Újabb hét telt el, viszonylag gyorsan. Legalábbis számomra. Végre itt van a szünet, lehet bulizgatni, sokáig aludni, stb. (most nem sorolok fel több dolgot, hiszen mindenki tudja ezeket ).
Igazi téli idő köszöntött be mostanra: farkasordító hideg, szakadó hó. Nem is tudom mikor láttam ilyet utoljára, mert meg kell mondani, hogy az elmúlt pár évben ehhez azért nem voltunk hozzászokva. Ha esetleg holnap is marad ilyen idő, mindenképpen elmegyek fotózni, mert ezt kár lenne kihagyni. Az időjárás végett megnőtt a balesetek száma, nem telik el 10 perc úgy, hogy ne lássak valahol egy mentőautót. Miközben sétáltam ma az utcán, eszembe jutott az is, hogy állandóan azt mondják “fel vagyunk készülve a télre”, érdekes módon egyetlen hókotróval sem találkoztam, az utak katasztrófálisak. Még hogy fel vannak készülve…

Karácsony után lesz egy kis dilemmám, mégpedig az, hogy vegyek-e egy iPod-ot, méghozzá iPod Classic-ot. Kéne már egy normális zenelejátszó, amire sok számot rá tudok pakolni és sokáig bírja egy töltéssel. Jelenleg a Nokia N95 8GB-omat használom erre a célra, de az sajnos nem bírja olyan sokáig szusszal. Az Apple klasszisa pedig mindenben a lehető maximumot nyújtja: 160 GB (!) tárhely, 36 óra lejátszási idő, számos extra funkció. Ez mind szép és jó, most jöjjön a  negatív oldal: az iTunes, amitől én személy szerint tartózkodom, de ez még semmi, meg lehet szokni. Ami leginkább visszatart, az az ára. Köztudott, hogy amin rajta van az a kis almácska, az biza sokba kerül. Hát nem tudom… majd kiderül.

Cover of 'Learning in the Synergy of Multiple Disciplines'

‘Learning in the Synergy of Multiple Disciplines’, the proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning are now available via Google Books (free, but with some pages omitted) and in hardcopy and PDF Chapter by Chapter with publisher Springer. The collected papers were edited by volume editors, Ulrike Cress, Vania Dimitrova and Marcus Specht. Additional reviewers include myself, Liz Brown, Stamatina Anastopolou and Zoe Hadley from the Learning Sciences Research Institute at the University of Nottingham (amongst others).

Springer describe the book as constituting the refereed proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2009, held in Nice, France in September/October 2009.   The 35 revised full papers, 17 short papers, and 35 posters presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 136 paper submissions and 22 poster submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on adaptation and personalization, interoperability, semantic Web, Web 2.0., data mining and social networks, collaboration and social knowledge construction, learning communities and communities of practice, learning contexts, problem and project-based learning, inquiry, learning, learning design, motivation, engagement, learning games, and human factors and evaluation.

• augmented reality
• collaborative learning
• education
• games
• interdisciplinary science
• learning
• learning environments
• museum guide
• ontologies
• personalized learning
• social networks
• virtual classroom
• virtual learning environments

Using the DNS to store such data rather than simply mapping web addresses to IP addresses is “the most significant innovation in the domain name system since the advent of .com”, according to Khashayar Mahdavi, the CEO of London-based Telnic, which is operating the .tel registry.

Read more here.

Has anyone else had to help parents with buying Christmas presents online this year?

I’m sure there’s a really close connection to digital inclusion with this. A few years ago my mother wouldn’t have anything to do with computers and was not really that interested in the internet. Then she discovered she could look up information – effectively using the internet like a giant encyclopaedia – she liked that. Then she realised that with my brother living in New York that it would be a good idea to try email. This year, she found a gift she wanted to buy for my dad online for Christmas and asked me to help her buy it. I’m hoping that next year she’ll be able to do it all by herself.

People will use technology when they can see there’s a tangible benefit to their using it.

Are any libraries or TEL centres offering mini-workshops on buying gifts online? I think this sort of thing would be really popular. What happens for those people who don’t know someone who can show them how to buy things online?

The Whole lecture can be watched at youtube:

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It’s December already???  How did that happen?  It seems like yesterday that we were smack dab in the middle of summer.  My how time flies. 

            The December calendar for the library is fairly short, so here goes:

            Toddler Time will be offered on Monday, December 7^th and Monday, December 21^st at 11 a.m.  We offer stories, coloring and a light snack.  All toddlers and their caregivers are invited to attend Toddler Time at the library.

