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New Delhi: Information technology company Hexaware Technologies Ltd on Monday said its consolidated net profit dipped 25% to Rs.66.2 crore for the quarter ended 31 December from Rs.88.2 crore in the year-ago period.
Its revenue, however, increased 16.3% to Rs.502.3 crore during the quarter from Rs.431.9 crore in the corresponding period last year.
"The Q4 2012 revenue was at $92.4 million, in-line with the revised quarterly revenue guidance of $ 92 million," Hexaware said in a statement.
Hexaware had lowered its revenue outlook for the October-December quarter, citing changes in a contract and a $450,000 hit on account of Hurricane Sandy.
For the full year 2012, net profit grew 22.7% to Rs.327.6 crore, while revenue increased 34.3% to Rs.1,948.2 crore.
"With the investments made to strengthen our competencies and expansion of our field force strength in accordance with our strategic plan, we remain confident of delivering double digit revenue growth for the year 2013," Hexaware Technologies CEO and vice-chairman P.R. Chandrasekar said.
For the January-March 2013 quarter, Hexaware expects revenue to be in the region of $94-95 million, a sequential growth of 1.7% to 2.8%.
The company has declared final dividend of Rs.1.20 per share (60%) on equity shares of Rs.2 each. The total dividend for 2012 stood at Rs.5.40 per share (270%) as against Rs.4 per share (200%) for the year 2011.
"The board has decided to continue with the liberal dividend policy and Hexaware intends to distribute about 50% of net profit as dividend. Given the financial strength and evident growth prospects, dividend will continue to be declared every quarter," chairman Atul Nishar said.
The banking and capital markets segment, which contributed 30.5% of revenues, grew 28% in 2012.
Travel and transportation, and healthcare and insurance verticals accounted for 20.5% and 16.3%, respectively, of FY12 revenues. Emerging segments vertical contributed 32.7% in the revenues. In terms of geography, America's contribution was 53.7%, while Europe and Asia-Pacific accounted for 27.3% and 7.3%, respectively.
"The revenue contribution from A-Pac is likely to be around 8% in 2013 enroute to attaining the stated objective of generating 10% of the company's revenues over the medium-term," the company said.


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- Christina Carsillo
Apr 20, 2013 - First let me say I LOVE MY HAIR! For years I have worn my hair straight and rocked it. My natural curly hair was always thought of as a back up plan or something to do every once in a while. After my visit with Christina, I am excited to say that I am rocking my curly hair and loving every minute of it. The entire vibe and energy of the salon was awesome! I loved my experience at the salon; the cut is fabulous and the staff were wonderful.

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Pumpkin Whoopie Pies Recipe
Pumpkin Whoopie Pies Are Easy as 1, 2, 3
Sick of cupcakes? Why not give the whoopie pie a chance? Part cookie, part cake, the only similarity a whoopie pie has to an actual pie is its circular shape. Whoopie pies are more like an inside-out cupcake. Instead of placing the frosting on top of a mini cake, the frosting is sandwiched between two mini cakes.
Get in the spirit of Fall with this super-simple recipe for pumpkin whoopie pies. No fancy standing mixer is required, and the quick-bake time (10 minutes) means you can put a finger-licking-good dessert together at the last minute. The filling is a classic cream cheese frosting that pairs perfectly with the moist fluffy pumpkin cakes. Check out the uncomplicated recipe after the break.
The recipe that I used can be found on Every Day With Rachael Ray's website. You must make it!


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These are the 6 most trusted marketing trends adopted for the best product promotion ever. They have taken to the most reliable and trusted platforms for the benefit of both the consumers and the company. According to Edison Research analysis media usage these days has become utmost important and when the consumers try to make use of all channels all at the same time the company has to keep track of which are the better points of access being grabbed and utilized by the customers.
Media Fragmentation is the first measure or trend being adopted by the organization for a promising marketing outcome. Based on the Edison Report, there are at least 243 million users on the radio, 182 million users stay connected and updated through home based internet broadband system, the Smartphone users are not less than 139 in number, you have 256 million USA users who keep track of things on television, net users are around 232 million and around 177 million people are interlinked through Wi-Fi. The network is huge and all connecting medium are absolutely effective.
More than 53% of Americans are using Smartphone these days. This is in fact, the smartest way of staying connected. The research conducted by the eMarketer shows that these days' people are more prone using Smartphone in comparison to desktops. Cell phones these days are indispensable mediums for commercial transactions. The mobile-first strategy has become the main priority for marketers these days. They quickly download stuffs with the help of Smartphone apps and find out fruitful solutions to all commercial problems.
Content marketing is the next workable marketing trend or strategy to talk about. Based on a survey done by Out brain and the most reputed research firm eConsultancy, in the year 2012 most of the in-house traders for the best selling and promotion of their services and products rely on content marketing strategies. Contents such as email newsletters, social posts and updates and featured articles or news are becoming all the more popular mediums of commercial business deals.
Nothing can be compared to the prevalence and the dominance of Facebook. This is the most innovative online podium which gives marketers the chance to have the best interaction with clients and consumers. In fact, there are several users interacting with popular brands on their new feeds. This creates more challenges for the marketers and the growth perspectives are even higher. Last but never the least is the use of Twitter platform by NeotericUK. As parallel to Facebook even Twitter is showing good results in the realm of online marketing and popularising of particular brand. These are in general all proven ways to help a company reach the zenith of success through several online short cuts.


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RCMP urge drivers to plan ahead before long weekend
CALGARY- With the long weekend quickly approaching, RCMP and sheriffs are getting set to patrol the busy highways.
First responders are reminding everyone to drink responsibly, and plan ahead.
"They're drinking with their friends and their family and they're having a good time, and then after they've been drinking they realize they've forgotten to make a plan on how to get home, and make poor choices because of the fact they've been drinking," says Cpl. Darrin Turnbull from Airdrie RCMP. "They get behind the wheel of a car and think they're fine to drive.
"Tragically, sometimes they're not."
There were six injury collisions on the QEII last Canada Day long weekend, and RCMP are asking everyone to take their time and drive with care.


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Renal Sympathetic Denervation and Potential Effects on Glucose Metabolism and Cardiovascular Risk-Factors (Re-Shape)
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Al is DDJ's senior contributing editor. He can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.
I have so much to write about this month. Changing to a bimonthly schedule means I get more work done between columnsone month's worth to be exactand, therefore, I have one additional month's worth of things to say. Who's idea was this anyway?
I'll start by telling you about a program I found that I cannot live without. Most musicians cannot live without this program eitherexcept most don't know it yet. The program is called Transcribe! (http://www.seventhstring.demon.co.uk/xscribe/), and the author is a self-employed musician, engineer, and programmer in London by the name of Andy Robinson. He wrote Transcribe! in Visual C++ with MFC. There is a version for the Mac, too. Transcribe! is shareware and the registration fee is $40.
Transcribe! is a digital signal processing (DSP) program that analyzes and plays back audio files. Its stated purpose is to support musicians who transcribe music from recordings. It has two features that will endear it to any piano player. This might be helpful for players of other instruments, too, but those players don't need to know about what God was playing. I'll explain in a minute.
Transcribe! slows down a passage and plays the passage in a loop. It does so as slowly as you like without changing the pitch and retaining enough fidelity that you can distinctly hear the notes. Any pianist who has ever tried to figure out an Art Tatum improvised arpeggio already knows how valuable this feature is. Those who claim to know all about DSP have told me that you can't do this. Transcribe! is cool because it does what I have needed for years and it does what some people say can't be done. Andy explains how he did it at http://www.seventhstring.demon.co.uk/xscribe/slowdown.html.
Transcribe! analyzes a marked passage and tells you what frequencies are in that passage, their duration, and their amplitude. What's more, it displays this information above a piano keyboard display. Any pianist who has ever tried to figure out a chord voicing that Art Tatum (or Bill Evans or Oscar Peterson...) played in some musical context can tell you the value of this feature. The feature also displays harmonics, of course, but you can tell which notes are harmonics by experimenting with the notes on a piano and comparing them to the recording.
