of non-market housing.
But sadly, we no longer supply much in the way of non-market housing.
Why? It's partly because "public housing" — particularly the kind built in the U.S. — gave it a bad name.
Destruction in the name of urban renewal
Urban designers, architects, politicians and community activists have been highly critical of non-market housing for at least five decades.
In the U.S., public housing was virtually non-existent before the Second World War. Very poor immigrants flooded into American urban areas and found lodging wherever they could, mostly in crowded and dilapidated urban districts, forming slums.
Slums were originally called tenement districts for their many walk-up apartment buildings. These were attractive areas when they were built, but over time became the housing of last resort for the poor.
After the Second World War, public officials collectively decided that these decaying urban districts were beyond saving. For the first time, laws were passed that allowed public agencies to purchase "derelict" buildings at "fair market value" without consulting owners.
If owners argued, the courts would adjudicate their claims and, as records show, would largely side with government. Owners, often derided as "slum lords," had few defenders, so political opposition to "slum clearance" was weak.
Thousands of individual buildings were bulldozed during this era of "urban renewal," along with the tight interconnected street networks which served them.
In their place came widely spaced tower blocks in the Radiant City model. Streets were minimized to make way for pedestrianized green spaces, inspired by Le Corbusier's illustrations.
The results were disastrous. Most U.S. urban renewal public housing districts became dangerous zones that all avoided, all but those who had no other housing option. Why?
Jane Jacobs, author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, had the answer. She deftly described how traditional city streets worked and why eliminating them and the buildings attached to them was such a bad idea. She used the Greenwich Village district of Manhattan as her alternative case study to prove her points. The district was very similar to those bulldozed by the champions of urban renewal.
In short, Jacobs taught us to hate public housing. But it wasn't public housing that was bad; it was the way it was done, from urban design to social policy.
Reader, a word of caution is in order before proceeding. The failures of American urban renewal were extreme.
In other countries, the results of post-war urban redevelopment efforts were not so tragic. English new towns, often antiseptic and dull to the eye, were not as dangerous. Swedish housing blocks, just as slavish to the Radiant City model as their U.S. counterparts, did not rapidly decay. Canadian public housing projects were not the tool of racial and class segregation they became in the U.S.
Architecture and urban design certainly contributed mightily to the failures of public housing projects in the U.S. But many argued rightly that the greater problem was the extent that U.S. housing projects concentrated only those who were hopelessly mired in poverty, and that this concentration of social handicaps in one place only made them more crippling.
Fuelled in part by Jacob's prescient critique, many notorious U.S. housing projects were abandoned, deemed irredeemable by virtue of their ignorant design. The most notorious example was the Pruitt Igoe housing project in St. Louis — designed by Minoru Yamasaki of Hellmuth, Yamasaki, & Leinweber, also architect of New York's World Trade Center towers — which was completed to great fanfare in 1956, only to be blown up 20 years later by the housing authority. The site still sits vacant, a symbol of both a social and urban design failure (see here).
Our Vancouver example of this style housing can be seen at the Raymur Street housing project in the Strathcona neighbourhood. This large project is the only completed portion of what was to be a much larger urban renewal effort, the bulk of it never executed. Were it executed as designed, there would be nothing left of Strathcona, once considered a slum, but now one of the most desirable neighbourhoods in the city.
The Raymur Housing project at the intersection of Raymur and East Hastings. Vancouver's example of a "Radiant City" prototype. Originally this project was to be 10 times its current size and wipe out all of the Strathcona neighbourhood. City of Vancouver archives, CVA 181-24.
Slum repair?
While many people remember the housing failures, there have been numerous successful housing project rehabilitations that are less well-known.
In the 1990s, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development led an effort to correct the glaring deficiencies of Radiant City-inspired U.S. housing projects. The initiative was called Hope VI.
Some of the most poorly designed buildings, usually tower blocks, were demolished under this program. Many low-rise structures were kept, redesigning them with tweaks like private front yards and private entries protected by modest porches, making them compatible with Jane Jacob's principles so they looked like townhouses on a traditional city street. New streets were inserted across parking lots and greenswards to recreate a traditional city small block pattern.
And to overcome the stigma and ill effects of concentrated poverty, the projects required residents to be from a mix of incomes.
Consequently, many of the new rehabilitated units were to be sold. Residents would be homeowners not renters. Ironically, this successful attempt to improve public housing made it less public. By this we mean no criticism. We mean only to show that we find ourselves — planners, designers, and involved citizens — agreeing with those who argue that the only good housing is privately owned housing, be it market rental, condo or single-family house.
A deteriorated public housing complex in New Orleans that had 724 units, of which only 144 were occupied, was redeveloped with HOPE VI funds and other financing. The new development has 460 rental units (193 public housing units, 144 units for residents with local median incomes, 123 market-rate units). Another 22 units, scattered throughout the development, were offered for sale at prices affordable to residents with incomes up to 60 per cent and 80 per cent of the area median income. U.S. Housing and Urban Development
Market failure?
So what are we to do when the market pushes land prices out of reach for wage earners?
Is density the solution? In a previous Tyee article, co-author David Beers and I suggested a strategy called "hiving," that would allow any family making an average income or above to (just barely) afford to buy a Vancouver home.
The thinking is simple. Land costs are too high for our average wage earners. The solution is to split up the land pie. In order to make the typical single-family lot affordable, you need to cut into five or six pieces. These could be rental or strata or some combination. This may sound like a lot of density on a lot, but you can find the same density in craftsman-style homes in Vancouver's Kitsilano neighbourhood. But sadly, even with extreme effort, our computations showed that such homes would still only be affordable for those with median incomes or above. What of everyone else?
Perhaps we could wait for a global recession to bring land prices back within the reach of wage earners. To be fair, it could happen, as it did in the U.S. in 2007. But since then, land values regained lost ground and are back to what was then considered stratospheric heights.
Or we could consider accepting a difficult possibility: a healthy housing market may never come back. We haven't seen this kind of struggle for secure housing in the past 100 years. In Canada, Australia and New Zealand this past decade, average housing costs in major metropolitan areas jumped between 100 and 200 per cent!
If evidence of market failure becomes more apparent, our assumptions about the housing market must change. We must move beyond the simple reading many understood from Jacobs: public housing bad, private housing good.
In line with economist Henry George's thinking (see part one in this series), we now have a situation where the rentiers are able to extract maximum gain by acquiring, holding and collecting rents from land, up to the almost limitless point where urban crowding returns to levels not seen since the 1920s. Average rents and mortgages are beginning to consume well over half of average incomes. Developers are building increasingly smaller homes to squeeze as much as possible out of the land. The housing situation for millennials today is nothing like what their parents had to face.
In such times, ideas that were once the ravings of radicals are now both practical and necessary. To house wage earners we must, as Henry George would suggest, tax land — both to reduce speculative pressures and to supply the funds necessary to build non-market housing for the disappearing middle class.
Happily there is a precedent for this. It is Vienna, where for exactly 100 years they have taxed land to build housing. Sixty per cent of Vienna residents now live securely in non-market housing. We examine their model in the third and final part of this series here.
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Q: Gregorio Y. Zara hat covers up username in chat The user Panda currently wears the Gregorio Y. Zara hat. But, now in chat, his username is covered up:

When a user has multiple messages in a row, their username is aligned under the profile image.
But now, for Panda, his username is covered up due to the Gregorio Y. Zara hat's design.
It seems that the hat design isn't transparent, it is white in the bottom, so it can cover up the other parts of your profile image. But for chat, it also covers up the username.
Can it be fixed?

A: The Gregorio Y. Zara hat indeed has a white background, making it look odd, especially when using dark mode.

The extra whitespaces at the top and bottom of the hat appear to be caused by the SVG having a white background (due to an additional fill="#fff").
<svg width="192" height="192" fill="none" viewBox="0 0 192 192" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
    <g transform="rotate(0 3.14 2.18) translate(28.644989790510152 28.644989790510152) scale(1.0544815688374145)">
        <g clip-path="url(#b)">
            <g clip-path="url(#a)">
                <g clip-rule="evenodd" fill-rule="evenodd">
                    <path d="M128 0H0V128H128V0ZM121 25H7V104H121V25Z" fill="#fff"></path>
                                                                       ^caused by this

The white background can be removed by editing out fill="#fff" from the line <path d="M128 0H0V128H128V0ZM121 25H7V104H121V25Z" fill="#fff"></path>. See my test on a black background below.

None of the other Winter Bash hats has such a white background, see the image below for a comparison.

