text: Doing the Internet Shuffle 199 If you don't have the Save Password option, Client for Microsoft Networks is not installed. In the Control Panel, double-click the Network icon, click the Add button, and double-click Client . Click Microsoft and then double- click Client for Microsoft Networks. Make sure Client for Microsoft Networks is selected as the Primary Network Logon and click OK. If prompted to restart your computer, shut down any programs that are running, and click Yes or OK to restart. Type your username and password. If desired, check the Save Password check box. This saves your username and password so you won't have to type it again the next time you log on. If you share your computer with someone else and you do not want that person using your Internet con- nection, leave the check box blank. Click the Connect button. After you click the Connect button, Dial-Up Networking dials into your service provider's computer and displays messages indicating the progress, Dialing... Checking username and pass- word ..., and Connecting .... Assuming that Dial-Up Networking could establish a connection, a dialog box appears indicating that you are now connected. You now can run Internet programs (explained in later chapters) to navigate the World Wide Web, send and receive e-mail, and so on. What Went Wrong? If your connection proceeds smoothly the first time, lucky you. Most first attempts fail for some reason or another (these are computers, after all). Sometimes, your ISP's computer is too busy to take your call, the computer cannot match the name or password you entered, or the phone line is a little fuzzy. If the connection fails, check the following: · Did you type your username and password correctly? (If you mistyped this information or if your service provider entered it incorrectly on the system, Dial-Up Networking typically displays a message indicating that the system did not accept your password.) Retype your username and password and try connecting again. (Passwords typically are case sensitive so type the pass- word exactly as your service provider specifies.) · Was the line busy? Again, Dial-Up Networking typically displays a message indicating that the line was busy. If several people are connected to the service, you might need to wait until some- one signs off. Keep trying to connect. · Did your modem even dial? Go to the Windows Control Panel and check your modem setup. Make sure that you've selected the correct modem and COM port. · Do you have reliable phone lines? Unplug your modem from the phone jack and plug a phone into the jack. Do you get a dial tone? Does the line sound fuzzy? If you don't hear a dial tone, the jack is not working. If the line is fuzzy when you make a voice call, it has line noise, which might be enough to disconnect you. Whoa! If your modem does not respond, see "My Modem Doesn't Work," in Chapter 32, "Do-It-Yourself Fixes for Common Ailments," for additional troubleshooting tips.


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So, I have some news. I have a new job. As of 18 January, I will be the Communications Manager at Wolverhampton Homes. I'll be managing a small team and returning to the Black Country where I used to be a reporter at the Express and Star. (I can even see the Express and Star flag from my new desk!)
I've spent the last eight months at the Orbit Group as a Marketing and Communications Manager for Orbit East and Orbit First Step and it has absolutely flown by. I have learnt enormous amounts about how organisations work and how they can be successful.
What I'm most proud of the Orbit Group for is our continued involvement and leadership of Mortgage Rescue. The scheme, set up by the Government just over a year ago to help people at risk of repossession, has had its fair share of criticism in the press. But when I have seen the kindness, hard work and passion of my colleagues who have done so much to keep people in their homes, I feel a huge sense of pride. (Not to blow Orbit's trumpet too much, but we're leading the way nationally with more than 50 people helped to stay in their homes.)
Wolverhampton Homes is an Arms Length Management Organisation (ALMO), which means it manages the 24,000 homes owned by Wolverhampton City Council. ALMOs have their fair share of challenges, not least a funding-dependent inspection regime, which will see me go through my first full Audit Commission inspection next year (eek). But I am well up for it and feel inspired and motivated about my new post. Bring it on!


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Rapper will play at 90th birthday bash this summer
Eminem is to make a long-awaited comeback for Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday gig – despite announcing his retirement in 2005.The rapper, 35, has been confirmed to play at the 27 June event in London's Hyde Park.
'We're amazed to have Eminem on board,' an insider tells The Sun. 'We wanted some of the greatest artists from recent times and Eminem was on the list.'It's going to be explosive stuff and it's certainly a big stage to make his comeback.'And he's not the only celeb hoping to help Nelson celebrate turning 90.Geri Halliwell, 35, wants to give him a personal gift.'I'll have to get in touch with him,' she tells the Daily Express. 'Perhaps I'll send him a special video message.'
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Yes, Yes, and Yes. September is one lovely little month. So many fun things happen. One of those things we love the most is the good ole' soccer season.
My family is all soccer. What I mean by that is everyone of us gets completely involved in the sport. This year, like last year we have 3 soccer players on 2 different teams. Last year Omega and Zulu played together leaving Zero to play by herself. I coached the little boys and Zeus coached the Princess.
This year Zero and Omega are on the same team and Mister Zulu is on his own team.
Once again Zeus and I jumped at the opportunity to coach our sweet children. Our view is this, if we are going to take them to practice and sit there the whole time we might as well be on the field with them. So here we are once again me coaching Zulu and Zeus coaching Omega and Zero.
Coaching is something all competitive parents should do at least once. I believe coaching is where you can really teach kids something in life, no only the sport but imperative social skills they may not get anywhere else. I am honored and deeply humbled to step on that field, court or gym with those kids. To see them start that very first day of practice having never seen or really touched a soccer ball and then fast forward to that last game where they actually understand the difference between offense and defense and can run an actual play is so amazing. Thank goodness I do not cry easily or I would cry alot. Zeus and I are both very competitive people in all aspects of life. We want the best for our family. We want to do everything we can. Each of us loves sports, all sports. He chooses to love basketball the most and I choose to love Volleyball the most but in the end we will play just about anything. This being said we feel it is important to get involved in our kids social lives. So here we are coaching yet another season of soccer. The love of a parent will move mountains.
After Photos on Saturday I was pulled aside by our Youth Center Sports Director. Zeus and I have a very good relationship with this man, which I will call R. R bends over backwards for this base and all the kids on it and we are very thankful to him. Anyways, R says he wants to inform me of something. A little nervous at this point I step back and listen. He says Coach Haskins, I just wanted to let you know that you were nominated for National Youth Sports Coach of the Year.
WOW was my first thought. Then he said but you did not win. Well, geez just being nominated means so much. Who cares about winning. Ok so it would be really cool to win but in all seriousness I was extremely honored by this nomination, A National nomination at that. Simply because I do not do what I do for any awards, I do it for the kids. That's what all this is about, sending a positive, fun and controlled message to these kids. Teaching them that you can come together as a team no matter what color, shape, size or background you are. This will follow them throughout their life. I am so grateful to have been given this opportunity and I hope that along the way I can continue to coach my children and many other children through sports.
So if you don't hear from me much you can just say to yourself she is on the soccer field. We spend 2 nights a week and most Saturday morning out there with these kids. What a blessing this is and oh how blessed we are to have someone like R to set this up and keep it going. Blessings to all and happy Soccer season.


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Welcome to the Solar Panel. A gathering of some of the most unique minds discussing topics from around Planet Orange (if that's still a thing). These media members and super fans will breakdown whether the Phoenix Suns are headed in the right direction for the future. Here's this edition's panelists:
Gerald Bourguet , Assistant Editor at HoopsHabit.com
Mike Gallagher, NBA writer for NBC and Rotoworld.
Greg Esposito: Suns Columnist for Sports360AZ and co-host Suns Solar Panel
1) When you look at the Suns roster as it is currently constructed do you see the foundation of a contender or a collection of young assets waiting to be moved for something better?
GB: Foundation of a contender. None of Phoenix's four rookies are in the conversation for Rookie of the Year, but everyone knew Marquese Chriss and Dragan Bender would be projects. They progress they've shown alongside Tyler Ulis and even Derrick Jones Jr is encouraging, especially since they're all 21 or younger. Devin Booker is still the centerpiece here, but add another likely top-5 pick to the equation and the Suns will be setting themselves up for long-term growth. At this point, I'm higher on Phoenix's young core than Los Angeles' or even Philadelphia's when you factor in Joel Embiid's injury history. If the Suns were to trade for a star, they'd be trying to keep Eric Bledsoe and Devin Booker to create a new Big Three…but it seems highly unlikely they'd actually convince a team to accept a trade package without one of those two being involved.
