Blogger from Kuwait Sued by Benihana restaurant for
writing bad Review on his blog
Mark Makhou, a Lebanese national working in Kuwait wrote a negative review about Benihana restaurant branch which is in Kuwait on his 248am.com blog.
What he wrote about this Benihana restaurant on his blog I will reproduce here important parts in short.
Mark wrote on his blog that,
1. The service wasn’t too bad for a restaurant that’s just been open for a few days and the staff were really friendly.
2. The problem with my experience last night though was with the food, it was disappointing to say the least.
3. The negimaki arrived looking good and was probably the best thing we had there even though I prefer Maki’s negimaki which has a richer teriyaki sauce.
4. The Orange Blossom was very ordinary, wouldn’t order it again.
5. Now the Hibachi chicken which is basically grilled chicken that was the worst. The chicken was very chewy (I could swear it was undercooked if not raw) and tasted terrible.
6. Nat only ate one piece of chicken and left the rest
7. I needed my protein since I’m on a strict diet and forced myself to eat my whole plate (I can do that) but the after taste was really bad. Even the rice and the veggies that came with it tasted bad AND were under cooked.
8. Would I go back to Benihana? No I wouldn’t. Their sashimi and maki’s are pretty cheap (KD1.5 for 5 pieces of Salmon sashimi for example) but there are two other Japanese restaurants at the Avenues, Wasabi and Maki, and I would prefer either one of those to Benihana.
After this Benihana filed suit.
Mark received the court order which is in Arabic and he got the court date in March.
Here I will be producing English Translated Court order in short.
In his company said that Mark has used bad language, has published offensive review for unidentified reasons.
He visited restaurant with his wife, has taken photos and videos without permission from any one and he has published them on his website, blog.
He has given bad review for the benefit of other hotels as he has mentioned names of other hotels in this review.
He has published fabricated news about hotel and to get fake popularity.
He has insulted hotel as his website is read by hundreds of people daily.
The facts mentioned in his article are not true; otherwise our hotel would have been inspected and shut down by authorities.
Thus they have demanded KD 5000 for damages.
They will even try to close down his website through court order.
The article has damaged the reputation of hotel.
The local company representing the Benihana franchise in Kuwait has filed claims against the blogger in excess of 5000 Kuwaiti Dinars (approx 18000$).
This case is important for Kuwait bloggers as well as all the Middle East bloggers and all blogger community.
This is related with our Freedom of speech.
Mark has done nothing wrong, what he felt he said that.
If Mark gets punished by Kuwait court then what will happen with other blogger we can imagine?
By suing the Blogger, by suing the customer the restaurant has clearly shown that, we do not think Customer is God.
Mark claims his review was balanced and highlighted both positive and negative aspects of his experience at Benihana.
Mark has done nothing wrong, I am sure he will win the case, and the this company act of suing the blogger will stop other customers to visit their hotel.
The problem with Mark is that he has posted the video about Hotel without their permission, I am not aware about the Kuwait laws, thus only this will give him problem.
Court may tell him to remove the video.
While writing this I thought about a joke –
Wife says, honey I am tired please can we go to hotel, but
Husband loves home made food and he know what will happen if he says, No,
But while they are talking he sees that his beautiful wife is reading about the blogger and hotel news, so he cleverly says
Promise me I will choose the hotel and if you say No, you will prepare the dinner at home. Wife becomes happy and says Yes.
Thus husband says lets go to New hotel on Avenue road, Hotel B.
Immediately wife says no
she do not want to receive court order from Hotel,
I will cook at home but you must help me through out cooking.
Thus they both go to kitchen.
On his blog Mark has mentioned that he will fight the case.
Will you visit the Hotel which will send you a court order for your thinking?
It’s a human nature one person may like domino pizza other may like pizza hut,
I just hope the hotel will discuss the matter with Mark and will withdraw their damages suit against Mark.
Below are the videos which Mark has posted on his blog .
Reality views by sm –
Tuesday, February 08, 2011
Monday, February 7, 2011
Corruption in ISRO – S band Scam – Scam Amount 2 Lakh Crore – CAG Expose
Corruption in ISRO – S band Scam –
Scam Amount 2 Lakh Crore – CAG Expose
Updated on Thursday, February 17, 2011 –
Everyday we have sunset with a new Scam and new information about Corruption.
And this congress government has not brought a single new law or amendment to stop this Corruption.
The CAG was probing the ISRO and looked into an agreement between ISRO's commercial company Antrix and Devas Multimedia.
The company is headed by Dr MG Chandrasekhar, former scientific secretary at ISRO.
Firstly the agreement was made for or related to launching two satellites by ISRO for Devas.
In this contract the Hidden benefit was given to Devas regarding scare S band.
The use of 70 MHz of the scarce S-band spectrum over a 20-year period.
S-band spectrum was given at throwaway prices to Devas in 2005.
It’s reported that the 70MHZ spectrum was sold at only 1000 Crore.
