I switched to cricinfo just to check how badly Pakistan lose (did Australia took 20 overs or 30 overs to finish) before I go to sleep and I was what 5 down? really ?
Match was ON!
Shoaib Malik took the wicket.
They were throwing and fielding sharply. Lots of energy was visible on the field. Afridi was looking as excited captain.
Then Rana Naveed took the wicket.
Wao! Pakistan is on the way of their first Win after so long.
But then they showed Afridi having ball in his mouth? and my hurt sunk.
At that moment I knew no matter Pakistan wins or lose, this match is tainted. It will not be remembered for how close this match was, but what was Pakistan’s captain doing.
As usual allegations started hurling in the chat rooms. Old Mud was prodded. Someone threw in that Waqar’s reverse swing was just due to bottle caps, someone came with that all the times India was defeated because Pakistani’s were ball tempering. All the effort that has gone in the issue where many players worked very hard in defending Pakistan
And he is standing on the field doing this?
The most amazing was the explanation, although he apologized but said well everyone does that.
Frankly I don’t want to see him as Captain, not atleast for sometime. He had 2 match suspension previously also for trying to temper the Pitch.
People with these attitudes should not be our Captain, they will have worse effect on the players playing under them
See Rana Naveed, he is looking what is Afridi doing and did not told him not to do that?
Why the hell Rana, let him do that?
Either he was accomplice or did not wanted to say something to his captain.
If later is the case then, this is perfect reason not to make Afridi Captain for some time. PCB should show some spine and make this issue important. It will be interesting to see all those people whose (including mine) egos are hurt when someone hurls some allegations on the Pakistani players.
It will be interesting to see, how they react. Where 2 Day ban is legal, he should be punished more not by banning but by not making captain for some time.
Ok I have just seen the video on the apple.com, read few things here and there.
I have not seen any stylus capabilities and CNN is saying that it does not have capability to run Multiple Applications
Really, so it is iPad that can do much better than Kindle (well Steve Jobs said that they will stand on their shoulders) and it is bigger than iPhone. But nothing more ?
Basically it is not computer, it extended version of iPhone. Well they are targeting a different market especially a Kindle Market.
Person is travelling and wants to read and do some work while traveling, can pull it up from the bag, put in the lap, no need for pushing up the screen, just put it in the lap and start using. Want to read the book, see some movie, browse something; you will not be worried about the complex dynamics of the laptop. No space wasted by real keyboard or touch-pad.
I like the idea and the feel. I think Tablet is the way froward, but not chopped off tablet.
Right now it mostly looks like a extra machine someone wants to carry, like Fashion statement. It will target one more market, people who say “Well I basically want surf the net?”; not the ones who say Hey I want to run matlab, or want to use it for my project.
Nothing bad in it, but I am disappointed.
I was looking forward for it to be more powerful. I would have loved it to have Stylus and capability for running multiple applications. Frankly I have 5 to 6 windows opened on my screen. One is some programming environment, a browser checking my email, a document explaining some thing, some folders, here and there.
As for Stylus, that’s what I makes the a tablet attractive. No need of paper and pencil. No need to carry sheets and notepads.
With all the grief this was one that I found very interesting,
Earlier, she said, one woman had run through Jacmel’s streets screaming, “God, we know you can kill us! We know you’re strongest! You don’t need to show us!”
The video on the guardian shows their plight. I am remembering Kashmir Earthquake. Especially when I heard that one of the hospital has collapsed. It’s unfortunate for the 3rd world countries, the places where people take shelter in case of disasters are the ones that collapse. In Kashmir parts of hospital and many schools became dirt killing many who were in them.
It appears Haiti is even worse than Kashmir, their Tax house and parliament have also collapsed. It’s one of the poorest countries. According to National Geographic “cookies made of dirt, salt, and vegetable shortening have become a regular meal”, can you imagine eating dirt?
I wish I could be of any help. The UF is holding a vigil http://news.ufl.edu/2010/01/13/haiti/, but vigil will not feed people. They need money, more importantly then need medical supplies, bare minimum housing, medical professionals, they need volunteers and professionals to take care of them. What can I say even UN has many of his people missing, I hope they are found, because must be knowing more about Haiti than people who will fly in from outside.
International Red Crescent and Red Cross http://www.ifrc.org/ are looking for the funds.
Look at the Clinton’s address posted on CNN, according to him they need cash, which make sense. Instead of everyone trying to donate the things, it’s much easier and manageable if people give cash.
I don’t know what is going around in the Gainesville, if we are holding any fund collection service or not. Today I saw one student collecting funds for the Haiti, but don’t know if it is organized effort or single person effort. DO tell me if someone knows what’s going around.
