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IndiaThe mighty Indians had acommanding performancein the ODIs this year. Indiahas winning chance fortwo reasons: one is thatthis event is going to beheld mainly in India, sothat the Men in Blue knowtheir conditions for theirgrounds and climate – theHome advantage. Thesecond is, we havewitnessed the rise of somereal winners who havepropped the team up

when it endured poor conditions.Tendulkar, Yusuf, and Raina havebeen instrumental in winningmatches. And of course, the most

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watched player will be Sachin Tendulkar, for the legend has publiclyexpressed his desire to win a World Cup for India during his career.We must, this time, expect good captaincy from M.S.Dhoni.However, in my opinion, team selection could have been better.

EnglandThe team to be led by Strauss has done good justice on the 22yards and also have done well in the ODI series against Australia.A sad thing is that the foundernation of the sport has had little luckwith the World Cup ever since 1975 – they’ve never won the cupthough having made to the finals thrice so far. But the present teamis really competent and disciplined, having players like StuartBroad, Kevin Pietersen, Matt Prior and Collingwood.The advantage of this team is that – they have developed theability to change to defensive or aggressive in their batting –depending on their score conditions. Each team requires goodopeners, defensive middle order, and also good fielders, but thisteam doesn’t have a very good middle order. But if they give theirbest target to their opponents, they surely will triumph thetournament.

BangladeshI sure know that you would be surprised to see this team, butBangladesh have made a turning point in their history by defeatingthe Kiwis in their ODI series. The players have well done in Oneday Internationals, especially Shakib Al Hasan, who has pushed

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CCricket fans all around the world are nowexpecting the three mega events to be heldthis year – World Cup Cricket, IPL, and theTwenty20 World Cup. The first upcominggrand event is the ICC World Cup 2011.

The four teams to bewatched out for on thisyear's World Cup are:India, England,Bangladesh andSouth Africa

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his team to its peak having shown immense talent anduncompromising leadership. Even in the IPL Auctions, he was one ofthe players to be sold at a valuable price. With a good keeper,captain and an allrounder, this team has got a chance to take awaythis honor. But that’s not enough as they need to stay sharp and dotheir best in their pool matches by cashing in on the homeadvantage.

South AfricaThe Proteans recently had a tremendous series win against theIndians (32) and regained its respect in the world. Led by GreameSmith, this team has a golden chance to carry away the trophy andalso skill to overthrow their opponents even in its darkest hour. Theteam is well balanced, with the best bowlers, fielders and wicketkeeper. Morne van Wyk, the newcomer, has also shown of his powerand capacity to hit the ball finely. He had done a wonderful job inmaking large totals against Indians.However, there is a chance of a collapse in the middle order, so theteam has to be more careful in hitting shots, players like de Villiers,Duminy, Kallis, Smith has to play more effectively if they have to posta mammoth total or chase a high total. Steyn, easily the world’s mostfeared bowler in this World Cup, has to keep up with his economy.But with players like Amla, Morkel, Tsotsobe, Smith, one can bepretty sure this team will enter the finals at the least.

These are the four teams which I expect to do well in the WorldCup. Each team I have mentioned above have some drawbacks,i.e. not so good openers, collapsing middle order, bad fielders andso on, but they can counter their negatives by showing their best inother categories, i.e. if they don’t have good openers, they shouldbe able to maintain the runrate, at the same time, stem the loss ofwickets. The prime focus must be in improving their bowling attack,as any bad total can be defended by a calculated and clinicaldisassembly of the opponent’s batting order and by giving all theplayers a good practice of fielding, as catches win matches.Not only the teams I have expected, can triumph. Any team – evenKenya, which threw a surprise in the 2003 edition by qualifying forthe semifinals can win this Cup if they are courageous andresourceful enough to face huge totals or defend belowaveragetotals. After all, cricket is a game of chance, right from the toss!

