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Olacağı Buydu! - Mümtaz Soysal

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http://www.haberinyeri.net/yazarlar.php?id=25

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Olacağı Buydu!- Mümtaz Soysal
26-08-2009

EVET, olacağı buydu ve oldu.

Türkiye gibi bir ülkede “etnik” konuları kaşırsanız, hangi yönde kaşımış olursanız olun, şöyle ya da böyle, yanlış ya da doğru, şurasından burasından etnik bir durumla ilişkilendirilebilecek bir olay çıkmış, ortalık karışmış ve hele şiddet kullanılmışsa, olay büyür, tartışma alevlenir, toplumun birbirine gireceği gün için tetikte bekleyenler kolları sıvar, gözler döner, yumruklar sıkılır, üzücü olaylar olur, huzur bozulur, güvenlik güçleri devreye girer, polisle jandarmayı birbirine düşürme kışkırtması başlar, “cumhuriyeti kollamak benim görevim” diyen asker de sert tepki gösterir ve birileri “Yine muhtıra gibi bir şey yedik” deyip üzülür, halkı da üzer.

Bereket, evet bereket, bu seferki olay ev sahibi bir takımın yenildiği futbol maçında çıktı da, başka türlü yorumlayabileceğimiz bir durumdan yararlanarak kolayca öyle yorumlayıp teselli bulabiliriz: “Yenilen bir takımın taraftarları ilk kez böyle yapmıyorlar ki!” diye.

Heyecan ve tutkunun büyük ağırlık taşıdığı sportif oyunlara etniklik karıştırmak kesinlikle yasaklanmıştır. Baruta ateşle gidilmez.

İsterseniz deneyin. Bir futbol turnuvasında Fransız milli takımı sahaya çıktığı zaman “Aaa, bunların yarıdan fazlası koyu esmer, Senegal asıllı, eski Cezayir vatandaşı, Fildişi Sahili’nden gelmiş” diyerek yayın yapın da bakın ne oluyor. Çünkü hepsi Fransız vatandaşlığını seçmiş, o üç renkli formayı giymişse artık Fransızdır; kimse onlar için değişik bir sıfat kullanamaz, FIFA’sından UEFA’sına bütün uluslararası kuruluşlar ve Fransa’nın resmi makamları tepenize biner, ananızdan emdiğiniz sütü burnunuzdan getirirler.

Dünya Atletizm Şampiyonluğu’nda Jamaikalı Usain Bolt 9.58’le 100 metre rekoru kırınca, “Adı Yuüseyn okunuyor, Hüseyin adlı bir Müslüman galiba” diye kimse dinini, mezhebini kurcalıyor mu?

Kim ne derse desin, bizler de Türklüğü seçmiş Elvan Abeylegesse 1.500 m. koşamayınca üzülüyor, Almitu Bekele 5.000’de finale kalınca sevinmiyor muyuz? O halde, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti vatandaşı olduğunuz halde “Türk” denince üzülmek ve düzeltmek niye? Haydi “Türk devletine vatandaşlık bağı ile bağlı olan herkes Türk’tür” diyen anayasa maddesi “kötü yazılmış” diye “Türkiyeli” falan gibi yeni sıfatlar bulmaya kalkıyorsunuz; hiç değilse “Türkiye’de din ve ırk ayırt edilmeksizin vatandaşlık bakımından herkese ‘Türk’ denir” diyen 1924 Anayasası’nın 88. maddesini de mi savunamazsınız?

İlkokulda “26 Ağustos gece sabaha karşı” diye başlayan manzumelerle öğrendiğimiz bir zaferin başlangıç yıldönümünü anımsarken bunları yazmak için mi geldik bugünlere? Türklerin tartışacak başka şeyi kalmamış mıdır ki, bunlarla uğraşmaktayız?

Olacağı bu olmamalıydı.

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Has anyone noticed how this privatized management group
the "moderate Islamic" AKP party is fantastic in manipulating the agenda?
No Economic problems.
No unemployment problems.
No Foreign trade deficet.
No High cost of energy.
No high cost of food.
No failure of the national education system.
No mid to long term plans for jobs creation.
No care for the Aged
No care for the orphans
No care for the physically and the mentally handicap.
No failure of the national health.
Etc...Etc...Etc...

So who's aganda is it???

tkm

Disrupt emergency exits to boost evacuation rates by Colin Barras

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http://sites.google.comhttp://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17672-disrupt-emergency-exits-to-boost-evacuation-rates.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news


New Scientist

Disrupt emergency exits to boost evacuation rates
by Colin Barras - 24 August 2009

Need to evacuate people quickly through a narrow opening? Put something in their way.

Physicists timed a crowd of 50 women as they exited as fast as possible through a door, and then repeated the experiment with a 20-centimetre-wide pillar placed 65 centimetres in front of the exit to the left-hand side.

The obstacle improved the exit rate by an extra seven people per minute – from 2.8 people to 2.92 people per second.

Daichi Yanagisawa at the University of Tokyo, Japan, who led the research team, explains that the pillar creates a relatively uncrowded area where it's needed most – just in front of the exit.

Usually, the exit becomes clogged by people competing for the small space, and the crowd is slowed. The pillar blocks pedestrians arriving at the exit from the left so effectively that the number of people attempting to occupy the space just in front of the exit is reduced, says Yanagisawa. With reduced crowding there are fewer conflicts and the outflow rate increases.

But the positioning of the pillar is crucial, says Yanagisawa. When the researchers moved the pillar so that it stood directly in front of the exit's centre, rather than to the left, the outflow rate dropped to 2.78.

