tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-311764432024-03-19T02:38:47.122-07:00Sanaga PeregrinationsLydiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05390387047023117477noreply@blogger.comBlogger398125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31176443.post-91584457530627942762016-05-16T15:04:00.000-07:002016-05-16T15:09:18.351-07:00Your Name Will Stay Inside The Hearts Of People<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></i>
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<a href="https://positiveoutlooksblog.com/2016/05/16/be-the-one-who-has-an-understanding-heart/" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Unknown Source</span></i></a></div>
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Lydiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05390387047023117477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31176443.post-48039039048671738722015-08-31T14:09:00.001-07:002015-08-31T14:09:08.826-07:00Nothing is permanent in this wicked world. Not even our troubles.<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world. Not even our troubles."</span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Charles Chaplin</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-T63yGdLbyjWPw27QigMWOzWpNdGp6w79_cNTOBF00k0rNQqMGq94DqN2dDSYRSGzLq3JeOFXJy3IpXe3FI56pA415rL_uPYeHySmnhhWr4QcKeKRiPkn4HdJNwRwHVH-_NvTlw/s640/blogger-image--559803528.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-T63yGdLbyjWPw27QigMWOzWpNdGp6w79_cNTOBF00k0rNQqMGq94DqN2dDSYRSGzLq3JeOFXJy3IpXe3FI56pA415rL_uPYeHySmnhhWr4QcKeKRiPkn4HdJNwRwHVH-_NvTlw/s640/blogger-image--559803528.jpg"></a></div><br></span></div>Lydiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05390387047023117477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31176443.post-42983602092120428652015-08-04T17:28:00.001-07:002015-08-04T17:32:39.400-07:00The Price of Anything is the Amount of Life you Exchange for it<i><b>The Price of Anything is the Amount of Life you Exchange for it.</b></i><br />
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Lydiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05390387047023117477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31176443.post-84333614869281110892015-07-20T05:30:00.001-07:002015-07-20T05:30:26.299-07:00Nothing Gold Can Stay<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Nothing Gold Can Stay</b></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div>Nature's first green is gold, <br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Her hardest hue to hold.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Her early leaf's a flower;<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">But only so an hour.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Then leaf subsides to leaf.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">So Eden sank to grief,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">So dawn goes down to day.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Nothing gold can stay.</span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By <i><b>Robert FROST</b></i></span></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpJbAqCQmBy5kCmaTK9NiYSXy3LW8VNc1gVlyPGYGrGuUIMwRVPI7cBVPa4l7teqV_NtNORE78katmco5BN6WTeVUHEPuV0hVnLABGRT5DytJijXmyOo15r0W2U17dD4hE2UYHbA/s640/blogger-image-5257612.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpJbAqCQmBy5kCmaTK9NiYSXy3LW8VNc1gVlyPGYGrGuUIMwRVPI7cBVPa4l7teqV_NtNORE78katmco5BN6WTeVUHEPuV0hVnLABGRT5DytJijXmyOo15r0W2U17dD4hE2UYHbA/s640/blogger-image-5257612.jpg"></a></div>Lydiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05390387047023117477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31176443.post-22768573541563945382015-07-14T22:27:00.000-07:002015-07-14T22:27:17.217-07:00There are things we don't want to happen, but have to accept. Jennifer "JJ" Jareau<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the critically acclaimed US TV Show <a href="http://criminalminds.wikia.com/wiki/Criminal_Minds_Wiki" target="_blank">Criminal Minds</a>, <a href="http://criminalminds.wikia.com/wiki/Jennifer_Jareau" target="_blank">Jennifer "JJ"Jareau</a> a.k.a "JJ" <a href="http://www.criminalmindsfanwiki.com/page/Season+6+Quotes" target="_blank">quoted</a> nicely her exit interview in the 2nd episode of the 6th Season. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Here's what I named it the Jennifer "JJ" Jareau principle. </span><br />
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thankful for my years spent with this family; for everything we shared,
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: small;">I'll take the best of them and lead by
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: small;">This isn't what I want, but I'll take the high road. </span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: small;">Maybe it's because I look at everything as a lesson, or I don't want to
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As you can see, this is a pretty lenghty quote, and for my return on the blog, I've decided to do a serie based on quotes from the quote. So stay tuned and let me know what you think by dropping me a line in the comments section or on twitter .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lydie</span>Lydiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05390387047023117477noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31176443.post-11893545608707029112015-07-14T22:04:00.002-07:002015-07-14T22:27:35.921-07:00This isn't what I want, but I'll take the high road. | JJ Principle (1)<h3 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am sure several ones of you have heard it before tossed at like a wisdom nugget, and have wondered "which road is that ?" or worse, should you have been too stunned or lost, your mouth merely expulsed two words "come again ?"