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Formerly a hacker, Assange is nowthe editorinchief of WikiLeakswhich is releasing so manyconfidential cables, military war logsand video footages that it ispulverizing every war, peace andpolitical rhetoric ever uttered about

the U.Sled wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Governments arescrambling into damage control mode but right now there are justtoo many elephants in the room to tell people they are justimagining things.On July 6, 2010, Private Bradley Manning, a 22 year oldintelligence analyst with the United States Army in Baghdad, wascharged with supplying the video that on 5th April 2010 10:44 EST,WikiLeaks released. A classified US military video depicts theindiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb ofNew Baghdad including two Reuters news staff on July 12, 2007.Efforts by Reuters to obtain the video under the Freedom ofInformation Act were in vain. The 39 minute and 14 seconds longrunning video shows how the soldiers engaged and ‘put down’ thecivilians which included two reporters. The outrage and thesubsequent explosion of public protests have led to two formerspecialists involved in the operation, Josh Steiber and EthanMcCord to issue a public apology.Manning is currently being detained at the U.S Marine brig inQuantico, Virginia. His identity was revealed by 29year old AdrianLamo. Once a star of the hacker community, Lamo is now beingcastigated for having ratted out Manning. Lamo was contacted byManning for help regarding the classified information he intendedto make public but Lamo was taken aback by the amount ofinformation that had been lifted by Manning. and the way heintended to use it.

JJuly 3, 1971 might not ring a bell for most peopleexcept maybe for fans of ‘The Doors’ because it waswhen their lead singer Jim Morrison was found dead.But the same day might soon come to becelebrated as ‘Open Government Day’ afterWikiLeaks’ tagline. It happens to be the birthday of itsfounder, Julian Assange.

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A classified US militaryvideo depicts theindiscriminate slaying ofover a dozen people inthe Iraqi suburb of NewBaghdad including twoReuters news staff

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Lamo feared that this would lead to chaos since, to quote him,“Everywhere there's a U.S. post, there's a diplomatic scandal thatwill be revealed....It's open diplomacy. Worldwide anarchy in CSVformat.” Manning may face upto 52 years in jail if he is found guiltyof all the charges that he has been put up for.But the video seems to be only a small portion of the totalclassified information leaked to WikiLeaks by Manning. The rest isrumoured to be in the 1.4 GB ‘insurance file’ that WikiLeaks postedfollowing the strong statements issued by the U.S condemning it.This insurance file was put up along with ‘The Afghan War Diaries’,an extraordinary secret compendium of over 91,000 reportscovering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010. The reportsdescribe the majority of lethal military actions involving the UnitedStates military.Till now the world has taken a grim view of most civilian casualties

and what the Army calls ‘collateral damage’ but WikiLeaks haspacked enough shock value in its releases that both wars arebeing reassessed from the bottom up and diplomatic ties of othercountries with the U.S coming under strain considering thehypocrisy that characterised White House’s stand on terrorismwhen its own methods of countering it seems to resemble veryclosely the evil that it claims to be fighting.

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Screen-grab from the 'Collateral Murder' video

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Numerous media agencies have identified the informantsresponsible for some of the reports that figure in the Afghan Diariesand even theri location in some instances. Britain’s Channel 4news reported that a Taliban spokesman had said that the groupwas scrutinizing the WikiLeaked documents to find out and punishthe persons who have allied with the U.S and supplying sensitiveinformation that might compromise Taliban operatives.On a lighter note, the UK Treasury is accepting suggestions forgovernment spending cuts via wikileaks.org for those who want toremain anonymous. With every new WikiLeaks ‘leak’, moresuspicions are being confirmed and people are reacting that suchleaked cables are only confirming what they already knew and aremaking emphatic protests to the indictment of Julian Assangeunder sexual assault charges.Assange says they are politically motivated but being the mostprolific spokesperson and creator of WikiLeaks, it is only obvioushe will be the target of numerous counter measures by the U.Sgovernment.But legal hassles aside, Assange has redefined sensationaljournalism and made a paradigm shift in getting whistleblowers adirect audience and making classified information open to publicscrutiny.

