text: Withdrawal, transition and trade – the commercial implications of the latest milestone in the Brexit negotiations Share this 29 MAR 2018 By: Paul Hardy Richard Bonnar Jeroen Jansen Introduction The week beginning 19 March was a big week in the Brexit negotiations. First, the European Commission published a revised draft of the Withdrawal Agreement showing which provisions had been agreed, and which had not. Secondly, the European Council (EU Heads of State, less Teresa May) gave its blessing to a status-quo transition period after Brexit Day, until the end of 2020. Thirdly, the European Council published its Guidelines on the terms of a future trade relationship with the UK. We deal with each in turn, highlighting the most important points we think our clients should understand. The Draft Withdrawal Agreement The Commission published the latest version of the Withdrawal Agreement between the EU and the UK on Monday, 19 March 2018. Its significance lies in the fact it is colour-coded to denote in green, those sections which have been agreed upon; in yellow, those sections where there is broad consensus on policy objectives but where the drafting needs work; and in white, EU proposals that remain subject to discussion and on which agreement has not been reached. Reassuringly, there are swathes of green, denoting agreement in the following areas: EU Citizens' rights The EU and the UK have agreed that UK and EU citizens can move freely at any time before the expiry of the transition period, so the end of 2020, and afterwards be entitled to stay and work in the UK or the EU, as appropriate, in order to accrue the five years necessary to apply for permanent residency. The key thing is for an EU citizen to have arrived in the UK, or a UK citizen to have arrived in an EU-27 Member State, before the end of the transition period. The UK Government had wanted the cut-off point to be Brexit Day, 29 March 2019, but compromised under pressure from the EU to accept the expiry of the transition period as the cut-off point. Rules have also been agreed on the recognition of professional qualifications, the rights of families of EU citizens, and social security protection. This should be of great reassurance to companies that rely on EU workers to stay competitive, as well as to their workforce - the main takeaway here is that the rules do not change until 1 January 2021. The UK Government will not publicise this aspect of the Withdrawal Agreement, so it will go unnoticed. Our advice to business is to consider how to translate the deal on EU citizens' rights into messages of reassurance to their workforce. Separation Provisions These provisions are designed to provide legal certainty in certain areas where commercial activity was entered into before the end of the transition period. Many areas are not covered, however. Goods placed on the market All but one of the relevant Articles are colour-coded green. In brief, the substance of the agreement here is that any good lawfully placed on the UK or EU market before the end of the transition period may circulate freely on the UK and EU markets until it reaches the end-user, and is put into use. This means that the EU regulatory approvals for the goods in question will still be respected after the end of the transition period. Customs procedures There is full agreement in this area. Goods moving between the customs territories of the UK and the EU respectively will be subject to the same customs treatment as applies now, provided the movement started before the end of the transition period, including in relation to importation and exportation licensing requirements. However, except in relation to certain modes of air and shipping freight, the usual presumption that goods in the customs territory of the EU have the customs status of EU goods will not apply. Rather, proof of the start of the movement must be evidenced by way of a transport document relating to the goods for the goods to benefit from status quo customs treatment. VAT and excise The parties agree that the status quo provisions concerning the general arrangements for excise duty shall continue to apply to goods, provided the cross-border movement of such goods began before the end of the transitional period and ended thereafter. Whilst there appears to be broad agreement that, similarly, the common system of VAT should continue to apply to goods dispatched before the end of the transition period, negotiators are yet to agree on the final form of the drafting. Intellectual property Consensus is less pronounced here, but the parties have agreed on key provisions concerning the protection and enforcement of EU intellectual property rights in the UK after the expiry of the transition period. Holders of an EU trademark, Community design or Community plant variety right that have been registered or granted before the end of the transition period will become the holder of a similar right in the UK. Where an application is pending on the final day of the transition period, the applicant will be afforded a nine-month priority period in which to apply for equivalent protection in the UK - any such application will have the same filing date and date of priority as the corresponding application in the EU. (There is no agreement on the protection of geographical indications as yet.) Additional, comparable protections are included for international registrations of trademarks and designs designating the EU, unregistered Community designs and rights relating to databases, all of which will continue to be recognised in the UK (provided such rights arose before the end of the transition period). Procurement There is broad consensus between the parties on procurement issues, including agreement on the wording of most of the relevant Articles. Notably, existing principles of EU law applicable to the award of public contracts will continue to apply to procurement procedures launched by contracting authorities or contracting entities from EU Member States or the UK before the end of the transition period and not yet finalised at its conclusion. European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) Except in relation to ownership and rights of use and consumption of special fissile materials in the UK (on which agreement has not been reached), there is consensus around Euratom-related issues, with all other relevant Articles shaded green. Following the transition period, the UK will have sole responsibility to ensure all ores, source materials and special fissile materials covered by the Euratom Treaty and present in the UK are handled in accordance with all applicable international treaties and conventions. The UK also commits to implementing a safeguards regime that offers equivalent effectiveness and coverage as that currently in operation by virtue of its participation in Euratom. The UK will also ensure that any specific obligations under agreements concluded by Euratom with third countries and international organisations are honoured or else put in place alternative, appropriate arrangements, as agreed with the relevant counterparty. Other areas of agreement The parties have agreed on the means of calculating the UK's financial settlement, estimated to be around €45 billion. They have agreed to set up a joint committee responsible for overseeing the application of the Withdrawal Agreement. They have agreed that the Common Travel Area (ensuring free movement of UK and Irish citizens between the two nations) is maintained. Key areas where agreement is lacking Northern Ireland This is the elephant in the negotiating room. Until a solution is found to how to maintain a soft border between Ireland and Northern Ireland when the UK is outside the EU's Customs Union, the negotiations risk