Dilmen Hotel Bursa

... lodge of the<br>Dirvishes and the inside has a fantastic display of Persian<br>calligraphy! The walls and ceilings are covered with script in gold,<br>blue and black and house the tombs of 75 former Sultans. <br><br><br>Another room contains numerous display cases with ancient books of Koran,<br>text and other forms of beautiful, illuminated calligraphy. It was<br>spectacular! Gail was desperately wanting to take photos of so many<br>pieces, but photography was ...

... on. I guess her face reminded me of my first wife). The other dance group consisted of four men, whose extended dance was quite vigorous, and even had elements of symbolic hostility and aggression, which I couldn't quite figure out. The apparent oldest of the group seemed to be the "most with it," and I later videoed him in concentration. This group, I believe from Sö&#287;üt, and therefore the hosts, so to speak, I saw perform the same dance perhaps up to six times over the ...

... I had to wait an hour for the next one. (While waiting I had time to contemplate that this ferry dock was the same one that I sought a ferry several years ago. Only then it was too late, and the service had closed down. Walking in the dark from the area I had been physically assaulted in an attempted mugging, resulting in a couple of cracked ribs and three nights in a hospital. But that's another story). I took the ferry across to the other side of the Golden Horn, then walked ...

... well into the 11th century." My point here is the attribution of these two unrelated authors that the longevity of these two empires was largely due to the continued cohesion and functioning of the states' bureaucracies. Then, right in the midst of moving between these two books I read these paragraphs from Paul Krugman in the "New York Times" (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/01/opin ion/01krugman.html): "FEMA's degradation, from one of the government's most ...

... as seems to be the usual course. (The article just read stated that the main street now contains several art galleries). There was an "open light museum," as I believe they are called in Europe. It is a park wherein architectural samples of country homes and other structures are assembled as museum pieces of folk art. One of them in the park in Tbilisi was a restaurant. I had a meal there. Though I didn't know what I was ordering, and because ...

... Taiwan.<br><br> The next thing on our agenda was to take the swelteringly hot bus back in to Bursa, but only as far as the first Metro station. And from there we could take the relatively cooler Metro to the other end of the line, and there transfer to a dolmus for the next 12 or 15 km to the coastal town of Mudanya.<br><br> It was hotter than I expected in Mudanya, but there was a breeze off the Sea of Marmara, which mitigated our comfort somewhat. <br><br> We ...

... mostly relying on refrig**ants already banned in Europe and in the process of being phased out in the United States - the ozone lay** is proving v**y hard to repair. Four months ago, scientists discov**ed that the "hole" created by the world's use of ozone-depleting gases - in a**osol spray cans, aging refrig**ators and old air-condition**s - had expanded again, stretching once more to the record size of 2001.<br><br>http://www.nytimes.com/200 7/02/23/business/23cool.html?pagewanted ...

... the necessary protective devices and clothing. I said to the assistant, "It's work. But art is fun work. That's why we do it, because it's fun to create." The pictures probably tell as much as any more I could write.<br><br>Except the . . .. ok, well, *****,. . . . one of the "yard" dogs. Well underway, (and not for the first time) as you might see. A very friendly gal, but none too happy at day's end, apparently having lapped up some insecticide or something in a near-by field.

... adage "a watched pot never boils" surely never tried to heat up water in a pot lined with copper nanorods. A new study from researchers at Rensselaer shows that by adding an invisible layer of the nanomaterials to the bottom of a metal vessel, an order of magnitude less energy is required to bring water to boil. This increase in efficiency could have a big impact on cooling computer chips, improving heat transfer systems, and reducing costs ...

... Does one have consciousness long enough before shock to physically assess the process? To think: "Each of these holes is going to drain blood from my brain until I loose consciousness--for eternity."<br><br>And today, I thought, Each night we will ourselves to a little death (not the French kind. Well, maybe for some of you). We submit ourselves to what we believe to be a temporary cessation of consciousness. Oh, yes, we may dream. But that comes later--after the void.<br><br>But, in ...