<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361406015925931696</id><updated>2024-09-07T17:41:01.936-07:00</updated><category term="Humor"/><category term="Surprise"/><category term="International Submission"/><category term="News"/><category term="Sports"/><category term="Tips and Tricks"/><category term="Travel"/><category term="Feel Good"/><category term="Health"/><category term="Pictures"/><category term="Technology"/><category term="Videos"/><title type='text'>The Ninth Dimension </title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://planotexasemail.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2361406015925931696/posts/default?redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://planotexasemail.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2361406015925931696/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;redirect=false'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>30</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361406015925931696.post-3019447343601959086</id><published>2011-03-17T11:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-18T13:56:16.933-07:00</updated><title type='text'>This is India - The Land of  Gandhi</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Brutality Committed by Gandhi&#39;s people Exposed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;The&amp;nbsp;picture below is of&amp;nbsp;Felani, a&amp;nbsp;14 year old girl, who was killed near the border between India and Bangladesh. The Indian Border Security Force&amp;nbsp;claims that they found Felani on their side the border, and therefore, shot her to death - an instance justice rendered to a minor without any due process in Gandhi&#39;s land. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Even in Iran, they do not shoot a foreigner&amp;nbsp; caught&amp;nbsp;inside their country without proper visa, let alone shoot and kill as the&amp;nbsp;Indians did to&amp;nbsp;a fourteen year old girl! Is it not barbaric ? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;What is more repulsive about&amp;nbsp;Gandhi&#39;s country is that after shooting the girl to death,&amp;nbsp;they displayed her dead body by&amp;nbsp;hanging her on the fence for everyone else to see&amp;nbsp;. Is this not even more barbaric ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Dead body of a 14 year old Bangladeshi girl, Felani,&amp;nbsp;put on display by hanging her on the fence by the Indian Border Security Forces (BSF). &amp;nbsp;BSF&amp;nbsp;shot and killed&amp;nbsp;her when they found Felani&amp;nbsp;on the Indian side of the border without proper visa papers. Instant justice rendered to a minor. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;After the Gandhi&#39;s people render out instant justice to women and children, they carry out the bodies like this.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;After shooting Bangladeshis to death by the Indians, the dead bodies&amp;nbsp;are carried&amp;nbsp;like hunted down animals by the Border Security Forces of Gandhi&#39;s barbaric India. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;This is real India - Gandhi&#39;s India. A true barbaric nation which doesn&#39;t hesitate to pull the trigger on a 14 year old girl and then display her dead body by pinning her lifeless body on the barbed wire. How can this not be&amp;nbsp;the land of the&amp;nbsp;Barbarians?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;The final question is how long will it take India to match the number of murdered Bangladeshis&amp;nbsp; by Pakistan in 1971?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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What lies behind the sudden spate of bad press for the Grameen Bank founder?&lt;br /&gt;
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The start of a very few bad months for Muhammad Yunus, the managing director of Grameen Bank, began in November, with the broadcast of a documentary on Norwegian Television. It was not so much the film&#39;s criticism of micro-credit that was worrying for Grameen - microcredit has been under some sustained critical assessment for quite some time. Rather, the film made allegations directed at Yunus personally, as well as claims that the bank misused millions of dollars of donor money.&lt;br /&gt;
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The programme claimed that 15 years ago, Grameen&#39;s Noble Peace Prize-winning founder had &#39;quietly tapped Grameen Bank&#39; for USD 48 million of aid money. This money, it alleged, had been transferred from Grameen Bank to a separate company, Grameen Kalyan, and some money was said to have been diverted to fund Grameen Telecom, a separate company.&lt;br /&gt;
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Made for Norwegian TV, the programme might have aroused little international interest had it not been for the English-language online Bangladesh news portal, bdnews24.com. The Dhaka-based agency quickly took up the story, publishing a long report in English, using documents given to it by the Danish filmmaker. Its editors gave the story the headline, &#39;Yunus &quot;siphoned Tk 7bn aid for poor&quot;&#39;. The following day, the allegation was republished in most of Bangladesh&#39;s newspapers, and soon it was an international story, with The Times in London suggesting that Yunus&#39;s &#39;reputation was under threat&#39;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Fourteen years ago, during the current prime minister&#39;s first term in office, Sheikh Hasina was appointed co-chair of the Micro Credit Summit Council of Heads of State and Government, held in Washington, DC. At that time, she had nothing but praise for Mohammed Yunus. &#39;We in Bangladesh are proud of the outstanding work done by Professor Mohammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank he founded,&#39; she said in her remarks. &#39;He has demonstrated to the world that the poor have the capacity to productively use even a small credit and change their fate. The success of the Grameen Bank has created optimism about the viability of banks engaged in extending micro-credit to the poor.&#39;&lt;br /&gt;
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In the aftermath of the bdnews24.com story, however, Prime Minister Hasina&#39;s attitude has been starkly different. &#39;Bangladesh has set many examples,&#39; she told journalists in December. &#39;Deceiving people by siphoning off their money is another such example. This is nothing but sucking out money from the people after giving them loans.&#39;&lt;br /&gt;
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Prime Minister Hasina was known to be resentful of Yunus when he received the Nobel Peace Prize, in October 2006 - Hasina is said to believe that the prize was rightfully hers. In her first term of government, between 1996 and 2001, following the signing of a peace treaty in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Hasina had sent emissaries around the world to lobby international statesmen, including Nelson Mandela, to nominate her for the prize. When, five years after she left power, it was Yunus who received the prize, she apparently did not take it well.&lt;br /&gt;
