" Verite vient au-delà des Pyrenees erreur ailleurs !"

The truth is hidden beyond the Pyreness Mountains

The maters live beyond Pyrinees montains whereas the servants are somewhere in Algeria !

Aussi grands que sont les maitres, ils sont tout simplement ce que les valets en fond d'eux. Les valets existent la ou les maitres existent, c’est la loi de la de la politique. Le valet dépend son maître sans lequel toute vie est impossible, mais le maître ne peut rien faire sans l’intervention de son valet. L’un fournit la nourriture et aléatoirement l’argent, l’autre dispense les avis et les aides pratiques de toutes sortes, ils sont l’un à l’autre utiles. Conclusion: le valet est plus dangereux que son maitre car il est plus informe que tous les autres reunis!

One day in the land of Algeria, a big fight broke out. People were without work, homes, even the basic comforts of life were not to be had. The Masters were overseas, fighting over who was going to get the lion's share of the oil revenue. They laughed and stuffed themselves with delicacies while the Algerians starved. I know said the Masters...'lets get the people fighting among themselves...that way they won't notice us stealing the oil. That is one hell of an idea! Yes! Everybody in favor! Aye! A toast was made to black gold!

Algeria was almost caught in the storm of terrorism. The nation vacillated, its people were torn apart.

Children from the same family killed each other, brothers and residents of the same towns and the same cities found themselves opposing each other in a fratricidal struggle that vainly tried to hide itself behind Islam, a religion of peace, tolerance and brotherhood.

Thanks to the courage and mobilization of all the Algerians, our homeland survived. Also thanks to the sacrifices of the Algerian security forces, led by the People،¯s National Army, which is worthy of being the successor of the National Liberation Army supported by all the patriots, Algeria was able to repel the hydra of terrorism.
Algeria paid a very high price for its survival: tens of thousands of deaths, more than $20 billion dollars of damages, a costly obstacle to development and a weakening of its position on the international arena.
After security was restored, thanks to the law on civil concord, the nation released its energy once again and dedicated itself to the national construction.
From then on, the Algerians rightly pursued their aspiration to rebuild their homeland, to achieve prosperity and guarantee the future of the coming generations.
However, our country،¯s wounds are still far from being healed.
And it is not only due to the persistent terrorism, even with its reduced intensity, and the crimes of terrorism that we are resolved to stop by all means.
This wound also results from the grave consequences of national tragedy. In addition to the families of our martyrs and the victims of terrorism, numerous families are still grieving over to the disappearance of their loved ones.
Numerous other families that see close ones being pulled into the infernal spiral of terrorism fall into destitution.

There are thousands of orphans; some because their parents died defending the homeland, others because their parents took weapons against the same homeland;

still more others have found themselves alone and abandoned because of the madness of terrorism.

However, the Algerian nation is the big family of all these orphans. Algeria will know how to take care of them and insure their future

The Monkey Justice

Once upon a time, in a far away land, an alley cat and a fat cat were fighting over a banana.
The gray and white alley cat hung on to the banana with all of his strength. He was a tough and battle scarred cat that had beaten off many mangy felines in the ghetto alleys. Suddenly a big, big pure white cat, wearing a collar studded with sparkling jewels, stepped out from behind the over filled garbage can with its tantalizing odors.
"That is a fine banana, alley cat, but I think that I should take it and eat it all by myself." He made a grab for the banana, but the alley cat was too fast for him.
The fat cat lunged again, jewels sparkling in the clean air. This time he caught the alley cat by the tail.
The alley cat growled and tried to pull away, but he was no match for the pure white cat with the sparkles around his neck.
The alley cat stubbornly held onto the banana, even though he was at great risk of losing his tail.
A brown spider monkey walked up to the spitting, hissing felines. Using his long tail to support him, the spider monkey asked the felines what they were fighting about.
The two felines stopped their yowling chatter long enough to survey the spider monkey.
“Uh! Spider monkey, alley cat screeched, I found a banana, it’s mine and I am not sharing.” Holding the over ripe plump banana he tried to make a run for it.
“Why you selfish no good ruffian, I ought to pull your tail right off your rump,” snarled the big fat, white cat with the sparkling jewels around his neck.
“Hey! There felines, stop your squabbling. I can’t take it anymore. I have a plan.”
The alley cat and the fat cat with the flashing jewels around his neck were happy that the spider monkey had a solution to their problem.



