Why Do Islamic Jihadists Hate Sufis

Nice article with reference to the murder of Amjab Sabri in Karachi: www.firstpost.com/world/amjad-sabri-assassination-why-do-the-islamic-jihadis-hate-the-sufis-so-much-2851862.html

Nice word from the article: wahdut al-wajood: Unity of being

World Weather Real Time

I had been looking for a world weather map showing real time data. And I found one here: https://www.wunderground.com/wundermap/

Additional reading:

https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-282.07,33.16,512/loc=97.918,19.968

Ore Kallula Rendu Manga

The vice principal (VP) in a school occasionally asks me to help with their timetable (TT). Recently she came to me and said one of the teachers (a male) wanted a change in his TT. The guy apparently felt that the lunch (half) hour was not adequate for him to go out and get lunch - he being one of those guys who can't or won't get lunch from home and there being no good restaurants near the school. The VP wanted me to give him adequate time to go out and get lunch and hence could I please move his periods more towards the end of the afternoon...

I gave the VP a temporary solution involving the TT. But I wasn't happy. There are times when some children (students) forget to get lunch either because they or their moms were remiss. They are given biscuits; sometimes other students or teachers share their lunch with those children.

I know the principal of the school has often toyed with the idea of arranging a caterer to deliver piping hot and healthy lunch at school. But this idea has not yet fructified.

Incidentally this school has a period for children where teachers teach them to make snacks, juice etc. This period is held always in the afternoon and children have one period a week of this class. I have often tasted what the children make under the auspices of a teacher. And it's usually very nice and tasty.

I thought further. What if this cooking class was held prior to lunch so that the snacks or juice was available to those teachers and students who came without their lunch bag? Wouldn't it be a nice thing?

There are 5 classes or grades that have this cooking period. And each can take turn, the 1st on Monday, the 2nd on Tuesday and so on. The school could ensure that the cooking period is scheduled in that period in the forenoon session when the respective teacher is free. Simple.

I will discuss this soon with the vice principal and get it rolling.

Additional reading:

• http://vbala99.blogspot.in/2016/03/root-cause-analysis-rca.html (KMT incident)
• http://vbala99.blogspot.in/2014/11/what-is-in-name.html (Cake incident)
• http://vbala99.blogspot.com/2013/09/speed-at-work.html (LRS incident)

All Bull In Scotland

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10154997815528009&id=837878008&refid=28&_ft_=qid.6293829532659553597%3Amf_story_key.991492723004558945&__tn__=*s&__mref=message

Electricity Pole Catches Fire

It rained heavily for a bit today. As I was passing by I saw that the wires in an electricity pole had caught fire..

As a good citizen I did what I could. I took a picture and left. On the left is the headlights of an approaching car.

Ego And Self Esteem

http://www.samuelthomasdavies.com/the-ego-vs-self-esteem/

Nadiya Moidu - South's Shabana Azmi

As per this article, Her first movie was apparently Nokketha Doorathu Kannum Nattu which was remade in Tamil as Poove Poochooda Vaa.

We have Revathys, Zareena (or Naiya) Moidu's and we also have the rest of the faceless heroines. I mean they - rest of them - do have faces but then who remembers them.

Surprisingly Nadiya's first film was directed by Fazil whose movies are usually out of the ordinary and grab my attention.

Another such director is Rajkumar Hirani: See the table on filmography in the wiki link.

Installing Solar Power Plant On Our Rooftop - Calculations

http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/current-affairs/want-to-installsolar-plant-at-home-just-log-onfill-in_6779081.html

The calculations could have been clearer - but it's  interesting nevertheless.

Beautiful Boyd

https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=500355553489203&id=100005442886439&set=a.287175351473892.1073741830.100005442886439&source=48&refid=28&_ft_=qid.6289372881089216988%3Amf_story_key.3468925724667511808&__tn__=E: 

European Cup Soccer Tournament Schedule - UEFA 2016

UEFA Football Schedule. Apparently it will be telecast on Ten 2 channel.

Les Rainmania plays Les Bleus in the opening match. May the le best team win.

BTBA and STSA Create Music By Clapping

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1368371403189436&id=519184924774759&refid=12

Reliance JIO

Launch details are hard to come by:

http://rtn.asia/t-t/19682/reliance-jio-doubles-unlimited-4g-data-voice-offer-to-6-months-under-invite-system

http://telecomtalk.info/reliance-jio-starts-offering-4g-services-without-invite-to-general-public/154047/

http://telecomtalk.info/jio4g-kerala-speeds-coverage/153732/ Indoor coverage not great

http://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/reliance-jio-4g-network-is-now-open-to-everyone-offers-bundled-lyf-smartphones-without-invite/52560889

http://www.bloombergquint.com/technology/2016/10/08/reliance-jio-the-ultimate-review

Tariff: http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2016/09/01/jio-ya-maro-mukesh-ambani-has-just-made-an-audacious-bet-he-can/?ncid=inblnkinhpmg00000004&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=outbrain&utm_campaign=huffpost_Technology&utm_term=42756 -  as on 8th Sep 2016, one couldn't call a Jio number from either 

We Get What We Deserve

http://www.dailyo.in/lifestyle/mills-n-boon-romance-novel-sex-relationships-gender-sensitivity-harlequin-female-readership/story/1/10834.html

And Then We Have These Kind Of Women

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/hours-after-giving-birth-telangana-woman-writes-tet/article8634184.ece

Where is that Mudhalvane Vane Vane?