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Five months later, an event took place for which Hasina evidently never forgave Yunus. In February 2007, a month after a military-backed &#39;caretaker&#39; government took over power, he announced the formation of a new political party. At that time, the military-backed government was reported to be trying to remove her - along with Khaleda Zia, the leader of the other main political party - from active politics. Yunus said he wanted a &#39;complete emasculation of the established political parties&#39; in order &#39;to cleanse the polity of massive corruption&#39;. This did not go down well with Hasina, who reportedly thought Yunus was behind the strategy of removing the two leaders of the established parties from power - even though, after making these comments, he abandoned his idea of becoming active in party politics.&lt;br /&gt;
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Less than a week after the film was broadcast, the Norwegian government - whose funds were the ones said to have been stolen and misused - issued a report on the allegations. Erik Solheim, the Norwegian minister of the environment and international development, stated that, according to the report, &#39;there is no indication that Norwegian funds have been used for unintended purposes, or that Grameen Bank has engaged in corrupt practices or embezzled funds.&#39;&lt;br /&gt;
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Subsequent inquiries by a local newspaper, New Age, identified that the documentary had failed to recognise that the movement of money from Grameen Bank to Grameen Kalyan was a mere &#39;paper exercise&#39;, and did actually not leave Grameen&#39;s account. There was therefore no question that the money has been misused. Further, the money used to buy shares in Grameen Telecom was not donor money, but came from a bank-created fund to support welfare activities of its members and staff.&lt;br /&gt;
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One might have thought that at least the Norwegian government response would bring an end to the allegations. But not at all. Toufique Khalidi, the chief editor of bdnews24.com, was having none of it. The official report &#39;neither contradicts the Norwegian TV documentary, nor does it refute anything in our report. It rather corroborates what we have reported,&#39; he said. (Khalidi appears to have been going by the old anti-journalistic adage, &#39;Don&#39;t let the facts get in the way of a good story.&#39;) He refused to respond to the New Age article.&lt;br /&gt;
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More importantly, Prime Minister Hasina appears to have read the situation as an opportunity for the government to make a sustained attack on Yunus. In the weeks after the documentary was broadcast, a slew of allegations against Yunus have been leaked to Bangladeshi newspapers. These included claims that Grameen Bank has created companies unlawfully, was acting outside the law by serving as managing director (as he was past the mandatory retirement age of 60 years), and that the bank was in fact &#39;an organ of the state&#39;. The bank has denied all illegality, including noting that the law does not apply to age limits for non-commercial banks such as Grameen.&lt;br /&gt;
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Throughout all this, bdnews24.com has acted as a cheerleader. Intriguingly, the site&#39;s executive editor, Khalidi, has another full-time job - as chief editor of Independent Television, a company owned by Prime Minister Hasina&#39;s private-sector investment adviser, Beximco&#39;s Salman Rahman. Rahman is also rumoured to be on the verge of buying a large amount of shares in the online company.&lt;br /&gt;
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At any rate, in early January, the site published another high-profile, and highly critical, story on Yunus. This claimed that a two-decade-old contract between Grameen Bank and Yunus&#39;s family&#39;s printing company gave the &#39;poor borrowers&#39; a job having nothing to do with its core business.&#39; It further suggested that the family company had gained financially by the arrangement, alleging, for example, that the use of Grameen staff in the printing company was &#39;to boost dividends for the family business&#39;.&lt;br /&gt;
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However, beyond the question that it was clearly unwise for Yunus to have entered into any contract with his family, bdnews24.com&#39;s two central claims in the story were patently untrue. The printing work undertaken by the Yunus family&#39;s company assists the running of the core business of Grameen Bank - its only function is to print material for the bank. In addition, the arrangement has not, in the last 20 years, resulted in any family member receiving dividends or profits.&lt;br /&gt;
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Whatever the truth of the matter, such coverage has helped to create a climate that has ostensibly legitimised a government decision to establish a wide-ranging enquiry into Grameen Bank, beginning in mid-January. Committee Chair Monwar Uddin Ahmed said that his committee will now look into the &#39;Overall functioning of Grameen Bank, and suggest how to improve functions of the bank in the future, and in that context look at all legal economic social dimensions of the bank. There is also provision for a special audit of Grameen Bank by the Bangladesh Bank.&#39; Ahmed also noted that the committee would be looking at all Grameen &#39;sister organisations&#39; and reviewing all recent news &#39;particularly about the Norwegian programme&#39;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Yunus has also become subject to legal harassment over three criminal cases. In January 2007, a member of the Jatiya Somajtantrik Dal (JSD), a small left-wing party, filed a criminal defamation case against Yunus for alleging, in an interview, that Bangladeshi politics was simply about &#39;the power to make money&#39;. The JSD politician alleged that he had been defamed by this remark. For the past three years, the case had sat with a magistrate who had apparently taken no action, presumably because he realised there was no case to answer. But shortly after the new bdnews24.com report appeared, the magistrate issued a summons for Yunus to appear in court.&lt;br /&gt;
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Some of the legal harassment seems to be clutching at straws. The other was a new case filed by a food inspector accusing Yunus of food adulteration, through a joint venture between four Grameen companies and the French food giant Danone. A food inspector is alleging that yogurt manufactured by the company was adulterated and is prosecuting a number of people, including Yunus as chairman of Grameen Danone. The legal basis for prosecution against a board member for such a matter is dubious.&lt;br /&gt;
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How this battle between Yunus and Hasina will end is far from certain. Despite commitments that the government inquiry will be objective and fair, it is clear that the intentions of the government towards Yunus are far from neutral. Prime Minister Hasina is reported to have told one visiting foreign dignitary that Yunus would not be allowed to remain as head of Grameen Bank, and that &#39;he should leave now.&#39; Friends of Yunus are convinced that the prime minister intends to do whatever it takes to destroy his good name, and to remove him from the institution he founded. There seem to be indications that the government wants to take over Grameen Bank, though Grameen has stated that the government only owns 3.4 percent of the institution.&lt;br /&gt;
