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The Curious Case of Cargo Cults and Corporate Innovation
Steve Glaveski
The term cargo was first used to describe a range of practices carried out by a group of people that occurs in the wake of contact with more technologically advanced societies.
"The cargo cults of Melanesia, in attempts to get cargo to fall by parachute or land in planes or ships again, imitated the same practices they had seen the soldiers, sailors, and airmen use. Cult behaviors usually involved mimicking the day-to-day activities and dress styles of US soldiers, such as performing parade ground drills with wooden or salvaged rifles. The islanders carved headphones from wood and wore them while sitting in fabricated control towers. They waved the landing signals while standing on the runways. They lit signal fires and torches to light up runways and lighthouses... many built life-size replicas of airplanes out of straw and cut new military-style landing strips out of the jungle, hoping to attract more airplanes."
The cargo cults were clearly guilty of trying to copy the behavioural by-products of the advanced societies that visited them instead of what made those societies advanced in the first place. I might want to strike a football as elegantly as David Beckham in his prime, but all of the sleeve tattoos, fauxhawk hair stylings and pop-star pursuing in the world isn't going to help my cause.
The modern day equivalent of a cargo cult in the corporate arena would have to be that of the innovation cargo cult, where mimicking the day-to-day activities, dress styles and characteristics of the tech startup ecosystem is practiced in place of the genuine application of effort to address an organisation's inhibiting processes, values and systems. The aforementioned passage could just as well read:
"The cargo cults of the corporate world, in attempts to generate and commercialise breakthrough ideas, imitated the same practices they had seen the hackers, hustlers and hipsters use. Cult behaviors usually involved mimicking the day-to-day activities and dress styles of startup founders, such as littering the office with bean bags, ping pong and foosball tables, performing daily stand-ups and wearing hoodies and sneakers to the office. Cult members eat pizza and drink beers on Fridays. They often hang out at coworking spaces and hip inner city cafes, hoping it will result in an increase in market capitalisation."
Organisations that are serious about transforming the way they do things look beyond surface level manifestations to what makes modern companies such as Amazon, Netflix or Slack successful today. This goes beyond the exterior to things such as creating an environment that truly supports experimentation, that is empowering rather than micromanaging, that is built upon foundational behaviours such as radical transparency and extreme ownership, that is cross-functional and does away with silos, that is open instead of closed, adaptable and measures outcomes not inputs.Like human beings, organisations often default to whatever is simpler. We default to views that can be explained by a simple narrative, as opposed to views that take more complex details into account and are generally more accurate, realistic, and balanced.While it might be more challenging to do the latter, it is the most rewarding, and if organisations are serious about staying relevant beyond delivering short-term shareholder returns, then they need to get beyond the cargo cult of today. For more insights like these visit www.collectivecampus.io/blog/
How to Value Investments in Corporate Innovation: a Calculator
Steve Glaveski is the co-founder of Collective Campus, author of Time Rich, Employee to Entrepreneur and host of the Future Squared podcast. He's a chronic autodidact, and he's into everything from 80s metal and high-intensity workouts to attempting to surf and do standup comedy.
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Zombie Girl (Review)
ZOMBIE GIRL:
THE MOVIE (2009)
Justin Johnson
Erik Mauck
5 / 5 zedheads
It was a beautiful, breezy day on College Street in Toronto on Sunday. The perfect day to sit back at The Royal Theatre and fall in love with a Zombie Girl.
Zombie Girl is a documentary from co-directors Justin Johnson, Aaron Marshall, and Erik Mauck. It documents the attempt by 12-year-old Emily Hagins in 2004 to write, direct, film, and edit a feature-length zombie movie called Pathogen. The movie is not so much about zombies or the nature of making film but rather the special relationship between bright, ambitious Emily and her incredibly supportive mother. Emily was after all 12 and, although unusually dedicated and passionate about making film, still inexperienced and at times awkward as a pre-teen director. With the help of her mother (who becomes everything for the film: makeup artist, set designer, prop master, boom mic operator, etc., producer, financier), Emily takes a very rough two-year road towards finishing Pathogen, sometimes fabulous and exciting - sometimes tense and overwhelming. She finds her voice along the way and makes every mistake in the film-making book.
I fell in love with Zombie Girl because it reminded me why I love being creative. The film captures the exalting thrill of creating something out of nothing and the heart-breaking crash that comes with the understanding that your ability to realize your vision stands so far beyond your human limitations and abilities. I'm sure every person out there has at one time given up or shelved a creative project, thinking it was impossible or they weren't good enough, or that no one would like it. Then you see Emily Hagins -- a girl at the beginning of her life, forging ahead to create a movie on a home-spun budget with a boom mic made from paint roller poles and tape and a handful of Halloween makeup -- and that inspiration and love of art is rekindled.
Also, the fact that Emily and her cast are all young is a reminder that, no matter how technical, self-important, artsy, financially bloated, and overexposed movies and celebrities are these days -- at the heart of every actor, director, and special-effects supervisor is a little bit of that youthful energy cultivated from playing make-believe and dress up.
Zombie Girl is a lovely under-dog story about determination, the joys and desperation of independent film making, and family. At times quirky and heart-wrenching, Zombie Girl is a documentary that will, hopefully as it did for me, leave you leaving the theatre re-inspired to turn your visions into reality.
Especially if those dreams include zombies.
Zombie Girl: The Movie played in Toronto as part of the Hot Docs Festival and was sponsored by Toronto Zombie Walk and co-presented by Rue Morgue and the Toronto After Dark Film Festival
Labels: Aaron Marshall, documentary, emily hagins, Erik Mauck, hot docs, Justin Johnson, pathogen, review, rue morgue, toronto after dark, toronto zombie walk, zombie girl

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Q: Useless queries after migrating to Hibernate 6 I tried to migrate a spring boot project to the newest version. Which included an upgrade to hibernate 6. I have done that before and never had an issue like this. I use spring-data-jpa Repositories with an MSSQL Database. After the Update close to all of my queries are broken. I debugged into it and found out, the JPQL looks fine. But somewhere on the way to TransactSQL something mysterious is happening.
I'd like to show you three of the problems I faced.
Problem Nr. 1
@Entity public class Gender {
    ...
}

@Entity public class Person {
    @ManyToOne public Gender gender;
    @Embedded public Details details;
}

With something as simple as this. I expected to see select ... from Person or maybe even select ... from Person p left join Gender g on ... if Gender is fetched eagerly. But what i got was
select ... from Person p1 left join Person p2 on p1.id = p2.id left join Gender g on ...

which works but it is rather useless to have that second join on Person.
Problem Nr. 2
resultPerson.details is null although the query actually returned values for the columns inside Person.details.
Problem Nr. 3
A more complex query I wrote myself now joins stuff in the wrong order:
select Person p1
left join Something s1 on s2.somethingId = s1.somethingId
left join SomethingElse s2 on ...

Question
All these queries worked fine before the upgrade and haven't been touched during the upgrade. All the errors are so diverse, that I don't even know where to start looking. I don't expect you to solve my problems. I'm just asking for hints. Hope anybody has seen this before.

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«Домик в Коломне» (1913) — немая художественная короткометражная комедия Петра Чардынина по мотивам одноимённой поэмы Пушкина.

Сюжет
Пожилая вдова (Прасковья Максимова) живёт в собственном домике с незамужней дочерью Парашей (Софья Гославская). Вдова просит дочь найти недорогую кухарку. Параша приводит в дом под видом кухарки Мавруши переодетого в женское платье офицера (Иван Мозжухин), в которого она влюблена. Этот водевильный маскарад приводит к целому ряду забавных ситуаций. В конце концов вдова застает «Маврушу» за бритьем утренней щетины, и обман раскрывается.

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 Софья Гославская относила роль Параши к числу своих творческих удач.
 Киновед Нея Зоркая о фильме:
Фильм  признан — и справедливо! — жемчужиной  раннего   русского   кинематографа. Блистательна, отработана   до мельчайшей  детали  игра  Ивана  Мозжухина — гусара, он же кухарка Мавруша, продумано и его остроумное экранное «травести» (когда  гусар, забывшись, лихо поднимает ситцевую юбку и достаёт из  брюк портсигар, когда прячет смиренно сложенные мужские  руки под фартук и  т. п.). Тщательно воссоздан быт, а  ныне лента являет ещё  и ценность историческую, этнографическую .
 Из книги «Кино Серебряного века» (2005):
«Домик в Коломне» (1913) и по сию пору не утратил очарования, смешит и радует: классическая литературная основа (маленький шедевр эротической лирики Пушкина), полная изящного юмора и острой характерности игра Мозжухина в роли гусара-кухарки; лёгким штрихом обрисованный быт .

