Mike

2008-07-21T15:24:00.000-04:00

"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." - Nelson Mandela

2007-10-16T13:13:00.000-04:00

Here We Go Again!

A comparative analysis of Senator Hillary Clinton (D-New York) vote to label the Iranian Revolution Guard as a terrorist group

2007-10-12T17:00:00.001-04:00

My Barack Obama
By Mike Endale

I get chills whenever I hear a story of an underdog; a story that is born against all odds. For me, Senator Barack Obama's (D-Ill.) candidacy is one of those stories. His story and message resonates with me and that of my generation.

I first found about Senator Obama’s humble and inspiring story during the 2004 Democratic National Convention where he delivered the now famous keynote address, “The Audacity of Hope”. During the speech, I remember getting goose-bumps when he talked about his personal story. He was the son of a goat-herder from Kenya and a kind-souled woman from Kansas. It is a story of an African-American who grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii before graduating from Columbia University and Harvard Law School with distinct honor. It is a story of a man who, after graduating from an Ivy-League school with a law degree, chose to work as a community organizer for a mere $13,000 annually in the economically depressed neighborhood of Chicago. It is a story about a man who stood firm on his principles and bridged gaps between political isles. It's a story of a leader who defied the odds.

What makes Senator Obama’s story especially attractive to the Ethiopian American community is not just his African heritage but also his sensible and deep understanding of the problems that are faced by poor African nations such as Ethiopia. He has taken more than one trip to Ethiopia and Kenya before and after he joined the US Senate. When he is elected president, he will need no introduction to Africa or a crash course about Africa’s needs and challenges. After all, he is African. He is Africa.

But, what makes Senator Obama's story even more compelling is his ability to inspire new cadre of people to get involved in the political system. When he launched his presidential candidacy in early 2007, many pundits questioned his capability to run a successful campaign. Many have already written him off as an "unsafe" candidate because he has not been in the national scene for long. On top of all that, there was already a safe candidate - Hillary Clinton. To the doubter’s disbelief, however, it was apparent from early on, his message of hope and change resonated with the common people and Senator Obama was a real force to be reckoned with. He outshone ALL of his rivals -- both Democrat and Republicans -- by raising more money from many more people. The latest numbers suggest that his donor base has grown to 350,000 people, making over 500,000 donations. In comparison, his closest rival, Hillary Clinton, was able to get only a little over 100,000 donors in the past nine months.

Senator Obama often says, "the world as it is not the world as it SHOULD be." His clear, optimistic and realistic view of the world is an asset in dealing with the complicated issues of our time. From globalization to foreign policy to the economy, US will require a candidate that can look at the problems from a different vantage point. Senator Obama's track record showed his ability to bring people together and work on problems. When he was an Illinois state legislator, Senator Obama worked with both political parties to pass legislation that touched many million people in the state. As a state senator, he authored and passed the most sweeping ethics reform legislation. Further, he is one of two presidential candidates that had the right judgment to oppose the war in Iraq from the start.

Whenever I get a chance to talk about Senator Obama with people, I am usually confronted with the question whether America is ready for a "black president" or not. The short answer is that there is a problem with the question. Unfortunately, some people’s idea of a "black" leader is that of the traditional black civil rights leader in the mold of Jessie Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton. Even though, I am forever grateful for the contributions of leaders of the civil rights movement for my freedom as a black person living in the United States, I believe Senator Obama is the one candidate who can and has articulated a unifying message of hope and redemption beyond the cache of stereotypical black politicians. There has never been an African-American candidate in the US political history that has transcended race and the pressing issues of our time to earn the respect and backing of large segments of the American people irrespective of race. Here is an opportunity, for the first time since the birth of the nation to elect a black man as president. Now, let's face it, there will be people in America who will not vote for Senator Obama just because he is black. However, I believe there are more than enough people who look beyond the color of the skin and judge him by the content of his character.

I cannot say enough about Senator Obama in one short article, but I leave you with a quote the great Dr. Martin Luther King said about not giving up. He said, "the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice."