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Q: AlarmManager on Reboot I'm trying to create an alarm that resets itself when the device restarts. Is this the correct way to do it (assuming the Android manifest is correct)? The code seems to be crashing my app.
public class AlarmReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {
     Context cxt;

 @Override
 public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
     cxt = context;
    if (intent.getAction().equals(Intent.ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED)){
        Calendar updateTime = Calendar.getInstance();
        updateTime.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getDefault());
        updateTime.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 0);
        updateTime.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);

        AlarmManager am = (AlarmManager) context.getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);
        Intent intent = new Intent(context, AlarmReceiver.class);
        PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(context, 1234,
            intent, PendingIntent.FLAG_CANCEL_CURRENT);
        am.setRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, updateTime.getTimeInMillis(), AlarmManager.INTERVAL_FIFTEEN_MINUTES, pendingIntent);
    }
}

Here is the Logcat:
01-28 00:35:00.263: E/AndroidRuntime(31269): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
01-28 00:35:00.263: E/AndroidRuntime(31269): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start receiver com.neelsomani.meds.AlarmReceiver: java.lang.NullPointerException
01-28 00:35:00.263: E/AndroidRuntime(31269):    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleReceiver(ActivityThread.java:2265)
01-28 00:35:00.263: E/AndroidRuntime(31269):    at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1600(ActivityThread.java:139)
01-28 00:35:00.263: E/AndroidRuntime(31269):    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1300)
01-28 00:35:00.263: E/AndroidRuntime(31269):    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
01-28 00:35:00.263: E/AndroidRuntime(31269):    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
01-28 00:35:00.263: E/AndroidRuntime(31269):    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4918)
01-28 00:35:00.263: E/AndroidRuntime(31269):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
01-28 00:35:00.263: E/AndroidRuntime(31269):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
01-28 00:35:00.263: E/AndroidRuntime(31269):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1004)
01-28 00:35:00.263: E/AndroidRuntime(31269):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:771)
01-28 00:35:00.263: E/AndroidRuntime(31269):    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
01-28 00:35:00.263: E/AndroidRuntime(31269): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
01-28 00:35:00.263: E/AndroidRuntime(31269):    at com.neelsomani.meds.AlarmReceiver.onReceive(AlarmReceiver.java:40)
01-28 00:35:00.263: E/AndroidRuntime(31269):    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleReceiver(ActivityThread.java:2258)

A: This code seems good, can you give us more detail from the crash please?
Have you declared this broadcastReceiver in the AndroidManifest.xml ?
    <receiver android:name="MyAlarmReceiver" >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED" />
        </intent-filter>
    </receiver>

A: AlarmManager am = (AlarmManager) context
                .getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);
        Intent intent1 = new Intent(context, AlarmReceiver.class);
        PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(context,
                0, intent1, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);
        Calendar calendar1 = Calendar.getInstance();
        calendar1.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, (int) h);
        calendar1.set(Calendar.MINUTE, (int) m);

plz use this PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT

A: Your context is wrong. Pass correct context,
AlarmManager am = (AlarmManager) cxt.getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);

Change to

AlarmManager am = (AlarmManager)
  context.getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);


Jianwen Shao (thanks!) describes in this paper how the V_BEMF zero crossing detection can be done without the need to use an RC low pass filter. It can be done by just analysing the V_BEMF at times when the PWM signal ist low.
This eliminates the common mode PWM chopper signal. However at shot PWM off times at high speed of the motor, the time available to detect the zero crossing will be to low and so only maybe up to 80% PWM can be achieved. Shao then also shows that one could also detect the "zero" crossing at V_BAT / 2 on the PWM high side.
This is exactly what I am doing. So my voltage divider of the V_BEMF references at "PWM low" to GND and at "PWM high" at V_BAT / 2.
I do change the voltage divider by either applying a GPIO output port that pulls Rx13 to GND (push/pull output = "0") or redefining the same output as input and therefore do not affect the Rx12+Rx13 network.
At the same time at the reference voltage of the comparators of the STM32F303 will not be GND anymore but a voltage that corresponds to V_BAT / 2 times the voltage divider factor. Even at low speeds this method is reliable.
The above function is the interrupt routine of the comparator interrupt.
The STM32F303 allows to set a comparator window to make him blind during a certain time. I use this to blank out the switching phase and to allow for the transients to settle. This window derives from the PWM counter and is different at PWM low or PWM high.
The reference voltage for the comparator is set with a DAC channel. PWM low about GND, PWM high at about 1,8 V.
Right after the interrupt routine detected a comparator state change, I do perform the switch over (with hysteresis) between PWM low and PWM high because that gives me some time until I have to be ready for the next commutation detection.
Between the zero-crossing and the commutation of the motors a 30º delay has to be implemented. I do measure with an other counter the time between the commutations. This counter value / 2 is then used to fire with another interrupt the motor commutation.
I do also average this time measurement for smoother loop performance.