Доступность и версии

Фильм вышел на экраны 1 ноября 1913 года. К XXI веку перешёл в общественное достояние.

Фильм доступен на DVD-сборнике «Ночь перед Рождеством», выпущенном в серии «Великий немой» в марте 2009 года. Однако для этого издания картинка не реставрировалась, а русские интертитры смешиваются с неотключаемыми английскими субтитрами.

В 2011 году киностудия «Декаданс» (Санкт-Петербург) выпустила версию фильма с новыми русскими интертитрами и показала картину в Библиотеке им. В. В. Маяковского на лекции Николая Сергеевича Онегина.

Примечания

Литература

Ссылки
 «Домик в Коломне» на сайте «Энциклопедия отечественного кино»
 Фильм «Домик в Коломне» на YouTube
 Рецензия на фильм (Экранка.ру)

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If you've missed the first few blog posts in this series, we've been covering "deadly policy administration sins" for property and casualty (P&C) providers.
Today's blog post covers Sin #4: not fully understanding the impact of rule definition on system performance and maintainability.
We've been dealing with configurable systems since their inception. It has become clear that consideration needs to be given up front to the classes of rules required to support the uniquely complex demands of policy administration.
Early on, configurable systems simply allowed users to create Boolean statements: If…, Then…, Else… It soon became clear that many processing scenarios required complex rule definitions for this construct. In practice, these systems performed very poorly and became nearly as difficult to maintain, test and change as the legacy systems they were intended to replace.
The next evolution of configurable systems brought scripting languages and CASE tools, which relied on the premise that performance could only be improved by converting user input into fast-processing code. While these systems performed better than their earlier counterparts, the code was not always optimized for each processing situation and required developer skills — and time — to ensure the integrity of the applications. Again, the base concept of configuration was lost.
At Sapiens, experience has taught us that multiple rule types must be used alone, or in combination, to provide high performance and maintainable support for complex requirements. A policy administration platform must accommodate different types of rule processing situations with various rule constructs, potentially including special processing.
Of course, configuring rules requires the same higher-level thought as coding. If a solution only supports a single rule type, it's likely to perform poorly in the real world as it forces every situation into the same paradigm. The complex requirements of a policy administration system necessitate multiple rule mechanisms for multiple situations.
That's why Sapiens' offerings were built with every eventuality in mind. They support broadly specified rules that need to be applied and evaluated quickly, as well as fine-grained rules that need to allow for a high degree of specificity. For information on all the P&C policy admin sins, please check out my white paper: The Seven Deadly Sins of P&C Policy Administration.
John Pettit is the head of Sapiens' North American P&C Insurance Platform, with nearly two decades of experience in the P&C insurance market. He previously served as the founder, CEO and president of Adaptik Corporation, a North American insurance software firm that was acquired by Sapiens.


Set in 80 acres of Sussex countryside, the competition yard boasts a comprehensive set of facilities which give the team plenty of opportunity to make sure the horses are properly schooled and prepared for the rigours of an eventing season.
There are 20 full size boxes housed in American style barns, together with a massive 70m x 30m outdoor arena, fully floodlit for use throughout the year. In addition, there is a 50m x 25m indoor school, with its own lighting and sprinkler system, for use when the weather isn't so good. To complete the facilities there is also a lunge pen and fully automatic horse walker. And for security, the whole yard is monitored constantly by a network of computer controller CCTV cameras.