floundering. The Commission does not think such a solution is possible. It has inserted a protocol (annex) in the draft Withdrawal Agreement which would keep Northern Ireland in the EU's Customs Union – in its view, the only way of avoiding a hard border. Teresa May has ruled this out. All eyes are on the UK Government to propose a solution. Resolving this issue is now the top priority in the negotiations. There will be a vote in the House of Commons on staying in the Customs Union, in the form of an amendment to the Trade Bill, which the Government has delayed. If the Government is defeated on the vote, its position on staying out of the Customs Union may have to change. Data and data transfer In relation to data and data transfer, agreement is limited and what agreement there is centres on broad policy objectives only. The UK has not agreed to EU law on the protection of personal data applying to the processing of personal data of data subjects outside the UK after the transition period. Nor has the UK agreed on the extent to which EU law concerning confidential treatment, restriction of use, storage limitation and requirement to erase data and information should apply in the UK after the transition period. Continuity of contracts There is no provision which ensures the legality of contracts entered into before the end of the transition period, which rely for their performance on an EU legal right or obligation. This is a particularly worrying issue for service contracts that really on internal market rights such as passporting, for example in the financial services sector. Civil and criminal judicial cooperation Little agreement has been reached in respect of ongoing judicial cooperation in civil and commercial matters, and still less has been reached in respect of ongoing police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters. In relation to judicial cooperation in civil and commercial matters, the parties agree that the current provisions governing applicable law (Rome I and II) will continue to have effect after the transition period for contracts concluded or tortious damage occurring during the transitional period. However, as yet, the parties have failed to agree the extent to which EU rules on jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement of judgments (Brussels I Recast) will apply after the transition period. There is no agreement on how Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) cases to which the UK is a party before the end of the transition period will be resolved post-transition. Dispute settlement The parties have yet to agree how the Withdrawal Agreement should be arbitrated – a critical element of any international agreement. The EU has proposed that the CJEU should fulfil this role. The UK has conceded this role for the CJEU in relation to EU citizens' rights, but in no other area of policy post-transition. The draft Withdrawal Agreement also reserves the right to suspend benefits owed to the UK during the transitional period if any EU competent entity (including the CJEU) determines that the UK has breached an obligation under EU law. The transition period Six things to know The details of the proposed transition period are set out in Part Four of the Withdrawal Agreement. All Articles are colour-coded green, signifying full agreement. There are six things businesses should understand about what has been agreed: It is a status-quo transition, meaning that all EU law applies as it did before (although the UK plays no role in any of the EU institutions and agencies). So, the UK stays in the Customs Union and Single Market. Therefore, no changes to UK-EU border procedures or to Single Market rights such as EU-wide regulatory approvals. It will last until 31 December 2020. Any new EU law adopted during the transition period will have to be implemented in the UK. The UK will still benefit from the EU's trade and other international agreements (so long as the non-EU countries in question agree). The UK Government can negotiate and sign new international agreements during the transition period, but such agreements cannot enter into force before the end of the transition period. The terms of the transition have only been agreed at a political level, meaning that they can be undone if circumstances change. They will not become legally binding: In the EU-27 until the Withdrawal Agreement is ratified by the Council of the EU and the European Parliament, and In the UK until the Withdrawal Agreement has been ratified by the UK Government and implemented into UK law by the Withdrawal Agreement Implementation Bill. Two caveats Agreement on a status-quo transition is a significant achievement, which will help to quell anxiety about the prospect of a 'cliff-edge' Brexit come 29 March 2019. However, it would do to be mindful of Donald Tusk's cautionary words: "nothing is agreed until everything is agreed". Provisions relating to the transitional arrangement will only have legal effect on the ratification of the Withdrawal Agreement – see point vi) above - and there are a number of thorny issues to be surmounted before this can happen, not least, that concerning the Irish border. Our advice to business is this: if your business model is badly affected by the effects of a cliff-edge Brexit, it would be wise to consider implementing contingency plans now. The motto remains: "hope for the best, but prepare for the worst." Moreover, work undertaken now to prepare for Brexit will be relevant not just to safeguard against the impacts of a cliff-edge Brexit; it will also be a relevant preparation for UK-EU trade under a free trade agreement (FTA). Secondly, there is no provision for the deadline of 31 December 2020 being extended. This will become significant if the UK and EU are unable to agree a trade deal in time, and the prospect of a further cliff-edge Brexit looms. Again, this leads to the recommendation that preparatory work done now will pay off later. Outlines of an EU-UK trade agreement On Friday 23 March the European Council published its Guidelines on the outlines of an EU-UK trade agreement. Key commercial implications Frictions in trade inevitable The EU emphasised that the trade relationship between the EU and the UK will be affected by the UK's decision to leave the Single Market and Customs Union, which will have negative economic consequences, particularly in the UK. For example, there will inevitably be frictions in trade in the form of checks and controls to uphold the integrity of the Single Market. If, however, UK policy changed, the EU is ready to reconsider the scope of the trade agreement. Elements of a free trade agreement The EU will initiate work towards a "balanced, ambitious and wide-ranging free trade agreement" insofar as there are sufficient guarantees for a level playing field. The agreement will be finalised and concluded once the UK is no longer a Member State. "Such an agreement cannot however offer the same benefits as Membership and cannot amount to participation in the Single Market or parts of it". In other words, access under an FTA will not be the same as the UK's current access to the Single Market as an EU Member State. The FTA should include: Trade in goods, with the aim of covering all sectors and seeking to maintain zero tariffs and no quantitative restrictions with appropriate accompanying rules of origin; Appropriate customs cooperation; Rules on technical barriers to trade (TBT) and sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures; A framework for voluntary regulatory cooperation; Trade in services, with the aim of allowing market access to provide services under host state rules, including as regards right of establishment for providers, to an extent consistent with the fact that the