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Prime Minister Hasina might be betting that both Yunus and Grameen Bank are vulnerable due to the former&#39;s weak links with Bangladesh&#39;s civil society. Yunus does not come from Bangladesh&#39;s elite, and has never ingratiated himself to it; further, many question whether he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize. Yet against this, Yunus remains an international statesman, and has support not only at the highest reaches of the US government, for one, but also among civil-society elites throughout much of the world.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&#39;You have to realise that, on a scale of one to ten, if Yunus is close to ten in the eyes of international statesmen, the prime minister of Bangladesh is about one and a half,&#39; says one former Bangladesh diplomat on condition of anonymity. &#39;Yunus can get meetings with anyone; the prime minister can&#39;t.&#39; This both helps to explain Hasina&#39;s continuing resentment of Yunus, but also the difficulty the prime minister faces in her battle with the &#39;banker to the poor&#39;. It remains unclear whether Hasina is really willing to risk the inevitable international backlash that would occur if her government ends up taking anything that is perceived as spiteful action against Yunus.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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-- Da&lt;strong&gt;vid Bergman&lt;/strong&gt; is Editor, Special Reports of the daily newspaper, New Age, published from Dhaka.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; When discussing an issue, is it intellectually honest if certain information is kept hidden, while some selected information is released? Why is it done by certain people? Is it their intention to mislead the uninitiated public into thinking their way ? Is it a desire to fool people and make them adopt their own viewpoints?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;I will give a specific example to show you what tactics some people employ to present partial information to the public to advance their cause. You can then decide if the tactic employed is intellectually dishonest or not.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;For example, in the recent barrage of attacks&amp;nbsp; unleashed on the brightest son of Bangladesh, Prime Minister&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Sheikh Hasina, and her government&#39;s entire machinery started an ugly and vicious campaign to defame Nobel Peace Laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus. One of the tactics employed is to publicize selected statements from articles to sway public opinions against the father of microcredit. The hope is that by mounting blatant misinformation campaign by virtue of publishing excerpts from some articles&amp;nbsp; while hiding other facts from the same articles, public sentiment could be driven against the brightest star&amp;nbsp; of Bangladesh who is revered worldwide as the Poor Man&#39;s Banker.&amp;nbsp; Here&#39;s an example of an excerpt that Hasina&#39;s followers chose to publicize :&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In 1991, for example, Bangladesh ranked 136th on the UN Development Programme’s Human Development Index (a measure of societal well-being); 15 years later it ranked 137th. And aside from the shortage of data showing benefits, there is evidence that some microcredit programs may actually be harmful, plunging the poor deeper into deb&lt;/strong&gt;t.&quot;&amp;nbsp; - Harvard Business Review&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Hasina&#39;s Brigade is going gaga over the above mentioned lines published in an edition of Harvard Business Review because, to them, it looks pretty damaging to the concept that Dr. Yunus have floated and perfected over the decades. And that is why they have decided to selectively take these lines and flash it to the world making sure that the name &quot;Harvard&quot; is seen by all.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;In reality, is it really damaging? Yes, it is damaging but for Hasina&#39;s Writing Squad only. It is not damaging to Dr. Yunus. Why not, you ask?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Well, you will be amused to learn that in the same article, authors Steve Beck and Tim Ogden , clearly and unequivocally stated:&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;Don’t misunderstand: Microcredit can raise borrowers’ standard of living and help reduce poverty. In the past three years we’ve brokered investments in more than 150 carefully selected microcredit programs and have seen positive effects firsthand, including improved school enrollment, women’s empowerment, better nutrition, and increases in household incomes.&quot;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;
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&lt;/script&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;For the full article :-)&amp;nbsp; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://hbr.org/2007/09/beware-of-bad-microcredit/ar/1&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Click here&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Interesting, isn&#39;t it ? Question is why did Hasina&#39;s misinformation brigade forget to include these lines? Or was it intentional? I felt quite amused catching them red handed trying to pull a Hasina on their readers?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;By the way, &quot;pulling a Hasina&quot; has a multitude of meanings: &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;ul style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;li&gt;Misleading&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Hasina has replaced the word Mir Zafor (traitor) in the Bangla vocabulary.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;FIGURE: HASINA EXPOSED: Prime Minister Hasina mobilized the entire state machinery to demonize Dr.Muhammad Yunus. The Economist (a weekly) said, &quot;Sheikh Hasina’s government has chosen to join the &lt;a href=&quot;http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ignominious&quot;&gt;ignominious&lt;/a&gt; little club of governments who turn against their own Nobel peace-prize-winning citizens.&quot;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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Now that we have exposed these not-so-kosher claims by Hasina&#39;s Writing Squad, let us turn our attention to the authors - why did the duo say something negative about microcredit ?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;In order to understand that, all we need to know is that Harvard Business Review listed the authors as the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Knowledge Officer respectively of a philanthropic advisory firm! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Hmmm, now it is clear - these two authors want the donations for micro-credit programs to go through them !! They want to play an advisory role to the donors for a fee! Genius !!! Now I understand why on one hand they say how lives have improved due to micro-credit, and then on the other hand they scare the donors so that the advisory firm the authors are in charge of may be retained as adviser ! It is, therefore, crystal clear that these two authors were also trying to pull a Hasina on the donors&#39; eyes! A picture perfect example of conflict of interest.