“Give me the banana, scrappy alley cat.”
‘Oh! Alright! The alley cat gave up his prized banana reluctantly-“and let go of my tail, he snapped peevishly.
Fat cat let go.
“This is the plan felines.”
The slender spider monkey pulled out a digital scale. Grasping the banana in his black paws, he split it in half. And put the two pieces on the scale.
Hey! Alley cat, mumbled. One piece is bigger than the other.”
“Not fair” shouted fat cat with the flashing jewels around his neck.
The spider monkey took a bite out of the larger piece, watching the two felines, gauging their reactions. He, then reweighed the pieces. However one piece was always larger. The felines watched the spider monkey with growing suspicion.
But the spider monkey, bite by bite, ate the banana in front of the felines.

Moral!
“Brains, you scrappy felines, if you had any, you would never have fallen into my trap”

Between Paradise and Hell

Any success in a particular chaotic place located between paradise and hell does not require new skills or new knowledge; it requires new ways of thinking. If this statement is true then we are advised not to see the world as a clockwork mechanism but as a zigzag system composed of series of events randomly occurring.

By a zigzag series of events I mean a place full of uncertainty. A place where it is difficult to predict exactly what is going to happen at any given time. Be it the present or the nearest future. It is impossible to predict with certain accuracy what is going to happen next. Life is a nonlinear process. If you try to extrapolate, you may be disappointed. You may think that your boat is unsinkable. However, if you sail it enough times, eventually, it will sink. The future is a fuzzy business. Scientists and mathematicians are developing a theory to explain the nonlinearity phenomenon of life.

In the so called theory they recognize the importance of adaptation, and the need of improvisation but they did not really understand how new patterns of thinking can arise from group interactions and make the chaotic place look like paradise rather than hell. Paradise and hell are beliefs. No one has seen paradise as no one has seen hell. Our belief tell us that paradise is a perfect world, a world where accidents never happen. We also believe that hell is place where all kind of problems are encountered. Since we are not, yet in paradise we cannot be certain as to results.

Do what you think based on your education and experience when designing something. Your life is the way you want it to be and not the way they (they mainly refer to politicians) want. The experimental work I want to conduct on the zigzag event place will show that all the elements living in that place are capable of surviving the harsh environment and show success at various conditions. Here success is a relative variable. Success in the United States is not the same success achieved in Central Africa. Accelerating the process of learning how to avoid an accident decreases the rate of failure and makes one feel like he is in Paradise. However, increasing the load on one s back in general increases the rate of thinking but decreases the chance of success. Thus, one feels like he is in hell.

Subject: Between Paradise and Hell

Apr 09, 2005 12:31 AM By: Sandra Petrich
Between Paradise and Hell
From: Sandra Petrich On: April 04, 2005 11:04 AM

I am a mortal with a grade twelve education and carry years of life experience on a back bent by the school of hard knocks. In my opinion, I feel that the world has gone mad. The scenario of a rat on a treadmill, always rushing, but never getting to his destination comes to mind. Yes, conditions are harsh for most on this planet but so is the will to survive. However, intellectuals must take responsibility and make it their mission statement to design products and services and implement them into the world-not for corporate greed, or fame, or for politicians-but to make this planet a safer, kinder place to live whereby all earth's inhabitants can survive on a level playing field.


Apr 10, 2005 9:30 AM By: Cindy Perouty

Dr. Chaalal's article contains elements very similar to Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection. Life is definitely not linear, but is exposed to a variety of experiences from many directions. This nonlinearity requires adaptation by the person to their "environment" be it corporate, education, political or the external environment, as well as cultural mores, ethics and religion. Although humans have long begun to shape the world to their own needs, we are also shaped by the "memes" of our cultures and world. As stated in Wikipedia "The term meme was coined in 1976 by Richard Dawkins in his bestselling book, The Selfish Gene. Inanimate sources of information have been termed 'retention systems'. In more specific terms, a meme is a self-propagating unit of cultural evolution having some resemblance to the gene (the unit of genetics). The difference lies in the replicative potential and minimally required resources to replicate. Memes can represent parts of ideas, languages, elemental particles, tunes, designs, skills, moral and aesthetic values and anything else that is commonly learned and passed on to others as a unit. The study of evolutionary models of information transfer is called memetics."
As Dr. Challal has stated in his article "Do what you think based on your education and experience when designing something. Your life is the way you want it to be and not the way they (they mainly refer to politicians) want." Although memes permit us to share a common thought or idea, memes can also be seen as akin to "thought viruses", especially those that come to us from the media. Not everything reported in any media, be it radio, TV, newspapers or the Internet is completely truthful. If you do not use your brain to think about what is being said, you pass on false information, which eventually becomes part of the "global myth" of lies that people considered true.
The world is a great and wonderful place filled with exciting ideas, unique cultures and more people who for the most part believe in the Golden Rule of do unto other as you would have them do to you. Being kind increases kindness. Being unkind increases anger and causes more unkindness. From the world we have those memes that shape our world politics and ideas, as well as those of good will, peace and global harmony going back in history to both the written word and the conscious memories shared over the generations.
Yes there are also the unkind, the dubious, the scammers and those who would hurt people for the sake of gain or because of mental disturbances. However, like our ancestors, we must adapt ourselves to these challenges as they come at us from all directions. Dr. Challal's zigzag theory is therefore quite Darwinian in concept!

