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Walden is Henry David Thoreau’s account of the two years he spent living in a small cabin he built in the woods next to Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. The book roughly follows the seasons of the year, and uses the seasonal changes as a framework in which to talk about wealth, money, academic study, nature, and spirituality. Thoreau begins with a long chapter on Economy, stating his case for moving to the woods, not paying taxes (for which Thoreau was jailed briefly during his two years at Walden), and surviving only off what he grew on the land near his cabin. A life of simplicity, for which he argues in the first chapter, is a recurring theme throughout the book.Thoreau considers many aspects of the world around Walden. He allows each thing he spends time examining to take his thoughts towards higher moral and intellectual standards, as well as towards a very honest and respectful celebration of nature. He is particularly excited about the character, appearance, and characteristics of Walden Pond, and spends much of the book both describing the pond and singing the praises of its uniqueness.Not content to limit his observations to the natural world only, Thoreau chronicles his encounters with many hunters, loggers, and other manual laborers who come to the pond. An entire chapter is dedicated to people who once lived near the pond, but have since passed away. He also mentions some of his closest friends and intellectual partners, who regularly pay visits to Thoreau.Although Thoreau places a higher value on natural observation than anything else, he also places great weight on knowledge, and thoughtful, careful intellectual argument, which he feels is best undertaken in a natural setting. Thoreau quotes from many spiritual books, including Hindu, Christian, Confucian, and Roman writings. He also treats many books on farming, botany, and other aspects of nature as if they were religious texts.Thoreau concludes the book by writing about truth, which he feels can be found both in nature, and in people who fully live up to their potential. In addition, he reiterates his feeling that people should never presume to be important or exceedingly valuable until they have succeeded in exploring every part, not of the world, but of themselves. Thoreau says that he left the woods to explore other parts of himself.

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The Two Towers
The Two Towers is composed of Books 3 and 4, recounting the deeds of the company after the breaking of the Fellowship of the Ring. The story begins with the repentance and death of Boromir, who has tried (unsuccessfully) to wrest the ring away from Frodo. Merry and Pippin are kidnapped by orc-soldiers and they are taken towards Isengard, while Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli are in pursuit. The Riders of Rohan appear, led by Éomer the Marshal, and they destroy the orcs. The hobbits escape and meet Treebeard, the Ent, secret master of Fangorn. Treebeard rouses the Tree-folk against Isengard and the forces of evil.Meanwhile, Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli cross paths with Éomer and they meet Gandalf again, who is returned from death as the White Rider, veiled in grey. With Gandalf, they advance to the halls of King Théoden and Gandalf heals the king and rescues him from the spells of Wormtongue, an evil counselor who is in secret league with the enemy. The combined forces continue on towards Isengard, a fortress that has been destroyed by the Tree-folk. Saruman and Wormtongue are trapped in the tower of Orthanc. Saruman will not repent before Gandalf and so Gandalf breaks his staff and removes him from the council of wizards. Wormtongue throws a stone out of the window but he fails to it Gandalf; the stone turns out to be a palantír, one of the Seeing Stones of Númenor. Peregrin picks it up and gives it to Gandalf, but later in the night he falls to the lure of the palantír and steals it. When he looks into it, he is revealed to Sauron. Gandalf forgives Pippin and he gives the palantír to Aragorn, riding away (with Pippin) towards Minas Tirith.Book Four (the second half of The Two Towers) focuses on Frodo and Samwise, who arelost and wandering through the somber war-torn region of hilly Emyn Muil. Gollum (who is also called Sméagol) as been spying on the hobbits and following their trail. Here in Emyn Muil, Frodo tames Gollum and Gollum serves Frodo (at least temporarily) as a servant serves his master. Gollum leads Frodo and Sam through the Dead Marshes until they reach the Morannon, the Black Gate of the Land of Mordor in the North. They are unable to pass through the gate and so Frodo accepts Gollum’s advice to seek a “secret entrance” which is at the western walls of Mordor in the Mountains of Shadow. As they continued on the journey, the travelers encountered Faramir, the brother of Boromir, who was leading a scouting-force of the Men of Gondor. Faramir learns about the Ring but he overcomes the temptation that overcame his brother, Boromir. Faramir helps the hobbits by replenishing their dwindling supplies. Frodo, Sam and Gollum make their way to Cirith Ungol, the Spider’s Pass. Faramir warned Frodo and Sam that this pass was a place of mortal peril, of which Gollum had told them less than he knew. The travelers reach the Cross-roads and take the road that leads to Minas Morgul; in the darkness, they can see the mobilization of Sauron’s first army, led by the black King of the Ringwraiths.Gollum guides the hobbits to a secret path that strays away from the city and they reach Cirith Ungol. Here, Gollum betrays the hobbits, intending to lead them to a monster called Shelob, who would devour them. Gollum’s plan is frustrated by Sam’s bravery: he chases Gollum away and wounds Shelob, as well. Frodo is stung by Shelob and he appears dead. Sam concludes that he must continue the quest alone and abandon his master, but as he is about to cross into Mordor, Sam overhears the orcs. He learns that Frodo is not dead but drugged. The orcs carry Frodo’s body down a tunnel leading to the rear gate of the tower and Sam is unable to keep up with them. He passes out and Book 4 comes to an end.J.R.R. Tolkien

