Some of the students of our class left ahwaz to their hometown but i

prefered to stay here to spend my time with my friends.......I took

 the old pic of our faculty which was taken before the revolution from

one of students of geography.... take a look at some  interesting pics

  our faculty pic...in the first years of its opening

science faculty pic

science faculty pic 2

my pic in science store

A funny pic

While McCain Looked

Away, Florida Shifted

Stephen Crowley/The New York Times

 

His once-close relationship with Gov. Charlie Crist is reportedly strained. And Mr. Obama has blanketed the state with advertising and built a huge get-out-the-vote operation — on vivid display this week in the long lines for early voting. The sight dispirited Republican leaders here.

Even as state Republicans sent up flares over the summer, warning that the Florida of 2008 is not what it was in 2004, Mr. McCain yielded the airwaves to Mr. Obama, focusing his attention, money and energy on other states. Mr. McCain’s campaign waited until Sept. 1 to begin a serious round of advertising.

Mr. McCain clearly could still win the state’s 27 electoral votes. But the battle in Florida is offering — on the widest stage of any of the contested primary states — an object lesson in the disparities in the resources, aggressiveness and political cunning that Mr. McCain and Mr. Obama are taking to contests across the country.

It is a case study of the troubles of the McCain campaign, the problems of its own making as well as those caused by forces beyond the campaign’s control, including a deeply troubled economy that is sharply driving up home foreclosures in many areas of the state. And it provides vivid evidence of the Obama campaign’s success in using its money and organizational skills to put Republicans on the defensive in once-safe states.

“He has the best political organization for a presidential campaign that I have ever seen here,” Tom Slade, a former state Republican chairman, said of Mr. Obama. “Bar none. He has run a phenomenally good campaign.”

Mr. Obama’s huge financial advantage has turned out to be more lopsided here than in any of the other contested states, displaying, in an outsized way, what Mr. McCain is facing in states like Colorado and Indiana.

For the week that ended Thursday, Mr. Obama spent $4.2 million on advertisements, compared with $1 million by Mr. McCain, according to Campaign Media Analysis Group, an independent group that monitors campaign advertising. It was almost impossible to turn on a television this week without seeing an Obama advertisement showing Mr. McCain saying he had voted with President Bush “90 percent of the time.”

Mr. Obama’s campaign moved to exploit this state’s increasingly popular, and relatively new, early voting program in a way Mr. McCain did not. He came here for two days this week — as did Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton — using high-profile appearances to hand out literature and urge supporters who turned out to vote, often right up the street from the rally. The result could be seen in long lines of people at early voting sites.

Mr. McCain’s advisers said they had put far less effort into the early voting program, instead sticking with what has worked for Florida Republicans for a decade: building up their margin with absentee ballots. But several Republicans said they were afraid that emphasis was missing the way voting behavior is changing here.

Mr. Obama has used sophisticated measures here to find and register new supporters. And Florida statistics this week, which sent a shiver of fear through Republicans, attest to his success: Democrats now have a 660,000 edge in voter registration over Republicans in the state, compared with a Democratic advantage of 280,000 voters in 2006.

Buzz Jacobs, the southeast regional manager of Mr. McCain’s campaign, suggested that Democrats would have trouble getting all those new voters to the polls. “They traditionally have a better voter registration system, and we have a better turnout operation,” he said.

But even several state Republicans said they saw evidence that Mr. Obama was bringing new and highly effective methods to the state to find voters and turn them out.

“I’ve gotten seven calls from live Obama volunteers — and the reason I’m getting calls is because I signed up on their Web site to get notifications from their campaign,” said Sally Bradshaw, a Republican who was a senior political adviser to Jeb Bush, the former governor.

Ms. Bradshaw, who supported Mitt Romney in the primary, had signed up for the list to keep informed about a rival. “I haven’t received any McCain calls,” she said.

Mr. McCain is in this spot today in part because of the conclusion by his campaign this summer that Florida, if competitive, was not as tough as it once was, and that there were more pressing states. Mr. Bush won here by five percentage points in 2004. The Democratic Party had earned months of bad publicity by pressuring its presidential candidates not to campaign in the state before its primary because Florida scheduled its vote earlier than party rules allowed 

After passing more than 100 days of leaving ahvaz to Tehran,I came back again to my second home,I really missed my friends especially my roommates in golestan,however; we met each other in Isfahan in Tir and stayed there for 6 days.......take a look at the latest pictures of university :

peyman                                                                 babak and hossein

hossein and omid                                               advertisement in our faculty

I'm looking forward to my third term in university and I'm   probably leaving tehran on friday

I accompanied my old friend to allame university this morning cause he is a freshman there………..take a look at the pictures

my friends pic

my pic

Miser’s Final Wish

There was a man who had worked all of his life and had saved all of his money. He was a real miser when it came to his money. He loved money more than just about anything, and just before he died, he said to his wife, “Now listen, when I die, I want you to take all my money and place it in the casket with me. I wanna take my money to the afterlife.”