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“We should not be too proud about our sensethat there is no state censorship, because wehave privatized state censorship. We have madeit more complex and not as obvious. …thebrutality is hidden in its complexity.” Julian Assange, Speech at Oslo FreedomForum 2010

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As rightly pointed out in the two following excerpts quoted from thepublic apology by two former specialists involved in the July 12,2007 indiscriminate killing of a dozen people in New Baghdadwhose video is rightly called ‘Collateral Murder’:• “The soldier in the video said that your husband shouldn't havebrought your children to battle, but we are acknowledging ourresponsibility for bringing the battle to your neighbourhood, and toyour family. We did unto you what we would not want done to us.”

•“Our secretary of defence may say the U.S. won't lose itsreputation over this, but we stand and say that our reputation'simportance pales in comparison to our common humanity.”As with any public reaction, some people see WikiLeaks as athreat to national security including the hacker who exposed thewhistle blower of ‘Collateral Murder’, Adrian Lamo. The leaking ofthe sorority rituals of Alpha Sigma Tau has been cited as anexample that WikiLeaks "does not respect the rule of law nor doesit honour the rights of individuals" and engages in unrestraineddisclosure of nongovernmental secrets without compelling publicpolicy reasons.Many anticorruption activists are opposed to the site’s activities.Russian investigative reporter Andrei Soldatov believes thatWikiLeaks is "filling the gap" left by the decline of investigativejournalism with a sensationalist alternative while journalisticsupport of WikiLeaks is motivated by anger over declining fundingand resources for investigative reporting.If governments are critical of WikiLeaks then it is a testament tofact that modern day democracies are capable of and continue tofollow flawed war policies and the practise of writing off their warexcesses as mere exaggerations. They may deflect saying that notevery policy decision must be made public but it imperative theyabstain from abusing the authority that the people have bestowedupon them.

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How to remove any virus from your PC Tutorial


This is not an advertisement for any particular brand of antivirussoftware. I will explain an universal method I employ to clean my PCand laptop of any virus in case they get infected. This involves nouse of your antivirus software.What you need:This article applies for those using a windows operating system. Ifyou're having ubuntu or other operating systems installed alongsidewindows, you need nothing else. In other cases, a copy of UbuntuLive CD will be necessary.Step 1: Damage controlGenerally, most viruses just dont keep deleting your files. They domore specific tasks like try to harvest email IDs from your account orsteal your credit card information. But in any case, if you have anysensitive files which you cannot afford losing, its recommended thatyou create a backup.Step 2: Delete all restore pointsThis is necessary because the first thing viruses do is storethemselves in specific areas such that they resume operationsimmediately after you perform a system restore. So its necessary

that you delete all restore points so that you can prevent your virusfrom coming back into your PC.Step 3: Disable your antivirusThis step is just to save you from getting frequently irritated withwarning messages informing you that there is a virus in yourcomputer and it can do nothing about it (which you already know)and your normal activities being interrupted.Step 4: Find out the virusThis is a relatively easy process. Open your task manager. Checkall the currently running processes. Viruses generally try to disguisethemselves as system processes but will always run under yourcurrent 'username'. So check all processes running under yourusername and not SYSTEM.If you're an expert you'll immediately spot out the process which isnot supposed to be there. If you're not, you can google everyprocess running. One or more of them will be reported as a virus.Look out for processes closely resembling system files like'rundlll32..exe' (Note the extra 'l'. 'rundll32.exe' is a systemprocess).Some viruses also disable your task manager. In case you get amessage saying 'Task Manager was disabled by youradministrator', go to Start >Run and type regedit.exeIn the registry editor, navigate to the following branch:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\SystemStep 5: Stop the virus from runningAfter finding out the virus file, try to end the process if you can. Thiswill give you some breathing space until next restart.

