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One Last Question
At the end of our interview, Sibel asked me to leave you with this question:
"After 911, the US Government engaged in mock investigations and shut down many small Islamic charities and organizations, giving the appearance of action in the so-called 'War on Terror.' Why did they harbor, support and resource Fethullah Gulen's $25 billion madrassa-and-mosque-establishment efforts throughout the Central Asian region and the Balkans?"
That's a good question. The objective of Fethullah Gülen and his followers is
to make Turkey a state where the Islamic law rules. Gülen himself admitted this
fact in several of his early speeches that he gave while he was trying to attract
more people to his organization. They have opened schools, built youth hostels and given
scholarships to students throughout the country.
Gülen and his people are trying to destroy freedom and democracy by poisoning
young minds of this country and it's a shame that he has been funded by some elements in a country
which is supposed to be an ally.
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I once dreamt that after entering the classroom fully prepared for the lesson,
I realized that I was actually not a teacher but still a student.
What's worse was that (aside from the whole class laughing and making fun of me while I was
standing in front of the board) the headteacher came in and told me I failed the Maths test.
That was indeed a nightmare.
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. I don't expect any man to know what I want unless I tell him, ...
That's a very good point.
Most of the conflicts between men & women are based on the fact that we (women) expect
them to read between the lines instead of telling what we want/need directly.
A classic scene :
(The woman looks upset)
The man asks, what's wrong?
She replies, nothing.
Obviously, there is something very wrong and the man should know what it is.
But he doesn't have a clue so the woman gets angry and starts an argument or simply
stays silent because she was hurt.
This is a mistake made by almost all women including myself although I try to avoid it when I can. (Exceptional situations do not count
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Gary,
Great news for Orwell fans.
Thanks for the link.
An interesting exerpt from the diaries,
[Overheard local English resident: "It's coming right enough. Hitler's going to have Czecho-Slovakia all right. If he doesn't get it now he'll go on and on till he does. Better let him have it at once. We shall be ready by 1941."]
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A few more :
Farewell Gulsari - Chingiz Aitmatov
The Last Day Of A Condemned Man - Victor Hugo
One Man's Destiny - Michail Sholokhov
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
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What is life if you're not there?
Why should I even care?
All alone inside my head
Watch the walls close in instead
I'm not supposed to bring you down
You're not supposed to turn me round
What are dreams if not made real?
How am I supposed to feel?
What's your love without some hate?
Should I act or hesitate?
It's a comfort when you
It's a comfort when you
It's a comfort when you smile
Comfort When You Smile - Puressence
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"Things don't always go as planned, Mr Angier. That's the beauty of science"
Those who have seen Christopher Nolan's film, The Prestige (2006) will surely remember these lines.
In the film, Nikola Tesla (played by David Bowie) is depicted as a mysterious scientist who helps the magician,
Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) by giving him the secrets of teleportation.
The textbooks do not give Tesla the credit he deserves. Most people are not aware that he is the inventor of the radio
as well as many other devices.Neon and fluorescent lighting and AC electric motor are two examples of his inventions.
He is also the designer of the world's first hydroelectric power station. He invented The Tesla Coil (1891), an induction coil that
he used to create electrical pulses of millions of volts.Through this, he discovered raido's essential elements.
It's sad that one of the biggest and most eccentric inventors of the 20th century is underestimated by those who write the history
of science.
Some Tesla links for anyone who's interested,
http://www.neuronet.pitt.edu/~bogdan/tesla/
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Old Age Benefits
1. Kidnappers are not very interested in you.
2. In a hostage situation you are likely to be released first.
3. No one expects you to run into a burning building.
4. People call at 9 PM and ask,Did I wake you?
5. People no longer view you as a hypochondriac.
6. There is nothing left to learn the hard way.
7. Things you buy now won't wear out.
8. You can eat dinner at 4 P.M.
9. You can live without sex but not without glasses.
10. You enjoy hearing about other people's operations.
11. You get into heated arguments about pension plans.
12. You have a party and the neighbors don't even realize it.
13. You no longer think of speed limits as a challenge.
14. You quit trying to hold your stomach in, no matter who walks into the room.
15. You sing along with elevator music.
16. Your eyes won't get much worse.
17. Your investment in health insurance is finally beginning to pay off.
18. Your joints are more accurate meteorologists than the national weather service.
19. Your secrets are safe with your friends because they can't remember them either.
20. Your supply of brain cells is finally down to manageable size
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Monty Python ...a legend.
"'Tis but a scratch'
'A scratch?! Your arm's off!'
'No, it isn't.'"
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"He must be a king.
Why?
He hasn't got sh*t all over him."