Now, if it could only tell us the fingering...
Transcribe! enables something that pianists have been trying to do since the 1930s: Figure out what that magnificent, unbelievable, visually impaired piano player named Art Tatumyou know, the fellow whom other piano players call, simply, "God"was doing.
Next, I'll tell you about another program that knocks my pedal covers off, not so much because of what it does, but because of how it came about. In October, I wrote about using pipes in a GUI application to emulate the human user in a console application. I explained that I learned the technique by reading the Pascal code of another IDE program named Dev-C++. (I have since found an article that explains the technique in detail; see http://support.microsoft .com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q190351.)
Someone told me about Visual-MinGW (http://visual-mingw.sourceforge.net/), another IDE that hosts the MinGW port of GCC. Visual-MinGW uses pipes to communicate with the compiler programs and a grep utility. It does not yet have debugger support in the IDE. I was interested in how the author built his program, a Win32 MDI application with splitter windows similar to Visual Studio's UI. I long ago concluded that you can't do that with MFC. The parts just don't fit together, no matter how I try. I downloaded and read the Visual-MinGW C++ code. The author built his own application framework class library that wraps the Win32 API and implements the split window interface. The class library resembles MFC in many ways, except that it is small, efficient, and effective. I contacted the author expecting to meet a seasoned Win32 programmer.
Visual-MinGW's author identifies himself as Manu, declining to be further identified. He is 31-years old and lives in Nantes, in the west of France. He works as an "electronician" in Le Mans, specializing in cordless numeric phones. When I asked about his education, this remarkable fellow said, "I'm mainly self taught in electronics." When I asked what prompted him to develop Visual-MinGW and its application framework, he said, "My goal was to learn programming..." Did you get that? Not to learn Win32 programming or C++ programming, but to "learn programming."
No wonder he wants to remain anonymous. The kids at Redmond might take out a contract on him.
Building a Better ConsoleApp
Also in October, I described a Win32 C++ class to implement running console applications from within a GUI application. The purpose is to let the Quincy 2002 GUI IDE run and interact with the command-line GDB debugger program that supports the MinGW compiler. I developed a simple ConsoleApp class that uses pipes as substitutes for the command-line program's standard input/output devices. The IDE writes debugger commands into the send end of GDB's standard input pipe and reads debugger output from the receive end of GDB's standard output pipe. The previous column was all about getting the pipes to work properly and building a stub GUI application to test the ConsoleApp class.
Quincy has two other command-line programs to run. One is grep, which searches source code for text matches. The other is the compiler program itself. Neither program is interactive, but both need to send standard output to the parent GUI application. Previously, Quincy managed this by building text files and passing their handles to the command-line applications to use as standard output. Then Quincy would read the text files and process the output messages from the console applications. With a properly operating ConsoleApp class that uses pipes, I decided to port these other two operations to the class.
That's right, even though I had something that worked, something that did not need fixing, I decided to fix it anyway. It seemed a good way to wring out the ConsoleApp class before I gave it the more complex job of running an interactive debugger. And fixing it appealed to me aesthetically; t'would be a better mousetrap because it would not depend on finding a place to keep those redirected temporary files.
To follow along with this narrative, you'll need the source code. More recent versions of consoleapp.h and consoleapp.cpp are available electronically; see "Resource Center," page 5. The console application interface worked much as I had designed it for grep. But the compiler interface did not. Running the compiler involves running gcc once to compile each source code file, perhaps running windres to compile resource scripts, and running gcc a final time to link the object files into an executable or to build a relocatable library module or dllwrap to build a DLL.
I use the generic term "compiler" to represent all the steps involved in building a binary. I know that, technically speaking, the compiler is only one component, but it's easier to call it that. We don't have a better word for the process anyway.
The ConsoleApp class got flaky when it was called upon to run a sequence of programs. The flakiness had to do with the standard output pipe and with timing. Frequently, the process would lose standard output messages, and it was always too slow. Compiling a program took much longer from the IDE than it did from the command line. That would never do.
The compiler process in Quincy queues the programs to be run along with their command lines and launches the programs one at a time, always watching for messages from standard output to be displayed in the gcc output window. At first, the program monitored the pipe from within the CWinapp::OnIdle loop. This was a mistake because the program spent too much time in the OnIdle loop, stealing valuable cycles that the compiler needed.
Consequently, I redesigned the ConsoleApp class to accept two more constructor parameters. The first parameter is a pointer to a callback function to be called when the console application has sent a line of text to its stdout. The callback function can then ConsoleApp::ReadConsole to get the line of text. The second new parameter is a callback function that notifies users of ConsoleApp that the console application has terminated. Both of these new parameters permit the using application to know when to do something without having to poll ConsoleApp from an idle loop.
The GDB Debacle
Quincy 2002 (http://www.alstevens.com/quincy.html) is an IDE that uses the ConsoleApp to integrate GDB, a command-line, source-level debugger, into its environment. In October, this was merely a hope. Now it is a reality. Quincy launches GDB and sends commands to it through a pipe. Quincy reads the piped responses from GDB and translates those responses into visual things that it does with the display of the debugged program's source code files. The interactive dialog happens under the covers, so to speak. To the user, Quincy is the debugger. It works great.
It did, that is, until I turned it over to Judy to test my suite of tutorial C++ programs for the new edition of Teach Yourself C++, authored by yours truly and coming to a major book store near you soonI hope. Judy is my tester, and she finds all my bugs. Just ask her. I copied the whole distribution, Quincy 2002, the compiler and debugger, and all the source files to Judy's computer. Then I returned to my office to dwell upon more meaningful and scholarly tasks than the mundane tedium of ensuring quality, something in which I had the greatest confidence, since I had only just completed a thorough test of everything myself. I wasn't even into the second hand of Freecell when the intercom buzzed.
"It isn't working," came the call. Figuring that Judy must have done something wrong, I gave forth a heavy sigh, pulled myself out of my chair, and trudged across the lawn to Judy's office.
"Isn't this thing supposed to say 'hello, world' or something?" she asked, pointing to the console window of the very first program in the tutorial suite.
Sure enough, the window was blank. I returned to my computer, a Windows XP Pro box, and reran the test. It worked. I moved everything to another XP computer. It worked. I moved it to a Windows 98 computer. It failed. Judy's computer, where it originally failed, runs Windows ME. A pattern seemed to be emerging.
Judy turned off her computer saying, "Let me know when you have something a little more reliable for me to test. Until then, I'll be busy watching Carol Duvall and doing some crafting."
Many tests later, I concluded that Quincy's GDB integration works on operating systems derived from NT and not on operating systems derived from 90 anything.
Quincy launches GDB by using CreateConsole, telling GDB to use pipe handles for stdin, stdout, and stderr. You can see that behavior by reading consoleapp.cpp. GDB launches the target application by using CreateConsole and the Win32 debugging API. I wasn't sure what GDB did other than that. This much was sure. When a GUI front end launches GDB, which launches a console application to debug, the console interface does not work on the 95/98/ME platforms and does work on the XP/2000/NT platforms. I concluded that the two platforms have inconsistent implementations of the CreateProcess function when the debugging API is used.
My conclusion was reinforced when I tested the VIDE program (http://www .objectcentral.com/vide.htm), another MinGW-hosting IDE. Sure enough, when debugging a console application, VIDE works okay on XP and fails to display the target's stdout in the console window on 9x. I notified Bruce Wampler, VIDE's author, and he replied that he does not use VIDE to develop console applications and was unaware of the problem.
I took the problem to the mailing list associated with MinGW. Next came several days of folks commenting, asking questions, making suggestions, and sending files. I must here and now acknowledge the unselfish and invaluable help given me by Greg Chicares, Earnie Boyd, Christopher Faylor, Norman Vine, Oscar Fuentes, Manu, and Marc Kealy. Whoever and wherever these folks are, I owe them big time. Having made a commitment to have this program running when the book is ready for publication, I was now looking at an insurmountable problem. It would not be acceptable to tell readers that they had to get XP to run the accompanying software. I don't look good in tar and feathers.