MG: If the Suns are going to contend, they're going to need both Marquese Chriss and Devin Booker to take a major step forward.
Not every young big is Karl-Anthony Towns, and most one-and-done bigs take some time to get going. Plus, Chriss hasn't played basketball very long compared to his counterparts. He's also been very effective in almost every facet since the break, so the 19-year-old big has seen a sharp incline in his career arc in this small sample. Plus, he's also been solid as a center lately with his foul rate coming down, which will be important for the Suns to play the style they want.
By the time Booker and Chriss are potentially difference makers, guys like Eric Bledsoe will likely be off the roster. They do have some decent depth with T.J. Warren, but maybe he Warren is a better second-unit scorer and the Suns draft a wing with better defense — he is 79 out of 81 SFs in defensive real plus minus (Doug McDermott and Brandon Ingram). Plus, Tyler Ulis looks like a guy who will make the second unit a lot better.
Given all that youth, it's really tough to project if they'll be a contender. They clearly need some growth from multiple players, but it's possible.
Espo: The Suns young core is the best in the league's lower half right now. After years of wondering where this organization was headed general manager Ryan McDonough has plotted a true course and got owner Robert Sarver to buy into the vision.
That doesn't mean that this young group is going to be the next great Suns team though. You have to remember that McD studied under Danny Ainge in Boston and, as we've seen in the past and see now, the former Suns guard and current Celtics front office wizard prefers to have assets to wheel and deal.
If you look at the Suns roster there are redundancies, question marks and great young talent. When you also look at the number of quality draft picks, there own and others they've acquired, they have you realize there is something more that likely will happen. It feels like the Suns are sitting and waiting to strike and until then they'll let their young talent grow and showcase itself for the rest of the league.
Booker is the cornerstone of the current group but I'd imagine anyone else could be had if the price is right.
2) He has buzzer beaters, he has 30+ point games, he has swagger but Is Devin Booker a future super star in this league?
GB: Yes. This is one case where the hype feels warranted, especially when you remember Booker is only 20 years old and already has a Kobe Bryant-esque air of confidence that makes him adored by his fans and despised by his opponents. From his work ethic to his pure shooting form to that Mamba mentality that Suns fans used to hate, there's too much here to ignore. His defense still needs considerable improvement, but it's not like we revere James Harden or Stephen Curry for their two-way play either.
MG: Just about every NBA analyst picked Devin Booker to have a breakout season and you could argue he's been slightly below expectations. To be clear, expectations were really, really high. While Booker has been solid as a scorer, his true shooting percentage (TS%) of 53.5 this season needs to come up — he is at 56.8 TS% since the break in that 10-game sample. He's still below league average on shots in the paint and mid-range, so adding that to his arsenal will be key. Of course, he's still just 20 years old, so he's ahead of the curve there. He also needs more add some play-making ability because a 1.07 assist:turnover ratio won't fly for a superstar.
Booker is smashing on all 20-and-under players for scoring this year with his 21.1 points per game. In fact, Myles Turner is second at 15.0 and is the only other qualifier in double-digit scoring. While it's still hard to say he's likely to be a superstar, what other under-20 guard are you going to take? We'll see if the third-year breakout comes to fruition.
Espo: Devin Booker is good. You can't argue how amazing his stats have been for a guy who was the youngest player in the league last season. When you add in his attitude and mentality you have a recipe for success. Heck, after a loss recently he took it upon himself to get Tyler Ulis and Marquese Chriss to join him on the practice court for an impromptu late night workout.
All that said, I worry Suns fans are like the guy in the cartoon lost in the desert. He starts to see things that aren't there because be's so thirsty. Suns fans have gone so long without a true star that they're grasping at anything that gets close.
Booker will be an all-star. Likely a multi-time all-star and a fan favorite for the next decade. But will he be a super star? My guess is he's a 1B and he'll need a 1A to take the next step.
3) Suns owner and managing partner Robert Sarver reportedly told season ticket holders last week that the team won't pursue any veteran free agents this summer and that the team's goal is to be a contender by 2020. Do you think this is the right approach to return the Suns to the franchise's winning ways?
GB: Approaching their 50th season as an NBA franchise without a title, I'd say it's at least worth a shot! The Suns are the league's longest-tenured franchise to never win it all and they've never earned the No. 1 overall draft pick either. The entire Ryan McDonough era has been plagued by build-from-the-middle attempts that ultimately failed, and as much fun as that 48-win campaign in 2013-14 was, people forget that season started with a roster built for tanking. Stay patient, let the Warriors, Cavaliers, Spurs and Rockets wage their holy wars now and acquire talent through the draft to groom into a legitimate title contender.
MG: Like cargo pants and frosted tips in the 90s, trusting the process is about as trendy as it possibly could be right now. Heck, even the Cleveland Browns are living the TTP life.
If the Suns are going to go that route, that means they should absolutely be looking to deal Eric Bledsoe, who really is the only veteran asset with trade value. Brandon Knight probably has negative trade value.
The NBA purgatory of coming in at the No. 7-8 seed is no fun, so the Suns could be looking at that if Bledsoe is still on the roster and guys like Booker, Chriss, Tyler Ulis and maybe even Dragan Bender should be better next year.
They may not need to go all-out former 76ers GM Sam Hinkie mode, I think this is the right approach for the Suns because they're not going to contend while the Warriors, Spurs and maybe even the Rockets are around. It makes sense to stack up your roster the best you can for 2020 and beyond.
Espo: The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. For the last 49 years the Suns have done the same thing in an attempt to build a champion. They signed free agents, won between 42-55 games and were always the bridesmaid and never the bride. It's how you become 4th winningest franchise in NBA history and have nothing but two Western Conference championship banners to show for it.
Outside of their inaugural year, the Suns have never fully bottomed out in hopes of landing a top prospect. Committing to a youth movement and rebuilding rather than retooling is the right move. It's the difference between Hollywood remaking the Matrix or taking a chance on a new fresh idea from a young film maker. Everyone's better of with the latter rather than the former.
4) Is this year's draft deep enough where falling to the 5-7 range won't hurt the Suns as much as some fans think?
GB: Possibly, especially in a guard-heavy draft if the Suns have no intentions of trading Eric Bledsoe and rolling with a Tyler Ulis + new rookie backcourt rotation at the 1-spot. While I will say it'd be a pity for Phoenix to miss out on Markelle Fultz, Lonzo Ball or a two-way prospect like Joshua Jackson, we should also note that if the Suns are going to hurt their draft stock now, they might as well do it the way they have been: Playing the young guys ample minutes and letting them learn how to win together.
MG: I have to admit that I'm not a draft pundit and I only watch NBA, but from what I've heard there is some depth — PEOPLE ARE SAYING!! Point guard seems to be the position with the strongest depth up top, so figuring out what the Suns what to do with Ulis and Bledsoe will be a huge factor. Plus, another variable will be who is ahead of them because there are likely going to be a decent amount of teams not needing a point guard. If they can come away with pick six or better, they should have themselves a player to help them out.
Espo: Ryan McDonough has found gems and future building blocks at every spot in the draft (if you ignore Alex Len). I trust that the talent pool is deep enough and the scouting staff is good enough to find a key piece to the team's future at any slot in the early lottery that the Suns fall in.
OT) Purple or Orange?
GB: Purple. Always purple.
MG: As bad as the "orange you glad I didn't say banana" joke is, you gotta go orange. The color is just delicious and vitamin C is good for you too! Plus, a basketball is orange, too. Who can argue with that?
Espo: Purple. Except for that Lakers purple. That color is BS.


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It's kids clothes week again! I can't wait to look through all the exciting projects on Flickr. So much goodness! I'm working on a last-minute birthday gift with a looming deadline right now, so my opportunities to join in are limited, but at least I'm inspired to finally post this little dress, which admittedly was finished a couple of weeks ago. Here's my hand smocked dress! Ta-da!