Today while ordering a Tuna Sandwich (yes I did this mistake again but not at Subway) I told lady at the counter Can I have This, This and This. She said yes you can have it. Then there was moment she was looking at me and I was looking at her.
She said What do you wan to have?
I said Can I have this, this and this. She said yes you can order them together but again she did not did anything.
She looked at me with question, and I was I already told her what I want in my sandwich.
When few of these confusing moments passed, I figured out the problem.
I again said Can I have this, this and this.
yes! you can have them
Then I want this, this and this in my sandwich
Problem solved
I got my sandwich yes it was Tuna Salad Sandwich with all it’s ugliness and bad feeling that comes after eating Tuna Salad.
However I learned very important thing, difference in what We Think We are Saying and What Other’s think We are Saying.
Everyone right now must have heard the news that a Muslim Army officer went on shooting rampage at Fort Hood. I first thought it could be any person having Arabic name, but then it became apparent that he is Muslim. And Guardian is reporting that He shouted Allahu Akbar before shooting.
This is sad and worrying day, 13 lives have been lost and about 28 people are injured. This is worrying not only because such shooting are becoming repetitive event in which some normal looking guy walks in with gun and start shooting. It happened at mall, it happened at school and it happened at university campus; now at military base.
It is worrying also because an involvement of a Muslim will open door for more prejudice, bias and hate towards Muslims. As a Muslim I am concerned that instead of viewing this event as an action by mentally ill person much like previous shootouts, people will try to put in the picture of Islamic Terrorism. This will give people tool and opportunity to speak against the Muslims.
Ironically, those who will use this event to disparage all Muslims or Islam in general, even to the point of violence, will prove themselves no different from those they oppose. In fact, they will prove how much they share with Mr. Hasan. Such generalized hatred is precisely the animating approach of anyone who opens fire on a collection of individuals who pose them no immediate threat.
But in b/w he asks that question should be asked from Community he came from. Interesting reply came from one of the poster
kjohnson3’s Reply:
When you refer to “the community from which the murderer came,” why do you look only at the religious community from which he came? He also came from the military community and the medical community.
I personally have not viewed till now any discrimination, I can feel that heat is increasing, someone on Fox News just asked that whether Muslims in Military should go through Special Screenings.
I will like to ask; was some Special Screening arraigned for the people belonging to ethnicity or religion or community of previous shooters? But then we all know about the Fox News, if you don’t know much about Fox News, you can assume they are Big Version of Zaid Hamid.
In response to these hate messages there are lots of messages talking about not to use Guilt By Association, and are for supporting American Muslims. I have personally found Americans to be friendly and never came face to face with anti-Muslim person. One of the reason might be because I live in University Town, but I believe this is general feature.
As for with such event, I ask people to not to let their fears, biases and pain make them hate other people. And as for every such case one of the critical question that should be raised is how he was able to take gun inside a secure area? Why was there such security lapse?
Other critical question is Why was this person not flagged as a risk person?
If his views, as being told by some news agencies, were extremists he should have been separated, where was negligence? An extremists person should not have a place in any Army, this is true for any extremists, be it religious or social.
If it becomes visible that his motivation was not only PTSD but also religious, then it will be quite worrying part. It is critical that we should recognize that there are thousands of extremists who think their motivation comes from the religion. Hundreds have died in Pakistan from the hands of extremists who think their actions are justified from Religion, about 2 decade back there were groups going for extremists activities because of their political (which were non-religious) views. Just few months ago Tamil tigers were killing their own people and still in regions of India Maoist have been accused of mass killing. In America there are White Supremest and religious conservative who think they will one day have to go on war with others. In Europe there has been rise of BNP.
These all form of extremisms are to be condemned but understood that they don’t define communities, religions or ethnicity. I wish everyone good luck, it is difficult period on this world.
I am just a visitor in America, soon I will be back to my homeland Pakistan; the one thing I love about America is Equal Rights for everyone. But such rights can not just be dictated by Law they have to be implemented by society. I hope American society keeps on implementing that.
Reading David Rohde. He describes his life as a captive of Taliban. This allowed him to see and analyze it’s captor, now he is writing about it. I have read only some portions and I feel his article will be widely quoted in coming days to describe and evaluate Taliban, especially because Pakistan has started Operation in those areas. What makes these articles important read is that we have so less first hand source of information about Taliban, how they work, what they think, etc… We have so many intellectuals defending or bashing Taliban, most of them have their arguments on what Taliban did at what time, not why Taliban did and Why+What Taliban are doing now. Most of them simplify it too much to just either pursuit of World Dominance to Afghan Freedom fighting.
