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Being a mum of twins is tiring, but not as tiresome as the hackneyed twinisms I'm subjected to on a daily basis.
"Double trouble" (good spot); "Bet you've got your hands full" (thanks for the insightful commentary); "Is it in the family?" (which translates as - I wonder if she had IVF?)
But the most common exchange goes something like this...
Life intruder: "So what have you got, boys? Girls?"
Me: "One of each."
Life intruder: "So you're finished then. Ready-made family."
Don't get me wrong, I realise how lucky I am, but is that it? Am I finished? Done? My reproductive system redundant, thrown on the scrap heap of womanhood?
I wasn't a belly-rubbing, earth mother-to-be - I sweated rather than glowed - but growing up I always pictured myself experiencing pregnancy more than once.
And my husband, one of three, wants to hedge our bets. "If one emigrates, or goes off the rails, we'll still have two left," he said in all seriousness.
I'm not sure designing a family so we're cared for in our dotage is responsible family planning - the more kids, the higher the collective salaries, the nicer the care home? I'm unconvinced.
I'd heard rumours of the high likelihood of producing twins twice, so I turned to TAMBA, the very supportive Twins and Multiple Births Association, to get the facts, and received a response from the chief executive no less.
"Normally one in every 65 pregnancies results in a multiple birth," said Keith Reed. "However, if a woman has had one set of non-identical twins, there is acknowledged to be about a one in 16 chance she will have another set." Not an insignificant statistic. But wait for it...
"If she is over 34 there is an even higher likelihood she will have non-identical twins again."
And here comes the leg-crossing clincher...
According to my GP, the chance of a mum with non-identical twins going on to produce triplets next time round can be as high as one in ten. Gulp.
It isn't the complicated birth that make me shudder, the risk of prematurity again, or the stampede of three pairs of tiny feet, I just don't want to reproduce my twins.
What of Aggy and Benny in all this? I certainly don't have the emotion, energy, time and wallet to fully resource two sets of twins. Why should they be deprived because I am spread too thinly?
As my friends strategise over shagging schedules, planning number two, I realise we are obsessed with achieving the perfect 2:4. I'm congratulated by strangers regularly for producing "one of each" as if it's down to skill not genetics.
In a world where women manage careers, domestic jobs, husbands, ageing parents, weight and wardrobe, this aspect of nature (the sex is determined by sperm) is one thing we cannot control. Well not yet anyway - but that's a whole other blog. Striving for that "chocolate box family" is derogatory to only children - only does not automatically mean lonely.
In other cultures, and religions outside Church of England, two shorties falls well short of standard tallies. My thoughts turn to a gay friend complete with toddler, who by her own admission will not attempt IVF twice.
Women who are going through the emotionally and financially expensive surrogacy process may only get one shot, and those who experienced a traumatic birth, or hellish first year of childcare, may stick rather than twist in the procreation gamble.
And for first time mums of multiples, in their mid-30s, "going again" means rolling the dice and waiting to see what numbers come up. So excuse me if I decide not to roll this round...


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It's all about the things/traits/people that force me to be judgmental about them.
Now, as I'm writing this, 'm realizing the how difficult this is turning out to be.
Well, sometimes I'm judgmental, sometimes I'm not, mostly it depends on my mood, and mostly I believe in giving benefit-of-doubt to others that saves me from lots of unnecessary tension but still on some days I'm not that kind.
So there's the list …..
1) I tend to get judgmental about people who overindulge in office parties, or at some else's expense, and do it to the extent of obscene proportions.
2) I get judgmental about people who don't take care of things which they borrow from others.
3) I get judgmental about people who don't adhere to basic norms of personal hygiene.
4) I get judgmental about people who don't return borrowed things.
5) I get judgmental about people who
As I'm proceeding further I think I'm getting negative and negative only which is not good. Am I judging myself here. No? :-)
I'm a critic, or like everybody, have an opinion about everything, sports, politics, entertainment whatever, I'm always ready with some 'biased' opinion :-)
6) I'm judgmental about Sourav Ganguly, about almost all music directors, movie directors in positive way for some of them.
7) I get judgmental about people who break or try to break-in the queues on one pretext or another.
8) I get judgment about people who talk loudly on their phones at Public places.
9) I get judgmental about people who listen to Punjabi music.
Above 9 points sum up a lot, that's fairly a general list, not in any particular order.