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Truth be told, it's one of these sentences that are thrown away when a conflict arises, but on which, few can give a precise defintion. I'll try my best to remedy to that.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So what does "Take the high road" really means ?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>John C. Maxwell</b> theorized <a href="http://www.johnmaxwell.com/cms/images/uploads/ads/The_High_Road_Principle.pdf" target="_blank">The High Road Principle</a> gives us a good explanation by stating that there are three roads or options that we can take in life: </span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The middle road : where we treat people the same as they treat us</span></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The high road : where we treat people better than they treat us</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If treated poorly, one reaction could be to hurt even more the person responsible for the outrage. If bad spoken to, many would be so incensed at the other person and thus defer with politeness or what they might see at the time as philosophical platitudes. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Many would agree that <i><b>the "F..." word can prove liberating </b></i>sometimes. But based on my experience, the instant gratification never lasts and leaves a bad feeling afterwards. So to me, <b><i>it's not worth it!</i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Gandhi has summarized it best for all of us by stating “<i><b>An eye for and eye and whole world goes blind.</b></i>” </span></span><br />
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Voilà une page du livre de la vie qui est en passe d'être tournée et que vient pour nous le temps de faire nos adieux à 2014 pour mieux étreindre 2015 avec comme impérieuse résolution la recherche du bonheur! </div>
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Saint Augustin nous aiguille sur une des façons de <b>répondre à l'invitation au bonheur</b>. Invitation faite au sein d'un monde si fragile en proie à mille maux allant de la fièvre hémorragique - aka <b><i>Ebola</i></b> (du nom d'un fleuve au Congo), cette peste des temps modernes - aux avions qui disparaissent sans crier gare (n'y voyez aucun vilain jeu de mots), en passant par <b>la terreur aux facettes aussi multiples que ses nouvelles recrues</b>. <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Nous sommes ainsi forts loin du monde "</span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><b>l</b></i><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><i><b>à, tout n'est qu'ordre et beauté, Luxe, calme et volupté</b></i>" </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">que décrivait Baudelaire dans son <i>Invitation au Voyage</i>.</span></div>
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Qu'est-ce à dire sinon qu'il existe tant de raisons pour les hommes de baisser les bras, de désespérer pire de ne plus "y" croire ? Le monde tel que nous le percevons maintenant, c'est à dire au travers du prisme de l'instantané que nous donnent les 365 jours de l'année 2014, a eu son lot de turbulences qui ont contribué à l'augmentation des désespérances aussi bien individuelles et que collectives. </div>
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Mais au moment de tourner la page et d'aborder un nouveau chapitre, je veux le faire non sans <b>reprendre mon souffle d'optimisme</b> et regarder le versant heureux de la face de Janus qu'est ma vie. J'invite chacun de vous à en faire autant. Tout n'est pas à jeter dans ces heures écoulées! Alors dans un soupir d'aise revivons no(tre)s bonheurs vécus au travers d'un fou rire inextinguible et contagieux, d'une émotion qui suscite une larme, d'un mets qui ravive les appétences, d'une rencontre que le hasard sait si bien arranger, d'une communion de tendresses, d'un amour qui ne saurait passer etc... Oui, nos réussites et les fragments de joie que nous avons goûtés, aussi fragiles et <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">évanescents </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">qu'ils aient pu être, doivent nous rendre gourmands et avides de bonheur. En cela, nous pouvons lire l'exhortation de Saint Augustin comme une belle invitation !</span></div>
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A toi, mon unique qui possède les clés de mon cœur et à chacun de vous, <b>je vous souhaite le meilleur et puisse 2015 être pour vous une invitation au bonheur</b> !!!</div>
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<b>Belle et heureuse année</b> !!! </div>
Lydiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05390387047023117477noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31176443.post-6343609065635022572014-12-21T05:08:00.001-08:002014-12-21T05:08:49.903-08:00Quote of the day "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe." Anatole France
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Check out the great profile of <b><a href="http://m.popsci.com/science/article/2013-07/curious-genius-amar-bose" target="_blank">Amar Bose</a></b> life, the man behind the Bose Corporation. I've been meaning to post the link of this article featured on <a href="http://www.popsci.com/" target="_blank">Popular Science</a> website on Amar Bose, the genius mind behind the eponymous audio system brand. </div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">"<i>The future,"</i></span><i> Bose [- a renowned MIT professor -] famously told his students, </i><b><i>"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</i>."</b></div>
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"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: <span style="font-weight: bold;">BETTER PRODUCTS THROUGH RESEARCH."</span></div>