UK will be outside the EU and will no longer share a common regulatory, supervisory, enforcement and judiciary framework; Access to public procurement markets, investments and protection of intellectual property rights, including geographical indications, and other areas of interest to the EU. The Guidelines stipulate that there should be ambitious provisions on the free movement of people between the EU and UK based on full reciprocity and non-discrimination between States. Road and air transport In terms of transport, there should be "continued connectivity between the UK and the EU after the UK withdrawal. This could be achieved, inter alia, through an air transport agreement, combined with aviation safety and security agreements, as well as agreements on other modes of transport, while ensuring a strong level playing field in highly competitive sectors." Participation in EU funding programmes In terms of participating in EU funding programmes, e.g. in the fields of research and innovation and of education and culture, "any participation of the UK should be subject to the relevant conditions for the participation of third countries to be established in the corresponding programmes." Unfair competition The EU warned against the UK gaining unfair competitive advantage apply in competition, state aid, tax, social, environment and regulatory measures and practices. EU financial stability "Any future framework should safeguard financial stability in the Union and respect its regulatory and supervisory regime and standards and their application." Data sharing The FTA should cover "rules on data. As regards personal data, protection should be governed by Union rules on adequacy with a view to ensuring a level of protection essentially equivalent to that of the Union." Commentary The EU Guidelines make clear that life under an FTA will be very different from life as an EU Member State – in short, market access will be reduced. Businesses would be well advised to understand the difference between the two. They would also be well advised to lobby the negotiators in Brussels and London to ensure the best deal in terms of market access for their sectors. On a similar note, the EU has confirmed that trade in services will be on "host State rules". This means a business having to understand national restrictions in place in a particular country, rather than relying on uniform EU-wide rules. The EU Guidelines provided no further indication of the future of trade in financial services, other than stating that frameworks of voluntary regulatory cooperation could be established.


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'When my mother was diagnosed with Alzheimers she arranged a Lasting Power of Attorney so that we can make financial and welfare decisions for her.'
Dying without a Will - Intestate
We have recently helped to find the family of an elderly gentleman who died without making a Will. Arthur was unmarried, he was one of ten brothers but he had not made a Will. A close friend of Arthur asked us to find all of the family members that were entitled to a share in his estate to avoid it passing to the Treasury where it would be used a public funds.
We prepared a family tree and located all but one beneficiary. As a precaution we arranged insurance for the possibility of the missing beneficiary appearing later to make a claim after the estate had been distributed.
Excluding someone from a Will
Connie is a widow and she has one son who, Connie explains, is a drug addict. The situation is distressing for Connie but she was firm in her view that she does not want to leave anything to her son when she dies. The Will that we have written for Connie excluded her son from the estate but we also wrote an additional statement attached to the Will setting out the reasons for excluding him.
Remarriage makes a Will invalid
After Jenny remarried she came with her husband to sign the documents for buying their new house and it was at this point that she learned that the Will she had made after her divorce and which would leave her house and her money to her two teenage daughters from her first marriage was no longer valid. She had assumed that unless she made a change to it that it remained as she had originally written it. By law, however, when Jenny remarried the Will became invalid since it needed to provide for both families. She simply needed to make a new Will.
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Anne came to see us to discuss how she could reduce Inheritance Tax Liabilities for her children. She has been a widow for 20 years, she owns her own home and also a holiday home in Cornwall which her adult children and their families use more than she does, and the approximate value of her properties and her investments is £800,000. We advised Anne that she could give her holiday cottage to her children now and providing she lives for another seven years there will be no Inheritance Tax to pay.
Financial gifts without burden of IHT
Graeme has a successful IT business which he started 25 years ago. His income from the firm is substantial and far more than he and his wife need. He would like to help his son and daughter financially, they are both married with young families, but he is concerned about tax implications. We have advised Graeme that he can give his son and daughter money provided that is comes out of his income, that it is a regular sum and that it does not affect his own lifestyle and standard of living. If it meets these requirements then the gift will not be subject to Inheritance Tax.
Care Home Fees and Individual Assets
Like many people Emily, who is 86, is concerned about the rising costs of care homes should she need to be cared for in the future. She made an appointment to discuss with us if she could give her house to her son and so if she needed to go into a care home she would not own a house nor have many assets and would therefore expect the Local Authority to assist her with the fees. We explained to Emily that if she gave her house away and subsequently needed to live in a care home that her Local Authority may regard that she had given her son a gift of the house with the intention of avoiding fees. The Local Authority would therefore assess her capital on the basis that she still owned the house.
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Benefits of a Discretionary Trust
George and Mary have three children. The youngest, Ian, is 23 and lives in a home run by Mencap and he receives state benefits. In their Wills, George and Mary have set up a Discretionary Trust. Their two other children are the trustees and are responsible for investing Ian's money and letting him have everything he needs. Since the Trust is discretionary Ian's benefits are unaffected.
We are experienced and efficient in administering Trusts; we can arrange for the submission of annual accounts and tax returns, inheritance tax returns and arrange payments of tax due. We regularly work with other professional advisors and HMRC so we can do the Trust Administration for you, removing any anxiety from you.
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Daughter's Help Needed to Pay Bills for Mother
After she had fallen down the stairs in her own home and it seemed that she would be in hospital for a number of weeks with her broken hip, broken right wrist and multiple bruises, Marjorie asked her daughter to contact us to find out how her daughter could pay the bills, including the gas and electricity bills, for her. Marjorie did not have a Power of Attorney in place for her daughter so one of our solicitors promptly visited Marjorie in hospital so that she could sign a Power of Attorney and her daughter was then able to sort out her mother's financial concerns.