And estimated price of this S band spectrum is Rs. 2 Lakh Crore
In India only total band available is 190 MHz of the S-band
Currently 150 MHz is with the Department of Space
And 70 MHz of this was allotted to Devas multimedia.
As per Reports Under the deal, Devas Multimedia is to get access to 70 MHz of broadband spectrum in the 2500 MHz band. This was once used by Doordarshan to deliver programmes by satellite to all parts of the country.
According to the report, the CAG wants to know -
1.Why was Devas Multimedia allotted S-band spectrum, without inviting any bids?
2.Why resources were were diverted from ISRO's budget to private satellites?
3.Why regulators were not informed of the implications of the deal?
The CAG estimated that not auctioning off the S-band spectrum caused the exchequer losses of at least Rs 2 lakh crore.
Again Government property was sold without auction.
This is reason we need to change law or amend law and need to introduce the law,
Law – No one is allowed to sale government property without open auction with 1 month of notice to Indian Public.
The Department of Space is part of Prime Ministers office.
Department of space comes directly under the PM
ISRO reports to the Department of Space (DoS), which in turn reports to the Prime Minister's Office.
"The agreement entered by Antrix, the commercial arm of ISRO, and M/S Devas on January 28, 2005 is already under review by the Department of Space and a decision on the matter will be taken soon".
I hope that agreement will be cancelled for the benefit of India.
Updated on Friday, February 11, 2011 –
In 2005, the commercial arm of ISRO, Antrix, signed a contract with Devas Multimedia
Devas says it is totally unaware of this.
In a statement today, the company stressed, "Devas has never been informed by DOS/ISRO/Antrix at any time prior to February 8, 2011 that the Agreement was under review since December 8, 2009 and even to date we have received no official notices.
On the contrary Devas was provided written confirmation that all required approvals had been obtained from the highest levels for giving effect to the Agreement and repeatedly assured that the delays in delivery of the satellite capacity were only on account of technical issues."
The Cabinet Committee on Security decided to terminate the controversial deal between ISRO's commercial wing Antrix and Devas citing national security.
"The deal between the Devas and Antrix shall be annulled. We concluded that this deal can be annulled. Government cannot afford to grant the S-Band to any one including Antrix because of strategic reasons," said Law Minister Veerappa Moily.
Reality views by sm –
Monday, February 07, 2011
Scam Amount 2 Lakh Crore – CAG Expose
Updated on Thursday, February 17, 2011 –
Everyday we have sunset with a new Scam and new information about Corruption.
And this congress government has not brought a single new law or amendment to stop this Corruption.
The CAG was probing the ISRO and looked into an agreement between ISRO's commercial company Antrix and Devas Multimedia.
The company is headed by Dr MG Chandrasekhar, former scientific secretary at ISRO.
Firstly the agreement was made for or related to launching two satellites by ISRO for Devas.
In this contract the Hidden benefit was given to Devas regarding scare S band.
The use of 70 MHz of the scarce S-band spectrum over a 20-year period.
S-band spectrum was given at throwaway prices to Devas in 2005.
It’s reported that the 70MHZ spectrum was sold at only 1000 Crore.
And estimated price of this S band spectrum is Rs. 2 Lakh Crore
In India only total band available is 190 MHz of the S-band
Currently 150 MHz is with the Department of Space
And 70 MHz of this was allotted to Devas multimedia.
As per Reports Under the deal, Devas Multimedia is to get access to 70 MHz of broadband spectrum in the 2500 MHz band. This was once used by Doordarshan to deliver programmes by satellite to all parts of the country.
According to the report, the CAG wants to know -
1.Why was Devas Multimedia allotted S-band spectrum, without inviting any bids?
2.Why resources were were diverted from ISRO's budget to private satellites?
3.Why regulators were not informed of the implications of the deal?
The CAG estimated that not auctioning off the S-band spectrum caused the exchequer losses of at least Rs 2 lakh crore.
Again Government property was sold without auction.
This is reason we need to change law or amend law and need to introduce the law,
Law – No one is allowed to sale government property without open auction with 1 month of notice to Indian Public.
The Department of Space is part of Prime Ministers office.
Department of space comes directly under the PM
ISRO reports to the Department of Space (DoS), which in turn reports to the Prime Minister's Office.
"The agreement entered by Antrix, the commercial arm of ISRO, and M/S Devas on January 28, 2005 is already under review by the Department of Space and a decision on the matter will be taken soon".
I hope that agreement will be cancelled for the benefit of India.
Updated on Friday, February 11, 2011 –
In 2005, the commercial arm of ISRO, Antrix, signed a contract with Devas Multimedia
Devas says it is totally unaware of this.
In a statement today, the company stressed, "Devas has never been informed by DOS/ISRO/Antrix at any time prior to February 8, 2011 that the Agreement was under review since December 8, 2009 and even to date we have received no official notices.