I recently saw a Polo smocked girls dress for something like $150 in a department store. $150 for baby clothes! So when I spotted this unopened McCall's 4508 pattern at a thrift shop for 50c I really wanted to try it out. Unfortunately it is a size 5 and with all that pleated fabric I wasn't sure about grading the pattern down for my nearly 16 month old. Of course, Pinterest was able to help and I found a gorgeous and free pattern here in size 18 months.
To hand pleat the fabric, I drew a grid on the back of the fabric and stitched the pleats as shown in this tutorial. My smocking was slightly less complicated than the pattern due to time limitations, but isn't it cute! The possibilities with this are endless.
When I first started sewing the dress together it seemed so large I thought it was going to fit me! The sleeves are oh so puffy. And even with the tie at the back it is a loose fit, so I added a tuck just above the hem to let the dress grow with her.
I love it on her so much, it's no wonder they call these heirloom dresses. But I think that with a little patience and some time, anyone can do this! I know I'll be returning to the view E dress on that McCall's pattern in the next few years too.
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My obsession with OPI's new Germany collection continues!I spotted the Germany display at Ulta last week and immediately knew I had to have Berlin There Done That. It took awhile for me to decide on picking up Nein! but I am so glad I did!
Nein! Nein! Nein! OK Fine! is a blue based dark gray creme. The color is so gorgeous! I love almost black polishes because they are a less harsh color to wear. Despite the fact that Nein! is super dark it never looks black.
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Gay Lenner, 60, of Marietta passed away peacefully Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015.
She was born in Columbus to Peggy and Charles K. Hecht. Gay is survived by her loving husband of 30 years, Rick; daughter Alison; son Jonathan; sisters Lorrie Taylor (Ben) and Kim Harding (Mike); brothers Chuck Hecht (Jane) and Randy Hecht; and her mother, Peggy.
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The Kite Runner:
Themes & Symbols
The Kite Runner
has a variety of themes, both major and minor
A theme is defined as "a main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work which may be stated directly or indirectly"
These themes will now be explored more closely . . .
The Kite Runner
has many symbols which add effectiveness and emphasis to the story
A symbol is defined as "something used as a conventional representation of an object, function, or process. It represents something other than itself"
These symbols will now be explored more closely . . .
The Kite Runner
tackles the issue of ethnic discrimination in Afghanistan with an example of the relationship between Pashtuns and Hazaras.
Baba's father sets an example for him of being kind to Hazara people, even though they are historically demeaned and persecuted.
Even in Baba's house, the house of best intentions, the class barrier between the Pashtuns and Hazaras endures. Ali is as dear to Baba as a brother; he calls him "family." But Ali still lives in a hut and sleeps on a mattress on the floor.
When Hassan dies defending Baba's house, he does so not because he feels it belongs to him, but because he is being loyal to Baba and Amir.
Hosseini has mentioned in interviews that his focus on discrimination in
The Kite Runner
angers some Afghans, who feel it is inappropriate.
Like Baba, many people do not mention the Hazaras' history of persecution.
By having Assef appear in pre-Taliban times and emerge as a leading Talib, Hosseini shows that the Taliban's persecution of the Hazaras and other Shiites is not new, but a greatly intensified outgrowth of a long-held discrimination.
In Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, discrimination is everywhere and nowhere at the same time:
On one hand, the Taliban do not seem to care whom they are beating, torturing, or executing. In this way, the Talibs discriminate against everyone but themselves. As Amir notices, Assef forces Sohrab to dance to music for his enjoyment - yet, dancing and listening to music had long been banned by the Taliban: "I guessed music wasn't sinful as long as it played to Taliban ears" - Amir.
On the other hand, the Taliban discriminate specifically against the Hazara people. They massacre the Hazaras not only in the region of Hazarajat, but nearly anywhere else they can find them. Assef and his followers do not see the Hazaras' lives as worthwhile; like his idol, Hitler, he feels entitled to killing those he deems unworthy of living in his land. He even relishes the term "ethnic cleansing" because it goes so well with his garbage metaphor: "Afghanistan is like a beautiful mansion littered with garbage, and someone has to take out the garbage" - Assef.
"Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd." - Bertrand Russell
"The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species.
Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?" - Mahatma Ghandi
"For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses." - Friedrich Nietzsche
In The Kite Runner, redemption is so important because sin is so enduring.
Amir opens the story by telling us not about how he sinned, but about that sin's endurance: "It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years."
Hosseini uses structure to emphasize the themes of sin and redemption.
Because Amir tells the story in retrospect, every memory, even the blissful ones of his childhood before the rape, are tainted with it.
If the timeline of the novel was strictly chronological, we would not have the power of hindsight.
Hosseini uses the first chapter almost like a thesis for the novel.
As Amir retells the story of his life, he weighs each event against his sin; his betrayal of Hassan.
As we learn towards the novel's end, Amir is not the only character who needs redemption.
Sin & Redemption
Sin & Redemption:
"A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward." - George R.R. Martin
"When a relationship of love is disrupted, the relationship does not cease. The love continues; therefore, the relationship continues. The work of grief is to reconcile and redeem life to a different love relationship." - W. Scott Lineberry
In Ghazi Stadium, the Taliban skews the words of Muhammad in order to justify murdering the alleged adulterers.
The mullah announces that every person should have a punishment befitting his sin. Although he would not want to compare himself to the Taliban, Amir believes this in regards to his own sin.
When Amir tries to get Hassan to hit him with pomegranates, he is expressing his feeling that in order to be forgiven for hurting Hassan, Hassan must hurt him.
When Assef almost kills Amir, he feels "healed," as if now that Assef has hurt him, he is redeemed.
He even tells Farid that in the room with Assef, he "got what he deserved."
In the end, Amir finds out that punishment is not what will redeem him from his sin - It is not even saving Sohrab.
In order to atone for his sin and Baba's before him, Amir must erase the lines of discrimination he has lived with all his life by giving Sohrab an equal chance at success and happiness.
"Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other." - Vera Nezarian
1) What other characters need redemption? Why?
Things to think about . . .
2) How does Amir factor into what Baba says
about theft? What do you think this shows
about Baba's experiences?
Until Rahim Khan reveals Baba's secret, Amir thinks he is the only sinner among his family and friends.
Amir is constantly trying to measure up to Baba, because he does not realize that Baba is so hard on him because of his guilt over his own sin.
When Amir finds out about Baba's sin, he feels as though his entire life has been a cycle of betrayal, even before he himself betrayed Hassan.
Even prior to the rape, Hassan makes Amir feel guilty simply by being such a righteous person.
Soraya needs Amir's forgiveness and understanding of her past before they can marry. Amir needs Soraya's forgiveness as well, although he doesn't share his past with her until he is confronted with it again in Pakistan.
In the same way, Rahim Khan needs Amir to forgive him for keeping Baba's secret before he dies.
Rahim Khan, the story's unofficial wise man, is the one who truly understands how redemption occurs. He tells Amir in his letter, "I know that in the end, God will forgive. He will forgive your father, me, and you too ... Forgive your father if you can. Forgive me if you wish. But most important, forgive yourself."
Rahim Khan carries the novel's ultimate message about forgiveness: God is merciful; it is people who are not.
Therefore, truly atoning for one's sins means coming to terms with them by oneself, without relying on a higher power.
When Amir prays, he is still bound by fear and guilt; instead of wishing unselfishly for Sohrab to recover, he begs God not to leave "Sohrab's blood on his hands."
When Amir manages to forgive himself in the very last moments of the novel, he redeems himself at last.
"A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything." - Baba
"I turned to the general. 'You see, General Sahib, my father slept with his servant's wife. She bore him a son named Hassan. Hassan is dead now. That boy sleeping on the couch is Hassan's son. He's my nephew. That's what you tell people when they ask.'