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Constance is 86 and has no close family. She is concerned that if she had a severe stroke that her doctors would prolong her life by feeding her through tubes. She has decided to make a Living Will setting out her desire that she should not be fed artificially nor should she be resuscitated if her quality of life was likely to be very poor. She has given a copy of her Living Will to her doctor and also to the manager of her care home.
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Ensuring Legal Capacity
Michael is 37 and lives with his mother. He has learning difficulties and wants to buy a flat. We contacted Michael's doctor who confirmed that Michael was able to understand documents when they were explained to him. This meant that Michael had the Legal Capacity to sign the purchase contract to buy his flat.
Partner without a Will
When one of a married couple dies the estate automatically goes to the living spouse but this does not automatically transfer when one of a partnership dies. Beverley came to us after her partner of 25 years died. He did not have a Will and Beverley has been told by her partner's parents that she will get nothing. This is not correct because Beverley was financially dependent on Colin and therefore she is entitled to make a claim against his estate.
Inheritance Disputes
Carer's influence makes Will invalid
We recently acted on behalf of a brother and sister who believed that their mother had been influenced by her carer to write a home-made Will in which she left most of her large estate to her carer and small legacies to her two children whom she had seen very little. Their mother had been suffering from slight dementia in recent years.
We helped Elsie's children establish that their mother had made the Will under undue influence of the carer. The Will was declared invalid and the children were entitled to Elsie's estate.
Inheritance Act 1975 Claim
Alan died leaving three grown up children. In his Will he left his estate to his daughter and one son. His eldest son, John, was excluded from the Will because Alan did not like John`s wife. We successfully helped John make a claim against his father's estate as he felt that he should have received a benefit from his father's Will.
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Unless something unforeseen happens, Jerry Mbakogu will join Leeds United in the summer transfer window.
That's according to his current club Carpi.
The Serie B club's general manager Matteo Scali was quoted this weekend as saying: "There's a gentleman agreement with Leeds for June."
It was part of a Gazzetta dello Sport article on Carpi's game this weekend, and it was hoped Mbakogu would be involved. The 25 year old is an important part of the club's team, and his influence by all accounts goes beyond his 8 goals and three assists so far this season.
That said, Mbakogu just happened to have his best game of the season for Carpi when Leeds United went watching, with Gazzetta dello Sport saying he was the 'driver of success' for his team.
Even the Italian newspaper said Leeds United 'chose the right day' to scout the striker.
Unfortunately he hasn't been able to celebrate his impending Leeds United move. Gazzetta report he was 'knocked out by a virus' on Friday and therefore couldn'y help Carpi against Cremonense, a match they drew 1-1.


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The right of a company to exist
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Source: McKinsey
Surely not a profound notion….
So who is the arbiter that decides whether or not they have a "right" to exist?
What George says here is curious and I wonder if it goes beyond the simple reality that customers decide a company's success or failure—unless, of course, it becomes the darling of government and then failure is not an option. He chose his words carefully, but did not define his meaning behind "they have no legitimacy, they have no right to exist, no matter how much short-term shareholder value they create."


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Mr Tan Kin Lian who had merely gotten 5% of votes in Singapore's Presidential Election 2011 commented on his blog post that he had intention to withdraw and work with his choice Mr Tan Cheng Bock but eventually decided not to because of attacks from the latter's supporters. This tells a lot of Tan Kin Lian's character.
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I was in favor of TCB at the start. I submitted the COE just to make sure that at least one of us was approved. Later, I changed my mind about cooperating with him, after his supporters made many personal attacks against me in the social media. If this had not happened, it would probably have been a different outcome.
I was also misled by external surveys that showed me ahead of him (which turned out to be unreliable).
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Downtown manager hired: Kim Fleming, interim downtown manager since October, accepted the position of downtown manager. As interim, she spearheaded the Halloween March and Christmas in Davidson. She also began planning for the Gallery Crawl, Art on the Green, Concerts on the Green and Town Day, in addition to a visitor's website and building relationships.
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[GSoC] Week 8: Solving Ax = b and Determinant
Hi All,
Sorry, I couldn't write a blog post last week. During past two weeks, I contributed in solving some of the bugs in CSymPy and the determinant of a Matrix. Also, I implemented the solutions of the system by using various decomposition methods.
Determinant of a Matrix
I implemented determinant using two different methods, Bareiss's method and Berkowitz algorithm.
Bareiss's algorithm
Bareiss's algorithm[1] can be used to find the row echelon form or determinant of a Matrix. This is not a division free algorithm, but guarantees that all the divisions are exact, i.e. there is no remainder [2]. The algorithm is based on Sylvester's identity and a transformation that yields the determinant after successive application. This can be also used to solve a system of equations. You can read more about the algorithm in [2].
Berkowitz Algorithm
Berkowitz algorithm can also be used in calculating the determinant. This algorithms has various other applications as well, like calculating characteristic polynomial of a matrix, principal minors and Eigen values. I am yet to implement the calculation of characteristic polynomial and Eigen values using this algorithm but that won't be a difficult thing. I wish to do it over the weekend.
Ax = b
I used various matrix decompositions implemented earlier to solve the system . Only the fraction free LU decomposition was used earlier, but now we can solve linear systems using LU decomposition and LDL decomposition. QR and Cholesky decomposition can be enabled after figuring out a good way to do expression simplification in CSymPy.
I hope to work on Sparse matrices in upcoming weeks and do some benchmarks of CSymPy's algorithms with GiNaC.