Well, now the tagging part, anyone who has been short of ideas or just plain lazy like me, can take this tag and kill some time bashing others :-)
Now, I can jump to my favorite topic 'CRICKET' :-) , at last Rain-Gods showered mercy on us and turned our team from a bunch of Unlucky Alis to Lucky Alis :-)
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While we have many live bootcamp students about to pass this new Lab Exam format, we are thrilled to announce we just had a self-paced student pass!
Here is the wonderful email we received today:
"Dear Friends,
Very glad and proud to say that i passed my CCIE R&S 4.0 in Sao Paulo yesterday! CCIE 25793
Would like to thank INE and all the staff for the great help and support on this journey.
Please update my name when writing it in the hall of fame on the left side of the site (Flavio Provedel)
Will write at the online community, and send you an email with my story and comments so you can publish on the site… People need to know v4 is not that big of a deal, and INE really helps a lot! But next week because i am flying to Mexico to celebrate!!!
Flavio Provedel"
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Gr8, i think we will see more stories now, gr8 Work INE for providing such comprehensive material.
That's a great news!!! Congrats to Flavio and INE group too!!! Enjoy your new certification!!
Thats a great news, and you are next to Nostredame in CCIE. Your prophecy regarding first CCIE 4.0 in december fulfilled.
INE really leads in CCIE field.
Great news Flavio n INE for all coz u guys r the GURUS.
Pls Flavio dnt forget to let us knw what u can tell us regarding v.4 coz we all plan to get our nber too.
In fact, "CONGRATS" brother!!!
Congradulations Flavio!
This is the best news I've heard in quite some time!
Could you detail which products you used, how long you've at it and how many attempts? I for one am very curious to hear feedback from you
Congrats to Flavio!
I had started lagging a bit in my preparations since I haven't heard of anyone passing yet. Now hearing of Flavio's great news it has given me a lift.
I look forward to hearing his story.
I hear you Brandon, I was the same… I was lagging with my Preps also as my Lab is in approx 6 weeks time and I just got so disheartened by the whole thing and hearing all the v4 Horror stories etc.
But this is great news, Congrats Flavio!!!!
Congratulation Flavio !
wow great ! good to hear you got pass on R/S V4. I am planning to go through INE workbooks too . Could you please detail how you followed INE's book and other ?
Hope to hear your further stories how you went through .
Once again congratulation .
Congratulations Flavio..
Congratulations Flavio! Hard work pays off!
Congratulations Flavio!!!
=> Please share how you use INE to conquer this monsterous 8 lab.
Congratulations Flavio..
Ou melhor
Parabéns meu camarada!!!!! heheeh
I know how difficult was this battle, but finally … CCIE
Abraços do seu camarada.(Hugs from your buddy)
Rodrigo Freitas.
Viva Mexico! Muito bom/Muy Bien Flavio!
Gr8 to hear passing the lab, so welcome and enjoy/drink, have now big rest, i recommend weeks rest.
Jeriel Atienza
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Gad Willing I Have CCIE Number Soon …..
Best Regard's
Who says the CCIE is not doable. I got so many stories too while preparing for mine. I am glad flavio has opened the door of possibilities now. You all go and get it. You can do it.
Flavio, you are a champ.
Best Regards you all.
I will soon tell my story too by the grace of god of all mighty
I have schedule my lab in jan end, i will let you know soon
I'm Flavio's girlfriend and I know how he dedicated himself to pass this exam. I'm very proud of him and I'd like to register he is one of the best professionals I've ever seen. A future and prosperous future waits for him.
Congrats, babe, you are the best!
And let's start studying for the next exam!
Hi, I have heard from a proctor that there have only been 2 or 3 guys WORLDWIDE who managed to pass the new CCIE R/S format till now. If you think of the probably 600 or more people who have tried the exam in these past 2,5 months and then see that only 2 or 3 managed to pass… how can Cisco still justify keeping this difficulty ? Let me explain:
- the old exam was 8 hours, only lab exam (ok the open ended questions part was there in the end).
- Now with the v4.0, not only have they added a lot of new technologies (like MPLS, OER, EEM, Zone based FW, IPv6, etc), they also added a troubleshooting section where you only have 12minutes per troubleticket, AND Cisco is not giving partial credits anymore in the big 5,5 hour exam(when you had 2/3 on OSPF in the previous exam you got two points, now it is either all or nothing, so in this case you get ZERO, which is very unfair in my opinion !)…
How can you justify that out the best engineers (cause the ones that try CCIE are supposed to already be the best), only 2 or 3 out of 600 or more people succeed ?! That is not even 1 percent pass rate !? Come on! I am personally going for the exam by the end of march and I feel like Cisco screwed with me and really doesn't care. In fact I have the feeling that the ones who have their CCIE already (and passed the MUCH easier previous exam), like the proctors, do not want you to succeed anymore. Probably because the less CCIEs there are, the more valuable their own CCIE will become.
