Kosovo

former world junior champion

Albania and Azerbaiyán already tried to sing her but she’s still thinking on participate under the Kosovan flag, because she’s the only one able to participate in the whole conuntry. There are other athlets but it’s not sure that they will acomplish the officcial standards to participate in case to be recognised as a participant country, and they have to face other issues like not be recognised as an International Federation in their own sports or to not have enough resources to train themselves. Because of that, most of them already participate in International competitions representing other countries.

In the other hand, Serbia expects kosovan athletes to participate under their flag, Vlade Divac -president of the Olympic Serbian Comitee- said it maybe because they want to get more medals than in Beijing -where they get just 3-, even if it’s hard to imagine Kelmendi in the serbian delegation. The serbian possibilities are the Handball, Waterpolo, Tennis and Voleyball teams and some swimmers and taekwondo athlets. It’s interesting to see what the interviewer asked to these serbian taekwondo athlete: “How do you feel about playing for Serbia at the Olympic Games?” and “How do you imagine you will be feeling while standing under Serbia’s flag at the Olympic Games?” Those are 2 from 8 questions but the answer of Dragana Gladovi is even better: “All of us professional athletes are great patriots. The joy that we all feel the moment we see the Serbian flag raised is hard to describe”.

Again sport, despite what anyone says, is more than sport. Is made by humans and there are also feelings. The Kosovo inclusion or not in the London Olympic Games, and how they and Serbia will react is polithical and it will be interesting to keep an eye on it.

“Re Re Re Ra Ra Ra Galatasaray Galatasaray Cim Bom Bom, Re Re Re Ra Ra Ra Galatasaray Galatasaray Cim Bom Bom”

I am fan of Galatasaray in the Turkish Super League.My point is that there is just one team to support in Turkish Super League,it is Galatasaray for sure.Galatasaray is the bigest football club in the Turkish Super League.So why am I writing Galatasaray?Because,Galatasaray took champion cup last weekend.Galatasaray took a lot of cup but this time was different.I will explain it but firstly we look Galatasaray s achivements.

Turkish Super League Cup          18

Turkish Cup                                       14

UEFA Cup                                            1

Europen Super Cup                         1

Last weekend,Galatasaray played with Fenerbahce in the Fenerbahce’s field (Sukru Saracoglu).It was  amazing.Because  If Fenerbahce won that match,Fenerbahce would take Turkish Super League Cup.Our league is  changed by Turkish Football Federation.During last seasons,the league was playing normally.But this season,the  league played normally firstly and first of four teams matched for champion cup.Galatasaray finished first team in  normal season.And then Galatasaray matched six matches more.Finally we took champion cup in the Fenerbahce   s field.Happy End for us 90

I have to tell Galatasaray s players.Because they gave a lot of energy.

Muslera : He is from Uruguay,Galatasaray had goalkeeper problem last years but Galatasaray transfered Muslera.He is talented. He also broke a new club record for every foreign player scoring for Galatasaray in a single season. The same match also resulted in Muslera keeping his 16th clean sheet of the season, an all time league record.

Ujfalusi : Ujfalusi signed for Super League powerhouse Galatasaray last year.He came to Galatasaray from Atletico Madrid,He is old player perhaps but he is good defencer

Selcuk Inan : Wikipedia says

“He currently plays as a midfielder for the Turkish team Galatasaray in the Super League. Usually deployed as a midfielder for both Galatasaray and Turkey. He is also a set-piece specialist and his style of play is compared to Xavi Hernández.”

I won t write anything more about Selcuk

Elmander :He came to Galatasaray from Bolton last year.He is Galatasaray s power in the attack field.He played thirty six matches and He scored twelve goals.

Felipe Melo : He joined to Galatasaray from Juventus.During season he punched Albert Riera.It was terrible for Galatasaray but Manager who is Fatih Terim didn t get to team firstly.And then both of them came to Fatih Terim.They apolagized to him.Finally Fatih Terim decided that they could stay in the team.He is agressive but he is good defancive midllefielder.

Manager of Galatasaray – Fatih Terim :In this time,Fatih Terim is the most succeeded manager in the Turkey.He played in Galatasaray as well. His nickname is ?mparator, which is the Turkish word for “Emperor”. He managed Fiorentina and Milan in Italy League.This nickname is also widely used in Italy in his reference. When Galatasaray took Uefa Cup,Fatih Terim was managing Galatasaray.When Turkish National Team went to half final for Europen Cup,Fatih Terim was  managing Turkish national Team.

