Quick notes: War-by-remote | WSR economy...

• ‘War by Remote’: Most countries are insufficiently prepared to deal with the growing security challenge posed by combat drones — drones that drop bombs and are reusable. “The thing is, drones are cheaper — you don’t risk pilots by using them as it’s all remote-controlled.” UN investigators have suggested that the Houthis’ new UAV-X drone may have a range of up to 1,500 kilometers.



• Pakis may use it next: Pak drones dropping weapons into Punjab highlights the need for drone-disabling tech... The US has anti-UAV defence systems that scan the airspace for unmanned drones and disable them using radio beams..The Israelis have mastered this technology and at least two Israeli companies were identified some months ago to provide Indian agencies drone-disabling technology. Field tests had been conducted for the purpose, but no decision was taken and the issue remained unaddressed. 



• The WSR economy: The Wheat-Sugar-Rice economy and the polices used for 6 decades to promote & protect it, have reached a complete dead end.

#IndianEcon The Wheat-Sugar-Rice (#WSR) economy and the polices used for 6 decades to promote & protect it, have reached a complete #DeadEnd. A paradigm shift in Policy & institutions is necessary to empower farmers & provide critical #Public (& Quadi-Public) #Goods to Farmers. https://t.co/1ouktsSsso

— Dr Arvind Virmani (@dravirmani) September 20, 2019




• Grab this opportunity: Taiwanese businesses look to India as alternative to China



• Amazon's copycat ways: Amazon can easily identify popular products. With its unprecedented scale, it can then offer those products at a fraction of the cost that other companies sell their wares. It's an aspect of the company that regulators have struggled with for a while. One potential solution to the problem is to not allow big e-commerce platforms to sell their own products on their platforms. This is something India does.

Amazon is now straight copying Allbirds.

We have reached "peak cloning" in Silicon Valley.

There are no rules anymore - if you build a product that works, Amazon or Facebook will copy it.

People used to care. Not anymore. pic.twitter.com/73bDMgruMX

— Jeff Morris Jr. (@jmj) September 19, 2019




• Choiceless Awareness: Ashtavakra says that you are already pure and there is nothing to be renounced. You are pure.
  
    न ते संगोऽस्ति केनापि किं शुद्धस्त्यक्तुमिच्छसि ।
    संघातविलयं कुर्वन्नेवमेव लयं व्रज ॥ ५-१॥
  
    Nothing touches you 
    What is there to renounce?
    Let it all go,
    The body and the mind.
    Let yourself dissolve.
  
  
  
• Vehicle pollution can affect unborn babies: The black carbon particles load found in the placentas were directly proportional to the mothers' residential black carbon exposure during pregnancy. 



• 'Earth lost forest area the size of India since 90s': More than 10 per cent of the planet's wilderness has been destroyed since the 1990s -- an area about the size of India. . . . . . Bird populations in US and Canada down 3bn in 50 years



• A bull will not attack if it is not threatened.: The Spanish bull run is Christian Europe's crude pastime.

A teacher shows that a bull in a square full of people will not attack anyone if it is not threatened. pic.twitter.com/vopiw6diKw

— The Unexplained (@Unexplained) September 23, 2019

Quick notes: China's role | Superpower's backing...

• Do this to Chinese imports too: Customs duty on Paki imports hiked to 200%

Jaish-e-Mohammed is headed by Masood Azhar. China blocked UN Security Council from sanctioning Masood Azhar as a terrorist & thwarted international attempt to curtail activities of the group. But Indians will buy Chinese products & scream nationalism over #PulawamaTerrorAttack

— Abhinav Prakash (@Abhina_Prakash) February 14, 2019




Not a word on the fact that Masood Azhar who heads the Jaish-e-Mohammed cannot be declared a global terrorist because China is blocking the move. Never a any, even mildest criticism, of China. Ever. What does this prove? https://t.co/xw5IQU3ief

— HindolSengupta (@HindolSengupta) February 14, 2019




• Harboring terrorists: Iran says Pakistan to 'pay high price' over attack that killed 27 Revolutionary Guards



• Backed by a Superpower: US Commerce Secretary visiting India to exert pressure to change the country's e-commerce policy in favour of the American giants Amazon and Walmart. 