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Lydiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05390387047023117477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31176443.post-74041402001538728202013-08-23T13:24:00.001-07:002013-08-23T13:25:46.208-07:00Good Habits versus Bad ones<p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 5px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"<i><b>An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones</b></i>."</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 5px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="bq_fq_a" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 5px; "><a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/w/w_somerset_maugham.html" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><font color="#000000">W. Somerset Maugham</font></a></p>Lydiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05390387047023117477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31176443.post-58804675438684370772013-03-14T07:39:00.000-07:002013-03-14T07:39:28.468-07:00Tout va bien...<h4>
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Je suis moi et vous êtes vous... Quel que soit le lien qui ait pu nous unir, il est toujours le même.<br /> </i></span></div>
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vous l'avez toujours fait. Ne changez pas de ton. N'y mettez aucune
solennité ni tristesse. Riez aux petites plaisanteries que nous aimions
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"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.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Secession impedes the operations of a free elected government</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A government should carry on its constitutional duties regardless of political motives or opportunities</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;">(1) : </span>Abraham Lincoln's Special Message to Congress of July 4, 1861.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(2): Stephen B. Smith <a href="http://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/lincolns-constitutional-leadership" target="_blank">article</a> on Lincoln's constitutional leadership.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(3): images sources: <a href="http://storylineblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/abraham-lincoln.jpg" target="_blank">lincoln</a> and <a href="http://www.nature.com/scientificamericanmind/journal/v18/n4/images/scientificamericanmind0807-22-I4.jpg" target="_blank">constitution</a></span>Lydiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05390387047023117477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31176443.post-9457737484766761212012-11-06T21:41:00.001-08:002012-11-06T21:41:33.941-08:00Four More Years :)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">President Obama has won re-election to a second term according the all major new networks projections that are calling it in on the air.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We can safely say at this time, that President Obama would have the majority of electoral votes, more than the 270 required. The incumbent President Barack Obama has such an edge that would be nearly impossible for candidate Mitt Romney to recover.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">On his official twitter account, one can read : “<b><i>This happened because of you. Thank you.</i></b>”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Thank you Mr President and best of luck to implement your policies and put the US back on the track of economic recovery.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: center;"><i>Comfort the girl</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: center;"><i>Help her understand</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: center;"><i>No matter how bad</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: center;"><i>Or tear it apart</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: center;"><i>Can poison your voice</i></span></div>
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</span>Lydiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05390387047023117477noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31176443.post-15141449416832986112012-06-16T19:32:00.001-07:002012-06-16T19:33:01.310-07:00Save your "sorry. I don't need are anymore apologies<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last night, I watched for the second time the Tyler Perry movie "<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1405500/" target="_blank">For colored girls</a>" starring some of my favorite African-American actresses : Kimberly Elise, Kerry Washington, Phylicia Rashad, Anika Noni Rose etc...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The quote I love the most, is the one from Jo (Joanne Bradmore) played by an astonishing Janet Jackson.</span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">" One thing I don't need are anymore apologies.</span></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18px;"> I got sorry greeting me at the front door. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18px;">You can keep yours. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18px;">I don't know what to do with them... </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18px;">I can't even... </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18px;">I have to throw some away. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18px;">I can't even get to the clothes in my closet for all the sorries. I</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18px;">'m not even sorry about you being sorry. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is an </span><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;">extract from: </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #181818;"><i>for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the original play from which the movie was adapted, </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">is any more apologies</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18px;">i got sorry greetin me at my front door</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18px;">you can keep yrs</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18px;">i don’t know what to do wit em</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18px;">they don’t open doors</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18px;">or bring the sun back</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18px;">or get a mornin paper</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18px;">didn’t nobody stop usin my tears to wash cars</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18px;"><i>cuz a sorry.”</i></span><span style="line-height: 18px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Listen to the drama of the movie "<b><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1405500/" target="_blank">For Colored Girls</a></b>" unfolds with great perfection at the rhythm of <b>La Donna in Viola </b>opera. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To me, this is one of the best <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Colored_Girls:_Music_From_and_Inspired_by_the_Original_Motion_Picture_Soundtrack" target="_blank">soundtrack</a> of the movie directed by <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Colored_Girls" target="_blank">Tyler Perry</a></b> and adapted from the play of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Colored_Girls_Who_Have_Considered_Suicide_When_the_Rainbow_Is_Enuf" target="_blank">Ntozake Shange</a> <span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">“<i><b>And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows</b>.</i>”</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Performers: <span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; line-height: 19px;"><i>Karen Slack, Andrea Jones-Sojola & The Hollywood Studio Symphony </i>Orchestra</span></span><br />
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<br />Lydiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05390387047023117477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31176443.post-76736219193977759912012-04-04T16:44:00.002-07:002012-04-04T16:44:23.891-07:00Internet in Africa : Key Insights on habits and usage<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>GOOGLE </b>has i<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">nterviewed over 13,000 people in urban centers of 6 key African countries - Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Uganda - to understand their habits, the usage they make of the internet and the barriers to a bigger penetration in the continent. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> I have read in the news today about a breakthrough in India that could benefit Africa and people with sickle cell (via <a href="http://bbc.in/Hcgs9b" target="_blank">BBC News</a>.) The device "<span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is a pulse oximeter, a non-invasive method of monitoring the oxygenation of haemoglobin using light. The patient is attached to the machine via a finger clip." You can measure a patient's level of <b>haemeoglobin</b> without requiring a needle. The costs of a machine should be </span><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">between $200 and $300 for a hospital. This breakthrough should also greatly benefit Africa where <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle-cell_disease" target="_blank">sicke-cell anemia</a></b> is the most widespread genetic disease, the difference between this device and the others that came before it, it that it caters to local needs and just because of that, it's a major plus.</span></span></div>
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I picked it up on Grey's Anatomy show.<br />
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<i style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Death is nothing at all.</span></i></div>
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<i style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I have only slipped away to the next room.</span></i></div>
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<i style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I am I and you are you.</span></i></div>
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<i style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Whatever we were to each other, </span></i></div>
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<i style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">That, we still are.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;">Call me by my old familiar name.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;">Speak to me in the easy way</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;">which you always used.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;">Put no difference into your tone.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;">Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;">Laugh as we always laughed</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;">at the little jokes we enjoyed together.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;">Play, smile, think of me. Pray for me.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;">Let my name be ever the household word</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;">that it always was.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;">Let it be spoken without effect.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;">Without the trace of a shadow on it.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;">Life means all that it ever meant.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;">It is the same that it ever was.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;">There is absolute unbroken continuity.