When I finish my article,I just say :

I love Galatasaray

“Re Re Re Ra Ra Ra Galatasaray Galatasaray Cim Bom Bom, Re Re Re Ra Ra Ra Galatasaray Galatasaray Cim Bom Bom”

Astral projecting denotes the astral body leaving the physical body to travel in the astral plane. It is therefore associated with near death experiences and is also spontaneously experienced in association with sleep and dreams, illness, surgical operations, drug experiences, sleep paralysis and forms of meditation.

We can find astral projecting in literature on witchcraft, shamanism, philosophy, in myths and religious scripts.

Western philosophy: the astral body is a body of light linking the rational soul to the physical body while the astral plane is a world of light between Heaven and Earth, composed of the spheres of the planets and stars populated by angels, demons and spirits.

Islam: in the Quran, Muhammad is transported to Jerusalem and onward to seven heavens, even though “the apostle’s body remained where it was”.

Ancient Egypt: ancient Egyptian teachings present the soul as having the ability to hover outside the physical body in the ‘ka’, or subtle body.

well, at least there was sunshine and less i knew that budapest would become
the best part of this trip. but lets start in the beginning.

when i was waiting after my breakfast at mc donalds i saw a lot people crossing
the train station and i cant remember when i saw so many nazis on a big train
station..

there are two parties one should know to understand the current politics in
hungary: fidesz and jobbik.

when fidesz was founded in 1988 it was a liberal-democratic party. within a few
years more and more conflicts occurred inside the party and when fidesz refused
to agree to a coalition with sozialists and liberals the party split and orban
was able to push the party in a nationalistic direction.

in the end of the 1990s, at the same time when fidesz won the elections in
1998, there was also a youth group founded which was close to the miep party
where mostly young right-wing extremists were members.  in the mentioned youth circle pupils tried to
influence their fellow classmates with anti-semitic and racist ideology. this
youth circle can be seen as the parent of the jobbik party which was founded in
2003 after fidesz and miep lost the elections.

between 2002 and 2010, when fidesz again won the elections, both parties (fidesz
and jobbik) tried to put pressure on the left and liberal parties in power.
jobbik founded their paramilitary hungarian guard which mostly marches on the
countryside, beats and kills roma. in autumn 2006 fidesz and jobbik tried to
initiate what they call a “national revolution” followed by an anti-semitic,
racist and antiziganist election campaign. in 2010 fidesz won 2/3 of the votes
– jobbik became the third strongest party in hungary.

both parties are very close – in personnel, history and ideology – and were
able to change the country within a few years. a completely new constitution
was established which allows a strong limitation of the freedom of the press
and since the first of january of 2012 the name was changed from “republic of
hungary” to “hungary”. following their nationalsocialistic ideology fidesz
tries to protect the hungarian economy from foreign investors with their
“raffendem/exploitative” capital (1) and remembers on public buildings on the
“national revolution” from 2010 (2). a lot of conflicts with the neighbor
countries, especially with slovakia, the hungarian government forces because
they offer hungarians in the neighboring countries the hungarian citizenship
and initiated the 4^th of june as a national holiday where the
country shall remember the loss of territory after world war 1^st.

this is the climate in hungary – even if you don’t really get it as a tourist
because you don’t speak the language – if you talk to people who dont fell
for the nationalist and facist madness they
will tell you what’s going on and why they are disappointed, why they want to
leave or why they fear to be recognized as leftist or roma on the street…

(1) “exploitative capital”:
a term used in nationalsocialistic germany where the nationalsocialistic critics
of capitalism differed between “productive” and “non-productive/ exploitative”
capital – in the ns-ideology the “productive capital” benefits “volk” and father country –
the collective – while the “exploitative capital” only benefits egoistic aims
and was especially associated with judaism and jewish people. (see also
conspiracy theories about “the jewish eastcoast” and theories about ns as
“antithesis to the international capitalism”)).
(2) Böhler, Rupert: Rechts ist, wo die Mitte ist, in: Unique, edition 07/11, Vienna, online source: http://www.univie.ac.at/unique/uniquecms/?p=822

Beldocs Festival is a film festival which is held in different locations, such as Dom Omladine, Sava Centar and Dom kulture Studentski Grad. The tickets cost between nothing and 350 Dinar, and attending the festival is therefore definitely an affordable past-time activity.

Most of the movies shown at the festival were in Serbian, but there was also an international section which featured movies in various languages that were equipped with either Serbian or, occasionally, English subtitles.

