June 2011
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Sites changing the #college #textbook model →
#Book #Boon — www.bookboon.com — was, until six years ago, a traditional book-publishing company. Now it offers around 350 e-books, free to users, in the fields of finance and economics, engineering and natural sciences, as well as information technology. In the U.S., the website www.educationoption.com has begun offering a selection of the books, including expert tuition in Microsoft Word and...
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“Ere enante sewoch dem alen atbelu, fiqrm zimdna naw tekaflew kebelu.”
– #Kuku #Sebsibe, #Wagenie
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“የነደደ ሁሉ ይሆናል አመድ …
መውደድ ለዛሬው እየተፈለገ
ይጠበቃል ተስፋ ከማያልቀው ነገር …
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– from Kuku’s Ambassel
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(#Mahmoud and #Helen) were magic, you know, I do believe they were so!! @SOBs was open till almost 5! Rarely happens!
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New York City’s First Black Officer: Samuel Jesse... →
His birth in 1883 was notable for another benchmark: At 16 pounds, he was the biggest baby ever recorded in North Carolina. “I guess I’ve always wanted to be large, and I have been large,” Samuel Jesse Battle recalled decades later. — more @ NY Times
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@angeliquekidjo — Congoleo
Getting ready...
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In few hours #Mahmoooooood and Helen will be gracing the @SOBs stage! Let’s rock it, #Ethiopian style!!
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@SOBs list of July performers: @FRESHLYGROUNDsa @susheelaraman etc. #Super #Exciting! #Live #Music rocks!
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#Ethiopia’s #Low-Tech, #High-Value #Transportation →
In many parts of the world, people now rely on the Internet, smart phones and Twitter in their daily affairs. In rural Ethiopia, the same can be said for donkeys, horses and mules. A new study looks at the animals’ contributions to people’s livelihoods.
… “There are almost eight million horses and donkeys in Ethiopia. They contribute to the economic development through the transportation...
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#Apichatpong #Weerasethakul: #Primitive (#Thai... →
More coolness in NY! (thanks to Candice :) @60-5, cool project, check it out!)
… [Exhibited] at the New Museum: a multi-platform work consisting of an installation of eight videos, which is expanded here with an additional short film. Weerasethakul’s works are often set in the lush forests and quiet villages of the rural Isaan region of Thailand. His films use inventive narrative...
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Mahmoooood (#Mahmoud #Ahmed) is coming to town … #Helen #Berhe, too. me is excited! One legendary, and the other: young and upcoming artist.
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The #Cancer #Stage of #Capitalism →
by #John #Mcmurtry … #Good #book!
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Until the rise of the anti-capitalist movement, lack of resistance has been a feature of the globalizing world order. John McMurtry has referred to the present era as ‘the cancer stage of capitalism’: the host body’s immune system does not respond to the cancer’s advance, because the communication systems of host social bodies across the world...
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“… It is now commonplace to say that #politics increasingly resembles show...”
– Howard A. Doughty
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“Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will...”
– The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
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Am addicted to #Abraham #Gebremedhin’s new release, #Tsigereda (#Rose)! What an awesome song.
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“[You should #date an #illiterate #girl] … A girl who reads understands...”
– Read the rest: You Should Date An Illiterate Girl, by Charles Warnke
This is an interesting, satirical piece! … It may appear a misogynist, but it’s quite a feminist voice in some weird way. And it is fantastically written. A fun way to learn about punctuation marks, grammar and...
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#Red #Foxes (#Cool #Dads! :D) ... →
[Be a Cool Father! Be a Red Fox! And your kids will thank you everyday, not just on father’s day!]
“When you imagine a picture-esque animal dad, a red fox is not what springs to mind. They can be inquisitive, shy, mean and territorial. But, like most things, you have to look deeper than that.
After a female red fox gives birth, she must stay in her den in...
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“… To solve the present political stalemate of #Ethiopia, one prescription...”
– Mesay Kebede, Ethiopia: Meles’s Political Dilemma and the Developmental State: Dead-Ends and Exit
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Woman says she's too ‘educated’ to be kicked off... →
A woman traveling on New York’s Metro North train line was recorded by a fellow passenger telling train employees that she is too “well-educated” to be told to quiet down and not use profanity in her cell-phone conversation.
“Do you know what schools I’ve been to? How well-educated I am?” she asks the train employee, who is seen explaining to another...
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Be #authentic ... →
“Be authentic. The most powerful asset you have is your individuality, what makes you unique. It’s time to stop listening to others on what you should do.
Work harder than anyone else and you will always benefit from the effort.
Get off the computer and connect with real people and culture. Life is visceral.
Constantly improve your craft. Make things with your hands. Innovation in thinking...
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#Tigrigna #Bible -- Enjoy! →
Happy I found it online! Now, my next hunt will be for full pdf version of Afaan Oromo Bible; and Amharic, Tigrigna, and Afaan Oromo Qur’an. I will be one happy lad after that … :) Any external help will be greatly appreciated!!
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… Come and enjoy the various quotes @ከመጻሕፍት ዓለም (Ethio Books World)! :)
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I like this website: http://www.friedhelm-fischer.de Really good stuff there! @Freidhelm.
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Why going to a #film premiere in #Ethiopia can be... →
Click the link. #Ethiopians have always displayed their love for film! … It is kind of sad when you know how crazy most Ethiopians are for Soccer and Film, yet ironically these two things still remain underdeveloped and not taken very seriously by those with money and power in the country.
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Keep this #TiZita melody on repeat when you are in...
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“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
– Japanese Proverb
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What a nice feeling to go out and bike in such a beautiful weather … the smell of the earth … the sight of people biking, boating, listening to music, reading, running, walking, chilaxing by the riverside on their own or with their family/friends, and of birds flying high, just absorbing the beauty of Sunday morning/afternoon.
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Follow or become a contributor @KMA: http://kemetsahiftalem.tumblr.com if you love Ethiopian literature. ;)
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from art-topia mailing list: Misrepresenting "The...
A professor at the Rutgers University in New Jersey says “The Dream of Africans is only to be free from Hunger”; “Niger” the country is one step behind stone age” etc. He lectured this rhetoric to his students attending a Graduate class in Global Governance repeatedly and makes it a point that the students who most have never been to Africa take this...
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“Life’s a series of pull backs and forths. You want to do one thing, but you’re...”
– Tuesday’s With Morrie by Mitch Albom (via aeloquence)
… one of my fav. books, def. must read!
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“#Action conquers #fear.”
– Peter Nivio #Zarlenga, … can’t find bio of this author, except that there is a book title attributed to the name: the orator.
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Top 15 Movies that Changed Cinema @TheScriptLab →
These films, for good or bad, changed the course of the movie industry and forever altered how movies are made, marketed and viewed. — @TSL
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#Love. Beautiful. Calm. Carefree. Chemistry. Committing. Compromise. Considerate. Consistent. Courage. Dependable. Devotion. Everlasting. Exciting. Fair. Forgiving. Happy. Harmony. Heartfelt. Honest. Cautious. Innocence. Joy. Loyal. Open. Order. Painless. Passion. Patient. Peace. Rational. Responsibility. Satisfied. Security. Stable. Trust.
#Lust. Sexy. Turbulent. Careworn. Biology. Cheating....
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From the Zeitgeist Newsletter
In late May 2011 news reports were generated that detailed how the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States was actively targeting “Political Activists” under the pretense of “Terrorism”. http://rt.com/usa/news/fbi-political-activists-terrorists/ Just as people like John Lennon and Martin Luther King Jr. were watched and harassed by the FBI for their activism decades ago, it appears...
