Sandro became the first and only Filipino accepted into the prestigious football school after two rounds of tryouts. He impressed coaches in an initial run in Singapore before shining in the final tryout in Spain, wherein he posted four goals and five assists.
via For Pinoy football phenom’s FC Barcelona dream, parents’ sacrifice worth it | InterAKTV.
Breathless by Jean Luc Goddard 1960
Where the asshole crook is the hero you fucking cheer for and the beautiful bitch you’d love to strangle.
Can't Sleep
Been having trouble sleeping for 3 months. Clocking in after 5 most days.
rePost::Nothing and everything is sacred ::Tomgram: Noam Chomsky, The Great Charter, Its Fate, and Ours | TomDispatch
Emphasis mine. It is in the interest of everyone, even the religious and even the non religious to subscribe to the belief that the original of all just power is the people and not the King, not even God. This is because my unoriginal and extremely feeble mind sees that the only way to reconcile a multi-stakeholder society that a democracy will slowly embolden is to believe that nothing and everything is sacred.
After a bitter conflict between King and Parliament, the power of royalty in the person of Charles II was restored. In defeat, Magna Carta was not forgotten. One of the leaders of Parliament, Henry Vane, was beheaded. On the scaffold, he tried to read a speech denouncing the sentence as a violation of Magna Carta, but was drowned out by trumpets to ensure that such scandalous words would not be heard by the cheering crowds. His major crime had been to draft a petition calling the people “the original of all just power” in civil society — not the King, not even God. That was the position that had been strongly advocated by Roger Williams, the founder of the first free society in what is now the state of Rhode Island. His heretical views influenced Milton and Locke, though Williams went much farther, founding the modern doctrine of separation of church and state, still much contested even in the liberal democracies.
via Tomgram: Noam Chomsky, The Great Charter, Its Fate, and Ours | TomDispatch.
rePost::Standing 8 Count | Black Irish Books | Get In the Ring!
The Lunch Pail Manifesto
- We must find the work that brings our lives meaning.
- We must strive to make our work purposeful, truthful, and authentic, a pure offering to our Muse and fellow human beings.
- We must wage a lifelong war with Resistance and accept that instant gratification is an oxymoron.
- We must not speak of our work with false modesty or braggadocio.
- We must not debase our work for short term gain nor elevate it above its rightful station to inflate our ego.
- We must not covet the fruits of our work, or the fruits of others’ work.
- We must respect others’ work and offer aid to fellow professional laborers.
- We must accept that our work will never be perfect.
- We must accept that our work will never be without merit.
- We must accept that our work will never cease.
via Standing 8 Count | Black Irish Books | Get In the Ring!.
Valdez: TRO issuance is a moral choice
He said that it will be difficult for judges to decide on petitions for a TRO with “moral grounds” as basis. “Moral choice is not an element” in the Courts decision-making process on TROs, he said.
via Valdez: TRO issuance is a moral choice.
To this I will hide behind some of the giants of the US Supreme Court. To say that Moral choice is not an element betrays a lack of appreciation of how important the judgement of the Supreme Court is. The reason that the Constitution is a living document is that it assumes that there is an element of statesmanship within the three branches of government but probably foremost in the Supreme Court Justices because of their non elected status.
It's hard making friends as an adult
As external conditions change, it becomes tougher to meet the three conditions that sociologists since the 1950s have considered crucial to making close friends: proximity; repeated, unplanned interactions; and a setting that encourages people to let their guard down and confide in each other, said Rebecca G. Adams, a professor of sociology and gerontology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. This is why so many people meet their lifelong friends in college, she added.
via It’s hard making friends as an adult.
Vinod Khosla: Maintain the Silicon Valley Vision – NYTimes.com
Some people seem to think that getting acquired should be the highest aspiration for an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. I disagree vehemently.In fact, I think that mindset does a disservice to the entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and around the world. This is exactly the wrong way to think about building a start-up not only because it develops the wrong company culture, but on a large scale it can poison the unique and innovative ecosystem that has developed in Silicon Valley over the past 40 years.Mario Anzuoni/ReutersVinod KhoslaYou want missionaries, not mercenaries –passionate, maniacally-focused founders who believe in a vision. Founders like this draw the most gifted and passionate employees, who maximize the chance of success, even if they ultimately fall short of their initial goals and get acquired.There are of course mercenaries and people setting up for “acqui-hires” in the valley as well, but that is not what Silicon Valley’s special sauce is about.In my view, it’s irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others.
via Vinod Khosla: Maintain the Silicon Valley Vision – NYTimes.com.
Nostalgia or they used to make em better when I was younger!
What does it say that the early 90 mid 80s love team of Dawn Zulueta and Richard Gomez is the most kilig I feel in any current series?
Only in this case it is true. The downfall of movie making in the Philippines have caused good actors/actresses to lack practice or in the words of Bill Simmons the reps. This lack of reps is setting our standards lower because we do not have the benefit of knowing better days.
United Technologies: Inside The Numbers – Seeking Alpha
Based on the nine tests that United Technologies received on profitability, debt and capital, and operating efficiency, the company received eight passes out of nine; this is a strong grade for financial health. The only metric the company did not pass was the TL/A ratio. A decrease in the TL/A ratio implies that some company of the companys assets have been financed by debt.As United Technologies passed eight out of nine tests, this shows that United Technologies is very profitable, efficient and is using its assets to produce revenue. Based on the nine tests, overall, the company is showing strong results.
via United Technologies: Inside The Numbers – Seeking Alpha.