An example for this is the German movie “This ain’t California”, which is one of the two movies I watched at the festival. It’s a 90-minute long documentary about the rise and development of the skateboarding scene in Eastern Germany at the time. This is a very interesting topic seeing as this is completely opposed to how the GDR  was supposed to work… “the streets weren’t for playing”, as the movie says itself.

A scene from the movie "This ain't California"

“This ain’t California” is an interesting movie about the beginning of skateboarding in Eastern Germany… a movement that was in such contrast to everything the GDR was, and wanted to, stand for. As the short summary on website states: ““Skating as freedom” is one of the leitmotifs of this film. Skating “without pressure to be better than someone else,” as one of the main characters puts it, became the goal in hindsight, or, said downright harshly, “the desire for freedom turned lifestyle”. Unbelievable, if not for the simple fact that this Californian fun could find its expression in the GDR.”

It is a, in my opinion, great movie, not only for the story itself, but also for the original GDR-footage and the well chosen background music. I would definitely recommend watching this movie even if you are not that interested in skateboarding itself, because the movie illustrates the culture and nature of the GDR very nicely in a way that is different from the usual. Definitely not your average documentary.

You can watch the trailer to “This ain’t California” here: http://youtu.be/v79ARb8dFSY

Though I have to say that it was much better at the festival, because the movie was in German (keeping the original dialect of the main narrator), with subtitles, rather than dubbed to English.

You might also want to check out the movie’s website and short summary here: http://www.thisaintcalifornia.de/en/about-movie

I wanted to visit my friend Muhammed who is my friend from my city.He lives in Kocani.And I had to go Kocani.I did not guess that Kocani is too much far away to Skopje but I travell three hour more.I was dying.Fortunately I arrived to Kocani.I went to sleep fast.

I slept four hours moreless and we went to visit city centrum.Kocani is not big city but it is nice city.I like it.Probably they don t like Kocani who live there.It is because of there is no job for people.There are living people who speak Turkish from Ottoman.And also there are a few historical buildings from Ottoman to keep city.Also Skopje has a lot of old buildings left Ottoman.

I met someone that his name is Seven,He also speaks Turkish but He did not stop to talk.He was just  like automatic gun.When he speaks in Turkish,he was adding many words from the  Macedonian,I got dificulty to understand him and he was lying a lot.And I was saying a lot of words myself.I dont like this kind of shit man.Finally he went outside and I could sleep.(I could not find to tell something,I told Seven,I have to write )

I think,I stayed in the Kocani six days and I passed to Skopje to come Belgrade.There was enough time to visit Skopje for me.And I started to walk around Skopje.There were many policeman in the city center.I learned later from Pol that Skopje had murder around those days.But I did not have any problem with policeman.I took a lot of pictures in Skopje.

When I walking city center,I saw presentation.There were kids who has our traditional clothes.And I got close to them.Yes,they were  Turkish dance team.I saw their organization.But unfortunality my camera needed to have new batary.They were empty.I went a shop to buy batary.I said in English

-         Do you have batary for camera like this?

He said in Turkish

-Var var,olmaz m? …

Pol can be angry for  that picture, “Where is Barcelona s one ?”

I found an old car again,I tried to buy it,It was imposible

Angry Birds is a strategy puzzle video game published by Rovio Mobile. The game was designed after caricatures  of wingless birds and was published for Apple’s iOS in 2009. Since then it has been bought over 12 million times in Apple’s app store, pushing the developers to share the game onto other platforms, such as: Windows, Mac, Android, PS3 & PSP and WebGL (playable in web browsers, don;t need plugins). The game is loved for it’s addictive gameplay, comical style and low price (free mobile app) and with a combined of 500 million downloads, the game can easily be proclaimed one of the most successful mobile app of all times and one of the most mainstream games out right now.

In Angry Birds, the player controls a variety of multicolored birds in attempt to destroy the green pigs who have stolen their eggs. On each level, the pigs are placed between structures made of various materials such as wood, stone and ice and the objective of the game is to eliminate all the pigs on each level. As the game progresses, new types of birds with unique functions are available to wipe out the pigs. You have the standard red bird, the yellow bird (speed power-up), the black bird (explosive), the blue bird (splits into 3 smaller birds), the green bird (boomerang-like ability) and the big red bird (massive, crushing ability). Each bird is effective at destroying different materials with different outcomes, allowing the player to create various strategies.

The first release contained 1 chapter with 63 levels, but with its growing popularity, Rovio expanded the game with a totalof 7 new chapters. In 2010, a new game was released, called Angry Birds Seasons. It contains new chapters, each of them based on special events like the Haloween, Christmas, Easter and Valentine’s day edition. In 2011 Rovio released Angry Birds Rio, based on the animated film Rio, where the Angry Birds characters appear in Rio de Janeiro and interact with characters from the film. In 2012 Angry Birds Space was released, with its name cleverly suggesting where the action is taking place.