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;The true intention of the authors which is to earn money as advisers by stoking fear among donors. &lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;We will now examine the claim the authors made about Bangladesh&#39;s Ranking on Human Development Index by the United Nations Development Programme or UNDP. For that let us visit the official website of UNDP. Below is a chart I got from that site. &lt;strong&gt;Click the figures to enlarge.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Figure 1: Human Development Index (HDI) of Bangladesh obtained directly from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://hdr.undp.org/en/data/trends/&quot;&gt;UNDP website&lt;/a&gt; . The chart clearly shows the rise of HDI of Bangladesh from mid 80s till date. The higher the number, the better. The lower line in Golden color is Bangladesh. Screenshot date: Sunday, March 13, 2011.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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Just to have fun, lets look at another chart that shows the HDI of the U.S., Bangladesh and Zimbabwe.&amp;nbsp; Click to enlarge the chart.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Figure 2: In the&amp;nbsp;above chart, the United States is shown in Blue. The line in red represents Zimbabwe. And the golden line represent Golden Bangladesh! This is directly from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://hdr.undp.org/en/data/trends/&quot;&gt;UNDP website&lt;/a&gt;. From the chart it appears that Zimbabwe should urgently get into the micro-credit program, while the United States should consider it as well. Good thing is that Dr. Yunus&#39; concept is also been embraced in the United States too. They know what a good thing is when they see one ;-)&lt;br /&gt;
Screenshot date: Sunday, March 13, 2011.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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And if you would like to see other graphs comparing Bangladesh&#39;s growth with the world and its region, &lt;a href=&quot;http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/countries/profiles/BGD.html&quot;&gt;here it is&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;
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Here is the rest of the page that shows the graph that will make you the proudest if you love Bangladesh or have no animosity towards it. It clearly shows that the Human Development Index of Bangladesh is rising at a steady rate which is much better than the World and SE Asia. Bangladesh is shown in blue.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Bangladesh - Country profile of human development indicators. This graph is an excellent visual representation of the rise of HDI of Bangladesh compared to the south east region of the world as well as&amp;nbsp;the world. Screenshot date: Sunday, March 13, 2011.&lt;br /&gt;
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Grameen Bank was established in the early eighties. As one can see,&amp;nbsp;the rise of HDI accelerated since 1990.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;By now, the reader must have an understanding whether to label Hasina&#39;s Writing Squad as dishonest or not. Also, Members of Hasina&#39;s Writing Squad know now that they have lost few more on whom they cannot preach with misinformation. Hasina&#39;s Writing Sqaud of course will not stop and continue with their spreading of misinformation. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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I have spent a fair amount of time to expose how the not-so-fair tactic is employed with the hope that the next time you see something like this again, you can easily recognize it. When you see it again, and see you will, just walk away with a grin.&amp;nbsp; &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: yellow;&quot;&gt;They will know, &quot;we know, we understand&quot;&amp;nbsp; :-)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Last December, I was waiting at Dubai Airport for my connecting flight to Dhaka. No need to mention that I was tired and was bored&amp;nbsp;waiting there for my flight. Every now and&amp;nbsp;then I would lift my head up to see people around me. Same people - everybody either rushing to&amp;nbsp;catch a plane or somehow killing time for their flight. I look past them&amp;nbsp;and to my surprise, I noticed a lady smoking a cigarette only a few chairs away from me!&amp;nbsp; I could not believe that she was smoking inside the terminal building. I was very surprised. After watching her smoke for a few minutes, I got confused.&amp;nbsp;Why there was no smell of&amp;nbsp;tobacco. And why so little smoke!&lt;br /&gt;
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My curiosity compelled me to approach the woman.&amp;nbsp;Wearing a smile, I asked her about her cigarette. I guess she read me very well and felt pity for all the confusion that I had on my face and could not&amp;nbsp;hide. With a reassuring smile, she calmed my confusion but not my curiosity. She&amp;nbsp;started to explain why that cigarette was not a cigarette in the traditional sense. She said that it was an electronic cigarette! Being an electrical engineer, my curiosity got even stronger. What is she talking about - electronic cigarette! Man, I have read about diodes and transistors, and what not, but electronic cigarettes! &lt;br /&gt;
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Unfortunately, the conversation had to come to an abrupt end when I realized that I had to run to catch my plane for the connecting flight.&amp;nbsp;All the excitement of reaching home to friends and family drowned out the surprise that I felt when I saw the&amp;nbsp;woman smoking something that I have never seen before. It remained dormant for a while until last night.&lt;br /&gt;
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Yesterday evening, my fourteen year old was&amp;nbsp;researching on the internet for school work. I was sitting&amp;nbsp;at the next desk browsing the web as well and keeping an eye on him. That is when I accidentally came across a manufacturer that makes electronic cigarette. I even came across&amp;nbsp;a video clip where a guest was smoking electronic cigarette at the&amp;nbsp;Late Night show with David Letterman. Watch.&lt;br /&gt;
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I instantly realized that many of my smoker friends&amp;nbsp;could be interested in this type of device. I did a little bit more research. Rather than rehashing them here, if you want to read further you can &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_cigarette&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