So he got his wife to promise him with all her heart that when he died, she would put all the money in the casket with him.

Well, one day he died. He was stretched out in the casket, the wife was sitting there in black next to her closest friend. When they finished the ceremony, just before the undertakers got ready to close the casket, the wife said “Wait just a minute!” she had a shoe box with her, she came over with the box and placed it in the casket.

Then the undertakers locked the casket down and rolled it away.

Her friend said, “I hope you weren’t crazy enough to put all that money in the casket.”

She said, “Yes, I promised. I’m a good christian, I can’t lie. I promised him that I was going to put that money in that casket with him.”

“You mean to tell me you put every cent of his money in the casket with him?”

“I sure did, ” said the wife. “I got it all together, put it into my account and I wrote him a check.”

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جوکهای انگلیسی

    Hi everyone.......For those of you who are interested in chatting and communicating with native speakers, I suggest to take a look at  Yahoo Answers :   www.answers.yahoo.com

Definition of Avaks (British) or Avax (American): It refers to a special,secret thing or person who helps you to understand what happens around you or in a special place while you're not there

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.  ~Chinese Proverb  

One day, you may lose a friend with whom you where supposed to stay for ever

One day, you may find out that a true friendship has not the same meaning for others as it does for you

One day, you may see all your bright feeling grow deem and fade

But never, never, never forget that there are still those whose heart beat for you whenever they imagine even a sign of you

Always, always,always remember that not all the people who shows thier feelings to you are your only friends. There are those who love you alot , but the mask of pride covered thier lover eyes and loverlike looks.They canُ t tell you that they love you just because of a silly pride

Damn pride....Damn pride

Come my friend...Come

منبع کلیک               Love is Superior than pride

A nun in the convent walked into the bathroom where mother superior was taking a shower."There is a blind man to see you," she says. "Well, if he is a blind man, than it does not matter  I'm in the shower. Send him in

The blind man walks into the bathroom, and mother superior starts to tell him how much she appreciates him working at the convent for them. She goes on and on and 10 minutes later the man interrupts: "That's nice and all, ma'am, but you can put your clothes on now. Where do you want me to put these blinds

fake religious

Lawyers for more than 500 people who say they were abused by Roman Catholic clergy members said last night that they had settled their lawsuits against the Archdiocese of Los Angeles for $660 million.

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Cardinal Roger M. Mahony celebrating Mass in May 2006.

If approved, it will be by far the largest payout made by any single diocese since the clergy sexual abuse scandals first became public in Boston in 2002. It will dwarf the $85 million paid for 552 claims by the Archdiocese of Boston.

The lawyers in the Los Angeles cases said the settlement would be announced today, a day before jury selection was set to begin in the first of the cases. Any agreement would require a judge’s approval.

Tod M. Tamberg, director of media relations for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, said in an e-mail message that the only comment he could make was, “The archdiocese will be in court Monday at 9:30 a.m.”

A lawyer for the archdiocese did not return calls for comment.

Raymond P. Boucher, the lawyer who is representing 242 of the plaintiffs in the Los Angeles cases, confirmed in a telephone interview yesterday that a deal would be announced today for $660 million.

“Everything just fell into place,” Mr. Boucher said.

The settlement, which archdiocese officials have said would require the sale of church property, appeared to bring the drawn-out legal wrangling to a close.

“This will resolve all of the cases against the Archdiocese of Los Angeles,” said Katherine K. Freberg, an Irvine, Calif., lawyer who represents 109 plaintiffs. “It’s a global settlement.”

The Los Angeles cases have been particularly complex because they involve so many victims, multiple insurance companies, many Catholic religious orders whose own priests and brothers stand accused, and a prominent archbishop, Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, who has cast himself as an ally of victims but has been accused by them of intransigence.

Many dioceses in California have been hit by large numbers of lawsuits because the state passed a law in 2002 that opened a one-year window for cases to be filed without regard to the statute of limitations.

Steven Sanchez, a 47-year old financial adviser who is one of the plaintiffs in the case set to begin on Monday, said he had been girding himself to testify about the abuse he suffered when he was 9 or 10 years old, and he said he wanted to see church officials called to account in a courtroom.

Asked before the settlement was disclosed what he would do with any money he might receive, Mr. Sanchez said simply, “Where can you take that check and cash it that will make you 10 years old again?”