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"No it can't! An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition."
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"He's not pining, he's passed on. This parrot is no more.
He has ceased to be. He's expired and gone to meet his maker.
He's a stiff, bereft of life, he rests in peace. If you hadn't have nailed him
to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies. He's rung down the curtain
and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot!"
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It's the intensity in the lyrics and the tunes of the guitars that make this song so special.
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Strange infatuation seems to grace the evening tide.
I'll take it by your side.
Such imagination seems to help the feeling slide.
I'll take it by your side.
Instant correlation sucks and breeds a pack of lies.
I'll take it by your side.
Oversaturation curls the skin and tans the hide.
I'll take it by your side.
I'm unclean, a libertine
And every time you vent your spleen,
I seem to lose the power of speech,
You're slipping slowly from my reach.
You grow me like an evergreen,
You've never seen the lonely me at all
I...
Take the plan, spin it sideways.
I...
Fall.
Without you, I'm nothing.
Without you, I'm nothing.
Without you, I'm nothing.
Take the plan, spin it sideways.
Without you, I'm nothing at all.
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
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Coldplay's new album Viva la Vida (Or Death And All His Friends ) has received mixed
reactions from music critics since they have chosen a different path than they did
in Parachutes, A Rush Of Blood To The Head and X and Y. My personal opinion of
" Coldplay can never record an album better than Parachutes" has begun to change
as the Viva la Vida CD keeps playing over and over again in my CD player.
The album opens with a fantastic instrumental ,Life In Technicolor, which immediately
gives the idea that the album has a very different atmosphere than Coldplay's previous
studio albums. It can also be seen in Chris Martin's changeable vocals
in Yes, Strawberry Swing and Death And All His Friends.
The album's most interesting song is Violet Hill, which holds
a little bit of 80s gloomy pop –rock sound. Yet, it is maybe the most powerful
tune in the whole album along with Lost!. 42 is the song that has the closest
tune to the typical Coldplay sound. It reminds the listener of the ballads such
as Yellow in Parachutes but when compared, 42 sounds weaker than those
wonderful and passionate tunes in Parachutes.
All in all, Coldplay have improved their sound and did a very good job in Viva la Vida.
Highly recommended!
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I Am Just A Patsy - Manic Street Preachers
I am just a patsy
The Oswald in Lee Harvey
Made of my own misery
The footprints of history
I am just a patsy
I sell vague conspiracy
I'm slow and I'm easy
And I'm waiting for delivery
I'm just a patsy for your love
I need an angel from above
To a life depraved and lost
Inevitable like scars and dust
I'm just a patsy for your love
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from the album Send Away The Tigers
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"Tell me...Does your dog bite?"
Peter Sellers - The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
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"Gentlemen you can't fight in here. This is the War Room"
Peter Sellers - Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learnt To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963)
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The Hittites were an ancient Anatolian people who spoke a language of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family, and established a kingdom centered at Hattusa (Hittite URUḪattuša) in north-central Anatolia ca. the 18th century BC. The Hittite empire reached its height ca. the 14th century BC, encompassing a large part of Anatolia, north-western Syria about as far south as the mouth of the Litani River (a territory known as Amqu), and eastward into upper Mesopotamia. After ca. 1180 BC, the empire disintegrated into several independent "Neo-Hittite" city-states, some surviving until as late as the 8th century BC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hittites
Hittite art and architecture
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
Hittite art and architecture works of art and structures created by the ancient Hittites
Background
The Hittite invaders of central Anatolia (the area that is present-day W Turkey) came from the east c.2000 BC and by 1400 BC were masters of all of Asia Minor. Their most important period of artistic activity lasted from 1450 to 1200 BC The art of the Hittite Empire merged stylistically with Syrian art gradually, beginning in the 11th cent. BC The modern interest in Hittite culture was aroused in the mid-19th cent. by the Rev. Archibald Henry Sayre of Oxford, England.
Art of the Hittite Empire
Hittite art drew upon far earlier sources developed in Sumer and Babylon (see Sumerian and Babylonian art ) and upon local Anatolian culture of the 3d millennium BC, characterized by elaborate gold and bronze ornamental work found at Alaça Hüyük and earlier neolithic remains found at Çatal Hüyük dating from the 7th millennium BC The Hittites quickly assimilated many aspects of the cultures they overran. They adopted a pantheon of Mesopotamian and N Syrian gods and represented them in their art—the males with high pointed hats, short-skirted robes, and boots with long, curling toes, and the females with long, pleated robes and square hats.