Someone suggested that I try the latest version of GDB. The version distributed with MinGW, 5.1.1, is an older one and doesn't do Standard C++ all that well. Porting GDB to MinGW is not an easy task, they said, and no one has found time to do it. But maybe, just maybe, the newer GDB works where the older one does not.
The cygwin project (http://www.cygwin .com/) includes a Win32 port of GDB 5.2.1. I downloaded cygwin and ran gdb. It starts up by default in its Insight mode, which is the project's GUI front end to the debugger. I did not try to see how Insight does it, because Insight does not launch GDB from a command-line executable. Instead, Insight is added to GDB with hooks to its GUI. You have to launch GDB with the -nw option ("no windows") to suppress the Insight GUI. The problem persisted with the new GDB. Oscar Fuentes sent me a copy of gdb.exe without the Insight code and he told me how to get the source code and build it myself. Still, debugged applications displayed no text when run on 98 and its fellows.
I peered into GDB's source code and made lots of changes in the way it launches the target. Nothing worked. Then Marc Kealy made an interesting suggestion. Before calling CreateProcess, GDB ought to set its own stdin/stdout/stderr handles to INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE. Then, when the target program is running, GDB ought to restore those handles to what they were before. What they were before were handles to Quincy's pipes. GDB was not telling the target to inherit its handles. And even if it was, the target's standard output was not coming through the pipe, nor would its standard input read the pipe. Everything told me that Marc's suggestion would not work, but I was desperate, so I tried it. Guess what? It worked.
Here is what I have concluded: The Win32 debugger API under 9x and ME has a bug, probably there for years. It causes a target console application to kind of inherit the debugging program's stdin/stdout/stderr handles even when you tell it not to. It is necessary to modify gdb to make it work in an environment such as Quincy's. And so I did.
And now I am ready to pry Judy away from her crafting studio and plunk her down at her computer again. We'll see what happens when she gets to exercise program number two.


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Check out some of Adelaide's best-loved playgrounds and parks - you might be surprised what you'll discover.
We've stacked our festivals and major events with child-friendly stuff, so it's not only just the big kids who get to have all the fun.
The Adelaide Fringe Festival's kids' program just keeps growing and the opening night parade is always a family favourite - and it's free. Come Out is Australia's premier youth arts festival.
If you're here for the Santos Tour Down Under in January, register the children in the mini tour. They'll love riding their bike around Adelaide city, just like the professional cyclists. They'll also love the chance to get up close and personal to their favourite cycling stars - and maybe grab an autograph too - at the Adelaide City Council Tour Village and Bike Expo.
Storytelling, dress-ups, multicultural craft workshops, face painting and giant building blocks make-up WOMADelaide's free KidZone play space - just look out for the giant coloured letters spelling 'WOMAD'.
If you're taking the kids to the Clipsal 500 V8 Supercars race, they'll enjoy the free attractions and shaded family area.
Kids are happiest when they can climb, dig, fly and just be a kid, right? Well, Adelaide has heaps of playgrounds that tick all the boxes.
Take the tram from the city towards the Entertainment Centre and hop at the Bonython Park stop - one of Adelaide's time-honoured family playgrounds. A recent makeover has transformed the space and it now features a double flying fox, slides, hammocks, spinning chairs, swings for toddlers and special-needs kids, an oversized spider's web and a sandpit. Add to this heaps of trees, a kiosk and barbecue facilities, it's perfect for a family outing.
Elder Park on the banks of the River Torrens is a great place to
hang out. There's plenty of grass to run around on. Take the kids on paddle
boats and the Popeye river cruise boats if you want to get on the water.
Older kids can "grind" their way around
the City Sk8 Park on North Terrace. Floodlit for 24 hour fun, it's one of Australia's best.
Our Playgrounds and Picnic Spots page has even more ideas to keep the young ones busy.
Each September, the Royal Adelaide Show comes to town and that means thrilling rides, sideshow games, show bags and farm animals. The Royal Adelaide Show runs for 10 days, making it bigger and better than ever before.
There are rides all year around to be found at The Beachouse at Glenelg, just a few steps away from Adelaide's favourite beach. Along with a vintage carousel, there are three heated water slides, games, dodgem cars and the only single-armed ferris wheel in Australia.
Semaphore Beach also boasts year-round carnival rides, a water slide, mini-golf, the oldest working carousel in the southern hemisphere and a steam train that puffs long the shoreline.
Theatre-goers can catch a show at the Adelaide Festival
Centre which runs the "Something on Saturday" program to entertain children.
Every November, Christmas comes early to Adelaide with the annual Credit Union Christmas Pageant - the biggest and best Christmas-themed parade in the world. More than 300,000 people line the streets of Adelaide to watch more than 80 floats and bands and 1000 performers glide past.
A visit to the Adelaide Zoo is a must - especially to see Wang Wang and Funi, the southern hemisphere's only giant pandas. In residence since 2009, it's hoped the pair will eventually add to their family and the world's panda population.
The zoo is also home to thousands of other animals in a botanic garden setting and offers behind the scenes tours and wild nights sleepovers.
Adelaide - it's action-packed family fun!
He's the host of South Aussie with Cosi, a family man and most importantly, passionate about South Australia. Andrew 'Cosi' Costello shares his top five tips for a great family holiday in South Australia.
1. I love exploring my own city. Why not grab a well-located and priced hotel and stay the night? Walk the streets you normally
drive past and you will see them in a different light.
2. Grab dinner, some gelati or churros for dessert on Rundle Street. It's also home to The Stag, which is my favourite city drinking spot - sitting on the balcony and overlooking the parklands.
3. The Adelaide Central Market is SA's most visited tourist
attraction and you can see why when you go there. Oozing with character and well-priced local produce, it's simply awesome. Oh yeah, and loads of free samples for the kids!
4. I've been to zoos all over the world and I rate
Adelaide among the best - way better than London. Visit the zoo's two most famous
residents, giant pandas Wang Wang and Funi. Go and say g'day.
5. Plane Tree Drive is a drive I do almost weekly
by choice. It's a little detour I take to just appreciate the city. Find a
place to stop and explore the Adelaide Botanic Garden - an underrated and free activity to
There are plenty of events on in South Australia. Here are some ideas to get you started.
Here are some great ideas for you to try while you're in Adelaide.


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Before aching feet have fully recovered, and have eyes de-pouffed, here's a look back at Toronto's LG Fashion Week (makeup and hair by L'Oreal, water by Smartwater, curls by Rowenta and hangover by Peroni – did I miss anyone?).
The final tally:
A zillion – Bottle blondes in the front row (myself included).
37 – Fashion shows, both in the big runway room and the smaller studio room.
Countless - Furry vests in the audience.
25 – Seasons of Toronto Fashion Week.
20 – Evening shows I attended.
At least 15 – White pants on the runway.
12 - Dollars I spent on one glass of wine in a somewhat successful attempt to de-gunk my BlackBerry rollerball.
11 - Coffees after 5 p.m.
Eight – Granola bars.
Eight- Times I snagged a front row seat because the people they were reserved for didn't show (I am a second row gal).
Six – Times catering people snuck us gourmet food from the parties.
Six – Kellogg's Special K Fruit Crisps I gobbled up…in one night.
Five – After parties we didn't attend because we were filing copy, and then exhausted.
Five – Days in a row I wore a skirt or dress (first time since 11th grade).
Five – Of the coffees listed above that had a little kick (off the clock).
Four – Goodie bags I snagged: Mercedes-Benz (magazines), Korhani home (a small rug, given to my boss), Bustle (Rowenta hair curler and straightener in one, given to a colleague), David Dixon (bottle of VQA Riesling, given to no one).
Three – Shows celebrity supermodel Andrej Pejic walked in (he's modelled for the likes of Marc Jacobs and Jean Paul Gaultier).
Two – Toronto Blue Jays hats worn by attendees.
Two – Pairs of pantyhose national life editor Rebecca Zamon ripped in one day.
One – Major model slip, when Yasmin Warsame stumbled on her platforms and fell into the smoke (and then on her back) on the runway specially laid down for the Attitude Jay Manuel show.
Zero – Days I was sick.
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By David Barouski
23 August 2007
In August 2006, former Burundian President Domitien Ndayizeye and his Vice President Alphonse-Marie Kadege were accused of plotting a coup that included plans to assassinate President Nkurunziza, the Secret Service Chief, and several military officials. Several others were also arrested as accomplices. They were supposedly working in concert with dissident Congolese General Laurent Nkunda [batware], Rwandan Defense Forces (RDF) Chief of Staff General James Kabarebe, and "retired" General Salim Saleh (aka Caleb Akandwanaho), Uganda's Minister of State for Microfinance and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's brother, though no conclusive evidence was ever presented to back this claim. Accused ringleader Alain Mugabarabona, who implicated Mr. Ndayizeye in the plot, claimed he was tortured by the Documentation Nationale into delivering a false confession.[1] Eventually, due to lack of evidence, Mr. Ndayizeye, Mr. Kadege, military officer Damien Ndarisigaranye, lawyer Isidore Ruyikri, and politician Deo Niyonzima were acquitted of all charges on 15 January 2007.
At the same time as the coup proceedings, local and international human rights organizations were reporting that the Burundian Government was committing widespread human rights abuses. Journalists and radio personalities who reported on Mr. Ndayizeye's detention, or expressed doubts on the veracity of the charges, were accosted by the police and thrown into jail on claims they were threatening public order. Many Burundians were suspicious of the charges because Mr. Ndayizeye is a member of the Front pour la Démocratie au Burundi (FRODEBU) and Mr. Kadege is a member of the Union pour le Progrès National (UPRONA), both oppositional parties of the CNDD-FDD.
The coup plot was apparently fabricated to provide a pretext for the Burundian Government to stifle dissent stemming from a growing discontent with the perceived incompetence and indifference demonstrated by President Nkurunziza, particularly with his handling of the alleged coup. His refusal to tackle governmental and military corruption, as well as his failure to prosecute human rights violators in the intelligence services, police, and military was creating a rift within the CNDD-FDD. At the center of the divide was CNDD-FDD Chairman Hussein Radjabu.
Prior to the elections, Chairman Radjabu established close ties with Rwandan President Paul Kagame and visited him on 15 August 2005, shortly after the senatorial elections.[2] Sources state the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) gave Chairman Radjabu funds to distribute to his allied CNDD-FDD politicians for their 2005 elections campaigns.[3] The RPF expected to be paid back with favorable policies once they were elected. Chairman Radjabu was expected to utilize his powerful position as the chairman to influence government policies and decisions to be favorable to the RPF; to secure Burundi's political support for Rwanda's admission into the East African Community (EAC), which Burundi had also applied to join,[4] and to secure Burundi's cooperation in extraditing individuals charged with committing genocide by the Rwandan government. In addition, Kigali's arch-nemesis, the Forces Combattantes Abacunguzi (FOCA), the armed wing of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), were reportedly building up a capacity in Burundi to carry out military activities in Rwanda as part of a plan called Operation Amizero that was to be initiated in 2006.[5] Rwandan officials wanted to ensure FOCA would not be allowed to recruit or set up a rear base there.
President Nkurunziza also wanted to be on good terms with President Kagame. This was evident from the day he took office. President Kagame personally attended the inauguration ceremony in Bujumbura and told President Nkurunziza, "Your victory is our [Rwanda's] victory. This shows that the Great Lakes region is going to recover peace soon. Then we will put our efforts together to fight our common enemies, which are poverty and stupidity." [6] On 20 November 2005, Antoinette Batumubwira, Burundi's Minister for External Relations and International Cooperation, delivered a "message of peace" to President Kagame on behalf of President Nkurunziza.[7] Only nine days later, President Nkurunziza visited Rwanda on an official state visit to meet with President Kagame and discuss policies.
After the CNDD-FDD electoral victory, Chairman Radjabu used his considerable political influence to secure appointments for his loyalists in senior governmental positions. This cadre of politicians reportedly embezzled untold millions of government funds into Chairman Radjabu's coffers. [8] Anyone who questioned him on any of his police was threatened by the National Intelligence Service (SNR), fired from their job, or forced into exile. For example, one CNDD-FDD Member of Parliament (MP), Mathias Basabose, was ejected from the party and accused of ordering the police to beat journalists after he publicly accused Chairman Radjabu of involvement in judicial tampering and embezzlement.[9]
In July and August 2006, 31 civilians were killed by the Burundian Armed Forces (FAB) and SNR agents in Muyinga Province, where Mr. Radjabu hails from. Arrest warrants were issued for five suspects, including the commander of the Fourth Military Region, Colonel Vital Bangirinama, but they were never carried out. The government's unwillingness to publicly investigate these crimes and prosecute those responsible added to the continually eroding trust Burundians had in their elected officials. Additionally, as the claims of human rights violations continued to pile up, the Burundian Government asked the United Nations (UN) Special Representative to Burundi, Nureldin Satti, to leave the country.
MP and CNDD-FDD President Leonard Nyangoma initiated an investigation into the accusations against Chairman Radjabu. After gathering considerable evidence supporting the claims, Chairman Radjabu lost some of his influence within the CNDD-FDD party. However, it was not enough of a loss to prevent him from exacting revenge. He used his influence to have the National Assembly vote to strip Mr. Nyangoma of his immunity and his parliamentary seat. Then, Mr. Nyangoma was fraudulently charged with gun possession and insulting the president, forcing him into temporary exile. This caused a schism in the CNDD-FDD between supporters of Chairman Radjabu and President Nyangoma, and through it all, President Nkurunziza remained silent, fearful of Chairman Radjabu's retaliation if he raised any objections.
Following this incident, CNDD-FDD Vice President Alice Nzomukunda resigned in September 2006, because she was fed up with Chairman Radjabu ignoring the state institutions and interfering with efforts to create a functional democratic government.[10] She shared sentiments with several of the long-time CNDD-FDD politicians. For one, they cannot believe Chairman Radjabu and other CNDD-FDD politicians were in league with the RPF after all the history between them.[11] In the space of less than a year, Burundi had two Hutu presidents assassinated in plots that RPF leaders have been accused of having a role in: Melchior Ndadaye (21 October 1993) and Cyprien Ntaryamira (6 April 1994).[12] The CNDD-FDD was originally founded as a military movement (FDD) in 1994 to oppose the elements of the FAB and the Burundian Government who were involved in the assassination of President Ndadaye. Collaboration with the RPF is seen by these MPs-and many civilian Burundians-as a betrayal of what Burundians are striving for: a democratic Burundi free from its past history of ethnic violence and from the political influence of geographic neighbors. Eventually, 30 CNDD-FDD MPs would withdraw from the government in protest of governmental policies and inaction.[13]
President Nkurunziza made the situation even worse by replacing Ms. Nzomukunda with CNDD-FDD official Ms. Marine Barampama, a close ally of Chairman Radjabu.[14] Tensions were further increased when Chairman Radjabu unilaterally traveled to Kigali in November 2006. French judge Jean-Louis Brugière indicted several top current and former RDF officials after charging them with the assassination of Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira after completing a several year investigation. President Kagame himself was not indicted by Judge Brugière due to presidential immunity. After the announcement, Chairman Radjabu unilaterally travelled to Rwanda and met with President Kagame. While shaking the President's hand, Chairman Radjabu publicly proclaimed Burundi would fully support President Kagame and his associates against the French. ""I am here to assure him [President Kagame] of our [Burundi's] government's support at this time," he stated.[15] Chairman Radjabu's actions angered Foreign Minister Antoinette Batumubwira.[16] According to sources in the region, it was about this time President Kagame agreed the CNDD-FDD MPs allied with Mr. Nyangoma should be removed.[17]
Chairman Radjabu followed up with the dismissal of Mr. Mathias Basabose, the CNDD-FDD official in charge of good governance. Mr. Basabose, not one to be muscled out so easily, launched an investigation that revealed Chairman Radjabu hatched the fabricated coup plot and used the climate of suspicion and fear it generated to arrest his political opponents and suppress the local media outlets. He also implicated SNR Chief Adolphe Nshimirimana in the coup plot.[18] At this point, in the face of such damning evidence, President Nkurunziza came out of his political hibernation and demanded answers from Chairman Radjabu and Mr. Nshimirimana. Chairman Radjabu blamed Mr. Nshimirimana for the whole thing.[19] Fearing for his personal safety, Chairman Radjabu fled to the South African Embassy for a short time at the end of January 2007 after the SNR suddenly ordered his bodyguards to be replaced for no apparent reason.[20] Chairman Radjabu likely thought Mr. Nshimirimana was plotting revenge for receiving the blame for all the allegations.