They were all staring at me. 'And one more thing, General Sahib,' I said. 'You will never again refer to him as 'Hazara boy' in my presence. He has a name and it's Sohrab.'" - Amir
Family is more important to Amir than he knows; his guilt over hurting Hassan is terrible when he thinks Hassan is just another person.
Once he knows they are related, he is overcome with guilt, enough to put himself in danger and stand up for Sohrab.
For much of his life, Amir feels as though his family is the cause of his problems. He thinks Baba blames him for his mother's death and spends much of his childhood tormented by trying to win a place in Baba's heart.
Family is the reason why Amir fights to bring Sohrab home and, ultimately, the channel through which he redeems himself.
Family Ties:
"All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair." - Mitch Albom
"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance." - George Bernard Shaw
"You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn't depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family." - Trenton Lee Stewart
Family is extremely important in the story, especially because it takes place in Afghanistan.
It is a nation where culture and tradition are of monumental importance, especially to the older generation. We see this when Baba and Amir are in America.
Even though they are in a different country, Amir is expected to observe cultural tradition in courting Soraya. Not only must they go through khastegari, in order to get engaged, but they cannot be seen together in public before the wedding.
One the one hand, everyone in Afghanistan is part of one family; as Baba says, "Take two Afghans who've never met, put them in a room for ten minutes, and they'll figure out how they're related." On the other hand, lineage is of the utmost importance.
When Amir and Soraya are considering adopting a child, General Taheri explains that Afghans are not meant to disturb their family line with such a decision. He tells them that Baba's reputation was a big consideration in regards to their marriage and says, "Blood is a powerful thing ... And when you adopt, you don't know whose blood you're bringing into your house."
What General Taheri does not know is that for the very reason that family is so important to Afghans, Baba kept Hassan's identity secret to his grave.
To Baba, denying Hassan his true identity was preferable to confusing the relationship between both Ali and himself, as well as between Amir and Hassan.
Baba treats Ali and Hassan as equally as he felt he could without destroying his and Ali's honor, but he still knows that they are his real family.
Amir does not have this privilege and his ignorance makes him have more contempt towards Hassan, who is loyal as a brother to him anyway.
Family Ties
Amir has a very complex relationship with Baba, and as much as Amir loves Baba, he rarely feels Baba fully loves him back.
Amir's desire to win Baba's love consequently motivates him not to stop Hassan's rape.
Baba has his own difficulty connecting with Amir.
He feels guilty treating Amir well when he can't acknowledge Hassan as his other son.
As a result, he is hard on Amir, and he can only show his love for Hassan indirectly (bringing Hassan along when he takes Amir out, paying for Hassan's lip surgery, buying them each the same kites).
In contrast with this, the most loving relationship between father and son we see is that of Hassan and Sohrab.
After Hassan is killed, Amir tries to become a substitute father to Sohrab.
Their relationship experiences its own strains as Sohrab, who is recovering from the loss of his parents and the abuse he suffered, has trouble opening up to Amir.
Ironically, Amir thought for most of the novel that the reason that he and Baba never opened up to each other was because of the loss of his own parent.
Even though Hosseini has stated that he wanted to remind people of a peaceful Afghanistan, he also does the service of revealing the suffering the nation has experienced in over 30 years of conflict.
Violence pervades the novel, even in the seemingly inoccent activity of kite fighting.
Not only is kite fighting violent because it is a kind of battle, but boys injure their hands when they participate.
This fact suggests that Afghanistan has become a place where joy cannot exist separately from pain; Afghans' memories of their homeland are tainted with suffering.
The entire novel centers around a single act of violence, Hassan's rape, and the sin Amir commits by both failing to intervene, and pretending that violence did not occur.
Symbolically, Hassan's rape is echoed by Sohrab's rape decades
later, and by Afghanistan's continual rape by war and terrorism.
Amir's life in America does involve suffering, especially regarding
Baba's death - But Baba's death is peaceful.
Because America serves a haven from violence, the violence under
the Taliban in Kabul is even more shocking and sobering.
After his return from Afghanistan, the September 11th attacks
occur. The Taliban's presence in America symbolizes that there wil always be conflict and
"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent...An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" - Mahatma Gandhi
"Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that." - Khaled Hosseini
"Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived." - Abraham Lincoln
Amir gets a taste of violence when he and Baba are fleeing for Pakistan and Kamal's father commits suicide. However, nothing can prepare him for the extent of violence and suffering in Afghanistan upon his return.
One of the most graphic accounts is of the stoning at Ghazi Stadium.
Like the rapes of Hassan and Sohrab, the event symbolizes the devastation of Afghanistan as a whole, as Afghans once knew it.
Another very violent event is Amir's fight with Assef. At the time, Amir's pain makes him feel happy and "healed"; it is as though by suffering, he is repaying Hassan for all the violence he suffered on Amir's behalf. Amir's split lip, though minor compared to his other injuries, is most significant because it represents this feeling of closeness to Hassan.
Amir's split lip establishes a physical comparison to Hassan's hair-lip, creating facial similarities between the two brothers despite their ethnic differences
injustice for Amir to struggle with and stand up against.
We learn that violence is not the answer to Amir's problems, nor does he understand just how deep its consequences run.
When Sohrab tries to kill himself, Amir sees that his nearly fatal injuries were nothing compared to the pain Sohrab and other Afghans have suffered.
Ultimately, he realizes that his redemption will not come from only helping Sohrab. Amir finds out that the only way to heal the violence done to Hassan and Sohrab is to finally forgive himself.
A Man For All Seasons:
How does violence in
The Kite Runner
compare to violence in
A Man For All Seasons
Henry VIII uses violence in his death sentence for More in order to silence his opinions and ideas.
The Taliban use violence in
The Kite Runner
for the same reasons. An example would be how the Taliban forbid women to be educated, and enforce deadly punishments upon them for opposing their extremist mentalities.
King Henry uses violence as a way to control and maintain power. He uses violence to place himself above the law.
The Kite Runner
, the Taliban use violence for this same reason. They use fear and brutality to keep the Afghanistan population within their control, and bend the laws how they deem fit. An example would be how the Taliban forbid listening to music, yet they themselves continue to listen to it.
Assef uses violence against both Hassan, Amir, and Sohrab in order to convey his notions of personal empowerment.
Because Amir immigrates to the United States while he is still growing up, the question of his national identity is especially complex.
Baba sees America as a refuge and becomes enthralled, as Amir says, with "the idea of America."
He identifies with American optimism and freedom of choice, and even hangs a framed picture of Ronald Reagan on the wall of their apartment.
Up until his death, Baba is a guest in America; Afghanistan is undeniably the place where he can be himself. There, he was a successful and influential figure. In America, he must work at the gas station and suffer the humiliation of being a foreigner, as with the Nguyens.
For young Amir, America is not only politically free, but more importantly, free of Hassan and memories of him.
He uses the image of a river to describe the exhilaration and cleansing effect that being in America has on him. He opens his arms wide to America, even though he maintains Afghan traditions regarding courtship and writes a novel about Afghanistan.
Because he comes into adulthood in America, Amir does not suffer along with his fellow Afghans. As he discovers, this makes all the difference in defining his national identity.
Amir's coming to Afghanistan should by all accounts be a homecoming, but Amir can never truly revisit his homeland; it no longer exists as he knew it.
In the interim between Amir's leaving Kabul and his return, the Soviets, warring factions, and the Taliban have all turned it from a culturally rich and bustling place into a ghost town of beggars among the rubble and hanging corpses.
Amir can no longer be an Afghan because being an Afghan has become synonymous with having survived terror, if not much worse.
"Our true nationality is mankind." - H.G. Wells
"The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life" - Eleanor Roosevelt
"We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities." - Franklin Roosevelt
According to Farid, Amir never had an Afghan identity to lose.
He tells Amir that his privileged upbringing has made him a "tourist" in Afghanistan all his life.
Amir himself tells Rahim Khan that he cannot go to Afghanistan because he has a wife, a home, and a life in America.
