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Son of Groucho
Scottish people mechanic and photography fanatic.
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Happy birthday Mr. President! President Abraham Lincoln with his son Tad, 1864.
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And this, frankly, was one of those days. Help me, Lord, get through the rest of this week in one piece. - http://sonofgroucho.tumblr.com/post...
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Hands on: Nikon D800 review | News | TechRadar #nikon #d800 #review - http://www.techradar.com/news...
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Drool.
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Mindfulness | Dan Sumption's Life Less Literary - http://www.sumption.org/2012...
"A while ago, I posted a brief suggestion on how to be happier. Although I haven’t stuck religiously to my own advice (of finding some positives in each day), and there have been one or two times when my mood has dipped, life on the whole continues on an upwards trajectory. Particularly since Christmas I’ve felt fitter, healthier, happier and more productive. In the interests of sharing (and at the risk of painting myself as some sort of a self-help guru) I thought I’d list some techniques that I’ve been trying, and that are working for me. I will write separate posts on willpower and diet/exercise, but for now I will focus on the practice which I have found most useful: mindfulness. What is mindfulness? Well, I guess you could just call it noticing things. Initially, noticing things about yourself – your breathing, body, mind and feelings – but ultimately mindfulness can be trained and expanded to help you be more aware of everything going on in the world and the people around you. I...
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deconversionmovement: The Life of Charles Darwin In honor of Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday, Smithsonian takes a look at the impact of Darwin’s life and research on modern day science, and how the 19th century naturalist still remains relevant in the 21st century. Evolution in Black and White What Darwin Didn’t Know Out of Darwin’s Shadow Darwin... - http://sonofgroucho.tumblr.com/post...
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Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. - http://sonofgroucho.tumblr.com/post...
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I fear that would be those silly yanks and their lame followers the brits..... :-(
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Whitney Houston found dead in Calif. hotel, age 48 | Reuters #whitneyhouston - http://www.reuters.com/article...
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"(Reuters) - Whitney Houston, whose soaring voice lifted her to the top of the pop music world but whose personal decline was fueled by years of drug use, died on Saturday afternoon in a Beverly Hills hotel room. She was 48. The pop superstar died on the eve of the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles at the same hotel where her mentor, record mogul Clive Davis, was holding an annual pre-event party featuring scores of music industry celebrities. A dramatic scene unfolded at the Beverly Hilton hotel as guests arriving for the party expressed shock at her death, while reporters swarmed the hotel, fans gathered outside to light candles in her memory and helicopters hovered overhead. Beverly Hills police said they were called to the Beverly Hilton at around 3:43 p.m. PST, and fire department personnel who were already at the location responded immediately. Houston was in her fourth-floor room but was unresponsive to CPR, and she was pronounced dead at 3:55 p.m. "She has been positively...
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When I first saw this on CNN at about 3 this morning, I thought this was a joke. Nope. :(
- Cristal Blue Persuasion
A brilliant voice and massive wealth, but not a very happy life, I suspect.
- Son of Groucho
sadly right I fear :(
- Winckel
The euro crisis: Modest Mario | The Economist #euro #crisis #economist - http://www.economist.com/blogs...
"GREECE was the word on everyone’s mind as Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank (ECB), sat down to his regular monthly press conference on February 9th. Mr Draghi was quick to say he had only just taken a telephone call from Lucas Papademos, Greece’s interim prime minister, who confirmed that an agreement had been struck on a new bail-out package for his beleaguered country. The ECB (though not a party to negotiations) had also picked up “vibrations” that suggested Greece was close to a deal with its private-sector creditors, too. Further details are likely to emerge after a meeting of the euro-zone finance ministers later today. Yet what kind of role the ECB will play in the new deal remained unclear. The central bank has bought around €40 billion-worth of Greek bonds (with a face value of perhaps €55 billion) as part of its efforts since May 2010 to stabilise the euro zone’s sovereign-bond markets. One hope in Athens is that the ECB might forgo the profits it would...
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Candlelit Sog | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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As Valentine's Day approaches...
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- آريوبرزن - Aryo
I definitely look my best in subdued light!
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thesoapboxschtick:
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yolo115:
LOL
…powerless to resist reblogging.
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:)
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lol!
- CarlC
I love the smug look on his face :-))
- آريوبرزن - Aryo
Wouldn't you be smug too?
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Childhood Memories
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BERNAMA - Nikon Targets To Produce 30,000 Units Of D800 Per Month #nikon #amazing - http://www.bernama.com/bernama...
"From Zakaria Abdul Wahab SENDAI (Japan), Feb 10 (Bernama) -- Japan's Nikon Corporation, one of the world's top camera producers, is targeting to produce 30,000 units of D800 and 5,000 units of D4 camera models, the company's latest, per month at its factory here. The cameras were launched worldwide early this year with the D4 variant on Jan 6 and the D800 only three days ago. The Sendai factory, located about 360 kilometers from Tokyo and six kilometres from Sendai's coastal area that was hit by a tsunami following a 9.0 Richter scale earthquake on March 11 last year, is the only Nikon factory worldwide producing the D800 and D4 models. Although the factory escaped the tsunami as the flood waters flowed only three km inland, it was however badly damaged by the earthquake, and the company had to spend about US$100 million to repair it, Sendai Nikon President Jiro Saito told visiting Southeast Asia media representatives here. He said the big earthquake here and the flooding of another...
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What an amazing company Nikon is!
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michwill: There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires. - Nelson Mandela Exactly 22 years ago on 11 February 1990, Nelson Mandela was released from Victor Verster Prison after serving a 27 year prison life... - http://sonofgroucho.tumblr.com/post...
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'The Economist' And 'Financial Times' Already Writing Off ACTA As Dead | Techdirt - http://www.techdirt.com/article...
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I hope so.....
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[Killing bin Laden] sent a loud message to the world: Mess with the U.S. and we’ll bankrupt ourselves trying to find a few dozen men. So if you’re the kind of terrorist comfortable with suicide missions and want to bring down the U.S. economy, please come on over and attack us again. As an added bonus, we’ll trample on our own citizens’ civil... - http://sonofgroucho.tumblr.com/post...
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BBC News - Today - Economics explained: Plan A vs Plan B - http://news.bbc.co.uk/today...
"Something has been bugging me for quite a while - the degree of political and partisan polarisation on the issue of austerity versus growth. Some commentators want to stick with Plan A, the cuts and all that, while others want to abandon it, cut less far and less fast. To me, this looks like a rather hideous dilemma and quite a technical one at that: You cut debt, that is good, but gives you less growth. Borrow more, that gives you more growth for a while, but saddles you with more debt. But I notice that many protagonists in the argument feel very strongly about it indeed. It's not just politicians - respectable economists disagree vehemently. So I brought together two economists, who are both well respected and who are some way apart on the issue, to do a neat little explainer to help you make up your mind on the issue. Jonathan Portes, director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, believes that what's required at the moment is a short term, temporary fiscal...
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IMHO Evan Davis is one of the best people at explaining economics to novices like myself.
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