The Cabinet Ministers urged President Nkurunziza to take further action. Realizing his presidency was in jeopardy because of the seemingly irreparable divide in the CNDD-FDD, President Nkurunziza quickly decided to remove Chairman Radjabu from the party. He consulted with the Defense Minister, General Germain Niyoyankana, and several FAB officials to prepare in case Chairman Radjabu organized a coup attempt as his countermove. Then, former militants in the FDD went to ask Chairman Radjabu to voluntarily resign and avoid a public scene. He refused and immediately tried to persuade them to help him formulate a coup. They refused his offer and quickly told President Nkurunziza about the plan. He responded by ordering the police force to prevent Chairman Radjabu from holding any political meetings and he banned Chairman Radjabu from entering the CNDD-FDD headquarters building. He also had the Minister of the Interior (Evariste Ndayishimiye) revoke Chairman Radjabu's right to call an extraordinary session of Congress. [21]
On 7 February, Interior Minister Ndayishimiye called for an extraordinary session of Congress. Chairman Radjabu fled back to the South African Embassy where he contacted his allies in Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, and South Africa to garner political and military support to oppose President Nkurunziza, but they all apparently refused for the time being, realizing his days were numbered. Mr. Radjabu was removed as the party's chairman at the Congressional session and replaced with Mr. Jeremie Ngendakumana, the former ambassador to Kenya. In late April, the National Assembly stripped Mr. Radjabu of his immunity and the police force arrested him, fearing he would still wield too much influence in the government and the CNDD-FDD even if he was no longer the party's chairman. President Nkurunziza also removed several of his allies from the government, including the President of the National Assembly, Immacule Nahayo, and Vice President Barampama. Mr. Radjabu currently remains in jail awaiting the Supreme Court's decision on the legality of his removal. He had an initial court hearing in May, where 200 of his supporters protested his incarceration outside the High Court in Bujumbura.[22] He denies all of the allegations against him, claiming they are an invention of the SNR, who stand accused of torturing some of Mr. Radjabu's loyalists.[23]
Since his imprisonment, there have been reports of civilians inciting disobedience to the current government in addition to reports of the illegal training of paramilitary units in the Muyinga Province.[24] Then on 8 August 2007, a woman was murdered in Nyanza-Lac by an unknown gunman.[25] A day later, President Nkuruziza visited the province and met with police and army officers stationed in the area before delivering a political sensitization speech to the people.
The fallout from the Radjabu affair generated stagnation within the government. Part of the CNDD-FDD still supported Mr. Radjabu, another part supported President Nkurunziza, and the remainder did not support either of them. Within the latter group, 30 MPs had left the government, which removed the CNDD-FDD's majority status in the National Assembly. This meant President Nkurunziza has to appease the opposition parties in order to sway their votes and get something done, but his previous policies and his attitude during the Radjabu affair alienated the opposition parties. Since 2006, FRODEBU, the largest opposition party, has refused to join the government unless President Nkurunziza demonstrated measures to end the human rights abuses and rampant corruption. With FRODEBU and Mr. Radjabu supporters boycotting the Senate and Parliament proceedings, the CNDD-FDD does not even have enough to reach quorum, underscoring their need to create new political alliances because the Burundian Constitution prevents President Nkurunziza from dissolving the Parliament.[26] To make matters worse, President Nkurunziza continued to antagonize the oppositional politicians by threatening to cut their premiums and allowances if they did not cooperate. He also failed to come to an agreement with the National Assembly to set parameters for an investigation into the sale of the presidential plane, a transaction that was rife with fraud.
President Nkurunziza made some gestures of reform, but thus far it has not proven to be enough to convince disgruntled politicians to support him. They remained skeptical about his sincerity to reform the government. President Nkurunziza released several thousand political prisoners and moved the capital from Bujumbura to the centrally located town of Gitega. He was able to attract some more international investors to the country, including Starbucks, who also currently works with the Rwandan and Ethiopian governments. He arrested Isaac Bizimana, the Governor of the central bank (BRB) for embezzlement. In a reconciliatory gesture, he appointed FRODEBU's Gaspard Sindayigaya to man the post. He also fired Denise Sinankwa, the Minister of Finance, for paying the oil importing firm Interpetrol double for its services.[27] He shuffled his cabinet around and introduced eight new ministers, but he appointed two politicians who stand accused of embezzlement and grafting, Karenga Ramadhan (former CNDD-FDD Spokesman) and Dieudonné Ngowembona (former Minister of Finance) respectively.[28]
Having lost all confidence in the current government, PALIPEHUTU-FNL (Parti pour la Liberation du Peuple Hutu -Forces Nationales de Liberation) leader Jean Berchmans Ndayshimiye, left the capital of Bujumbura to return to the bush, abandoning ongoing talks with the Burundian Government to implement a ceasefire. Generally considered the most militant of the Burundian armed groups, this event sparked fears of a potential return to civil war. Tanzanian and South African officials have tried to coax FNL leaders into resuming the talks in Dar es Salaam, but the offer is on the brink of failing because the FNL claims the funds South Africa provided for the talks are insufficient to pay for the group's logistical costs to attend the meetings.[29] Additionally, the FNL has stated they will not return to the ceasefire-monitoring team unless their political prisoners are released, a condition President Nkurunziza has yet to meet. The African Union (AU), the UN, and FRODEBU have all encouraged President Nkurunziza to open a new dialogue with them. If he succeeds peacefully, it may go a long way to winning back some political support, but only time will tell if he and his CNDD-FDD loyalists are up to the challenge. Failure in the FNL peace talks will almost certainly spell doom for Pierre Nkurunziza's presidency.
In the meantime, violence in and around Bujumbura has increased dramatically. Vehicles have been attacked along all the roads leading into the capital. Several Belgians were robbed. Coinciding with the violence in Muyinga Province described earlier, an FAB officer and his fiancée were gunned down in front of the Bank of Credit.[30] The pro-CNDD- FDD newspaper, "Intumba," published a hate message directed towards certain MPs.[31] On 17 August, grenades were thrown at the homes of several CNDD-FDD MPs: Jean-Marie Nduwabike, Pasteur Mpawenayo, Félicien Nkenguburundi, and Nephtalie Ndikumana. All four were mentioned in "Intumba." On 19 August, another well-coordinated attack targeted several politicians in Gishosha Commune. CNDD-FDD politicians Pasteur Mpawenayo and Nephtalie Ndikumana were targeted along with two MPs, Frédérique Gahigi from FRODEBU and Félicien Nkenguburundi. Frédéric Banvuginyumvira, an aide to FRODEBU's party chief, was also targeted. Prior to the attack, most of the victims had signed a letter pleading with President Nkurunziza to open dialogues with the opposition parties and some were also among the victims of the attacks on 17 August.[32]
At this time, it is publicly unknown if the perpetrators are members of the FNL or loyalists of Mr. Radjabu. FRODEBU believed President Nkurunziza and the CNDD-FDD where behind the attacks.[33] There is the possibility someone wants the FNL peace talks to fail in order to destabilize President Nkuruziza, perhaps to the point his loyalists in the CNDD-FDD will turn on him and pass a no confidence vote. President Nkurunziza has countered the criminals by deploying FAB forces in the cities, but residents are concerned human rights abuses and arbitrary detentions will increase due to their presence, which creates instability and distrust that could play right into Mr. Radjabu's favor. Additionally, Mr. Radjabu continues to manipulate political events from his prison cell, complicating matters further. Yet if the Burundian Government denies him of his right to due process and simply detains him indefinitely, it could easily backfire on them and be used as a political tool by Mr. Radjabu and his supporters to demonize the Burundian Government.