Through these conversations, Hosseini asks what constitutes a homeland, a
If Farid is right, then Amir has no homeland.
However, once Farid finds out why Amir has returned to Afghanistan, he changes his opinion of him. He seems to accept him as a friend, if not a countryman.
According to the novel, one's homeland depends not only on one's emotional attachment to a place but one's tangible devotion to it.
Hosseini seems to suggest that to make a place one's homeland, one must be willing not merely to dwell on nostalgic feelings but to put them into action.
Whether like Farid, by fighting in a trench, or like Amir, by trying to save another from the homeland itself.
A Man For All Seasons:
How does sin & redemption in
The Kite Runner
compare to
A Man For All Seasons
Henry VIII seeks redemption for marrying Catherine of Aragon, his brothers widow. He believes that because he married Catherine, God punished him by not giving them a male heir to the throne.
Amir feels that he has also been robbed of the privilege of having children. Amir's poor treatment and neglect of Hassan leads Amir to believe that this is the reason he and Soraya cannot conceive.
When Amir redeems himself through both his saving of Sohrab, and his willingness to forgive himself, he finally becomes the father figure he has always wanted to be.
1) What role do you think nationality plays in
Things to think about . . .
2) How do you think nationality plays into your
own identity?
Man for All Seasons
In Islam, as in Christianity, the lamb signifies the sacrifice of an innocent.
Amir describes both Hassan and Sohrab as looking like lambs waiting to be slaughtered.
Amir says this during Hassan's rape, noting that Hassan resembled the lamb they kill during the Muslim celebration of Eid Al-Adha, which honors Abraham's near sacrifice of his son for God.
Similarly, he describes Sohrab as looking like a slaughter sheep when he first sees Sohrab with Assef. Assef and the others had put mascara on Sohrab's eyes, just as Amir says the mullah used to do to the sheep before slitting its throat.
Blood represents a number of things in
The Kite Runner
. The violation of Hassan is the primary use of blood in the text.
Similarly to the spilling of blood during the conflicts in Afghanistan, blood in this instance represents the idea of sacrifice.
We are directly told that Hassan is the sacrifice that Amir makes for both Baba and Afghanistan; "Assef was right: Nothing was free in this world. Maybe Hassan was the price I had to pay, the lamb I had to slay to win Baba."
During Hassan's rape, Amir bites down on his knuckles so hard that it draws blood, connecting him to his brother who leaves tiny drops of blood on the ground which stained the snow black.
After Hassan's rape, when Amir meets him at the pomegranate tree, Amir challenges Hassan to confront him by throwing blood-red fruit at him. Instead, Hassan squishes the pomegranate against his own head, resulting in "red dripping down his face like blood" - this foreshadows Hassan's death when he is shot in the head by the Taliban.
After the rape and kite tournament, Baba throws Amir a large birthday party. Amir says "I didn't want any of it - it was all blood money. Baba would never have thrown me a party like this if I hadn't won the tournament".
This usage of "blood money" establishes a connection to Judas' betrayal of Jesus, and the blood money he received for the sacrifice of his friend.
"I hurled the pomegranate at him. It struck him in the chest, exploded in a spray of red pulp...when I finally stopped, exhausted and panting, Hassan was smeared in red like he'd been shot by a firing squad."
"I stopped watching, turned away from the alley. something warm was running down my wrist. I blinked, saw I was still biting down on my fist, hard enough to draw blood from the knuckles."
Blood is also a symbol used with Baba
When Baba becomes ill, he is depicted as having bloodstained phlegm as a result of his cancer.
It is blood which also prevents Baba from claiming Hassan as his son - it is not because he is illegitimate, but because Hassan is half Hazara.
In this sense, both Amir and Baba sacrifice Hassan for the same reason.
Amir dreams that Assef tells him "we're the same, you and I. You nursed with him, but you're my twin."
Blood also plays a significant role when Sohrab attempts suicide.
Amir views Sohrab's blood as an extension of Hassan's sacrifice, and thus, as part of Amir's responsibility.
"My hands are stained with Hassan's blood; I pray God doesn't let them get stained with the blood of his boy too."
Blood is not used only as a tool to represent death, but also life.
When Amir and Soraya try unsuccessfully to have a child, they consider adopting. However, the notion of bloodlines and lineage interrupts their plans.
The General tells them that "blood is a powerful thing...when you adopt, you don't know whose blood you're bringing into your house"
Blood in relation to family connections also speaks to the reason that Baba will not openly acknowledge Hassan as his son.
"I pretended I hadn't seen the dark stain in the seat of his pants or those tiny drops that fell from between his legs and stained the snow black."
Amir describes Hassan as a beautiful boy with the "face of a Chinese doll chiseled from hardwood, but with a cleft lip, just left of mid line, where the Chinese doll maker's instrument may have slipped, or perhaps he had simply grown tired and careless."
The split in Hassan's lip acts as a mark of Hassan's status in society.
It signifies his poverty, which is one of the things that separates him from Amir, simply because a cleft lip indicates that he and his family do not have the money to fix the deformity.
Assef splits Amir's lip as he beats him, leaving Amir with a permanent scar much like Hassan's: "Clean down the middle...like a harelip."
In a sense, Amir's identity becomes merged with Hassan's.
He learns to stand up for those he cares about, as Hassan once did for him, and he becomes a father figure to Sohrab.
Because of this, the cleft lip also serves as a sign of Amir's redemption.
Amir's scar from this incident leaves him with a physical scar which can now begin to heal, which contrasts the invisible scar Baba left on him.
Baba chooses to pay a surgeon to repair Hassan's lip as a birthday gift, signifying his secret fatherly love for Hassan.
Amir is jealous when Baba gives Hassan this gift, and says "I wished I too had some kind of scar that would beget Baba's sympathy. It wasn't fair. Hassan hadn't done anything to earn Baba's affections; he'd just been born with that stupid harelip."
Amir does have a scar from his experiences with Baba, only his is on his heart, and is invisible even to him.
Hassan's cleft lip is one of his most representative features as a child, and it is one of the features Amir refers to most in describing him.
His cleft lip is a symbol for the genetic split in Afghan society (Hassan himself is also representative of this, as his mother was a Hazara and his father a Pashtun).
It can also be seen as a divider in Afghanistan history. The hair lip symbolizes the split life between the glory years of Amir's boyhood and the Taliban takeover.
Cleft Lip:
Cleft Lip
"Sanaubar had taken one glance at the baby in Ali's arms, seen the cleft lip, and barked a bitter laughter."
"The face of Afghanistan is that of a boy with a
thin-boned frame, a shaved head, and low-set ears, a boy with a Chinese doll face perpetually lit by a harelipped smile."
"The wound healed with time. Soon, it was just a pink jagged line running up from his lip. By the following winter, it was only a
faint scar. Which was ironic. Because that was the winter that Hassan stopped smiling."
His thoughts after the rape portray the kite as a sign of his betrayal of Hassan.
Amir does not fly a kite again until he does so with Sohrab at the end of the novel.
Because Amir has already redeemed himself by that point, the kite is no longer a symbol of his guilt.
The kite now acts as a reminder of his childhood, and it also becomes the way that he is finally able to connect with Sohrab, mirroring the kite's role in Amir's relationship with Baba.
"Every winter, districts in Kabul held a kite-fighting tournament. If you were a boy in Kabul, the day of the tournament was undeniably the highlight of the cold season...In Kabul, fighting kites was a little like going to war."
"I glanced up and saw a pair of kites, red with long blue tails, soaring in the sky. They danced high
above the trees on the west end of the park, over the windmills, floating side by side like a pair of eyes looking down on San Francisco...And suddenly Hassan's voice whispered in my head: 'For you, a thousand times over.'"
The kite serves as symbols of happiness, guilt, and violence. Like Amir describes in the quote, fighting kites was a form of war.
For Amir, he wars over the tension of the battle for the actual kite, the sadness of his inner battle over not protecting Hassan, the battle for Baba's affections and praise, and the battle over Sohrab.
