The Most Unique Church In The World

Chapel of St-Gildas: Built into the base of a bare rocky cliff

The Chapel of St-Gildas sits upon the bank of the Canal du Blavet in Brittany, France . Built like a stone barn into
the base of a bare rocky cliff, this was once a holy place of the Druids.
Gildas appears to have travelled widely throughout the Celtic world of Corwall, Wales , Ireland and Scotland .
He arrived in Brittany in about AD 540 and is said to have preached Christianity
to the people from a rough pulpit, now contained within the chapel.

Ruica Church: Where Chandeliers are made of Bullet Shells Located over the Kalemegdan Fortress in Belgrade, Serbia, the Ruica Church is a small chapel decorated with.... with trench art!
Its chandeliers are entirely made of spent bullet casing, swords, and cannon parts.The space the church now occupies was used by the Turks as gunpowder storage for over 100 years and it had to be largely rebuilt in 1920 after WWI. Though damaged by bombings there was an upshot to the terrible carnage of The Great War. While fighting alongside England and the US , Serbian soldiers on the Thessaloniki front took the time to put together these amazing chandeliers. It is one of the world's finest examples of trench art.

St. Joseph Church: Known for its Thirteen Gold Domed Roof The St. Joseph The Betrothed is an Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in Chicago .
Built in 1956, it is most known for its ultra-modern thirteen gold domed roof symbolizing the twelve
apostles and Jesus Christ as the largest center dome.
The interior of the church is completely adorned with byzantine style icons (frescoes).
Unfortunately the iconographer was deported back to his homeland before he was able to
write the names of all the saints as prescribed by iconographic traditions.

Las Lajas Cathedral: A Gothic Church Worthy of a Fairy Tale The Las Lajas Cathedral is located in southern Colombia and built in 1916 inside the canyon of the Guaitara River .
According to the legend, this was the place where an indian woman named Mara Mueses de Quiones
was carrying her deaf-mute daughter Rosa on her back near Las Lajas ("The Rocks").
Weary of the climb, the Mara sat down on a rock when Rosa spoke (for the first time) about an apparition in a cave.Later on, a mysterious painting of the Virgin Mary carrying a baby was discovered on the wall of the cave.
Supposedly, studies of the painting showed no proof of paint or pigments on the rock - instead,
when a core sample was taken, it was found that the colors were impregnated in the rock itself to a depth of several feet.
Whether true or not, the legend spurred the building of this amazing church.

Cathedral of Braslia: The Modern Church of architect Oscar Niemeyer The Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Aparecida in the capital of Brazil is an expression of the architect Oscar Niemeyer.
This concrete-framed hyperboloid structure, seems with its glass roof to be reaching up,
open, to heaven. On 31 May 1970, the Cathedral's structure was finished,
and only the 70 m diameter of the circular area were visible.
Niemeyer's project of Cathedral of Braslia is based in the hyperboloid of revolution which sections are asymmetric.
The hyperboloid structure itself is a result of 16 identical assembled concrete columns.
These columns, having hyperbolic section and weighing 90 t, represent two hands moving upwards to heaven.
The Cathedral was dedicated on 31 May 1970.

Temppeliaukio Kirkko: The Rock Church

The Temppeliaukio Kirkko ( Rock Church ) is a thrilling work of modern architecture in Helsinki .
Completed in 1952, it is built entirely underground and has a ceiling made of copper wire.
It was designed by architect brothers Timo and Tuomo Suomalainen and completed in 1969.
They chose a rocky outcrop rising about 40 feet above street level, and blasted out the walls from the inside.
It is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Helsinki and frequently full of visitors.

Hallgr mskirkja: Iceland 's Most Amazing Church

The Hallgrmskirkja (literally, the church of Hallgrmur ) is a Lutheran parish church located in Reykjavk , Iceland .
At 74.5 metres (244 ft), it is the fourth tallest architectural structure in Iceland .
The church is named after the Icelandic poet and clergyman Hallgrmur Ptursson (1614 to 1674), author of the Passion Hymns.
State Architect Gujn Samelsson's design of the church was commissioned in 1937; it took 38 years to build it.