Vienna may be pretty to look at, but beneath its stunning surface is a vibrant and buzzing city. If you're not careful on your next trip out there, you could miss the action! Luckily, you've landed on this blog, and in today's post, you should pick up the tips and tricks that will help you to plan the trip of a lifetime to Austria's fair capital.
First things first, you should figure out where you're going to stay, and that all depends on the kind of trip you want. Vienna is incredibly popular with couples wanting to spend a romantic break away together, so you'll find tonnes of luxury boutique hotels with spas and wellness centres, as well as parks and grand house gardens for you to take a stroll nearby.
If you're heading there for some culture though, you'd probably be better off renting a chic apartment in the Inner Stadt. Just make sure that wherever you stay, you check out the walking distances and transport to the closest attractions.
Are you heading out to Vienna for one of their famous music festivals? If so, you'll definitely want to book your tickets in advance. This is a city that's bursting with musical tradition and history, so anything to do with ballets, operas and concerts will sell out quickly.
If you don't want to miss out then look for credible sites with dates, times and upcoming shows listed, such as viennaoperatickets.com; you'll also be able to take a peek at the venues, making sure you can plan the rest of your sightseeing around the day.
People can get a little nervous when trying new cuisines abroad, but it's all part and parcel of the travelling experience and learning about new cultures, so try to stick to three simple rules. Firstly, check out reviews for restaurants in the area before you go, so that you have a few key options to stick by if you can't find anything whilst out exploring the city.
Secondly, if it's a street vendor, ask yourself: how many people are queuing? The number of people waiting to be served is a healthy sign that it's a thriving business amongst the locals. Finally, search for food bloggers who live in the area. Their in-depth knowledge will help you identify authentic, hidden gems in Vienna, away from the tourists.
It helps to know a few of the top attractions in the area when heading to a new country. Without a doubt your first stop should be the 1,441-room Schönbrunn Palace, as this decadent former Imperial resident is the jewel in the crown for many tourists.
If you take a stroll through its gardens you'll also find the world's oldest zoo; Tiergarten Schönbrunn is of great zoological and architectural significance, being beautifully maintained since 1752.
When are you planning on heading to Vienna?