            The library will be closed on Thursday, December 24^th through Saturday, December 26^th, in observance of the Christmas holiday.

            Doing any research?  Check out the Tennessee Electronic Library for scholarly journals, articles, and information.  Do TEL @ your library!  It is a great resource and we encourage everyone to use it.

            Will you be doing any traveling this holiday season?  Afraid that you won’t have time to read?  We have a suggestion for you.  Use READS!  The Regional E-book and Audio-Book Download System is a great resource to find your favorite authors and download their books to your home computer, CDs, or MP3 player of your choice.  All you need is your library card and this link:  http://reads.lib.overdrive.com  Enjoy listening to your favorite books today!

            We won’t be having Lunch & Learn this month, but we are looking for ideas for the new year.  If you know of someone who would like to share a program or experience with the lunch & Learn group, please contact the library at 772-9534 and we will be glad to set something up.

            Happy Reading!

Documents from the U.S. National Archives

http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/pakistan/pakistan.htm

New Delhi November 30, 2009

An Indian Air Force (IAF) fighter plane crashed near Jaisalmer on Monday, but both the pilots were safe.

The Sukhoi crashed near Jathegaon, about 40 km from Jaisalmer. The pilots ejected to safety.

Air crashes have been bogging down the IAF, with Defence Minister A.K. Antony recently informing Rajya Sabha last week that 12 aircraft, including seven fighters, had been lost this year.

The fighters included the frontline Su-30MKI, which crashed over Jaisalmer in April killing one of the pilots. The others were three Russian-built MiG-27s and MiG-21s each.

The crashed trainer aircraft included the HPT-32 and Kiran Mk II. A transport aircraft was also lost over Assam.

- With inputs from agencies

Source: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/72998/LATEST%20NEWS/IAF+jet+crashes+near+Jaisalmer;+pilots+safe.html

Hi, this is the first post by TelRise. Just experimenting at this stage to see how this works. The main site for TelRise is here

TelRise.com is home to some of the new Dot Tel sites, recently released, which bring fast information and links to mobile internet users.

Sites being worked on presently include;

• Numbers.tel -  worldwide phone number listings
• ForSale.tel -  links to homes, property, businesses for sale
• Ask.tel -  fast links to information such as news, weather, traffic and                                 lots more

It’s going to be  a while before Dot Tel sites are in common use by the general public. As mobile internet use becomes more widespread, and people are logging in to the internet from their phones on a regular basis, the speed and simplicity of .tel will become apparent.

There are plenty of sources of information on the uses of Dot Tel. A good starting point is at Telnic.org, the website of the company behind the concept.

To get an idea of how your personal .tel name can put you ahead of the competition, watch this short video; youtube.com/watch?v=69webN–nw8 She’s pretty gorgeous, and in case you want to know, her name is Laura Haddock.

By McClatchy Newspapers
Friday, November 27, 2009

ISLAMABAD — Suspicions by Pakistan’s powerful army that the country’s civilian leadership is growing too close to the United States are fueling a political crisis that analysts here believe threatens the survival of the government and could divert attention from the battle against Islamic extremists.

Military officials believe that secretly taped conversations between Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and his ambassador in Washington prove that it was at Zardari’s insistence that a $1.5 billion U.S. aid package passed by Congress in September contained several provisions that angered the Pakistani military. The military publicly protested the aid package last month.

“The reaction (from the military) was not so much to what was in the bill but to the thought that the government was trying to create a civilian-to-civilian dialogue (with Washington),” said a senior Pakistani official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The army has ruled Pakistan for most its existence, with civilian rule returning only last year.

Now the military is responding by pressing a confrontation with Zardari over the expiration of a legal amnesty for politicians that benefited many members of Zardari’s government, including the president himself and his ambassador to Washington, Husain Haqqani.

The amnesty, known as the National Reconciliation Ordinance, wiped away long-standing charges against politicians and bureaucrats who served between 1986 and 1999. But the Supreme Court ruled that the measure, which had been decreed in October 2007 by then President Pervez Musharraf, was unconstitutional, and it will come to an end on Saturday.

That will expose serving ministers and senior aides to prosecution over cases that range from corruption to murder — including Zardari, who was charged with taking kickbacks when his wife, the assassinated Benazir Bhutto, served as the country’s prime minister.