For more information about our movement, please go to http://www.barackobama.com and his youtube page at: http://www.youtube.com/barackobama

2007-10-12T16:51:00.000-04:00

"I am because of you are" - Nelson Mandella

"If you want to go quickly, go alone;
If you want to go far, go together"
- African Proverb

2007-10-05T15:04:00.001-04:00

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela

2007-08-09T16:29:00.000-04:00

Images That Changed The World

Some people might be offended or upset by these images but this isn't my intentions I just want it to be thought provoking and enlightening, and for people to talk about the past and to never forget, because we need to learn from past events other wise we will keep repeating history.

If the image has a link it will take you to a video/documentary about the history of the image and the title of the image will take you to Wikipedia.

Execution of a Viet Cong Guerrilla [1968]

This picture was shot by Eddie Adams who won the Pulitzer prize with it. The picture shows Nguyen Ngoc Loan, South Vietnam's national police chief executing a prisoner who was said to be a Viet Cong captain. Once again the public opinion was turned against the war.

By Eddie Adams

The lynching of young blacks [1930]

This is a famous picture, taken in 1930, showing the young black men accused of raping a Caucasian woman and killing her boyfriend, hanged by a mob of 10,000 white men. The mob took them by force from the county jail house. Another black man was left behind and ended up being saved from lynching. Even if lynching photos were designed to boost white supremacy, the tortured bodies and grotesquely happy crowds ended up revolting many.

By Lawrence Beitler

Soweto Uprising [1976]

It was a picture that got the world's attention: A frozen moment in time that showed 13-year-old Hector Peterson dying after being struck down by a policeman's bullet.

By Sam Nzima

Hazel Bryant [1957]

It was the fourth school year since segregation had been outlawed by the Supreme Court. Things were not going well, and some southerners accused the national press of distorting matters. This picture, however, gave irrefutable testimony, as Elizabeth Eckford strides through a gantlet of white students, including Hazel Bryant (mouth open the widest), on her way to Little Rock's Central High.

By Will Counts
Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire [1911]

The Triangle Shirtwaist Company always kept its doors locked to ensure that the young immigrant women stayed stooped over their machines and didn't steal anything. When a fire broke out on Saturday, March 25, 1911, on the eighth floor of the New York City factory, the locks sealed the workers' fate. In just 30 minutes, 146 were killed. Witnesses thought the owners were tossing their best fabric out the windows to save it, then realized workers were jumping, sometimes after sharing a kiss (the scene can be viewed now as an eerie precursor to the World Trade Center events of September, 11, 2001, only a mile and a half south). The Triangle disaster spurred a national crusade for workplace safety.

Phan Thị Kim Phúc [1972]

Phan Thị Kim Phúc known as Kim Phuc (born 1963) was the subject of a famous photo from the Vietnam war. The picture shows her at about age nine running naked after being severely burned on her back by a napalm attack.

By Huỳnh Công Út
Kent State [1970]

The news that Richard Nixon was sending troops to Cambodia caused a chain of protests in the U.S. colleges. At Kent State the protest seemed more violent, some students even throwing rocks. In consequence, The Ohio National Guard was called to calm things down, but the events got out of hand and they started shooting. Some of the victims were simply walking to school. The photo shows 14-year-old Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over the body of Jeffrey Miller who had been shot by the Ohio National Guard moments earlier.

By John Paul Filo

Tiananmen Square [1989]

This is the picture of a student/man going to work who has just had enough. The days leading up to this event thousands of protesters and innocent by standers were killed by their own government because the Chinese people wanted more rights. He tries to stop the tanks in Tiananmen Square by standing in front of them and climbed on the tank and hitting the hatch and yelling, the tank driver didn't crush the man with the bags as a group of unknown people came and dragged him away, we still don't know if the man is alive or dead as the Chinese government executed many of the protesters involved. China is still controlled by a communist regime, but while there are strong willed men like this the country still has hope.

There are two well know photos taken of the protester by two different photojournalist, so I thought I would show both images and give both photographer credit for there work as many people think that both images where taken by the same person.

By Stuart Franklin

By Jeff Widener
Thích Quảng Đức [1963]

Thích Quảng Ðức was a Vietnamese Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon intersection on June 11, 1963. His act of self-immolation, which was repeated by others, was witnessed by David Halberstam, a New York Times reporter, who wrote:

" I was to see that sight again, but once was enough. Flames were coming from a human being; his body was slowly withering and shriveling up, his head blackening and charring. In the air was the smell of burning human flesh; human beings burn surprisingly quickly. Behind me I could hear the sobbing of the Vietnamese who were now gathering. I was too shocked to cry, too confused to take notes or ask questions, too bewildered to even think.... As he burned he never moved a muscle, never uttered a sound, his outward composure in sharp contrast to the wailing people around him."