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Selfishness is destroying us, says US musician and pastor Ray Bady, Herland Report
Herland Report TV (HTV): "We have gotten to where we are in America, because we have become a selfish place. Everybody's trying to make it and what's happening now is that we want to make it by any means necessary," says reverend Ray Bady in this exclusive short.
Ray Bady is a famous musician who worked with the leading Chicago music producers before becoming a pastor and passionately addressing the young generation in America.
Bady: "That's what's happening on social media, everybody is trying to be somebody. A few years ago, if I had the chance to say something bad about somebody and I knew it was going to hurt their feelings, I wouldn't do it. There was a loyalty, some sort of standard that I had."
"We don't think like that anymore, because everybody is trying to make it so bad. We are so enthused in trying to evolve that we forget about our standards and morals, why I am actually here."
"I am here to make a difference in the earth. So, certain things I cannot do because it will hurt someone else. But everybody doesn't have that concept in their mind."
The Herland Report Scandinavian news site and TV channel on YouTube has millions of readers/viewers yearly, featuring leading free thinkers, intellectuals, authors and activists on foreign policy, Western cultural decay, religion, values and the need for international justice and respect for national sovereignty.
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The Herland Report is founded and hosted by Hanne Nabintu Herland, a Scandinavian historian of comparative religions, bestselling author, commentator and TV producer, known from the media for sharp analysis and fearless speech.
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NASA is bringing Marvel on its next mission
July 25, 2016 By Sam Catherman
The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space recently announced a new partnership that will put Marvel characters on the ISS.
It shouldn't come as a surprise that there are a few comic nerds working on the International Space Station, but a recent announcement from the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) reveals that scientists are planning on bringing two beloved characters into space with them. According to a report from Gizmodo, CASIS announced that Groot and Rocket the Raccoon from Marvel's popular Guardians of the Galaxy would appear on a mission patch representing deliveries to the national laboratory on the International Space Station.
The image of the patch was first tweeted by director James Gunn from his seat at San Diego's Comic-Con. Marvel cover artist Juan Doe designed the patch, and officials working with CASIS hope that the images will bring greater visibility to the ISS and inspire more people to push the limits of space travel and exploration.
According to CASIS Director of Operations and Educational Opportunities Ken Shields, "A major mission for us here at CASIS is to find unique and innovative ways to bring notoriety to the ISS National Laboratory and the research that is being conducted on our orbiting laboratory."
The partnership with Marvel Custom Solutions represents the first time a comic character was officially involved with a space mission. CASIS hopes that the new patch will increase visibility and attract more interest to the more than 100 studies set to be carried out on the ISS National Lab over the course of 2016. CASIS will also use the new patch to help promote an education flight contest later in the year to challenge and inspire a new generation of astronauts and scientists.
"There are very few brands in the world who have as large an impact as Marvel, and we are thrilled to partner with them on this project and look forward to Rocket and Groot inspiring a new generation of researchers interested in the space station," Shields said.
A press release from CASIS describing the new patch can be found here.
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Manus Island Support Staff Recall Having Their Phones Tapped After Being Hired Through Facebook Ads
Luke Hopewell
The shocking state of the Manus Island detention centre is being analysed by a Senate Inquiry this week, and each revelation is worse than the last. Two former Salvation Army workers have told the inquiry that they got their jobs on the island with no relevant experience and no training, landing on Manus just three days after answering an ad on Facebook.
Two former Salvation Army workers told the Senate Inquiry into Australia's offshore processing centre on Manus Island that they received no training before being shipped off to the facility, after being warned that their emails and phone calls were being tapped for potential leaks.
The ABC reports that the pair answered an ad they found on the Macquarie University Facebook page. Three days later, they were on Manus Island, despite their only previous experience being in fast food and retail.
The two workers recalled being threatened with legal action if they divulged anything that was going on within the Manus Island facility.
One of the former workers recalls being sexually harassed, encouraging detainees not to take their own lives and being forced to work long shifts in unsafe conditions, all the while being told to keep it under wraps:
"When we first started they even suggested our phones were listened to and our emails being monitored and we [that] couldn't contact anyone," she said.
"[We were told we] shouldn't even speak to our own mother or father about what we've seen.
"I was told I couldn't do that or I would be penalised or I would lose my job.
"I've been threatened with criminal action ... [telling] me that I could go to jail for speaking about my experiences."
The Salvation Army has refuted the pair's claims in a day of intense testimony. [ABC]