On the contrary Devas was provided written confirmation that all required approvals had been obtained from the highest levels for giving effect to the Agreement and repeatedly assured that the delays in delivery of the satellite capacity were only on account of technical issues."
The Cabinet Committee on Security decided to terminate the controversial deal between ISRO's commercial wing Antrix and Devas citing national security.
"The deal between the Devas and Antrix shall be annulled. We concluded that this deal can be annulled. Government cannot afford to grant the S-Band to any one including Antrix because of strategic reasons," said Law Minister Veerappa Moily.
Reality views by sm –
Monday, February 07, 2011
Egypt Muslim Brotherhood – Will it be good option for World and Females of Egypt? Where are the Egyptian Female Leaders?
Egypt Muslim Brotherhood – Will it be good option for World
and Females of Egypt?
Where are the Egyptian Female Leaders?
In Egypt for decades Muslim Brotherhood was banned by the Ruling parties or say presidents.
But as the citizens of Egypt started revolution against corruption, poverty and to remove the current President Mubarak from power and to establish democracy in the country
Now Vice President of Egypt has accepted Muslim Brotherhood into political negotiations:
In Cairo, in the talks with Mr. Suleiman, Muslim Brotherhood representatives joined others from secular opposition parties, as well as independent legal experts and a business tycoon Naguib Sawiris.
Past experience of Muslim Religious parties or leaders is not good, if you look back one can understand it.
Before getting into power Muslim Religious leaders talk sweetly, they will talk and say they want freedom and democracy, and once they get into power, immediately they will apply the Muslim Laws or Sharia law.
Every legal expert can say that and know that Muslim laws are against Democracy and are age old.
Sharia Law is very dangerous and punishments deter the common man so much he will never come on the Roads to protest them or demand again Democracy.
The laws are good for males and are very bad for females, thus Majority Males support them.
Who do not want easy divorce, 4 wives, with full freedom to keep extra girls?
And complete obedience from female,
In democratic nations this is impossible, females are equal to male and both work as partners no one is superior to other. Or females got the options open.
Here USA has to work hard and see that proper democracy is established in Egypt and even United Nations and European Union should see that Egypt moves toward Democracy and not in the direction of Religious Nation.
As Egypt is moving towards democracy, it is the duty of American leaders and America that as a World leader to see that, Females of Egypt also participate in rule making,
Making of New constitution of Egypt.
Reality views by sm –
Monday, February 07, 2011
and Females of Egypt?
Where are the Egyptian Female Leaders?
In Egypt for decades Muslim Brotherhood was banned by the Ruling parties or say presidents.
But as the citizens of Egypt started revolution against corruption, poverty and to remove the current President Mubarak from power and to establish democracy in the country
Now Vice President of Egypt has accepted Muslim Brotherhood into political negotiations:
In Cairo, in the talks with Mr. Suleiman, Muslim Brotherhood representatives joined others from secular opposition parties, as well as independent legal experts and a business tycoon Naguib Sawiris.
Past experience of Muslim Religious parties or leaders is not good, if you look back one can understand it.
Before getting into power Muslim Religious leaders talk sweetly, they will talk and say they want freedom and democracy, and once they get into power, immediately they will apply the Muslim Laws or Sharia law.
Every legal expert can say that and know that Muslim laws are against Democracy and are age old.
Sharia Law is very dangerous and punishments deter the common man so much he will never come on the Roads to protest them or demand again Democracy.
The laws are good for males and are very bad for females, thus Majority Males support them.
Who do not want easy divorce, 4 wives, with full freedom to keep extra girls?
And complete obedience from female,
In democratic nations this is impossible, females are equal to male and both work as partners no one is superior to other. Or females got the options open.
Here USA has to work hard and see that proper democracy is established in Egypt and even United Nations and European Union should see that Egypt moves toward Democracy and not in the direction of Religious Nation.
As Egypt is moving towards democracy, it is the duty of American leaders and America that as a World leader to see that, Females of Egypt also participate in rule making,
Making of New constitution of Egypt.
Reality views by sm –
Monday, February 07, 2011
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Know about Roboearth - World Wide Web for Robots – Internet for Robots – Terminator Skynet a concept from Movie towards becoming reality –
Know about Roboearth - World Wide Web for Robots – Internet for Robots – Terminator Skynet a concept from Movie towards becoming reality –
I hope you have seen the movie Terminator.
In the Terminator series, Skynet is the main character an artificially intelligent system which became self-aware and revolted against its creators.
Skynet is rarely seen onscreen and its actions are often performed via other robots and computer systems; usually a Terminator.
The RoboEarth project was initiated by a multi-disciplinary partnership of robotics researchers from academia and industry.
In December 2009, the group received four-year funding from the European Commission's Cognitive Systems and Robotics Initiative to develop RoboEarth’s open-source network database platform and develop a series of demonstrators to prove the concept.