By Malcolm Browne
Portrait of Winston Churchill [1941]

This photograph was taken by Yousuf Karsh, a Canadian photographer, when Winston Churchill came to Ottawa. The portrait of Churchill brought Karsh international fame. It is claimed to be the most reproduced photographic portrait in history. It also appeared on the cover of Life magazine.

By Yousuf Karsh
Albert Einstein [1951]

Albert Einstein is probably one of the most popular figures of all times. He is considered a genius because he created the Theory of Relativity, and so, challenged Newton's laws, that were the basis of everything known in physics until the beginning of the 20th century. But, as a person, he was considered a beatnik, and this picture, taken on March 14, 1951 proves that.

By Arthur Sasse
Nagasaki [1945]

This is the picture of the "mushroom cloud" showing the enormous quantity of energy. The first atomic bomb was released on August 6 in Hiroshima (Japan) and killed about 80,000 people. On August 9 another bomb was released above Nagasaki. The effects of the second bomb were even more devastating - 150,000 people were killed or injured. But the powerful wind, the extremely high temperature and radiation caused enormous long term damage.

Hiroshima, Three Weeks After the Bomb [1945]

Americans -- and everyone -- had heard of the bomb that "leveled" Hiroshima, but what did that mean? When the aerial photography was published, that question was answered.

And here is a ground view of the destruction.

Dead on the Beach [1943]

Haunting photograph of a beach in Papua New Guinea on September 20, 1943, the magazine felt compelled to ask in an adjacent full-page editorial, "Why print this picture, anyway, of three American boys dead upon an alien shore?" Among the reasons: "words are never enough . . .

By George Strock
Buchenwald [1945]

George Patton's troops when they liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp. Forty-three thousand people had been murdered there. Patton was so outraged he ordered his men to march German civilians through the camp so they could see with their own eyes what their nation had wrought.

Anne Frank [1941]

Six million Jews died in the Holocaust. For many throughout the world, one teenage girl gave them a story and a face. She was Anne Frank, the adolescent who, according to her diary, retained her hope and humanity as she hid with her family in an Amsterdam attic. In 1944 the Nazis, acting on a tip, arrested the Franks; Anne and her sister died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen only a month before the camp was liberated. The world came to know her through her words and through this ordinary portrait of a girl of 14. She stares with big eyes, wearing an enigmatic expression, gazing at a future that the viewer knows will never come.

V-J Day, Times Square, [1945]

or "The Kiss", at the end of World War II, in US cities everybody went to the streets to salute the end of combat. Friendship and unity were everywhere. This picture shows a sailor kissing a young nurse in Times Square. The fact is he was kissing every girl he encountered and for that kiss, this particular nurse slapped him.

By Alfred Eisenstaedt
Casualties of war [1991]

Image of a young US sergeant at the moment he learns that the body bag next to him contains the body of his friend, killed by "friendly fire".

The widely published photo became an iconic image of the 1991 Gulf war - a war in which media access was limited by Pentagon restrictions.

By David Turnley
The Falling Man [2001]

The powerful and controversial photograph provoked feelings of anger, particularly in the United States, in the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks. The photo ran only once in many American newspapers because they received critical and angry letters from readers who felt the photo was exploitative, voyeuristic, and disrespectful of the dead. This led to the media's self-censorship of the photograph, preferring instead to print photos of acts of heroism and sacrifice.

Drew commented about the varying reactions, saying, "This is how it affected people's lives at that time, and I think that is why it's an important picture. I didn't capture this person's death. I captured part of his life. This is what he decided to do, and I think I preserved that."9/11: The Falling Man ends suggesting that this picture was not a matter of the identity behind the man, but how he symbolized the events of 9/11.

By Richard Drew

U.S. Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima [1945]

Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima is a historic photograph taken on February 23, 1945, by Joe Rosenthal. It depicts five United States Marines and a U.S. Navy corpsman raising the flag of the United States atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.