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Accelerating Digitalization in Chemicals: Five Questions for CEOs
Before setting a digital strategy, gain a clear understanding of your point of departure, industry position, and unique advantages and capabilities.
Nathan Anderson, Joachim Breidenthal, Peter Guarraia and Thomas Kwasniok
As chemical companies look to gain a competitive edge from digital technology, executives can become overwhelmed by the vast array of options. Distracted by "1,000 points of digital light," they may overlook the few initiatives that could scale and make a significant difference. Executives need to find ways to filter out the noise and channel their efforts to the most promising digital initiatives.
The strongest and most enduring digital strategies balance the visions of the dreamers in the organization (those who focus on long-term, disruptive possibilities) with the aims of the more pragmatic doers (those who want to cut through the hype and focus on implementing practical initiatives). Companies need a bold, inspiring vision, but they also need to define where and how they can make progress now. The Bain Radar 360SM approach offers a practical way to strike that balance (see Figure 1). It relies on three key principles: zeroing in on the most beneficial set of initiatives, making progress through a series of smaller initiatives, and channeling the initiatives along several pathways—such as customer experience, products and services, and operations. (For more on this, see the Bain Brief "Digital Strategy for a B2B World.")
Of course, before executives can map out their most promising digital initiatives, they need a clear understanding of their point of departure, their position in the industry, and their unique advantages and capabilities. Here are five questions chemicals leaders should ask themselves to help focus the journey.
1. How will digital shift the profit pools in your business?
Digital innovation is rearranging the game board, changing the rules that determine who makes money and how. In fertilizers, for example, the rapidly evolving market space around precision agriculture creates new opportunities and threats for chemical producers. New players could easily capture the potential revenue streams from platform solutions, and, more generally, volumes could come under pressure from more efficient fertilizer use.
Other markets are less likely to see disruptive shifts. For example, companies that supply polymers to a few big customers in a small market face less of a threat from potential intermediaries.
Chemical producers—especially those with diversified portfolios—need a clear understanding of where they make their money, what generates profitability and how the advent of digital technology could change the equation.
2. What's your true competitive advantage?
Perhaps even more important than understanding where you make money is understanding why you make money. Strengthening those areas through digital, and determining where digital can provide new sources of differentiation, can help companies make the most of their investments. Frequently, senior executives are so focused on the range of digital opportunities in front of them that they lose sight of what really matters: the competitive advantages that set the company apart from the pack.
Chemical companies are often amalgams produced by multiple rounds of M&A, so the problem may be even more intractable here than in other industries. Business units may have different strategic goals and advantages. A business focused on selling at the lowest cost in its sector might prioritize investments in data science to improve predictive maintenance and optimize its transportation and supply chain costs, whereas one that differentiates through exceptional service might invest in end-to-end sourcing visibility and track-and-trace capabilities.
One chemical producer was investing heavily to enhance the customer experience, even though it had a captive base that valued low prices. By focusing on improving its commercial capabilities, the company was actually diluting its true competitive advantage and creating an opening for other companies to move in.
3. Are you a digital leader or fast follower?
Both strategies offer advantages, but the decision implies vastly different levels of investment, risk and return. Investing in disruptive change will cost more and take longer, but assuming more risk can deliver greater rewards and a competitive edge in the market. Adopting a more cautious tack—embracing innovations rapidly as others demonstrate their value—may take less time and stave off competition, but it's unlikely to move a company ahead of the curve. In fact, in an industry like chemicals, where years-long lead times for investments are common, a fast-follower strategy can still be expensive and risky. Either way, standing still is not an option.
Leaders follow trends closely, choosing strategies that are most relevant to the company and promise to be most disruptive. These executives are already building the stepping-stones to success: developing digital capabilities, investing in assets and hiring the right talent. Innovators will probably hire more creative technology talent, while fast followers will need more systems engineers.
4. Is your digital starting point clear?
Within every chemical company, various functions and business units will be at different stages in the digital journey. To develop and articulate a digital vision and strategy, CEOs need a clear, integrated view of digital initiatives across sites, functions and the entire company. In particular, senior executives should be able to delineate between digital initiatives that create new capabilities and rearguard measures designed to upgrade legacy IT operations.