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Step 6: Find out their dependenciesMostly the virus will only be a single file which you wont be able todelete. But some viruses keep a source file from which theyregenerate in case you delete it. So, the best way is to google thevirus file and find out all its dependencies. Complete informationabout the virus will be given in many antivirus websites. Make a noteof all the virus files and their sources.Step 7: Delete the virus99% of the time you wont be able to delete the file from your currentoperating system because it will be disguised as a system file. So todo this, just boot into another operating system, search for all thevirus files you previously found out and delete them. If you dont haveany other operating system, boot into ubuntu using a Live CD anddelete all the virus files. Most PCs are configured to have CD as thefirst boot device. In other cases, just set your CD Drive as your firstboot device in your BIOS.Step 8: Registry CleanupGenerally, a virus makes multiple registry entries to make it a systemfile. After you have deleted all the virus files, reboot into windows andgo to Start > Run and type regedit.exe. In the registry editor, pressCtrl+F and search for all registry entries containing the virus processfor example "virusprocess.exe" and delete them. Repeat the processfor all the virus files and their dependencies.Step 9: Delete startup entriesYou can use CCleaner or msconfig (adcan) to delete all startupentries that point to your virus file.Step 10: Restore normal stateThis is just to restore whatever damage the virus did to yourcomputer. The most popular damage is to disable you from viewinghidden files. To enable viewing hidden files, go to Start > Run and

type "regedit.exe". In the registry editor, Navigate to:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder\Hidden\SHOWALLOn the right pane, delete the value with following values:Name: CheckedValueType: REG_SZData: 2Create a new DWORD. Rightclick on the right pane > New>DWORD ValueValue should be:Name: CheckedValueType: REG_DWORDData: 1That's it! you're done. Your computer is now free from viruses. Youcan enable your antivirus and resume your work. The process maylook long but an average use can do the whole thing in about 30minutes if not less.The average home user's encounter with viruses happen mostlythrough pen drives. To stop this, you can use 'USB Vaccine'developed by Panda Security. This disables the autorun feature andalso vaccinates your pen drive so that it doesn't get infectedthrough another PC.

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New Year’s Eve was coming up – just two more days and I neededto put up a Karaoke show at my community celebrations. Theselected volunteer vocalists were ready with their karaoke tracks(vocalremoved songs) and lyrics, but what about the ones thatstill wanted to make it to the stage but didn’t have their tracksready? I was responsible for everything, and if the show were afailure, I’d only be more so!So down I went into working towards creating those tracks myself.Thankfully, I was able to create near professional tracks and theshow was saved! Most of what I’ve written in this article wasdiscovered in those two days of my research and hard work. Soyes, here’s passing that to you: how to remove vocals from asong.The primary things, rather, the only things you’ll need are: thesong itself, and some audioprocessing software, like Audacity orGarage Band. I prefer Audacity – its free and has a really simpleinterface. It can be easily downloaded from the web: just Googlefor it! I assume you’ve got the software in a short while so Iproceed with references to Audacity itself. Launch Audacity andopen or import the song from the menu bar – wait for a while untilthe songappears on the work area in its analog signal waveform.Click on the play button and you will hear the song: just aconfirmation that it is indeed the song you wanted. The track isessentially a stereo track, which means you will see twowaveforms appear: they stand for left and right channels.

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1. Our first duty is to break up the stereo into two separate ‘mono’tracks: this is done to enable us to edit the two waveformsseparately (You will notice that in a ‘stereo’ track it is not possible toselect or edit the tracks individually). It’s easy: just select the tab“Split stereo track to mono” from the appropriate toolbar on the top.

2. After a while you’ll find two separate tracks on the work areathat you can edit or select separately. Now select any one of thosetracks completely (over the full length of the song) and click “Invert”from the menu bar. The signal now inverts itself, leaving you withtwo signals – one original and one inverted.

3. Now, select both tracks (press and hold ‘shift’ and click on theirtitles) and click on “Mix and render” to convert the mix into a single‘Mono’ track. This track will have its vocals removed!But how did this work? Songs, in general, have their vocals centerpanned, or equally shaped, in the left and right channels of a stereotrack, hence the ‘vocals’ part of the waveform is same in both leftand right.When you invert the signal in one of the channels and mix themback, you’re logically conducting some destructive interference ofthe vocal signals, or, to put it simple, cancelling out the centerpanned waves. Because the inversion converts positive crests tonegative and vice versa, the effective addition with the originalamounts to zero. Now that makes sense, doesn’t it?

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Troubleshooting* Some parts of the drums in most songs also happen to be

centerpanned no wonder you’ll also lose some drums by thisprocess. But don’t worry, once the vocals are removed, give thesong a BassBoost (available in the ‘Effects’ panel) and there wontbe much notable difference, atleast to the laymen!