Flying kites is what Amir enjoys most as a child, not least because it is the only way that he connects fully with Baba, who was once a champion kite fighter.
Kites are the only thing that Baba and Amir have in common. Everything else about them, their personalities, hopes, and dreams are all so different.
But the kite takes on a different significance when Amir allows Hassan to be raped because he wants to bring the blue kite back to Baba.
To bring home the last fallen kite is a trophy of honour, and Amir will go to any lengths in order to ensure he has this winning prize to present to Baba.
Amir betrays Hassan to get this trophy.
Later, Sohrab becomes the last fallen kite, as Assef and Amir both fight to get the prized possession of their mutual interest; Hassan.
"Kites are the one paper-thin slice of intersection between spheres of their existence."
The book opens describing two kites flying over the water, which reminds Amir of his childhood.
The two kites symbolize Hassan and Amir, with their relationship which is never properly grounded. They inevitably bump edges, either accidentally or purposely.
The two are the perfect team; the kite fighter and the kite runner. However, they are doomed to fail because Amir holds Hassan in such an inferior role in his life.
The Lamb:
"He moved his head slightly and I caught a glimpse of his face. Saw the resignation in it. It was a look I had seen before. It was the look of the lamb."
"The prophet Ibrahim almost sacrificed his own son for God. Baba has handpicked the sheep again this year, a powder white one with crooked black ears."
"Maybe Hassan was the price I had to pay, the lamb I had to slay, to win Baba."
Both Hassan and Sohrab are innocents who are figuratively sacrificed by being raped, but these sacrifices have very different meanings.
In Hassan's case, Amir sacrifices him for the blue kite.
In Sohrab's case, Amir is the one who stops his sexual abuse. In this context, sacrifice is portrayed as the exploitation of an innocent.
When Assef rapes Hassan, Amir catches "a glimpse of [Hassan's] face. Saw the recognition in it. It was a look I had seen before. It was the look of the lamb."
Amir is a coward who willingly sells out Hassan for his own selfish goals; "Maybe Hassan was the price I had to pay, the lamb I had to slay to win Baba.
Hassan makes the final forfeit - He defends Amir, even though he knows Amir has betrayed him.
"The custom is to not let the sheep see the knife. All feeds the animal a cube of sugar--another custom, to make death sweeter. The sheep kicks, but not much. The mullah grabs it under its jaw and places the blade on its neck. Just a second before he slices the throat in one expert motion, I see the sheep's eyes. It is a look that will haunt my dreams for weeks. I don't know why I watch this yearly ritual in our backyard; my nightmares persist long after the bloodstains on the grass have faded. But I always watch. I watch because of that look of acceptance in the animal's eyes. Absurdly, I imagine the animal understands. I imagine the animal sees that its imminent demise is for a higher purpose."
The Lamb
The Great Gatsby
, the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg represent the eyes of God, who oversees the characters actions, faults, and deeds.
This connection between
The Kite Runner
The Great Gatsby
was likely created on purpose, especially because Hassan is involved in the quote. Hassan's involvement establishes him as a righteous person; Hassan was aware of Amir's betrayals, and still loved him anyways.
The kites that are like eyes can be symbolic for Hassan's eyes, watching over Amir. Amir knows he must now make choices and decisions which Hassan would be proud of.
"Above the yellow land and the spasms of bleak rust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg. The eyes of Doctor T.J.Eckleburg are blue and small - their irises are one yard high. They look out of no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a existent foot. Evidently some wild wag of an oculist set them there to fatten his practice in the borough of Kings, and then shank down himself into external blindness, or forgot them and moved away. But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days, under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground."
"'God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!'
Standing behind him, Michaelis saw with a shock that he was looking at the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, which had just emerged, pale and enormous, from the dissolving night."
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Greaves Cotton rose 3.82% to Rs 163.20 at 11:40 IST on BSE after the company announced a technology partnership with US-based Pinnacle Engines for the launch of a BS VI-compliant engine for 3-wheelers in India.The announcement was made after market hours yesterday, 13 June 2017.
Meanwhile, the S&P BSE Sensex was down 20.51 points, or 0.07% to 31,082.98.
On the BSE, 60,000 shares were traded in the counter so far, compared with average daily volumes of 50,265 shares in the past one quarter. The stock had hit a high of Rs 164.65 and a low of Rs 160 so far during the day. The stock hit a record high of Rs 178 on 4 May 2017. The stock hit a 52-week low of Rs 115.20 on 26 December 2016.
The stock had underperformed the market over the past one month till 13 June 2017, rising 0.58% compared with 2.58% rise in the Sensex. The scrip had also underperformed the market in past one quarter, falling 5.02% as against Sensex's 5.80% rise. The scrip had also underperformed the market in past one year, rising 13.87% as against Sensex's 17.84% rise.
The mid-cap company has equity capital of Rs 48.84 crore. Face value per share is Rs 2.
Greaves Cotton and US-based Pinnacle Engines Inc announced a technology partnership for the launch of a revolutionary Opposed Piston Petrol/CNG lean burn BS VI-compIiant engine for 3-wheelers in India.
As per the agreement, Pinnacle will grant license to Greaves Cotton for manufacturing and selling 3-wheel Pinnacle Engines and 2 Wheel (110 CC) Pinnacle Engines. Greaves Cotton has agreed for $7.5 million milestone-linked payment and 5% royalty to Pinnacle Engines.
This move is seen as an important milestone for Greaves to establish itself as a leading fuel agnostic powertrain solutions & services company. This also allows Greaves access to export markets with large 3-wheeler population. With this advanced horizontal opposed piston design engines, Greaves aims to offer BS VI compliant high power and fuel efficiency engines with lower maintenance cost that results in higher savings to the end customer. This partnership enables Greaves, currently the market leader in the 3-Wheeler diesel engine space, to enter the larger 3-wheeler petrol/CNG space, with a powerful customer value proposition.
The partnership leverages strengths on both sides, provides opportunities to enter new markets and customer segments. The innovative technology offering from Pinnacle Engines, coupled with the vast experience of Greaves in world class manufacturing, will create a superior value package for the end customer in the Indian and overseas markets. The agreement between the two companies was signed in California, US.
Pinnacle Engines is a US-based mobility technologies company. A pioneer in the field of Opposed Piston Engine architecture, utilizing a proprietary hardware design and electronic control, Pinnacle's unique lean-burn four stroke engine is protected by over 170 patents. The technology is now ready to be taken into the Indian 3-wheeler market, providing a highly differentiated customer value proposition.
Net profit of Greaves Cotton rose 19.13% to Rs 46.77 crore on 3.40% decline in net sales to Rs 390.73 crore in Q4 March 2017 over Q4 March 2016.
Greaves Cotton is one of the leading engineering companies in India with core competencies in diesel/ petrol engines, farm equipment and Gensets. The company sustains its leadership through six manufacturing units which produce world class products backed by comprehensive spares and service through its 3500 plus service outlets across India.
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GLOUSTER, Ohio—Authorities say the fire from a natural gas line rupture and explosion is under control in a rural area of southern Ohio.
The Morgan County sheriff's office says one woman was taken to a hospital after she was found walking down the road away from the fire and carrying her dog. Her condition is not known. Authorities also say two homes were damaged in Homer Township near Glouster.
People up to 12 miles away felt the explosion and heard the roar of the fire, which was reported around 8:30 a.m.
Houston-based Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. says it was a rupture in its interstate natural gas transmission line. Company spokesman Richard Wheatley says a team has isolated the pipeline segment involved and shut the gas off.
The cause is not yet known.
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Today is the official start of the three year plan to GET THIN. That is, I'm 37 today (yah I made it), so I've now got three years to loose the 6 excess stone I carry around with me. 2 stone a year. 84 pound in total. About half a pound every week for the next 156 weeks till I hit 40. Yeh, cause that's gonna happen isn't it. Despite my very best efforts, which quite clearly just aren't good enough, I haven't really lost a great deal in the dummy 11 week run that has just passed. And that's been with the "diet honeymoon" syndrome, whereby you go from doing absolutely no exercise to madly visiting the gym 7 days a week, twice a day; and going from eating enough in one day to feed a family of four for a week, to eating a "healthy" 1500 calories a day. With no crisps to take the edge off the misery. Or bread. Or cakes, buns, sweets, pizzas, chocolate or cheese.