The Hittites were accomplished carvers and metalworkers. Among the most impressive late representatives of Hittite deities is a series of ornaments from Carchemish made to adorn a royal golden robe; they are carved in steatite and lapis lazuli and mounted in gold cloisons, each 5/8 in. (14.5 cm) high (7th cent. BC; British Mus.). The Hittites adapted the Babylonian cuneiform to their language and also employed an elaborate hieroglyphic script for the engraving of monuments.
Although animal figures are to be found in abundance in the artistic remains of the Hittites, their chief concern was human activity, particularly religious ritual. At the Great Sanctuary of Yazilikaya near Boğazköy is a magnificent series of mythological scenes in carved rock depicting lions and sphinxes attending gods and goddesses. At Ivriz another rock relief represents King Warbalawa praying before the god Tarhan, a capped and booted figure hung about with grapes and holding grain to symbolize fertility (8th cent. BC).
There remain fewer representations of royal domestic life, including a hunting scene from Alaça Hüyük (200 BC, Archaelogical Mus., Ankara), a family procession with King Araras with his children and their nurse and pets from Carchemish (750 BC), and a few polychrome vase paintings from Bitik, near Ankara, one of which is thought to depict a marriage. Other vases were made in animal shapes (e.g., duck vase, c.1700 BC, from Beycesultan, Archaeological Mus., Ankara) and in the form of domestic items (e.g., boot vase, 19th cent. BC, from Kültepe, Archaeological Mus., Ankara). A minor art of considerable development was the signet seal, generally containing figures and a cuneiform inscription, which the Hittites used instead of the cylinder seal popular with neighboring cultures.
Hittite Architecture
The principal architectural remnant of the Hittite civilization is at Boğazköy, where temple structures and the city walls may be seen. The Hittites developed the bit-hilani, a porticoed entrance hall built with a stairway approach flanked by pillars. Another characteristic form was the double gateway with corbeled arch, decorated with friezes and protected on either side by a threatening beast figure. Among the best-known of these is the lion gate at Hattuşaş, the ancient Hittite capital (c.1600 BC). These gate figures were later to be copied and used in the churches of Western Europe. In building interiors wall painting was evidently practiced with considerable sophistication, but only a few fragments of this work remain, principally at Boğazköy and Atchana in N Syria.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Hittitea.html
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Ankara Museum of Anatolian Civilizations
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I've just come back from holiday. It was refreshing.
I took some photos but the quality is not so good.
More photos can be found in this link under the Riva Costa / Antalya section.
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Last night I dreamt
That somebody loved me
No hope, no harm
Just another false alarm
The Smiths
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Dan,
Thanks for the links...they're very nice.
Here's another link to Miyazaki and his films.
The Hayao Miyazaki Web
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You're as dark as the ocean
As cold as the rain
You've got me weak with emotion
You're such a beautiful pain
Such a beautiful pain
Beautiful Pain - The Tears
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There are a lot more names I cannot remember now, but some that I'll never forget are,
Matt Bellamy
Morrissey
Brett Anderson & Bernard Butler
Paul Banks (from the band Interpol, not from Shed Seven)
Tom Chaplin
Jonsi Birgisson
Jarvis Cocker
James Mudriczki
Teemu Brunila
Fran Healy
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If I had to choose only one poem, it would be one of Robert Frost's and most probably I'd say, The Road Not Taken. It is the poem that has the most influence on me. I also like Coleridge, Tennyson, Hardy, Plath, H.D. and Wordsworth's poems.
And...of course, the wonderful Annabell Lee by Poe.
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
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I forgot to add The Tell Tale Heart by Poe and Far From The Madding Crowd by Hardy.
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It's difficult to limit the choices but here is my top ten list,
1. Spirited Away - Hayao Miyazaki (2001) Japan
2. Howl's Moving Castle - Miyazaki (2004) Japan
3. Strings - Anders Klarlund (2004) Denmark
4. Dr. Strangelove - Kubrick (1964) UK
5. Pink Panther Series - Blake Edwards UK
6. Donnie Darko - Richard Kelly (2001) USA
7. 50 First Dates - Peter Segal (2004) USA
8. Pan's Labyrinth - Guillermo Del Toro (2006) Spain/USA
9. Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow - Kerry Conran (2004) USA/UK
10. Finding Neverland - Marc Forster (2004) UK/USA
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Teacher-centered vs student-centered approach
in Debates in Education
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The idea of student-centered classrooms is based on students' engagement with classroom activities
and experimenting and exploring throughout their learning processes instead of teacher being the only source.
I don't think there are many teachers who argue against the student-centered approach. However, I sometimes
have difficulty in achieving it due to the expectations and needs of the students.
I'd like to know what the teachers on the forum think about the subject.
Is your classroom teacher or student-centered?