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Quote of the day: Quotes with horses
We were surprise how many quotes or proverbs with horses exist. Below our quick list of the most interesting ones:
“I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.” Abraham Lincoln - 16th US President (1861-65)
“Speak the truth but ride a fast horse.” West Texas saying
“The one who [...]
Quote of the day: Know your enemy
One of Sun Tzu’s maxims from his book The Art of War:
“If you are ignorant of both your enemy and yourself, then you are a fool and certain to be defeated in every battle.
If you know yourself, but not your enemy, for every battle won, you will suffer a loss (half and half).
If you know your enemy and yourself, then you will win every battle.
“Sun Tzu”, Chinese general and strategist ca. 500BC
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Music: Led Zeppelin Reunion
How to tell if an event was a great and global success. Well the Led Zeppelin concert in London this Monday definitely put the bar up quite a bit for others.
If 2,000,000 want to come and you have to distribute the tickets through a lottery to the lucky 20,000 that’s definitely an indication. If news stations around the world are reporting on the event at prime time even a better one. Not to mention the hundreds of web blogs, news paper and magazine sites.
And if on web sites from YouTube to MySpace hundreds of video clips of the event appear within 24 hours - we stopped counting on YouTube at 250 - you have definitely won the crowds over…
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Quote of the day: Life
I‘ve been around quite a bit and seen people from many walks of life.
There have been good times and not so good ones, but when I could and saw fit I’ve always tried to give back and helped others.
And they have been taking freely when things were going well but left me for [...]
Video: P-Funk documentary
When you like funk, this one hour documentary on George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic is a must.
… What’s your funk aptitude, bobba?
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Quote of the Day: Joseph Gerrald
From a sign in the Sydney Botanical Garden put up close to the place where Joseph Gerrald’s (one of the “Scottish Martyrs”) grave once was:
For myself, my friend, whatever destiny awaits me, I am content. The cause which I have embraced has taken deep root, and must, I feel, ultimately triumph. I have my reward. I see through the cheering vista of future events the overthrow of tyranny, and the permanent establishment of benevolence and peace. It is as silent as the lapse of time, but as certain and inevitable.
Joseph Gerrald, 17 May 1795
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Australia: Supersize my ambulance
Australia’s obesity crisis has forced health officials to revamp their fleet of ambulances to cope with a sharp rise in overweight patients.
Studies estimate that 67% of Australian men and over half of all women aged over 25 are overweight or obese.
Super-sized vehicles have been introduced and new air ambulances will be remodeled to carry heavier people weighing up to 220kg…
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USA: “The Day I Got Deported From the US”
There is a very interesting description of what an UN Aid worker had to experience when he tried to enter the US with his EEC passport.
Also read the comments - even more insights…
The story is at the The Road to the Horizon blog.
Happy Birthday Harry Belafonte
You won’t believe it but it’s the great man’s 80th Birthday today. So we wish you all the best and a great thank you for all what you have done in your life so far. And - as you can expect we are not talking necessarily about Calypso here….Harry Belafonte is to most people probably best known as the handsome singer who popularized calypso music in the US in the 1950s. But Harry Belafonte has done so many more things - a lengthy career as an actor, producer and music composer but more importantly is his longstanding work as an activist in the fights against racism, violence and world hunger. Being the first black performer to win an Emmy and…
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2006 Turing award: ACM for the first time laureates female engineer
After more than 40 years of existence the Turing Award aka the “Nobel Prize in Computing” for the first time today was awarded to a female engineer. Frances E. Allen, received the USD 100,000 price for “…pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of optimizing compiler techniques that laid the foundation for modern optimizing compilers and automatic parallel execution…” . Frances E. Allen has been working in the field of computing and Information Technology since the days of punch cards and is currently with…
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