The Burundian Supreme Court is expected to uphold the National Assembly's vote to remove Mr. Radjabu as CNDD-FDD chairman, which may prompt his allies in the party to withdraw and form their own political party, exacerbating existing political divisions. Reports of militias receiving military training in guerrilla tactics in Mr. Radjabu's home province are interpreted as a sign he may be creating an armed group to supplement his potential political party. Mr. Radjabu, a Muslim, could make a strong appeal for support to his religious minority in the predominantly Catholic nation.[34] There is also the likelihood Mr. Radjabu would enlist the support of his allies in Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and South Africa for political, monetary, and military support, further entrenching him in Burundi as a force to be reckoned with.
In addition to the FNL talks failing, the above scenario would create another front that civil war could resume from. Should that war begin, expect to see Mr. Radjabu's militias covertly kill civilians and/or politicians. The militias can cover their tracks by blaming the attacks on recalcitrant FNL fighters or (more likely) on President Nkurunziza's security forces. The goal would be to coax President Nkurunziza into responding with a brutal counterinsurgency operation by the SNR and/or FAB. The ensuing human rights abuses committed by the state security forces would alienate the oppositional parties, turn the international community against him, and strengthen the position of Mr. Radjabu's new party. This could quickly lead to a no confidence vote against President Nkurunziza. That would pave the way for Mr. Radjabu's party, who could present themselves as the political solution to the insecurity, though they were behind the destabilizing forces to begin with. It is analogous to when the Nazi Party set fire to the Reichstag in 1933, blamed the Communist Party, then presented themselves as the protectorate alternative, which swiftly secured power for them.[35] In military terms, this is known as a "false flag."
Regardless of the outcome in Mr. Radjabu's case and even under optimal conditions, Burundi will still face difficult challenges within its own government due to the existing political divisions. Until impunity ends and the government joins together united for the betterment of the nation, it is difficult to envision a positive forward-moving political path for Burundi. Developing civic nationalism will be key. President Nkurunziza committed the proverbial "too little too late" for many politicians, who have since defected to join oppositional groups. President Nkurunziza and his remaining loyalists must take concrete steps to show political reform in an effort to reestablish cooperation from other political parties.
President Nkurunziza and his loyalists must ensure the security of the Burundian people. The recent attacks by militants have the country on edge and while he must respond firmly to such threats, he must act within the boundaries of the law and not allow the situation to escalate into wanton human rights abuses by his security forces, which has happened in the past. The Burundian people need to be able to trust their own security forces with enforcing safety and order rather than witnessing them contribute to the insecurity.
President Nkurunziza would regain some of his supporters if he severed his close political ties with Rwanda, but he has been unwilling to do so. As recently as April 2007, President Nkurunziza was in Kigali to ensure that relations between the two countries were still congenial following the arrest of Mr. Radjabu.[36] Politically, President Nkurunziza has a difficult task because the Burundian people cannot forget the negative impact the RPF has had on their country, and yet, because of their mutual EAC membership, geographic location, and deep ethnic/racial ties, Burundi's future is inextricably linked with Rwanda's and therefore necessitates a positive relationship between the two. There is also a proposal on the table to extend the Eldoret-Kampala oil pipeline through Rwanda and Burundi, which would further facilitate trade in the region and lower fuel costs in the long run for these states. This provides all the more reason for the parties involved to find a balance of power in the region. However, it still remains to be seen what, if any affect Mr. Radjabu's influence in Uganda and Rwanda will have on Burundi's mutual relationship with them in the EAC.
Burundi faces an uncertain but hopeful future. What began in 2005 as a new beginning for a war-torn country has yielded a country in political chaos and many of the factors have yet to play out. The political turmoil has retarded the nation's economic and social development and impeded the peace process for the time being. The country has returned to the brink and its fate now lay in the hands of its elected officials. Burundi has taken some positive steps, but the situation remains fragile. Only time will tell what the fate of Burundi's government institutions and its people will be.
[1] "Burundi's Ex-President in Court," BBC News. 25 August 2006.
[2] "Rwanda: President in Talks with Visiting Head of Burundi Party," Radio Rwanda. Kigali, Rwanda. 15 August 2005.
[3] Private Communication. 31 July 2007.
[4] Note: Both countries were successfully admitted into the EAC on 18 January 2007.
[5]"Opportunities and Constraints for the Disarmament & Repatriation of Foreign Armed Groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: The Cases of FDLR, FNL, and ADF/NALU." Hans Romkema. Conflict and Transition Consultancies. June 2007. pg. 44.
[6] "Burundi's New President Sworn In," SABC News. 26 August 2005.
[7]"Nkurunziza Writes to Kagame," The New Times. 20 November 2005.
[8] "The Fall of Radjabu: Burundi Says Farewell to Mr. Radjabu," Damien Mutware. Burundi Réalités. English Translation. 7 February 2007.
[9] "Burundi MPs Investigated," News 24. 5 May 2006.
[10] "Burundi Vice-President Resigns Over Graft," Afrol News. 5 September 2006.
[11] Private Communication. 31 July 2007.
[12] See: Brugière, Jean-Louis. "The Report by French Anti-Terrorist Judge Jean-Louis Brugière on the Shooting Down of Rwandan President Habyarimana's Plane: 6 April 1994." English Translation. 17 November 2006; Onana, Charles. "Les Secrets de la Justice Internationale." Paris, France: Duboiris. 2005; Madsen, Wayne. "Jaded Tasks – Brass Plates, Black Ops, & Big Oil: The Blood Politics of George Bush & Co." Walterville, Oregon: TrineDay. 2006; Madsen, Wayne. "Genocide and Operations in Africa: 1993-1999." Lampeter, New York and Ceredigion, Wales, United Kingdom: Edwin Mellen Press, Limited. 1999; Ruyenzi, Aloys. Written Testimony of Aloys Ruyenzi. English Translation. 5 July 2004. http://www.grandslacs.net/doc/3092.pdf; Mushayidi, Deo and Charles Onana. "Les Secrets du Génocide Rwandais." Paris, France: Duboiris. 2002; "The Prosecutor v. Protais Zigiranyirazo." ICTR Case Number: ICTR-01-71-T. Examination-in-Chief of Aloys Ruyenzi by John Philpot. 3 April 2007; Mugabe, Jean-Pierre. "Declaration on the Shooting Down of the Aircraft Carrying Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana and Burundi President Cyprien Ntaryamira on April 6, 1994." 21 April 2000; Written affidavit of Michael Andrew Hourigan. Filed at the International Criminal Court for Rwanda (ICTR). 27 November 2006; "What Could Have Contributed to the Rwandan Slaughter of 1994?" Wayne Madsen. ExpoTimes. 14 July 2002; "Memorandum on the Assassination of President Habyarimana." Félicien Kanyamibwa. Organization for Peace, Justice, and Development in Rwanda (OPJDR). July 1999; "Surviving the Genocide: An Interview With Jean-Christophe Nizeyimana," David Barouski. ZNet. 27 June 2007; " <<J'ai entendu un mesage-radio de l'Unite Cobra disant: On a eu Le Grand.>>,? Jerzy Bednarek. Africa International. English Translation. November 1998. pg. 23-25. Prepared Statement of Mr. James Lyons to Roundtable Committee. James Lyons. April 6, 2001; Philpot, Robin. "Rwanda 1994: Colonialism Dies Hard." The Taylor Report. http://www.taylor-report.com/Rwanda_1994/; Written affidavit of Amadou Deme. 17 January 2007.