Not going in detail discussion, I am here quoting a paragraph where he describes the Contradictions of Reasoning
It was a universe filled with contradictions. My captors assailed the West for killing civilians, but they celebrated suicide attacks orchestrated by the Taliban that killed scores of Muslim bystanders. They bitterly denounced missionaries, but they pressed me to convert to their faith. They complained about innocent Muslims being imprisoned by the United States, even as they continued to hold us captive.
He also discussed what this socalled anti-terrorism war is doing
My captors harbored many delusions about Westerners. But I also saw how some of the consequences of Washington’s antiterrorism policies had galvanized the Taliban. Commanders fixated on the deaths of Afghan, Iraqi and Palestinian civilians in military airstrikes, as well as the American detention of Muslim prisoners who had been held for years without being charged. America, Europe and Israel preached democracy, human rights and impartial justice to the Muslim world, they said, but failed to follow those principles themselves.
An interesting insight was how Taliban treated their local captives
Tahir and Asad were held in even lower esteem. The guards incessantly berated both of them for working with foreign journalists and repeatedly threatened to kill them. The dynamic was not new. In an earlier kidnapping involving an Italian journalist and his Afghan colleagues, the Taliban had executed the Afghan driver to press the Italian government to meet their demands.
Today attended first UF Homecoming parade. Although was late in reaching but was still able to catch some community stalls. Whole West University Ave. was filled with chairs and family tents, children, parents, students, young and old all there. Enjoying, cheering.
There were skating club, some martial arts , Hare Kirishna,… best I liked was some Non Profit Music School float. They were performing live music as their float moved. The music was good and lyrics were something about praising Gator Football team, although little bit of self praising but it sounded good.
No it is not about Pakistan. If you think everything Green is about Pakistan than please do your self a service and take your head out of …..
Fill in the blank according to how many “American Slangs”-Lecture Series you have attended.
I know we are passing through rough patch (question will be when in time we were not in rough patch) and with it there are whole lot of new conspiracy theories,. religious views and spiritual view. Nothing against any of them, but
Yes it is not typo mistake it is not trans gender it is transgenic.
Any how this is interesting story, Monkey who is Trans-Genetic.
Yes it is not typo mistake it is not trans gender it is transgenic.
baby marmosets whose feet glowed green under ultraviolet light. Researchers at the Central Institute for Experimental Animals in Kawasaki, Japan, had genetically engineered the monkeys to incorporate a gene, derived from jellyfish, that produces green fluorescent protein. It was the first time scientists had added a gene to a primate in such a way that a new trait could be passed to a second generation.
<Urdu>Mehwea Herat Hoon Dunya Keya sea Keya Hoa Jae Ge <By Iqbal>
Trans of whole pair of verses is “What I see (for future) can’t be expressed in words, I am shocked how different this world will be” <TRANSLATION PROVIDED WITH APOLOGIES, BECAUSE i KNOW IT CANNOT TRANSMIT BEAUTY AND STRENGTH ORIGINAL VERSION HAVE>
Where are we in whole this ? It is not conspiracy that we are not part of any of it. We seriously need to discussed how all these new research regarding Stem Cell, genetics, etc… will effect us.
I am still taking how amazing this news is. I might be overexcited, but the idea that someone can actually work on changing the genes and mixing the traits. Wao!
It seems all effects of Sultan Rahi not dented by single bullet and Ametab being able to successfully destroy whole Island of villain has a proper name, it is called Principal of Evil Marksmanship. Wikipedia explains and details it very nicely.
The term first appeared in film criticRoger Ebert’s 1980 book “Little Movie Glossary”,[1] and had been submitted by Jim Murphy of New York. It was defined as:
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The bad guys are always lousy shots in the movies. Three villains with Uzis will go after the hero, spraying thousands of rounds which miss him, after which he picks them off with a handgun.
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So finally I know the name of the art being followed by our film heroes (yes I still call it film, Guardian does it too). Although Hollywood is also pron to it (that’s why they have name for it ) but somehow their films execute same idea quite gracefully. I remember a scene in which Sultan Rahi and her female accomplice were avoiding bullets by just bending down quickly. Not once but again and again.
Other interesting terms on the same page are Stormtrooper Effect and One-at-a-time Attack Rule. Last one is most interesting because you see it all the time in movies. Shahrukh Khan, Ametabh, Dharmendar and even Jackie Chen, they all fight one to one, now they have progressed to 2 at a time. 3 people attacking at same time is rarity. And why the hell only one person in whole gang has the gun, and all the guys are fighting to get it; if you remember last scene of Don (original version).