Once the starting point is clear, executives will have a more complete picture of what the company is doing right and where it needs to redouble its efforts. That will help in setting priorities that support the company's long-term digital destination—which may not be as daunting as it sounds. We know the general direction of disruption; the critical task lies in applying that knowledge to bring discipline to the company's digital investments, focusing on those that will have the most impact at scale.
5. Do you have a compelling case for change that connects the vision of the dreamers with the day-to-day reality of the doers?
Most leadership teams have both doers and dreamers, and both perspectives are valid—indeed, critical—for success. Yet if left in opposition, the tension between these groups can paralyze initiatives.
Successful CEOs tap the energies of both types, striking a balance between the doer and dreamer perspectives. This balance should blend a practical set of near-term, high-impact initiatives with a bold vision for how the company will keep pace as digital innovation reshapes the industry over time.
Nate Anderson, a partner with Bain's Chemicals practice, explains that as executives plan their strategy for optimizing the digital potential, they should ask themselves these three questions in order to succeed.
Where to apply pressure
Answering these questions will help executives articulate a clear digital strategy and direct resources to a prioritized set of digital opportunities. To follow through on those expectations, they should focus on three key areas.
Align your operating model. Even as companies begin to define their digital strategies, they may struggle to execute against them. By taking a wide view of the entire organization, they can expose any elements of the operating model that are not supporting their digital vision. Since operating models serve as the blueprint for organizing and distributing resources to get work done, adapting the model is the most effective way to shape the direction of the business, to determine how people work together within and across boundaries, and to define how the corporate center adds value to the business units.
In a digital transformation, these adjustments to the operating model are likely to focus on building up new digital capabilities, finding and retaining talent, and forging partnerships where necessary, particularly with firms that offer analytics services.
Define an integrated roadmap for your digital initiatives. Digital leaders set bold ambitions and build the capabilities necessary to achieve them. They learn where gaps exist and then hire or partner with others to fill them. They invest in analytics capabilities and IT architecture that enable them to develop rapidly and draw meaningful insights from data.
Be clear on what you want to do, and empower the right people to carry it through. Start by aggregating a complete list of digital initiatives, and then find ways to shatter the silos that can hinder digital success. Digital initiatives typically cross horizontal and vertical boundaries in an organization—spanning processes, functions and business units. Successful efforts require integrated decision making.
Accelerate outcomes. When digital initiatives stall, one way to restart is to narrow the vision to one or two initiatives that can be achieved rapidly. Quick wins generate momentum and serve as models for future initiatives. They also demonstrate that the team is building the capabilities to deliver accelerated results.
Among those capabilities, teams should develop the ability to work in a series of Agile sprints, breaking complex problems into smaller modules in order to make progress and demonstrate success. Sprints typically bring together cross-functional teams of five to nine members, who have the autonomy to determine the scope and timing of their work. Activities are time-boxed in sprints of one to four weeks, with deliverables presented to the customer (internal or external) at the end of each sprint. These deliverables are ready for feedback, which contributes to the next, iterative stage of the broader process. Team members collect input at each stage, which helps them adapt and prioritize using test-and-learn principles.
As recently as a year ago, we knew many chemicals executives who were still deciding whether and how to advance on digital initiatives within their companies. This is much less true today: Nearly everyone we speak with now recognizes the opportunity and potential value at stake in the broad digital transformation underway in the chemical industry. The most urgent tasks for senior executives today are understanding their point of departure, setting ambitious but realistic targets, and moving quickly to capture advantage.
Nathan Anderson and Peter Guarraia are partners with Bain & Company in Chicago. Joachim Breidenthal and Thomas Kwasniok are Bain partners based in Johannesburg and London, respectively. All four work with Bain's Global Chemicals practice.
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The final round of the IX edition of the Leyla Gencer Voice Competition, will be held from the 23rd until the 28th of September 2018. The singing contest promoted by the Istanbul Foundation for Arts and Culture (IKSV), by Borusan Sanat and by the Accademia Teatro alla Scala. , and dedicated to the memory of the great Turkish soprano Leyla Gencer, director of the Lyric Academy of Accademia Teatro alla Scala, from its foundation in 1997 until she passed away in 2008.
The jury will be presieded by Sascha Goetzel, Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Borusan Istanbul Philarmonic Orchestra followed by David Gowland, Artistic Director of the Jette Parker Young Artists Program of the Royal Opera House, Toni Gradsack, casting director of the Teatro alla Scala, Yekta Kara, former director of the Opera department of the Mimar Sinan Conservatory, University of Fine Arts, Christoph Seuferle Director of the Deutsche Oper of Berlin and Alberto Triola, artistic director of the Val d'Itria Festival.
In the past, the competition has discovered some of the prominent stars of the operatic world such as: Nino Machaidze, Anita Rachvelishvili, Pretty Yende, Marcelo Alvarez, Nikola Mijailovic.