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The leaders of the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities have welcomed a new UN initiative that could lead to the revival of comprehensive Cyprus peace talks next year.

The UN has sent a letter to the leaders of the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities, proposing a set of practical measures to pave the way for the resumption of the Cyprus reunification talks before the end of March 2007.
Greek Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos said on Sunday (November 19th) that he had responded positively to the document, sent three days earlier by UN Undersecretary-general for Political Affairs Ibrahim Gambari.
The three-page letter reportedly recommends steps to speed up the implementation of a deal Papadopoulos and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat reached in July, but with little progress to date.
Under the July 8th agreement, brokered by Gambari, the two sides were to start two-tier negotiations on substantial and practical day-to-day issues as a first step towards the eventual revival of the Cyprus peace talks.
The latest international effort to end the Mediterranean island's more than 30-year old division ended in failure in April 2004, when Greek Cypriots overwhelmingly rejected the Cyprus reunification plan proposed by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. While the majority of Turkish Cypriots approved the blueprint, only the internationally recognised, Greek-run south of the island eventually joined the EU in May of that year.
"While expressing sincere gratitude to you for leadership, flexibility and courage that you showed in reaching the July 8 agreement, I would like to draw attention to the fact that it has been more than four months since then," the Cyprus Mail quoted Gambari's letter as reading.
As a first step, he proposed that the working groups of experts tasked with discussing substantial political issues and the technical committees discussing practical day-to-day issues should start drawing up a list of subjects for discussion.
Seven days after the groups have begun work and provided they have carried out their initial tasks, a meeting between Papadopoulos and Talat should take place, Gambari suggested. Subsequently, the two leaders should meet at least every four weeks to assess the progress made.
If satisfactory progress is achieved, the UN secretary general eventually could decide to re-launch formal negotiations, the letter said.
Turkish Cypriot spokesman Hasan Ercakica said on Friday that the Turkish Cypriots welcomed Gambari's new initiative.
Talat, meanwhile, met with Annan in Geneva on Monday. Speaking to reporters afterwards, the outgoing secretary-general said the UN wishes to see "actions from both sides that close the gap between words and deeds".
For his part, Talat said he hoped Greek and Turkish Cypriots would resume "full-fledged negotiations in the near future" on the reunification of the island.
"We will act with all our goodwill," he said. "We are very genuine and we really want the unification of the island and we will do our best."