The demonstrators include using the RoboEarth platform to:
1. create and execute action recipes
2. integrate localization and mapping
3. perform 3D sensing
4. learning control
5. track objects dynamically
6. mine data from RoboEarth past data
What is RoboEarth?
RoboEarth is an Internet for robots: a world-wide, open-source platform that allows any robot with a network connection to generate, share and reuse data.
At its core, RoboEarth is a World Wide Web for robots: a giant network and database repository where robots can share information and learn from each other about their behavior and their environment.
Bringing a new meaning to the phrase "experience is the best teacher", the goal of RoboEarth is to allow robotic systems to benefit from the experience of other robots, paving the way for rapid advances in machine cognition and behavior, and ultimately, for more subtle and sophisticated human-machine interaction.
The RoboEarth World-Wide-Web style database will be implemented on a Server with Internet and Intranet functionality.
It stores information required for object recognition (e.g., images, object models), navigation (e.g., maps, world models), tasks (e.g., action recipes, manipulation strategies) and hosts intelligent services (e.g., image annotation, offline learning).
In simple language I will say,
Roboearth will be internet of the Robots,
Robots will download information from Roboearth and then they will complete the task reducing the need of human.
Today when we have any problem we use WWW and get the information and solve our problem.
Same way Robots will contact Roboearth and will get the details and they will complete the given task.
Currently scientist have got success in basic activity this guarantees that Scientist in future will build the something like skynet for robots, currently which we are calling it Roboearth.
Again it will depend on us humans if we want to use them for peaceful purpose or destruction and I am sure governments will use them for both.
What is the vision, object, motivation behind Roboearth?
The aim of RoboEarth is to use the internet to create a giant open source network database that can be accessed and continually updated by robots around the world.
Allow robots to encode, exchange, and reuse knowledge to help each other accomplish complex tasks.
Before this Robots were firstly told or configured to do certain task in certain way.
Their systems have relied on knowing in advance the specifics of every possible situation they might encounter.
Each response to a contingency has had to be programmed in advance, and systems have had to rebuild their world model from sensor data each time they had to perform a new task.
But what will happen if Robots can update their database according to environment or need or on the fly learn the new task, and methods, way to do that task, this is where Roboearth comes.
Imagine –
Hospital Room 1 robot is serving the coffee or giving the medicine to the patient.
Robot does this activity, while doing this robot monitors everything, automatically data is sent to Roboearth, with problems which robot faced.
Then some human will configure it or adjust the data and procedure etc.
Now this first robot goes repair, and on his place 2nd Robot comes
Now what will happen?
2nd robot which does not know how to complete the same task, this time 2nd Robot will contact the Roboearth for help and his software will be updated and he will do the same task without error.
Thus this 2nd time no training is required, Robot learned it automatically.
Robot asks to Roboearth?
How can I do this task to Roboearth?
Roboearth = Robot wait updating your software solution found.
Or it may happen,
Robot – I do not know how to do this, search the Roboearth database and get the solution, found the solution and download it, learn it and complete the task.
Watch the video - The video shows a proof-of-concept: A service robot in a hospital room downloading a map of its environment, object recognition models and task descriptions from RoboEarth, and successfully serving a drink to a patient.
In the above video we can see that scientist have achieved the first goal, after 1 year of hardworking.
As you can see in the video above, RoboEarth has a way to go. One year into the project, can download task descriptions from RoboEarth and execute a simple task. We can also upload simple things, like an improved map of the environment.
But for now we are far from using or creating the rich amount of prior information described in the scenario above, or addressing potential safety or legal challenges.
With this now I am sure one can imagine lot of stuff, like killing enemy, murder or enjoying or having fun hope you got it.
Reality views by sm –
Monday, February 07, 2011
More Reading
Source - http://www.roboearth.org
I hope you have seen the movie Terminator.
In the Terminator series, Skynet is the main character an artificially intelligent system which became self-aware and revolted against its creators.
Skynet is rarely seen onscreen and its actions are often performed via other robots and computer systems; usually a Terminator.
The RoboEarth project was initiated by a multi-disciplinary partnership of robotics researchers from academia and industry.
In December 2009, the group received four-year funding from the European Commission's Cognitive Systems and Robotics Initiative to develop RoboEarth’s open-source network database platform and develop a series of demonstrators to prove the concept.
The demonstrators include using the RoboEarth platform to:
1. create and execute action recipes
2. integrate localization and mapping
3. perform 3D sensing
4. learning control
5. track objects dynamically
6. mine data from RoboEarth past data
What is RoboEarth?
RoboEarth is an Internet for robots: a world-wide, open-source platform that allows any robot with a network connection to generate, share and reuse data.
At its core, RoboEarth is a World Wide Web for robots: a giant network and database repository where robots can share information and learn from each other about their behavior and their environment.
Bringing a new meaning to the phrase "experience is the best teacher", the goal of RoboEarth is to allow robotic systems to benefit from the experience of other robots, paving the way for rapid advances in machine cognition and behavior, and ultimately, for more subtle and sophisticated human-machine interaction.