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Mexico's Youth Movement Forges Ahead
Kent Patterson for Salem-News.com
132 Movement forges ahead and can even claim credit for unprecedented developments in political messaging delivered this election year.
Courtesy: Global Post
(LAS CRUCES, NM) - The impact of a social movement can often be gauged not only by the societal reception it gets, but also by the reaction it engenders. And Mexico's " I am 132 Movement" is no exception.
Born only several weeks ago as a Mexico City protest of private university students against the media imposition of presidential candidate Enrique Pena Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and Green Party (PVEM) electoral alliance, the movement has since spread to large cities and small towns across the country. In the Pacific coast tourist town of Zihuatanejo, Guerrero, an estimated 250 young people and their supporters took to the streets earlier this month to demonstrate against Pena Nieto and to call for the democratization of an electronic media dominated by two networks, Televisa and TV Azteça.
"This was the first march that was done by young people in the history of the municipality," Alondra Garcia, 132 organizer, told Frontera NorteSur. Acknowledging that members of anti-Pena political parties participated in the action, Garcia nonetheless rejected charges by Pena's PRI party that the 132 Movement is a front for rival candidates, especially the Progressive Movement's Andres Lopez Obrador.
"We are non-partisan and receive all who come," Garcia said, adding that even dissatisfied members of the PRI have expressed support for the 132 effort. "Everyone is welcome," she said, "and everyone from kids to older people has come out."
Yet less than a week before the July 1 elections, the heat is being turned up in subtle and not-so-subtle ways on the 312 Movement. Media accounts report aggressions and/or cases of alleged police harassment against 132ers in the states of Chihuahua, Guanajuato, Morelos, Michoacan, and Guerrero. According to Garcia and fellow activist Victor Ruiz, a group of 40 or so young PRI members in Zihuatanejo recently held their own demonstration claiming to be 132ers that supported Pena Nieto. In the central city of Aguascalientes and other places, counter-132 groups sponsored by the PRI have similarly sprung up in the days leading up to the elections. A video of a former 132 member spilling the beans on the Lopez Obrador camp's supposed hidden hand behind the movement recently received prominent play on the same television channels that are the targets of Mexico's newest social movement.
Despite the opposition, the 132 Movement forges ahead and can even claim credit for unprecedented developments in the way political messaging has been delivered this election year. Perhaps the movement's greatest single success so far has been the Internet transmission of a third, previously unscheduled presidential debate on June 19.
Inspired and organized by the 132 Movement, the event was a flowing interaction between three of the four presidential contenders and young questioners who pressed the candidates on issues that have gotten short-shrift in the campaign such as the future of Mexico's indigenous peoples and their languages.
'Yo Soy'... 'I am' 132: dreamantilles.blogspot.com
Candidate Josefina Vazquez Mota of the The National Action Party (PAN) used the occasion to announce her choices for a possible presidential cabinet, revealing the names to the Internet audience even before telling the nominees themselves. A striking visual aspect of the production set was the empty chair reserved for Pena Nieto, who declined an invitation to attend on the grounds that the sponsors were not impartial.
Technical glitches interrupted the first minutes of the debate, reportedly because of an over-saturation of the website, but the event went forward both in cyberspace and in public plazas where 132ers set up large screens for passerby to view.
Flanking a screen in downtown Aguascalientes, a large information booth was visited by steady groups of residents who looked over photos of government atrocities like the 1995 Aguas Blancas massacre and read critical quotes about Pena Nieto from posters of intellectuals and journalists including the late Carlos Fuentes, Enrique Krauze, Lydia Cacho, and Denise Dresser. Declining to give their names, an older man and a younger couple said the pictures accurately reflected the national reality.
In a comparitive display, a map depicting areas governed by PRI local and state administrations was placed next to one of territories under control of drug traffickers along with the question: "Do you see a difference?"
Alejandro Hernandez, a small businessman, said the idea of transmitting an important political event in the street was a "beautiful idea," as well as an example of modern technological innovation. But disagreeing with the 132ers' stance on Pena Nieto, the young man said he understood why the candidate did not participate in the debate. Concerned about tax policy and burdensome paperwork, Hernandez said he planned to vote for the PRI's man.
Aguascalientes activists quickly moved from publicly transmitting the presidential debate to holding forums featuring local candidates for the federal Congress. An invitation to the PRI to present its candidates on June 20 was ignored, but the PAN turned out for a forum at a downtown restaurant the next day.
PAN candidates including former Aguascalientes Mayor Martin Orozco promoted free market and right-to-work reforms, urged continued action against organized crime, called for the eradication of poverty and upheld pro-life principles. Luis Manuel Medina, candidate for the lower house of the Mexican Congress, addressed the critical issue of wáter use and conservation. According to Medina, agricultural producers near the town of Calvillo, Aguascalientes, were now pumping groundwater from below 1,500 of the surface. "We can't be overexploiting water, because it will come to an end," he warned.
Tere Jimenez, a 28-year-old running for another local seat in the Congress' lower house, praised the new youth activism. In her presentation, Jimenez outlined how she would deal with poverty and drug addiction. "I want to transform Mexico into a place where differences in ideas are part of a different Mexico," Jimenez added. . "Mexico has to change, and we can't return to a corrupt past in which it is like being in prison."
Like the June 19 Internet debate, the Aguascalientes forum was a ground-breaking one in that it went beyond the typical unidirectional political messages delivered to a passive public and instead involved an interactive exchange with an aware citzenry assembled outside the structures of the political party system. Following the candidate's prepared presentations, youthful members of the audience of several dozen people challenged the PAN on matters including the high tuition rates at the local university, prison and judicial reform, gender equality, same-sex marriage, and gay adoption.
Forum co-organizer David Juarez detected lines of division between the PAN and and followers of his movement, but gave the conservative party credit for making their program public and answering questions. "The party platform was presented, but it was contrary to principles of equality and sustainability," Juarez said. "They back a minimal state, and a state that practically does not intervene while leaving everything up to the private sector."
In an incredibly short period of time, the 132 Movement has carved out a significant position in national political life by directly confronting a formerly, semi-taboo issue: who controls the flow of information, and to what ends.
The movement's contention that powerful political figures, the state and private media interests are virtually interlocked is supported by a recent study conducted by the Citizen Committee for Electoral Observation. According to a story about the group's findings by the Proceso news service, 18 Congressional candidates have professional or family ties to Televisa, TV Azteca, the National Chamber of the Telecommunications Cable Industry and other media interests. The candidates studied included members of the PRI, PVEM (Green) and Citizen Movement parties.
In contemporary Mexico, the power of the boob tube cannot be underestimated. Based on the citizens' committee survey, Mexican academic and political analyst Lorenzo Meyer noted in a recent column that 80 percent of 3,480 respondents told interviewers that they got their news from television, while only 7 percent relied on radio and even less, 6 percent, on print media.
For 132 activists Alondra Garcia and Victor Ruiz, issues of media access, official manipulation and freedom of expression are both deeply political and personal questions. As young journalists in a conflictive part of Mexico, Garcia and Ruiz both said there were many stories they cannot touch without facing extremely grave consequences.
Last year, Garcia recalled going to the state capital of Chilpancingo to cover the formation of a state truth commission dedicated to clarifying the fates of more than 600 people who were forcibly disappeared by government security forces in Guerrero during the Dirty War of the 1970s. Shortly afterward, Garcia's supervisor received an anonymous message warning the publication to back off from the story.
The students and young professionals making up the 132 Movement encounter other frustrations, Ruiz added. "We pay for years of college, leave and then there is no work," Ruiz said. The journalism school graduate identified the spirit and goals of his movement with the long struggle of the Chilean students for affordable education, Occupy Wall Street and other manifestations of the new global youth rebellion.
"(132) been called the Mexican spring," Ruiz said. "It was late in arriving, but it came and it will be hard to get rid of."
132 Movement activists plan to keep demanding government transparency, clean elections and media democracy after the July 1 elections. In the few days prior to the voting, they are expected to be in the streets in Mexico City and elsewhere protesting against Televisa, the Federal Electoral Institute and political manipulation and corruption in general.
Meanwhile, new messages that may or may not be the work of people influenced by the 132 Movement have begun appearing in downtown Zihuatanejo. Signed by "Street Tweet," the short but poignant messages are hand-written on large sheets of brown paper and posted in visible public spots. Positioned across from a new bar that blasts songs speaking of gunslingers and grenade launchers and just down the street from the naval base where masked marines leave on patrol, one of the messages reads: "If there were more guitars than arms, there would be more musicians than soldiers."
Another street tweet reads: "Never doubt that a small group of committed and thinking citizens can change the world. In fact, they are the only ones who have ever done it."
-Kent Paterson
Frontera NorteSur: on-line, U.S.-Mexico border news
Center for Latin American and Border Studies
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The Summer Programme consists of activities organised by the Society or those organised by others which may be of interest to our Members.
Tuesday 5th September, 7pm- 9pm at Malton Rugby Club. Steve Roskams, Senior Lecturer in archaeology at the University of York, will be discussing the recent excavations at Malton's Roman Fort.
What did the latest dig unearth? What were the team hoping to find? What more have we learnt about life in the fort or the civilian settlement beyond? What was the most surprising or unusual discovery?
Find out in the fourth of a series of summer lectures organized by Malton Museum, as Steve shares the highlights of, and insights from, this summer's excavations.
Booking is advisable by emailing enquiries.maltonmuseum@gmail.com, calling 0165 3691262 or visiting the museum. Entry fees are £5 and will raise vital funds, enabling us to maintain free entry to the museum which is open 10am-4pm, Thursday- Saturday, between Saturday 15th April and Saturday 28th October. For details of more upcoming events please visit www.maltonmuseum.co.uk.
The Society is involved in a number of events as part of the Heritage Open Days. All the events are free and take place at a variety of locations. Although free, please contact us to book a place at any of the events.
Saturday 9th September: Ayton Castle, off Castle Rise, West Ayton; 10:00am, 1;00pm and 3:00pm - guided walks led by Chris Hall looking at the historic environs of the castle and including access into the tower and undercroft.
Numbers are restricted so you need to book in advance via e-mail to scarborough.archaeology@btinternet.com giving the time of the walk you wish to attend, the number in your party, their names and a contact telephone number.
Note: There is no parking at Ayton Castle or on the adjacent streets. Participants are asked to park in the village such as Ayton Village Hall car park which is nearby. The village hall will be open for the Ayton heritage day where there will be an exhibition. Toilet facilities will be available there.
Sunday 10th September: Raincliffe Woods, Lady Edith's Drive, Scarborough 10:30am and 2:30 pm – guided walks led by Trevor Pearson and Marie Woods lasting 2 to 2½. hours looking at archaeological discoveries in the woods. Meet at the Dog Bark Bend car park.
Numbers are restricted so you need to book in advance via e-mail to marie@heritageadventures.co.uk giving the time of the walk you wish to attend, the number in your party, their names and a contact telephone number.
September 10th Grand Cemetery Fair in Dean Road Cemetery, 11 till 3. with stalls, guided walks and family fun.
York Archaeological Trust run annual training events in York and Nottingham: take a look at Archaeology Live for more details.
Current Archaeology magazine has a really useful listing of excavations throughout the summer. Have a look at their Go Digging page.
Scarborough Museums have a range of activities throughout the summer as well as just being great places to visit. Go to the Scarborough Museums Trust page for more details.


After rearranging my craft room yesterday, I decided that I need to make an effort to start using up more of my scraps and leftover bits of paper packs. Of course, being the paper collector that I am, it is always difficult to see that last little bit gone.
Here are a couple of cards that I made today. The first one is based on this week's Mojo Monday sketch 97. It did not photograph very well. The colors in the photo are muted and you can't see the pattern on the green paper; which has almost a quilted look, very pretty. The other is my first attempt at a flower pot card. What fun that was to make; can't wait to do more of them!


Ottawa is the ultimate place to celebrate the return of spring! Come see over a million blooming tulips, experience the world-famous Canadian Tulip Festival (May 10-20), and explore the city's attractions, activities, food and culture.
Canada's capital is glorious during the Canadian Tulip Festival in the spring, plus it's a great time of year to see the sights and visit attractions. Get inspired for your spring getaway with this three-day itinerary.
Stroll through giant beds of glorious tulips and enjoy live music, art, tours and even fireworks! It all takes place May 10-20 in beautiful Commissioners Park, located along the Rideau Canal.
Get your phone or camera ready for an explosion of beauty throughout Canada's capital! Visit photogenic hot spots to capture over a million tulips alongside national attractions and natural sites.
With over 800 kilometres (497 miles) of recreational pathways linking natural areas, parks, gardens and national sites, cycling is the perfect way to explore Ottawa's beauty!
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The Home Office has confirmed it will investigate why a man who was held captive by members of the notorious Rooney family for 26 years was fined for an offence he was forced into.
Eleven members of the family were convicted - including nine jailed for a combined total of 79 years and 7 months in September 2017 - of forcing vulnerable people to work or cheating residents out of their property.
It has now emerged that one of their victims - who was made to dig his own grave - is being chased for a £165 fine following his conviction in 2012 for stealing metal from a Leeds nightclub.
Under the Modern Day Slavery Act 2015, victims forced to commit a crime can have their convictions quashed.
But the theft by the Rooneys' victim was carried out before the protection was introduced.
His sister told the BBC that he is very upset by regular letters he receives chasing up payment of his fine.
She said: "I feel it's an absolute injustice.
"I think it's quite incredulous actually that a court is chasing him some seven years later for this fine.
"He's currently living on benefits, so he doesn't have a lot of money, and now he's been being forced to pay for this fine out of his benefits."
Lincolnshire Police has reportedly made repeated but unsuccessful attempts over the last three months to have the matter resolved.
The Home Office has issued this statement: "Under the Modern Slavery Act, victims who were compelled to commit a criminal offence as a result of their slavery or trafficking situation have a statutory defence.
"We are urgently investigating this case and any potential deductions have been suspended."
The Rooney family members' crimes were exposed after police raided locations in Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and London on September 22, 2014 under Operation Pottery.