• Retail apocalypse and India's e-commerce rules: With the “retail apocalypse” shuttering stores across America partially due to companies like Amazon and Walmart, would an American politician ever think of making the same populist appeal (India's e-commerce rules) here? 



• Modi Won't Let Amazon Crush India's Retailers, For Now: Simply put, India’s mom and pop stores are just buying time before they are crushed by retail giants, as has been the case in America and elsewhere.

Amazon won’t have to pay a cent in federal taxes for the second year in a row. But it needs NYC's help?https://t.co/ldaAN2GwcR

— Scott Galloway (@profgalloway) February 14, 2019




• India's English Baggage:

2. Why doesn't India have larger internet companies? If you had to bet in 2000 that either India or China would build a few of the largest internet companies in 20 years, the former—with its English-speaking IT base and fewer internet controls—should have been the obvious choice.

— Dan Wang (@danwwang) February 12, 2019




• Forgetting the Self:




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Search for what’s within the space suit 👀👩‍🚀 . #Repost @babaramdass . When you walk down the street you see other beings who are doing things, who are thinking things, who are wearing things, who are older or younger, who have personal lives. You see all the individual differences, but you also see them as packaging which holds that being. • This is a 1931 body and it’s decaying at a certain rate. It’s inevitable. I mean, I may prolong it or slow it down, but it’s inevitable. The personality of this being has a lot of residual little neuroses hanging around in it. It’s also charming, it’s delightful, it’s warm, it’s intelligent, it’s a personality, and those are my vehicles for being here on Earth. • It’s like a space suit, when you see those guys on the moon, and they’re encased in these suits. Those suits allow them to be in that particular element, and so we are in an element which requires that we be sheathed in a body and a personality. • Notice what I’m doing. I’m suggesting that we are not an identity with our personalities or our bodies, we are something more than that, and the predicament we face in recognizing this part of ourselves is that it isn’t ‘see-able’ with our eyes, isn’t ‘tasteable’ with our tongues… isn’t recognizable by any of our external senses. • So do we take this whole part of ourselves and assume it isn’t real? • [Continue reading via STORY or LINK IN @babaramdass BIO 🙏🏾] • Artwork by @brunofsky

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Quick notes: India's help, Pakis rattled...

• Trump’s Request for India’s Help Rattles Pakistan: “By inviting India to be more active in Afghanistan, Trump has confirmed the worst fears of Pakistan’s generals”.



• Afghan women in 1972: This 1972 photo of women in Afghanistan helped persuade Trump to commit to war in Afghanistan
  



• Comment on NYT: "Where did you get the bit about the US paying billions to India? A quick google search should help clear this up. India has spent billions of its own in Afghanistan to build roads and infrastructure" - nytcalif.



• India already helps: India has given $3 billion in assistance since the Taliban government was toppled by coalition forces in 2001. And over the years India, Afghanistan’s biggest regional donor, has built more than 2,500 miles of roads, dams, hydropower plants and the country’s new parliament building

India already gives Afghanistan billions in aid. Now Trump says India must 'help us more.' https://t.co/3le2UakUgH

— Annie Gowen (@anniegowen) August 22, 2017




• Another Comment on NYT: Pradeep Bangalore, India: Thin ray of hope for India always comes from Republicans. Right from JFK, Democrats have unpleasant relationship with New Delhi. Bill Clinton's obsession with Kashmir followed by hard sanctions post nuclear tests hurt Indians. Obama's failure to throttle strategic partnership has propelled Indians to hope the hard hitting current President will do some constructive damage to Pakistan vis-a-vis declaring it a paraiah state.
  
  Republicans however, other than Nixon, have not failed to recognize India as a strategic Partner. Regan's negotiations to help India find nuclear suppliers is not forgotten. Bush Jr accepted India as a nuclear power by concluding 123 agreement, a watershed moment for India's strategic posture.

Quick notes: Terror-traking software, F-16 fighter jets...

• Terror attacks could have been foiled: Israeli offer of terror-tracking software was refused by France, a staunch supporter of Palestine.