The RoboEarth World-Wide-Web style database will be implemented on a Server with Internet and Intranet functionality.
It stores information required for object recognition (e.g., images, object models), navigation (e.g., maps, world models), tasks (e.g., action recipes, manipulation strategies) and hosts intelligent services (e.g., image annotation, offline learning).
In simple language I will say,
Roboearth will be internet of the Robots,
Robots will download information from Roboearth and then they will complete the task reducing the need of human.
Today when we have any problem we use WWW and get the information and solve our problem.
Same way Robots will contact Roboearth and will get the details and they will complete the given task.
Currently scientist have got success in basic activity this guarantees that Scientist in future will build the something like skynet for robots, currently which we are calling it Roboearth.
Again it will depend on us humans if we want to use them for peaceful purpose or destruction and I am sure governments will use them for both.
What is the vision, object, motivation behind Roboearth?
The aim of RoboEarth is to use the internet to create a giant open source network database that can be accessed and continually updated by robots around the world.
Allow robots to encode, exchange, and reuse knowledge to help each other accomplish complex tasks.
Before this Robots were firstly told or configured to do certain task in certain way.
Their systems have relied on knowing in advance the specifics of every possible situation they might encounter.
Each response to a contingency has had to be programmed in advance, and systems have had to rebuild their world model from sensor data each time they had to perform a new task.
But what will happen if Robots can update their database according to environment or need or on the fly learn the new task, and methods, way to do that task, this is where Roboearth comes.
Imagine –
Hospital Room 1 robot is serving the coffee or giving the medicine to the patient.
Robot does this activity, while doing this robot monitors everything, automatically data is sent to Roboearth, with problems which robot faced.
Then some human will configure it or adjust the data and procedure etc.
Now this first robot goes repair, and on his place 2nd Robot comes
Now what will happen?
2nd robot which does not know how to complete the same task, this time 2nd Robot will contact the Roboearth for help and his software will be updated and he will do the same task without error.
Thus this 2nd time no training is required, Robot learned it automatically.
Robot asks to Roboearth?
How can I do this task to Roboearth?
Roboearth = Robot wait updating your software solution found.
Or it may happen,
Robot – I do not know how to do this, search the Roboearth database and get the solution, found the solution and download it, learn it and complete the task.
Watch the video - The video shows a proof-of-concept: A service robot in a hospital room downloading a map of its environment, object recognition models and task descriptions from RoboEarth, and successfully serving a drink to a patient.
In the above video we can see that scientist have achieved the first goal, after 1 year of hardworking.
As you can see in the video above, RoboEarth has a way to go. One year into the project, can download task descriptions from RoboEarth and execute a simple task. We can also upload simple things, like an improved map of the environment.
But for now we are far from using or creating the rich amount of prior information described in the scenario above, or addressing potential safety or legal challenges.
With this now I am sure one can imagine lot of stuff, like killing enemy, murder or enjoying or having fun hope you got it.
Reality views by sm –
Monday, February 07, 2011
More Reading
Source - http://www.roboearth.org
Thunder – Love walked in Lyrics with Video
Thunder – Love walked in Lyrics with Video
Below the lyrics of the song Love walked in, watch the video of the song loved walked in
Category – Hard Rock Song
So tired of waiting I walked an empty land,
I was looking for something to help me understand,
But bad luck kept turning,
My dreams into sand,
I didn’t want pity,
I had my share of friends,
I wanted somebody,
More special than the rest,
I was aching inside,
Like I was approaching the end,
Just about that moment,
The timing was so right,
You appeared like a vision,
Sent down to my life,
I thought I was dreaming,
When I saw you that night,
That’s when love walked in through my door,
That familiar feeling I had once before,
Love walked in through my door,
And it felt so strange,
It’s hard to remember being on my own,
That kind of loving makes a hard man lose control,
But I sleep so much better,
Now I’m not alone,
So promise me baby,
You’re always gonna stay,
I don’t think I could take it,
Seeing you walk away,
You don’t need to doubt it,
I remember that day,
That’s when love walked in through my door,
I found just what I wanted,
But I got so much more,
Love walked in through my door,
And it felt so strange,
Like a long lost friend that hadn’t changed,
Giving me hope again,
Love walked in,
Love walked in,
Love,
Just about that moment,
The timing was so right,
You appeared like a vision,
Sent down to my life,
I thought I was dreaming,
When I saw you that night,
That’s when love walked in through my door,
That familiar feeling I had once before,
Love walked in through my door,
Love walked in through my door,
That familiar feeling I had it once before,
Love walked in through my door,
And it felt so strange,
Like a long lost friend that hadn’t changed,
Giving me hope again,
Love walked in,
Love walked in,
Love,
Love walked in,
Love walked in.