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I myself have quit smoking more than a year ago. And I must say that it&amp;nbsp;is&amp;nbsp;better if someone can&amp;nbsp; quit smoking rather than take refuge&amp;nbsp;in electronic smoking. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jdoqocy.com/click-4788614-10712424&quot; target=&quot;_top&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Technology changes. And changes quite fast. As fast as our minds. Sometimes&amp;nbsp;it leaves us in awe.&amp;nbsp;Just visualize &amp;nbsp;a laptop. Now visualize you rolling the laptop screen like a piece of cloth. Hard to visualize without thinking of all the broken glasses,&amp;nbsp;isn&#39;t it ? Without further ado, let&#39;s watch.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;যাঁরা প্রফেসর মুহাম্মদ ইউনুস, গ্রামীণ ব্যাংক, বাংলাদেশ সরকার এবং দেশের আইনকানুন নিয়ে নির্মোহ, বস্তুনিষ্ঠ এবং নিরপেক্ষ আলোচনা পড়তে চান, তাঁদের এ লেখাটি পড়ার প্রয়োজন নেই। এটি সে রকম একটি লেখা নয়, এটি প্রফেসর মুহাম্মদ ইউনূসকে অসম্ভব পছন্দ করে, সে রকম একজন মানুষের অত্যন্ত পক্ষপাতদুষ্ট একটি লেখা।&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;আমি প্রফেসর মুহাম্মদ ইউনূসকে অসম্ভব পছন্দ করি এবং তার চেয়ে বেশি সম্মান করি। আমি জানি, এ দেশে আমার মতো এ রকম মানুষের কোনো অভাব নেই। মনে আছে, প্রফেসর মুহাম্মদ ইউনূসের নোবেল পুরস্কার পাওয়ার খবরটি পেয়ে আমি আনন্দে কাণ্ডজ্ঞানহীন মানুষের মতো চেঁচামেচি করেছিলাম। ক্রিকেট বাংলাদেশ টিম যখন পাকিস্তান, ভারত, অস্ট্রেলিয়া বা নিউজিল্যান্ডের মতো টিমকে হারায়, তখন টেলিভিশনের সামনে লাফঝাঁপ দিয়ে আনন্দে চিৎকার করা অস্বাভাবিক কিছু নয়। কিন্তু একটি খবর শুনে আনন্দে লাফঝাঁপ দিয়ে চিৎকার করার ঘটনা আমার জীবনে খুব বেশি ঘটেনি। আমার একজন পরিচিত মানুষ নোবেল পুরস্কার পেয়েছেন, সেটি আনন্দের কারণ ছিল না, আনন্দের কারণ ছিল এক ধাক্কায় বাংলাদেশের মর্যাদার জায়গাটি অনেক উঁচুতে উঠে যাওয়াটুকু। যাঁরা জীবনের একটা অংশ বিদেশের মাটিতে কাটিয়ে এসেছেন, শুধু তাঁরাই জানেন আমাদের প্রিয় মাতৃভূমিটিকে বিদেশের মাটিতে কী নিষ্ঠুরভাবে তাচ্ছিল্য এবং অসম্মানের সঙ্গে উপস্থাপন করা হয় এবং প্রফেসর মুহাম্মদ ইউনূস একা সেটিকে কত বড় একটি মর্যাদার আসনে নিয়ে গেছেন।&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;কিছুদিন আগে ওয়াল স্ট্রিট জার্নালে বাংলাদেশের ওপর খুব চমৎকার একটা রিপোর্ট ছাপা হয়েছিল, সেখানে বাংলাদেশ ও পাকিস্তানের মানুষের মানসিকতার স্বরূপ বোঝানোর জন্য লেখা হয়েছিল, পাকিস্তানের জনগণের কাছে জাতীয় বীর হচ্ছেন দুর্বৃত্ত (ৎogue) নিউক্লিয়ার বিজ্ঞানী আবদুল কাদির খান, যিনি বেআইনিভাবে দেশে-বিদেশে নিউক্লিয়ার অস্ত্র চোরাচালানি করেন আর বাংলাদেশের জাতীয় বীর হচ্ছেন শান্তিতে নোবেল পুরস্কার বিজয়ী প্রফেসর মুহাম্মদ ইউনূস, যিনি ক্ষুদ্রঋণ দিয়ে দরিদ্র নারীদের সাহায্য করেন।&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;সেই প্রফেসর মুহাম্মদ ইউনূসকে এ দেশের সরকার খুব ঠান্ডা মাথায় পরিকল্পনা করে হেনস্থা করতে শুরু করেছে। এটি নিশ্চয়ই আওয়ামী লীগের অত্যন্ত গুরুত্বপূর্ণ একটি এজেন্ডা ছিল এবং আগে হোক পরে হোক, এটি নিশ্চয়ই শুরু হতো। গত ডিসেম্বর মাসে নরওয়ের একটি টেলিভিশন অনুষ্ঠান এই হেনস্থাকরণ-প্রক্রিয়া শুরু করার চমৎকার একটা সুযোগ করেছিল। নব্বইয়ের দশকে নিষ্পত্তি হয়ে যাওয়া সেই বিষয়টির সূত্র ধরে প্রথমেই আমাদের প্রধানমন্ত্রী প্রফেসর মুহাম্মদ ইউনূসকে নিয়ে এমন কঠোর ভাষায় কিছু বক্তব্য দিলেন, যেটি শুনে এই দেশের কাণ্ডজ্ঞানসম্পন্ন প্রত্যেকটি মানুষ হতবাক হয়ে গেল। আমাদের সংস্কৃতিতে আমরা সম্মানী মানুষের, বিশেষ করে বয়োজ্যেষ্ঠ সম্মানী মানুষের সম্মান রক্ষা করে কথা বলি, তাই প্রধানমন্ত্রীর সেই কথাগুলো এ দেশের অনেক মানুষকে অত্যন্ত ব্যথিত করেছিল। আমাদের অর্থমন্ত্রী প্রথমে যৌক্তিকভাবে কিছু কথা বললেন, কিন্তু নিশ্চয়ই তখন তাঁকে রূঢ় ভাষায় কথা বলার জন্য চাপ দেওয়া হলো এবং তখন তিনিও একই ভাষায় কথা বলতে শুরু করলেন। সাধারণভাবে বাঁশের চাইতে কঞ্চি বড় হয়ে থাকে, তাই সবচেয়ে কদর্যভাবে কথা বলতে শুরু করল ছাত্রলীগ। তাদের কথাগুলো লেখার মতো নয়, যত দূর মনে পড়ে, তারা নোবেল পুরস্কার কেড়ে নেওয়ার হুমকিও দিতে থাকে। মৌখিক খিস্তির পর আমরা রাষ্ট্রীয় হেনস্থার স্বরূপটি দেখতে পেলাম। বাংলাদেশের আনাচকানাচে প্রফেসর মুহাম্মদ ইউনূসের নামে মামলা হতে লাগল এবং আমরা দেখতে পেলাম, প্রফেসর ইউনূস সারা দেশে ছোটাছুটি করে সেই মামলার জামিন নেওয়ার চেষ্টা করছেন। যে মানুষটি সারা পৃথিবীর সবচেয়ে সম্মানী মানুষদের একজন, তাঁকে তাঁর দেশের সরকার এ রকমভাবে অসম্মান করতে পারে, সেটি নিজের চোখে দেখেও বিশ্বাস হতে চায় না। আজকের (বৃহস্পতিবার) খবরের কাগজে দেখেছি, সরকার তাঁকে গ্রামীণ ব্যাংক থেকে অপসারণ করেছে। আমি নিশ্চিত, সরকারের পক্ষ থেকে নানা রকম আইনকানুন দেখানো হবে, কিন্তু পুরো বিষয়টি এমনভাবে ঘটে এসেছে যে, আমি বাজি ধরে বলতে পারি, এ দেশের সাধারণ মানুষ আর সেগুলো বিশ্বাস করবে না। তারা ধরেই নেবে, এটি হচ্ছে প্রফেসর মুহাম্মদ ইউনূসকে হেনস্থা করার আরও একটি ধাপ, শত হাইকোর্ট দেখিয়ে সাধারণ মানুষকে তাদের বিশ্বাস থেকে টলানো যাবে না।&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;প্রফেসর মুহাম্মদ ইউনূসের গ্রামীণ ব্যাংক এবং ক্ষুদ্রঋণ প্রকল্প নিয়ে অনেক আলোচনা-সমালোচনা হয়। এর পক্ষে-বিপক্ষে অনেক মানুষ। আমাদের সবারই ইচ্ছে, এ বিষয় নিয়ে গবেষণা হোক, তথ্য-উপাত্ত দিয়ে যুক্তিপূর্ণ আলোচনা হোক এবং ভেতরের সত্যটুকু বের হোক। কতটুকু আশার ব্যাপার, কতটুকু স্বপ্ন, কতটুকু বাস্তব এবং কতটুকু অবাস্তব, সেই তথ্যগুলো আমাদের সামনে প্রকাশিত হোক, কিন্তু তার মানে কি এই বিষয়ের স্বপ্নদ্রষ্টাকে অসম্মান করা হবে? এবং এত স্থূলভাবে?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;উদ্বোধনী অনুষ্ঠানের দায়িত্ব দিয়ে আইসিসি বাংলাদেশকে দায়িত্বশীল ও গর্বিত করেছে। অনেকেরই মনে শঙ্কা ছিল, বাংলাদেশ পারবে তো? ফেব্রুয়ারীর সতের তারিখের জমকালো অনুষ্ঠান দিয়ে বাংলাদেশ ক্রিকেট বিশ্বকে তাক লাগিয়ে দিয়েছে, জানিয়েছে আমরাও পারি। যদিও সাংস্কৃতিক অনুষ্ঠানের ডামাডোলের ভিতর ক্রিকেট কিছুটা হলেও উপেক্ষিত থেকেছে, তবু লেজার রশ্মি ও আতশবাজির মধ্য দিয়ে তিন দেশের নৃত্য-গীত উপস্থাপনা মন কেড়েছে লাখো দর্শকের। শুরুর ভুল উচ্চারণের ইংরেজী বক্তৃতামালা ছাড়া বাকী পুরো অনুষ্ঠানটি ছিল মন্ত্রমুগ্ধকর। রিকশায় চড়ে ১৪ দেশের অধিনায়কের স্টেডিয়ামে প্রবেশ বিদেশীদের কাছে অভিনব মনে হয়েছে, যদিও যন্ত্রেটানা সভ্যতার এই বিশ্বে মানুষে-টানা রিকশা কতখানি সমাদৃত হবে, তা ভাবনার বিষয়; তবে রিকশা মানববান্ধব না হলেও পরিবেশবান্ধব। শিল্পব্যাংকের সুউচ্চ খাড়া দেয়ালের ক্রিকেটও ছিল অভিনব। বহুবর্ণিল লেজার আলোর নাচানাচি, আতশবাজির ক্রমাগত উদগীরণ আর শিল্পীদের ঢেউখেলানো পাফরমেন্সের ভিতর কোন ছন্দপতন ঘটেনি। আমাদের কেবল মুখরক্ষাই হয়নি, মুখউজ্জ্বলও হয়েছে। যে বাংলাদেশকে দুনিয়া চেনে বন্যা ও ঘূর্ণিঝড় আক্রান্ত, বিপন্ন মানুষদের দরিদ্র দেশ হিসেবে, তার অমন জমকালো প্রদর্শনী কিছুটা বিভ্রম তৈরি করলেও পজিটিভ ধারণা সৃষ্টি করেছে। এখন প্রয়োজন বিদেশীদের এই জেগে ওঠা আগ্রহকে আমাদের সম্ভাবনাময় অথচ অবহেলিত পর্যটনশিল্পের বিকাশে কাজে লাগানো। &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Couples&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Q. Why do couples hold hands during their wedding?&lt;br /&gt;
A.&amp;nbsp; It&#39;s a formality just like two boxers shaking hands before&amp;nbsp;the fight begins! &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;~~~&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;It&#39;s funny when people discuss Love Marriage vs Arranged. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;center&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;It&#39;s like asking someone, if suicide is better or being murdered.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Lawyer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Lawyer : &quot;Now sir, I&#39;m sure you are an intelligent and honest man.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Witness: &quot;Thank you. If I weren&#39;t under oath, I&#39;d return the compliment.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;~~~&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;Lawyer : &quot;Have you lived in this town all your life?&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Witness: &quot;Not yet.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; ~~~&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;Lawyer : &quot;Trooper, when you stopped the defendant, were your red and blue lights flashing?&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Witness: &quot;Yes.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Lawyer : &quot;Did the defendant say anything when she got out of her car?&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Witness: &quot;Yes, sir.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Lawyer : &quot;What did she say?&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Witness: &quot;&#39;What disco am I at?&#39;&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;~~~&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;Divorce court judge&amp;nbsp;to husband: &quot;Mr Geraghty,I have reviewed this case very carefully and I&#39;ve decided to give your wife $800 a week.&quot; &lt;br /&gt;