• One day before Nice terror attack: French foreign minister’s meeting with Hizbullah leaders 



• India to get ‘most advanced’ F-16 fighter jets: With Rafale deal still up in the air, Lockheed, Boeing and SAAB have come forward to set up assembly lines in India along with offers for significant technology transfer. India had long been demanding that the F-16s it buys will have to be more advanced than what is sold to Pakistan.



• Pink boom: India’s buffalo meat exports at current rates could impact domestic milk availability, says a recent report by the US Department of Agriculture



• Was Prakash Javadekar a terrible environment minister? Anil Madhav Dave, on the other hand, has a known history of environmental activism.



• Oil companies get nod to increase kerosene price: Big step, Kerosene accounted for 42% of the total petroleum subsidy in 2015-16.



• Ashraf Sherjan: A pro-Israeli Baloch leader.

Quick notes: PC in trouble, Subsidy burden...

• Prosecute him: P Chidambaram got Ishrat’s LeT link dropped: G K Pillai... Raids dig up empire of PC’s son



• Ouch!: Tulsi Gabbard endorses Bernie Sanders.



• Mega rich are gobbling subsidies: “Aviation turbine fuel is taxed at about 20 per cent, while diesel and petrol are taxed at about 55% and 61%.”.



• VW scandal: Just 222 diesel cars were sold in the U.S. in January out of 1.15 million total new-car sales



• Industrial Overcapacity: China to lay off 1.8 million workers in coal, steel sectors



• Bhagwat Geeta Chapter 2 by Sri M:




• Aliens:

95% Hindus kids in India  have never ever seen Gita
let alone read it
How do you expect them to understand Hinduism?

— No Conversion (@noconversion) February 28, 2016



• Dance as therapy: Classical Indian dance helps trafficking victims to heal, study shows 

Quick notes: Cologne chaos, Stink bomb...

• "Merkel invited me": Officers encountered many distraught, crying, frightened pedestrians, particularly women and girls. They reported "fights, thefts, sexual assaults against women, etc." Groups of male migrants were repeatedly named as perpetrators.



• Use this against Paki stench: America’s Police Will Fight the Next Riot With Stink Bombs



• Remote-controlled car bombs: ISIS rigs remote-control car bombs to beat detection systems. 



• Namma Railu: A Dream for a Suburban Railway Network for Bengaluru. ... Right now it is just that -- a dream.



• BSY case:

In BSY case I has opined on 12/1/2012: Cases against BSY will not stand scrutiny. Allegations of Lok Ayukta are perverse

— S Gurumurthy (@sgurumurthy) January 6, 2016




• Good, now enforce this in Minority-run schools: Delhi scraps management quota in nursery admissions


A cleaner era:


1951 :: Citizens Going To Office On Cycles #EvenOddPlan pic.twitter.com/OvObcfQFIG

— indianhistorypics (@IndiaHistorypic) January 3, 2016

Quick notes: Drug cartel, Border patrol...

• What is good for smugglers is good for terrorists: “Smugglers on both sides of the border may be using local support for their activities. The same may have been used by the terrorists”.



• Drug cartel in Punjab: Besides thermal imaging cameras, hi-definition fitted drones are also used to guard the border against possible infiltration attempts along the riverine patches where heavy undergrowth blurs the normal view.  The infiltration also raises a serious question mark if the security agencies are turning a blind eye on the use of the route that is used by Punjab's strong drug cartel.



• Questions About Pathankot: Why are the security forces unable to effectively seal the border? True, the terrain is a problem, but surely by now, enough technological solutions like motion sensors, thermal imagers and low light TV are available to deal with the problem.



• Out of the box diplomacy:

So much for trying to find an out of the box solution to Pakistan. Now swimming in Pakistani shark infested waters. pic.twitter.com/ns0FWxOfx3

— Rahul Kanwal (@rahulkanwal) January 3, 2016




• Stop looking for outside help:

US/UK will nvr side with India against their poodle Pak- Neither China-We r ALONE to deal with this- Sooner we realize better-

— RVAIDYA (@rvaidya2000) January 3, 2016





• Wake up:

Wake up call for Hindus, gender ratio declined at the highest rate in 10yrs as compared to other religious groups https://t.co/ikIXj54KP0

— Neha Srivastava (@neha_aks) January 4, 2016

Hate Crime: Elderly Sikh stabbed to death in U.S.

Quick notes: IS' death wish, Turkish double cross...