Subject: Between Paradise and Hell

Apr 10, 2005 11:45 AM By: Cindy S.

I have one theroy on this matter and that is life is what you make it .It can be paradise or it can be hell we all need to put our own lives in prospective we cant let politacians or any one else do our thinking for us or expect any one to make our lives what they are we can only do that ourselves .

Subject: Heaven or Hell

Apr 14, 2005 9:29 AM By: C. Jean Hiers

While I agree that life is not linear, I disagree that life's twists and turns are random or coincidental. I don't believe that. Call it faith, but I believe there is a reason for everything, though we may not be privy to that reason. As mortals on this earth, we strive to achieve and to be the best we can be.
While I agree that we cannot predict the future, we can only strive to do whatever we have control of to attain the end product we desire. When that desired result is not attained, there is generally a reason.... sometime clearly obvious, other times vague and disapppointing. Haven't you ever realized after the fact that it was a good thing that you didn't get what you wished for?
Education, whether formal or simply the school of hard knocks, is never wasted. But to add value to our lives, we must be able to learn from it; to take our failures and avoid making the same mistakes again. It's how we grow, spiritually, emotionally, and intellectually.
I don't consider myself the eternal optimist, but I do view the world full of optimism and joy. We cannot attain perfection or live in paradise while on this earth, but we can strive for a good life, a productive life.
We all have to learn the art of compromise; be it in our personal lives, or learning to live with the decisions of our chosen leaders, but that doesn't mean we must become complacent and accepting of ideas we deem weak or filled with falacies. All the more reason for us to be active, not passive.
Some say life is what you make it, and to an extent, this is true. But more accurate, I think, is that life is a condition of how we react to the challenges it presents.

Subject: Between Pradise and Hell

Apr 19, 2005 5:49 AM By: Richard Fielder

Very interesting, Omar, as was the discussion that you precipitated. I agree that much of what happens to us is out of our control, and also that we have a great deal of control over how we react to what happens--in effect, that we create our own reality (as you say, your life is the way you want it to be). The key is to choose wisely when choosing the reality you create. Richard

Subject: Between Paradise And Hell

Apr 19, 2005 6:27 AM By: Shirley Billingsley

Your ideology is somewhat unique. I would like to tell you about the story of Jesus, and introduce to you the real world - the Bible, which is the Word of God. God made all things, and without Him, nothing was made.

Subject: Heaven and Hell

Apr 21, 2005 10:15 AM By: Joyce Faulkner, Author and Freelance Writer

To add to Dr. Chaalal thoughts, I wonder if success and failure, heaven and hell are internal concepts -- I am successful because I'm achieving those things that I was put on earth to achieve and I know it, rather than trying to accomplish something external. In other words, success isn't something that can be measured by society but only in the heart of the individual. I'm not saying that others don't make judgements -- that's what prizes and accolades and condemnations and accusations are all about...people judging people. However, many a prize winner is morose -- feeling that the judgements of others are overblown compared to his/her own assessments. In the long run, no matter what others think, it's what I think that makes me happy or sad, successful or unsuccessful -- and heaven and hell belongs to the mind in much the same way. Dr. Chaalal's zigzag image still holds through this perspective -- because thoughts are indeed nonlinear -- and heaven and hell are far more complex ideas than the simple black and white, good versus evil constructs that have become cliches around the world.

