Liam Death memory

 Liam will forever live in our hearts, and we’ll remember him for his kind, funny and brave soul. We are supporting each other the best we can as a family and ask for privacy and space at this awful time.”

Whenever I look up at the sky I know I am nobody. I feel humble

 မိုးေပၚကို ေမာ့ၾကည့္မိတိုင္း

ကိုယ္ ဘာမွမဟုတ္မွန္း သိတယ္။

အပိုးကို က်ိဳးလို့။

whenever i look up at the Sky

i know i am nobody.

i feel humbled.

#ST

အေရးေလ့က်င့္ဖို့ စု တု ျပဳ နမူနာ Author Dr Soe Than

 အေရးေလ့က်င့္ဖို့ စု တု ျပဳ နမူနာ

ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို့ေတြ အဂၤလိပ္စာဖတ္ရင္၊ အထူးသျဖင့္ Literature ဖတ္ရင္ စာထဲ ကဗ်ာထဲမွာ ကိုယ္ႏွစ္သက္တဲ့ ဝါက်ေလးေတြ၊ ကိုယ္နဲ႔ resonate ျဖစ္တဲ့ စာေၾကာင္းေလးေတြ၊ အသုံးေလးေတြဟာ ႀကိဳက္လြန္းလို့ စာဖတ္ရင္းနဲ႔ အဲဒီဝါက်ေလးကို လိုင္းသားထားမိတယ္။ မွတ္စုခ်ေရးမိတယ္။ စိတ္ထဲ မွတ္ဉာဏ္ထဲမွာလည္း အဲဒီလို ဝါက်ေလးေတြ ျပန္ျပန္ေပၚလာတတ္တယ္။ အဲဒီလိုမ်ိဳး ဝါက်ေလးတစ္ခုကို အနည္းငယ္ေျပာင္းၿပီး ဒီ post မွာ စု တု ျပဳ ဆင့္ပြားဝါက်ေလးေတြ အေရးေလ့က်င့္နိုင္တာကို နမူနာျပခ်င္ပါတယ္။

ကဗ်ာဆရာႀကီး Samuel Taylor Coleridge ရဲ့ လူသိမ်ားတဲ့  The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ကဗ်ာထဲမွ ဝါက်ေလး တစ္ေၾကာင္းကို နမူနာယူမယ္။ အဲဒီ sentence pattern ကိုပဲ recycle လုပ္ၿပီး Subject ကို ေျပာင္းသုံးၿပီး စိတ္ဝင္စားစရာေကာင္းတဲ့ creative writing ဝါက်ေလးေတြ ဆင့္ပြားေရးၾကည့္မယ္။

 1. Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink.

ေရေတြ ေရေတြ ေနရာတိုင္းမွာ ေသာက္စရာ အလ်ဥ္းမရွိပါ။

ဒီဝါက်မွာ liar မုသားေျပာသူကို Subject လုပ္မယ္။

 2. Liars, liars everywhere and not a soul to believe.

လူလိမ္ လူညာ ေနရာတိုင္းမွာ ယုံစရာ အလ်ဥ္းမရွိပါ။



အသံေတြ voices ကို Subject လုပ္ၿပီး ေနာက္ဝါက်တစ္ခု ေရးမယ္။

 3. Voices, voices everywhere, and not a word truly heard.

အသံေတြ အသံေတြ ေနရာတိုင္းမွာ၊ တကယ္ နားေထာင္ေပးတာ မရွိပါ။

နံရံေတြထဲ ပိတ္ထားခံရသလို ခံစားေနရတယ္။ walls ကို Subject ေနရာထား ေရးၾကည့္မယ္။

 4. Walls, walls everywhere, and not a door to escape.

နံရံေတြ နံရံေတြ ကာထားလိုက္တာ၊ ထြက္ေပါက္တံခါး မရွိပါ။

မ်က္ႏွာဖုံးအမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳး တပ္ဆင္ထားတဲ့ ဟန္ေဆာင္ေကာင္းတဲ့ ေလာကႀကီး။ mask ကို Subject လုပ္ၿပီး ေနာက္တစ္ေၾကာင္း ေရးမယ္။

 5. Masks, masks everywhere, and not a face beneath them.

 မ်က္ႏွာဖုံးမ်ား ေနရာတိုင္းမွာ၊ တကယ့္မ်က္ႏွာ မေတြ႕ရပါ။

လမ္းေပ်ာက္ေနတယ္၊ လမ္းျပေပးပါ ၾကယ္ေလးေတြရယ္။ star ကို Subject လုပ္ၿပီး ေနာက္ဆုံးတစ္ေၾကာင္း ေလ့က်င့္ေရးမယ္။

 6. Stars, stars everywhere, and yet no light to guide the way.

ၾကယ္ကေလးေတြ အျပည့္ပါလား၊ လမ္းျပမယ့္ အလင္း မေတြ႕ေသးပါ။

စု တု ျပဳ နမူနာ။ တိုးတက္ခ်င္ရင္ ကိုယ္တိုင္ခ်ေရး ေလ့က်င့္ပါ။ 

#ေမတၱာျဖင့္

#ေဒါက္တာစိုးသန္း

October 1, 2024

heat of passion

 heat of passion

: an agitated state of mind (as anger or terror) prompted by provocation sufficient to overcome the ability of a reasonable person to reflect on and control his or her actions

 called also heat of blood, heat of passion on sudden provocation, hot blood, sudden heat, sudden heat of passion, sudden passion

 see also MANSLAUGHTER  compare COLD BLOOD, COOL STATE OF BLOOD

 

Helicopter crash that killed Iran's president and others could reverberate across the Middle East

The helicopter crash in which Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s foreign minister and other officials were killed is likely to reverberate across the Middle East, where Iran’s influence runs wide and deep.

That's because Iran has spent decades supporting armed groups and militants in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and the Palestinian territories, allowing it to project power and potentially deter attacks from the United States or Israel, the sworn enemies of its 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Tensions have never been higher than they were last month, when Iran under Raisi and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei launched hundreds of drones and ballistic missiles at Israel in response to an airstrike on an Iranian Consulate in Syria that killed two Iranian generals and five officers.

Israel, with the help of the United States, Britain, Jordan and others, intercepted nearly all the projectiles. In response, Israel apparently launched its own strike against an air defense radar system in the Iranian city of Isfahan, causing no casualties but sending an unmistakable message.

The sides have waged a shadow war of covert operations and cyberattacks for years, but the exchange of fire in April was their first direct military confrontation.

The ongoing war between Israel and Hamas has drawn in other Iranian allies, with each attack and counterattack threatening to set off a wider war.

It's a combustible mix that could be ignited by unexpected events, such as Sunday's deadly crash.

A BITTER RIVALRY WITH ISRAEL

Israel has long viewed Iran as its greatest threat because of Tehran's controversial nuclear program, its ballistic missiles and its support for armed groups sworn to Israel's destruction.

Iran views itself as the chief patron of Palestinian resistance to Israeli rule, and top officials for years have called for Israel to be wiped off the map.

Raisi, who was a hard-liner viewed as a protégé and possible successor of Khamenei, chastised Israel last month, saying “the Zionist Israeli regime has been committing oppression against the people of Palestine for 75 years.”

“First of all we have to expel the usurpers, secondly we should make them pay the cost for all the damages they have created, and thirdly, we have to bring to justice the oppressor and usurper," he said.

Israel is believed to have carried out numerous attacks over the years targeting senior Iranian military officials and nuclear scientists.

There is no evidence Israel was involved in Sunday's helicopter crash, and Israeli officials have not commented on the incident.

Arab countries on the Persian Gulf have also long viewed Iran with suspicion, a key factor in the decision of the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain to normalize relations with Israel in 2020, and of Saudi Arabia to consider such a move.

A PROXY WAR STRETCHING FROM LEBANON TO YEMEN

Iran has provided financial and other support over the years to the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which led the Oct. 7 attack into Israel that triggered the Gaza war, and the smaller but more radical Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which took part in it. But there is no evidence that Iran was directly involved in the attack.