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Hit-and-run accidents: Firefighter dies on his way to work
On behalf of Flesch & Beck Law | May 1, 2019 | Hit And Run Accidents
In a recent tragedy in Colorado, a Greeley firefighter who survived the hazards of his occupation and saved the lives of others for 21 years lost his life in a traffic accident. His death was one of many that result from hit-and-run accidents each year. The fatal crash happened while the veteran firefighter was riding his motorcycle to work.
According to the police department, an emergency call came in shortly after 6:30 a.m. on a recent Thursday. First responders rushed to the scene to find a critically injured motorcyclist lying in the street. The vehicle that struck the biker was not at the crash scene. Although paramedics performed CPR on the victim as he was transported to the hospital, he succumbed to his injuries and was dead upon arrival at the hospital.
A crash report indicates that the hit-and-run driver was located and arrested soon after the accident. It is alleged that he drove an SUV and crossed over the center line, directly into the path of the motorcyclist. A head-on collision resulted that caused the death of the firefighter. The SUV driver was taken into custody.
Colorado families who lost loved ones in hit-and-run accidents are typically entitled to pursue financial relief, and although no amount of money can make of for such a loss, it could ease the financial burden. Dealing with the legal proceedings of a wrongful death lawsuit is a complicated process, but help is available. An experienced personal injury attorney can provide valuable assistance throughout the ensuing legal proceedings, which might result in a monetary award to cover financial and emotional damages.
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For college students in an eco-friendly town like Boulder, having a car is often less than desirable. The cost of gas, coupled with traffic, is enough to make anyone want to ditch their wheels and find another mode of transportation.
Thankfully, Boulder is served by the metro area's Regional Transportation District bus lines, which CU students can ride for free with their BuffOne Cards.
For almost 10 years, CU-issued BuffOne Cards -- which allow students access to a number of services and amenities on campus -- have doubled as bus passes. The cards allow students to ride free of charge on any of RTD's 165 regular fixed routes, except the special BroncosRide and RockiesRide lines, said Sarah Douvres, manager of the BuffOne Card Office.
"The pass is billed automatically through student fees if the student is taking classes," she said.
The pass is valid from August through May each year the student is at CU.
Using RTD to get around Boulder is "fairly straightforward," said Peter Roper, manger of the Student Bus and Bike Programs. The user-friendliness of the system accounts for its popularity.
"RTD plays a big role in campus life," Roper said. "It's not just a commute -- it's a lifestyle in Boulder."
The following is a list of some of RTD's more popular Boulder- area routes. For more information, visit rtd-denver.com .
With the many RTD routes serving the state, CU students are capable of traveling to a variety of locations both within and outside of Boulder just by using a bus, Roper said.
"It's pretty practical to come to campus without a car," he said. "Students can walk or bus to campus, or get to Nederland, the 29th Street mall, Denver or an adventure in Longmont."
Roper's office tracks the number of rides CU students take on buses using their BuffOne Card passes. For 2008, the top two most-used routes were the intra-Boulder HOP (a non-RTD bus jointly operated by Special Transit and the City of Boulder) and SKIP lines, with 602,000 and 581,000 rides for the year respectively, he said.
"It's always a fun little contest between the SKIP and the HOP," Roper said. "Two years ago, the SKIP had a higher ridership, but now it's significantly different."
The next most-frequented route was the B, the Denver-Boulder bus line, with 383,000 CU student rides last year. Two other Boulder-based lines, the DASH (259,000 rides) and the Stampede (190,000 rides), took fourth and fifth place.
Other routes in and out of Boulder also have a "significant ridership," including the GS (Golden-Boulder), the J (Gunbarrel) and the N (Nederland), Roper said.
Roper said the CU campus, though, is the primary stop for students.
"Our jobs are our No. 1 destination," he said. "Campus is the No. 1 destination for students."
RTD route planners have said the bus stop at Broadway and Euclid Avenue, in front of CU's University Memorial Center, is the busiest stop in the entire system, Roper said.
"Between 3 to 5 (p.m.) on a weekday, that platform is absolutely jammed with people," he said.
For those new to the RTD system, figuring out bus routes can be a daunting task. RTD lines often "wind, rather than following a single street," said Roper. However, riding a line once or twice is often enough to get a handle on bussing.
"RTD's service planning looks closely at the route for a bus," Roper said. "They are very efficient."
Denver's RTD system has consistently proven its efficiency: it has won the American Public Transportation Association's Outstanding Public Transportation System award three times, most recently in 2008, according to the RTD-Denver Web site.
According to the American Public Transportation Association's Web site, Denver's RTD boasts an 88 percent on-time performance for local buses and a 92 percent on-time level for regional and express lines.