[1] Erwin H. Bareiss, Sylvester's Identity and Multi step Integer-Preserving Gaussian Elimination
[2] Wikipedia article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bareiss_algorithm
[3] Wolfram Mathworld article, http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SylvestersDeterminantIdentity.html
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Youngest kid of six with an inferiority and black sheep complex, but determined that God saves not just his soul to heaven but the remainder of his manic-depressive life, so others won't say he became a Christian and remained a jerk.
On identity
i won't be transparent before i'm opaque. and you'll get to know me starting from the small things: who my favourite bands are. what kind of movies i like. who are my heroes.
On Christianity
I'm convinced that when confronted with sincere, real love, the Jesus factor will become obvious. But let's not plant the cross before we carry it. I'm not trying to con you.
On dreams
Some dreams are meant to be achieved. I know that. But maybe other dreams are meant to drive us, privately. Never known to anyone but ourselves.
On melancholy
It is a sadness that, when choosing between crying and sighing, will choose sighing. I'd almost say that melancholy is being sad about sadness itself.
On memory and nostalgia
It saddens me when life moves forward and people decide that certain things are worth forgetting.
On language
I've learnt that the word irregardless is filed as a non-standard word in the English language. That's a lexicographer's way of saying it's not a real word.
On politics
Crowds are fickle things. So when we stand in the thousands and cry against the present government, do we know who we're actually crying for?
On society
People always want the best for themselves. But I want to sometimes take second or third or fourth best, just so that the loser down the road doesn't always have to come in last. It must feel like shit to always come in last.
On growing old
Leasehold property make me feel sad. It doesn't matter how old the family photos are that you put on your wall. It's your family but it's not really your wall.
On philosophy
I ask you, if God loves everyone, and if God is also incapable of loving evil, how can there be such a thing as an evil man?
On a daily basis
One line quips, like this.
March 2004 June 2004 July 2004 August 2004 September 2004 October 2004 November 2004 December 2004 January 2005 February 2005 March 2005 April 2005 July 2005 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 April 2009 May 2009 June 2009 August 2009 September 2009 October 2009 November 2009 December 2009 February 2010 June 2010
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
There's an air asia flight attendant who doesn't look like she's up for it. bad haircut, over-the-top make up and a scowl right out of a sergio leone film tells her story. flight attendants don't do their pre-flight safety demos with conviction these days. where's the love? i know they're just telling me about inflatable life jackets, but i swear i've seen that done with a lot more verve. what happened? maybe video versions of it happened. there ... one more star that video killed.
as i disappear into the sky between kl and krabi, i'm simultaneously frustrated by the ventures' rendition of apache. what have they done to it? it should be so much more driving. where's the bite? where's that mysteriously alluring thing about apache that has always made it my favourite surf guitar number? they too seem to have forgotten how sexy their tune has always been. here's to krabi having more mojo than this.
air asia flight ak 862, 1.45pm krabi time
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You can tell a nation's concept of beauty by the girls they use to model their ads for their national carrier. my first impression was that of a thai air girl on a cardboard cutout. i knew it. thailand having better looking people is a myth.
myth or not, the great medium that is the television in our hotel room threw up an entirely contrasting response.
travelbuddy 1: why do they have prettier girls here?
fergus: it's the population, dude. they got 60 million people. that's a lot more beauty in the gene pool.
travelbuddy 1: aaaahh.... the gene pool!
krabi river hotel, hot afternoon
Labels: travel
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Monday, March 30, 2009
Will transcribe travelling journal here, in backposts.
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Sunday, March 22, 2009
In chapter 1, pharoah decrees that "every boy that is born" must be thrown into the nile. we know that moses escaped this watery death, but why is it then that he had male contemporaries? were they all older than him? aaron, his brother? the beat up hebrew in chapter 2? the two hebrews who were fighting later on? all the migrating israelites at the crossing of the red sea? just how many "every boys" slipped through pharoah's net? and how long before that decree was repealed? ancient egyptian enforcement musn't have been much better than malaysia's.
(Exo 1-2)
Labels: bible, christianity
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Saturday, March 21, 2009
At the risk of sounding as whiny as king david, here's a piece of psalm that adequately speaks about my dread at reaching this part of my bible-in-a-year schedule.
Psalm 6:3
"my bones are in agony ... My soul is in anguish. How long, O Lord, how long?"
to which i hear the creator of the heavens and earth reply "pretty long. you're only on psalm 6 - we managed to put together 150".
to which i say that this is positively the last time i'll whine about the psalms.
(Ps 6)
Labels: bible, christianity
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Friday, March 20, 2009
I don't know if you've ever heard anyone say this before, but i'm not a big fan of the psalms. i can't get into it, not more than one psalm at a time and even then, the tone of the psalms always irritate me. king david comes across as a big whiny spoilt brat who, no matter how many times it happens, never gets used to the fact that if he has enemies, he needs to stand up to them. nothing wrong with getting the Almighty involved, but it doesn't make his whining any more readable. okay, so it's made its way into holy scripture and so i'm supposed to like it. but i'm struggling. lord, he knows i'm struggling. maybe one day i'll write a whiny psalm whining about the psalms.
(Ps 1-8)
Labels: bible, christianity
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Thursday, March 19, 2009BIBLE IN A YEAR: GUILT
It's only just occurred to me how matthew ends with two hangings. one is, of course, the hanging of Jesus on the cross. the other is the hanging of judas on a tree in a field. the bible says that he was struck with remorse. He had already tried returning the silver coins to absolve himself of some of the guilt, and when the chief priests with whom he'd been dealing refused to accept it cleanly, he tossed it at them and went off to hang himself. i don't know. this is a very sad picture for me. it's a picture of someone who cannot get over his remorse, and is literally defeated by it. i know cos i know what guilt feels like. but i still don't know guilt that feels worse than death. i guess judas knew that kind of guilt.