Husband: &quot;That&#39;s very fair,your honor. &quot;And every now and then I&#39;ll try to send her a few bucks myself.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Gone are the days of Airline Travel Agents&#39; strong grip on airline travelers. I remember that in the early eighties, we used to call this travel agent in New York City who specialized in travel to Bangladesh. He had&amp;nbsp;absolutely no competition.&amp;nbsp;Everybody had to go to him if they wanted to travel home. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; This travel agent never returned any phone calls from the customers; he did not have the time. People could not go to the other agents because they were not discounters and this guy was. He was the only game in town.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Fast forward to today. Travelers have so much choices now. They can still book their reservation with travel agents. But they can also do their own bookings online. And buy the tickets themselves with credit cards. And there are quite a few reputable online travel companies. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Competition is fierce among travel agents and the online travel companies. Yet some brick-and-mortar travel &lt;br /&gt;
agents take advantage of the unsuspecting traveler. For example, some unscrupulous travel agents will charge 1% to 3% credit card surcharge if a traveler decides to pay for the ticket by a credit card rather than by cash or a check! That adds about $30 to $50 per ticket! And then there are some travel agents who refuse to accept American Express becasue in a dispute, American Express acts very fairly, and makes it less burdensome for the cardholder to file a complaint. I, therefore, always buy high ticket items with American Express. And airline tickets fall into that category for me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Anyway, by refusing to accept credit cards for the purchase of tickets, some of these agents deprive the travelers to accrue bonus miles or bonus points as well. And not only that, when an airline ticket is purchased with a credit card, in&amp;nbsp;most instances, if not all, travelers get automatic accidental death insurance and&amp;nbsp;lost/delayed luggage coverage. If they cannot pay by credit card because the agent charges them sur-charge, the traveler then loses these benefits accorded free of charge to the card holders&amp;nbsp;by the credit card issuing companies.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Fortunately for the travelers, things have changed quite a bit. Travelers now have a choice to book their own flights online at their own convenience. And not just for domestic flights but for international flights as well. Travelers can pay with credit cards without being penalized by as much as 3%. And since no paper tickets are issued no hassle either. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I buy all my domestic travel tickets online. No ifs and buts about it. No exceptions. I did not, however, had the opportunity to buy international ticket online yet. But my friends have.&amp;nbsp;They bought&amp;nbsp;New York City (USA) to Dhaka (Bangladesh) roundtrip airline tickets. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I think I can safely bet that you will watch the video more than once. I think I am&amp;nbsp;quite certain&amp;nbsp;about that :-) That is not the point though. The&amp;nbsp;point is&amp;nbsp;how many times you will actually watch this 40-second video. Will you be able to keep count? I don&#39;t know.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Did you ever think that you were the only one on this entire planet who was hurting the most? How did you handle that? Did&amp;nbsp;the pain&amp;nbsp;subside with the passage of time?&amp;nbsp;Or is it still lurking somewhere in your heart? &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Things change. Nothing is stationary. Some changes are slow but some are quite dramatic. Sometimes the statistical data that we are presented with are quite unexpected and leave us shocked and awed. &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The following video surprised me with some of the facts and numbers that was so hard to believe. Even though the video is a couple of years old, and a lot of things have changed, yet the facts presented will undoubtedly leave you a little breathless.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Bangladesh is always in the hearts of non-resident Bangladeshis (NRBs). Everytime there&#39;s news on TV about Bangladesh, they get glued to the set. Everytime something positive happens in Bangladesh, or&amp;nbsp;Bangladesh is portrayed positively, they get emotional and teary eyed, and their face beam like a million watt light bulb. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; This blog page lists about 15 videos. The following video seems to have touched the hearts of millions of Non-Resident Bangladeshis (NRB) recently. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;‎158 shooting crew worked behind this film. it&#39;s&amp;nbsp;a REDdot production, producer and director : Gazi Shubhro; Colorist : Ziaul Paikar Jewel, DP : Khosru; Production Manager: Zahed(R.I.P), GM:Rony, AD; Tonu, Dip, Manna, Joyonto, Ashraf; Editor:Jewel and Prodip; Agency: Grey Bangladesh; Client: ICC &amp;amp; Parjatan BD; Music Producer &amp;amp; Director: Adit; Assistant Music Director: Prithwi; Musicians: Prithwi (sargams), Najrul (dhol &amp;amp; mondira), Alom (ektara,dugi &amp;amp; nupur), Mukaddes (dotara), Jalal (flute), Monir Kaka (silver flute); Lyrics: Shaon; Script copy: Anam.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The rest of the videos are for those who would like to explore Bangladesh a little bit more, and for those who got nostalgic and emotional watching the above video. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;The following video is about culture and heritage of Bangladesh.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;THE EYES: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;When you rearrange the letters: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;THEY SEE &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;PRESBYTERIAN: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;When you rearrange the letters:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;BEST IN PRAYER &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;center&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;ASTRONOMER: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;When you rearrange the letters:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;MOON STARER &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;DESPERATION: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;When you rearrange the letters:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;A ROPE ENDS IT &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;GEORGE BUSH:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;When you rearrange the letters: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;HE BUGS GORE &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;THE MORSE CODE:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;When you rearrange the letters: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;HERE COME DOTS &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;DORMITORY: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;When you rearrange the letters:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;DIRTY ROOM &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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SLOT MACHINES:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;When you rearrange the letters: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;CASH LOST IN ME &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;ANIMOSITY:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;When you rearrange the letters:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;IS NO AMITY &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;ELECTION RESULTS:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;When you rearrange the letters: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;LIES - LET&#39;S RECOUNT &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;SNOOZE ALARMS: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;ALAS! NO MORE Z &#39;S &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;A DECIMAL POINT: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;When you rearrange the letters:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;I&#39;M A DOT IN PLACE &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;THE EARTHQUAKES: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;When you rearrange the letters:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;THAT QUEER SHAKE &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;ELEVEN PLUS TWO: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;TWELVE PLUS ONE &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;And for the Grand Finale ---&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;MOTHER-IN-LAW:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;When you rearrange the letters: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;An Eve Teaser holding his own two ears in front of a girls school. Holding ears is considered an insult in Bangladesh. He is also wearing a sign that says, &quot;I tease girls, I am an Eve Teaser&quot;.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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This becomes effective March 27, 2015. The National Highway Safety Council has done extensive Testing on a newly Designed Car Seat Belt. &lt;br /&gt;
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Results show that automobile accidents can be reduced by as much as 95% when the belt is properly installed and cars become much safer. Correct Installation is illustrated below... &lt;br /&gt;
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Please pass on to family and friends. THIS MAY HELP SAVE A LIFE! &lt;br /&gt;
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People argue too much. And People in some cultures argue more than others. However, no nation, and no culture, is immune from this serious disease of arguing. We argue more when it comes to political views and religious views. We simply connot tolerate the other view point, which sometimes lead to serious consequences. &lt;br /&gt;
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We never give the other party any chance. We just yell from the top of our lungs to say that his viewpoint is wrong. We never stop and listen. But we shoud. Scroll down to the bottom and right away call out what you see in the picture.&amp;nbsp;Then wait 10 seconds to see if your opinion was right. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: yellow;&quot;&gt;Moral:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: yellow;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;We have to respect each other&#39;s opinion; you can see it clearly in the above Picture. We just need to wait and listen actively to others&#39; point of view! &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno&#39;t mtaetr in what oerdr the ltteres in a word are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is that the frsit and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it whotuit a pboerlm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a wlohe. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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How much do Americans really care about high gas mileage? Pump prices above $3 a gallon have not deterred buyers of pickups and big SUVs. But portents in the January sales figures and a recent opinion survey suggest that car shoppers do care. And the new marketing mantra aimed at the mileage shopper is 40 miles per gallon.&lt;br /&gt;
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Ford says it doubled its small car sales over a year earlier, led by its new Fiesta model. General Motors cited its small-car Chevrolet Cruze as one of its best sales performers. Both the Fiesta and the Cruze have versions rated by the EPA at 40 mpg or more on the highway.&lt;br /&gt;
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Hyundai, which built on its hot 2010 sales trends with a 22% gain in January, has also been doing well with its 40 mpg models: It sold 4,792 Elantras and Sonata hybrids last month. That&#39;s about 13% of company sales. Hyundai also challenged competitors by saying it will publish a monthly average fuel economy for its vehicles sold (34.7 mpg in January, already not far from the 35.1 mpg required by federal regulations in 2016). Unlike Detroit companies, however, Hyundai does not sell pickups or many big SUVs.&lt;br /&gt;
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A Kelley Blue Book survey of visitors to its web site found that 70% said gas price influenced the vehicles they considered buying. If you doubt that these cars will actually take you 40 miles on the highway for every gallon you pump, well, your skepticism is justified. As the EPA is fond of noting with its ratings, real-world experience may differ. Nonetheless, the EPA ratings are a useful guide in comparing one car to another. For instance, the mileage champ Toyota Prius hybrid (51 mpg city, 48 highway) will surely visit the gas pump less often than the also thrifty Ford Fusion hybrid (41 mpg city, 36 highway).&lt;br /&gt;
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As part of its wave of new or redesigned models, Hyundai has given its Elantra, a complete makeover. Though bigger than its predecessor, it&#39;s lighter. Throw in the combination of a new, more powerful engine and an improved transmission, and that&#39;s how you get to the magical 40 mpg highway (29 city). Reviewers in early test drives noted reasonably responsive power, especially with the automatic transmission, and measured mileage not too far off the ratings. The low-end, manual Elantra starts at $15,500 - competitive with the Ford Focus and Chrysler Group&#39;s new Fiat 500. Successive trim levels that add leather seats, GPS and other attractions put the starting price for the top end Elantra Limited Premium at $22,700&lt;br /&gt;
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Adapted from a car already popular in Europe, the Cruze is part of a trend to offer standard and optional equipment in small cars that used to be out of reach unless you jumped up to midsize. Reviewers praise its comfort, spacious interior and good manufacturing quality.The Cruze with the turbocharged, four-cylinder &quot;Ecotec&quot; engine is rated 42 mpg highway, 28 city, and starts at $18,995. A clever Super Bowl ad about oldsters who couldn&#39;t understand let Chevy repeat the 42 mpg over and over. The non-Ecotec Cruze versions are rated at 24 mpg city, 36 highway. The list price range is $16,275 to $21,975&lt;br /&gt;
