Namimg and Shaming Indigenous customs continues

Accute lack of understanding of Indigenous customs represented again by national agencies.

Also, note how the tortures on the natives have been reduced to mere “hardships”:

“The older girl was buried with a large clay Aztec-style figurine depicting a female figure holding a child. Her skull showed signs of possible anemia, malnutrition or infection, signs that suggest life was hard for the Indigenous population in the years following the conquest.”

Ref: https://www.thestar.com/news/world/americas/2022/06/27/infant-burials-in-mexico-aztec-customs-lasted-post-conquest.html

No criminal case; stuck on apology

Years went by, going by.

No sign of any criminal cases being filed. Media stuck over apology. 😔

“The Pope apologized for ‘deplorable abuses’ at residential schools when Indigenous delegations visited Rome in April, but the pontiff faced criticism for denouncing the conduct of some members of the Catholic Church, rather than taking responsibility for the role of the wider institution.

There is also concern in the First Nations community that the qualified apology did not address the issue of compensation, document disclosure or the extradition and prosecution of those known to have participated in abuse.”

Ref: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-may-30-2022-1.6468174/indigenous-communities-expecting-more-from-pope-s-visit-says-gov-gen-mary-simon-1.6468178

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Impact of COVID-19 on Education Evaluation for Canada Immigration

InstituteWebsiteCovid Info PageImpact
CES (Comparative Education Services by University of Toronto)LinkUpdates, FAQProcessing paused until further notice
ICAS (International Credential Assessment Services of Canada)LinkNews and UpdatesProcessing paused; expected timeline at least 30 weeks
WES (World Education Services)LinkNoticesIncoming mail processing taking 1.5 months (SLA post receipt of all documents is 35 business days) meaning total of about 4 months
IQAS (International Qualifications Assessment Service)LinkContactProcessing time after receipt of documents is 10 to 14 weeks
ICES (International Credential Evaluation Service)LinkProcessing TimesProcessing time after receipt of documents is 16 weeks
Processing times of each of 5 Canada Immigration education evaluation services during COVID19

America Iran Conflicts – Major Timeline

  • Timeline
    • 2020-01-08
      • Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 crashed Wednesday after takeoff from Tehran’s airport. The crash came hours after Iran fired missiles at Iraqi military bases housing US troops in retaliation for a drone strike at Baghdad airport that killed Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani.
    • 2020-01-07
      • Iran claims to have attacked US and coalition force station at bases in Iraq. Trump says “All is Well!”
    • 2020-01-02
      • US military watched the general get on a plane in Beirut, Lebanon, and monitored his flight to Baghdad with drones — including one outfitted with air-to-surface missiles. Once Soleimani landed, the Reaper drone watched him for about 10 minutes before firing its weapons on the two-car convoy leaving Baghdad International Airport. The Quds Force commander, along with the head of Kata’ib Hezbollah, died in the strike.
    • 2019-Dec-27
      • Iranian-backed militia group in Iraq, Kata’ib Hezbollah, attacked a military base north of the Iraqi city of Kirkuk, killing an American contractor and wounding several other US citizens and Iraqis.

Moving away from Feedly to Old Reader

Feedly was natural choice when Google Reader shutdown in July of year 2013.

Feedly topped the list of alternative to Google Reader in almost all tech blogs, e.g. Lifehacker’s one here.

Sadly, feedly (feedly.com) started to pull strings of users. annoying users of little little feature they would add and say, well you gotta get premium to use this.

While feed readers who were fans of Google Reader could still keep concentrated on feed reading capabilities ignoring what feedly was talking about all the time; and did not bother to pay for this service.

And, it seems, this annoyed feedly more, so it started cutting down basic feed reading capabilities – like after certain limit, you can not subscribe to a feed for free; and instead, you could subscribe to a topic if you had to.

Now, why in the world someone would subscribe to topics on feedly when there are already tones of webs already in the market (Google News, Google Alerts, Pintrest, Google Newsstand, etc.) doing that and which is not even pure feed reading experience.

Then after looking at tens of alternatives for feedly, I liked The Old Reader (www.theoldreader.com) the most.

It has a very simple website, which is not money hungry as the earlier one.

Old Reader is supported by News+ app on all types of devices – here.

Kudos to The Old Reader! – https://theoldreader.com

World coverage of #Balakot terrorist camp attack by India

Saving wildlife while we drive

From – https://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-maharashtra-government-sets-up-panel-to-avoid-roadkill-2706565

The Committee – bringing peace

committee will identify proposed road projects cutting through tiger corridors, study their impact on tiger dispersal and suggest mitigation measures

The current state of affairs

Road kills by speeding vehicles have taken a toll on wildlife, leading to demands for mitigation measures like underpasses and overpasses being incorporated in the designs of road projects.
In December 2017, Bajirao, the dominant male of the Bor tiger reserve died after being hit by a vehicle on the Nagpur- Amravati highway.
In April 2018, a leopard was found dead on the same highway after being run over.

  • In January 2018, tiger ‘Jaichand,’ the offspring of Maharashtra’s iconic tiger Jai, had a lucky escape he fell into the main canal of the Gosikhurd dam near Paoni in Bhandara.

What’s at stake from Humans is Development

  • Projects for construction of new roads in the Vidarbha landscape, which has most of the 203 tigers recorded in Maharashtra, had led to fresh concerns.
  • Similar concerns have been raised about other projects like irrigation canals and Greenfield and expansion of Brownfield railway lines.