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First days of April you must not miss!
These announcements are important…don’t miss the real beginning of April: LOCK-ROPE(TM) Hotels (2017) Innovation continues… S-Trip Hotels (2016) It gets better… NanoHotelExperience (2015) They really think this way…? Bus Lanes To Be For Walkers (2014) Unbelievable..! Weightless Hotels(TM) (2013) You gotta’ say maybe…. Spring Rules of
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Recent Posts
- Eighth Grade – Directed by Bo Burnham. The movie shows the experience of a girl going through the ordeal of school
- First days of April you must not miss!
- “Won’t Back Down” – Exceptional Musical tribute to Tom Petty by the superb Chris Buck
- Oh banks!
- AirBnB not applicable in China
- Strategy is important — but so is following your gut, says Chris Blackwell, the co-founder of Island Records who helped introduce the world to Bob Marley. “Get yourself in the right place at the right time,” he says. “How do you do that? Work it out for yourself.”“How do you know that something is good? Well, you either know, or you don’t. It’s a feeling. It’s a kind of trust in something. There is no secret, no plan. The strategy is often that there is no strategy, only energy.” Chris Blackwell – founder Island Records, Discoverer and booster of Bob Marley
- LOCK-ROPE™ HOTELS, VILLAS, RESORTS AND CAR RENTALS – April First 2017 Launch
- At night you can’t see so much. A quick word on Tom Ford’s “Nocturnal Animals”
- Post-Brexit coffee taste changed
- A post-Brexit coffee tastes different
Featured Articles
Post-Brexit coffee taste changed
It’s not because of the referendum, but the coffee blend prepared at this specialist cafe in Bath, Post-Brexit UK, by experts who strive for perfection, changes weekly and there are three blends to choose from. The blend I’m enjoying is from Panama and I think we still trade with Panama! In any case Panama
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Today, in the future you may wonder when this was written and I will tell you, is the 29th day of February 2016. Unless we change things, the calendar we have adopted for the main part, there will be more leap years. And a tradition that is likely to continue for a little while is
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Spectre: what happened to the Bond genre?
I was suspicious when I heard the title. Perhaps when you name the villain in the title, you lose the will to, die another day….well, the energy of the story. You have already popped a hole in the balloon. There was not much left after that. Music (sub-par, generic suspense-thump plus chase-clashing and, almost entirely
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The Shapes of Things – a story taster
“Something is wrong with the way people live. You can tell by the way they walk” said Doherty. Rivers were flowing as usual. Streets, filled with shoppers and of course cars. The cars edged forward at a slower pace than the pavement browsers achieved – more cars than road space. All were predictably “there”. A
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Fun stuff
First days of April you must not miss! These announcements are important…don’t miss the real beginning of April: LOCK-ROPE(TM) Hotels (2017) Innovation continues… S-Trip Hotels (2016) It gets better… NanoHotelExperience (2015) They really think this way…? Bus Lanes To Be For Walkers (2014) Unbelievable..! Weightless Hotels(TM) (2013) You gotta’ say maybe…. Spring Rules of
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Books
“The God delusion”, by Richard Dawkins Why read this book? These excerpts speak for the book: [Referring to Julia Sweeny ] My first call from my mother was more of a scream. ‘Atheist? ATHEIST?!?!’ […] I think that my parents had been mildly disappointed when I’d said I didn’t believe in God any more, but being an atheist was another thing
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Culture
Eighth Grade – Directed by Bo Burnham. The movie shows the experience of a girl going through the ordeal of school So clear and brightly fresh. I also long to see the day when the absurd school “system” which is the lattice background of this story told for many, changes beyond recognition from it’s ludicrous ceremonies, it’s tense antiquated destruction of hearts and minds. — Roger Ellman (@RogerEllman) July 29, 2018
Travel
First days of April you must not miss! These announcements are important…don’t miss the real beginning of April: LOCK-ROPE(TM) Hotels (2017) Innovation continues… S-Trip Hotels (2016) It gets better… NanoHotelExperience (2015) They really think this way…? Bus Lanes To Be For Walkers (2014) Unbelievable..! Weightless Hotels(TM) (2013) You gotta’ say maybe…. Spring Rules of
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Business/Entrepreneurship
Getting excited about free trade This is the thrilling thing about “Apps” on Mobile phones. Apps and Web services are playing their part in opening up everybody-wins opportunities. Dramatic and sometimes world-saving developments in areas such as water purification, medicine, transport, education and learning offer great promise – to mention a small sample from a long
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Politics
Greece and Hope Greece: Do we, Greeks, have any hope? [Question and answer originally published on Quora.com – September 14, 2013 ] Absolutely you do. Just not as soon as we’d all like for you. With one of the best known collections of topographic and scenic beauty, wonderful history that’s still visible, one of
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