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OnePlus 9R introduced: Snapdragon 870, 120 Hz display
OnePlus' product family expanded with the Nord series devices released last year. The company has now introduced a new smartphone located between the Nord series and flagship phones. This phone, named OnePlus 9R, will initially be released only in India.
At the heart of the OnePlus 9R is the Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 processor. In essence, the phone, which can be defined as "2021 model OnePlus 8T", has updated components in accordance with this year.
OnePlus 9R has a 6.55-inch Fluid AMOLED display. This screen with Full HD + resolution has HDR10 + certification. 120 Hz refresh rate and 240 Hz touch sampling rate are also among the features of the screen. It is also worth noting that the display panel is flat.
In the OnePlus 9R, the 48 megapixel resolution camera is the main camera. A 16 megapixel ultra wide angle camera, 5 megapixel macro camera and 2 megapixel monochrome sensor complete the system. 4K 60 fps video can be recorded with the phone. The camera system of the phone, which has the Video Portrait feature, has both optical and electronic image stabilization.
OnePlus positions the 9R as a gaming phone. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 processor draws a stronger profile compared to other processors found in mid-segment devices. This processor is kept cool by a steam circle.
A 4500 mAh battery provides the energy that the smartphone needs. This battery has 65W Warp Charge fast charging feature. It should be noted that OnePlus did not separate the 9R from the OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro at this point. However, the phone does not have wireless charging feature.
How much will I have to pay for the OnePlus 9R?
According to the information given by OnePlus, a 15-minute charge is enough for the phone to take out the whole day. It only takes 39 minutes for a full charge. 3.5 mm on the phone with stereo speakers and Dolby Atmos support. headphone jack will be available.
The OnePlus 9R will be available in India next month. The smart phone will be presented to users with two different options. The version with 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage will write 40 thousand rupees on the price tag. For 12 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage, 44 thousand rupees will be required.
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SNDP Yogam's present attempt to orchestrate the Hindu unity in truck with the Sangh Parivar organisations has nothing queer in it when set against Kerala's history of social renaissance. True, the Renaissance Movement social reformers like Sri Narayana Guru launched still guides the cultural ethos of Keralites. But how much such a statement is relevant to the Leftist movement we may look into a bit later.
Interestingly, the SNDP leadership, like the Guru, stressed the Hindu identity of the Ezhava community. It is to be noticed that the Guru, Nanubhakta as he was called in youth was a pure Vedantin right from his early days. The author of Advaitadeepika and Darsanamala was by all standards a practical Vedantin who throughout his writings stressed to develop a perfect man. Man was the core of his religion.
India's religion unlike the western ideologies, including those enunciated by Marx, Mussolini and Hitler which either deemed man a sinner or just a granule on the body of the corporate state, was in fact man making. The Guru's religion too fell in line with this.
Whatever, might have been the atrocities the Caste Hindus hurled at his community and those below, the Guru was not prepared to part with the Darsana he deemed fit for man making. The Siva, he silently declared, was no Brahmin monopoly. It belonged to the Ezhavas too and hence he coined 'Ezhava Siva'. Otherwise, what was there as non-Dalit or anti-Dalit in Hindu thought with all its sublime aspects having been developed by the Dalits?
Vedas with their hymns composed by casteless seers do not speak of caste-based differences. Lying at random, they were later collected, compiled and classified by Vyasa, the son of a fisher woman, to use modern jargon, a Dalit. Ratnakara, the forest dweller - another Dalit - was the author of Ramayana, the first ever Dalit literature of the world. Sri Krishna - the author of the Gita.
Born into the Yadava Community of cowherds - now a scheduled group - he mastered all the then existing knowledge systems, became king of Dwaraka and the King maker of Kurukshetra. Belonging to the line of Vedantins, he was not ready to part with the Vedic tradition and the bliss - the Sivam . "Whichever is the religion, it should help make a perfect man," he said. Otherwise why that he did not herd his people to the non-Hindu religions?
And he cautioned the Caste Hindus, "... one-half of your Madras people will become Christians if you do not take care." It was this defence of the Hindu religion Guru Sri Narayana took up. And even when later there was a mass thinking among the Ezhavas to escape from Brahminic supremacy, it was only to take the path of the Buddha, the sage of Kapilavatsu who proclaimed the philosophy of freedom and equality. They would not go to any non-Hindu religions.
The SNDP Yogam and the Ezhavas do have the right to carry the torch of Hindu renaissance and don the mantle of the defenders of faith. Hence the desirability of an SNDP-RSS tie-up. Besides, the Guru has been right from the founding of RSS a votary of the Swayamsevaks' worship.
Then, come to the Leftist eligibility to bank upon the Hindu-Ezhava votes. It was the poor Hindus, irrespective of caste difference that sustained this group. But what did the Left return to these poor ones? Through the decades-long policy of communal appeasement in their effort to get on to the saddles of power, deep crevasses were dug and Kerala society irreparably segmented. In their scramble for power the Left and the Right played many shameless dramas. It is known how a new district itself was carved out in north Kerala for communal appeasement. What did these people gain from their political activity blotted with communal appeasement.
What did they gain from having tried to torpedo the Mahatma's Quit India movement disparaging him a bourgeoisie, from having supported the British when Gandhiji was leading India's pilgrimage to freedom, from having pooh-poohed Netaji Bose "boot licker of the Japanese" and cartooned him as the donkey carrying Japanese Premier Tojo, from having celebrated "Pakistan Days" in 1947 or from having organised the "pro-peeking rally" declaring solidarity with the Chinese invasion of 1962 against India?
Interestingly, even the CPI realised that the Hindus are becoming minority in Kerala. When would light dawn upon its big brother?