* Are you done? But it doesn’t work? Maybe the final track is stilla stereo, which means you will still hear both signals. Only in caseof a mono track does the cancelling take place.

* Still doesn’t work? Maybe the vocals weren’t centerpanned inthat song, after all! Yes, folks, non centerpanned vocals cannot beremoved by this method! You’ll need some professional help insuch cases. Nevertheless, this is one heck of a method foreveryone – give it a try!

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Very well, so you’ve made up your mind totake a dip into the vast ocean of rock music.But have you tested the waters? Ortranslated your skills from your tinyswimming pool into the neverending wavywater world? Chill, people what I actuallymean to convey is that before you windyourself up into the groove of rock music,you must first find out what kind of rock setsyour heart flying.

Identifying your favorite subgenre of rock music, to be technical.That being done saves you a lot of time, and possibly a lot of boringmusic that might even lead you to thwart rock music for ever. Not tomention, awful recommendations from friends who act like theyinvented the form!How do you go about it? My alltime favorite strategy: trial and error.Now this obviously doesn’t mean listening to dozens of songs andpicking your favorite – that’s a nagging idea. I have here a shortcompilation of alltime favorite songs from a variety of genres –songs that have been standing epitomes of their type.Get these songs, give them a first listen, and you’ll have a piece ofmy mind when you read through what I’ve written about them. Likedany of them? Good! Now try the othersongs listed in the samecategory. Find out your levels of appreciation for yourself and you’ll

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find your new inroad into rock! In this post, we’ll focus on some ofthe most loved melodic types of rock music, like the blues, while thenext post will introduce you to the heavier and more effervescentforms of rock, like metal and hard rock.Classic RockPeople Are Strange by The DoorsWidely seen as America’s answer to the Beatles, the Doors gainedquick ground in popular music thanks to frontrunner Jim Morrison,who went on to become a cult figure in rock. This song is one oftheir most famous, and has inspired thousands of similar songssince then. Liked it? Check out:“While My Guitar Gently Weeps” by The Beatles“Romeo and Juliet” by Dire Straits“My Generation” by The WhoRock n’ Roll/ SwingJailhouse Rock by Elvis PresleyA song that set the standards for Rock n’ Roll chartbusters thatfollowed, by an artist that set the standards for being a rockstarloved by everyone. The song stands out even today for its merrylyrics and its downtoearth rhythm that made everyone a dancer.Liked it? Check out:“Johnny B Goode” by Chuck Berry“I Know A Little” by Lynyrd Skynyrd“Mannish Boy” by Muddy Waters

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BluesLayla by Eric ClaptonA song that truly justifies the famous phrase, “Clapton is god!”. WhatEric Clapton wrote for his girlfriend Patty Boyd, the then wife ofGeorge Harrison of the Beatles, has went on to inspire millions offans, thousands of his peers, and not to mention, a few covers byother artists too. A classic blues song most loved for its lyrics, and thetransition into the ending solo. Liked it? Check out:“All Along The Watchtower” by Jimi Hendrix“The Thrill Is Gone” by BB King“Since I’ve Been Loving You” by Led Zeppelin

Psychedelic rockComfortable Numb by Pink FloydIf there ever was a song that would show you what heaven feels like,it would be this. A brilliant piece of art by David Gilmour, the song iswidely considered a classic epitome of rock music. Featuring twoheavenly solos, the song also contains soulful lyrics that keep youafloat for a long while. It’s more than just a song – it’s an experience.

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Liked it? Check out:“Ice” by Camel“Shine On You Crazy Diamond” by Pink Floyd“Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming” by Deep PurpleCountry/folkHotel California by The EaglesIt’s very likely that you’ve listened to this one already. This song,this one song, was enough to fuel a huge fan following across theworld for the Eagles, a country band. Such is its flavor – the songtalks about being in a hotel called ‘Hotel California’ an apparentreference to getting addicted to drugs. The chord sequences, thelively singing and a beautiful solo as an outro all add up to makethe listener an instant fan. Liked it? Check out:“Jessica” by the Allman Brothers Band“Blowin’ In The Wind” by Bob Dylan“Sound Of Silence” by Simon and Garfunkel

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Jimi Hendrix at the amusement park Gröna Lund in Stockholm, Sweden, May 24, 1967.