A freedom lesson taught by the Chiffa monkeys: 8th May 1945

The Algerian Chimpanzee and the Chiffa Monkey both agreed that they were victims of corruption by intelligent human beings. The Algerian Chimpanzee leaned against the bars of his cage, awaiting his next nicotine fix. “What am I going to do now,” he says, as he reaches for his cigarette from the laughing visitor. He takes a puff, inhales deeply, and beats his chest, showing great displeasure. “My handlers say that smoking is dangerous for me. They say”, and again he inhales deeply from the Marlboro cigarette, “that I can get lung cancer and die? Do I need the patch? Where will I put the patch? What were they thinking of to let me get hooked on nicotine? Now my handlers tell me that I have to quit smoking. How am I going to do that? Are they going to lock me in a detox centre? I am already in a cage.”
The Chiffa Monkey put his arms around the big Algerian Chimpanzee and said “ I will tell you the tale of a great fighter, Mohamed Boudiaf, the father of the FLN, and the smart engineer of the GPRA, the first Algerian Government in exile, during the Algerian Revolution. Mohamed Boudiaf was an honest man and fought hard for justice. He railed against the French telling them that they were not civilized.” You gave the Americans the Statue of Liberty, and you say that you are offering us our freedom, but in actuality, you are colonizing us.” Then Mohamed Boudiaf called upon the monkeys of the Chiffa Mountain to join the Mujahadein. Mohamed Boudiaf Alwatani was in effect calling the Algerians to fight. He said, ” if you do not fight I will free Algeria with the monkeys.”

The root causes of the national liberation struggle were the social consequences of the economic exploitation of Algeria, plus injustice and slavery.
The French were liars who coerced the Algerians to help them fight against the Nazis, with the promise that when they were defeated, Algeria would gain its freedom. However, on May 8, 1945, the French reneged on their promise and killed 45,000 Algerians in one day. This might have been the straw that broke the camel’s back causing Boudiaf to fight. The Chiffa Monkey paused thinking of the mighty warrior, Mohamed Boudiaf, who was later, exiled and killed by an algerian called " Boumanaaraf " in Annaba thirty years after Algeria gained her Independence.

Algeria, under the rule of President Bouteflika is a stable country, Algerians are living peacefully and the monkeys are ready to fight against the enemies who want to destabilize Algeria.

Paroles du Président de la République, M. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, prononcées à l’ouverture de la 6e Semaine nationale du Coran:

Par le mot "Coran", j’entends ce flot divin qui submerge le cœur du musulman de foi et de vertus pour ne respirer que sincérité et n’inspirer que droiture et exactitude. J’entends ces lointains horizons auxquels aspire l’homme pour se rapprocher un peu plus de Dieu pour que Dieu le protège . J’entends cette Lumière divine éclatante à travers laquelle l’homme se découvre tel que Dieu a voulu qu’il soit dans la vie au sens de la droiture,
de l’intégrité, la vérité et la justice.

The Oil Tanker Worth your Thoughts?

The results of midnight oil I've been burning in the previous years...

Article courtesy of Kristi Sayles.



Dr. Chaalal, Adjunct Professor of the Chemical Engineering and Process Department-United Arab Emirates University, has designed a tanker for recovering lost oil.

A recovery ship carries a large tank filled with seawater. When the ship approaches an oil slick, it opens a series of holes in the bottom of the tank; the movement of the ship's hull forces the oil past the holes. Because oil is less dense than seawater, it rises to the top of the tank and gradually displaces all the seawater. The holes are then closed and the ship returns to dock to unload the oil.

Explaining the technique, Dr Chaalal says the recovery ship carries a large tank filled with seawater.

When the ship approaches an oil slick, it opens a series of holes in the bottom of the hull to connect the water in the tank to the water outside. Just like a glass full of water which is upturned in a filled sink.

The water in the tank does not flood out as long as the holes remain unchanged. As the ship moves along, its specially designed hull shape forces any oil it encounters underneath the boat pass the holes.

"Because oil is less dense than seawater, it rises up through the holes to the top of the tank." Dr. Chaalal explains. "As the oil builds up in the tank, it gradually displaces the seawater until it contains nothing but oil. The holes are closed and the ship returns to dock to unload its catch."

Dr Mohamed said Dr Chaalal also demonstrated the technique using a 60cm long scale model in a tank containing a one-litre 'slick' of crude oil. To simulate sea conditions, the tank was agitated. In only a couple of minutes, the boat recovered 99 per cent of the oil.

Dr Will Hendry, Operations Supervisor for Briggs Environmental Services, a counter-pollution specialist based in Aberdeen, Scotland, said the idea will certainly be welcomed by the oil industry