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Nowadays HSV are playing-style is very attractive to watch. Led by their captain Rafael van der Vaart, the Hamburg side is scoring lots of goals, making their fans rushing to the stadium. HSV home ground is Imtech Arena, commonly referred as the Volksparkstadion. It is one of the biggest in Europe, with the capacity of 57,000 seats. That is why it was one of the venues of the 2006 World Cup.
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Has Congress gobbled up more than it can chew, much less digest?
As if, a tsunami has struck the Indian political island and only two peaks jutting out that have survived the avalanche: dynasty and power; both peaks interconnected by an inverted rainbow bridge that never curves to touch the lowly grounded masses. The dazzled masses have yet to figure out how their future will change – when will they ride the rainbow.
The most awesome sight is the trooping of all the humbled aspirants of exclusive powers at the top, who are seeking the shelter of the victorious dynasty. Be that Sharad Pawar, Mayawati, Lalu or Paswan. Sages like Lord Meghnad Desai, whose sympathies with the Hindutva forces is not a secret, all of a sudden is prominent among the cheerleaders, who wants NCP and the Communists, both to merge with the Congress. In his weekly Indian Express column, he exhorts CPI (M) to 'make peace with the Congress, change your spots, and merge'.
However, for Congress, these are like honeymoon days. Only time will tell, if Congress has gobbled up more than it can chew, much less digest? Though it is commonly believed that the Grand Old Party itself started up as a grand old coalition party; it remains to be seen if it has gathered the same across the board goodwill and unity of purpose to nurture and nourish an egalitarian India that would care for all its people in equal measure. However, as past history shows, how greed for power, exclusivity, egoistical one-upmanship, gravy train corruption, polarisation of people as divide and rule strategies and high handed dynastic power trips, eroded the gloss that had held the coalition together. All these demons are still sheltering under the Manmohan Congress umbrella and it would not take time for them to raise their heads, at the first sign of the faltering of the top triumvirate.
The greatest challenges will come both from abroad and from within.
Skeptical observers correctly question the entire surrealism of the new Congress that is manifestly not supported by any upward mass upswing. The hoopla is more of a media creation. Congress hand seems to hide a foreign hand. The technical fait accompli may be tested at various levels as time progresses. Just as US Vice President had publicly declared that Obama will face grave challenges in his presidency, so to, the trio will be put to severe tests. Their apparent strengths are also their weakness. They are too top heavy to be immune to buffeting from ground up. The team that the trio has collected in their cabinet does come out with rare display of a genuine gung-ho spirit to tackle challenges ahead. Key ministers are well- experienced and well-tested. However, the rank and file that in fact runs the machines of the governance is yet to show that they are willing to accept the trio as their new masters who mean business. Heads should role, at first sign of laxity, compromise and chalta hai attitude. In that Manmohan should take a leaf from Mayawati, who demonstrably shows how a tight ship she captains. Sycophancy should be treated as poison. Favouritism and cronyism should be publicly derided. And any sign of collaboration with foreign powers to compromise on the integrity, security and prime interest of the nation, should be ruthlessly pursued and punished. All ministers with even a shade of corruption, actual and/or suspected, should be put on guard. Moves in foreign affairs should be reoriented towards India's own longer term associations. An emerging nation, as India is, in the new economic power reshuffling, has to choose its friends and foes judiciously and not under foreign pressures and alien agenda. The recent storm in the tea-cup when known hawks were given the opportunity to bring in new colours of demonisation of our neighbours has been mercifully blown away for the time being. But the danger is lurking that India will be dragged into foreign adventures or misadventures, on the open and relentless demands of its supposedly strategic partners, that is bankrolling its economic turnaround. India will have to choose between a war economy and a peace economy. If it chooses a war economy, it would be thrust into a war, sooner than later. The national ethos of Indian people does not support it. The devastation on a mass scale will be so destabilising, that people may revolt against their government, though widely believed to be elected with a broad mandate.
With economists at the top echelons of Congress government now taking office, it is a moment of great challenge to choose, if India should be forced in to a war economy, when war could be looming large over the northern horizons. India could through astute diplomacy buy time for the economy to strengthen its grass root stability and not get entangled in any international Great Game to help other economic powers to thrust their agenda on our poor masses. India has survive the meltdown much better than the West and even China, due to its economy still heavily oriented towards its own people and resources. The foreign investments and entanglements have yet to percolate into the system to affect our economic life, to the degree that globalisation and liberalization has brought to the Western economies. Thanks to the erstwhile coalition partners from the Left, unbridled expansion was judiciously checked. The danger now is that that coalition partner has been cleverly taken out of all the reckoning, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be pressurised to open us further 'reforms'. However, the choice of Pranab Mukherjee, with his past experience in planned economy, should be able to steer the country away from any reckless experimentation and close the loop holes that gave the opportunities to people like Satyam Chief, to play havoc with peoples' resources.
On the internal organizational front, though the Congress decision to throw off the yoke of coalition partners has manifestly succeeded in returning Congress to once again at the helm of affair, and with much better head-count, Congress is essentially riding a troika, where the Rightist, Centrists and Leftists from within the Congress stables, are being harnessed to ensure a smooth journey. However, the pull of independence cannot be discounted for long. All three groups that had tasted freedom will maintain their linkages and might try to form or encourage alternative formations, to give vent to their ideological and/or regional aspirations. Congress cannot please all the people all the time and the whip of dynastic sycophancy and discipline will be tested again and again. The temporary strength of centralized power cannot last for ever and it will call for immense resilience on the part of Manmohan Singh and Sonia, to appease the troika in not dragging the party in all directions.
Congress as a party has yet to acknowledge the voluntary participation of Muslim voters in some of the most crucial face-off constituencies. In the session of Parliament, where Smt. Meira Kumar was elected first Dalit woman speaker of the Lok Sabha, by unanimous vote endorsement from all political parties, the live telecast of the entire proceedings, appear to those from the 150 million Indian Muslim community that happen to watch, as throbbing with some unanimous conspiracy to ignore and bloat out the very existence of Indian Muslims as citizens of India, without any right to be represented in the affairs of their country. A few Urdu couplets read out by Trinamol Congress Chief Mamta Banerjee and a prominent Sikh MP, were the only forced and indirect recognizance that Muslims had some relevance to the historical proceedings that the nation was so reverentially witnessing.
Congress insensitivity towards Indian Muslims is appalling. It appears that it is still deeply committed to the 2-nation theory, while only paying lip service to the secular and democratic constitution of India.
It is no secret that Taliban is the creation of the US and PAK-ISI. Still the US senator Richard Lugar, who is the co-author of the bill with Sen. John Kerry to extend a 15 billion dollar package for Pakistan, is either naïve or trying to fool American public by asking, the connection between ISI and Taliban. In the same press conference, attended by the visiting Presidents of Pakistan and Afghanistan, a call was made for India to help out. If Indian authorities are alert and listening, they can easily make out that India is being dragged by both US and Pakistan in this never ending imbroglio to become a convenient scapegoat at later stage, on one pretext or other. Besides involving our forces into any such spurious exercise, India is bound to lose its global prestige with non-aligned people as well as Muslim world. With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, a widely believed to be a US sympathiser, openly professing his love for Bush, there is an imminent danger, that he will bow to US pressure. There is only a 50/50 chance of Congress with Manmohan Singh coming to power after May 16 results. To take into account this phenomenon, the Congress government may rush in, as in the case of Quattrocchi, to give the US what it demands. Since Mulayam Singh's Samajwadi is supporting the UPA government from out side, it too will bear the responsibility of any hasty decision on entanglement in US-led AFPAK war that could have serious repercussion on India and its own integrity, security and social stability. People and political parties, therefore should be alert to see that no far-reaching irreversible commitment by this lame-duck administration is made, to the detriment of the coming generations.
Are Obama, Hillary Clinton, Gates, Petraeus and Holbrooke ready to face an international war crimes trial if AFPAK war leads to genocide?
Are Obama, Hillary Clinton, Gates, Petraeus and Holbrooke ready to face an international war crime trial if AFPAK war leads to genocide?
Nobody doubts that the US/Nato has the firepower, especially, air fire power to destroy the entire 40 million population of Pakhtoonistan, populated in the area that straddles on both side of Afghanistan/Pakistan border.
The 'enemy' that the US —- not EU —- has identified is effectively the entire population of the area. No amount of drones or Pak armed efforts can subdue the rightful inspiration of the indigenous people of the area. The only alternative for the US to achieve its goal, however carefully defined by the present administration to fool its own people, in not the world at large, is to destroy the entire Pakhtoon people with a scorched to earth bombing spree.
Short of that solution, the US forces will be engaged in a prolonged operation in this area that will destroy the peace and potential prosperity of the region for decades to come. And if the gradual increment in US war aims finally leads to indiscriminate bombing of Pakistan, even Pakistani civilian casualties will be involved. That is a sure case of attempting the genocide of the people of the region.
In case of carnage on such a scale, US administration leaders from Obama down to Holbrooke should better be prepared for a war crime trial, either by their own courts or an international court. This is besides the anger of the Muslim world. Obama had repeatedly declared that Bush has done a blunder in getting involved in Iraq war and neglecting Afghanistan is the US war against terror. Now that he is in charge, he should get another set of analysts, other than the neo-con infested or rather impregnated thinkers that had taken the US to a path to disaster in the Bush years, in every meaning of the word. He has been given a rarest of rare opportunity to set the course to a more peaceful, more prosperous and equitable world. He should not lose this opportunity by being handicapped by Bush era foreign policy dead ends. It's absurd to hope that either Zardari of Pak army, or even Indian army, if US has any such designs in future, to subdue the enraged people of Pakhtoon. History is on their side. They can be bought, but they cannot be fought. Unless, by invading Afghanistan and indulging in hot pursuit, the neo-con designated strategy is to take over the entire subcontinent in a neo-colonial upsurge, Obama should stick to diplomacy to solve the problem.
Let there be a regional conference of all neighbours, to propose peaceful means to pacify Pakhtoon and start building up the subcontinent in a larger economic zone, setting a invigorated pace to integration at all levels. The future of 2 billion people, a third of the world population is at stake. War or peace; the choice remains with Obama, as the buck stops at his Oval Office table.
India: Civil Rights or Civil War?
The recent series of bomb blasts that have rocked India―a series which has become a proverbial dark tunnel where no end is in sight―denote a new pattern. Till now communal riots were engineered by communal forces and the fascist part of the Indian state machinery to polarize society. This trend reached its apogee in the Gujarat 2002 riots.
The communal forces both inside and outside the Indian State machinery learnt some important lessons from Gujarat; chiefly that in this time and space, in the 21st century, it is very difficult to get away with organized pogroms―ultimately you have to pay a political price which the BJP did in the 2004 elections.
The communal forces then conjured a new phenomenon―why not start engineering bombs first in Hindu dominated areas, and then in Muslim areas?
The trend began with the July 2006 Mumbai serial train blasts in `Gujarati Hindu dominated' first class compartments of the Mumbai metro rail; soon there were blasts in Muslim areas of Malegaon and Hyderabad.
In 2008, with elections just around the corner in April-May 2009, and the BJP getting relegated to the third position in electoral calculations in the post-nuclear deal vote phase, the bomb blast phenomenon has become endemic. From July 2008 at the time of writing this piece here have been several blasts―in the past week, blasts have occurred almost daily.
One thing is clear―it is not that bomb blasts are being engineered to create communal riots. That (communal riots following bomb blasts) simply has not happened―the new mantra seems to be of bomb blasts replacing communal riots. This means that if in the past riots were engineered to create communal polarization the same kind of polarization is being sought to be created by engineering bomb blasts.
So the pattern―4 blasts in a Hindu dominated area; then one or two in a Muslim dominated area―soMalegaon and Modesa after Bengaluroo, Ahmedabad and the two blasts in Delhi.
This is a foreign pattern for even Indian communal forces; this trend has been seen in areas where Mossad and CIA operate; a similar/exact phenomenon was seen in Lebanon where Beirut, a beautiful and cosmopolitan Asiatic city was turned into an arena of sectarian Muslim-Christian conflict with bomb blasts being engineered every day in respective Muslim-Christian areas, something which now even Hollywood films (see Spy Game) admit as a CIA ploy to destroy Lebanon.
The post-American invasion Iraq situation too sees a similar thing―of sectarian Shia-Sunni violence being generated by the bomb blast phenomenon, engineered by the CIA, private US mercenary firms like Blackwater and the US forces.
A third region is Pakistan where too blasts take place respectively, in Shia or Sunni, Sindhi or Mohajir, NWFP or Punjabi or Baluchi areas alternately and with regularity. Here the western game is clear―America andIsrael have been working for decades to dismemberPakistan and control its nuclear arsenal.