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SKOPJE, Macedonia -- Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski met on Thursday (November 23rd) with Hungarian counterpart Ferenc Gyurcsany, who told him Macedonia's goal of joining NATO in 2008 is realistic. However, Gyurcsany added, significant reforms must be implemented, especially those related to Macedonia's other goal of EU integration. The officials also discussed Macedonia's new economic reforms, particularly selected tax cuts and efforts to create a free trade zone aimed at attracting more foreign investment.
Also Thursday, Macedonia launched its first Special Operations Regiment. The new unit is part of the defence reform strategy, aimed at creating a mobile, well-trained professional army.

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Walden is Henry David Thoreau’s account of the two years he spent living in a small cabin he built in the woods next to Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. The book roughly follows the seasons of the year, and uses the seasonal changes as a framework in which to talk about wealth, money, academic study, nature, and spirituality. Thoreau begins with a long chapter on Economy, stating his case for moving to the woods, not paying taxes (for which Thoreau was jailed briefly during his two years at Walden), and surviving only off what he grew on the land near his cabin. A life of simplicity, for which he argues in the first chapter, is a recurring theme throughout the book.Thoreau considers many aspects of the world around Walden. He allows each thing he spends time examining to take his thoughts towards higher moral and intellectual standards, as well as towards a very honest and respectful celebration of nature. He is particularly excited about the character, appearance, and characteristics of Walden Pond, and spends much of the book both describing the pond and singing the praises of its uniqueness.Not content to limit his observations to the natural world only, Thoreau chronicles his encounters with many hunters, loggers, and other manual laborers who come to the pond. An entire chapter is dedicated to people who once lived near the pond, but have since passed away. He also mentions some of his closest friends and intellectual partners, who regularly pay visits to Thoreau.Although Thoreau places a higher value on natural observation than anything else, he also places great weight on knowledge, and thoughtful, careful intellectual argument, which he feels is best undertaken in a natural setting. Thoreau quotes from many spiritual books, including Hindu, Christian, Confucian, and Roman writings. He also treats many books on farming, botany, and other aspects of nature as if they were religious texts.Thoreau concludes the book by writing about truth, which he feels can be found both in nature, and in people who fully live up to their potential. In addition, he reiterates his feeling that people should never presume to be important or exceedingly valuable until they have succeeded in exploring every part, not of the world, but of themselves. Thoreau says that he left the woods to explore other parts of himself.

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Pamuk to Spiegel: “Turks Should Celebrate the Nobel Prize”
Somewhat dismayed that his Nobel prize was not received with unanimous adulation in his own country, novelist Orhan Pamuk said “we should celebrate the Nobel prize” as a symbol that there does not have to be a clash between the East and the West. In a February 2005 interview Pamuk gave to the Das Magazin magazine distributed as a supplement with the Swiss newspapers Tages-Anzeiger, Basler Zeitung, Berner Zeitung and Solothurner Tagblatt, he said “thirty thousand Kurds and one million Armenians were killed in these lands but no one has the courage to talk about these things.” Pamuk drew the ire of a wide segment of the Turkish public and was accused of ingratiating himself to the Nobel selection committee. There were a number of commentators in Turkey who at the time said “now Pamuk will certainly win the Nobel Literature prize,” implying the Nobel committee would choose EU politics over the inherent artistic merits of Pamuk's work. In an interview he gave to the German Spiegel magazine, Pamuk said “the prize that I was honored with should receive acceptance in Turkey and be a reason for joy. We should celebrate this award as an honor for the Turkish literature which has an extraordinary past and great importance. I am writing in Turkish. I'm a part of this literature. As someone who is seen as fit for this prize, I am a representative of this tradition.”