Note: The claims surrounding President Ndadaye's murder are much more circumstancial.
[13] "Burundi: Grappling With a Looming Political Crisis," IRIN News. 24 June 2007.
[14] "Burundi Party Approves New VP," News 24. 8 September 2006.
[15] "Radjabu Speaks on Behalf of the Government on Rwanda-France Issue," Reuters. 30 November 2006.
[16] "Congress Not Likely for Radjabu's CNDD-FDD Faction; Burundi's Supreme Court to Decide the Case," Damien Mutware. Burundi Réalités. English Translation. 23 February 2007.
[17] Private Communication. 31 July 2007.
[18] "The Fall of Radjabu: Burundi Says Farewell to Mr. Radjabu," Damien Mutware. Burundi Réalités. English Translation. 7 February 2007.
[19] Ibid.
[20] "Burundi Ruling Party Boss Seeks Refuge," Rwandan News Agency. 24 January 2007.
[21] "The Fall of Radjabu: Burundi Says Farewell to Mr. Radjabu," Damien Mutware. Burundi Réalités. English Translation. 7 February 2007.
[22] "Police Disperse Supporters of Burundi Strongman," Burundi Réalités. English Translation. 9 May 2007.
[23] "Ex-Burundi Party Head to Stay Behind Bars," The Independent. 15 May 2007; "Burundi: Donors Should Press for End to Impunity." Human Rights Watch. Press Release. 22 May 2007.
[24] "President Nkurunziza Visits Muyinga," Burundi Réalités. English Translation. 9 August 2007.
[25] "Five People Die in Grenade Blast," Burundi Réalités. English Translation. 10 August 2007.
[26] "Grappling With a Looming Political Crisis," IRIN News. 24 June 2007.
[27] "Isaac Bizimana: the First High-Profile Person to be Arrested, But Who is Next in Line?," Burundi Réalités. English Translation. 8 May 2007.
[28] "The Opposition and Grafting Cases: a Headache for President Nkurunziza," Burundi Réalités. English Translation. 8 May 2007; "Burundi's New Cabinet," Gustave Ntaraka. East African Business Week. 23 July 2007.
[29] "Peace Talks Risk Collapsing Over $54,000 Allowance," The East African. 14 August 2007.
[30] "New Security Measures in Burundi," Jean-Pierre Nkunzimana. The New Vision. 16 August 2007.
[31] "Simultaneous Attacks Target Opposition Members of the Parliament," Burundi Réalités. English Translation. 21 August 2007.
[32] "Nkurunziza Assures That Security is Guaranteed as he Tours the Country While Parliamentarians are Being Attacked," Burundi Réalités. English Translation. 20 August 2007.
[33] "Simultaneous Attacks Target Opposition Members of the Parliament," Burundi Réalités. English Translation. 21 August 2007.
[34] Note: Muslims comprise ~10% of the population of Burundi while Catholicism makes up 60%. ("Burundi: Religions." Encyclopedia of the Nations. Accessed 19 August 2007. http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Africa/Burundi-RELIGIONS.html.)
[35] Note: The reader should note that the Reichstag event is illustrated only to draw a comparison between the political gains gleaned from being both the cause and the solution to a problem as described in both scenarios. No other comparisons or insinuations should be draw from this example.
[36] "Nkurunziza Lauds Umuganda," The New Times. 2 April 2007.


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Capt. Mike Anderson to bring Reel Animals to Capt. Mel Berman's old timeslot on WFLA-AM
Mike Anderson will take over the Saturday morning timeslot previously held by a broadcaster known as the voice of the Gulf Coast fishing scene, Capt. Mel Berman.
Anderson will offer a new show, Reel Animals Saturday, from 6 a.m. to 9 .a.m. Saturdays on WFLA-AM (970) to fill the space left by the death of Berman, who died Feb. 5 after complications from heart surgery. The loss of Berman also took away a voice which had talked fishing and conservation at WFLA on Saturday mornings for for 25 years.
Anderson already hosts a show, The Reel Animals Fishing Show, for sister Clear Channel Radio station WDAE-AM, and leads a TV show, Reel Animals, for Tampa NBC affiliate. WFLA-Ch. 8. Anderson filled in for Berman when the 81-year-old had surgery before his death and led a tribute show on WFLA the day after he died.
WFLA-'s press release is below.
Captain Mike Anderson to host "Reel Animals Saturday" on WFLA-AM, Tampa
Newsradio 970-WFLA is excited to announce that veteran charter captain and professional tournament fisherman Mike Anderson will host the "Reel Animals Saturday" fishing show on Saturdays from 6 a.m. – 9 a.m.
This entertaining and informative program will provide anglers with tips and guidance to help them make the most of their time on Tampa Bay's waters. WFLA Program Director RC Bauer said the show will be very interactive, allowing callers to phone in their questions and share their fishing stories. "Captain Mike is great at engaging listeners and providing the kind of information they can really use," said Bauer.
Anderson has some big shoes to fill, as his show will air in the same time-slot that was occupied by the late Mel Berman, who was a favorite with 970-WFLA listeners for more than 25 years. "I have a deep respect for Captain Mel's work and am honored that WFLA would provide me this wonderful opportunity to carry on the fishing tradition that Mel started," said Anderson.
Anderson joined the Air Force in 1986 and completed his six-and-a-half year tour of duty at MacDill Air Force Base. In early 2000, he began Thunder Bay Charters Service and is currently fishing 150+ days per year. He is also a contributor to a number of charitable organizations, including the Boys and Girls Club of Tampa, Children's Miracle Network and the Pediatric Cancer Foundation.
In addition to his new show on WFLA, Anderson is the host of the "Reel Animals Fishing Show," which airs on Sunday mornings from 7 a.m. – 9 a.m. on sister Clear Channel station 620-WDAE. That show will continue, as will Mike's "Reel Animals" TV show, which can be seen locally on WFLA-TV, Channel-8, in Tampa.


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SurfWatch Software, a division of Spyglass Inc. (SPYG), is the latest entrant into the fray. The company, already a leader in filtering software, plans in May to unveil a server-based product tailored at businesses. It will allow IT managers to customize filtering and monitoring features.
Judge nixes challenge to library filter suit.
"What we're seeing is more and more companies going online. They're asking for some type of protection," SurfWatch General Manager Michael Sears said.
More companies cracking down
SurfWatch's move comes amid growing media reports of companies disciplining or firing employees for inappropriate use of corporate networks. Just last week, Salomon Smith Barney Inc. fired two employees for downloading X-rated materials onto company computers.
SurfWatch expects such cases -- and the market for Internet filtering software -- to grow in the coming months as more and more employees access the Net. Sales of Internet content management products are expected to grow to $90 million by the year 2000, up from $17 million in 1998, according to the company.
Companies producing such software also include Microsystems Software Inc., the maker of Cyber Patrol; and Solid Oak Software Inc., which makes Cybersitter.
In a recent study of Fortune 1000 technology officials, SurfWatch found that about 30 percent of companies monitor employee usage in some way. Their biggest concerns are loss of productivity, clogged bandwidth, and liability issues.
To monitor, or not to monitor
Still, the issue of filtering and monitoring employee Internet use is, as Sears calls it, a "slippery slope."
Companies must decide whether they want to filter, monitor, or allow free access at all times. They must weigh employee's fears that they're not trusted against liability issues and strain on bandwidth. In a report on the issue, Giga Information Group analyst Ira Machefsky urged companies: "Do not make a 'knee-jerk' reaction to prohibit all personal use of the Internet."
Instead, he said companies can provide Internet access only to those who need it and to "err on the side of leniency."
The issue of filtering already is making its way through the courts. On Tuesday, a judge ruled that a lawsuit challenging the use of filtering software in public libraries can go forward.


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The comic in question is not "Daredevil" -- the protagonist of which is one of the few superheroes who is identifiably Catholic -- but rather "Miss Marvel."
The latter is a new and much-publicized series about a teenage superhero named Kamala Khan. The twist: Kamala is a Muslim.
