Spring has officially arrived in Srinagar, bringing with it flowers and sunny skies for people who are flocking to the city’s Tulip Garden and Almond Clove.The blossoms come as a relief after a long winter and several conflicts.Jammu and Kashmir’s Floriculture Minister, Javed Mustafa Mir, and Tourism Minister, Tasaduq Hussain Mufti, formally opened the Tulip Garden on Sunday. Soon after, scores of visitors were taking selfies amidst the 12.25 lakh tulip bulbs, spread over 200 kanals of land (about 4,500 sq. ft each).To help them post the images on social media right from the spot, the government is providing free Wi-Fi services in the garden, said an official.Almond bloomsThousands of Valley residents have come to Srinagar’s Badam Waer (Almond Clove) over the past one week. The J&K Bank, which maintains the garden, said there were a record 5,600 visitors on Sunday, against less than 50 in February. “At least 16,000 people bought tickets in five days, and 40% were children,” said a senior J&K bank official.The 14th-century Almond Clove, spread over 300 kanals, is in Srinagar’s old city, full of stimulating colours: white, violet, purple and yellow. The natural hues signal the end of the harsh winter, which has happened earlier than usual this year.For the families that are visiting, there is no better time to spread some sheets on the ground and soak in the afternoon sun.“The winter kept us indoors for four months. This year, violence everyday and the deaths of civilians and local militants only added to the gloom. The Clove and the people’s presence reflects a deep yearning to live normally, despite the turbulent times,” said Salih Peerzada, a lawyer.Change of moodThe spreading light and the rush of colour is seen by mental health specialists as helpful for a change of mood. “Bright spring light and change of colours bring people out. They stimulate release of serotonin, the neurotransmitter that contributes to well-being and positive mood,” said Dr. Arshad Hussain, professor at Government Psychiatric Diseases Hospital.
Spring colours brighten the day for weary Kashmiris
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New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton apologised on Thursday to former US tennis star James Blake, who was arrested after being wrongly identified as a suspect in a fraud ring and said he was concerned over how much force was used.Blake, who is black, was surrounded by six plainclothes officers outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel on Wednesday while waiting for a car to take him to the US Tennis Open. One of the officers slammed the 35-year-old man to the ground before handcuffing him.The incident involving a well-known athlete revived questions over excessive police force that reverberated around the country after a series of police killings of unarmed black men that sparked sometimes violent protests.”I spoke to Mr. Blake a short time ago and personally apologised for yesterday’s incident,” Bratton said in a statement. “Mr. Blake indicated he would be willing to meet with the Internal Affairs Bureau as our investigation continues.”Bratton earlier told reporters the officer who tackled Blake had been put on desk duty while the department reviewed the incident.”I have concerns about the takedown,” said Bratton, adding he had seen a video of the arrest.”The concern we had: Was the force used appropriate, and the initial review – we believe it may not have been,” added Bratton, who was appointed by Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio at a time when he was trying to improve relations between police and minority residents of the city.Police said Blake, at one time ranked fourth in the world, had been mistakenly identified by a cooperating witness as a suspect in a fraud ring.advertisementBratton said he was also concerned that no report had been made of Blake’s arrest and detention, which became public after the former player reported it to the New York Daily News.Blake told ABC’s “Good Morning America” he decided to go public with the incident after discussing it with his wife and imagining how he would have felt if she had been treated in that way.”I was furious because I thought about what I would be thinking if someone did that to my wife, if someone tackled her in broad daylight, paraded her around in a busy, crowded sidewalk in New York City with handcuffs,” Blake said.Blake added that he had cooperated throughout the incident with the officers, who did not immediately identify themselves as law enforcement.”The first words out of my mouth were, ‘I’m going to 100 per cent cooperate. I don’t want any incident or whatever,’ just out of reaction from what I’ve seen in the media,'” said Blake, who was on his way on Wednesday to the US Open, which is being played at Flushing Meadows in the borough of Queens.Bratton said Blake had been mistakenly identified as a suspect by a witness, adding he did not believe race influenced how he was treated by white officers.”This rush to put a race tag on it, I’m sorry, that’s not involved in this incident at all,” Bratton told reporters. “That doesn’t denote there’s a racial angle to this at all.”The police department last year promised to revamp how it trained officers after 43-year-old Eric Garner died after being placed in a chokehold by officers who were trying to arrest him for suspected illegal cigarette sales on Staten Island in July 2014.Garner’s death was one of a string of cases in the past year involving the deaths of black men in confrontations with police – including in Baltimore, Cleveland and Ferguson, Missouri – that sparked a national debate over race and justice.Federal data show that US police routinely use force when making stops of pedestrians, doing so in one out of every four non-traffic stops, according to a 2013 Justice Department report.Some 57 percent of black respondents in a Pew Research Center poll last year said police do a poor job of using the right amount of force when they respond to situations, more than double the 22 percent of white respondents who reported that view.That poll, of 1,501 US adults, including 1,082 white adults and 153 black adults, was conducted in August 2014, days after the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. The margin of error for white respondents was 3.4 percentage points and for black respondents 9.1 percentage points.
