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I am not finding the Olympic t…

I am not finding the Olympic torch ‘exciting’ or ‘emotional’ and I am a sucker for those two emotions. Clever marketing stunt though.

Don Justino de Neve

no idea about the connection but the web throws up this

The truly great Sammy Davis Jnr

BBC, Talking Of Films | Buster Keaton

BBC – Archive – Hollywood Voices – Talking Of Films | Buster Keaton.

An INTENSE moment of TRUTH with MAINSTREAM Media – YouTube

An INTENSE moment of TRUTH with MAINSTREAM Media – YouTube.

I spotted Endcliffe Park…

…and a number of other shots looked familiar

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The Stolen Scream

The Stolen Scream: A Story About Noam Galai from FStoppers on Vimeo.

I WILL NOT DO THIS – HONEST MUM

VCA 2010 RACE RUN from changoman on Vimeo.

Thanks Gareth

“There was clearly felt the presence of a force not bound to be kind to man. It was a place for heathenism and superstitious rites, — to be inhabited by men nearer of kin to the rocks and to wild animals than we.”

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Whisky Galore

The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God

There’s a one-eyed yellow idol To the north of Kathmandu; There’s a little marble cross below the town; And a brokenhearted woman Tends the grave of ‘Mad’ Carew, While the yellow god for ever gazes down.

He was known as ‘Mad Carew By the subs at Kathmandu, He was hotter than they felt inclined to tell, But, for all his foolish pranks, He was worshipped in the ranks, And the Colonel’s daughter smiled on him as well.

He had loved her all along With the passion of the strong, And that she returned his love was plain to all. She [

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Robert Service

“Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out – it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.”

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E-Mail Use Falls as Young Chat and Text – NYTimes.com

SAN FRANCISCO — Signs you’re an old fogey: You still watch movies on a VCR, listen to vinyl records and shoot photos on film.

Young people, of course, much prefer online chats and text messages. These have been on the rise for years but are now threatening to eclipse e-mail, much as they have already superseded phone calls.

Major Internet companies like Facebook are responding with message services that are focused on immediate gratification.

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Geoffrey Winthrop Young

Only a hill ; earth set a little higher above the face of earth : a larger view of little fields and roads : a little higher to clouds and silence : what is that to you? Only a hill ; but all of life to me, up there, between the sunset and the sea.

The appearance of impropriety

Marketing is actually what other people are saying about you.

Like it or not, true or not, what other people say is what the public tends to believe. Hence an imperative to be intentional about how we’re seen.

It may be true that the effluent from your factory is organic, biodegradable and not harmful to the river. But if it is brown and smelly and coming out of an open pipe, your neighbors might draw their own conclusions.

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RIP Leslie Nielsen - "don't call me Shirley"

Robert F. Kennedy, Speech at the University of Capetown, 6 June 1966

The second danger is that of expediency; of those who say that hopes and beliefs must bend before immediate necessities. Of course if we must act effectively we must deal with the world as it is. We must get things done. But if there was one thing that President Kennedy stood for that touched the most profound feeling of young people across the world, it was the belief that idealism, high aspiration and deep convictions are not incompatible with the most practical and efficient of programs — [

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Fawcett Book Lands Boardman Tasker Prize

‘Ron Fawcett, Rock Athlete’, the autobiography of the famed Yorkshire climber written by Ron and outdoors journalist Ed Douglas, is the winner of the 2010 Boardman Tasker Prize for mountain literature, it was announced at the Kendal Mountain Festival on Friday.

Described the the chairman of the judges, Ian Smith as ‘an engaging portrait of an unassuming yet quite remarkable climber told with humility and frankness’, the book tells Ron’s life story from his childhood in a small Yorkshire village through to his pioneering role in climbing in the 1970s.

The judges praised Fawcett’s candour and also commended Ed [

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Gettysburg Address, 19 November 1863

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“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and [

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The Man with the X-Ray Eyes – coming to a perimeter near you

On the subject of those TSA “grope” scanners at airports here is an insightful, and very early prediction of the wonderful advances in technology that will spring from science. They don’t make them like that any more. Thanks to @tpaleyfilm and @Zerofee for the link.

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