India was spared of this ordeal till 1991 as Prime Ministers like Jawahar Lal Nehru and Indira Gandhi, and even Rajiv Gandhi, did not allow Mossad-CIA penetration.
Before liberalization during Narsimha Rao's regime, Indian passport holders could not travel to two places: Israel and South Africa. India was at the forefront of the International crusade against apartheid and the denial of a homeland for Palestinians.
Why is it that after liberalization, which was initiated soon after Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, India recognized Israel and established diplomatic relations―and then the Babri Masjid demolition incident occurred?
So three things are related―liberalization of the Indian economy, the change in Indian foreign policy from an anti-Imperialist, pro-Third World position to a pro-American, pro-Israel stance, and the increasing persecution of Muslims, in an institutionalized form.
See that these three developments occur side by side―and now in 2008 we see India being turned into another Lebanon.
The biggest delusion of the RSS-BJP is that by blaming organizations like SIMI or Muslim `terrorists' for the recent blasts they are doing some service to the nation. On the contrary, by not exposing the foreign Mossad-CIA hand, they are going against the interests of India. Why did the BJP-RSS not cry foul over the flight of Ken Haywood from India after the email sent by the so called `Indian Mujahideen' group was traced to his computer in Navi Mumbai? Why was there no demand for a probe into the role of this dubious American national with shady evangelical, anti-Hindu and anti-Muslim connections in America?
This is a question I would like to put before people like Javed Anand―did they write anything on the Ken Haywood angle?
This is a question I would like to put before Yogendra Yadav―we were engaged in a debate over SIMI and the wider Muslim question in India―a debate in which Shri Yadav differed on several points but agreed on one that innocent Muslims are being persecuted and liberals, secular forces or any religious group with a conscience ought to fight against the persecution.
Now the question is: Is Shri Yadav ready to demand a probe and come out on the streets on the issue of the Ken Haywood angle or the Bajrang Dal angle (that they were caught making bombs which exlodd in their faces)? Is he willing to write as a member of the Governing Council of the ICSSR or otherwise against the total lack of concern in the Indian security agencies towards the Ken Haywood angle and the total failure to investigate into several instances where Bajrang Dal and Hindu Munaani and other RSS outfits have been found making bombs?
Another question: Are people like Tavleen Singh, who speak about `Islamic terrorism', ready to even consider discussing the Ken Haywood or the Bajrang Dal angle in the recent bomb blasts and violence against Christians in Orissa and Karnataka?
If Tavleen Singh is not willing to discuss the foreign or the RSS angle then there is something seriously wrong somewhere―I have mentioned earlier that SIMI or the Indian Mujahideen is a fiction, a phantom like the WMDs in Iraq―why can't the liberals see this?
I was reading Shashi Tharoor's piece in the Times of India; I have also seen Karan Thapar writing against violence perpetrated by VHP on Christians in Orissa. All this is very good and welcome―but why haven't Shashi Tharoor or Karan Thapar ever written on violence against Muslims in India? Why hasn't Karan Thapar ever written on the Ken Haywood angle? In the Times of India piece, Shashi Tharoor makes it a point to condemn `both' types of violence―he is again placing the fictitious `Islamic terrorism' and the invented `Indian Mujahideen' at par with Bajrang Dal and the VHP―he does not even mention the RSS―what kind of a secularism and liberalism is this?
Let me be very clear and cloud―today, supporting the persecution and the arrest and the torture of thousands of Muslim youth, is tantamount to being anti-national. Today being anti-Muslim is tantamount to being anti-national. All newspapers and people in the media have to realize this―including people like Rajdeep Sardesai, Sagarika Ghose, Vinod Mehta―that you will be held accountable personally for Muslim persecution―and for not exposing the Bajrang Dal-Ken Haywood angle in the deaths of countless Hindus and Muslims during the `bomb blast season' underway―by nationalists―and this is coming from me, a left and a religious Sanatan Dharma Hindu figure, not a rootless, westernized pseudo-secular personality.
What India needs today are not just protests―we need a special prevention of atrocities against minorities act―something which makes refusal of housing and flats to minorities, refusal by a Police officer to register a FIR by minorities, or to act in their protection, failure of a District Magistrate or a Senior Superintendent of the Police to prevent a riot or a bomb blast, the picking up of Muslims and other minorities without a formal charge, the very idea of detention of Muslim youths after blasts, or encounter killings, the calling of Muslms by the nameLaandiya or Katua, a stringent crime with due punishment.
India already has a prevention of violence/atrocities against Scheduled castes act―it is a crime to call a Dalit a Chamar; or not to register his or hers FIR. Why can't a similar act, be enacted for the minorities?
In India the so called war against terror, against SIMI or the Indian Mujahideen is a fictitious, bogus war―the recent bomb blasts were engineered by security forces, and foreign agencies and RSS-Bajrang Dal. The real war is against Muslim/minority persecution, the appropriate response to Batla House type fake encounter killing, and the extension of civil liberties guaranteed in the Indian constitution. See the history of nations―in America and Europe mere constitutional guarantees were not enough―specific new laws had to be enacted from time to time to abolish slavery, protect minorities, and end persecution, segregation and racism.
America passed through its civil rights moment in the 1960s―India has to confront its own civil rights moment now. There is a simple message to Indian liberals―either support, the demand for a special civil rights act for minorities or perish―for soon the fascist forces persecuting Muslims will turn against you.
If there is a civil war in India on this issue―so be the case; in any case with direct American intervention in Pakistan, conflict between America and India is very near. Liberals do not understand this but the Indian army does―so there is bound to be a double civil war in India―one against foreign intervention in the Indian sub-continent and the other against anti-national fascist forces.
Where do liberals stand in this fight? The anti-national forces want India to be invaded―that is why they are launching Muslim persecution so that when NATO forces attack India, the country is weak internally.
They are of course deluded―as the history of 1857 shows, Indian Muslims are the single most nationalist forces alive in India today―persecution or no persecution, they will fight foreign invasion.
VIEW FROM BANGLADESH- Bombing in India: RSS engineering 'Islamic terrorism'?
Bombing in India: RSS engineering 'Islamic terrorism'?
London 18 September 2008. Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh expressed new realism when he told a meeting of governors of states yesterday, "The role of Pakistan-based terrorist groups cannot be minimised but the involvement of local elements in recent blasts adds a new dimension to the terrorist threat," and he added, "We have reports that certain Pakistan-based terrorist outfits are constantly seeking to set up new terrorist modules within our country", according to report bybdnews24.com/Reuters today (18 September 2008).
For many years now, in the wake of bombings by 'suspected' Islamic groups, India in the absence of concrete intelligence, has been pointing their fingers at external operatives such as 'Pakistan-based terrorist group Lashkar-i-Tayeba', 'Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami Bangladesh (HuJI-BD)', etc. They dished out many make believe stories of bombing operations, which many observers suspected to be concocted in the research chambers of RAW. This kind of blame-mongering, and the desperate and reckless police actions by India in the aftermath of bombings, has been likened to "a flailing state" by Harvard economist Lant Pritchett, the word 'Flailing' meaning moving vigorously or erratically, such as arms flailing helplessly in the water while drowning, according to reports by Avijit Ghosh in the Times of India yesterday (17 September 2008). Another report of the Times of India yesterday highlighted Dr. Manmohan Singh's despair about the gap in government intelligence as they reported: 'Reflecting Government's concern over the recent serial bomb blasts in Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Delhi, Singh admitted that there were "still vast gaps in intelligence" that needed to be overcome'.
Thus, Dr. Singh's new realism with his inward look is the right approach and it would be quite revealing to him, if only he seriously does a retrospective soul-searching about the conditions of the Muslims in India, who constitute 13 percent (16 percent according to other views) of the population, and if only he looks into the grievances of this repressed, downtrodden and marginalized community, who have been massacred, brutalised and terrorised by thousands of most callous riots perpetrated in front of the eyes of the world, over a decade more than half a century.
In the social fabric, ridden by caste system with unequal status and unequal rights by birth and for life, the other deprived communities in India fare no better, as the treatment of the Muslims by the 15 percent cast Hindus compares very well with similar treatments of the Dalits, the near Dalits, the Sikhs, Buddhists, Christians and other minority communities and minority nationalities, in this much vaunted hypocrisy touted as the so-called largest democracy.
It was indeed Dr. Manmohan Singh, who at the start of his premiership, appointed the Justice Rajinder Sachar Committee for preparation of a report on the social, economic and educational status of the Muslim community of India. The committee prepared a 403-page report that was tabled in Parliament on 30 November 2006 – 20 months after obtaining the terms of reference from the Prime Minister's Office. Now, for the first time, it was shown with statistics, how marginalized the Muslim community have been in India. Even the 'Ananda Bazar Patrika' exclaimed that in many respects the conditions of the Muslims are worse than those of the Dalits. What choices do they have then, if they are relentlessly pushed against the wall only to be shot? Will they not launch any struggle to survive??
Good and sound conclusion. But the big question is: Who is going to tame the Hindu fundamentalists? The Hindu fundamentalists not only whip up communal tensions and perpetrate thousands of riots, but according to reports, they have also been engaged in engineering 'Islamic terrorism'.
On 15 September 2008, Shabnam Hashmi, Member, National Integration Council and Dr. Ram Puniyani, Social Activist and writer, jointly circulated 'An Open Letter to the Prime Minister of India', showing case by case that the RSS have been involved in making and blasting bombs in the guise of 'Islamic terrorists', so that communal tensions and violence can be whipped up and these can be used in order to mobilise votes for the BJP-RSS group. The letter was published in the 'Communalism Watch' on 15 September 2008 and posted tohttp://www.twocircles.net/ on 16 September 2008. The activists and writers of the letter asserted, 'If we look at the timing of the terror attacks it is very clear that one and only one political outfit is gaining from it and that is Sangh. With their eyes on the central government their agenda of polarizing the voter is going ahead successfully'.
With the sinister and murderous scheme of things against them as they are, the Muslims in India are bound to respond, if they refuse to be silently bulldozed. Call it Jihad, call it struggle for physical survival, call it struggle for economic, social and cultural emancipation, the Muslims have been left with no other alternative except for uniting and politically fighting for their rights, and whether these fights for rights can be conducted peacefully will depend on the government and the powerful Hindu fundamentalists. The best thing for the Muslims in India would be to unite with all the other deprived sections and communities of India and launch a united great struggle for the great task of the economic, social and cultural emancipation of the people of India, the kind of struggle which are much needed throughout the under-developed world, including of course our beloved country Bangladesh.
According to a front page report in Mumbai's Inquilab Urdu daily, there is a definite connection between the Supreme Court case hearing and UPA Government's counter affidavit against SIMI's exoneration by the Unlawful Activities tribunal. People were bewildered less by the sweep of the arrests of so-called SIMI activists on the suspicions of being involved in the recent Ahmedabad and Surat explosions, but more by the timing of the depth and sweep of media coverage of the mass arrests, giving out so many details on each and every person supposedly involved in the crime. Pages on pages in The Times of India were blackened on the details written out by their own staff. The whole media preparation that has gone into the project is mind-boggling.
As in the case of the now infamous Arushi murder case, the jugalbandi between Police authorities, this time of various states remarkably cooperating with each other for the 'national cause' of demonizing Muslims and the very obliging media lapping up the extensive material supplied by the investigating agencies. None of the media editors bothered to check if the media sentencing of innocents and character assassination of whole community on the basis of a few 'usual suspects' arbitrarily picked up by police with big hoopla, without any proof and without any authority to denigrate them, is entirely legal. In fact, in strict judicial terms, with such an organised adverse publicity by the media, the whole case against SIMI in court can be thrown out as mistrial.
The time has come when trial by media should stop.
The other strange fact is that with so much information with the investigating agencies on the supposed culprits, how the alleged criminals were able, or allowed to go through with their nefarious plans, if any.
Now, the cat is out of the bag.
A strong feeling among the dissenting people, whose majorities are getting greater and greater by the hour, is that UPA government, under pressure from their own internal extremist Muslim-haters and for consolidation of their own Hindu Vote Bank, have organised this farce of a grand drama of using summary arrests of so-called SIMI terrorist, so that their case with the Supreme Court, could be successfully processed.
The simpletons are under the impression that the august Supreme Court will be as gullible as the Media, to accept all summary charges made by the investigating agencies and stay the lifting of the ban of SIMI as a student organisation working within Muslim community.
If Supreme Court has the recent Arushi case under observation, where both police and media had gone on a frenzy of spreading concocted stories about the whole murder scenarios, the recent hoopla organised through the medium of pliant media by the UPA government, will fall on its face.
The most glaring aspect of the whole UPA imbroglio is that their own coalition partners, all non-Brahmins, like Lalu Yadav, Mulayam Singh Yadav, and Ram Vilas Paswan are openly questioning the unjustified arrests and demonisation of SIMI. The stark division between Brahmins and non-Brahmins in the political circles over the subject has never been so public.
It is time Prime Minister should gather courage and stand by the truth.
You can fool some of the people some of the time. Not all of the people all of the time.