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How Communism (Almost) Killed the Black Sea
Click on the image to see it largerThe November 2006 issue of Scientific American has a fascinating article on "Reviving Dead Zones" which goes into the details of how the Black Sea was almost lost to heavy pollution but made a miraculous come back during the '90s.The culprit? Not anything you would suspect.Believe it or not, the culprits were the communist regimes that ruled Eastern Europe and to a certain extent, Ukraine. This is my summary of the amazing causality chain between the nature of a political regime and environmental pollution:1) The centralized communist regimes, as well as highly industrial European countries like Germany, heavily subsidized the use of fertilizers. They have also encouraged huge animal production facilities, like the 1-million head hog farm in Romania which produced as much sewage as a city of 5 million.2) The increased nitrogen content, phosphorus effluent and sewage washed off to the Black Sea mainly through the Danube River. 3) "As nutirent effluents [kept pouring into the Black Sea] dense phytoplankton blooms appeared in the surface waters [see the satellite photo above]."4) "Such luxuriant growth lowered water transparency..."5) "... which in turn deprived the bottom algae of light and eventually led to their loss, which altered the entire natural ecosystem [of the Black Sea]."6) Oxygen levels in the water started to fall, which led to...Click on the image to see it larger7) ... the death of mollusks en masse, which led bacteria and other organisms to consume the remaining local oxygen...8) ... which basically led to the slow suffocation of the Western Black Sea region [see the infra-red before-after satellite photos in the insert].So how did the recovery happen?"The area began to recover only when the communist regimes in eastern Europe fell at the end of 1989, ending central economic planning. Suddenly farmers there had little capital to buy fertilizer, so agricultural activities slowed. Likewise, many giant animal farms closed, thus profoundly reducing nutrient runoff... Within six years the profound drop-off in nutrient influx led to shrinkage of the dead zone."Read the whole article for a more detailed explanation of how Western Black Sea turned from the brink of extinction, thanks to the collapse of the centralized planned economies that fed junk into Danube.

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Turkey warned of EU 'train crash'
United Press InternationalLUXEMBOURG, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- EU leaders have warned Turkey thatFinland's compromise on relations with Cyprus is the only route tospeedy membership in the European Union.The warning that Turkey could be heading for a "train crash" in itsquest to join came during a meeting Monday in Luxembourg between theforeign ministers of Turkey, Germany and Finland; Olli Rehn, the EUenlargement director, and Javier Solana, its chief diplomat, The NewAnatolian reported."We may have the last window of opportunity on the Cyprus issue in thecoming weeks or months for a very long time, perhaps for years," Rehntold reporters before the meeting.Under the Finnish proposal, the EU would grant free trade to the TurkishRepublic of Northern Cyprus in return for the hand-over of Varosha, anabandoned town, to Cyprus.Turkey's failure to develop relations with Cyprus, which is a member ofthe union, is the major stumbling block. So far, Turkish officials havesaid that the EU would have to recognize Turkish Cyprus first.

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In the "Who Wants to Enter the European Union?" version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?", the host French President Jacques Chirac asks the 1575th question to contestant Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan: "Which comes first, chicken or the egg?" There are 4 possible answers: 1) Chicken, 2) Egg, 3) Chickens do not lay eggs, 4) Egg yolk. When Erdogan wants tyo use his "Life Line," the computer wipes away all 4 answers instead of the customary 2. Chirac hands over a partial check to Erdogan and asks him to come back again next year as a contestant, while quipping that perhaps Turkey should join the "Youth Union" (Genclerbirligi), a soccer team from Ankara.

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AKP Bingol Deputy Fevzi Berdibek displays for the Turkish TV cameras the sledge hammer with which they broke the bulletproof glass of PM Erdogan's official Mercedes Benz to save him from a diabetic coma while he was locked up in his car. The incident was triggered when PM Erdogan was taken to a hospital after not feeling too good at the end of a fasting day. But once they arrived at the hospital, those who were with him in the car, including his driver, left the vehicle in a panic for reasons still unknown. Then what happened next caught everyone by a nasty surprise: the fully automated and computerized car locked all the doors, trapping the ailing Prime Minister all alone inside. Since Erdogan was in a diabetic shock and could not help himself out of the car, others had to break the windows with the sledge hammer that AKP Deputy Berbidek proudly introduced to the Turkish press corps as the real "hero" of the scary incident. ( KAHRAMAN BALYOZ DİĞER ADIYLA BALYOZ-U ŞERİF )

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