Fight Global Warming!

From now on, everyday you will hear this term "Global Warming"; everyone will talk about it just you like when heard "Sadam" million times in the last four years every day, every minute, every second. It is real and it is happening right now and you will feel its effects on our daily life very soon, sooner than you think. What shall we do? Can we do something about it? Or it is out of our power? Well some of you may say: I am not a member of States and I can't do anything about it, my goverment should react earlier" and so on. But believe me You can do many things..You can help. Just tomorrow morning, when you go to your local grocery shop, take your plastic bag and don't ask for a new one...Every time you use used plastic bags for carrying your goods, You are helping in our fight against Global Warming! You can do it when you believe in it and your little help means alot...so don't forget to re-use your used plastic bags...please.

I Miss You Old Friend

I miss you, Old friend

Can I hold you?

And though it's been a long time,

Old friend

Do you mind?

There were so many things

I wish I had said

I meant to love you

But I hurt you instead

I've come here now

To make amends

Can I sit down beside you?

Can we be close again?

'cause I...miss you, Old friend

Can I hold you?

And though it's been a long time,

Old friend

Do you mind?

I'm hoping that you

Will feel this way too

'cause I miss you, Old friend

I miss you

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I'm hoping that you

Feel this way too

Something New!

Since my last post, all my good fellows asked me for Something New! I received millions of millions requests to tell Something New. Well, I started to think about Something New, I thought and thought and more thinking, suddenly I looked at my wonderful clock and it was 2:20 PM, I was so hungry and still I didn’t find something New, I gave up thinking about Something New as I couldn’t find it, so I decided to stop thinking about Something New and I left my computer for food!

Still I don't undersatnd!

You call your friends every week, you send them text messages, emails, greeting cards etc. but you don't get back anything in return! Even they don't remember your birthday! Why is that? Why I have to put so much effort (don't mention my bills) to call someone who doesn't appreciate it. Then when you give up and stop calling them; they complain that I don't pay attention to them, I have forgotten them. Am I doing something wrong? Am I expecting too much? I really don't understand these type of people and this kind of friendship. This is a very old story and I have asked many people if they have been in the same position. Most of the people I talked to, have had the same experience. So if the most of us had it before, why don't we learn from it? Why don't you move your lazy big ass and spend two minutes of your time to tell your friend "I care about you". Unless you don't care really, so don't complain next time if we met!

PS: Suddenly I remember all those efforts and please excuse my language.

Aqua Regia Digestion

Did you know that the aqua regia was first discovered by an Iranian chemist about 800 years ago which we are using it every day for digesting most of the chemicals to determine chemical composition.

Today, I was working in the lab trying to find out the best method to digest CRT glass with aqua regia! You won't believe it, no HF at all. Although some silicon remained at the end of the digestion process but the rest was digested. The success was in preparing the solution right before adding the fine powder of CRT glass. In this case, HNO3 and HCl recats and produce NOCl which is very strong and can attack the component and dissolve it.

Thanks to Jaber for his discovery!

If God could talk!

If God could talk

Would He tell you to come back to me?

If God could talk

Would He tell you it's alright, just leave

And don't look back at all the memories

The best of times, the mess you made of me

Walk on, if you think it's gonna make you strong

Why don't you run away

And find yourself alive

Go on and turn the page

Before your lonely world collides

What's it gonna take to break the silence

That's been tearin' you apart?

If God could talk

Would He part the oceans straight to you

Make mountains move, crumble at your feet to get you through

Another day, another night alone

Step right out into the great unknown tonight

Even God knows, baby, that ain't right

Why don't you run away

And find yourself alive

Go on and turn the page

Before your lonely world collides

What's it gonna take to break the silence

That's been tearin' you apart?

If only God could talk

Did you swear to yourself

On the day it was over

That you'd never turn around

And get locked up in another cage?

Did you tear all the pictures

Of us living life together

Did you burn all the mem'ries

That have been made in a fit of rage?

Why don't you run away

And find yourself alive

Go on and turn the page

Before your lonely world collides

What's it gonna take to break the silence

That's been tearin you apart?

If only God could talk

If only God could talk

If only God could talk

If only God could talk

Oooh, would you listen now if God could talk?

Another though day!

A very though day, working from 8 morning to 5 evening, 45 min lunch break and hammering all the day! While I was crushing my samples, I was thinking we haven’t changed so much! Mortars and pestle is being used for 1000 years for grinding materials and still is used! Although we have mobile, car, microwave etc, we still are using many things which were invented 1000 years ago! How about ourselves? Is the way we are thinking has changes so much since 1000 years ago?