In the mean time the people who are actually studying very hard every day for the past couple of months are screwed until Cisco decides to again make the exam a bit more doable (and I am sure that many of them would have passed the old exam format!)… I hope they will either drop the Open ended questions (so we have a bit more time for the troubleshooting and big exam), or start handing out the partial credit again like they did in the past !
I agree that Cisco have made a mistake here. We now have about 24000 CCIE's on easy level 3 and below and 1 on v4. It's almost like adding a new lab section to the CCNA and making it the hardest CCNA ever! So we have 1.2 million "easy" CCNA's and 3 "hard" CCNA's and nothing in the industry to show this massive difference… unless of course we made the playing field even and told all the existing CCNA's that they have to stay current and resit the exam.
But we all know that no existing CCIE would ever want to do the lab again.. because they would fail. In fact Cisco has made an exam so difficult that you either need a photographic memory, insider information or a lot of money to constantly throw at the lab.. and who in their right mind would want to go through that again! No.. wouldn't work, plus all the existing IE's would run off to Juniper. So why not at least make it optional.. have the cert state CCIEv4 #XYZ. At least the industry would recognise that you were not a part of the cheating problem of the v3′s and in fact your v4 even had 2 more hours worth of troubleshooting with no extra time even awarded!.. So v4's must be better CCIE's!
I definitely think the balance has been tipped too much from easier to ridiculously difficult, and we all know this was done because of the sudden massive increase in passes.. but they have not truly balanced this out fairly. I vote for a one time resit of all CCIE's to the new v4!
There, I bet that got a few of the existing IE's choking on their caviar!.. because we all know we would be back down to CCIE# 1025 and staying low down with it for a long time!
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The woman who reclaimed 70s comedy for the 21st century, Miranda Hart, is bidding farewell to her Technicolor joke shop this weekend to take up a post as a posh midwife called Chummy in BBC1's Call the Midwife.
It's a much more serious role than we've ever seen her in on TV, but it's one that Hart feels qualified to play.
"My background is comedy acting," said Hart in an interview with Radio Times magazine. "I see myself more as a comedy actress than as a stand-up. Playing 'Miranda' is playing a role.
"It's hard to know what people will think…oh, it's just me. Because being on panel shows, you are seen as yourself. But I hope people will see what I have done with Chummy and go with it."
She's right to be anxious, as there's a sniffiness that many people have towards comedians performing "straight" roles. But this prejudice just isn't justified. After all, comedy is something that touches the deepest parts of the human psyche (Freud wrote a whole book about jokes), which suggests that comedians are perhaps better placed than most to understand what makes people tick and bring that knowledge to life on screen or in the theatre.
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Guinness-swilling, fag-smoking Johnny Vegas in a Charles Dickens adaptation? On paper, it sounds absurd, but Vegas shone as Krook in the BBC's lavish production of Bleak House, bringing the character to life with panache.
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Forgoing the funny voices and crazy mannerisms, Williams put on a moving and genuinely affecting performance in Good Will Hunting, proving that there's more to the man than wackiness and one-liners.
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5. Bill Murray
When not busting ghosts and throwing out the quips, Bill Murray can be a surprisingly effective performer, with his turn in Lost in Translation being so credible it netted him a best actor Oscar.
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Proper Speaker Placement
This is a guide to Help those who have the space so they may place their stereo speakers in such a manner as to enable them to get everything out of the recordings they have. The purpose is to place the speakers in such a way that standing waves will not cause interference and cause "dead" ranges of the audio spectrum as well as trying to prevent accentuating those frequencies which would only serve to diminish the listening experience by overshadowing other frequency ranges. It won't Help with those portions of the sound spectrum that are inherently weak in many systems, but it will Help prevent deviation from what is on the original recording. That's what the musicians want you to hear and it can be assumed that you do as well. What we are aiming for is as flat a spectrum as possible enabling the entire recording to be heard well.
I would like to thank beforehand the nice folks at Cardas Inc. for their permission to use their graphics of speaker placement and the detailed information which has been a great Help in putting this guide together.
I would like to also thank our own TNTTNT for his insight and mathematical formula for figuring out where potential interference will probably occur for any given environment as well as his graph showing his own measurment for his own system in his listening area at home.
There are a few different methods for placement which will be detailed here: the 1/3 and 1/5 rules, the Cardas method and the Allen Perkins method. Near field listening placement will be taken up in another guide.
I will also delve into dealing with furniture and it's ability to affect the sound dispersion in your listening room but I will not do into great detail about that here. That is for a sticky on room treatment.
It must be stated that when initially placing your speakers you should place them so there is no toe-in until you have ascertained that they are in the placement that gives the best audio response. This may take days or even weeks or moths of tweaking. Patience is key, but the reward is getting the best sound out of your system that you can.
1) There are two rules for speaker placement which I will go into first, the 1/3 rule and the 1/5 rule. These rules state that after room measurements have been made the speakers will be placed either 1/3 or 1/5 of the distance from the back wall into the listening room. This will Help mitigate standing (interference) waves which will cause dead portions of the audio spectrum to be a problem. There is also a school of thought that the speakers will be placed at 1/3 or 1/5 of the distance from the side walls at the same time. I must emphasise that it is the radiating cone or dome of the tweeter that is placed in the exact spot indicated by measurements.
If you have a room that is 20 feet (6m 10cm) long then the speakers would be placed 80 inches from the rear and side walls for the 1/3 method and 48 inches for the 1/5 method. Whichever method you use should also apply to placement of your listening platform (chair or sofa). In other words, if you have your speakers 1/3 of the way from the rear wall, your sofa should be 1/3 of the way from the wall behind the sofa. The same ratio applies to the 1/5 rule. Remember to place your listening seat evenly between the speakers. Also, measure where your ears actually are when you listen so they will be placed at the 1/3 or 1/5 junction, not just near it. You may need someone else to Help you with this since they can actually measure distances as you sit in a comfortable listening position. Adjustments can then be made accordingly. Part of what you are trying to accomplish is the partial diminishing of reflections from the side, rear and behind the listening seat walls as well as from the ceiling. You don't want the music to come primarily from the perimeter but from the center of the sound stage radiating outward.
2) The Cardas method states that there are mathematical formulae which can be used to mitigate standing waves and promote a natural sounding soundstage emanating from your speakers. Simply put the speakers should be placed 44.7% of the distance of the total length of the room from the rear wall and 27.6% of the distance from the side walls. It should be noted that this ratio is intended for the woofers, not the tweeters. If your room is 20 feet long and 15 feet wide your speakers would be placed so the woofers are 107 inches from the rear wall and 50 inches from the side walls. Your listening position should therefore be placed 107 inches from the wall behind you. At this point there should be a triangle with angles of 60 degrees at each corner.
These diagrams shows the Cardas ratios for speaker placement regardless of actual room measurements. These ratios are for placing speakers in a room which is longer than it is wide and using the long portion of the room for front to back placement. The ratios are different for using the longer walls as the rear and behind the listening position walls. For those who place their speakers along the longer walls in the room the ratios are reversed; the placement from the rear wall is 27.6% of the total distance from the rear wall and 44.7% of the distance from each of the respective side walls. Again, if your room is 20 X 15 feet and you place your speakers so the longer wall is the rear wall then you would place them so the distance from the rear wall would be 50 inches and 107 inches from each side wall. Your listening position would be placed so your ears are 55.2% of the distance from the wall behind you (100 inches) and centered between the speakers. That would mean 80 inches from the wall behind the speakers.The angles of the corners of the triangle from your listening position will be different than if you used the shorter wall as the rear wall of your listening environment. Note that your ears should be placed at the intersection of the lines from the rear corners to the speakers cones. This should be just about at 55.2% of the length from the wall behind you.
The difference in apparent measurements in the room diagrams is from the "Golden Triangle", which calculates ratios for a perfect listening environment of 26 X 16 X 10 feet. In each line below the first number is the ratio in the golden triangle. The second number in each line is the number which we are concerned with here. It is the actual percentage of room length or width which dictates where speakers are placed. These are the numbers which I am using for actual measurements in this guide. Note that in these diagrams the actual listening position is never numerically noted so I have given them to you in the text of this guide.
Distance Ratio Numerical Percentage
Speaker to side wall:
RW x .618 5 .276
Speaker to rear wall:
RW x 1 8 .447
Speaker to opposite wall:
RW x 1.618 13 .724
Speaker to speaker:
RW x 1 8 .447
For those unfortunate enough to have a square listening environment you can still use these ratios to your advantage. Your speakers should be placed so the woofers are 27.6% of the distance from the side walls and 44.7% of the distance from the rear wall. Your listening position will be centered at the intersection of the line from the rear corners bisecting the speakers.
3) The Allen Perkins method dictates 1)that the listening position will be near the wall behind you so that bass is accentuated while attempting to minimize sonic interference, 2) the listening position will be placed ¼ of the length of the room from the wall behind you and the speakers placed ¼ of the length from the rear wall and the side walls. It also dictates that minor speaker adjustments can be made along the length or width of the room to fine tune lower frequencies. To tune the mid-bass the speakers will be adjusted along the width of the room and for the lower bass the length of the room is the axis of adjustment. For the first method, the listening chair is placed near the wall behind it and the speakers are placed in a wide stance at approximately ½ of the distance from the rear wall and ¼ of the distance from each side wall. This gives a very wide soundstage after final adjustments have been made to speaker placement. The listening position not at a fixed ratio from the wall behind it but is placed a short distance away from the wall and it is recommended that some sort of sound absorbing material be placed behind the listening position. Generally speaking the listening position will be between 1 to 3 feet from the wall behind it. Make sure your system is wired in phase. This method is used when the rear wall is the longer of the walls in the listening room.
4) The second method dictates that the room be divided into sixteen equal sections with the length of each wall sectioned into quarters. This method is used when the side walls are the longer walls of the listening room.The listening position is ¼ of the length from the wall behind it. The speakers are placed ¼ of the length from the rear wall and ¼ of the width of the room from each of their respective walls.
5) This is what TNTTNT had to say about standing waves. There is also a graph to show the waves that are generated with a 40hz test signal.
40hz equates to a 14 foot distance between sound waves reflecting, which isn't far off my distance from wall to wall on listening axis. The other dimension is about 35 feet.
The way you get to 14 feet is simple. Sound travels at 1132 feet per second. It takes half the wave distance to generate the amplified node.
1132 feet divided by 40hz is 28 feet. Therefore the wavelength distance of a 40hz signal is 28 feet. We need only half this distance to generate a node, hence 14 feet. This matches the wall to wall measurement.
I bet you all the guys here have these nodes. Bigger rooms are better because you still get nodes, but they are lower and close to inaudible. Also the difference between the nodes generated (Several are not just at 40hz as in my example) get smaller, and the gives a flatter feel to the response.
I bought a sub and parametric equaliser to plump the the troughs in my graph, while cutting out 40hz before it gets to my sub amplifier.
I think this is why some speakers suit different room dimensions. A lot of speakers start fading in volume way before you get to 40hz. Perversely, this deficiency may be compensated by a 14 ft room.
>> The line should be flat (The yellow line). The huge peak in volume at 40hz and 150hz is due to the room rebounding sound waves and amplifying these frequencies. They are call room nodes and determined by the speaker placement and shape and size of room.
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> > For speaker placement you need to consider: -
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> > - choice of lisatening room for size - Larger is better for flatter response
> > - Shape - Cubic rooms where height, length and width are the same are an acoustic nightmare. Rectangular rooms are better
> > - Listening on the longest dimensions of the rectangular room.
> > - Speaker placement - placing speakers at on third of room points reduces room nodes
> > - Furniture and room fabrics/draping will affect sound waves rebounding and room nodes, so moving this can have an effect on sound
6) here are other considerations before you can get every bit of music out of your system for which it was designed. First, there is the matter of final adjustments. When initially placing your speakers you should place them so there is no toe-in. After you have made all your measurements then you need to adjust the forward/backward placement of either one of your speakers. It doesn't matter which speaker you choose, but you will be adjusting one or the other in small increments as small as 1cm at a time. You keep adjusting until the music is correctly centered to your ears. This is necessary due to the way we actually hear. It may sound counter-intuitive at first, but it really does work. This is the part that tends to take the longest for most people. It helps if you have someone who will move the speakers for you or who you know has very good hearing while you adjust the speakers yourself. After you have the music centered then you can toe-in. Generally speaking you want to toe-in so the speakers are pointed to a point roughly 6 inches to 1 foot behind your head. This will be the fine focusing of your speakers. You want to avoid having the sound centered too close to your head so the soundstage will not sound squashed or too wide so the soundstage sounds unnaturally wide and disjointed. One thing I have forgotten to mention is that your tweeters should be placed so they are on approximately the same height as your ears when you are sitting in your listening seat. This is due to the direct sound of the shorter wavelengths in contrast to the less easily detectable sound source of longer wavelengths. This will go a long way toward making the soundstage in your final adjustments sound as natural as possible.
7) Other considerations are room treatments, furniture placement and subwoofer placement. Room treatments and subwoofer placement are too broad for proper detail here . Furniture placement can play a big role in your listening enjoyment. It matters greatly what kind it is, what it's made of and where it is in the room. Large cushioned furniture can absorb a lot of sound and will tend to absorb the higher frequencies the most. The same goes for large rugs, especially those with that are thick and/or have substantial padding underneath. Large bookcases can scatter sound waves helping to diminish standing waves if they are open but if they are enclosed they can often be considered to be the same as walls. Sound will bounce off the hard enclosures instead of being dispersed by the numerous books and objects held within. It is often best if you have a minimum of furniture surrounding the area where you place your speakers due to sound wave dispersion and absorption. Not all of us have the luxury of having a dedicated stereo room. It is also good if you can have a minimum of different sized furniture placed haphazardly around the room. This can create a sonic nightmare that is difficult to rectify without removing the offending furniture. Due to the aesthetic preferences of lovers, spouses and whatnot that isn't always practicle. Suffice it to say that large enclosed furniture can essentially change the dimensions of the room by becoming de-facto walls themselves. Speaker placement should be adjusted accordingly if they are in that side of the listening room. By large I mean any piece of furniture that is taller than the speaker height when they are in their final position and which takes a lot of lateral space. For example, I have two stacked bookcases which stand 5 feet high and are 8 feet wide. These can be considered to shorten the width of the room by 15 inches on that side since any waves won't be bouncing off the wall behind them but off the bookcases themselves. Ideally it would be nice to have nothing in your listening room except your equipment and a place to sit, but this is unrealistic for most of us.
8) I hope this guide has been of Help to you. I would like to thank again TNTTNT, Cardas Inc. and Allen Perkins for their valuable information. I cannot include near-field speaker placement since I have never used it and know nothing about it's actual application.
If there is anything that can be done to make this guide better don't hesitate to let me know. I am always willing to learn anything new which helps make the music better for all of us and am willing to pass on any good information.


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Amazing book about friendship
This is popular, not literary, fiction. Written at a Reader`s Digest level. Melodramatic, sappy, contrived, emotional story. PS: I´d read the graphic novel version already.
It is one of the best books i have ever read. Highly recommended. Also 'A thousand splendid suns' from the same author is equally recommended.
A beautiful story filled with tugs at the heartstrings. It's a fantastic page-turner with interesting plot-twists that all fall into place and don't confuse this story of friendship, trust, and heartbreak. The Kite Runner teaches powerful lessons and gives a different view of Afghanistan than is seen in the news and a deeper respect for its culture and traditions. Although it is not a happy book, it is absolutely worthy of its highly acclaimed reputation. Definitely recommended.
One of my favourite novels out there. It deals with the honest and cruel nature of society, friendship, and family. A story that impacted me for weeks. Highly recommend.
Love, love, love this book. I am embarrassed I haven't read it before now. Thank you Mr Hosseini for a wonderful story that shines a light on the beautiful people of Afghanistan. Thank you for teaching me about the modern history of this region through engaging, flawed and everyday characters and their relationships.
Beautifully written. Devastating. I read this in two days and wept the entire time. Don't let that stop you from reading it, though. It's an important story from which we can all learn something.
DO NOT recommend at all. One of the most depressing / negative books of all time. Way better novels on earth. All the Best!
I know this novel is fiction but the horrendous events in the book happen to many children; especially boys in Pakistan. I just couldn't handle the child sexual abuse. I found that it cut my soul and to this day, I still have haunting images of the abuse from Kite Runner. I couldn't recommend this book because of it.
Kite Runner is an excellent novel. I read it twice. Khaled Hosseini is a brilliant writer. Being in such a priviledged position, I wonder if the author ever returned to Afghanistan to give back to his less fortunate Afghans, unlike many Canadians who have volunteered with NGO's such as The Agakhan Foundation which has undertaken phenomenal work in Afghanistan. I am looking forward to read his next two publication. Thank you Khaled. May peace follow you to your short passage in eternity.
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Frightening or Intense Scenes: Multiple intense scenes frightening for younger children.
Sexual Content: Rape (not graphic) and other suggested instances of sexual content.
Violence: A few fight and murder scenes, some having to do with the Taliban.
Violence: some brutality
Sexual Content: Homosexual rape (not graphic)
Violence: Rape scene(s), stoning and hanging scenes may be disturbing to sensitive readers.
Coarse Language: Coarse language is peppered throughout the novel. Some sensitive readers may find it offensive.
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"But I hope you will heed this: A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer. I hope your suffering comes to an end with this journey to Afghanistan."
(Hosseini, 315)
"... but 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." -'Amir'
"For you a thousand times over!" he said. Then he smiled his Hassan smile and disappeared around the corner. The next time I saw him smile unabashedly like that was twenty-six years later, in a faded Polaroid photograph.
"There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth."
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"People say that eyes are windows to the soul."
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"She said, 'I'm so afraid.' And I said, 'why?,' and she said, 'Because I'm so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.' I asked her why and she said, 'They only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something from you."
Then I realized something: that thought had brought no sting with it. Closing Sohrab's door, I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night. [313]
"It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make anything all right.
Only a smile. Any tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight.
But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting."
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When Amir and Hassan were young boys, Amir witnessed something horrible and did not step in to stop it. This causes him horrible guilt and ruins the friendship he had with Hassan. Years later, he has a chance to redeem himself, by returning to Afghanistan. But her realizes that this country is not the one he remembers from his childhood.
The story of friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul, Afghanistan and the act of cowardice that haunts one of them until he is able to atone for it, years later.
Two boys grow up together in Afghanistan. Amir is the son of a wealthy man, and Hassan is the son of their Hazara servant. Although the boys are initially inseparable, when Amir fails his unswervingly loyal friend, their friendship falls apart. This book follows Amir's life in the aftermath of this failure, during his quest "to be good again".


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GONZALES — The third and final suspect wanted in the June 1 slaying of a Donaldsonville man surrendered to authorities late Wednesday evening.
Chief Deputy Tony Bacala, of the Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office, said Michael "Ma-man" LeBlanc, 32, turned himself in to the Sheriff's Office in Gonzales.
LeBlanc was one of the suspects deputies had been seeking in the fatal shooting of Adoriji Wilson, 37. Wilson was found shot to death on the porch of a home at 911 Elizabeth St., Donaldsonville, shortly before midnight on June 1.
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LeBlanc, 115 First St., Donaldsonville, was booked on counts of second-degree murder and principal to illegal use of a weapon, according to the Sheriff's Office.
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Monday, May 28, 2012
Pranayama Session at Matagiri, USA
Matagiri is a spiritual center dedicated to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother's vision. It located in Wittenberg, Mt. Tremper, NY very close to the picturesque Woodstock, where more than half a million people came together - united in a message of peace, openness and cultural expression. Seeing the alignment with Human Unity, I was excited going there. The drive was very picturesque and enjoyable. The scenery kept getting better and better as we approached Matagiri. Matagiri itself is something indescribable. So sylvan, so simple, so rustic and down to earth, so naturally beautiful and serene. I felt a kind of peace and tranquility here that I have rarely experienced.
Julian welcomed us very warmly and introduced Wendy and Eric. Eric is the co-founder of Matagiri along with Sam and what a privilege it is to meet the founder of such a place! He shared some of the history leading to setting up of Matagiri and Mother's direct blessing and guidance right from the inception. I think being blessed is the source of the serenity. Wendy gave us a delicious lunch and it was a pleasant surprise that she gave us such tasty dal (lentils cooked Indian style) and rice. After lunch, Julian took us around showed us around. The highlight is the mediation centre which appeared to me as the epicenter of peace and serenity.
Now something about how the event happened. Julian attended the Pranayama workshop in February. We had breakfast together and my planned trip to NJ in April came up in the conversation. Julian is one of the Trustees of Matagiri and invited me to Matagiri and I was more than eager to offer a workshop! What a blessing it is to offer a workshop at a Sri Aurobindo Center in USA! He suggested 22nd April as Matagiri was celebrating Darshan. However, 22nd did not work for us because we booked an early morning flight form NY to Seattle on 23rd. So, it was 21st April.
