September 2011
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August 2011
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BAD COMMA: Lynne Truss’s strange grammar →
[…] Why would a person who is not just vague about the rules but disinclined to follow them bother to produce a guide to punctuation? Truss, a former sports columnist for the London Times, appears to have been set a-blaze by two obsessions: superfluous apostrophes in commercial signage (“Potatoe’s” and that sort of thing) and the elision of punctuation, along with uppercase letters, in...
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Ramadan →
The last Friday, a slideshow that shows Muslims from different backgrounds praying and involved in everyday happenings:
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How an #Ethiopian slave became a South African... →
When Neville Alexander used to visit his maternal grandmother Bisho Jarsa as a boy, he never suspected the extraordinary story of how she had come from Ethiopia to the South African city of Port Elizabeth. More @ BBC
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“Ethiopia is your mother: love her.
Ethiopia is your country: defend her....”
– Emperor Yohannes IV (1837-1889)
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WatchAfrica Rising - Self Help Program to Move People Beyond Dependency, Ensuring Food Security, The Ethiopian Model …
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Developing faster supercomputers →
Inspiring young Ethiopian American, an IBM scientist, recently featured in MIT’s Technology Review, selected as one of 35 top innovators under 35.
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“O King! We were ignorant people and we lived like wild animals. The strong among...”
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A summary of speech by Ja’far ibn Abī Tālib in the court of Abyssinia (today Ethiopia) in answer to the questions posed by the Christian king.
After the conversion of many prominent Meccans to Islam, the companions of Muhammad began to offer prayers publicly in 613. In turn, the Quraysh...
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“I too am about to leave this Earth, this light which fills my eyes; my heart...”
– Abu Bakr in The Silence of Mohammed (118 - 119), by Salim Bachi, trans. Sue Rose (Pushkin Press, 2010)
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Relationship Sours Between #BBC and the #Ethiopian... →
[…] Observing this controversy closely, the government seems to take the allegations as just another defamation by the BBC. However, though there might be an exaggeration on the reporting, the allegation might have a point, which needs to be taken seriously by the government. The problem is that the Ethiopian government remains to be defensive on any allegation coming to it. The fact that...
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#London riots reflect a #society run on #greed and... →
If this week’s eruption is an expression of pure criminality and has nothing to do with police harassment or youth unemployment or rampant inequality or deepening economic crisis, why is it happening now and not a decade ago? The criminal classes, as the Victorians branded those at the margins of society, are always with us, after all. And if it has no connection with Britain’s...
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Young #Ethiopian Building His Own Aircraft →
ABC report from Melbourne, Australia.
Awesome, amazing! …
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“The Israeli social justice movement has just gone into orbit and exploded into...”
– WL Central, Is the Arab Spring spreading to Israel? Hundreds of thousands take to the streets
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Playing for Change →
Deep, inspiring, and soulful music from around the world.
Amazing voices.
Awesome stories.
One world, one great cause, bringing the human race together with music.
Playing for Change. Visit their website. Purchase their CD/DVD. Listen/Watch. Impossible to Enjoy.
WatchBFFs. :) Sometimes it’s fun to have a nagging friend.
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“If a period is a stop sign, then what kind of traffic flow is created by other...”
– Roy Peter Clark (Writing Tools, 46-9)
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My current fascination with #Haiku #Poetry
初しぐれ猿も小蓑をほしげ也はつしぐれさるもこみのをほしげなりhatsu shigure saru mo komino wo hoshige nari the first cold showereven the monkey seems to wanta little coat of straw — Etsuko Yanagibori, Basho’s Haiku on the theme of Mt. Fuji: from the personal notebook of Etsuko Yanagibor
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“Cultivate #imagination, #love it, give it endless forms, but do not let it...”
– George Santayana (Persons and Places, 427–28).
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“What a #relationship looks like on the outside isn’t the same as what...”
– Jean Kwok, Girl In Translation 