(Matt 27)
Labels: bible, christianity, defeat, guilt
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Saturday, March 14, 2009
You've all seen this one before haven't you? yeah. it wouldn't be so bad if there was a real reason why. like, let's run through the three definitive reasons why your generic volume may not be stopped.
(1) you're playing an mp3 off it
(2) you're halfway copying a bunch of files onto it
(3) it shoots a double barrel like a young clint eastwood.
other than that, no, there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to eject your usbs when you're no longer using them. but that's not always the case, is it? take this screencap, for instance. it was taken when all the windows had been closed and all the programs had been exited. the drive was, as far as the user was concerned, no longer active. still, it couldn't eject.
happens to you? well, let me be a used-car salesman for a moment and brag about apple.
on the mac, if your thumdrive browser window is open, and you send your thumbdrive to eject, your window slides away and your thumdrive ejects.
so, my friends, they always say that what makes good marriages work are the small things. well, this one small thing unnecesarily drove my relationship with the pc deeper into the jungles of uganda.
i love my mac. if you have one, you'll love it too.
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Friday, March 13, 2009
Why didn't jacob's family just pack up and go back to canaan after the famine was over? didn't they see it coming, that one day a new pharoah would preside and not value their contribution? by the time their family got to egypt, it was already two years into the famine. surely they could have returned to canaan before they got enslaved for the generations till moses. why didn't they just get up and go home? was goshen too comfy?
(Exo 1)
Labels: bible, christianity
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Thursday, March 12, 2009
Fergus: shyte
i just discovered stg
about itunes
Chrischew: ooo what
Fergus: you can add tags to songs
it's called Grouping
Chrischew: eh meaning?
Fergus: you can add words in the attributes, separated by commas
then if you do searches, theyw ill search for those keywords too
for example
i can tag all my smiths songs with keywords "morrissey" and "marr"
Chrischew: ooooooo
Fergus: so if i run a search for morrissey, i get his solo stuff and smiths
if i tag my modest mouse with "marr" as well
a "marr" search will throw up both bands
Chrischew: ooooo
Fergus: think about it
you can tag "yap" on all of furniture, ferns, this body broken and azmyl yunor tracks
Chrischew: ahahahhah
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
I'm not kidding. i really prayed about this. wai nyan, if you're reading this, i'm serious.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
The more i read the patriarchs, the more messed up they seem. it's true. and a part of me is quite pissed off that the heroes of my faith were all so disfunctional. i mean, think about it. abraham went from town to town telling everyone that his wife was his sister. he even got caught out by two kings! he then agrees when his wife sets him up for a one night stand with her maid. great job for a guy whose greatest contribution to the faith was having the balls to kill his own son. and what happens to that son when he grows up? isaac, great patriarch isaac, went and also told other kings that his wife was his sister, and then got caught making out with her in the yard. what's wrong with these people?? i don't geddit!! and we're just getting started, mind you. isaac's greatest contribution to the faith was probably handing out only the most collosally amazing blessing... to the wrong son! and the son who got that blessing? jacob, oh great father jacob. not enough that he conned his brother into selling him his birthright at his moment of weakness, he had to con his brother again by stealing his blessing (complete with fake hairy arms and a costume change) and later in life he would also systematically con his father in law of all his flocks. somewhere between all this shenanigans, great jacob manages to sire twelve sons and one daughter by sleeping with two wives and their respective maids as the two leading ladies jostle for children they can drag and drop into their folders. someone tell me. why are they all so twisted? i've read genesis about a gazillion times now but seriously, i've never felt the full power of three generations of unadulterated disfunction prior to this. the patriarchs are just out of this world. i've got no proper vocabulary to describe them further.
Labels: bible, christianity
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Thursday, March 05, 2009
Genesis is full of sibling rivalries. and it's weird - God seems to tolerate it. ever since he favoured abel's gift over cain's, it's been a nonstop theme that pops up eveywhere. noah's sons (ham v shem & japeth), abraham's sons (ishmael v isaac), isaac's sons (esau v jacob), jacob's sons (joseph v 11 brothers). i'm thinking, what's God trying to say with all these brother wars?
love? peace? reconciliation? or are we really in the ballpark of "I did not come to bring peace, but a sword"? is God trying to say something about allegiance? blood is thicker than water. but maybe God's trying to establish something thicker than blood. but why does he use fragmented brothers to tell this great big story about allegiance to him? i've been thinking about this for a whole two days but i still don't get it. do you?
(Gen 16)
Labels: bible, christianity
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009
We always think of the tower of babel as just a tower but it wasn't. it was a city with a tower. the folks built a city of bricks and tar and the tower really sounds more like a finishing touch to me. and when the bible talks about the project getting canned, it says "so the lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. that is why it was called babel...". no emphasis on the tower. no reason for us to mythicise it as the main protagonist of this episode.
all these years, i've never really read the bible for myself, or read it for details. so i guess i had it coming getting surprised like this.
so thank you misleading bible editorial heading. i'm reading the chapter for myself now and striking out your chapter heading. i'm writing in it "city of babel".
(Gen 11)
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009BIBLE IN A YEAR: VOYEURISM
Halfway through the Bible, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the Semites and the Canaanites were cosmically meant to always be kicking at each other. But last night, I realised that it all started with a really dumb fiasco involving a plastered Noah who got too much gear off and some voyeurism on the part of his son, Ham.
The best part about this is that there are some really bad ham sup jokes in here just waiting to be made.