For the first time in four years, a new #winner is taking top honors as the #1 Best Place to Work in tech as part of Glassdoor’s sixth annual Employees’ Choice Awards for the 50 Best Places to Work in 2014 (based on companies with at least 1,000 employees). Among the 22 tech companies appearing on this year’s list, Twitter (#2 overall) leads the way in tech, followed by LinkedIn (#3 overall) and Facebook (#5 overall) to round out the top three in tech. Facebook held the top spot among tech companies in 2013, 2012, and 2011.Curious which 22 tech companies are among the 50 Best Places to Work in 2014?Check out the complete list of 50 Best Places to Work in 2014:VIDEO: Look inside TwitterTo get an inside look at what it’s like to work at the #1 tech company, check out what Twitter employees and its VP of HR have to say:Do you work for a tech company and think it’s a Best Place to Work? Share a review. Reviews submitted during the next 12 months will be considered for Glassdoor’s 2015 Employees’ Choice Awards.To learn more about the Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Awards, visit https://www.glassdoor.com/about/best-places-to-work.htm. To request the full methodology, contact bestplacestowork@glassdoor.com.
American ExpressKen Chenault 94% 89% JPMorgan ChaseJamie Dimon 87% 84% CompanyCEO Approval Rating 3/16/11 – 3/15/12 Approval Rating 3/16/10 – 3/15/11 US ArmyJohn McHugh 84% 70% QUALCOMMPaul E. Jacobs 95% 88% OracleLarry Ellison 81% 72% GoogleLarry Page 94% Eric Schmidt: 96% Intel CorporationPaul S. Otellini 93% 90% Goldman SachsLloyd Blankfein 89% 97% StarbucksHoward D. Schultz 89% 80% So what stands out from this list of Top 25 Highest Rated CEOs? Below are just some of the highlights:How Does Apple’s Tim Cook Compare to Steve Jobs?While many speculated how Cook would be received by employees and how he would lead the tech giant, he seems to have settled in quite nicely, garnering a 97% approval. By comparison, when Steve Jobs stepped down in August 2011, his cumulative rating was 97% approval, though his rating between March 2010 and March 2011 was 95%. One Apple Employee (Cupertino, CA) comments, “I think leadership is doing an amazing job. We have the best management team anywhere.”HP CEO Winning Employee SupportMeg Whitman may not have achieved enough popularity among California voters during her run for governor of California, but she seems to be winning support from employees at Hewlett-Packard. Whitman is the only woman to break into the list of top rated CEOs with an 80% approval rating. And she is faring much better than her predecessors – Leo Apotheker garnered a 57% cumulative approval and Mark Hurd received a 34% cumulative approval. One Hewlett-Packard employee wrote that, “Mark Hurd badly impacted HP Values and people morale, but HP has got amazing people who kept on performing through salary cuts and CEO scandals. So my most sincere good luck to Meg and her leadership team to bring back some of the HP way.”Several Finance Leaders Retain High Ratings In Tough TimesDespite public outcry over Wall Street’s excessive salaries and a very fervent Occupy movement, U.S. Bank employees give CEO Richard Davis an 88% approval rating, and JPMorgan Chase employees give CEO Jamie Dimon an 87% approval. Interestingly,Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, who was criticized recently by former executive Greg Smith in the New York Times, garners an 89% approval rating, which is down eight points from his 97% approval last year².Troops Salute Military LeadersThe leaders of the US Air Force and US Army pull rank and make it on this list of well-liked leaders. Michael Donley, Secretary of the US Air Force, receives an 86% approval rating. As a member of the US Air Force notes, “Most supervisory level people only want to see you exceed and will work as hard as you do, sometimes harder, to see you attain your goals. The only ceiling for advancement, is the ceiling that you build over yourself.” And, John McHugh, Secretary of the US Army, receives an 84% approval rating.In addition, you can view a graphic of the Top 25 Highest Rated CEOs.It’s also worth noting that several CEOs representing the tech industry make this top 25 list. View a break out of the Top 10 Highest Rated Tech CEOs.Do you approve (or perhaps disapprove) of the way your CEO is leading your company? Share a company review on Glassdoor and rate your CEO.¹ The report below is based on current CEOs with at least 100 ratings from their own employees over the past year (3/16/11-3/15/12). Ratings based on a 5-point scale: 1=strongly disapprove, 3=no opinion, 5=strongly approve. Rankings based on CEO rating and quantity of ratings a CEO has received during the past year.² CEO ratings between 3/16/10 and 3/15/11 are based on at least 20 ratings during that time period. Report based on CEOs with at least 100 ratings between 3/16/11 and 3/15/12; CEO approval ratings during 3/16/10 – 3/15/11 based on at least 20 ratings. GEJeffrey Immelt 83% 64% U.S. BankRichard K. Davis 88% 84% US Air ForceMichael B. Donley 86% 83% Fidelity InvestmentsEdward Johnson, III 84% 78% PricewaterhouseCoopersDennis M. Nally 88% 79% Procter & GambleBob McDonald 84% 94% Hewlett-PackardMeg Whitman 80% Leo Apotheker: 67% NordstromBlake W. Nordstrom 89% 89% Ernst & YoungJim Turley 95% 83% Home DepotFrank Blake 80% 80% AppleTim Cook 97% Steve Jobs: 95% AccenturePierre Nanterme 91% William Green: 86% EMCJoe Tucci 86% 88% Sprint NextelDan Hesse 85% 77% VMwarePaul Maritz 90% 75% Lockheed MartinRobert J. Stevens 80% 83% Glassdoor is revealing its latest list of the Top 25 Highest Rated CEOs – the list is based entirely on feedback from employees who were asked one simple survey question: Do you approve of the way your CEO is leading the company? In the last year alone, more than 280,000 employees rated their CEO on Glassdoor.¹Check out who made the Top 25 Highest Rated CEOs list: