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The Dodgers are somewhere over the Pacific Ocean as I type this blog entry. (I'm in Los Angeles. My skin isn't Arizona-level dry anymore. It feels nice.) See for yourself: FlightAware.com is tracking the Dodgers' airplane.
They will have a workout within a few hours of their arrival in Sydney, Australia and roughly another 60 hours before they play their first game against the Australian National Team. All this is by design — specifically, a design to get the players adapted to a time zone 18 hours away. The Dodgers even consulted with NASA, which is a great story for another day.
In the meantime, the club will attend a welcome gala and take a tour of Sydney Harbor. And, ideally, sleep a lot. If any of this makes for good copy it will probably be unplanned. I'm arriving Friday, the morning after the exhibition game. If the Dodgers want to play it boring until then I won't complain.
Here is the Diamondbacks' traveling roster. They are bringing 31 players because one, Ryan Rowland-Smith, is an Australian native who will also play for the Australian National Team in its exhibition game Thursday against the Dodgers.
Some bullet points for a St. Patrick's Day:
• FoxSports.com's Ken Rosenthal questioned the Dodgers' decision-making in finding a bench and a second baseman.
• A somewhat contradictory opinion came from this MLB.com evaluation of Joc Pederson and Alex Guerrero. If both players are so major-league ready, should the Dodgers really be worried about their bench?
• Also from MLB.com: Jonathan Mayo talked with some of the Dodgers' prospects, picked his standout prospect of camp and chose a breakout candidate.
• Dodgers Insider had a nice summary of the spring training storylines.
• The Diamondbacks are treating the trip to Sydney the right way, while the Dodgers "are treating this like a day-night doubleheader of a prostate exam and root canal surgery," writes USA Today's Bob Nightengale.
• Today is a big day for Brandon Beachy, Jarrod Parker and Kris Medlen (and Tommy John).
• Daedalus dished about the composition and evolution of his most popular sample to Song Exploder.
• Erik Satie's Gymnopedies are three of the most hauntingly beautiful pieces of music ever written. Gymnopedies No.1 and No.3 are also among the first songs to be "remixed," if you will, by Claude Debussy. Here's the original piano track, No.1 by Satie:
Here's Debussy's dreamy orchestral take:
Here's the Blood, Sweat and Tears version:
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GMC has unveiled two new versions of the 2019 Yukon, the Yukon Graphite Edition and the Yukon Graphite Performance Edition. The Graphite Editions are exclusively available on SLT trim vehicles and can be ordered on either Yukon or Yukon XL models with either 2WD or 4WD.
The 2019 GMC Yukon Graphite Edition adds a darkened exterior with 22-inch wheels with Carbon Flash Metallic pockets, black assist steps with gloss black accents, a black chrome grille mesh insert and fog lamp surrounds, body-color grille surround, black roof rails, gloss black beltline moldings and additional black trim.
The 2019 Yukon Graphite Performance Edition adds some performance upgrades like the 6.2L V8 with 420 horsepower and 460 lb-ft. of torque, a 10-speed automatic transmission, Magnetic Ride Control, 22-inch six-spoke Gloss black wheels, an active two-speed transfer case on 4WD models, a trailer brake controller, 170-amp alternator, 3.23 axle ratio and a high capacity air cleaner.
Inside the Graphite Performance Edition also adds Bose Active Noise Cancellation, a multi-color Head-up Display, 8-inch reconfigurable Driver Information Center and an 8-inch Color Touch Screen Navigation system
The 2019 GMC Yukon and Yukon XL Graphite Editions will be available this summer. Graphite Editions are offered in three exterior colors: Onyx Black, White Frost Tricoat and Dark Sky Metallic.
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Motherwell conclude their pre-season preparations with a trip to East End Park to take on Dunfermline on Thursday.
The Steelmen, who have picked up friendly victories over Crusaders and Darlington, will be looking to end their pre-season run on a high, five days before the Betfred Cup group stages get underway.
Edinburgh City await Stephen Robinson's side on Tuesday night, and for Championship side Dunfermline, they host Peterhead in their opening fixture of the tournament 'Well finished runners-up in last November.
Thursday night's clash is the first time the Steelmen have faced the Pars since 2012, when goals from Michael Higdon and Henrik Ojamaa sealed a 2-0 win for 'Well.
The hosts, who have bolstered their squad with nine summer signings, are set for their third consecutive campaign in the Championship after being promoted from League One in season 2015/16.
Tickets cost just £10 for adults and £5 for concessions, with the game kicking off at 7.30pm.


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Sweet 16 Sweet 16 is not only the name of the game, but also the Wild symbol. It counts for all symbols except the scatter.
Lollipop This is the scatter symbol. Collect three or more to trigger 16 free games.
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It's great not having to separately save the reconciliation and that everything is just saved as soon as data is entered.
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text: Professor Laura Dugan will be one of several distinguished speakers at the upcoming Constructions of Terrorism Conference at the University of California in Santa Barbara on December 3-4, 2015. The conference will debate and discuss how terrorism and acts of terrorism are understood and explained. Professor Dugan's presentation is titled "Introducing Government Actions in Terror Environments (GATE) Dataset." Professor Dugan is a professor with the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland.


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John Deere's Award Winning Technicians
A record total of 35 young service technicians have graduated from the latest John Deere Ag Tech, Parts Tech and Turf Tech advanced apprenticeship programmes, newly run by national training provider ProVQ.
Charlie Phipps from dealer Farol at Milton Common in Oxfordshire was named ag & turf apprentice of the year for 2015, while parts apprentice of the year is Grant Stearman of Ben Burgess Beeston in Norfolk. Charlie Phipps also won a Service Technician Apprentice of the Year Award earlier in the year from John Deere's previous training provider Babcock, in a national competition designed to identify the best and brightest apprentices across industry.
The group of third year students received their certificates at the John Deere Forum visitor centre in Mannheim, Germany during the annual graduation visit to the company's tractor and cab factories and European Parts Distribution Centre (EPDC) in December. The presentations were made by Deere & Company's Region 2 marketing director Helmut Korthoeber and John Deere Limited training centre manager Richard Halsall.
Charlie Phipps received a crystal plaque, a certificate and vouchers for workshop tools worth £250. His ProVQ regional assessor Roger Hawlor and technical trainer Richard Jenkins said: "Charlie has been a first class student since the beginning of his apprenticeship. His application, effort and motivation throughout have been outstanding, and he has been an excellent ambassador for both the apprenticeship programme and the Farol dealership."
Farol agricultural service manager Phil Jenkinson added: "This is a fantastic accolade for Charlie who, since joining Farol in 2012, has excelled throughout his apprenticeship. He has clearly demonstrated what he has learnt through the training scheme by building excellent customer relationships. Charlie serves as role model by showing just what can be achieved with hard work, and he continues to help our up-and-coming apprentices achieve their goals."
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Top 11 Films About Filmmaking Every Filmmaker Should See
I have compiled a list of Films within films, there are many more but these are my favourite 11, Ive attached the synopsis & IMDB links for the films for you to check them out.
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1.Living in Oblivion is a darkly comic, low-budget independent film depicting the making of a low-budget independent film, written and directed by Tom DiCillo and starring Steve Buscemi, Catherine Keener, Dermot Mulroney, Danielle von Zerneck and James LeGros. The film won Tom DiCillo the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. The film was acclaimed by critics, and currently has a score of 88% on Rotten Tomatoes IMDB LINK
2. In The Soup Tortured by self-doubt, financial ruin, and unrequited passion for his next door neighbor (Jennifer Beals), Aldolfo places an ad offering his mammoth screenplay to the highest bidder. In steps Aldolfo's "guardian angel", Joe (Seymour Cassel) a fast-talking shyster who promises to produce the film but has his own unique ideas regarding film financing. IMDB LINK
3.Bowfinger is a 1999 comedy cult film directed by Frank Oz. Bowfinger depicts a down-and-out filmmaker in Hollywood attempting to make a film on a small budget with a star who does not know that he is in the film. It was written by Steve Martin, and stars Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, and Heather Graham. Film critics have described Bowfinger as a parody of Hollywood, filmmaking, celebrity and according to many reviews, the group "MindHead" is a parody of the Church of Scientology. Steve Martin has denied that MindHead is based on Scientology, specifically, claiming it to be more a pastiche of various other things he had observed. IMDB LINK
4. The Independent Documentary look at Morty Fineman, a prolific maker of schlock independent films, who's down on his luck. Actors, directors, and writers, including Ron Howard and Karen Black, comment on his work, we see clips from some of his 427 titles, and we watch Morty try to get financing for a film about a serial killer. He hires his daughter, Paloma, as his business manager. His A.D., the long-suffering Ivan, stays by his side. Morty owes the bank $10 million from his one blockbuster failure. Can he find the financing, or is it time for Morty to retire. Meanwhile, Ivan hooks Morty up with a new film festival, in Chaparral, Nevada. Is this the ticket to renewal? IMDB LINK
5.American Movie (1999) - On the northwest side of Milwaukee, Mark Borchardt dreams the American dream: for him, it's making movies. Using relatives, local theatre talent, slacker friends, his MasterCard, and $3,000 from his Uncle Bill, Mark strives over three years to finish "Covan," a short horror film. His own personal demons (alcohol, gambling, a dysfunctional family) plague him, but he desperately wants to overcome self-doubt and avoid failure. In moments of reflection, Mark sees his story as quintessentially American, and its the nature and nuance of his dream that this film explores IMDB LINK
6. "New Suit" is a contemporary update of the fairy tale "The Emperor's New Clothes." Set in present-day Hollywood, the story concerns a script which does not exist, but nonetheless draws praise and bids from the creative community. IMDB Link
7. Nobody Wants Your Film is a film about the making of an independent feature that nobody wants, at least that's what producer/financier Alan Smithee thinks. Nobody Wants Your Film gives a look into what it's like to be on an independent film set and the business dealings that affect the final outcome of that effort. IMDB LINK
8.The Errand Boy Paramutual Pictures wants to know where all the money is going so they hire Morty to be their spy. Morty works for Mr. Sneak and gets a job in the mail room so that he can have access to the lot. But all that Morty ever finds is that he can cause havoc no matter what he does IMDB LINK
9.The Last Producer Burt Reynolds plays an aging Hollywood producer. Knowing that he is soon going to die or not to have any more importance, he bets all he has, all his love for the cinema, all his strength, in doing his last movie, his best work, something for which he wants the people to remember him by. IMDB LINK
10. Tropic Thunder film crew is in Southeast Asia filming a Vietnam-war memoir. It's early in the shooting, but they're already behind schedule and over budget. On the day an accident befalls the novice director, the cast and crew are attacked by a gang of poppy-growing local drug dealers, except the cast and crew don't realize these aren't actors who are stalking them. The thugs kidnap Tugg Speedman, an actor whose star seems on the decline, and it's up to the rest of the ragtag team to band together long enough to attempt his rescue. But will Tugg want to leave,
11. Le Fear Carlos Revalos a 21 times Film Director embarks on his biggest Film yet 'Le Fear' a horror love story with a 3 million pound budget what can go wrong? everything as Carlos hires the worst cast and crew ever to walk on this planet which makes the film a recipe for disaster, Larry Rothschild the executive producer on the film who was promised Brad Pitt which never happened instead he got Leon the pompous Lead actor who walks off set time and time again, Debbie D the hysterical inexperienced glamor model who fluffs her lines over and over, the werewolf wearing a rain coat and who cant speak a word of English and the sparky who is color blind and many more misfits and Carlos has no control of any of them this is Larry's first attempt at investing in a film and no doubt his last. IMDB LINK
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develop and conduct their research in collaboration with
trafficking survivors and clinicians with extensive experience in
treating this population. In addition to program evaluation, the
task force's research priorities included examining risk factors
for trafficking, finding ways to reduce demand for commercial
sex, exploring the tactics traffickers use to coerce victims and
determining trauma's impact on survivors' decision-making
and willingness to receive services and cooperate with law
• Developing better screening tools and treatment.
Trafficked women and girls can experience potentially life-threatening, lifelong physical and mental consequences,
such as anxiety, depression, addiction, post-traumatic stress
disorder and traumatic brain injuries. The report calls for the
development of more effective screening tools that therapists,
social service providers, law enforcement personnel, health-care providers and others can use to identify women and girls
who are being trafficked. It also urges professional psychologists
to develop partnerships with social workers, law enforcement
and victim services networks and to provide evidence-based,
culturally competent treatment.
• Designing training for health service providers and
others. To increase knowledge of trafficking within psychology
and beyond, the report recommends the development of
training curricula for both psychology graduate students
and trainees as well as for service providers, health-care
professionals, teachers, the business community and
policymakers. The report also suggests that APA's Office of
Continuing Education in Psychology develop a continuing-education program based on the report's findings.
• Changing public policy. To promote deeper understandingof trafficking, the report urges psychologists to push for moreresearch funding, promote human rights protections for allworkers in the United States and advocate for a review ofimmigration policy to eliminate abusive labor conditions.
• Increasing awareness. The report recommends campaigns
that increase the public's awareness that human trafficking
occurs in all types of communities and includes both labor and
sex trafficking. Public education campaigns should also address
misperceptions about trafficking victims, educate the public
about common signs of human trafficking and educate parents
and youth about how to prevent it.
One overarching recommendation is to get more
psychologists involved in the fight against trafficking of women
and girls, says Sidun.
"No matter what a psychologist does, there is a placewithin the trafficking world to intervene, whether it's treatingsurvivors, providing expert testimony for legislators orcreating materials for a public awareness campaign," she says."Psychology has so much to offer."Acknowledging the expertise of trafficking survivorsthemselves is also key, says Hume.
"Despite the devastation that they've experienced, they arethe ones who know what the risk factors are, what techniqueswere used to lure them in and control them, what's effectivein terms of prevention and response," she says. "They've beenleaders in anti-trafficking work in this country and aroundthe world, and psychologists need to make sure we recognizethat."For Pierce, serving on the task force was one way to helpensure that other women and girls don't have to go through thekind of ordeal she endured.
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who is president and senior consultant at Othayonih Research
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text: As Greg pointed out, HSpec does have an option to output just the failed tests. I looked at the example on the Chell project home page and converted the example tests into these hspec style specs: > import Test.Hspec (Specs, descriptions, describe, it) > import Test.Hspec.Runner (hHspecWithFormat) > import Test.Hspec.Formatters (failed_examples) > import Test.Hspec.HUnit > import Test.HUnit > import System.IO (stdout) > > -- some functions to test > equal = (==) > greater = (>) > equalWithin = undefined > equalLines = (==) > > specs :: IO Specs > specs = descriptions [ > describe "number comparison module" [ > it "can check for equality" > (assertBool "1 should equal 1" $ equal 1 1), > it "can compare order" > (assertBool "2 should be greater than 1" $ greater 2 1), > it "can compare eqauality with floating point numbers" > (assertBool "1.0001 should be close enough to 1.0" $ equalWithin 1.0001 1.0 0.01) > ], > describe "text comparison module" [ > it "can compare strings for equality" > (let str1 = "foo\nbar\nbaz" :: String > str2 = "foo\nbar\nqux" :: String > in assertBool "foo\\nbar\\nbaz shouldn't equal foo\\nbar\\nqux" $ equalLines str1 str2) > ]] > > main = hHspecWithFormat (failed_examples True) stdout specs And when run, got the following output in red text since it's only reporting failures: ] x can compare eqauality with floating point numbers FAILED [1] ] x can compare strings for equality FAILED [2] ] ] 1) number comparison module can compare eqauality with floating point numbers FAILED ] Prelude.undefined ] ] 2) text comparison module can compare strings for equality FAILED ] foo\nbar\nbaz shouldn't equal foo\nbar\nqux ] ] Finished in 0.0000 seconds ] ] 4 examples, 2 failures You can write provide your own formatter if that's not what you'd like to see. You also don't have to use the HUnit assertion text either; you could use the following function to make your specs even more like your Chell example, at the cost of losing the extra output description: > assert = assertBool "" Hspec uses HUnit TestCases and assertions but also supports QuickCheck properties almost exactly the same way Chell does. The hspec project homepage (https://github.com/trystan/hspec) has more examples, including the specs for hspec itself. Trystan Spangler From: "John Millikin" <jmillikin at gmail.com> To: "Greg Weber" <greg at gregweber.info> Cc: "trystan s" <trystan.s at comcast.net>, haskell-cafe at haskell.org Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 8:21:52 AM Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Chell: A quiet test runner (low-output alternative to test-framework) On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 08:17, Greg Weber <greg at gregweber.info> wrote: > I am confused also, as to both what output you don't like that motivated > chell and what exactly hspec silences :) Suffice to say I am able to get a > small relevant error message on failure with hspec. I am adding the hspec > maintainer to this e-mail- he can answer any of your questions. The output I didn't like wasn't coming from HUnit, it was coming from the test aggregator I used (test-framework). It prints one line per test case run, whether it passed or failed. That means every time I ran my test suite, it would print *thousands* of lines to the terminal. Any failure immediately scrolled up and out of sight, so I'd have to either Ctrl-C and hunt it down, or wait for the final report when all the tests had finished running. Chell does the same thing as test-framework (aggregates tests into suites, runs them, reports results), but does so quietly. It only reports failed and aborted tests.


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Uber has been accused of illegal intelligence gathering, using non-attributable hardware and software, impersonating drivers and bugging private events, in an explosive set of allegations from a former staffer.
The revelations came in a document released as part of competitor Waymo's case against Uber, in which the Alphabet-owned biz claims Uber stole its trade secrets.
They come from security analyst Ric Jacobs, who was fired in April, and first came to light last month, when they caused Northern California district judge William Alsup to delay the start of the impending Waymo trial.
Jacobs worked at Uber for about a year and claims to have witnessed a whole host of unethical and likely illegal activities during his time in the secretive Strategic Services Group (SSG).
This includes the use of separate "anonymous servers" and self-destructing messaging services, impersonation of drivers and making secret recordings.
However, his claims had only been read aloud in court – now a redacted version of the 37-page letter [PDF] detailing the accusations has been released publicly – and it makes for shocking reading.
The document, written by Jacobs' lawyer Clayton D Halunen and sent to Uber's general counsel, Angela Padilla, claimed that Uber "frequently engaged in fraud and theft, and employed third-party vendors to obtain unauthorised data or information", used "computer hacking tactics", infiltrated driver groups and even bugged hotel and conference facilities.
'Destroy, conceal, falsify'
According to Jacobs, Uber had a "sophisticated strategy to destroy, conceal, cover up, and falsify records or documents with the intent to impede or obstruct government investigations as well as discovery obligations in pending and future litigation".
He claimed that when he proposed a secure and encrypted database for intelligence, superiors said this was "exactly what we don't want to do... create [a paper trail] that could later be discoverable" for future litigants.
The document details some of the ways Uber allegedly managed this, including staff being "verbally coached" in how to conceal documents – such as marking all communications "draft" or asking for legal opinions – to the use of Wickr, which automatically deletes messages after a time.
Meanwhile, Uber is accused of infiltrating protesters' and drivers' WhatsApp and social media groups, identifying and targeting government officials and impersonating users on competitor platforms.
The document alleged that the marketplace analytics team, which aims to acquire competitive intelligence, "fraudulently impersonates riders and drivers on competitor platforms, hacks into competitor networks, and conducts unlawful wiretapping" to gain trade secrets.
Information reportedly gathered includes the function of, and vulnerabilities in, competitors' apps, as well as pricing structures and incentives.
Jacobs said that this was done using "a distributed architecture of anonymous servers, telecommunications architecture, and non-attributable hardware and software".
He alleged that teams used computers "not directly purchased by Uber that operate only on MiFi devices", VPNs and "a distributed and non-attributable architecture of contracted Amazon Web Services (AWS) server space to conduct competitive-intelligence collections against other ride-sharing companies".
This setup allows the MA team to make millions of data calls against competitor and government servers without causing a signature that would alert competitors to the theft. For instance, a sophisticated competitor would set thresholds when they see devices attempting to request rides by the hundreds or thousands in a short period of time. However, if the data calls are diversified across what appear to be multiple devices and a broader time period, filters would not detect the anomaly.
Other teams would use non-attributable devices "to store raw information collected by their operatives from politicians, regulators, law enforcement, taxi organizations, and labor unions in, at a minimum, the U.S., [REDACTED]", Jacobs claimed.
'Identifying groups with political clout'
Among Jacobs' claims are that Uber had "engage[d] in targeted business practices aimed at gaining the support of government officials in foreign countries".
Jacobs said Uber aimed to "gather threat intelligence on taxi groups, unions, and agitators harassing Uber partner-drivers in the area" through "undercover agents [... who] took rides in local taxis, loitered around locations where taxi drivers congregated, and leveraged a local network of contacts with connections to police and regulatory authorities".
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He said that the aim was to identify which groups had "the political clout and motivation to direct aggressive enforcement activity against Uber" and which "might be compelled to end costly enforcement activities or partner with Uber to unblock the market and open up the supply of partner-drivers out of shared financial incentive".
Jacobs also levels an accusation of bribery of foreign government officials at Uber, which he claims to have heard about during his time.
"Based on his knowledge of targeting foreign officials to identify those with influential power... Jacobs reasonably believed that bribery of foreign officials was taking place," the document said. The areas he is said to believe this happened are redacted.
Uber is also alleged to have recorded conversations between executives and officials.
This included "multiple surveillance and collections operations" during June 2016, and "recording of mobile phone video and/or photography during private events" at hotels and conference facilities, Jacobs said.
He went on to allege that in January this year, someone (the name is redacted) contacted him on Wickr to say "they had a bug in a meeting with transport regulators" and that they "needed help cleaning up the audio".
The accusations are, of course, the word of just one man – whom Uber has accused of being an extortionist – but will do nothing for Uber's already severely damaged reputation with the fallout of the mass data breach and employment lawsuits.
The alleged incidents also took place under former CEO Travis Kalanick, and new boss Dara Khosrowshahi has been at pains to distance himself from his predecessor's practices.
However, he said in a staff email in November, published by Recode, that although the team has "not been able to substantiate every one of his claims... there is more than enough there to merit serious concern".
An Uber spokesperson told The Register: "While we haven't substantiated all the claims in this letter – and, importantly, any related to Waymo – our new leadership has made clear that going forward we will compete honestly and fairly, on the strength of our ideas and technology." ®
The case is Waymo LLC v. Uber Technologies, Inc. et al, case number 3:17-cv-00939, from California Northern Court


text: Reflections by Vanini BelarminoAutumn is making a quick way for the winter. I originally planned to be in Asia by this time but since I work independently, my life is pretty much dependent on the fate of the series of grants applications that I am preparing day in, day out.I have been based in Berlin for 22 months, which may be a considerable timeframe in Asia – to say "I've been here for quite sometime and it's time to move." In the days that I lived in Bangkok, Singapore and even in Manila, this was a common topic over weekend parties amongst expatriates. But here, in this relatively "new cultural capital" – things work rather differently. Daily life is not as fast phased as in the East. Things take time, more time and more time. In the beginning, the complacency and slowness of the city sort of freaked me out. And now, even if my surroundings has calmed me down a little bit, a number of my Berliner friends still consider me as "fast" mover. Whatever this means…In the past months, parallel to writing grants applications, I've had really interesting experiences of lobbying and discovering Germany in another way. For instance, in certain events where big politicians are present, they don't seem to have much body guards or security check is not as strict as it would be in Asia. Generally, the people are quite reserved and are the ones defining the boundaries if they can approach someone or not. Well, as myself being me – having the advantage of being a foreigner (yes, it can work both ways)- I can waltz myself shamelessly and say hello to the likes of Mr. Steinmeyer (Social Democratic Party's upcoming candidate as Chancellor) and Mr. Schoeder (former Chancellor of Germany). Normally, in such events where the big wigs are present, I seem to have the luck of being the lone Asian in room so I can easily maneuver my way around. Yes, this is what you call lobbying. Lobbying in a sense that I do not have to say – listen, I have a project – blah-blah-blah – but more, look here, I am around and later on tell everyone about it. These are just among the things that one has to go through as an independent producer in Berlin.I just appreciate the "luck" that I have with my friends here. I would perhaps have frozen over a year ago if not for the energy given by the people around me. I live in an environment of guest list: people being labeled as important and not so important (and this is not defined by how much money you make – but a rather cryptic calculator that I have yet to discover); known and not known ; cool and uncool. This is Berlin for me and it is my home for the time being.I have to say that it is a very challenging phase in my life and career. Coming from Singapore where things are pretty much in place having a salaried job with a high-profile organisation, having a fresh start can be refreshing but can at times can be daunting. I often ask myself why I decided to stay here- especially that I have to keep a job that will enable me to continue producing and curating. Last week, after receiving the unfortunate result of a grant application, I cried for two days and as I result, I thought that I had a terrible ear and tooth ache. When my friends sent me to the doctor and the dentist for check-up, X-ray, etc – nothing was actually wrong. Whew. It was just me obsessing over work.So that's all about my life here in Berlin. Writing proposals everyday, writing some articles, watching performances and going to exhibitions, hanging out with my friends, then working again, lobbying hard from one funding agency to the next, chasing influential people, going to specific parties or events… It is all about work and learning about life.


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Friday, November 4, 2016
DNA tells how many kids you have - DNA linked to horoscope?
7 comments:
- Bala said...
Interesting article on DNA & horoscope.
In this connection, I wish to share an opinion given to me one person, who claimed to be an experienced astrologer some 3 years ago.
He said that there is no need to test to confirm whether the children are of the parents. You can confirm it by checking the horoscopes of the parents & the children.
Many details such as date of birth, birth star, rasi, lagnam etc of the parents will be the same as that of the children. He said "Go & check in your family".
Curiosity driving me, I checked the details of the horoscopes of my family members with mixed results.
In the case of my parents & my siblings, there were lots of matching but in the case of self with wife & our children, the matching was limited.
The details are given below :
Person DOB Birth Star Rasi Lagnam
Father 25th Jan Kritikai Mesham Dhanur
Mother 24th July Bharani Mesham Dhanur
Myself 25th July Bharani Mesham Vrichikam
Sister 25th Sept Bharani Mesham Dhanur
Brother 1 25th Jan Revathi Meenam Makaram
Brother 2 1st Oct Punarpoosam Katakam Dhanur
You can note that there are many matches here :
4 persons have the DOB as 25th
4 persons have the rasi as Mesham
4 persons have the lagnam as Dhanur
3 persons' birth star is Bharani
1 person's DOB is very close at 24th
1 person's rasi is close to Mesham
Person DOB Birth Star Rasi Lagnam
Myself 25th July Bharani Mesham Vrichikam
My wife 17th Nov Tiruvadirai Mithunam Simham
Daughter 1 14th Oct Mrigaseerisham Mithunam Vrichikam
Daughter 2 26th Feb Sathayam Kumbam Rishabam
Daughter 3 20th Jan Uthradam Makaram Simham
But in this case there are only a few matches :
Daughter 1 has my lagnam & wife's rasi
Daughter 3 has wife's lagnam
Daughter 2's DOB is close to mine
I asked some members of my cousins' families to check such details. But there were also mixed results only.
So, my question is : Has any study been done on large number of people to arrive at the validity of the opinion of the person mentioned at the beginning of this post?
- November 6, 2016 at 6:33 PM
- jayasree said...
Dear Mr Bala,
There is no such norm that the birth date, lagnama etc that you have mentioned are same for family members. DNA not involved in lagnam etal but perhaps in the position of planets. Check whether the planetary neecha / uccha position are the same, whether the bhava position of the planets are same with dasa-bhukthis of them running. This is pronounced in the case of diseases which are hereditary. My next article in Dec issue is going to be on Angelina Jolie and her cancer disease which ran in her family. Such issues can be found identical in the family members (afflicted) but not otherwise.
To your question on whether studies have been done on this topic, as far as I know, it had happened only in limited way. Main reason is paucity of data. Not many are willing to part with birth details in the case of issues like this. We do come across limited cases of more than one generation having some similarity in certain spheres.
Generally the connection with family members are seen in the birth of children in stars that are close to stars of the parents or grand parents or close relatives (siblings). In such cases I find karma as the binding factor rather than the DNA.
- November 6, 2016 at 7:50 PM
- Bala said...
Thanks Jayasree madam for your clarifications. I will go through the charts as per your suggestion & will try to find out the parameters.
- November 6, 2016 at 7:59 PM
- admin said...
Whats your view on the philosophy "Determinism" ?
Im an athiest and i dont believe in anything just based on feelings.
DNA tells how many kids, DNA linked to horoscope ?
Well Horoscope is a pattern matching art.
Each and every actions/events in this universe are interdependent. its possible to predict future by comparing anything with anything. Thing is are we clear enough to match the patterns.
There is nothing to exclaim if you are clear with the basics.
and the basic thing which i want to convey is the determinism,
its the "Thalai ezhuthu" "Andavanin kirukal" or anything it states that all actions are already determined. in theist words "nam vazhkai endrum nam kaiyil illai, naam yarum thevan kai bommaigale"
i would like to discuss more about horoscope and many interest things
- November 10, 2016 at 10:51 PM
- jayasree said...
@ Admin,
Better you name yourself before generating a discussion here.
- November 10, 2016 at 11:55 PM
- Unknown said...
am following this blog since last year, Very interesting and informative blog.Could you please let me know if kuja dasa will be bad time and give bad results if sani and kuja share the same house.An astrologer said there will be some bad results. Hence very much worried.Please advice your opinion and suggestions for any remedy.Thanks
- November 23, 2016 at 7:08 PM
- Unknown said...
Please note these details for the above question posted by me. Date, time and place of birth 28 August 1963 at 7.55 AM in Kumbakonam Tamil Nadu. Thanks in advance.
- November 26, 2016 at 10:58 AM


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Thursday, August 20, 2009
House Mass
11 comments:
- Richard Collins said...
House Masses were an abomination of the 70s; I well recall the embarrassment of sitting around in someone's sitting room trying to conjure up some reverence and, all the while, Christ was left alone in His house.
We are much better off without them (I state this in case some deluded soul thinks that the concept sounds good, it was not, it was awful).
- 20/8/09 9:50 pm
I must agree,what an awful abomination the coffee table & the trendy stole!!! not happy memories
- 20/8/09 10:34 pm
- parepidemos said...
Father, I notice that, of late, your posts have become increasing whining/complaining in tone; almost bitter at times. Perhaps you need a small holiday from the parish. I mean this with the greatest of respect.
- 20/8/09 10:47 pm
- Fr Ray Blake said...
I am sorry, as far as house Masses are concerned, I am just grateful, it is a fashion that has past!
That is neither whinging or complaining.
- 20/8/09 11:10 pm
- Fr Ray Blake said...
Missed "bitter",
Don't think this is bitter either, just grateful we have moved on.
- 20/8/09 11:12 pm
I agree with both Fr Ray and Shepherd that it is good that we have 'moved on' away from House Masses and the 'embarrassment of .. trying to conjure up some reverence' in front of the Coffee Table 'altar'.
However there did seem to be one good idea behind them whether intended or unintentional.
As a young married couple we attended a number of House Masses having been introduced to a small group of young couples by the Priest who married us. We were all either expecting our first child or were already parents of very young children so had much in common and firm friendships were formed with people whom we might never otherwise have met.
One of the couples later became my eldest son's in-laws! The children 'met' at the tender age of a few months at one of the House Masses and they later gave us two wonderful grandchildren. So while I would not wish to see the return of House Masses I do have cause to be thankful for those of the late 60s.
- 21/8/09 12:14 am
parepidemos, I don't detect any whining in Father Blake's posts.
Quite the opposite; even when he is objecting to something (such as house Masses) or describing the difficulties in his parish (which I suspect would crush many other priests), he does so in a firm, even positive manner.
That's why I carry on reading him, having given up on some better-known priests' blogs.
Sorry, serious comment over; I shall now keep quiet until I think of another bad pun to share.
- 21/8/09 2:11 am
- FrGregACCA said...
Re: relics.
It is unfortunate that the RC Latin Rite does not make use of antimensia
- 21/8/09 3:11 am
- Crux Fidelis said...
Of course, Fr Ray, in Ireland there is the fine tradition of the Station Mass which dates back to penal times. How would you say this differs from the House Mass of the 70s?
- 21/8/09 7:54 am
- Thomas Windsor said...
I think the house Mass that Father is talking about, is where a room that is usually used in the worship of other gods i.e. profane T.V., is then temporary converted.
This of course is very different to those homes one has seen, where statues and candles are always found on a side board, that is the centre piece of the main family room. I have also seen some very beautiful chapels set up permanently in larger houses.
While these rooms are mainly used for daily family prayers, they also make a great setting for the occasional Mass.
On the other note, I have found Father's posts excellent of late, and very encouraging of further discussion, which is surely what a blog is supposed to do.
- 21/8/09 9:15 am
- nickbris said...
There are millions of people around the World have no option but to use their home as a place of Worship and they are not only Christians.
- 22/8/09 5:29 pm
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Nikki Reed was the most beautiful gal on the Eclipse red carpet. Her makeup artist tells you how you can get her pretty premiere look!
During these summer months, sometimes a soft, understated look is far sexier than an in-your-face smoky eye. Just check out how gorgeous Nikki Reed looked at the LA premiere of Eclipse on June 24. The beautiful Twilight star paired a pink pout with a soft eye and a killer updo. "Nikki's Marchesa dress was so beautiful and feminine so we went for a soft, ethereal look, with just a touch of girlish color on the lips," says celebrity makeup artist Fiona Stiles who created Nikki's winning look.
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There is a temporary financial help given to employees who are fired or terminated from their work without their involvement for the reason. It is called unemployment benefits which can be applied in federal state. All you need is to go to Louisiana Workforce Commission. You can also do job search at the website. What type of employees is allowed to apply?
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- Ex-Service Members. Ex-military employees might also obtain unemployment benefits below the Unemployment Compensation for the Ex-Service Members application. The program extended into the members of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration along with the U.S Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. The benefits are settled inside the four branches of military. You are qualified for the benefits if you're an active job and they had been honorable discharged.
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Most people are probably rolling their eyes and shrugging at this whole Kardashian/Humphries divorce debacle, but it kind of pisses me off. I may not be entirely sure about marriage for myself, but I believe in the sanctity on marriage and that it shouldn't be, for lack of a better term, pissed on. And the fact that she made a statement saying that it was a "difficult decision?" Give me a break. A difficult decision is not made this quickly. The entire marriage only lasted 72 days (after they started dating in December of 2010, which means they haven't even been together for a whole year.) This is craziness! When my now-ex and I decided to end our relationship, it definitely was not something we took lightly. We worked hard to try to salvage things, probably for about a year. Longer than the Ks were even together!
I just don't get it. Here are my personal "rules" for marriage (and commitment in general.) They are simple:
· If you're not 150% sure about someone, you shouldn't marry them.
· Once you're married you should try like hell to make it work.
The end.


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MIDDLETOWN, CT - Amherst College sophomore defender Rachel Simon (West Orange, NJ) tallied a goal and two assists en route to a 4-2 NESCAC women's hockey victory at Wesleyan University on Friday night. Simon upped her team-leading scoring totals to seven goals and 17 assists as the Jeffs improved to 7-9-5 (5-7-3 NESCAC).
Simon helped Amherst to a 1-0 edge with just over five minutes left in the first, finding classmate Meg Dickoff (Minnetonka, MN) for the score, and fellow sophomore Alena Harrison (Westwood, MA) notched her third goal of the season 3:26 into the second session, stuffing home a feed from junior Renee Sisti (Coventry, CT) and sophomore Kirsten Forsberg (Kenilworth, IL). Sisti stretched the lead to three just under six minutes later with a power-play score off Simon's second dish of the night.
Wesleyan finally jumped on the board 21 seconds into the final frame as senior Anna Siliciano (Ithaca, NY) found the net, but Simon tallied an unassisted insurance goal at the 4:12-mark to seal the win. Siliciano found first-year Amanda Nickels (Wilder, VT) for a second Cardinal score, but Wesleyan couldn't overcome the deficit and dropped to 3-17 (1-12 NESCAC).
Amherst sophomore goalie Lindsay Grabowski (Princeton, NJ) collected 25 saves as the Jeffs earned their fourth win in their last five outings, while sophomore Meredith Katz (New Canaan, CT) grabbed 30 for the Cardinals.
Amherst returns to action tomorrow (Saturday) at 7 p.m. at NESCAC rival Trinity College.


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University of Limerick professor's groundbreaking research identifies new area of science
Prof Calvin Coffey is professor of surgery at UL's graduate entry medical school Picture: Alan Place
A UNIVERSITY of Limerick professor has published groundbreaking research which has identified an emerging area of science having reclassified a part of the digestive system as an organ.
Prof Calvin Coffey's research found that the mesentery, which connects the intestine and the abdomen, is an organ. For hundreds of years it had been seen as a fragmented structure made up separate parts.
The professor of surgery at UL's graduate entry medical school (GEMS) published the research in one of the top medical journals, the Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
"In the paper, which has been peer reviewed and assessed, we are now saying we have an organ in the body which hasn't been acknowledged as such to date," Prof Coffey said.
He said that a better understanding and further study of the structure could lead to less invasive surgeries, fewer complications, faster patient recovery, and lower costs.
"When we approach it like every other organ…we can categorise abdominal disease in terms of this organ."
According to Professor Coffey, the Foundation Chair of Surgery at UL's Graduate Entry Medical School and University Hospitals Limerick, mesenteric science is its own specific field of medical study in the same way as gastroenterology, neurology and coloproctology.
"This is relevant universally as it affects all of us. Up to now there was no such field as mesenteric science. Now we have established anatomy and the structure. The next step is the function. If you understand the function you can identify abnormal function, and then you have disease. Put them all together and you have the field of mesenteric science…the basis for a whole new area of science.
"During the initial research, we noticed in particular that the mesentery, which connects the gut to the body, was one continuous organ. Up to that it was regarded as fragmented, present here, absent elsewhere and a very complex structure. The anatomic description that had been laid down over 100 years of anatomy was incorrect. This organ is far from fragmented and complex. It is simply one continuous structure," he explained.


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Petition launched to stop GMO mosquito release in both Florida and Texas
The saga of the GMO mosquito has been a long and drawn-out one, with the British company Oxitec maneuvering to position its "product" as a solution to disease while wary citizens question the environmental impacts and risks of releasing novel organisms into the environment.
It has even extended into Africa where Bill Gates has announced plans to unleash the mosquitoes into Burkina Faso for experimental purposes.
Next on the agenda are release points in Texas and the Florida Keys, as Oxitec applies to the FDA for an "animal bug" patent on its GMO creations.
In response, a petition has been started by one woman (along with 30 physicians) that is gaining serious traction and could help put a stop to this controversial technology.
Petition Still Seeking Supporters Despite Tragic Death of Founder
The petition in question was started by Mila de Mier, who submitted it to the Florida Division Technology Officer of Agricultural Environment Services Carol Leger along with 32 other officials.