One night, Kamala disobeys her parents by going to a party where she is served alcohol. On the way home Kamala is stopped by a group of superheroes, including Iron Man and Captain America, and given special powers. She also is given a lecture about not abandoning the teachings of her family or faith to indulge in the corrupting practices of her secular peers.
"Miss Marvel" offers a positive depiction of religious belief, and has been praised in the media for doing so.
Yet faith is missing from the new "Daredevil," a popular Marvel title that has just been rebooted. First introduced in 1964 by Stan Lee and artist Bill Everett, Daredevil has turned 50 years old, and Marvel has given him a new series. It's a fresh and fun launch, but one that ignores Daredevil's Catholicism.
DD, as he's known for short, is one of the most interesting of Marvel's superheroes. His alter ego, Matt Murdock, is an attorney. Murdock is blind. But the same accident that robbed him of sight gave Murdock heightened "super senses" that allow him to hear, "see" -- with internal "radar" that bounces off surrounding objects -- smell, and touch with superhuman ability.
Murdock also is the son of a boxer who was murdered and a mother who became a nun -- Sister Maggie. At various times his past writers have shown DD's Catholic faith, including a scene where he had to interrupt his own confession because he heard a crime taking place outside the church.
The new "Daredevil" is being written by comic veteran Mark Waid and drawn by Chris Samnee. It's a terrific read, full of intelligence, kinetic energy, and good storytelling. The creators have moved Murdock from New York to San Francisco, which means they can't rely on the tired comic-book trope of Manhattan being annihilated by aliens.
There is no nudity or profanity. The first issue contains nothing that would be inappropriate for children.
In this issue, Daredevil solves a kidnapping by deploying his superpowers, his reason and his courage. A young girl has been taken, and Daredevil uses the sounds of a phone call from her location as well as her doll to pinpoint where she is.
It turns out that her captors are terrorists who have implanted a bomb in her watch, which they plan to set off once she's surrounded by a large mass of people. Daredevil intervenes with a wonderful mixture of swashbuckling and smarts.
The writing, too, is sharp; Waid has fun with Daredevil's efforts to negotiate his new West Coast environment.
But this refreshed "Daredevil" could be an even deeper, more rewarding experience. Its subject, after all, is now living in a city that is both militantly secular yet rich with Catholic history.
Murdock doesn't have to become a parish priest or imitate his mother by joining a religious community. The role of his layman's faith in his newfound life could lead, on its own, to interesting drama.


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Discussion in 'Texans Talk' started by thunderkyss, Sep 21, 2011.
It's time, make your prediction, who's it gonna be?
I'm gonna say DR -- I think he wants to come out guns blazin'!
Mario Williams. He didn't get a sack in the last game despite his constant pressure. He will make his presence felt early in this one!
OneUp QB SACK!!
lol @ Shaun Cody
thunderkyss, there's no Braman on the list!! After Mario chasing all over Brees, Braman comes in to give Mario a breather for just one play and gets sack!!! Or, would love to see Brooks or JJ gets one. But I really think Mario is the one to get first sack!
Go Texans!!!
I'm going with J.J. again. I think he matches up well against the Saints interior OL.
I'm going with Antonio.
Mario will draw his share of extra attention, and the league is beginning to know who JJ Watt is, and the Aints will be showing him some respect by giving their OL help blocking him from time to time. Antonio will take advantage of the attention given to other players, and will get the first sack. In fact, I'm saying Antonio actually notches two sacks in this game.
I am going with JJ Watt "THE SWAT PATROL"......
That guy has a motor that never quits......he just brings it every play.....
Not to be rude (OK, I am rude, never mind) but I find all these "who get's first sack/TD/whatever against [this weeks opponent] to be stupid and annoying. Who gives a crap? I don't care who gets the first sack/TD as long as we get a bunch of them.
The stat I like to see? Who gets the LAST running play? (Answer: Matt Schaub for a one yard loss).
To be a jackass, if you don't like them, don't read them or post in them. Just ignore them.
So, just to make sure I have a clear picture of where you're coming from... you voluntarily enter a thread whose topic annoys you, just to express your annoyment (is that a word?) to others, who presumably are in the thread because they are interested in it?
Who the F made you the Texans Talk thread topic police?
I think the word would be annoyance but I'm not 100% on that and it annoys me almost as much as Fred annoyed me.
I keep voting for Antonio Smith every week, I've got to be right eventually.
I voted Mario but I would like to see some DB's names on the list. I could see JoJo or Quinn or Manning in on the first one. More so than Shaun Cody. Or Nading, unless he got a peice of Schaub in practice
I voted Mario... But i dont care who gets it just as long as we can get to Breezy it all good....
Come on Texans...Winnnniiiinnnnggg...
Why isn't "Tater Salad" an option in this poll?
Evans and Nicks are both top echelon guards. Olin Kreutz is old as dirt though and is a definite weakness.
Voted JJ Watt.
Good point, I can do that next time. Just haven't seen many DB blitzes...
But you're right, I can take Shaun Cody off the list.... even though I vote for him every time (sucker).
We have brought a safety or two this year. Mostly on run blitzes but I could really see it in this game.
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My practice is informed by the politics of urban planning and architectural intervention. I question how the utopian ideas behind Modernism's post war housing estates match up to their creators' prescribed vision. I chart the decline of egalitarian belief systems, the building blocks to construct a better world, and lament their passing. I refer to the aesthetics of the clean lined architectural blueprint, interpreting this as bound up with the architect's initial utopian fantasy. I then trace this through to actual buildings, the lived in reality of degraded and depreciated structures, dystopic concrete backdrops – the high-rise villains of London's skyline.
My work is the result of intense research into the subject at hand and thus well suited to residencies.
Each series of work that I embark upon is unique. The critique of Modernism is best suited to a cold, precise technique using machined metals and chemical materials. Or the repetitive production of 230 etchings to form a stop-frame animated film – the prints given away to the residents of the tower block depicted. Landscape "slabs" of specific ruined areas of Trellick Tower's concrete are best conveyed by plastic, or three dimensional means; these are built from scratch using pigments and acrylic mediums – all the better to understand concrete's compostion and formation and building practises. Materials and process straddle the divide between disciplines. Paintings are sculptures and prints become films.
2011-2012: Fine Art MA with Distinction. City and Guilds of London Art School.
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Selected Exhibitions
2015 "Platform Projects". Art Athina.
2015 "Limited Editions". Lubomirov-Easton.
2014 "A Comfortable Man". Wilton's Music Hall.
2014 "Sanctuaries: Temporary Dwellings of The Real or Imagined". The Richmix.
2013 "This Must Be The Place". 2 Willow Road.
2013 "The London Original Print Fair." The Royal Academy.
2012 "Taming The Tentacles." Shalford Mill.
2012 "MA Fine Art Show 2012." City & Guilds of London Art School.
2012 "The London Original Print Fair." The Royal Academy.
2010 "Recent Works." ENVY.
2008 "Recent Works". Gallery 27, Cork Street. London.
2005 "Solo Show", The Mews. London.
2003: "Kuzo" Tony and Guy, Florence.
2003: "Pace" Galleria Base, Florence.
2001: "Charles Cecil 10th Anniversary Exhibition". Paul Mitchell Gallery. London.
2001: "Art for Youth". Mall Galleries. London.
Awards and Residencies
2015 Artist in Residence, Goldfinger Factory, Trellick Tower.
2013 Artist in Residence, 2 Willow Road.
2012 GAM Prize.
2012 Norman Ackroyd Print Making Prize.
2012 July, 'Print of the Month'. The V&A Museum.
2001 Diana Brooks Prize.
Public Collections
Victoria & Albert Museum.
2 Willow Road.
2013 November: Icon Magazine: "Review; 2 Willow Road".
2013 August: Hamstead Highgate Express; "Fan of Man With The Midas Touch".
2013 September: Resonance 104.4 FM; "Homes For Tomorrow".
2013 April: John Jones; Case Study.


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