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;">Why should I be out of mind</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;">because I am out of sight? </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;">I am but waiting for you.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;">For an interval.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;">Somewhere. Very near.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;">Just around the corner.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.5;">All is well</span></span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.167em; line-height: 1.5;">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Scott_Holland" target="_blank">Henry Scott Holland</a> (<span style="color: #222222; line-height: 15px;">27 January 1847 – 17 March 1918)</span></span></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />"</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>We can succeed only by concert. </b></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>It is not "can any of us imagine better?" but, "can we all do better?" </b></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white;">The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present.</span> </b></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white;">The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise -- with the occasion.</span> </b></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white;">As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.</span> </b></span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country</b>.</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"</span></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Abraham Lincoln</b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/congress.htm" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank">address to Congress</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, December 1862</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: justify;">I couldn't find a better quote for my new team. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: justify;">These words are from one of Abraham Lincoln's famous statements. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Leadership is hard, the task ahead of us is humongous, succeeding in such hazy times is even more arduous... </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: justify;">The key word for all of us (executives, managers, individual contributors etc...) is to</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><b style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disenthrall" target="_blank">DISENTHRALL</a> </b><span style="text-align: justify;">because success is a recipe that combines genius, luck, hard work and open mind.</span></span></div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/baobab/2012/02/congolese-politics" target="_blank">The Congolese Kingmaker is dead</a></b>. The Economist's blog Baobab features an article regarding the sudden death of Augustin Katumba, a trusted advisor to Congolese President Joseph Kabila who was widely perceived as the "brain" behind the presidency.</span></li>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="http://africanarguments.org/2012/02/14/nigeria-ribadu%E2%80%99s-return-is-good-news-but-jonathan-must-take-on-the-state-governors-by-jeremy-weate/" target="_blank">The return of Nuhu Ribadu</a>, </b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">the pioneer Executive Chairman of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0b0080; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none;" title="Nigeria">Nigeria</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">'s </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_and_Financial_Crimes_Commission" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0b0080; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none;" title="Economic and Financial Crimes Commission">Economic and Financial Crimes Commission</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> (EFCC)</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">, </span>who has been recently appointed Chair of the Task force for petroleum revenue. According to <a href="http://africanarguments.org/" target="_blank">African Arguments</a>, this move signals a will for Nigerian president to fight corruption not only in the oil sector but elsewhere. According to Jeremy Weate, the petro state - largely under the presidential and state governors discretion - is the "<b>engine-room of corruption</b>" that prevents any form of good governance by killing any good will at its roots.</span></li>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"the underlying cause of corruption <span style="background-color: white; color: #34150f; line-height: 18px;"> is the structure of Nigeria’s quintessential “petro” state. There are a number of characteristics of the petro-state we can point to. Firstly, it features a broken social contract in the form of a rupture in the relationship between taxation and accountability. Royalties and taxes paid by international oil companies are direct contributions to the federal coffers, by-passing the citizenry. As the government has no need to rely on internally generated revenue, it has no incentive to engage with accountability actors such as civil society organisations. It is therefore close to impossible to apply accountability pressure into the system of governance. In Nigeria ministers never resign."</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong style="background-color: white;">"Que peut-il ? Tout. Qu’a-t-il fait ? Rien." </strong><b><a href="http://beariscool.blogspot.com/2012/02/que-peut-il-tout.html" target="_blank">Bear is Cool</a></b> quotes Victor Hugo's description of "<a href="http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Napol%C3%A9on_le_Petit" target="_blank">Napoleon, le petit</a>". Any resemblance?</span></li>
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