Since the start of the war, Iran's leaders have expressed solidarity with the Palestinians. Their allies in the region have gone much further.

Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group, Iran's most militarily advanced proxy, has waged a low-intensity conflict with Israel since the start of the Gaza war. The two sides have traded strikes on a near-daily basis along the Israel-Lebanon border, forcing tens of thousands of people on both sides to flee.

So far, however, the conflict has not boiled over into a full-blown war that would be disastrous for both countries.

Iran-backed militias in Syria and Iraq launched repeated attacks on U.S. bases in the opening months of the war but pulled back after U.S. retaliatory strikes for a drone attack that killed three American soldiers in January.

Yemen's Houthi rebels, another ally of Iran, have repeatedly targeted international shipping in what they portray as a blockade of Israel. Those strikes, which often target ships with no apparent links to Israel, have also drawn U.S.-led retaliation.

BEYOND THE MIDDLE EAST

Iran's influence extends beyond the Middle East and its rivalry with Israel.

Israel and Western countries have long suspected Iran of pursuing nuclear weapons in the guise of a peaceful atomic program in what they see as a threat to non-proliferation everywhere.

Then-President Donald Trump's withdrawal from a landmark nuclear pact between Iran and world powers in 2018, and his imposition of crushing sanctions, led Iran to gradually abandon all the limits placed on its program by the deal.

These days, Iran is enriching uranium to up to 60% purity — near weapons-grade levels of 90%. Surveillance cameras installed by the U.N. nuclear agency have been disrupted, and Iran has barred some of the agency's most experienced inspectors. Iran has always insisted its nuclear program is for purely peaceful purposes, but the United States and others believe it had an active nuclear weapons program until 2003.

Israel is widely believed to be the only nuclear-armed power in the Middle East but has never acknowledged having such weapons.

Iran has also emerged as a key ally of Russia following its invasion of Ukraine, and is widely accused of supplying exploding drones that have wreaked havoc on Ukraine's cities. Raisi himself denied the allegations last fall in an interview with The Associated Press, saying Iran had not supplied such weapons since the outbreak of hostilities in February 2022.

Iranian officials have made contradictory comments about the drones, while U.S. and European officials say the sheer number being used in the war in Ukraine shows that the flow of such weapons has intensified since the war began.

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reverberate : re·ver·ber·ate

[rəˈvərbəˌrāt]

verb

1. (of a loud noise) be repeated several times as an echo:

   "her deep booming laugh reverberated around the room"

   similar:

   resound

   echo

   

   • (of a place) appear to vibrate or be disturbed because of a loud noise:
     "the hall reverberated with gaiety and laughter"
   • archaic
     return or re-echo (a sound):
     "oft did the cliffs reverberate the sound"
   • have continuing and serious effects:
     "the statements by the professor reverberated through the capitol"

   
   

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No one’s sure how Napoleon died.

 Napoleon Bonaparte died more than 200 years ago, and in all that time no one has been able to definitively establish how. We know he didn’t perish at the Battle of Waterloo, which is synonymous with his downfall but preceded his actual passing by six years. That calamitous defeat forced Napoleon to step down as emperor of the French for the second time and surrender to the British on July 15, 1815, leading to six years in exile on the island of St. Helena before his death on May 5, 1821. Just three weeks earlier, he reflected on his harsh treatment at the hands of the British, writing, “I die before my time, murdered by the English oligarchy and its assassin.” This has led to speculation among some that Napoleon was poisoned by his captors, a suspicion bolstered by the fact that locks of his hair tested positive for arsenic in 1961. But researchers have since chalked that up to the then-common practice of using arsenic to preserve bodies after death, and/or traces of hair powder containing arsenic. 

The physicians who performed Napoleon’s autopsy in 1821 concluded that he had died, much less suspiciously, of stomach cancer exacerbated by bleeding ulcers. This stands to reason, as he was treated with a heavy dose of calomel — a compound thought to be medicinal at the time that actually contained mercury — the day before he died. Uncertainty remains, however, as do speculation and even conspiracy theories that have only added to the aura of France’s most legendary ruler.