Unfortunately de Mier was unable to see it through to completion, as she was tragically found dead, face down in a Washington, D.C. hotel swimming pool shortly before she was set to deliver 200,000 signatures to the EPA.
Prior to her death, she posted the following on her Facebook page:
"The time is now Please sign and share ! We are not guinea pigs," she wrote according to this article on the incident from the website GMWatch.org. "Is time to set standards when it come to people and Biotec(h)nology."
The circumstances of her passing are still unknown, but it has been reported by her Facebook page that she suffered from seizures, which may have contributed to her death.
The Current State of GMO Mosquito Release in Texas and Florida
Already, the Florida Keys has passed an ordinance demanding more testing, but Oxitec is trying to get out of it by using the "animal bug" loophole mentioned earlier.
"This profit driven biotech company wants to release more than 50 million GMO mosquitoes per week into Florida and Texas," the petition reads. "These GMO mosquitoes could pose major risks to fragile ecosystems like the Florida Keys and Texas and may pose risks to public health and safety."
Created using E-Coli bacteria, herpes-simplex virus and other ingredients, the mosquitoes have already been blocked by Florida Keys residents who demanded more testing. But Oxitec is doggedly persistent and wants to release these millions of mosquitoes into the environment soon, despite the fact that nobody can ever really know the true consequences.
"We do not consent to being a human experiment and we do not want GMO mosquitoes." the petition reads. "Tell the EPA to not approve the GMO mosquito."
Over 30 Local Physicians Join the Movement
According to de Mier's petition, which can be read and signed by clicking here, over 30 local physicians in the Key West area where she hails from are joining in supporting the petition, which she hopes will get 300,000 signatures and is expected to be delivered to the EPA.
At the time of this article the petition sat at over 230,000 signatures, with under 70,000 to go in total.
The physicians have joined de Mier in asking for a more in-depth and detail evaluation of the risks of the GMO mosquito and potential antibiotic dependency effects and risks they may pose to humans.
"The Center for Disease Control notes that Oxitec's trials are not set up to test for disease reduction," the petition reads. "If the experiments (go) forward, there would still be enough non-GMO mosquitoes in the environment, including in peoples' homes and backyards, to spread disease."
The GMO mosquito business is extremely profitable for Oxitec, which had previously signed a 2-year, $8 million contract with the Cayman Islands only to see the government cancel the agreement and instead opt for a far cheaper pilot program.
More Thoughts on the GMO Mosquito Experiment
Because GMOs of all kinds, whether they be GM mosquitoes or CRISPR non-browning apples, are not forced to undergo independent safety testing yet are allowed onto the market untested, they can be foisted upon the population without transparency.
It is for these reasons, along with the potential environmental and safety risks, that we should roundly reject these GMO creations.
"This is a medical intervention without consent. We need real solutions, not GMO mosquitoes," de Mier says according to the petition.
"This is very concerning because in this new experiment we are talking over 50 Million of mosquitoes per week, 7 days a week which will equal to billions of GM mosquitoes between Florida and Harris County, Texas," she says.
"The data of the government of Cayman where this GMO mosquitoes has been released twice, is very different thank what Oxitec has been claiming. A lot of questions need to be answered including the solid evidence of the environmental effect in nature, public health and safety."
To help her reach her goal before the mosquitoes are released, sign the petition by clicking here.


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A gigantic sinkhole has opened in the southwestern Japanese city of Fukuoka, swallowing huge sections of road near underground work to extend a subway tunnel. A 7-to 8-meter-wide hole was first reported early Tuesday, according to Motohisa Oda, a crisis management officer from the city of Fukuoka. Nearby residents were evacuated, and five major roads cordoned off in Hakata ward in Fukuoka's business district. Posted By Abdul
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Another way to deal with signals is with completion semantics.
Use completion semantics when a signal indicates that something so catastrophic has happened that no reason exists to continue executing the current code block. The signal handler runs instead of the remainder of the block that had the problem. In other words, the signal handler completes the block.
In Example 5–3, the block in question is the body of the then part of the if statement. The call to setjmp(3C) saves the current register state of the program in jbuf and returns 0, thereby executing the block.
sigjmp_buf jbuf; void mult_divide(void) { int a, b, c, d; void problem(); sigset(SIGFPE, problem); while (1) { if (sigsetjmp(&jbuf) == 0) { printf("Three numbers, please:\n"); scanf("%d %d %d", &a, &b, &c); d = a*b/c; printf("%d*%d/%d = %d\n", a, b, c, d); } } } void problem(int sig) { printf("Couldn't deal with them, try again\n"); siglongjmp(&jbuf, 1); }
If a SIGFPE floating-point exception occurs, the signal handler is invoked.
The signal handler calls siglongjmp(3C), which restores the register state saved in jbuf, causing the program to return from sigsetjmp() again. The registers that are saved include the program counter and the stack pointer.
This time, however, sigsetjmp(3C) returns the second argument of siglongjmp(), which is 1. Notice that the block is skipped over, only to be executed during the next iteration of the while loop.
You can use sigsetjmp(3C) and siglongjmp(3C) in multithreaded programs. Be careful that a thread never does a siglongjmp() that uses the results of another thread's sigsetjmp().
Also, sigsetjmp() and siglongjmp() restore as well as save the signal mask, but setjmp(3C) and longjmp(3C) do not.
Use sigsetjmp() and siglongjmp() when you work with signal handlers.
Completion semantics are often used to deal with exceptions. In particular, the Sun AdaTM programming language uses this model.
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- Overall this year, Endesa has been awarded a total of 879 MW of new renewable power, after the 540 MW of wind power awarded in the tender last May.
- Endesa will invest approximately 270 million euros in the construction of the solar capacity it has been awarded in the tender held today.
Endesa, acting through its renewable energy division, Enel Green Power España ("EGPE"), has been awarded 339 MW of solar power capacity in Spain, following today's tender aimed at collecting 3,000 MW from renewable energies.
This solar capacity obtained by the company adds to the 540 MW of wind power capacity that it was already awarded last May in the first tender launched by the Spanish Government to help the country achieve its target to cover 20% of energy consumption with renewable energy by 2020.
Therefore, overall this year, Endesa has been awarded a total of 879 MW of new renewable energy, which will mean increasing its current infrastructure for these technologies in Spain by 52,4%.
Endesa's Chairman, José Bogas, highlighted that the result of this new tender "confirms Enel Green Power España as one of the leading operators in renewable energies in the Spanish market and represents a very important step in Endesa's aim to be a decisive stakeholder in the energy transition process towards a fully decarbonised system by 2050".