Most here argue that Zardari, who is head of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party, will still have legal immunity as president. But analysts believe the military is behind a campaign to oust Zardari and, with the help of sympathetic media and opposition politicians, is using the end of the amnesty as an opportunity to strike. While dislodging the president will be tough, it is possible that he’ll be forced to transfer most of his powers to the prime minister through a constitutional amendment.

Suspicions in the president’s camp about an attempt to isolate him were heightened when the law ministry released a list of amnesty beneficiaries that featured those close to the president, including his top aide and several Cabinet ministers, but none of the allies of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani.

At the center of the civil-military conflict is the relationship between Zardari’s government and Washington, with the Pakistani army resentful of the close ties and the government’s agreement with some U.S. security policies that don’t fit with the military’s view.

Even when there have been civilian governments in Islamabad, the military has viewed sensitive foreign and security policies as its purview. In particular, the military jealously guards its role in relations with India, Afghanistan and the United States, as well as the policy toward the country’s nuclear arsenal.

Zardari, however, has intruded in all those areas since taking office. He has reached out to traditional enemy India, improved relations with Afghan President Hamid Karzai — usually seen in Pakistan as dangerously close to India — and agreed with the United States that Pakistan must eliminate extremist groups on its soil — the same Islamic militants that the military previously used to fight proxy wars in India and Afghanistan.

Zardari also unsuccessfully tried to place the main military spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence, under civilian control, and he offered a “no first use” policy on Pakistan’s nuclear weapons to India.

“The army does not like too much civilian interference in their internal affairs,” said Hasan Askari Rizvi, a defense commentator and author of “Military, State and Society in Pakistan.” “The military thinks that the Pakistan government wants to use this (U.S.) law to somehow interfere in the affairs of the military.”

“Zardari is perceived as too dependent on or too pro the United States, and sometimes not quite in agreement with the strategic view of the army,” said Arif Nizami, a political analyst and former newspaper editor.
Source: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/world/s_655152.html

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Mikor hirtelen eluralkodik rajtam a karácsonyi hangulat.

(christmas time by prismes)

Ködös, esős, nyálkás reggelre ébredtünk itt a keleti végeken, így a reggeli varjúkihúzást nem igazán sikerült megörökíteni.

Sebaj! Hosszú még a tél.

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By Muhammad Saleh Zaafir

KAMRA: Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has made it emphatically clear that Washington will have to keep Pakistan on board while reviewing its Afghan policy as Islamabad has a key role in ensuring and maintaining peace in the region.

The Army chief, who looked visibly jubilant over the achievements of his troops first in Swat-Malakand and now in South Waziristan, was informally talking to this scribe at the historic ceremony of the rolling out of the JF-17 Thunder multi-role fighter plane of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF).

Gen Kayani, who visited the conflict zone about half a dozen times in recent weeks, was confident about a final victory over the terrorists who are now on the run.

The COAS insisted that the Americans could not afford to ignore Pakistan while formulating a policy about the region as they had been consulting Pakistan on important occasions in the past.

The Army chief’s statement has come in the wake of a major policy review in Washington and the new US strategy about the region. Kayani recalled that the operation was launched the day the decision was taken in a high-level meeting in Islamabad. The terrorist leaders were expecting it a couple of days later. Answering a question, Kayani said the Army will keep on tracking the terrorists in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) and the operation to hunt them down will continue till the peace and tranquillity return to the area.

He dispelled the impression that most of the terrorist leaders had fled to Afghanistan. The Army will continue to chase them and the operation could be expanded for the purpose. “Eventually, we will totally smash Baitullah’s terror network and with the cooperation of the people the whole area would be transformed into a peace zone,” he said.

The sophisticated JF-17 Thunder, painted green and white in the colour scheme of the national flag, appeared with grandeur amid thundering sound and colour display as Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani unveiled the fighter jet before the cheering audience.

The event has been termed the beginning of a new era of Pak-China friendship and cooperation. Naval chief Admiral Noman Bashir has gone for Hajj and the Navy was represented by acting naval chief Admiral Asif Humayun. General Kayani felicitated Chief the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman on the auspicious occasion. He lauded the role of the PAF in actions against the terrorists in Swat-Malakand and South Waziristan.

Meanwhile, addressing the ceremony, Gilani reiterated his government’s firm resolve to eradicate ignorance, illiteracy and backwardness to carve a respectable niche for the country in the comity of nations.

Senate Chairman Farooq H Naek, Federal Ministers Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar, Qamar Zaman Kaira, Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Luo Zhaohui, Pakistan’s Ambassador to China Masood Khan and the three services chiefs attended the ceremony.