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The 2011 Fiesta seems to be backing up Ford&#39;s hopes that new styling and comfort imported from Europe would generate small-car sales here. Reviewers surveyed by U.S.News rank it the No. 1affordable small car. Fiesta (left) comes in sedan and five-door hatchback models and with either a five-speed manual or four-speed automatic transmission. The engine is a 118-horsepower 1.6 liter four-cylinder. With automatic transmission and the SFE (super fuel economy) package, Fiesta does hit the magic 19 mpg city, 40 highway. Other models are rated at 29 city, 38 highway. Base prices run from $13,320 to $17,120 before options.&lt;br /&gt;
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LOS ANGELES – It&#39;s far from definitive proof, but new research raises concern about diet soda, finding higher risks for stroke and heart attack among people who drink it everyday versus those who drink no soda at all.&lt;br /&gt;
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The beverage findings should be &quot;a wakeup call to pay attention to diet sodas,&quot; said Dr. Steven Greenberg. He is a Harvard Medical School neurologist and vice chairman of the International Stroke Conference in California, where the research was presented on Wednesday.&lt;br /&gt;
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The numbers come from the Northern Manhattan study, which enrolled about 2,500 adults over 40 in the New York area from 1993 to 2001 through random phone calls. Half are Hispanic and one-fourth are black, making it one of the few studies to look at these risks in minorities, who have higher rates of stroke.&lt;br /&gt;
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Participants filled out a standard survey about their diets at the start of the study, and their health was tracked for nearly 10 years. In that time there were 559 strokes or heart attacks, 338 of them fatal.&lt;br /&gt;
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Daily diet soda drinkers (there were 116 in the study) had a 48 percent higher risk of stroke or heart attack than people who drank no soda of any kind (901 people, or 35 percent of total participants). That&#39;s after taking into account rates of smoking, diabetes, waistline size and other differences among the groups.&lt;br /&gt;
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A group of professional people posed this question to a group of &lt;strong&gt;4 to 8 year-olds&lt;/strong&gt;, &#39;What does love mean?&#39; The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined. See what you think .&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&#39;When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn&#39;t bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That&#39;s love.&#39; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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~ Rebecca- age 8&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&#39;When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.&#39; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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~ Billy - age 4 &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&#39;Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other.&#39; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&#39;Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs.&#39; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&#39;Love is what makes you smile when you&#39;re tired.&#39; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;&#39;Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK.&#39; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&#39;Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more. My Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss&#39; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&#39;Love is what&#39;s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.&#39; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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~ Bobby - age 7 (Wow!) &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&#39;If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate,&#39; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&#39;Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday.&#39; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&#39;Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well.&#39; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&#39;During my piano recital, I was on a stage and I was scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling. He was the only one doing that. I wasn&#39;t scared anymore.&#39; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&#39;My mommy loves me more than anybody. You don&#39;t see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night.&#39; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&#39;Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford.&#39; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&#39;Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day.&#39; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&#39;I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.&#39; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&#39;When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you.&#39; (what an image) &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&#39;You really shouldn&#39;t say &#39;I love you&#39; unless you mean it.. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.&#39; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tishma was born in a family that loved both music and travelling. As a child, she travelled to many different countries including the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Greece, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia, Macedonia. It is because of her extensive traveling,  from a very early age, she was exposed to many kinds of music and cultures. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;She spent a large part of her childhood in Europe, and began her education in Camberly, UK. She has studied Western Classical Music under the Board of Royal Schools of Music, London, and has studied Indian classical music under different Ustads including Ustad Akhtar Sadmani, Shampa Reza and Ustad Shonjib De. She has also received training in Rabindra Sangeet from Anupam Barua of Shantiniketan. Currently, she is  studying Indian classical music under Ustad Shonjib De. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Being a true musical pioneer, Tishma has introduced many “firsts” in Bangla music. She is the first female music composer, music director and music arranger in Bangladesh. Besides composing, devloping tracks and even writing songs, she also plays many musical instruments including piano, guitar, keyboards. She is the singer and song writer of the first original English song ever released in Bangladesh by a female artist. She is also the first Bengali female rapper. She introduced many other genres of music to Bangladesh including R&amp;amp;B, soul, funk and more.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Tishma is not just the pop queen of Bangladesh, she is also a brilliant student. In both her O levels and A levels, she received a record-breaking number of A’s [in one sitting, 9 A&#39;s in O levels and 5 A&#39;s in A levels]. She is currently studying Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering at North South University in Dhaka, where she commands the highest CGPA holder in her department.﻿&lt;br /&gt;
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