(Gen 9)
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Monday, March 02, 2009
Creation is weird. there's this thing called "the deep" and darkness hovered over it. and there's this thing called "the waters" and God's spirit hovered over it. then what does God do? He sticks this thing in between "the waters" called sky. Now if that's weird, it's really because my mortal brain cannot process what it means to have water, or any matter for that matter, above the sky. as far as my natural build can comprehend, the closest thing that can get above the sky is a very tall bird.
(Gen 1)
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Sunday, March 01, 2009BIBLE IN A YEAR...
...starts today.
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JB Hi-Fi's rejigged strategy for its New Zealand business all but wiped out first-half earnings on this side of the Tasman as the discount consumer electronics chain shut one store and quit selling whiteware goods.
JB Hi-Fi forecast annual profit of between A$235 million and A$240 million in the 2018 financial year on sales of A$6.85 billion.
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South Korean President Meets With Kim's Sister
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JB Hi-Fi's Solutions business nabbed "double digit" sales growth, which the retailer states is on track to hit a long-term aspirational sales target of about $500 million per annum. "We are pleased with the progress we have made at The Good Guys and are confident about the future opportunities for the group".
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Paul George scores 29 points with 9 rebounds for short-handed Thunder
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Beloved Florida Catholic School Teacher Fired After Marrying Lesbian Partner
A beloved Miami Catholic school teacher who recently married her partner, was sacked mere days later, angering parents. A first-grade teacher was at a Catholic school in Florida days after tying the knot in a same-sex wedding ceremony.
North Korea invite is dramatic gesture, but not diplomatic breakthrough
Kim appears to have chose to approach South Korea first, and leverage the link with Seoul to bring about talks with Washington . Pence and the North Korean delegation sat near each other at the ceremony but did not acknowledge or speak to each other.
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Speeding train kills four wild elephants in Assam
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Kim Jong Un's sister stealing show at Olympics
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Nunes Wants Carter Page's FISA Court Transcripts
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Watch women's short program team figure skating online
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Apple's macOS Mojave introduces some brand-new screenshot seize options. What are they? How do you employ them? That's what we provide an explanation for right here.
Introducing Mojave
Set to send in fall, in case you are one in all Apple's Public Beta testers it is possible for you to to try Mojave for your self relatively quickly.
Apple's newest iteration of macOS contains a number of improvements, together with Darkish Mode, desktop control and Finder enhancements, Fast Glance, safety and privateness enhancements and extra.
It additionally contains stepped forward equipment for taking, sending and saving screenshots and display recordings, which we're having a look at these days.
Taking a screenshot
Apple has offered some new controls for shooting screenshots to your Mac, however all of the keyboard instructions you might be used to the use of whilst you grasp a picture proceed to paintings.
As described in full here, these include:
- ⌘+⇧+3: Capture entire screen and save as a file.
- ⌘+⇧+4: Capture dragged area and save as a file.
- ⌘+⇧+4 then Space: Capture a window, menu, desktop icon, or the menu bar and save as a file.
Mojave adds a brand-new screen capture shortcut: ⌘+⇧+5: You'll need to get to know this command as it's the one you use to access Mojave's new screenshot tools. This invokes the crosshair pointer that you use to select portions of the screen, and also summons a brand-new menu.
What's on the menu?
The new menu provides a range of tools. From left to right, you see:
- X: This closes the menu
- A screen icon: Tap this to capture the entire screen
- A window icon: Click this to capture a window on your screen
- A dotted box outline: This tool lets you capture a selection of the screen
- A screen icon with a dot: This lets you record video of the entire screen – it's a feature you used to get in QuickTime.
- A dotted screen icon with a dot: This lets you record video of a selection of the screen. You'll probably see me using this in tips
- Options: This is an important item. Select this to decide where you want to save your new image to (Desktop Documents, Clipboard, Mail, Messages, Preview); or to set a timer (None, 5- or 10-seconds). You can also choose to show or not show the mouse cursor in the image you capture.
Using the new menu
The most typical workflow when using these new tools follows:
- Tap ⌘+⇧+5
- Press Options to choose where to save the image, set a time or control cursor visibility
- Now tap one of the image capture options – do you want to capture the whole screen, a window, a video or a selected portion of the screen?
Finally, you can edit the image preview (see below).
How to edit the image preview
Screengrabs act a little differently when you capture them.
The new behaviour will be familiar to anyone who uses an iPad or iPhone as when you take an image a small preview of that snap will appear in a small window at the lower right of the desktop.
If you ignore the image it will be automatically saved to the most recent place you saved a screenshot to, which means you can easily gather images to that location.
You can automatically save an image by swiping the preview to the right, or select the preview and drag-&-drop it into a document. Alternatively, you can tap the image to open it in a preview mode.
What you can do with Markup
Click the small preview window and it will expand. In the subsequent view you can access all the Markup tools you usually find in Apple's Preview app. These include editing, object placing and selection, text entry, signature, annotation, editing and cropping tools. You can also use the Share pane to share the image with other apps and people.
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DirectBlinds.co.uk supplies quality made-to-measure window blinds direct on the internet to consumers nationwide. Based in Huddersfield it has over 40 years' experience in manufacturing and supplying all types of window blind products. Its vast range of fabrics and materials are drawn from all leading UK suppliers to the blind industry.
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RCIA is the gradual process by which interested persons are mentored in a life of discipleship of Jesus and become members of the Catholic Church. It is a process addressed to the following groups of adults:
We have also adapted the RCIA process for children who have not been baptized or who were baptized in another Christian community. Please contact us for details.
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If you or someone you know is interested in learning more about the Catholic way of life or are a Catholic who wishes to complete their initiation, please contact Jennifer at our parish office at 517-627-8493 ext. 14, or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com. Jennifer would love to meet with you to discuss any questions you might have and introduce you further to the process of initiation and our wonderful parish community.