The Expanding Universe

For thousands of years, astronomers wrestled with basic questions about the size and age of the universe. Does the universe go on forever, or does it have an edge somewhere? Has it always existed, or did it come to being some time in the past? In 1929, Edwin Hubble, an astronomer at Caltech, made a critical discovery that soon led to scientific answers for these questions: he discovered that the universe is expanding.

Well, for definite I know the universe is expanding and its expansion rate is increasing (recently discovered by British scientists). But does this universal law apply to our life too? Are we excepted from this law? Are we getting farer from each other? For fact I think we are expanding too! Many many years ago, our ancestors used to live together in a group, in a cave. We used to live with our family. Even if we had our own family, we wouldn’t go too far. Most of the families used to live in one house, one city, one area. But today, we don’t live with our family. Even our friends are in the other part of the world. Our brother or sister is living in another city or country. Our life style has changes dramatically. The gap is getting bigger and bigger. We think mobile phone, email, video chat etc. are the solution. I can call him any time I want to. But do we really communicate with each other? Or we just use the technology to get news from each other. Do we really call our friend to see how they are or we call them to see how they are doing?

For one fact, I am sure we are not excepted and we as part of the universe are expanding with it. One day brotherhood won’t mean anything. Our selfishness will lead us to that point; we will live alone although we will have all necessary technologies to communicate to each other on this planet.

Whose fault is this?

Internet invented 15 years ago and today it is hard to think of life without it! Today, I was surfing on the net and saw this link. I was speechless and for several hours I didn’t know what to say, shall I hate it or shall I enjoy it! Then I asked myself is that the picture of Iranians which other people have got in their mind? Is that the way they see Iranians? Well as far as I know I don’t know any Iranian around myself like the one in the picture but perhaps Lay Leno from NBC knows one. But really whose fault is this? The only people I can blame are Iranians and no one else! I think this is Iranian’s fault which they allow a TV man represents and degrades them like this in a national TV. I am not saying Iranians are prefect but the picture is far far far away from the reality.

No more word for now,

Bye

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Enjoy the dance....

Civil War

"What we've got here is failure

to communicate.

Some men you just can't reach...

So, you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it!

Well, he gets it!

N' I don't like it any more than you men." *

Look at your young men fighting

Look at your women crying

Look at your young men dying

The way they've always done before

Look at the hate we're breeding

Look at the fear we're feeding

Look at the lives we're leading

The way we've always done before

My hands are tied

The billions shift from side to side

And the wars go on with brainwashed pride

For the love of God and our human rights

And all these things are swept aside

By bloody hands time can't deny

And are washed away by your genocide

And history hides the lies of our civil wars

D'you wear a black armband

When they shot the man

Who said "Peace could last forever"

And in my first memories

They shot Kennedy

I went numb when I learned to see

So I never fell for Vietnam

We got the wall of D.C. to remind us all

That you can't trust freedom

When it's not in your hands

When everybody's fightin'

For their promised land

And, I don't need your civil war

It feeds the rich while it buries the poor

Your power hungry sellin' soldiers

In a human grocery store

Ain't that fresh

I don't need your civil war

Look at the shoes your filling

Look at the blood we're spilling

Look at the world we're killing

The way we've always done before

Look in the doubt we've wallowed

Look at the leaders we've followed

Look at the lies we've swallowed

And I don't want to hear no more

My hands are tied

For all I've seen has changed my mind

But still the wars go on as the years go by

With no love of God or human rights

'Cause all these dreams are swept aside

By bloody hands of the hypnotized

Who carry the cross of homicide

And history bears the scars of our civil wars

"We practice selective annihilation of mayors and government officials

for example to create a vacuum

then we fill that vacuum

as popular war advances

peace is closer" **

I don't need your civil war

It feeds the rich while it buries the poor

Your power hungry sellin' soldiers

In a human grocery store

Ain't that fresh

And I don't need your civil war

I don't need your civil war I don't need your civil war

Your power hungry sellin' soldiers

In a human grocery store

Ain't that fresh

I don't need your civil war

I don't need one more war
I don't need one more war

Whaz so civil 'bout war anyway

Guns N' Roses: Use Your Illusion - II 1991

Breaking News!

A top automotive engineer declined Toyota’s job offer today says Toyota spokesman. Our financial and economical correspondent at Cranfield reports that Toyota’s stock price is going down at Tehran Stock Exchange Market. Also there are rumours that Shahab Khodro (Iranian Car Manufacture) is planning to buy Toyota after this decline.

Loss....

Mr. Zarnegar left us last week. He was a great man. His many years of experience work meant he was a limitless resource of knowledge, especially in journalism. He passed away in US.