The Snow & Ice Management Association (SIMA) is forming a set of peer groups, facilitated by Phil Harwood, CEO of Pro-Motion Consulting and LM columnist.
The idea for the peer groups stemmed from a membership satisfaction survey, Tirado added, noting 81 percent of respondents identified "interacting with professionals" as an integral part of their membership.
The organization is a calling on all interested participants to register for the peer groups by April 17 via email to Martin@SIMA.org or by visiting SIMA.org/peer-groups.
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Thanks to LM for helping to get the word out. Applications are coming in and being reviewed so now is the time to apply if you want to participate. Hope you'll join us!


MELBOURNE, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- The Australian Open women's final has been set on Day 10 of the tournament with the Czech Republic's Petra Kvitova to face young Japanese sensation Naomi Osaka after both players made it through Thursday's semifinals under Melbourne's blistering hot sun.
In the men's bracket, world number two Rafael Nadal is the first competitor to reach the final, after thumping 20-year-old Greek prospect Stefanos Tsitsipas in straights sets 6-2, 6-4, 6-0 at the Rod Laver Arena.
While it's been a breakthrough tournament for Tsitsipas with wins over 20-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer in the fourth round and Spanish ace Roberto Bautista Agut in the quarterfinals, the youngster simply couldn't match the precision and placement of the Spanish master.
"It was a great match, and it's been a great tournament," Nadal said after the match.
"I've played well every day. After a lot of months without playing, it's probably this court, this crowd, that is giving me that unbelievable energy."
Despite claiming a 17th Grand Slam title last year when he won the French Open, much of Nadal's 2018 campaign was marred with injuries.
In fact, the 32-year-old was forced to withdraw from the Brisbane International with an ankle injury just weeks out from the Australian Open.
"To start the season like this, when a few weeks ago I was in Brisbane, having to take a very tough decision for me not to play there. In that moment it was difficult for me to imagine being in this position today," Nadal said.
"That week in Brisbane in practice worked very well for me, then I arrived here and had another good week of work. And since the tournament started, I've felt really well."
Nadal is set to take on the winner of Friday's clash between world number one and six-time Australian Open winner Novak Djokovic and 28th seed Lucas Pouille.
"All semifinals are interesting and tough," Nadal said. "Novak is the favorite now, and he's been in that position so many times. For Lucas, it's the first one, but he won an amazing quarterfinal match and is playing so well."
"I always thought that Lucas is one of these players with amazing potential. He can beat everybody when he's playing well. So let's see. It's true that Novak is unbelievable, so for Lucas it will be difficult, but it's a tennis match -- anything can happen."
As temperatures pushed over 40 degrees celsius in the first women's semifinal match-up of the day between the Czech Republic's Petra Kvitova and world number 35 Danielle Collins, officials decided to close the roof of the Rod Laver Arena midway through the first set.
Still riding high after a dominant straight sets victory over world number two Angelique Kerber in the round of 16, the American challenger was able to match it with the two-time Wimbledon Champion, pushing the first set into a tie-break.
But in the end, the experience and precision hitting of Kvitova proved the difference and Collins became visibly frustrated in the second set.
With a total of 30 winners to nine, Kvitova had all the momentum and the score finished 7-6 (2), 6-0.
"The first set was very tight, I was also very nervous and I couldn't fully swing," the world number six said after the match.
"It didn't matter if the roof was closed, I was still going to fight. I'm glad that my game from previous matches arrived in the tie-break and second set."
"Finally, I have made it deep here at this major and I will enjoy the final. Whatever happens I'm already very, very happy, I love playing finals," Kvitova added.
In today's other semifinal contest, Naomi Osaka and Czech world number eight Karolina Pliskova put on a spectacular three-set thriller.
Despite a strong start from last year's US Open champion in the first set, Pliskova mounted a fight-back in the second.
With fans on the edge of their seat and the recent memory of Pliskova coming back from 5-1 down in the third set of her quarterfinal match-up against 23-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams, the stage was set for an epic deciding last set.
But Osaka managed to get the break and served out the match with the score ending 6-2, 4-6, 6-4.
"I played her so many times and she's beat me more times than I've beat her, so I expected a really tough hard battle," Osaka said after the match.
"I just told myself to regroup and no matter what just try as hard as I can and I managed get the win."
"But I was so scared serving my second serve," the 21-year-old added. "But I guess that is just experience."