With this Pakistan has joined the international community of fighter aircraft manufacturers as JF-17 Thunder, the first ever multi-role state-of-the-art plane rolled out of the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex here and was included in the fleet of the Pakistan Air Force.

Addressing a select gathering of local and foreign dignitaries and PAF officials, the prime minister said progress and prosperity could not be achieved without achieving self-reliance in defence production.

He termed the manufacturing of JF-17 Thunder aircraft the “achievement of an important milestone” in the government’s ongoing efforts to attain self-reliance.

The prime minister assured full cooperation, support and patronage to the PAF in its projects, adding the national project would be remembered as a landmark in the country’s history.

Referring to the present challenges, Gilani said the fast changing technology intensive battle arena required intense involvement of air power which had emerged as a major player in conflict scenarios.

He said the role of air force also becomes vital in tackling the threat posed by the forces of extremism and militancy. Under these circumstances, he said, a modern air force was a national requirement adding the government was making sincere efforts for a strong and well-equipped Pakistan Air Force.

He said that the JF-17 programme had provided employment to about 5,000 people. Referring to long and trustworthy relations between Pakistan and China, the prime minister said: “It is not trade or economics that we collaborate and cooperate in, but our association and fraternal ties bind us in the everlasting embrace of friendship.” Gilani thanked the Chinese friends for providing the PAF the required technical assistance for the programme.

Chief of the Air Staff Rao Qamar Suleman highlighted the efforts of the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex Kamra in establishing itself as a hub of aviation industry. Luo Zhaohui, on behalf of the Chinese government, appreciated the technical acumen of the PAC Kamra in acquiring complex skills and expertise in fighter aircraft manufacturing. He said the collaboration between the two peace loving countries in air defence was a major step for the region’s peace.

Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has said that Pakistan was achieved in the name of Islam and the religion can never be expelled from the country.

Addressing a gathering at Police Line Peshawar here, the COAS said that no one can separate Islam from Pakistan as the country was achieved in Islam’s name.

This comes after MQM, ANP and PPP said that they wanted to change the name of Pakistan from Islamic Republic of Pakistan to Peoples Republic of Pakistan.(Read Below)

He said that Pakistan Army will succeed in its bid to root out extremism from the country in cooperation with the nation and the media.
Announcing Rs 20 million for the martyrs of NWFP Police, Gen. Kayani said that the all kinds of needed weapons and ammunitions would be provided to police to make its progress better.

Earlier, Chief of Army Staff General was received by Corps Commander Lt. Gen. Muhammad Masood Aslam at Peshawar Airport when he arrived here on a day-long visit on Wednesday.  He will also visited Lady Reading Hospital to express solidarity with the bomb blast victims.
The Army Chief is schedule to meet Governor NWFP Owais Ahmad Ghani, Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti, tribal elders and students later in the day.

Source: http://pakistankakhudahafiz.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/no-one-can-seperate-islam-and-pakistan-gen-kayani/

http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=92203

http://www.asianews.com.pk/2009/11/no-one-can-separate-islam-and-pakistan-general-kayani/

http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Politics/25-Nov-2009/Islam-and-Pak-can-not-be-separated-COAS

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From Islamic to Peoples Republic of Pakistan?

ISLAMABAD – Awami National Party (ANP) during the deliberations of Parliamentary Reforms Committee had proposed to change the name of Islamic Republic of Pakistan as Peoples Republic of Pakistan, while Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) supported the move, the sources close to these political parties disclosed to TheNation.
The idea was, however, dropped due to strong opposition from the rest of the members of the committee, the sources added.
MQM Deputy Convener and Federal Minister Dr. Farooq Sattar confirmed it to the media in an informal chat on Wednesday and said that MQM along with PPP members of the committee supported the idea of renaming Islamic Republic of Pakistan as Peoples Republic of Pakistan.
On the other hand, ANP member of the committee Haji Adeel denied having proposed the name of Peoples Republic of Pakistan to replace Islamic Republic of Pakistan. However, some members of the committee on condition of anonymity confirmed it to TheNation that ANP had proposed the said change in the name of the country and MQM and PPP members had supported it.
During chat with media, Dr. Farooq Sattar also proposed making Gilgit-Baltistan as the fifth province of the country and its chief minister should also be included in the National Finance Commission (NFC). The government should take appropriate steps in this regard to remove the constitutional and international hurdles, he added. He said if the Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reforms would finish with its deliberation on provincial autonomy by mid of December, they would be in a position to give the nation a new year’s gift in the shape of constitutional reforms package.