Last week, I had a chance to listen to the controversialtapes of Niira Radia, the corporate lobbyist accused ofhaving played a dirty hand in the now famousRs.1,76,000,00,00,000 2G scam (whew, took me

sometime to get that figure right). Whether the tapes reveal ahideous mind at work is unclear; a more interesting revelationoccurred to me she is a genius. A genius with Public Relation skillsso good that the way she speaks has a magnetic pull over the onesat the other end. Her corporate skills were so beyond par that Idecided to go through her Curriculum Vitae. I was introduced to awoman of exceptional skill Niira Radia is a woman of formidablenetworking and PR skills, so much so that she represents both theTata and the Mukesh Ambani group. To handle public relations for thegovernment and two industrial giants of a country is something thatonly the very best like Mckinsey & Co., are capable of. Just hearingthe tapes, one gets the feel that Ms. Radia belongs right there on topalong with the biggest players in the PR industry. Suddenly, whethershe is corrupt or not became the least of my concern; I became anadmirer of her lobbying skills. Reflecting back, I found that I likedmany dark horses (no offense to Ms. Radia we do not knowcompletely if she is one).My most favorite dark horse is a fictional character: Gordon Gecko.His famous 'Greed is good' became a chant on many lips to describethe heydays of Wall Street. When Michael Douglas, who played therole of Gecko in Oliver Stone's classic hollywood movie 'Wall Street',walks up to the stage to confront the accusation that he was greedy,

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few would have imagined him to say, "Greed, for lack of a betterword, is good. Greed is right." The way in which he convinces theshare holders to accept greed as a way of betterment of life ispeerless and the character is immortalised in the hearts of manywho watched 'Wall Street(1987)'.Another dark horse whose brilliance takes my breath away is AdolfHitler. Beneath all the cruelty, eccentricity, sadism and villainy, therewas a strategic mind operating inside that tiny body that mademany shiver with fright. Barely 5 feet tall, the Fuhrer reunitedGermany after the debacle of the First World War. Rising from theranks of a common soldier to become the most feared (andarguably most hated) dictator of all times, Hitler was a man whoplanned his struggle and executed them with such perfection thatappalled many. Hated and cursed he might have been, but I do notthink there would have been one politician who would have notenvied this man's intellect and brilliance in statesmanship andwarfare.Among the three, and among countless other unsung brilliant darkhorses, the residue is clear. Brilliance is appreciated only if coupledwith integrity. The above trio's brilliance combined brings intopicture an arguably unparalleled coalition of intelligence, stabilityand control. Tainted they might be, but their talents are indeedremarkable and deserve appreciation. This is a rare ode to them.

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Front Page and Page 3Description: ICC Cricket World Cup trophy replica which is given to the Winningnation.This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.Refer: http://flickr.com/photos/cricket/428114142/in/set72157594276519883/For further attribution, goto:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cricket_World_Cup_trophy.jpgPage 34The images of the flags of India, United Kingdom, Bangladesh and South Africa aretaken from: http://www.33ff.com/flags/world flags0001.htmlPage 5Description: Julian Assange at New Media Days 09 in Copenhagen.This file is licensed under the Creative Commons AttributionShare Alike 2.0 Genericlicense.Image courtesy: WikipediaFor furhter attribution referhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Julian_Assange_20091117_Copenhagen_1_cropped_to_shoulders.jpgDescription: Wikileaks logoAuthor: WikileaksThis file is licensed under the Creative Commons AttributionShare Alike 3.0 Unportedlicense.For further attribution refer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wikileaks_logo.svgPage 6Description: Screenshot taken from video released by WikileaksDescription: Private Bradley ManningImage released in public domain by http://www.bradleymanning.orgImage courtesy: http://www.bradleymanning.orgDescription: Adrian LamoThis image was released into public domainFor further details refer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Adrian_Lamo.pngPage 7Description: Julian AssangeImage taken from http://julianarevalob.blogspot.com/2010/08/anotherinconvenientsideofdemocracy.html

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