• “Attacking in India is the Holy Grail of South Asian jihadists”: The document warns that “preparations” for an attack in India are underway and predicts that an attack will provoke an apocalyptic confrontation with America: “Even if the U.S tries to attack with all its allies, which undoubtedly it will, the ummah will be united, resulting in the final battle.” "Striking in India would magnify the Islamic State’s stature and threaten the stability of the region”. 



• Obama fails the Kurds: Turkey's 'safe zone' a ploy to crush the Kurds. Turkey launches heaviest air strikes yet on Kurdish group. Why Turkey sees the Kurdish people as a Bigger Threat than ISIS



• Giving up on govt schools: Rajasthan government's basic premise that private schools are better than the government schools, is grossly flawed. In fact, a five-year study between 2009 and 2013 by the Azim Premji Foundation in rural Andhra Pradesh suggests that private schools are no better than the government schools. The parents preferred sending their wards to private institutions, mainly because of uniforms, discipline, attendance in school (both of children and teachers), and social standing in the community.



• Environment Minister's "achievements": Until November 2014, a total of 12,05,138 hectares of forest land was diverted for different projects in the country. Actual compensatory afforestation done over non-forest land received was just 7 per cent of the requirement.



• Of Rasam and Rice: The Humble Lifestyle of Former President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam



• Falling demand: Coca-Cola India effects first production cut in a decade

Good news of day. @bsindia reports #cocacola has cut production because of falling sales. Good for our #health

— Sunita Narain (@sunitanar) July 29, 2015




• Wrong place for crony capitalism: Reliance shale gas returns turn negative in US



• Rooftop revolution: Organic vegetable farming is taking off in Kerala



• Salt Lamp: Alternative to kerosene/battery powered lamps takes two tablespoons of salt and a glass of water.



• Caesarean epidemic: Brazil strives to reduce sky-high C-section rate

Quick notes: Jews in Europe, Talks with terrorists...

• French Jews fleeing country in record numbers due to anti-Semitism




• France should be asked to practice what it preaches:

I think France should go into talks with the terrorists & offer them East Paris for the sake of peace! WHAT?! You think that's insensitive?
— israel_shield (@israel_shield) January 7, 2015





• Stark reality:

Without the IDF, scenes from Paris today would be a daily occurrence in Israel.
— Anthony Shaw (@AnthonyShaw_) January 7, 2015

Quick notes: Wahhabi visas, Covert operations..

• India's Intelligence Bureau: 25,000 Wahhabi scholars visited eight Indian states to preach hardline Islamic doctrine.



• Setback to our covert strike capabilities: National Security Adviser M.K Narayanan, met heads of all spy and security agencies individually to find out if they had the capability to attack home bases of terror groups in Pakistan and PoK. None had. Narayanan asked them to raise a team, if they could...
  
  Fast forward:
  “In the earlier instances, the covert strike capabilities suffered due to politicians. But, in this case, they have suffered due to military people who are supposed to order these people. Not only that, they have even resorted to leaking information about the operations carried out by such units, compromising the country's standing at the international level.”



• Delhi air impurities far worse than level that won it the 'world's most polluted city' title



• Femininity at its best: The sheer power of the bindi



• Learn from those evangelists:

Hindu groups very clumsy & crude in conversion drives. They should apprentice themselves with christian evangelicals to know right approach
— Madhu Kishwar (@madhukishwar) December 11, 2014

Quick notes: Rise of ISIS, Pankajism...

• Obama did nothing: How Iraqi 'Fat Cats' and a liberal US president watched ISIS gain strength. PBS Frontline's 'The Rise of ISIS' airs on Tuesday night.



• The Problem With M/s Mishra and; Roy: Pankaj admires Jamaluddin Afghani and his fantasies of Muslim power and its conquering warriors so much, he promoted him as one of the great thinkers of Asia in his last book. This is a recurring pattern. Strong men and their cults  become heroic and admirable when an “anti-Western” gloss can be put on them, especially if they are not Hindus.



• Ramnad Address: This is the motherland of philosophy, of spirituality, and of ethics, of sweetness, gentleness, and love. These still exist, and my experience of the world leads me to stand on firm ground and make the bold statement that India is still the first and foremost of all the nations of the world in these respects.
  