Watch the video of the song love walked in by Thunder –
Short Biography of Thunder –
Thunder – Hard Rock Band Formed in year 1989
Origin - London, England
Genres - Hard rock, Blues rock
Year’s active - 1989 - 2000, 2002 - 2009
Thunder Band Members - Danny Bowes, Luke Morley, Ben Matthews, Chris Childs, Gary 'Harry' James
Reality Views by sm –
Sunday, February 06, 2011
Below the lyrics of the song Love walked in, watch the video of the song loved walked in
Category – Hard Rock Song
So tired of waiting I walked an empty land,
I was looking for something to help me understand,
But bad luck kept turning,
My dreams into sand,
I didn’t want pity,
I had my share of friends,
I wanted somebody,
More special than the rest,
I was aching inside,
Like I was approaching the end,
Just about that moment,
The timing was so right,
You appeared like a vision,
Sent down to my life,
I thought I was dreaming,
When I saw you that night,
That’s when love walked in through my door,
That familiar feeling I had once before,
Love walked in through my door,
And it felt so strange,
It’s hard to remember being on my own,
That kind of loving makes a hard man lose control,
But I sleep so much better,
Now I’m not alone,
So promise me baby,
You’re always gonna stay,
I don’t think I could take it,
Seeing you walk away,
You don’t need to doubt it,
I remember that day,
That’s when love walked in through my door,
I found just what I wanted,
But I got so much more,
Love walked in through my door,
And it felt so strange,
Like a long lost friend that hadn’t changed,
Giving me hope again,
Love walked in,
Love walked in,
Love,
Just about that moment,
The timing was so right,
You appeared like a vision,
Sent down to my life,
I thought I was dreaming,
When I saw you that night,
That’s when love walked in through my door,
That familiar feeling I had once before,
Love walked in through my door,
Love walked in through my door,
That familiar feeling I had it once before,
Love walked in through my door,
And it felt so strange,
Like a long lost friend that hadn’t changed,
Giving me hope again,
Love walked in,
Love walked in,
Love,
Love walked in,
Love walked in.
Watch the video of the song love walked in by Thunder –
Short Biography of Thunder –
Thunder – Hard Rock Band Formed in year 1989
Origin - London, England
Genres - Hard rock, Blues rock
Year’s active - 1989 - 2000, 2002 - 2009
Thunder Band Members - Danny Bowes, Luke Morley, Ben Matthews, Chris Childs, Gary 'Harry' James
Reality Views by sm –
Sunday, February 06, 2011
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Kochi IPL Owners Got the Bank Accounts in German, LGT Bank of Leichenstein HT exposed – Kochi IPL owners own and involved in Black Money
Kochi IPL Owners Got the Bank Accounts in German, LGT Bank of Leichenstein
HT exposed – Kochi IPL owners own and involved in Black Money
Friday the names of the people were known to Indians, Now HT has gone ahead and found out that, the owners of Kochi IPL team figure in the list of Indian account holders provided by the German authorities to the Indian government.
In this list of criminal black money account holder’s names comprises the owners of Kochi IPL franchisee -- Dilip, Arun and Harshad Ramnik Lal Mehta -- who are among the biggest diamond merchants in the world.
Mehta own the 12% share stake in Kochi IPL.
A Headlines Today investigation has revealed that the Mehta’s, who own 12 per cent stake in Kochi IPL, have secret accounts in LGT Bank of Leichenstein.
How these fraud transactions were done or happened?
As per HT investigation HT found out that Diamond firm Rosy Blue, in which the Mehta’s hold shares, was used to park funds abroad.
Shell companies controlled by secretive trusts in Guernsey were also used to siphon off funds.
Pine Trust and Beech Settlement used Deutsche Bank as trustees to illegally park money.
Headlines Today has uncovered LGT Bank documents which reveal that $1.5 lakh was transferred from Panamanian accounts to Gamble’s Prabodh Mehta.
Gembel is amongst the oldest and most trusted names in global diamond trade.
The Enforcement Directorate and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) confirmed to Headlines Today that three trusts held by the Mehta’s were under scanner for money laundering and Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) violations.
Nearly Euros 4.4 million used for estate planning was transferred to Leichenstein and the $1.2 billion dollar Rosy Blue headquarters in Antwerp paid no tax in 2009.
Reality Views by sm –
Saturday, February 05, 2011
Source - http://headlinestoday.intoday.in/
Suggested Reading
Reference –
Know the 16 names of Indians who kept their money in LGT Bank
http://realityviews.blogspot.com/2011/02/know-16-names-of-indians-who-kept-their.html
HT exposed – Kochi IPL owners own and involved in Black Money
Friday the names of the people were known to Indians, Now HT has gone ahead and found out that, the owners of Kochi IPL team figure in the list of Indian account holders provided by the German authorities to the Indian government.
In this list of criminal black money account holder’s names comprises the owners of Kochi IPL franchisee -- Dilip, Arun and Harshad Ramnik Lal Mehta -- who are among the biggest diamond merchants in the world.
