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From: SP52948 owner
To: Peter Bone BCS Strata Management
CC: Paul Banoob Pica Group, Bruce Copland, John Ward, Stan Pogorelsky, Maureen McDonald, Steve Luxmoore, Jeffery Wang, Rafael Hirchhorn
Subject: SUMMARY: Lot 159 and private religious celebration
Date: 11/11/13, 9:33 pm

Hello,

It seems I have to get involved in more issues than I wish to (by the way, today I found out that ThyssenKrupp credited our next invoice for lift maintenance on 25 September 2013, due to overcharging for the last two years, as reported and discovered by me in August 2013). You and EC will probably try to get credits for that "work" although you did absolutely nothing to manage the contract properly. It does not matter to me, the facts will always prevail in the end. That is why I carry on with my quest to save money to owners and provide better services (levy savings of around $500.00 per lot owner per year are easily possible if proper duty of care is implemented).

Recently, a letter surfaced with warning to owners of Lot 159 about their usage of a specific religious sign during their festive season. These are wonderful, old Indian couple, with humbleness that is exemplary.

They are my neighbors, and good ones in every sense of the word.

I am appalled by the ignorance in the letter because swastika sign that was used in Nazi's Germany has nothing to do with 5000-year old swastika sign used in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, for example.

Note that India's and China's population alone comes to around 2.5 billion, so every third person in the world is either an Indian or a Chinese (simple mathematics). Telling them that they should stop using 5000-year old symbol is horrendous. Of course, there are people who use swastika in many other regions too. I would suggest a careful review of this issue.