The photograph was extremely popular, being reprinted in thousands of publications. Later, it became the only photograph to win the Pulitzer Prize for Photography in the same year as its publication, and ultimately came to be regarded as one of the most significant and recognizable images of the war, and possibly the most reproduced photograph of all times.

By Joe Rosenthal

Lunch atop a Skyscraper [1932]

Lunch atop a Skyscraper (New York Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam) is a famous photograph taken by Charles C. Ebbets during construction of the GE Building at Rockefeller Center in 1932.

The photograph depicts 11 men eating lunch, seated on a girder with their feet dangling hundreds of feet above the New York City streets. Ebbets took the photo on September 29, 1932, and it appeared in the New York Herald Tribune in its Sunday photo supplement on October 2. Taken on the 69th floor of the GE Building during the last several months of construction, the photo Resting on a Girder shows the same workers napping on the beam.

Here's a rare image by the same photographer showing the workers sleeping on the crossbeam.

By Charles C. Ebbets

Migrant Mother [1936]

For many, this picture of Florence Owens Thompson (age 32) represents the Great Depression. She was the mother of 7 and she struggled to survive with her kids catching birds and picking fruits. Dorothea Lange took the picture after Florence sold her tent to buy food for her children. She made the first page of major newspapers all over the country and changed people's conception about migrants.

By Dorothea Lange
Omayra Sánchez [1985]

Red Cross rescue workers had apparently repeatedly appealed to the government for a pump to lower the water level and for other help to free the girl. Finally rescuers gave up and spent their remaining time with her, comforting her and praying with her. She died of exposure after about 60 hours.

By Frank Fournier
A vulture watches a starving child [1993]

The prize-winning image: A vulture watches a starving child in southern Sudan, March 1, 1993.
Carter's winning photo shows a heart-breaking scene of a starving child collapsed on the ground, struggling to get to a food center during a famine in the Sudan in 1993. In the background, a vulture stalks the emaciated child.

Carter was part of a group of four fearless photojournalists known as the "Bang Bang Club" who traveled throughout South Africa capturing the atrocities committed during apartheid.

Haunted by the horrific images from Sudan, Carter committed suicide in 1994 soon after receiving the award.

By Kevin Carter
Biafra [1969]

When the Igbos of eastern Nigeria declared themselves independent in 1967, Nigeria blockaded their fledgling country-Biafra. In three years of war, more than one million people died, mainly of hunger. In famine, children who lack protein often get the disease kwashiorkor, which causes their muscles to waste away and their bellies to protrude. War photographer Don McCullin drew attention to the tragedy. "I was devastated by the sight of 900 children living in one camp in utter squalor at the point of death," he said. "I lost all interest in photographing soldiers in action." The world community intervened to help Biafra, and learned key lessons about dealing with massive hunger exacerbated by war-a problem that still defies simple solutions.

By Don McCullin
Misery in Darfur [2004]

It's an image which depicts a depressed, shoulders-down figure of a child in a cluster of what remains of her family.

The very weather-beaten arm of her mother goes over her left shoulder and there are the very small weather-beaten hands of the child, who is about five or six, clinging on to this one piece of security that she has, which is the weather-beaten hand of her mother.

The mother is not in the image, she's in the background. But then slightly further in the background you see the other hands of her brothers and sisters as they wait in this village.

By Marcus Bleasdale
Tragedy in Oklahoma [1995]

The fireman has taken the time to remove his gloves before receiving this infant from the policeman.

Anyone who knows anything about firefighters know that their gloves are very rough and abrasive and to remove these is like saying I want to make sure that I am as gentle and as compassionate as I can be with this infant that I don't know is dead or alive.

The fireman is just cradling this infant with the utmost compassion and caring.

He is looking down at her with this longing, almost to say with his eyes: "It's going to be OK, if there's anything I can do I want to try to help you."

He doesn't know that she has already passed away.

By Chris Porter
How Life Begins [1965]

In 1957 he began taking pictures with an endoscope, an instrument that can see inside a body cavity, but when Lennart Nilsson presented the rewards of his work to LIFE's editors several years later, they demanded that witnesses confirm that they were seeing what they thought they were seeing. Finally convinced, they published a cover story in 1965 that went on for 16 pages, and it created a sensation. Then, and over the intervening years, Nilsson's painstakingly made pictures informed how humanity feels about . . . well, humanity. They also were appropriated for purposes that Nilsson never intended. Nearly as soon as the 1965 portfolio appeared in LIFE, images from it were enlarged by right-to-life activists and pasted to placards.