For me one of the unforgettable moments was the very short drizzle of Grace just as we completed the workshop and were moving out. Matagiri looked even more beautiful and Divine.
I am grateful to Julian, Wendy, Eric, Sam and The Mother for the opportunity of experiencing a place like Matagiri.
When we were leaving, I told Julian that, in future, I will talk to him before arranging my travel plans so that I have the opportunity to be more in this blessed place.
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The placid environs of MatagiriReplyDelete
in the picture look really divine
and reflect "Walden Pond". This and
the prayer nook with a photo of
the resting place of Aurobindo and
Mother as the centrepiece,to my mind's
eye,offer a fair representation of the
outside and inside of SELF for the
earthly seekers.They have transpoted
me,sitting in Seattle to Matagiri
and Auroville.
Thank you so much for connecting with Matagiri at a higher level. Feel grateful and happy.ReplyDelete
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The Prime Minister and the former England footballer made an unannounced trip to Camp Bastion to boost morale before Christmas.
But the pair found space on board the C-17 military transport plane was at a premium and they were forced to bunk up together in a cramped cabin.
Owen admitted had hadn't had the best night's sleep during the eight-hour journey from Brize Norton in Oxfordshire to Camp Bastion.
And he said he let Mr Cameron have first pick of the beds.
"I obviously let the PM choose first. He chose top. I was quite surprised myself," he said.
"I couldn't hear anything. I was wondering if he was going to snore but I couldn't hear anything with the noise up there and obviously you can hear the pilots all the time.
"So, let's say it wasn't the best of sleeps, but who's to complain? We were in the best place."
Mr Cameron later praised his flight companion: "Well, he's charming. He's a very nice guy and it was interesting to reflect on his footballing career and now he's putting a lot back into helping others and I think that's a really commendable thing to do."
He later told reporters that Britain has accomplished its mission in Afghanistan and it is time for the troops to come home.
The Prime Minister was insistent that no UK combat troops will be based in the nation by the end of next year, even if there is a rise in insurgency.
Senior military figures are braced for increased activity as more troops pull out and expect elections being staged next year to be a particular focus for insurgent groups.
During a tour of Camp Bastion, likely to be his last for a seasonal meet-and-greet with troops on the ground, he said Britain had more than played its part in Afghanistan.
Asked by reporters if the troops come home with "mission accomplished", the Prime Minister said: "Yes, I think they do. I think they can come home with their heads held high."
He added: "To me, the absolute driving part of the mission is a basic level of security so it doesn't become a haven for terror. That is the mission, that was the mission and I think we will have accomplished that mission and so our troops can be very proud of what they have done."
Around 5,200 British troops are now based in Afghanistan, down from 9,000 at the start of the year. There have been 446 British deaths.
"The timetable for the withdrawal of British troops is a plan that we will stick to," he told Sky News.
"I said, back in 2010, that after the end of 2014 there would not be British troops in a combat role and we will stick to that.
"We are not going to abandon this country. We are going to go on funding the Afghan National Army and police into the future.
"We will have a development programme into the future and, of course, we are providing what the president of Afghanistan asked me for, which is an officer training academy in Kabul which will help provide the backbone of the Afghan National Army for the future.
"So, we have more than played our part in helping to rebuild this country and making it safe.
"Our commitment goes on into the future but our troops have done enough and it's time for them to come home."
The number of UK bases has reduced from 13 to five since the Prime Minister's last visit in June.
Mr Cameron took a helicopter to a forward operating base, Sterga 2, in the Nahr-e Saraj part of Helmand, where he had lunch with a small group of soldiers.
Lance Corporal Bill Hay, 24, said he was impressed and pleased by the visit.
"I'm most surprised by the fact he's actually coming out here. Most of the time, people will only get as far as Bastion. So I'm quite chuffed and interested that he's pushed further."
Mr Cameron told reporters not to read anything into the fact that he had not visited President Hamid Karzai in Kabul during the trip.
Over the weekend the Afghan premier claimed the United States threatened to abandon it to civil war in a row about the continuing presence of military bases in the nation.
Mr Cameron insisted the bilateral security agreement would go ahead.
"Well, I'm confident that this agreement will be signed," he said.
"It's in Afghanistan's interest to have a basic agreement so that American troops and others can help with basic security all the way up to the transition and provide some support in the future.
"That's clearly in Afghanistan's interest, that's in America and Nato's interest, and so I'm confident that after some discussions an agreement will be signed."