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Accident in Tehran (Topkhaneh)

Atomised (Elementarteilchen)

Dir. Oskar Roehler

1h 49 mins

Germany

The movive is based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel. It is a very powerful film and if you are tired of Superman and looking for story of regular people which I believe they are the real superman then watch it.

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Best Cover (Hijab)!

Islamic Fashion Week in Tehran, Iran (Photo from Irna)

Inside Iran

The follwoing report is taken from Zogby website.
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While Iran’s nuclear program grabs headlines around the world, a new Reader’s Digest-Zogby International survey reports that Iranians (41%) said reforming their national economy so it operates more efficiently is more important than nuclear capability. A smaller number, 27%, said the country’s top priority should be to develop an arsenal of nuclear weapons, and 23% said the top goal for their government should be to expand the freedoms of its citizens.

These and other opinions were documented in a wide-ranging survey of Iranian citizens that revealed a sharp diversity of views consistent with a nation that is undergoing profound changes. The survey, which focused on a variety of subjects, including nuclear and regional politics, America, Israel and other nations, and cultural issues, included 810 Iranian adults, and carries a margin of error of +/- 3.5 percentage points. The results are included in exclusive reports on Iran published in the August issue of Reader’s Digest magazine. Full results can be found online at rd.com and zogby.com.

“The Zogby poll presents a fascinating glimpse into public opinion in this vitally important part of the world,” said Conrad Kiechel, Editorial Director, Reader’s Digest International Editions. “The evening headlines typically frame the views of world leaders, but this survey provides an illuminating picture of what citizens are saying – and believing.”

The poll revealed a country divided on many issues, although united on the role that Iran should play in the region. Iranians said they believe their country should lead the region “diplomatically and militarily” – 56% supported this view, and only 12% said their country should not be the dominant regional power. Nearly equal percentages of respondents want Iran to become more secular and liberal (31%) as want the country to become more religious and conservative (36%).
On one question, Iranians showed almost total agreement, regardless of age or gender. When asked if the state of Israel is illegitimate and should not exist, 67% agreed and only 9% disagreed.

Despite tensions between the United States and Iran, most Iranians – nearly two thirds – said they don’t believe that the two countries will go to war in the next decade.
Iranian men were more interested than women in making the economy work better. Among men, 47% said the economy should be a top government priority, while just 33% of women agreed. The older the respondent, the less important they considered development of a nuclear arsenal.

A majority said they would be willing to suffer through a bad economy if that were the price the country had to pay to develop its nuclear program. Also, 25% said they would blame the United States if the United Nations imposed nuclear-related sanctions, although nearly 40% said they were not sure whom to blame. Only one in six would blame Iran’s own government. If their country were to develop nuclear weapons, 25% said it would make the Middle East a safer place, but 35% disagreed with that statement.
When it came to their view of the United States, there was a split between the generations. Older Iranians were much more likely to admire the American people and society than younger Iranians. John Zogby, President and CEO of Zogby International, hypothesized that this generational split may be due in part to the lack of exposure to Americans over the past two decades.

Younger and older Iranians would favor a more conservative, religious society, while those aged 30–49 said they would favor a more liberal, secular culture. What is striking is that just 15% said Iranian culture should stay just the way it is right now. Women were more likely than men to say they wanted a more liberal, secular society. Among those Iranians with Internet access, 41% said they wanted a more religious culture, compared to 33% who said they wanted a more secular society.

“The poll illustrates the impact of 25 years of separation,” said Zogby. “The attitudes of younger Iranians toward the government, people and policies of the United States have been shaped by years of isolation, largely conservative religious leadership, and anti-U.S. rhetoric. This group is consistently more negative in its attitudes towards Americans and the American government than are older Iranians. However, new technology, including satellite television and the Internet, could be used as tools that connect young Iranians with other nations in the region, and the West.”

Those technologies – Internet access and satellite TV ownership – appeared to influence attitudes among Iranians, as did gender. Iranians with access to the Internet or satellite TV were significantly more likely than their “unconnected” compatriots to identify the United States as the country they admire the most. They were also significantly less likely to pick the U.S. government as the one they admire the least: one in three Iranians without Internet access (34%) chose the United States as least admired, compared with fewer than one in five Iranians with Internet access (18%), the poll shows.

The American government also appeared to attract more admiration from Iranians who favor a more secular or liberal direction for Iran.

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Giving water to a boy, North of Baghdad, Iraq (from bbc.co.uk, 2006)

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Sapere Aude! [dare to know] "Have courage to use your own understanding!"

Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)