In case you've missed it, Chip Kelly is doing things his way now that he has total control over the Philadelphia Eagles football operations. Last offseason, he cut Pro Bowl wide receiver DeSean Jackson because the playmaker didn't fit into the culture he was building in Philadelphia. This offseason he shipped All-Pro running back LeSean McCoy to the Buffalo Bills in exchange for linebacker Kiko Alonso, who suffered a torn ACL in 2014. He followed that up by releasing offensive guard Todd Herremans, cornerback Cary Williams, and outside linebacker Trent Cole, who were all long-time Eagles and among the team's top veteran players. Kelly didn't just send players packing this offseason, however. In a blockbuster trade with the St. Louis Rams, he landed quarterback Sam Bradford in exchange for Nick Foles and draft picks. The 51-year-old coach then made the most controversial signing of the offseason when he added quarterback Tim Tebow.
His latest eye-opening move was releasing two-time Pro Bowl offensive guard Evan Mathis on Thursday afternoon. Mathis was in the midst of a contract dispute and had yet to report to the Eagles for Organized Team Activities. Simply put, Kelly was done negotiating and chose to cut ties with the 10-year NFL veteran. With that being said, here is a look at four potential landing spots for Evan Mathis.
Mathis is better suited to play in a zone-blocking scheme, which is exactly what the Broncos will feature under new head coach Gary Kubiak. The Broncos are going to feature four new starters along their offensive line in 2015 and adding a player like Mathis to the mix would be an excellent move. Given the fact that Denver is in Super Bowl-or-bust mode in addition to desperately needing help along their offensive line makes the Broncos a near perfect fit for the 10-year NFL veteran.
The reason Mathis was released by the Eagles stemmed from the two-time Pro Bowler holding out for more money. If Mathis is really looking to get paid, the Raiders could end up being his next team. He may not fit into their current youth movement, but there is no denying that the Raiders could use a player like Mathis on their offensive line, and Mathis could get the money he's looking for in Oakland.
Mathis would be an excellent fit for the Seahawks' zone blocking rushing attack. Likewise, the Seahawks could use a Pro Bowl caliber veteran on the interior of their offensive line after trading Max Unger to the New Orleans Saints and losing James Carpenter to the New York Jets in free agency. Furthermore, Seattle not only has the available cap space that would be necessary to sign Mathis, but they would also give him an excellent shot at winning a Super Bowl.
With Dan Connolly still unsigned, the Patriots could use a veteran player like Mathis on their offensive line. In fact, New England actually inquired about trading for the 2013 All-Pro back in March, but were unable to get a deal done with the Eagles. It's highly unlikely that Bill Belichick is going to be willing to give Mathis the type of contract he is looking for, but what New England could offer him is a chance to compete for a Super Bowl title.


Traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI) is a frequently occurring injury with an incident rate of 75.6 per million individuals living in South Africa and results in motor, sensory and autonomic impairments, as well as functional limitations, reduced independence and altered social roles. These injuries occur as a result of assault (60%), vehicular-related accidents (26%) and falls (12%), however little epidemiological information is available in a South African Context.
Typically, following TSCI, individuals are transported to the nearest trauma centre to undergo surgical interventions and initial phase inpatient rehabilitation. Unfortunately, the largest public-sector rehabilitation centre, situated in Cape Town, services only 40% of individuals originally admitted to the facility, leaving a large shortfall in the availability and access to rehabilitation services. As acute-phase and continued rehabilitation following TSCI has been shown to increase the individual's independence, physical functioning and quality of life, this shortfall of service deliver has lasting implications.
Rehabilitation following TSCI is an intricate process consisting of three phases, namely the acute, subacute and chronic phases. These phases correspond with processes underlying neurorecovery, with the acute and subacute phases lasting generally 12-18 months post-injury, progressing into a period of plateaued neurorecovery, the chronic phase. The focus of rehabilitation varies throughout these phases, as highlighted below.
When considering the rehabilitation process following TSCI, it is important to consider the timing of the intervention, the intensity and duration of the intervention strategy, as well as individual characteristics.
Research shows that with a longer duration between injury and initiation of rehabilitation, the lower the gains in physical function. Therefore, a greater availability to quality rehabilitation promotes improved therapeutic outcomes. Numerous gait retraining protocols have been developed, however body-weight supported training has shown the greatest benefit. Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES), involving low-level stimulation of affected muscles, has shown to improve muscular strength and function. Numerous characteristics affect therapeutic outcomes, including the individual's age, medical aid status and availability to resources, muscular compensation patterns and alcohol consumption following injury. Furthermore, the characteristics and severity of the TSCI will largely affect rehabilitation outcomes.
Considering the above, it is clear that rehabilitation interventions play an important role in maximising physical functioning and promoting healing following TSCI. Unfortunately, access to these intervention strategies is limited in South Africa.


These looks are so amazing! Love these pictures!
Fan del primer abrigo largo!! Los demás looks quizás demasiado extravagantes!
Very lovely and beautiful inspirational street fashion!
Love this. Im going to try and get some street style snaps from LFW, – Inspired me.
Son simplemente ideales, me chiflan los abrigos de pelo.
Cuanto estilo junto!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE….
Me encantan estos posts inspiradores!
Love how you capture especially the details – amazing streetstyles!!!
great photos! so much inspiration!
Los pantalones de cuadros me han encantado!
no os han comprado las fotos ninguna revista aun?
son dignas de las mejores!
Such amazing looks, love all those shoes!!
So inspiring, thank you !!
Love all these inspiration pics!
So inspired by every single look here!
Me encantan tus post de street style, son muy inspiradores.
Big crush for the lace up Chloé booties and the striped orange pants! Amazing layering inspo too!


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It's A Johns And Davids World
Sean Leary April 22nd, 2019 Sean Leary Share:
It's an odd trend in entertainment and pop culture, but strangely, there are a lot of creative, imaginative and cool creators named John and David.
Think of all the popular and/or pop culturally influential Johns.
John Lennon.
John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten).
John Belushi.
John Cusack.
Johnny Depp.
John Steinbeck.
John Hiatt.
John Waters.
Johnny Carson.
John Mayer.
John Grisham.
John Fogerty.
John Legend.
John Mellencamp.
And then there are the many Davids:
David Letterman.
Dave Chappelle.
Dave Barry.
David Mamet.
David Lynch.
David Fincher.
David Byrne.
David Sedaris.
David Cross.
"American Idol" once featured a finals showdown of two Davids: Cook and Archuleta; one of the most popular stars around the world is the cheesy David Hasselhoff; and some of the most widely e-mailed videos on YouTube are by street magician David Blaine, who is no relation to non-street magician David Copperfield.
Of course, you could argue that it's the law of averages, and that John and David are such common names that there are bound to be a lot of popular and influential entertainers with those names.
OK, but then where are all the Jims? How about the Bobs? Joes? Sure, there are some, but nowhere near as many as there are Johns and Davids.
For sake of argument, there aren't many Seans either, but then again, Sean isn't exactly a common name, outside Dublin. Of course, Sean is actually a Celtic offshoot of John, so I guess you can count the Seans under the Johns.
That, of course, brings up one Sean who is also a John, Sean John, aka P. Diddy, Diddy, Puff Daddy, Diddydiddybobiddybananafannafofiddydiddy, etc., who I guess you could put in the cool category, maybe, although his star has considerably dimmed, I think. But then again, I don't really consider ostentatious consumption and demonstration of wealth to be an arbiter of cool. In all honesty, I thought Sean John was at his coolest during two periods in his life: 1) when he was just hitting the scene with Biggie Smalls, and 2) in the movie "Made," with Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau. I think those were the twin apexes of Diddy's coolness. But I digress.
At any rate, I think there needs to be a greater Sean representation. But until I become a best-selling author and popular filmmaker (ha!), it's all in the hands of Sean John and Sean Lennon.
We, the Sean Nation, are counting on you, guys.
Until then, it's a world of Daves and Johns, and the rest of us are just living in it, being entertained by them.
Tagged: Dave ChapelleDavid BlaineDavid CopperfieldDavid CrossDavid HasselhoffDavid LettermanJohn Belushijohn cusackJohn LennonJohn LydonJohn MellencampJohnny Carsonjohnny depp
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