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In the mix of a busy month we managed to venture down to Connecticut for my god parents 50th Wedding Celebration. It was a beautiful ceremony, put on by their children.
What a blessing for God to send a help-meet and then to be able to say that you were able to spend 50 years with them! I can't even image, but I hope & pray, if it's in God's plan, some day that can be
my Husband & I.
|Hoarld & Barb
22 For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23 For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the church. 24 As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything.
25 For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her 26 to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God's word. 27 He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault. 28 In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man who loves his wife actually shows love for himself. 29 No one hates his own body but feeds and cares for it, just as Christ cares for the church. 30 And we are members of his body.
31 As the Scriptures say, "A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one
Ephesians 5:21-31
And of coarse we had to make a trip to the ocean, seeing as it wasn't that far away.
We use to make a visit here often while growing up.
|Gods reminder in the sky, that He Loves Us!
|Matt, Asher & Becca
|Mom I found sea shells!
|Matt & Becca
|Not your normal attire or look for the beach! but is December, right!
|Classic right here..Like father, like daughter!
|My Amazing Parents! Love them!
We even managed to get some what of a family picture, (thanks to my stroller.. lol)
Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do, because you are his dear children. Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ. He loved us and offered himself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God.
Ephesians 5:1


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On a sizeable 520 sqm (approx.) allotment and just a stone's throw to Featherbrook Oval, this superb four bedroom home in the Parkbrook Estate is a wonderful opportunity for families looking to purchase a modern and spacious home, and is close to Featherbrook Shopping Centre, Point Cook P-9 College, Point Cook Town Centre, buses, and easy freeway access.
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There's no question that Steven Spielberg has created some of the most important movies of our time. Films like ET, Schindler's List, Amistad, and Saving Private Ryan immediately come to mind. Spielberg has also crafted some of the most "fun" movies of a generation – Jurassic Park, Men in Black, Indiana Jones, Close Encounters and Goonies, among others.
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By Danish Ahmad Khan
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is trying to make #Aadhar mandatory in every aspect of lives of common Indians. He has even succeeded in this to a large extent. However, the present NDA government led by Modi has deliberately chosen to turn a blind eye and leave the electoral process completely out of its purview, And, why it shouldn't after all. If ever the government decides to introduce Aadhar in the electoral system then it will stand exposed.
Whether ballot papers previously or EVMs now, the voting process isn't foolproof at all, and there are strong possibilities of malpractices, bogus voting and fraud. I happened to discover this during recent municipal corporation elections in Gaya, which is my hometown. EVMs were used for polling and bogus voting was rampant. Some voters were seen using multiple election cards and fake Aadhar cards. I thought had the Election Commission of India introduced Aadhar-linked Biometric EVMs this electoral fraud could have been easily curbed. But, alas there were many corporators who won the municipal elections only because of bogus voting. This macabre scenario also gives credence to the fact #BJP's massive win in Uttar Pradesh with two-thirds majority must have been through bogus voting. And, this must have been true as well in the given circumstances!!
In my view effective implementation of Aadhar is the only solution to make elections in India transparent, free and fair. Prime Minister Narendra Modi should take the bold step of sweeping electoral reforms by linking Aadhar with EVMs in the first place. By doing so the right person will be able to vote only if his fingerprint matches on the EVM. Through this cheating and bogus voting can be avoided too.
The common citizens of India who mostly keep themselves away from either coming out excitedly out of their homes to vote or standing as candidates in elections will get reasons to rejoice and enthusiastically participate in the festival of democracy. The citizens along with their country stand to benefit in many ways, if this finally happens.
Just take a look at the advantages after the implementation of this process. If EVM gets Biometric linked to Aadhar Card it will not only minimise election expenses to minimum but will give opportunity to those talented citizens to contest who are scared of black money powered criminal elements. This will also put an end to multiple Election Cards that a citizen might be holding.
This mechanism will give opportunity to the citizens to elect representatives with clean records to reach Parliament, Assembly to the Sarpanch level to formulate policy without fear or favour thus empowering the citizens and the country.
I myself tried to talk to some political leaders and seek their opinion on this issue, but they talked about other issues instead. And, some of them offered a cryptic reply saying "Do you think it's possible at all?". However, President of Hyderabad-based Majlis Bachao Tehreek (MBT) Majidullah Khan Farhat was forthright in his views. He said, "It is common knowledge that candidates and political parties invest crores of rupees to get elected to rig and win elections by wrong means thus defeating the spirt of democracy where in no intellectual, social worker, academician, professional or an honest person with values can't even dare to think of contesting as black money is hugely involved in elections, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi also claims to be fighting for and putting end to this menace."
Electoral corruption is the mother of all corruption and root cause of all backwardness in India. Is Prime Minister Narendra Modi ready to do something about the scourge of electoral corruption? Is PM Modi ready to introduce Aadhar-linked Biometric EVMs to curb bogus voting? The anwer is simple: "Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wont". And, why only PM Modi, even other political parties won't even like this to happen in foreseeable future. Birds of a feather flock together…!! The future of these corrupt politicians will be at stake. And, the country's electoral system will see a revolution of sorts if this somehow ever happens.
For now, it's long haul for hapless citizens. This has to be implemented immediately to stop corruption, nepotism, and save democracy from money power. The citizens after all need to be empowered, and this will come only after a sustained struggle. Forget about the government of the day and political parties, are the citizens ready for this struggle. It is only they who know best. Good luck to World's Biggest Democracy that India boasts of!
[Danish Ahmad Khan, a native of Gaya, Bihar, is Founder-Editor of India's First Online Muslim Newspaper "IndianMuslimObserver.com". He can be reached at [email protected] or contacted at 9990179721]