By Lennart Nilsson
First Flight [1903]

December 17, 1903 was the day humanity spread its wings and rose above the ground - for 12 seconds at first and by the end of the day for almost a minute - but it was a major breakthrough. Orville and Wilbur Wright, two bicycle mechanics from Ohio, are the pioneers of aviations, and although this first flight occurred so late in history, the ulterior development was exponential.

By John T. Daniels
Earthrise [1968]

The late adventure photographer Galen Rowell called it "the most influential environmental photograph ever taken." Captured on Christmas Eve, 1968, near the end of one of the most tumultuous years the U.S. had ever known, the Earthrise photograph inspired contemplation of our fragile existence and our place in the cosmos. For years, Frank Borman and Bill Anders of the Apollo 8 mission each thought that he was the one who took the picture. An investigation of two rolls of film seemed to prove Borman had taken an earlier, black-and-white frame, and the iconic color photograph, which later graced a U.S. postage stamp and several book covers, was by Anders.

2007-05-16T13:54:00.000-04:00

Usually I don't say anything because I'm sure whatever I say will be wrong.

My heart shies away from talking about sorrow because I know that what I feel is pitiful and insignificant, almost insulting, compared to those for whom it is infinite. My mind thinks about how real life is different from movies or books where the main character always pulls through somehow while in real life the hero is as likely to die as anyone else.

Godspeed, my friend. Godspeed.

a post that was left on blackfive.com, a military blog that shows untainted picture of war and loss.

Noam Chomsky debates William F. Buckley (1969)

2006-09-13T01:01:00.001-04:00

Noam Chomsky, one of the finest intellectuals debating....

If you are interested about him, click here

2006-09-10T16:19:00.000-04:00

if you have time, you're in for a treat. they spiked my interest in understanding globalization, let's hope you'd enjoy it too...

DOCUMENTARIES
by Thomas Friedman

2006-07-24T09:59:00.000-04:00

The human Tiger

By Tom Fordyce

The moment the ice-cool Tiger let it all out

Tiger Woods' two-shot victory at Hoylake was remarkable for more than just his faultless golf.

Hey, we expect that from Tiger. Technically incredible though his play over four days was, we have seen it before.

Eleven majors by the age of 30 - two years younger than the age at which Jack Nicklaus reached that mark - tell their own story.

What distinguished Sunday from all those other crimson-clad final rounds was the contrast between the Woods we have come to know - an automaton of excellence, impervious to pressure - and the tearful, emotionally-raw young man who showed the watching world his private grief on the 18th green.

Woods is a golfer who has succeeded because he has kept his emotions in check, no matter how tough the circumstances.

As his close friend and confidante Mark O'Meara says, "He sees admitting weakness as something that helps his opponents."

It's about how strong you are, the faith you have in yourself

Jack Nicklaus

From first tee to 18th fairway on Sunday, it was this Titanium Tiger that we saw - and no-one else could live with him.

So robotically relentless was his brilliance that you found yourself rooting for his rivals, even though only one man was playing golf worthy of an Open win.

On the 18th green, all that changed.

Woods had barely smiled all day. There had been a touching of the brim of his cap on several holes, and a stern-faced acknowledgement of the galleries' adulation when putts rolled in.

But nothing prepared you for the sight of this previously unbreakable icon of self-control collapsing onto the arms first of his caddie, then wife, then coach.

Those tears won him a new legion of fans among those for whom golf is about more than stats and swings.

More than that, it put his performance at Hoylake into an entirely new light.

Garcia: baffled, bemused and beaten

Woods, you began to realise, is not a machine.

His ability to play precision golf while all around are crumbling is not some pre-ordained natural gift, or the happy side-effect of a life spent exclusively on practice ranges and putting greens.

He's aware of exactly the same pressures, hopes and fears as the rest of the field. He's just a hundred times better at dealing with it.

Sergio Garcia possessed almost as much teenage talent as Woods, and is capable of equally audacious shot-making.

But whereas Woods has won all 11 majors he has led going into the final day, Garcia hits turbulence every time he tries to pull out of the leader's slipstream.

While Tiger played with the implacable concentration of a meditating monk, Garcia was a man with ants in his pastel lemon pants.

Nicklaus - the only man to have won more majors than Woods - believes that it is this aspect of Tiger's game, more than anything else, that sets him apart from his peers.

Before it was easy to admire Woods, it wasn't all that easy to relate to him - now it might just be a little easier

"When it comes down to the end, it is about how strong you are, the faith you have in yourself," he says.

"Whatever you want to call it - mental strength, heart, competitive spirit - Tiger Woods has got it.

"More than that, I think Tiger is the best at this."

Whereas before it was easy to admire Woods, it wasn't all that easy to relate to him.

You could eulogise his incredible achievements, shake your head in disbelief at his shot-making, but it was hard to love him in the way that sports fans love the human failings of, say, a John Daly.

After Hoylake, it might just be a little easier.

The wider world has finally had a glimpse of the Tiger that O'Meara and Steve Williams always insisted existed.

Now we can see that he does have something in common with the rest of the human race, after all.

From Titanium Tiger to One-Of-Us Woods in one hole. Who would have believed it?

2006-06-03T02:12:00.000-04:00

the greatest events, aren't the loudest, but the most quiet hours.

love doesnt require two people look at each other, but that they look together in the same direction

2006-05-21T13:19:00.000-04:00

"EnQuan Erehabin Tigabin EchelalEhu" - unknown

2006-03-24T11:58:00.000-05:00

some intresting tools:

wget
GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc.

GNU Wget has many features to make retrieving large files or mirroring entire web or FTP sites easy, including:

* Can resume aborted downloads, using REST and RANGE
* Can use filename wild cards and recursively mirror directories
* NLS-based message files for many different languages
* Optionally converts absolute links in downloaded documents to relative, so that downloaded documents may link to each other locally
* Runs on most UNIX-like operating systems as well as Microsoft Windows
* Supports HTTP and SOCKS proxies
* Supports HTTP cookies
* Supports persistent HTTP connections
* Unattended / background operation
* Uses local file timestamps to determine whether documents need to be re-downloaded when mirroring
* GNU Wget is distributed under the GNU General Public License.

SysInternal Utilities

2006-01-03T16:37:00.000-05:00

"... to love is an emotional maturity" - anthony robinson

2005-12-13T10:22:00.000-05:00

Good Enough isn't good enough!

2005-12-07T22:26:00.000-05:00

The sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and hope. - Edmund Dantes

2005-12-07T17:01:00.000-05:00

A must watch two videos about the Katrina victms and their experience!

rtsp://video.c-span.org/project/hur/hur120605_evacuees.rm

rtsp://video.c-span.org/project/hur/hur120605_evacuees2.rm

2005-12-02T02:00:00.000-05:00

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit." - Nelson Henderson

2005-11-24T13:13:00.000-05:00

Trust yourself. People have phenomenal capacity!

2005-11-04T14:53:00.000-05:00

2005-11-03T14:45:00.000-05:00

http://chora.virtualave.net/technology-awards.htm

STC awards three persons for their technological innovation

Addis Ababa, June 30, 2002 (WIC) - The Ethiopian Science and Technology Commission (ESTC) has given incentives to three Ethiopians in recognition of their outstanding innovation in the field of science and technology.

ESTC Commissioner, Mulugeta Amha said at the National S&T Award ceremony held at Sheraton Addis for the first time today that the winners were selected out of 29 applicants for their research and innovative works in agriculture and environment protection, industry, water, mine and energy as well as health sectors.

Accordingly in the agriculture sector, Melesse Temesgen has won for his innovation of simple, cheaper as well as effective and time saving Erf and mofer attached movld-Board plow used by small holder farmers to pull by oxen and horses.

In the industry sector, Girma Alemu has been awarded for fabricating abattoirs by-product processing industry which is pollution control, energy saving and recovery while Endale Getachew has also won award in Mine, Water and Energy sector completion for his innovation of water well drilling rig which has the capacity to drill up to 120m depth.