Mehta own the 12% share stake in Kochi IPL.
A Headlines Today investigation has revealed that the Mehta’s, who own 12 per cent stake in Kochi IPL, have secret accounts in LGT Bank of Leichenstein.
How these fraud transactions were done or happened?
As per HT investigation HT found out that Diamond firm Rosy Blue, in which the Mehta’s hold shares, was used to park funds abroad.
Shell companies controlled by secretive trusts in Guernsey were also used to siphon off funds.
Pine Trust and Beech Settlement used Deutsche Bank as trustees to illegally park money.
Headlines Today has uncovered LGT Bank documents which reveal that $1.5 lakh was transferred from Panamanian accounts to Gamble’s Prabodh Mehta.
Gembel is amongst the oldest and most trusted names in global diamond trade.
The Enforcement Directorate and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) confirmed to Headlines Today that three trusts held by the Mehta’s were under scanner for money laundering and Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) violations.
Nearly Euros 4.4 million used for estate planning was transferred to Leichenstein and the $1.2 billion dollar Rosy Blue headquarters in Antwerp paid no tax in 2009.
Reality Views by sm –
Saturday, February 05, 2011
Source - http://headlinestoday.intoday.in/
Suggested Reading
Reference –
Know the 16 names of Indians who kept their money in LGT Bank
http://realityviews.blogspot.com/2011/02/know-16-names-of-indians-who-kept-their.html
Know and Understand Islamic banking System – Kerala Government Planning to start Islamic Banks in Kerala.
Know and Understand Islamic banking System –
Kerala Government Planning to start Islamic Banks in Kerala.
Know and understand Islamic banking.
Easy approach to understand Islamic banking.
What is Islamic banking system?
A banking system which is based on Sharia Muslim law and principles is called as Islamic banking system.
This banking system do not allow to pay interest. Islamic banking system do not allow to invest money in the business which are contrary to Islamic principles and law, the term is harram is used in Islam for this.
Islamic banks currently operate in Muslim community mainly.
The first Islamic bank was started, savings bank based on profit-sharing in the Egyptian
town of Mit Ghamr in 1963.
The first modern commercial Islamic bank, Dubai Islamic Bank, opened its doors in 1975.
The basic principle of Islamic banking is the sharing of profit and loss and the prohibition of riba (usury).
Islamic or Shariah-compliant banking provides and uses financial services and products that Conform to Islamic religious practices and laws, which, in particular, prohibit the payment and receipt of interest at a fixed or predetermined rate.
In practice, this means that instead Of loans, Islamic banks use profit-and-loss sharing arrangements (PLS); purchase and Resale of goods and services, and the provision of services for fees form the basis of Contracts
In an Islamic bank, the rate of return on a deposit is directly dependent on the quality of the Bank’s investment decisions.
If the bank records losses as a result of bad investments, depositors may lose some (or all) of their deposits.
The contractual agreement between depositors and the Islamic banks does not predetermine any rates of return; it only sets the ratio according to which profits
And losses are distributed between the parties to the deposit contract.
Understand the Islamic banking through example:
Suppose Mr John wants a loan to purchase a car or say house and he goes to Islamic bank, then bank will purchase the car and keep the ownership with the car and give that car to
Mr. John .
The ownership remains with the Bank until Mr. John pays the loan amount to the bank. Same rule is applied to nearly everything just they use different names for transactions.
There are no late fees, penalites etc if john is not able to pay on time.
And finally, Islamic banking is restricted to islamically acceptable deals, which exclude
Those involving alcohol, pork, gambling, sex, movies, etc.
When Islamic bank is smaller it works very well as depositors and management of bank
Can watch, monitor every activity very closely.
But when Islamic bank becomes bigger crosses the state borders it becomes very difficult
To monitor.
Current banking system is good but what happened in USA and fallout of all
Economies is a result of greediness of politicians, bankers, executives.
To over this problem there should be international monitoring bank or body which will watch and detect the frauds, greedyness.laziness of banks.
Islamic Banking system is very popular in West Asia and in predominantly Muslim nations such as Malaysia and Indonesia. Leading international banks such as HSBC and Standard & Charted have exclusive Islamic banking windows.
India and Islamic Banking System –
Few weeks back The Kerala High Court dismissed a petition that said an Islamic bank violates the principle of secularism as laid out in India's constitution.
The petition had been filed by former Law Minister Subramanian Swamy.
Just for the Muslim Votes , Kerala Government has decided to start the Islamic Banking in Kerala. The sanction for the Islamic bank comes three months ahead of elections in Kerala. Muslims constitute 25 per cent of Kerala's vote bank
The Congress has not taken a stand on the issue, while the BJP has voiced its opposition.
The Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation will hold 11 per cent stake in the bank.
The bank plans to raise an initial capital of 500 crore rupees from NRIs and will avoid all interest-linked business activities.
