Sanaga Peregrinations

Check out the great profile of Amar Bose life, the man behind the Bose Corporation. I've been meaning to post the link of this article featured on Popular Science website on Amar Bose, the genius mind behind the eponymous audio system brand.   " The future," Bose [- a renowned MIT professor -] famously told his students, "isn't in solving the problems to which we already know the answers. It's in learning how to work through the problems you'll experience in life, in any subject ." "The value of Amar Bose isn't so much in the things he has invented, but in the sense of possibility he inspires. Even the company's consumer slogan—BETTER SOUND THROUGH RESEARCH—appears on the trucks only, Veranth says, "because trucks can be repainted." In the lobby of Bose headquarters, set in stone, is a broader slogan: BETTER PRODUCTS THROUGH RESEARCH." Bose reminds us that we could all afford to be much more skyward-lookin

" An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones ." W. Somerset Maugham

Tout va bien... La mort n'est rien en soi... Je suis seulement allé dormir dans la pièce à côté.  Je suis moi et vous êtes vous... Quel que soit le lien qui ait pu nous unir, il est toujours le même.   Appelez-moi par mon surnom, parlez-moi le plus naturellement comme vous l'avez toujours fait. Ne changez pas de ton. N'y mettez aucune solennité ni tristesse. Riez aux petites plaisanteries que nous aimions tant nous faire.   Jouez, souriez, pensez à moi.   Que mon nom soit utilisé de la façon la plus naturelle comme il l'a toujours été. Qu'il soit prononcé sans effort, sans le moindre ombrage.   La vie signifie tout ce qu'elle a toujours signifié. Elle est toujours celle qu'elle a toujours été.   Pourquoi devrais-je sortir de votre esprit, parce que je ne suis plus là?   Moi, je vous attends, pour quelque temps, quelque part tout près, juste au coin de la rue...   Tout va bien. d'après Henri Scott Holland

“ Must a government, of necessity,” he asked, “be too strong for the liberties of its own people or too weak to maintain its own existence? ”  Abraham Lincoln (1). "Political genius" or "aspiring tyrant" ? Understanding the political legacy of Abraham Lincoln and his life's work has posed throughout the years a great challenge to many.  Scholars have described as an exemplary leader, a symbol of moral grandeur and heroism during times of hardship for the United States. Describing Lincoln as a complex mind and leader is an understatement. Abraham Lincoln   (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865)  political leadership is back on the limelight. The philosophy of the 16th president of the United States has long been the subject of public scrutiny, interest in his legacy has never waned, even more recently thanks to the Academy's award nominated movie by Steven Spielberg, in which Daniel Day-Lewis offers us a stunning performance playing a Civil War tim