Saint Basil's Cathedral: The Red Square 's Colorful Church

The St. Basil's Cathedral is located on the Red Square in Moscow , Russia .
A Russian Orthodox church, the Cathedral sports a series of colorful bulbous domes that taper to a point,
aptly named onion domes, that are part of Moscow 's Kremlin skyline.The cathedral was commissioned by Ivan the Terrible to commemorate the capture of the Khanate of Kazan.
In 1588 Tsar Fedor Ivanovich had a chapel added on the eastern side above the grave of Basil Fool for Christ,
a Russian Orthodox saint after whom the cathedral was popularly named.

Harajuku: Japanese Futuristic Church

Harajuku: Japanese Futuristic ChurchThis futuristic non Catholic church is located in Tokyo and it was first unveiled by the design firm of Ciel Rouge Creation in 2005. The ceiling is specially made to reverberate natural sound for 2 seconds to provide a unique listening experience for worshipers and tourists.

PENGAJARAN DAN PEMBELAJARAN SAINS DAN MATEMATIK DALAM BAHASA INGGERIS 2

By

Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad

chedet.cc
on March 20, 2009
1. Saya ingin jelaskan sekali lagi kenapa Sains dan Matematik perlu diajar dalam bahasa Inggeris.

2. Tidak seperti matapelajaran lain, sains dan matematik adalah ilmu yang berkembang dan bertambah sepanjang masa.

3. Tiap hari berpuluh kertas melapurkan hasil kaji selidik yang dibuat di seluruh dunia. Hampir semua kertas ini disediakan dalam bahasa Inggeris.

4. Kita boleh terjemah sains rendah kedalam bahasa kebangsaan. Tetapi ini tidak akan menolong kita memahami teori dan aplikasi advanced science dalam ciptaan dan pembuatan barangan yang canggih seperti alat telefon, senjata moden, roket dan stesyen satelit angkasa, pesawat terbang perang dan penumpang, kapal selam, laser, microcip dan ratusan lagi barangan kegunaan tertentu dan harian.

5. Untuk semua ini kita perlu sains yang canggih dan terkini hasil kajiselidik pakar ilmu sains seperti Albert Einstein dengan teori relativitinya, Enrico Fermi, Oppenheimer, Edward Teller, Werner Heisenberg dan lain-lain.

6. Saya boleh senarai seribu nama lagi dan berpuluh ribu hasil penerokaan, pengkajian mereka yang tidak terdapat dalam bahasa Melayu namun ilmu ini peting untuk kemajuan kita.

7. Untuk memahami tulisan mereka dalam bahasa Inggeris kita memerlu kelulusan Phd dalam bahasa Inggeris dalam bidang-bidang khusus. Tidak ramai saintis yang belajar dalam bahasa Melayu yang boleh mengguna bahasa Melayu untuk tujuan ini. Setahu saya tidak ada banyak buku berkenaan tajuk-tajuk ini dalam bahasa Melayu.

8. Pengajaran sains perubatan menggunakan buku Inggeris walaupun syarahan dibuat dalam bahasa Melayu. Untuk post-graduate studies dalam pelbagai kepakaran perubatan bahasa Inggeris digunakan. Kalau ada pensyarah yang boleh bersyarah dalam bahasa Melayu dalam bidang-bidang pakar ini, mereka akan terdiri daripada yang belajar kepakaran ini dalam bahasa Inggeris.

9. Mungkin ada yang belajar sains di peringkat rendah dalam bahasa Melayu dan mampu mengikuti syarahan dalam bahasa Inggeris diperingkat ijazah pertama. Tetapi untuk kelulusan yang lebih tinggi penguasaan bahasa Inggeris di perlukan.

10. Sudah tentu untuk ambil bahagian dalam seminar dan konferens antarabangsa, untuk berhujah, bahasa Inggeris di perlukan.

11. I was not ignorant for 20 years. Even after I realised the usefulness of English I had to wait until people also realised it. Otherwise they will fight tooth and nail to prevent the change from taking place. Even now they are fighting.

12. Singapore has progressed like a rocket because they have no opposition parties. Without criticisms by the opposition they will not know if they were doing something right or wrong.

13. Now Singapore is in deep recession because of having made investments in America. So they may use English for their education but they can still go wrong. But we want to use English only for science and mathematics and these two subjects are based on truths and logic - not on how clever you are in making decisions or explaining things.

14. I think in English when I want to speak or write in English. I think in Malay when I want to talk, write or discuss in Malay.

15. I am a Malay not because of the language I use when thinking or dreaming. I am Malay because ethnically, lingually, culturally and religiously I am a Malay and I regard Malaysia as my homeland.

16. Saya tidak ingin bangsa saya ketinggalan hanya kerana nasionalisme kita terhad kepada kefasihan bercakap dalam bahasa sendiri. Nasionalisme saya meliputi kejayaan bangsa saya yang setaraf dengan bangsa-bangsa lain di dunia. Jika untuk ini kita terpaksa menguasai bahasa Inggeris dan belajar sains dan matematik dalam bahasa Inggeris, sepertimana orang Arab belajar bahasa Greek untuk mendapat ilmu orang Greek, sepertimana orang Eropah terpaksa belajar bahasa Arab untuk mempelajari ilmu orang Arab pada kurun ke-15 Masihi, saya rela berbuat demikian.

17. Bagi saya mempelajari Sains dan Matematik dalam bahasa Inggeris tidak berbeza daripada menghantar penuntut kita ke Eropah atau negara-negara Arab untuk menuntut ilmu tertentu dalam bahasa-bahasa mereka. Mereka pergi sebagai orang Melayu dan mereka kembali dengan ilmu yang diperolehi juga sebagai orang Melayu. Mereka tidak menjejaskan ke-Melayuan bangsa. Sebaliknya mereka mempertinggikan maruah dan martabat bangsa.

Batang Ai Independent Candidate - Ruaikitai Community Portal Owner

Taken from BERSIH ( Gabungan Pilihanraya Bersih dan Adil ).

SIBU, March 20 - A third candidate- an independent - has put himself as a candidate for the Batang Ai by-election on April 7.

A publisher of a well known Iban cultural, educational and entertainment magazine, and who has his own portal, Johnny Chuat has thrown his hat into the state seat race.

The 38 year old graduate in Journalism and Communications from Carleton University, Canada, works for an oil and gas company says the final confirmation will be on nomination day, which is March 29, in Lubok Antu.

Chuat, a local from Rh.Councillor Mujah, Nanga Menyebat, Lemanak, a constituency with a majority of Iban voters, has started his ground work preparations and confident of a good showing.

“I am self-funded with no sponsors and I am all resolved to fight. I have nothing to fear or worry. I am confident of garnering at least 90 percent of votes from Lemanak voters who comprise about 3,000 of the 8,006 registered voters in Batang Ai. They are my relatives as well,” he told Bernama when contacted.

He said his confidence brewed from the fact that this was the first time that someone from Lemanak was contesting in an election.

Chuat is also confident of capturing votes from others in the constituency, especially the fence-seaters and those who are disillusioned with either Barisan Nasional or Parti Keadilan Rakyat.

“I am offering myself as the alternative choice,” said Chuat who remains unfazed despite facing the prospect of a tough battle against the might and logistics of BN and the organisation of PKR.

“BN may be fielding generally a very acceptable candidate in Malcolm Mussem Lamoh while PKR may field veteran Nicholas Bawin (Lubok Antu branch chairman) or former four-term parliamentarian Jawah Gerang, but I have my own strategies and won’t disclose it just yet.”

The publisher said over the past 10 years, he had been organising many motivation talks and also offered financial assistances to varsity bound students from poor families and believed those who had graduated now would still remember such deeds. - Bernama

NAILS IN THE FENCE

Make sure you read all the way down to the last sentence..
(Most importantly the last sentence)

There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His Father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.

The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down.

He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all.

He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper.

The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.
The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence.
He said, 'You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. But It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound will still be there. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one.

Remember that friends are very rare jewels, indeed. They make you smile and encourage you to succeed. They lend an ear, they share words of praise and they always want to open their hearts to us.'

Bungkusan plastik dilanggar pacuan empat roda

MD ZAIN menunjukkan janin selepas dilanggar oleh kenderaan pacuan empat roda di Taman Marida, Senawang, dekat Seremban, kelmarin.

Berita Harian 15/03/09

SEREMBAN: Seorang kontraktor menggigil apabila melihat sebuah bungkusan plastik biru di tengah jalan raya yang dilanggar sebuah kenderaan pacuan empat roda di Taman Marida, petang semalam, rupa-rupanya berisi janin manusia.

Akibat pelanggaran kira-kira jam 5 petang itu, sebahagian besar janin yang cukup sifat itu berkecai dan hanya tinggal bahagian perut ke bawah, manakala kedua-dua belah tangan terputus.

Md Zain Majid, 36, terdiam seketika apabila melihat benda yang terkeluar dari bungkusan plastik itu adalah janin manusia dan terus beristighfar.

Sebelum itu, dia yang dalam perjalanan dari Taman Marida ke Taman Seremban Jaya di sini, berhenti mengisi minyak keretanya di sebuah stesen minyak bersebelahan tempat kejadian.

"Apabila kereta saya memasuki jalan itu, sebuah kenderaan pacuan empat roda dari arah bertentangan melanggar bungkusan plastik itu yang berada di tengah jalan.

"Kereta saya melepasi bungkusan itu, tetapi oleh kerana syak melihat kandungan bungkusan itu, saya mengundurkan semula kereta.

"Saya keluar dari kereta dan apabila melihat benda yang dilanggar itu, saya terkejut mendapati ia adalah janin manusia," katanya ketika ditemui di tempat kejadian.

Md Zain kemudian segera memanggil dua anggota polis dari sebuah kereta peronda yang kebetulan berhenti di stesen minyak itu.

Beliau berkata, ada kemungkinan bungkusan mengandungi janin itu dibuang di kawasan berdekatan dan dihanyutkan banjir kilat yang memang sering berlaku di taman itu.

Md Zain berkata, kejadian itu sungguh menyedihkan hatinya kerana tidak pernah sebelum ini, janin yang cukup sifat dilanggar kenderaan hingga berkecai.

Soon to be the most beautiful hotel in the world in China

naHOTEL SET WITHIN A BEAUTIFUL WATER-FILLED QUARRY

If you are looking for really something different, this might be it. Atkins has won an international competition to design a five-star resort hotel set within a beautiful 100-meter deep quarry in the Songjiang district close to Shanghai in China . Based on these pictures, the hotel looks almost unreal, but this project is expected to be completed by May, 2009. Its stunning concept designs inspired by the natural water and landscape features of the quarry captured the imagination of judges to quash competition from two other international firms. The quarry will provide protection from the weather, and reduce the energy needs of the hotel. The complex will contain restaurants, cafes, sport facilities, and will even include underwater public areas.

The innovative design of the 400-bed resort hotel stands two levels higher than the rock face of the 100-meter deep quarry and includes underwater public areas and guestrooms.. It will incorporate conference facilities for up to 1,000 people, a banqueting center, restaurants, cafés and sports facilities. Sustainability is integral to the design ranging from using green roofing for the structures above the ground level to geothermal energy extraction. An aquatic theme runs through the design both visually and functionally. Two underwater levels will house a restaurant and guestrooms facing a ten-meter deep aquarium. The lowest level of the hotel will contain a leisure complex with a swimming pool and water-based sports. An extreme sports centre for activities such as rock climbing and bungee jumping will be cantilevered over the quarry and accessed by special lifts from the water level of the hotel.

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