That's because there's a second factor influencing outflow rate, dubbed the turning function. As pedestrians approach the busy doorway they weave and duck to squeeze through the crowd. With every turn they lose momentum and their walking speed decreases, which reduces the rate of outflow through the exit

With the pillar offset to the left, the turning function of pedestrians approaching the exit from the left increases. Although they take longer to reach the exit, the total effect is an increase in outflow rate since those approaching from the centre or the right have a comparatively free and empty route to the exit.

But if the pillar is central, it affects the turning function of most pedestrians approaching the exit. Because more pedestrians are slowed down by the obstacle, the total outflow rate drops.

The findings could be used to design better emergency exits, says Yanagisawa. Other crowd-manipulating barriers are already used at some exits, says Ed Galea, a mathematical modeller at the University of Greenwich in the UK, whose own research has shown how a perpendicular bisector barrier at an exit can also reduce conflicts and improve the flow rate.

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the above problem is very high in times of panic, Turkish
authorities should take note. - tkm

Lightning up, up and away...

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THANK YOU! - tkm


http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200935/4286/Scientists-successfully-snap-gigantic-jet-lightning-burst

The Tech Herald
Scientists successfully snap 'gigantic jet' lightning burst
by Stevie Smith - Aug 24 2009




..."The photographed electrical eruption, a lucky one-second shot revealed in a new meteorological study by Duke University in North Carolina, looks much like a giant hand reaching upwards from the storm and is believed to have travelled a distance of 40 miles towards the planet’s ionosphere during its brief flash of existence."...

Air Fat...

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Pavel Constantin - Romania


Riber Hansson - Sweden



Stink Kids...

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Relocalisation...

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I recommand the following blog:

ClubOrlov

http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/

The subjects are not light and can be bleak but there are solutions that make sense.


posts to read:

Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Definancialisation, Deglobalisation, Relocalisation

..."Good morning. The title of this talk is a bit of a mouthful, but what I want to say can be summed up in simpler words: we all have to prepare for life without much money, where imported goods are scarce, and where people have to provide for their own needs, and those of their immediate neighbours. I will take as my point of departure the unfolding collapse of the global economy, and discuss what might come next. It started with the collapse of the financial markets last year, and is now resulting in unprecedented decreases in the volumes of international trade. These developments are also starting to affect the political stability of various countries around the world. A few governments have already collapsed, others may be on their way, and before too long we may find our maps redrawn in dramatic ways."...
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Sunday, May 03, 2009

Calling American Swine

"A lot of people are panicked by the swine flu (H1N1) that has recently emerged in Mexico and has since spread across the American continent and far beyond. Panicking is a perfectly normal human response to frightening new things, one which we humans share with our relatives the apes and the monkeys. And, just like them, once we are done panicking, we try to find out what it was that had us panicked"...
Link to post:

http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2009_05_01_archive.html

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Monday, April 06, 2009

Burning our Bridges to the XXI Century

..."The future does not resemble the past – or does it? When the lights go out, people burn candles and oil lamps, just like they used to before the electric grid came into existence. No longer accustomed to working with open flame, they tend to set things on fire, and for a while, until they regain this experience or until natural selection whittles away the truly incompetent, the neighborhood is a constant blaze.

When we find out that the supermarket is out of food and that the cupboard is bare, we hunt, fish, forage, plant kitchen gardens, and start experimenting with raising poultry and rabbits. Those who are incapable of doing so, or who feel that such lowly pursuits are beneath their dignity, become dependent on the charity of those who are more adaptable, or starve."...

Link to post:
http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2009/04/burning-our-bridges-to-xxi-century.html

Enjoy
tkm

Of mites and men...

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slice of melon...

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Dear Readers,
Hope you are enjoying the summer.
Here is a painting made for one and all.
Enjoy,
tkm


Title: slice of melon, apples and pears(digital media)
Date: 10 - 08 - 2009
By: K. Talat Muskara

DL...

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Damien Glez - Burkina Faso



Pavel Constantin - Romania



Alex Falco - Cuba

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Note:
Dear Readers,
Around new year and summer, cartoonists take a brake and
until the end of September cartoons will be in scarce supply.
tkm


European Digital Rights...

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Dear Readers,
I recently subscribed to EDRI-gram, I recommend WE(all internet users)should be more aware of our rights or our diminishing rights
under the pretense of a few bad apples(00.05 % of users)and most
of these fears are over blown.

We should be demanding mush better securities from our credit card
and banking service providers and companies large and small(this
includes the one person operators).

Let's not turn the internets into TV...

tkm
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http://www.edri.org/about

..."European Digital Rights was founded in June 2002. Currently 28 privacy and civil rights organisations have EDRI membership. They are based or have offices in 17 different countries in Europe.

Members of European Digital Rights have joined forces to defend civil rights in the information society. The need for cooperation among organizations active in Europe is increasing as more regulation regarding the internet, copyright and privacy is originating from European institutions, or from International institutions with strong impact in Europe.

Some examples of regulations and developments that have the attention of European Digital Rights are data retention requirements, spam, telecommunications interception, copyright and fair use restrictions, the cyber-crime treaty, rating, filtering and blocking of internet content and notice-and-takedown procedures of websites.
European Digital Rights takes an active interest in developments regarding these subjects in all 45 member states of the Council of Europe.

Since January 2003, European Digital Rights produces EDRI-gram, a bi-weekly newsletter about digital civil rights in Europe."...

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