Cardinal Mahony announced in May that, to raise money for a settlement, the archdiocese would sell its administrative building on Wilshire Boulevard and might sell about 50 other church properties that were not being used by parishes or schools.

Mr. Boucher’s co-counsel, Laurence E. Drivon, said, “The primary motivation for the archdiocese to settle is that it is substantially likely that if they don’t resolve these cases they’re going to get hit” for much more than the settlement amount.

The Associated Press was the first news organization to report on Saturday that the archdiocese had agreed to a settlement.

Cardinal Mahony had been expected to be called to testify in the case that was set to begin on Monday, involving what the archdiocese knew about two decades of alleged abuse by one priest — the Rev. Clinton Hagenbach, who died in 1987. Cardinal Mahony became archbishop of Los Angeles in 1985.

The trial scheduled for Monday is only one of more than a dozen that had been set to start between now and January.

A settlement would require the archdiocese to make public its confidential files that could shed light on which church officials knew of the abuse accusations, and when they knew, Mr. Boucher said. Many of the accused priests had multiple victims because they were moved by their superiors from one parish to another when accusations arose.

Mary Grant, 44, is an abuse victim whose case was settled by the Diocese of Orange, in California, and is a plaintiff in the Los Angeles cases. Ms. Grant is Western regional director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, and counsels other victims. Earlier yesterday, she said any settlement in Los Angeles would be “a bitter release.”

“We understand there are survivors who are desperately in need of medical care, therapy,” she said. “They may not be able to go through a trial. But on the other hand, there are many survivors really who’ve wanted their day in court.”

She added: “It’s been a long, hard five-year battle for survivors in Los Angeles. So I think that probably a sense of temporary relief that may come from it.”

The Los Angeles Archdiocese, its insurers and several Roman Catholic religious orders, including the Carmelites, the Franciscans and the Jesuits, have already paid a total of $114 million in several separate agreements, to settle 86 claims.

Lawsuits over sexual abuse have already cost the Roman Catholic church in the United States more than $1.5 billion. Each diocese must handle the costs on its own, with no assistance from the Vatican.

Settlements are far more common, and victims in California have consistently won some of the largest payouts. In California, the Diocese of Orange paid $100 million for 90 abuse claims in 2004 and the Diocese of Oakland paid $56 million to 56 people in 2005. The Diocese of Covington, in Kentucky, paid about $85 million to about 350 people.

Five dioceses have filed for bankruptcy protection: San Diego; Davenport, Iowa; Portland, Ore.; Spokane, Wash.; and Tucson.

David Clohessy, national director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said of the settlement: “They should feel incredibly proud, and Catholics should be very grateful to them. Without their courage, dozens of predators would still be unknown and maybe working in parishes today, and we would know absolutely nothing about who covered up these crimes.”

Mr. Clohessy said, however, “We don’t know as much as we would have if some of these cases had gone to trial.”

Michael Parrish contributed reporting from Los Angeles.

source:newyork times

!!shameful

it is a shame that Hollywood spends lots and lots of money to force people to believe a different tale of history, just because now a days it is politically correct to make a bad image out of Persians. It's like making a beautiful movie with DiCaprio playing in it and the plot trying to convince people that it was indeed the Americans guided by George Washington who erected the Great Wall of China and then people rush on yahoo movies to score A+'s to show how proud they are of their rich history! You can't change the history with a nicely made movie and surrealistic computer effects. Google for "Persepolis" or "Apadana" or "Cyrus the Great" and see how majestic those Persian were and what kind of contribution they had on the history of

.mankind

Yeah right, the mankind got saved by 300 warriors and that was the origin of the "great" western democracy, and that's why these great movies are on the screen these days when thousands and thousands are slaughtered by the same great western democracy! Get a life. How about making "Alien 5", or "Star Wars -1, The young and Restless Yoda Dude" rather than making an artistic historical movie.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire
Alices Adventures in Wonderland	Kidnapped
Around the World in 80 Days	Little Women
Beyond Good and Evil	Notes from the Underground
Dracula	Oliver Twist
Emma	Paradise Lost
Frankenstein	Robinson Crusoe
Sons and Lovers	The Island of Doctor Moreau
The Jungle Book	The Lost World
The Odyssey	The Prince
The Thirty-Nine Steps	The Time Machine
The War of the Worlds	Three Ghost Stories
War and Peace	Women in Love

 In The name of God

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Keys for: Choose the right preposition. (Prepositions of placeExercise id = 503