  I have heard it said that our masses are dense, that they do not want any education, and that they do not care for any information. I had at one time a foolish leaning towards that opinion myself, but I find experience is a far more glorious teacher than any amount of speculation, or any amount of books written by globe-trotters and hasty observers. This experience teaches me that they are not dense, that they are not slow, that they are as eager and thirsty for information as any race under the sun; but then each nation has its own part to play, and naturally, each nation has its own peculiarity and individuality with which it is born. Each represents, as it were, one peculiar note in this harmony of nations, and this is its very life, its vitality. In it is the backbone, the foundation, and the bed-rock of the national life, and here in this blessed land, the foundation, the backbone, the life-center is religion and religion alone. Let others talk of politics, of the glory of acquisition of immense wealth poured in by trade, of the power and spread of commercialism, of the glorious fountain of physical liberty; but these the Hindu mind does not understand and does not want to understand. Touch him on spirituality, on religion, on God, on the soul, on the Infinite, on spiritual freedom, and I assure you, the lowest peasant in India is better informed on these subjects than many a so-called philosopher in other lands.
  
  I have said, gentlemen, that we have yet something to teach to the world. This is the very reason, the raison d'être, that this nation has lived on, in spite of hundreds of years of persecution, in spite of nearly a thousand year of foreign rule and foreign oppression. This nation still lives; the raison d'être is it still holds to God, to the treasure-house of religion and spirituality.

Quick notes: Save the Yezidis, Caught on camera...

• Yazidis stranded on isolated mountaintop begin to die of thirst



• Please sign the petition: Stop the killings, pain, and suffering of Yezidis in Iraq.



• Extremely graphic video of Teesta's friends killing random motorists for pleasure.



• Air Force prefers Akaash weapon system. Not keen on Rs. 30,000 Cr Indo-French missile deal



• Modi reunites Nepalese youth with parents after 16-years 



• Indian TV crew shows rare video of rocket launch from Gaza:

• 1951:: Martand Temple, Kashmir:

1951:: Martand Temple, Kashmir (ph-Howard Sochurek) pic.twitter.com/uqDLnkLEof
— villagehistorypics (@villagehistory) July 27, 2014

Quick notes: Church funds, Kasab Class...

• A case of plenty: Church funds equal Indian Navy's annual budget


• Lost in Kumbh Mela? UP govt accused of misusing around Rs 800 Cr meant for the Kumbh Mela.


• "Kasab Class": LeT recruits to learn from Kasab's mistakes


• Mani Vajipey and Raj Madangopal quit high-paying jobs in the US and returned to tackle India's mounting garbage crisis.


• Cycling message: Promoting sustainable transport modes.


• Community radio stations: Transmitting change


• Indo-Canadian singer Kiran Ahluwalia epitomises 'two cultures in one person'

A Secular Haven

Of the 14 IM operatives arrested in the past couple of years by various agencies, 13 have come from Bihar's Darbhanga district alone. There have been similar arrests from other parts of Bihar as well.

Despite these realities, Bihar does not seem to have woken up to the threat. The central government had asked the state about a year back to constitute its own Anti-Terrorist Squad on the pattern of Delhi and Mumbai police but the state simply sat over the proposal and no headway has been made in this direction till date.

(We never know. Nitish may announce an ATS soon with a 50% quota for minorities. The burden of upholding psecularism is now on his shoulders).

ET: From transit point, Bihar turns major hub for jihadis 

Probably the bloodiest story in history

The Moslem Conquest of India

An Extract from ‘The Story of Civilization’ 

By Will & Ariel Durant [Volume 1, Chapter 16]

The Mohammedan Conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precarious thing, whose delicate complex of order and liberty, culture and peace may at any time be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.

Indian origin Jihadis in Syria

May they meet their 72 raisins soon! This should be an alarming development for the
Indian security establishment, if it is awake and not hallucinating about "Hindu terrorism" (sic).