Oh fuck it, and pass me a very very large slice of birthday cake please.
The birthday celebrations kick off with the dogs tonight. It's been a while since I thought it appropriate to celebrate a birthday with an evening in a dark and dingy club, rubbing up against a beautiful man, getting hammered and dancing till my tits fell off. And even the getting pie-eyed on Mojitos and having a Wimpey on the way home nights seem a bit same-old-same-old now. So for the past few years I've had quieter nights with just close mates. Or dinner with the family. Or a meal out with Boo. But I haven't been to the dogs for years, so thought perhaps a night shouting "Come On Dog Number 5!", and picking the winners based on the very scientific coolest name versus colour of livery theory was just what I needed. The chicken in a basket and lager in a plastic cup obviously swung it too.
Then tomorrow Boo and I are off to a wedding. Not ours, I haste to add/regret to inform. But the daughter of a neighbour of my mums. Will be having one or two glasses of fizzy pop no doubt, and am hoping that some traditional Wham is played and vol au vents are on offer. The bride is absolutely beautiful so I'm already panicking about standing anywhere near her. Did I mention she also has a cracking figure? I might just have to dig out the big pants and kaftan and hope for some damn fine lighting.


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'Health' and 'Fitness' are meaningless terms by themselves. They only become meaningful when you take the time to give your own personal definition to them as it applies to you.
Many people will change the way they eat, exercise and live in an effort to be 'healthier' and 'fit', but how do you measure this?
One of the obvious answers is the look of your body. It's reasonable to assume that a healthy body is a healthy looking body.
There are other metrics like blood markers of disease risk and physical ability to do work (running a distance for time etc)
But these don't seem like an end in and of themselves but rather sign posts along the way.
I believe all of our health and fitness pursuits are simply an effort to cheat death and live as long as possible. After all would do an exercise that made you look better, and made you more fit, and reduced your risk of disease, but also shortened your life?


text: Russian piano-pounder Regina Spektor continues to dig her own path and finds, on Far, the middle ground between the twitchy Soviet Kitsch and 2006's pop crossover Begin to Hope. The irony generation's Tori Amos has a better sense of humour than her colleague---Tori might commune with the earth, but she would never imitate dolphins, as Spektor does on "Folding Chair"---but has similar piano chops and a voice that can turn from elegiac to whimsical in the course of a single verse (hear: "Human of the Year"). Spektor is one of our keenest composers, turning tiny situations---finding the titular object on "Wallet," a local lake in "Genius Next Door"---into wry, insightful observations of the human condition. Far's best songs are its second and second-last: "Eet" (the sound made from dragging out "beat") is an electro-tinged ballad that explodes into a soaring bridge before ending with Spektor beat-boxing lightly; "One More Time with Feeling" begins mournfully in a hospital and ends a rallying cry: "Say it in your mind until you know that the words are right/This is why we fight." Sonically guided by a team super-producers including Mike Elizondo and Jeff Lynne, Far finds the warm side of slick, finally shucking the non-existent "anti-folk" label Spektor never deserved. This is some of the catchiest, most heartfelt and best pop music being made now.


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The struggling manufacturing sector took another hit on Friday when Rio Tinto decided to mothball alumina production at its loss-making Gove site in Arnhem Land, at an expected cost of about 1000 jobs.
The long-expected decision dealt a severe blow to the fragile economy of the region around the remote town of Nhulunbuy, which was reliant on the bauxite and alumina operation at Gove for its existence.
The strong Australian dollar, low alumina prices and high energy costs had crippled the plant, with losses estimated at $1 billion for Rio Tinto since 2007, a period when it also invested $700 million at the site.
"It's an accumulation of issues that is exacerbated by the particular remoteness of that site," Grattan Institute energy program director Tony Wood said. "No matter how efficient these guys get, the fundamental underlying economics and the relative costs of energy are stacked against them."
Efforts to save the plant by shoring up gas to allow it to switch from hugely expensive fuel oil came to nought when Rio Tinto rejected the gas option this week.
Northern Territory Chief Minister Adam Giles and federal Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane said they had done all they could to save the plant but it was a commercial decision for Rio Tinto.
Australian Workers Union national secretary Paul Howes attacked the response, saying "cosy, conciliatory pats on the back" were "unacceptable. "We are talking about an entire town being destroyed here, $500 million being wiped from the economy, and some of the most effective indigenous employment and training programs in the country wiped out," Mr Howes said.
Rio Tinto chief executive Sam Walsh said the decision was "extremely difficult".
"Our aluminium business is facing challenging market conditions and tough decisions are needed, but those decisions are so much harder when our employees and local communities are affected as they are in Nhulunbuy," he said.
Rio Tinto said it would focus on its bauxite mining operation at Gove. It needed to work through modified arrangements with the Northern Territory government to allow it to shutter the alumina plant while continuing to mine raw material.
About 1400 people work at Gove, 380 in bauxite mining, the rest at the alumina plant.
Mr Giles said Rio Tinto would continue to provide power, water and sewerage to the town and would not turn anyone out of their company homes. Hospital, school and police services would continue.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott pledged to work with the Northern Territory government and Rio Tinto.
The government and Rio Tinto were lobbying airlines to continue flights to Gove and Mr Macfarlane said assistance packages would be put together for indigenous communities and small businesses.
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The struggling manufacturing sector took another hit on Friday when Rio Tinto decided to mothball alumina production at its loss-making Gove site in Arnhem Land, at an expected cost of about 1000 jobs.
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Dearest Mom and Dad
I packed up some stitching to keep me busy (and calm) on the plane.
Gus looks good on the bed cover thingy I made - crochet, this time.
The weather was chilly but clear.
On the way to Gareth and Chloe's house.
A walk at the river - Gus's happy place.
A wombat burrow - they are huge.
Gus was not all that keen to swim - Gareth was not in the water.
The five of us - Chloe was the photographer.
Chloe and I bought these to chomp on at the rugby game - to keep us warm, was my excuse!
All rugged up!
Captain, my captain.
Speech time.
Chatting away - I love this person.
Gareth and Chloe.
The party table.
Gareth wanted simple food for his birthday - food from his childhood - this is the vegetarian's version - mushrooms instead of lamb. Note: your leeks in the foreground, Mom.
My carrot cake recipe for his birthday cake.
Button whipped up a "self-saucing chocolate pudding" like Pearl used to make.
Gus. He has he most beautiful eyes.
The Vikings rugby club - pretty impressive. This is not my photograph - I stole it from their facebook page.
And another.
And that was that. the weekend went in a flash.
All my love


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Travel stamp-like art piece inspired by Michael Schwab.
I think I need to cut out the gradients and add more black?
This week, we are able to choose our choice of an Illustrator/Vector Artist to write about, and I came to the startling realization that I did not follow many artists who worked mainly in vectors (sadly, the few that I did, they're style had long since lost my interest). So the hunt began! However, It only took me a few moments to discover an artist who truly "WOW'd" me.
Meet Yana Moskaluk,
A digital artist from Russia whose astounding gift for wielding Adobe Illustrator like Photoshop, along with her tastes for the dark whimsy left me agape.
Yana's work varies from personal takes on Russian fairy tales (seen above) to commercial pieces for magazines and the like (right and left).
Her use of fluid use line, heavy pattern and limited (yet pungent) color palette I think is what draws me in the most.
Definitely looking forward to seeing more of her work, and learning from her unique style.
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Def: Tumbrel, Noun. A two wheeled horse cart with sides, similar to a dray.