Now I am gonna explain my trip to Cappadocia with my friends.It was last year.First station was Avanos for us.Avanos has many kind of dish,bowl and pot which are made by clay.They are making those stuff with their hands.They collect clay from river which is the longest river in Turkey.Its name is the Kizilirmak(Red River).

And also Avanos has famous wine.Wine is producing  here.When wine produces,the solution which uses to make wine,does not have sun shine.And they stock them without sunshine.Important thing is that,And other thing is that its expensive a little bit.I dont know,I am not sure but you can like Avanos wine probably.

Whatever,We visited a lot of place in Avanos and then we went to Goreme.Goreme is a small city.And for sure,it has many old buildings.We saw strange vehicle.It was looking so good.We had to go Cavusin but Firstly we should be full And go to eat …

Yesss,We arrived Cavusin finally.Cavusin was more interesting for me.Because there was  “fairy chimneys”(We say Peribacalari in Turkish but probably Google translate is not true way ) Peribacalari is made by nature 100 percent.It is amazing.Wind,rain,cold,hot make that.And as you can see,there was snow in there.I think ,They are looking better with snow.

I was excited to see all of beauties.Once upon in time,the people were living here with lots of dificulty.Can you think that they made those house with their hands,I mean they made them that they gouge

I know that there is a city where is under of earth,but we could not have opportunity to visit there.When I was child,I visited that city .For me,all of them are beatiful but city of under earth was amazing,so amazing.I offer all of you that you see there.

End of the day we were so tired but we were happy to visit Cappadocia.We started to travell at 05:00 am ,When we returned to home,it was 01:00 am.If I have opportunity more,I want to visit there again.

See you later.Cao

Orhan Cemal Sahan

VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InYMIzsNDrU

Communism in Rumania

The dictator Nicolae Ceauscescu was ruling Romania from 1967 until his death in 1989. The communist leader was killed with his wife by the population in a violent riot in Budapest. Ceaucescu‘s regime was one of the hardest in therms of repression and hard live, actually it’s possible to have an idea about how it was thanks to this web which tries to give an example of the daily life during those years.

Football in Romania

The sport was one of the most important tools to rule the country for the Ceaucescu‘s family. His wife Elena and his son Valentin were deeply envolved on it. Both were supporting different teams: Dinamo and Steuaua, as usual the one formed by the secret police and the on formed by the army. In fact, under Elena‘s orders the goverment was suspicious to pay the opponent defenders, goalkeppers and refrees to get better results; still nowadays Dinamo Bucarest is the team with more ‘Golden Boots‘ in the football history. 4 exactly, after the last and suspicious one given to Camataru, who ‘scores’ 44 goals in one season.

VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAgNQGlQW2k

The first European Cup

Let’s come back to our hero, Belodedici. His role in the Steuaua’s team was really important and with him they achieve the first European Cup for a Balkan team, after beating -and that’s really painfull for me- FC Barcelona in the final. After a 0-0 match, the romanians won in the penalties round leaded by the coach Jenei and his assistant who never played in the whole season but cames up to the field the last 17th minutes to calm everyone down. But Belodedici didn’t like the way the victory was assumed by the regime: “I didn’t like the regime [...] I didn’t like the way the players were treated after the European Cup victory [...]  They weren’t allowed to go abroad [...] I decided to go to the team I loved most, Red Star; I didn’t have a clue that there would be a revolution after a year“.

VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKLMi2Ojxm8

The escape

The message was clear: Before the world Cup in 1990 no national stars would go out the country. Our player asked Valentin Ceaucescu for his passport arguing a theorical trip to visit his family in Iugoslavia (Serbia) with his mother. Belodedici drove above the border but then he had to wait for his sister -without any passport- to cross the Danube river and join him in the Iugoslavian side of the border trying to skip the soldier patrols. Once in Serbia he had to explain his story hundreds of times before to be trusted by the Red Star president, in fact a friend of him was close to convince him to play for Partizan, but finally he was trusted and joined the Crvena Zvesda team.

The second one

Wanted in Romania for desertion -as a Steuaua player he had a military rank- and pending for 10 years of jail sentence, he wasn’t allowed to play officcial competitions for a year for broken his contract ilegaly. But finally he could play with his new team and he succeed toghether with other legendary players as Prosinecky after getting -again- the European Cup in 1991. But this is a story taht we already told…