Now it's election time in Tamil Nadu. DMK and ADMK fighting like Republicans and Democrats.

DMK asks where the (ADMK) government was when the floods came in November and December 2015. And accuses the present government of rising prices and rampant poverty. That ADMK promised the people a whole lot during the pre-election days in 2011 and that none of the promises was kept.

ADMK says that the during DMK government there was rampant corruption by DMK. That Jayalalitha gave the people all she had promised and more. (Loosely copied the dialog from Rowdy Rathore: "Mein jo kehta hoon wo karta hoon. Jo nahi kehta hoon wo definitely karta hoon". That there was 15 hours of power cut (electricity outage daily during DMK's rule while Tamil Nadu has become power surplus now. 

Each party has promised the people various things were it to come to power. So many grams of gold for girls to get married. Essential commodities will be given to people at throw away prices. And so on.

The joker in the pack (read BJP, the smallest of the local parties) quotes people saying that they are sick of the successive governments [DMK and ADMK] and they need a change. That roads in the state are in awful condition while the national highways created by the central government are in great shape.

While various celebrities (SPB, Gowthami, Krishnamachari Srikanth exhort people to exercise their right of franchise and to not sell their honor by voting for any party based on money given to them. All nice and dandy.

I wonder. Is it really wrong to vote for that party that pays you Rs 500 (about $6) per family. At least you get the money in hand. Isn't it better than two in the bush - all the promises being made by each party?

Frankly I do wonder. Where was the state government (ADMK) during the floods? Nobody had any clue when the water from the overflowing Chembarakkam dam was opened at night. Public wasn't informed. State Government was completely missing. The rescue effort was largely handled by NGO's and heroics by isolated individuals and National Disaster Response Force.

As to the behavior of the DMK team when it was in power, one is sick and tired of all the multi-thousand rupee crore scams that DMK was involved in.

Why are we getting caught in the quagmire of rhetoric of each party? Why are words allowed to be spoken louder than action? Why are we, the people, not looking at what was done by each government in the past? Why are we focusing on promises being made? Is voting based on bigger promises any more honorable than voting for the party that gave you more money?

Where is an independent honest appraisal of what each government did in the past? Who is doing that? 

Where is that Mudhalvan?

When Google Play Store Does Not Work

http://www.androidauthority.com/google-play-store-not-working-fixes-647176/

Real Estate Act

https://www.valueresearchonline.com/story/h2_storyview.asp?str=200186&utm_source=2016-05-09-fundline&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fundline

Vividh Bharti Announcers

I listen to Vividh Bharti often. Some of the RJ's  have terrific voices. Yunus Khan, Neha Paranjape, Neha Sharma (and of late Anuradha) to name a few. Apparently our voice carries more information than just sounds as per this link: https://thehumanevolutionblog.com/2016/03/10/properties-of-our-voice-encode-information-about-health-fertility-and-body-shape/

Here is a link about them: vividhbharti.org/the-team/. Look also here: http://airaphotos.blogspot.in/2011_09_01_archive.html

A friend sent me a link on vividh bharathi and lovely audio of Amin Sayani here: http://www.hindustantimes.com/music/air-s-80th-birthday-ameen-sayani-narrates-the-story-of-binaca-geetmala/story-DdBhtZad8J30QYNbBYkzsI.html



Additional reading:

1. http://calmisc.blogspot.in/2015/10/sunheri-yaadein-days-of-vividh-bharti.html
2. http://vbala99.blogspot.com/2010/02/my-music.html

Emotional Baggage

I was talking to a friend about emotional baggage. And then I started to google and got some links.

• http://growchangelearn.blogspot.in/2008/04/resolving-emotional-baggage.html: a very nice link on this subject. Definitely needs further reading
• http://growchangelearn.blogspot.in/2009/03/two-sided-structure-of-baggage.html
• http://tinybuddha.com/blog/5-steps-deal-with-emotional-baggage-so-it-doesnt-define-you/: Gives a list of step to deal with it.
• http://www.yourtango.com/201075374/5-signs-youre-carrying-emotional-baggage and http://magazine.foxnews.com/love/10-signs-youve-got-too-much-emotional-baggage-relationship Lists symptoms.

Control freaks:

• http://growchangelearn.blogspot.in/2009/05/mind-of-control-freak.html
• http://growchangelearn.blogspot.in/2010/03/mind-of-control-freak-redux.html - very nice

Inherited Traits And Mental Frameworks

https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/an-excerpt-from-it-didnt-start-with-you-how-inherited-family-trauma-shapes-who-we-are-and-how-to-end-the-cycle-viking-april-2016-by-mark-wolynn/