Source: http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Politics/19-Nov-2009/From-Islamic-to-Peoples-Republic-of-Pakistan

MQM backs ANP proposal to change Pakistan name

KARACHI: Minister for Overseas Pakistanis and Parliamentary leader of the MQM Dr Farooq Sattar said Awami National Party (ANP) put up a proposal to change the name of Pakistan, which the MQM has supported.

He said the ANP gave this proposals to the Committee for Constitutional Reforms that Pakistan’s name be changed from Islamic Republic of Pakistan to People’s Republic of Pakistan.

Farooq Sattar also hoped that the Committee on Constitutional Reforms will give good news at the commencement of new year.

He said the proposal was tabled that Gilgit-Baltistan should be given a status of fifth province and it should have representation in NFC Award.

http://paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?221523

uyum ile uyumsuzluğun birbirine ne kadar yakın olduğunu anlatan olaydır akort.
zira iki telin birbiri ile aynı sesi vermesine en yakın nokta, en uyumsuz sesi verdikleri noktadır.
sonuca yakınlaştıkça işler kötüye gidiyormuş gibi gözükür.
vazgeçmemek gerektiğini anlatırcasına uyumsuz sesler çıkarır teller. anlayabilene…

her tel aynı sesi veremez tabi. bazen teller birbirinden uzak noktalarda da buluşurlar.
arada bir oktav fark olduğunda yine aynı sesi verirler ama frekanslar farklıdır artık.

yada arada aşk değil dostluk vardır !

Father of the Nation Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s achievement as the founder of Pakistan, dominates everything else he did in his long and crowded public life spanning some 42 years.

Yet, by any standard, his was an eventful life, his personality multidimensional and his achievements in other fields were many, if not equally great. Today I am posting his pictures which are very rarely seen. These pictures are sent to me by one of my friends. One thing I want to mention here once I posted come pictures of (screen shots) of British India Passport, and one of our reader give a commnet the what to do with these pictures. And in response my question was WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF MUSEUM? I hope you better knows the answer

Here I want to paste from comments from different organizations and persons with the help of cyber-cityonline:

It was, therefore, with a sense of supreme satisfaction at the fulfillment of his mission that Jinnah told the nation in his last message on 14 August, 1948: “The foundations of your State have been laid and it is now for you to build and build as quickly and as well as you can”. In accomplishing the task he had taken upon himself on the morrow of Pakistan’s birth, Jinnah had worked himself to death, but he had, to quote richard Symons, “contributed more than any other man to Pakistan’s survivial”. He died on 11 September, 1948. How true was Lord Pethick Lawrence, the former Secretary of State for India, when he said, “Gandhi died by the hands of an assassin; Jinnah died by his devotion to Pakistan”.

A man such as Jinnah, who had fought for the inherent rights of his people all through his life and who had taken up the somewhat unconventional and the largely misinterpreted cause of Pakistan, was bound to generate violent opposition and excite implacable hostility and was likely to be largely misunderstood. But what is most remarkable about Jinnah is that he was the recipient of some of the greatest tributes paid to any one in modern times, some of them even from those who held a diametrically opposed viewpoint.

The Aga Khan considered him “the greatest man he ever met”, Beverley Nichols, the author of `Verdict on India’, called him “the most important man in Asia”, and Dr. Kailashnath Katju, the West Bengal Governor in 1948, thought of him as “an outstanding figure of this century not only in India, but in the whole world”. While Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha, Secretary General of the Arab League, called him “one of the greatest leaders in the Muslim world”, the Grand Mufti of Palestine considered his death as a “great loss” to the entire world of Islam. It was, however, given to Surat Chandra Bose, leader of the Forward Bloc wing of the Indian National Congress, to sum up succinctly his personal and political achievements. “Mr Jinnah”, he said on his death in 1948, “was great as a lawyer, once great as a Congressman, great as a leader of Muslims, great as a world politician and diplomat, and greatest of all as a man of action, By Mr. Jinnah’s passing away, the world has lost one of the greatest statesmen and Pakistan its life-giver, philosopher and guide”. Such was Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the man and his mission, such the range of his accomplishments and achievements.

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Source: http://www.geotauaisay.com/2009/09/rare-pictures-of-father-of-the-nation-quaid-e-azam-m-a-jinnah/