1. My mom was working _____ the garden. in on at by about 2. My father forgot his umbrella _____ home. on at in to around 3. They caught a train _____ London. on by in at about 4. I lost their bags _____ the railway station. in on next at to This exercise is brought to you by www.nonstopenglish.com 5. There were two people _____ the picture. on at about to in 6. He stole cars. He was _____ prison for two years. on in at by from 7. My children made friends _____ school. at for in on to 8. My mother told him everything _____ work. on in at from next 9. My friend flew from Madrid. I waited for him _____ the airport. in on next at from 10. I cried with pain _____ the dentist's. in on by next at 11. We just went swimming and lay _____ the beach on our holiday. in on at by down 12. I met John _____ the tram stop. We were both late. in on at by from 13. I saw Julia _____ the hairdresser's. She looked so worried. for on at by next 14. You made a lot of mistakes _____ your homework. on at by in from 15. He read many interesting articles _____ this issue of the Independent. on in at by from 16. My aunt became a professor _____ university. in on from to at 17. I found three mistakes _____ this sentence. in on at by to 18. There was a big party _____ my aunt's last weekend. She was giving a birthday party. in on at by about 19. He began his studies _____ London University. in on by to at 20. My father let us stay _____ Paris. on from to in next

?Do blind people dream

Answer from somebody who has been blind since she was fairly young

" Yes, blind people do dream. What they see in their dreams depends on how much they could ever see. If someone has been totally blind since birth, they only have auditory dreams. If someone such as I, has had a measure of sight, then that person dreams with that measure of sight. I still dream as though I can see, colors included. For people I've met since, their faces are just blurs or how I imagine they look. To me, someone like my mother looks forever 30

Q. Do People Born Blind Have Visual Dreams

The answer, simply put, appears to be "no." When people born blind were questioned about what they "see" in dreams in several studies, their answers indicate that the experience of vision first is needed before it can be translated into a dream. Those blind for a lifetime instead experience other keenly developed senses in their dreams--i.e., the sensation of moving around, the emotion of joy, etc.

Dream images of the blind instead seem to be reconstructions of objects based on sensory input such as touch and sound, just as occurs in waking life. But can these images be accurately described as visual? Can an object be recreated in detail if the dreamer has in fact never experienced seeing it

Other studies indicate that individuals blind at birth do see visual images  But it can be argued that these images are constructs based on input from other senses (and on what the dreamer has been told by the sighted about what these objects look like۰

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دریافت مجموعه لغات فارسی

Leonardo davinci

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سایه روشن های ادب فارسی در متون انگلیسی

"لنز های متفاوت زبانی مناظر متفاوتی را روانه ی ذهن میکند.آمیزش زبان و اندیشه با یکدیگر چنان است که که اگر یکی تغییر یابد دیگری نیز تغییر میکند.زبان اندیشه را متحیر میکند.اندیشه زبان را شکل میبخشد."......... بریم سراغ ریشه های رفتار اجتماعی-فرهنگی مردم و نفوذ آنها در زبان.

به عنوان مثال اگر مردم انگلیس گفته اند "وقتی آفتاب هست باید علف را خشک کرد" مردم کشورمان میگویند "تا تنور گرم است باید نان پخت".

اگر مردم انگلیس در نایاب بودن چیزی "دندان مرغ" را مثل میزنند :  as scare as hen's teeth  ما اصطلاح "شیر مرغ" را بکار میبریم. اگر بخواهیم آشنایی کامل خود را با مکانی بیان کنیم عبارت " کف دست " را بکار میبریم .مردم انگلیس "پشت دست" : to know s.th/sb like the back of one's hands

ما جغد را مظهر شگون میدانیم. انگلیسی ها نشانه ی ذکاوت : as intelligent as an owl

اگر در زبان فارسی زنی بدون اجازه شوهرش "آب نمیخورد" در زبان انگلیسی بدون اجازه ی شوهرش "سرفه نمیکند" :                            she doesn't cough without the husband's consent

 اگه ما  برای وقوع رویداد غیر محتمل" اسم خود را عوض میکنیم آنها "کلاهشان را میخورند":

i will eat my hat if he pays his debt

منبع: فصلنامه ی ترجمه - دکتر بهروز عزبدفتری

stopping by woods on a snowy evening

Whose woods are I think I know

His house is in the village though             

 He will not see me stopping here

To watch his woods fill up with snow

My little horse must think it queer

To stop without farmhouse near

Between woods and frozen lake

The darkest evening at the year

He gives his harness bells a shake

To ask it there is some mistake

The only other sound's the sweep

Of easy wind and downy flake

The woods are lovely;dark and deep

But I have promises to keep

And miles to go before I sleep

And miles to go before I sleep