Endesa will invest approximately 270 million euros in the construction of the solar capacity it has been awarded in this latest tender. The solar capacity adds to the 600 million euros to be invested as a result of the 540 MW awarded in the tender last May and which will even mean exceeding the investment planned in the area of renewables in the company's current Industrial Plan.
The company estimates that the projects in which this new power will be materialised, will enter into operation by 2.019. All of them will sell their energy in the Spanish pool market while the Spanish Government will provide incentives, by means of yearly capacity payments, to guarantee a steady return over the 25 years of the plants' lifetime.
Endesa's new solar projects, which will be in the regions of Murcia and Badajoz, will generate approximately 640 GWh per year and will prevent the emission of around 384.000 tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere.
Enel Green Power España, Endesa's renewable energy branch, manages an installed capacity of around 1,675 MW of capacity in Spain, of which 1,618 MW comes from wind, 43 MW from hydropower and 14 MW from other renewable energy sources like solar and biomass. EGPE's renewable plants generate around 4TWh of emission-free energy each year.


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"What should I do if I want my blog post to rank high on Google?" If you throw this question to some people, then you perhaps get answers like this: "Spread your keywords and keyphrases all over your posts, try to bold them up, and increase their density." In theory this is a good idea to improve your ranking on search engine (read top5 factors affecting your ranking on search engine) but in the reality, people may hate and feel bored when reading your article. It just makes no sense, and finally, you lose your visitors.
Writing for Google instead of people is a common mistake for newbie bloggers. I often read that kind of post. They usually underlined certain key phrases, and bold them up too, which makes me feel bored to read through his post. Do they rank high on Google? Not exactly! they just hit the first page on google for few days and disappear for the next days (commonly called google honeymoon). Don't think that they dissapear only because google algorithm has to do so, but i believe that google follows people's satisfaction when reading a post. If the post offer good quality, for sure the readers will stay for quite long time, or maybe read the other posts, otherwise the readers just hop out from it.
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(A shorter version was in this month's The Hindu Literary Review)
Saad Shafqat's Breath of Death is quite the 'thriller from Pakistan' it's positioned as. It's also a socio-political commentary on Pakistan and an examination of the often fraught, rather complicated relationship between Pakistan and the US.
And it is this relationship between the US, Pakistan and the larger Islamic world that provides the context for the book's relatively straightforward plot. Dr Asad Mirza, a talented, youngish neurologist and Nadia Khan, an eager medical student, encounter a mysterious neurological illness in the wards of a Karachi teaching hospital. While attempting to solve the puzzle of this strange infection, the two walk right into the middle of a bio-terrorism plot against the US.
Both Karachi and the intricacies of the human brain are familiar territory to Shafqat, a neurologist who lives in the city. And this knowledge shows. He writes with authority and confidence about things that happen in the hospital and in the city.
The writing, though, is often jerky, with abrupt transitions. Yet, it's also very descriptive and evocative, painting portraits of people and places. Shafqat has an eye for detail, and the images he builds are so powerful that I could almost see, touch and smell them.
Characterisation is one of Shafqat's strengths and almost all the characters seem very real. Even the 'bad guys' like Hamza Kadri, the scientist who designs the bio-weapon and Malik Feysal, the zealous operative of the terrorist 'Network', are portrayed as multi-layered beings. Sample this description of the fussy, irascible, obsessive-compulsive Hamza Kadri: "Noticing a speck of grit on the machine's shiny Perkin Elmer monogram plate, he flicked it off with a finger. Then he fidgeted with his trousers, adjusting them over his hips again. He stuffed in his shirt. Then, noticing a fold that wasn't quite right, he pulled it out and stuffed it in again."
Shafqat, also deftly captures the love-hate relationship that many people in Pakistan — and South Asia perhaps — seem to have with the US. An equation that's equal parts fascination and frustration. Even Asad Mirza, the book's principal protagonist, who's studied and worked in the US, is not completely free of this sentiment. As Shafqat writes early on in the book: "Deep down, all of them, even Asad, felt aggrieved by America's overreach around the world although not everyone was willing to acknowledge it so openly."
Yet, Asad's disquiet with certain aspects of US policy does not prevent him from doing the right thing. Despite several challenges, he is able to alert the US authorities about the bio-terror plot and all ends well.
My one big grouse with Breath of Death is with the plot's pace. Like many of the soap operas on television, it chugs along very sedately and then, before you know it, it's all over. The ending is so hurried that it seems shoehorned into the plot.
In fact, the last few chapters of the book didn't quite work for me; at least not in the way the early chapters did. For one, I found the whole sub-plot built around Nadia's trip to the US to intern at a lab in Boston almost contrived. This thread doesn't quite add to the story, expect, perhaps, to bolster the thesis about Pakistani disquiet with "America's overreach around the world".
Also puzzling is a lack of attention to detail that creeps in towards the end of the book. A telling example is how Nadia carries a biological sample in her backpack when she travels to the US. She's got no clearance from the US authorities to do this and seems surprised when US customs confiscates the specimen. It is hard to imagine how Asad and Nadia's hosts in the US, both prominent medical researchers, thought she could simply enter the country with a biological specimen in a flask of formalin.
I also do wish that Shafqat had given a bit more detail about how the virus designed by Kadri worked. I know the plot hinges on deploying an aerosol-based delivery system. But what is not clear is just how the virus was tested in Karachi. For instance, how is it that the test subjects alone were infected by the virus, while the people around them were untouched by the 'breath of death'.
Despite these bumps, I quite enjoyed Breath of Death. It is an interesting and intriguing tale told rather well.


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We only offer full semester enrollment. Occasionally we will offer a special single holiday playdate but otherwise you enroll for the 16 week Fall or Winter/Spring semester or our 4 week sessions in the Summer months. Once you join us, you'll understand how imperative the consistent classes are to your child's learning. They and you receive so much more out of class when it's a weekly occurrence. It's a weekly playdate with the same families and it's amazing to watch them grow musically and in their early childhood development skills.
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Latkes are a classic Hanukkah dish. The patties are cooked in oil, symbolizing the small amount of oil in a temple lamp that burned for eight days, the miracle the holiday commemorates. Garnish with extra green onions.
How to Make It
Step 1
Combine potato and onions; squeeze moisture from potato mixture over a sieve. Combine potato mixture, flour, salt, and egg whites in a large bowl. Divide mixture into 12 equal portions, and squeeze out any remaining liquid. Discard liquid. Shape each portion into a 1/4-inch-thick patty.
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Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add 6 patties to pan; cook 5 minutes on each side or until golden. Repeat procedure with remaining 1 tablespoon oil and 6 patties.