The cryptic comment by the Syrian envoy, cautioning
about foreign funding of Mosques is also very
insightful and telling. This advice from a diplomat representing a
Muslim country will fall on deaf "secular" ears in New Delhi.

http://m.timesofindia.com/world/middle-east/Indian-origin-jihadis-fighting-in-Syria-against-Assad-regime/articleshow/18868094.cms


NEW DELHI: Indian-origin jihadi fighters have been found fighting along with the rebels in the raging civil war in Syria. "This is one of the reasons why we think India should play a more pro-active role, because this expanding conflict will not leave anyone untouched," said Bouthaini Shabaan, political adviser to Syrian President Bashar-al-Assad, in a conversation with TOI. She quoted UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi as saying that there were almost 38 nationalities of fighters in war-torn Syria.

"We don't want this to become a sectarian conflict," she added.
She said she had told foreign
minister Salman Khurshid that India should be wary of countries funding mosques here since Damascus was living with the consequences of such action.

Kaangress and its terrorist friends

A former member of the MIM, Maqbool was convicted of murdering one Krishnamurthy in Nizamabad district in 1999 and sentenced to life imprisonment in October 2004. But following a grant of remission by then YSR government in 2009, Maqbool walked free.

"You can imagine why Maqbool got remission," said the government official adding that MIM was a partner of the Congress govt in AP until a few months ago.

Maqbool is also an accused of murdering Devender in Uppal and Mahavir Prasad, a jeweler, in Afzalgunj. He is also charged in the bomb blast cases at Kakatiya Hotel, Lal Darwaza, Sharda theatre, Nanded, Lamba theatre, Secunderabad, and the accidental blast at the home of Azam Ghouri, another IM activist later killed in an encounter by the police.

ToI: AP had remitted life term of now in-demand IM man

Never forget Godhra

It was 11 years ago on this day that a well organised Moslem Jihadi mob with a strength of
over 2000, assembled at 7.0 AM
- set fire to coach S6 of the Sabarmati express, roasting alive 78 Hindu pilgrims - peaceful and unarmed men, women, children and senior citizens. By several accounts,
not disputed by the local authorities - many young Hindu women were abducted from the train - and are untraced till date.

Not a single word in their memory in the "SECULAR" press, electronic media, the chattering classes or the political
class, including the BJP.

May this atrocity never be forgotten and may the sacrifice of the 78 Hindus roasted alive never go unpunished.

Here are some of the 2000 strong "peaceful" and "secular" mob, most of whom have escaped Scot free.

IAF Operation Iron Fist at Pakistan border

http://m.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-pics-iaf-s-firepower-at-iron-fist-along-pak-border/20130222.htm


Aimed at providing the nation the reassurance that the IAF will deliver whenever called upon, a demonstration of this magnitude was carried out for the first time by day, dusk and night.


Emough of these dress rehearsals. The time to act is NOW. There needs to be swift and telling punitive action against the Jihadi establishment in Pakistan, Bangladesh and their accomplices and enablers
within India. Of what utility are all these advanced weapons platforms - if they are not deployed to pulverize to dust Hafiz Saeed, Maulana Masood Azhar, Gen. Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, Gen. Shuja Pasha, Yasin Malik et al?

What other outrage are we WAITING for before any form of retaliation? Are we expected to follow the false creed of "Non-violence", "Restraint", "Secularism" etc until the very last Hindu has been killed by a terrorist blast?

Are Indian lives not worth anything at all? Is Hindu blood just water to be spilled casually?

The Indian armed forces need to
USE that Iron Fist NOW. It is not meant merely for DISPLAY during exercises and "Republic Day" (sic) parades.

Of course, we know who is not responsible

http://m.rediff.com/news/report/hyderabad-blasts-death-toll-may-go-up-says-shinde/20130221.htm#


At least 11 people were killed and 50 injured in two near simultaneous blasts in Hyderabad and the death toll could go up, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said on Thursday night.

Asked whether it was a terror attack, the minister said,
"It is too early to say anything and only an investigation will reveal further information".

Asked whether the blasts had any links with the arrest of Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen leader Akbaruddin Owaisi, who is currently in jail for allegedly delivering an inflammatory speech, he said, "There is nothing like that".


Of course Not!
The investigation into the atrocity is pending. But, the "secular" narrative has immediately ruled out one party
as a possible culprit!
On the basis of what evidence, may I dare to ask? Doesn't this
prejudice the investigation even before it has commenced and
pre-determine the result by excluding certain entities?