It will provide interest-free loans for those looking to start new businesses and small-scale ventures.
It will also invest in the infrastructure sector.
The activities of the bank will be supervised by a Shariah Supervisory Board which will include Islamic scholars.
Opening Banks on religious grounds is not good for India.
This will again divide India, Hindu and Muslims population will get divided.
The good thing for India is nothing should be based on religion, caste and creed, every Indian should get as per his family status like reservation or anything.
This is the total wrong doing by politicians I will appeal to Muslims do not vote for such people, demand better schools and collages , good roads etc.
If this Bank is based on Islamic system, then do you think they will follow Islamic punishment of Hand cutting, or stone death in matters of such Bank.
This again proves that India is secular nation on the papers only to fool the world.
Where is democracy and equality?
Reality views by sm –
Saturday, February 05, 2011
Kerala Government Planning to start Islamic Banks in Kerala.
Know and understand Islamic banking.
Easy approach to understand Islamic banking.
What is Islamic banking system?
A banking system which is based on Sharia Muslim law and principles is called as Islamic banking system.
This banking system do not allow to pay interest. Islamic banking system do not allow to invest money in the business which are contrary to Islamic principles and law, the term is harram is used in Islam for this.
Islamic banks currently operate in Muslim community mainly.
The first Islamic bank was started, savings bank based on profit-sharing in the Egyptian
town of Mit Ghamr in 1963.
The first modern commercial Islamic bank, Dubai Islamic Bank, opened its doors in 1975.
The basic principle of Islamic banking is the sharing of profit and loss and the prohibition of riba (usury).
Islamic or Shariah-compliant banking provides and uses financial services and products that Conform to Islamic religious practices and laws, which, in particular, prohibit the payment and receipt of interest at a fixed or predetermined rate.
In practice, this means that instead Of loans, Islamic banks use profit-and-loss sharing arrangements (PLS); purchase and Resale of goods and services, and the provision of services for fees form the basis of Contracts
In an Islamic bank, the rate of return on a deposit is directly dependent on the quality of the Bank’s investment decisions.
If the bank records losses as a result of bad investments, depositors may lose some (or all) of their deposits.
The contractual agreement between depositors and the Islamic banks does not predetermine any rates of return; it only sets the ratio according to which profits
And losses are distributed between the parties to the deposit contract.
Understand the Islamic banking through example:
Suppose Mr John wants a loan to purchase a car or say house and he goes to Islamic bank, then bank will purchase the car and keep the ownership with the car and give that car to
Mr. John .
The ownership remains with the Bank until Mr. John pays the loan amount to the bank. Same rule is applied to nearly everything just they use different names for transactions.
There are no late fees, penalites etc if john is not able to pay on time.
And finally, Islamic banking is restricted to islamically acceptable deals, which exclude
Those involving alcohol, pork, gambling, sex, movies, etc.
When Islamic bank is smaller it works very well as depositors and management of bank
Can watch, monitor every activity very closely.
But when Islamic bank becomes bigger crosses the state borders it becomes very difficult
To monitor.
Current banking system is good but what happened in USA and fallout of all
Economies is a result of greediness of politicians, bankers, executives.
To over this problem there should be international monitoring bank or body which will watch and detect the frauds, greedyness.laziness of banks.
Islamic Banking system is very popular in West Asia and in predominantly Muslim nations such as Malaysia and Indonesia. Leading international banks such as HSBC and Standard & Charted have exclusive Islamic banking windows.
India and Islamic Banking System –
Few weeks back The Kerala High Court dismissed a petition that said an Islamic bank violates the principle of secularism as laid out in India's constitution.
The petition had been filed by former Law Minister Subramanian Swamy.
Just for the Muslim Votes , Kerala Government has decided to start the Islamic Banking in Kerala. The sanction for the Islamic bank comes three months ahead of elections in Kerala. Muslims constitute 25 per cent of Kerala's vote bank
The Congress has not taken a stand on the issue, while the BJP has voiced its opposition.
The Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation will hold 11 per cent stake in the bank.
The bank plans to raise an initial capital of 500 crore rupees from NRIs and will avoid all interest-linked business activities.
It will provide interest-free loans for those looking to start new businesses and small-scale ventures.
It will also invest in the infrastructure sector.
The activities of the bank will be supervised by a Shariah Supervisory Board which will include Islamic scholars.
Opening Banks on religious grounds is not good for India.
This will again divide India, Hindu and Muslims population will get divided.
The good thing for India is nothing should be based on religion, caste and creed, every Indian should get as per his family status like reservation or anything.
This is the total wrong doing by politicians I will appeal to Muslims do not vote for such people, demand better schools and collages , good roads etc.
If this Bank is based on Islamic system, then do you think they will follow Islamic punishment of Hand cutting, or stone death in matters of such Bank.
This again proves that India is secular nation on the papers only to fool the world.
Where is democracy and equality?
Reality views by sm –
Saturday, February 05, 2011
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