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"Times are that tough for UK academics!"
(D.Chandler)

Although I feel, I am back into my first stage, I am really enjoying studying semiotics in print journalism. It is real fun to look through all your knowledge in a different way and with a different purpose.

I liked the simplifying way of complex logic of the semiotics in Chandler’s assay, linked below. Apart from that, I think it is a very encouraging way of teaching, including all this serial books published specially for the beginners. If we need adopt something from the Europian System of Teaching, that is one of them."To teach and to learn systematically."  Whereas, the Europian academics are more lucky than our accademics in Cetral Asia.Though Chandler does not think so. You may read his opinion on the preface of his assay where he says: Times are that tough for UK academics!  

find the link here: Semiotics for beginners
by Daniel Chandler

bfi 48th

48th  London Film Festival

It's a  pity that  there is no Russian shift on this computer, where I am now. But... never mind, I just wanted to express my happiness about "48th bfi".
It's been tree months, I haven't been in the cinema. Although I borrow at least one or two films from the local Video Centre or from the college library each week.
There are Iranian, Russian, Poland and Czech films, which I would love see.

Find the link here:

Intelligence from tortured Uzbeks attacked

By Stefan Wagstyl, Central and East Europe Editor
Published: October 11 2004 03:00

Craig Murray, ambassador to Uzbekistan, has protested over the government's use of intelligence information obtained under torture. Uzbek officials are torturing prisoners to extract information, which is supplied to the US and passed through its Central Intelligence Agency to the UK, says Mr Murray in a confidential Foreign Office report seen by the Financial Times. "Tortured dupes are forced to sign confessions showing what the Uzbek government wants the US and UK to believe - that they and we are fighting the same war against terror . . . This is morally, legally and practically wrong," he says. Mr Murray adds that the intelligence material is useless because it is designed by the Uzbek authorities to support their claim that they are a vital part of the global war on terror. The Uzbeks exaggerate the activity of local militants and their links with al-Qaeda. "We are selling our souls for dross."

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Nobel Prize in Literature: Austrian novelist Elfriede Jelinek was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on October 7. True to the mood of despair cast in her novels (which include The Piano Teacher, Lust, and Women as Lovers), Jelinek, 57, said that she "can't stand" the attention and plans to "disappear" and not attend the December 10 ceremony in Stockholm to retrieve the prize. "One the one hand it's an honor and I'm happy, but on the other hand, I'm fearing that my calm life is at risk," she told the press. Jelinek said she writes to defend "the weak," and her most recent release, Bambiland, a play, condemns the American invasion of Iraq. "The side of the powerful is not literature's side," she contended.  On October 7, The Piano Teacher hit 48 on Amazon.com's sales list. ( Read more here)

Letters to a Yong Poet:  Today I would like to tell you just one more thing:

Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments. When you are fully creative, try to use it, as one more way to take hold of life. Used purely, it too is pure, and one needn't be ashamed of it; but if you feel yourself becoming too familiar with it, if you are afraid of this growing familiarity, then turn to great and serious objects, in front of which it becomes small and helpless. Search into the depths of Things: there, irony never descends - and when you arrive at the edge of greatness, find out whether this way of perceiving the world arises from a necessity of your bei9ng. For under the influence of serious Things it will either fall away from you (if it is something accidental), or else (if it is really innate and belongs to you) it will grow strong, and become a serious tool and take its place among the instruments which you can form your art with.

Ranier Maria Rilke

Портрети марди Шурави

Ин равшантарин тасвирест аз Шурави ки ба калами устод Ойдини Окдошлу наккоши маъруфи эрони махсуб аст. Корхои бештари уро инчо метавонед бибинед