Tumbrels were most notably used during the French Revolution to haul the nobility and other offenders off to the guillotine. They were carried barefooted through the streets as the populace spat upon them, threw stones, and the contents of chamber pots at them.
Harsh stuff.
But consider please the "crimes" and excesses of the banks and Wall Street and ask yourself if we ought not to take a few Wall Street Robber Barons for a tumbrel ride.
Consider the $85-billion bailout of AIG, whose executives immediately ganged together to splurge on a $442,000 weekend "retreat" at a posh Southern California resort. No doubt, to recover from the arduous task of putting together one of the biggest con jobs ever perpetrated on the American taxpayer.
Where are the tumbrels?
Consider the ensuing multi-billion dollar bailout of the banking industry and its more than five-million mortgage loans to indigents, credit risks, and under capitalized speculators. Those mortgage loans have been euphemized as "Toxic Assets". Toxic? I reckon. Assets? Hah!
Where are the tumbrels?
Remember when the first shoe hit the floor? I'll remind you. Lehaman Brothers or was it Bear Sterns? BS, I think. The stock was degraded and then the company was handed over, lock stock and barrel to JP Morgan. Quickly after that the Fed decided to bail out Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. We had apt warning that big trouble was coming, and it was going to cost us a ton.
As one insider, supposedly aghast, put it, "if you want to know who is to blame, there are only two places to look: the financiers themselves and the nonfeasance of a feckless SEC!"
Where are the tumbrels?
Enter the FBI. Back in September 2008, the FBI began to take seriously the potential criminality behind these events: Lehman Brothers, Freddie and Fannie, and AIG. In less than a year the wide-reaching inquiry has grown from targeting 14 major firms to at least 26. The G-men (and women) aim is to determine whether any company executives had any responsibility through misinformation, material misinformation, and misstated assets, which caused the financial woes of the institutions being investigated.
Oil up the wheels of the tumbrels! Heads are going to roll!
Coming tomorrow, naming the names of those who should be taking a tumbrel ride.


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The Board of Directors continues to consider options for maximising shareholder value, including a potential delisting of the Company's global depositary receipts, although no decision has been taken and there is no certainty that the Company will delist. The Company will keep the market updated.
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CORNELL DRILLING COMPANY, A CORPORATION, APPELLANT,v.FORD MOTOR COMPANY, A CORPORATION, AND NULL FORD SALES, INC., A CORPORATION
John R. Walters, Jr., Janet N. Valentine, Thomson, Rhodes & Grigsby, Pittsburgh, for appellant.
Joseph R. Rygiel, Uniontown, Randall J. McConnell, Jr., Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote, Pittsburgh, for appellee.
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[ 241 Pa. Super. Page 131]
This appeal presents the question of whether appellant introduced sufficient evidence to have the issue of liability based on § 402A of the Restatement (Second) of Torts (1965)*fn1 submitted to the jury. The court below
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held that appellant's evidence was deficient and entered a compulsory non-suit in favor of appellees at the conclusion of appellant's case. We disagree with this decision and remand for a new trial.
Appellant's complaint in trespass alleged inter alia the following facts: On August 12, 1968, appellant purchased from Null Ford Sales, Inc., (hereinafter referred to as "Null") a new 1968 truck manufactured by Ford Motor Company (hereinafter referred to as "Ford"); seventeen days later the Ford truck suddenly caught fire so as to damage and destroy the interior of the cab, the engine, and certain other parts of the truck; the fire resulted from a defective condition in the truck that existed at the time it was sold by Ford and also from the negligence of Ford's employees and Null's employees.*fn2
After several subsequent pleadings were filed, the case proceeded to trial where the following testimony was introduced into evidence: Kenneth W. Emory testified that he was employed by appellant on the day the truck caught fire. He was one of two men who operated the truck that day. On the day in question, he and another of appellant's employees were at the site of a strip mine drilling holes in which dynamite was later to be placed. The
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truck was used to transport the drill from hole to hole. Somewhere between the tenth and fifteenth holes that were drilled that day the drill broke. Emory and his partner then decided to leave the area and travel to town in a pickup truck (not the Ford) to obtain the part needed to fix the drill. Emory testified that when they left the area the truck engine was turned off, its doors were closed, the windows were up, there was no one else in the area, and there was no evidence of any fire at that time. Approximately one hour after they were gone, they received word over their two-way radio that the Ford truck was on fire back at the mine. When they returned, Emory noticed that the Ford truck was in the same position as it had been when they left and the doors were still closed. However, the cab of the truck was burned to such an extent that the glass had melted. Emory did not have occasion to examine under the hood of the truck to determine the extent of the fire in that area. However, Emory did notice that certain jumper cables kept behind the seat in the cab had not come in contact with a reserve battery that was kept on the floor board in the cab and was still covered. Emory's testimony also made it clear that the Ford truck had been functioning properly prior to the fire.
Wayne Layhue, Emory's working partner, was the next witness to testify for appellant. His testimony reaffirmed the fact that the truck had been operating normally that morning and that there was no evidence of any fire when he and Emory departed for town. According to Layhue, the truck had been turned off a half hour before they had left for the parts. Layhue substantially made the same observations testified to by Emory. Layhue also added that he did not do anything to cause the fire.
J. R. Cornell, owner of appellant corporation, testified that he had purchased the Ford truck new from Null and that it had only 35 miles on its odometer when it caught fire. He ...
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CATH NEWS REPORT: The Federal Government's school funding review panel said it would investigate the funding needs of students from all schools - government, Catholic and independent - and would consider funding from all sources, reports The Age.
An emerging issues paper form the Review is the product of a national listening tour on which its panel heard the views of more than 70 educational groups. While most of the paper is devoted to reporting those views, the paper also sets out the panel's thinking on the issue of equity.
''It believes that equity should ensure that differences in educational outcomes are not the result of differences in wealth, income, power or possessions,'' the paper says.
''The panel does not intend it to mean that all students are the same or will achieve the same outcomes, but rather that they will not be prevented from achieving their maximum potential because of their background or family circumstances.''The chairman of the schools funding review, businessman David Gonski, has told The Age that some education groups had encouraged the review panel to look at what obligations should be attached to public funding.


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Iraqi Islamist leader sues Norway over human rights
"We lodged a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg in April," Brynjar Meling told AFP, confirming a report in the Verdens Gang daily. "The complaint is currently being handled," he added.
Kurdish-born Krekar has lived in Norway as a refugee since 1991, but has been under threat of deportation since Norwegian media revealed he was the founder of Ansar al-Islam, which figures on the United States' list of terrorist groups.
Norway's Supreme Court on November 8 upheld previous court rulings and a 2003 decision by Norwegian authorities to expel Krekar from the Scandinavian country, claiming he was a threat to national security.
Norwegian law however prevents Krekar, whose real name is Fateh Najmeddin Faraj, from being deported to his homeland until the situation in Iraq improves.
The Iraqi Kurd, who himself figures on a United Nations list of terrorist groups or individuals and has repeatedly expressed admiration for Osama bin Laden and called for jihad in Iraq, admits that he founded the group but insists he has not headed it since May 2002.
"For nearly six years, my client has not been able to work, travel, or even pick up a package at the post office or open a bank account since he lacks any form of identification papers," said Meling
Because of this, Krekar's wife has been forced to support him, he added.
Meling maintains that Norway has violated three articles of the European Convention on Human Rights: Article 3 banning "inhuman or degrading treatment," Article 8 demanding respect for "private and family life," and Article 13 providing the right to defend one's human rights before a national court.
The European court cannot reverse the verdicts handed down by the Norwegian judiciary but it can criticise the way the case has been handled and it will then "be up to the state to draw any potential conclusions," the lawyer said.
"The government has a strong wish to carry out the expulsion as quickly as possible, but this will have to happen within the boundaries of Norway's international human rights obligations," Libe Rieber-Mohn, a state secretary at the Labour and Social Inclusion Ministry, told AFP in an email.
She stressed that in accordance with the European human rights convention, Norway would not send anyone "to an area where they risk being the victims of torture".
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