Handing over the award, president Girma Woldegiorgis, attributed the backwardness of the country mainly to low level of the development of science and technology as well as the stigma attached to innovative people.

He said the government has been attaching high importance for research and study in the fields of science, technology agriculture and other sectors.

The incentives included 20,000 birr, gold medal and certificate of accreditation.

Representatives drawn from various government offices, private sectors as well as families of the awards have attended the national award ceremony.

2005-10-16T23:59:00.000-04:00

"The only way for true happiness is to live in the moment and forget about future." - Emu

2005-10-13T13:57:00.001-04:00

Ipod Nano 200gb Instructions/Page 3 - Uncyclopedia

2005-10-13T13:57:00.000-04:00

Ipod Nano 200gb Instructions/Page 2 - Uncyclopedia

2005-10-13T13:56:00.001-04:00

Ipod Nano 200gb Instructions/Page 1 - Uncyclopedia

2005-10-13T13:56:00.000-04:00

Ipod Nano 200gb Instructions - Uncyclopedia

2005-10-11T09:40:00.000-04:00

very poignant!

2005-10-10T08:22:00.000-04:00

The next platform is web.

2005-10-03T11:38:00.000-04:00

"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them." - Dalai Lama

2005-09-28T10:18:00.000-04:00

Keep looking because you will never know where INSPIRATION comes from

2005-09-12T15:58:00.000-04:00

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot" ---Walter Bagehut

2005-09-06T13:34:00.000-04:00

2005-09-06T12:22:00.000-04:00

The "city" of Louisiana (Keith Olbermann)

SECAUCUS — Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff said it all, starting his news briefing Saturday afternoon: "Louisiana is a city that is largely underwater..."

Well there's your problem right there.

If ever a slip-of-the-tongue defined a government's response to a crisis, this was it.

The seeming definition of our time and our leaders had been their insistence on slashing federal budgets for projects that might’ve saved New Orleans. The seeming characterization of our government that it was on vacation when the city was lost, and could barely tear itself away from commemorating V.J. Day and watching Monty Python's Flying Circus, to at least pretend to get back to work. The seeming identification of these hapless bureaucrats: their pathetic use of the future tense in terms of relief they could’ve brought last Monday and Tuesday — like the President, whose statements have looked like they’re being transmitted to us by some kind of four-day tape-delay.

But no. The incompetence and the ludicrous prioritization will forever be symbolized by one gaffe by of the head of what is ironically called “The Department of Homeland Security”: “Louisiana is a city…”

Politician after politician — Republican and Democrat alike — has paraded before us, unwilling or unable to shut off the "I-Me" switch in their heads, condescendingly telling us about how moved they were or how devastated they were — congenitally incapable of telling the difference between the destruction of a city and the opening of a supermarket.

And as that sorry recital of self-absorption dragged on, I have resisted editorial comment. The focus needed to be on the efforts to save the stranded — even the internet's meager powers were correctly devoted to telling the stories of the twin disasters, natural... and government-made.

But now, at least, it is has stopped getting exponentially worse in Mississippi and Alabama and New Orleans and Louisiana (the state, not the city). And, having given our leaders what we know now is the week or so they need to get their act together, that period of editorial silence I mentioned, should come to an end.

No one is suggesting that mayors or governors in the afflicted areas, nor the federal government, should be able to stop hurricanes. Lord knows, no one is suggesting that we should ever prioritize levee improvement for a below-sea-level city, ahead of $454 million worth of trophy bridges for the politicians of Alaska.

But, nationally, these are leaders who won re-election last year largely by portraying their opponents as incapable of keeping the country safe. These are leaders who regularly pressure the news media in this country to report the reopening of a school or a power station in Iraq, and defies its citizens not to stand up and cheer. Yet they couldn't even keep one school or power station from being devastated by infrastructure collapse in New Orleans — even though the government had heard all the "chatter" from the scientists and city planners and hurricane centers and some group whose purposes the government couldn't quite discern... a group called The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

And most chillingly of all, this is the Law and Order and Terror government. It promised protection — or at least amelioration — against all threats: conventional, radiological, or biological.

It has just proved that it cannot save its citizens from a biological weapon called standing water.

Mr. Bush has now twice insisted that, "we are not satisfied," with the response to the manifold tragedies along the Gulf Coast. I wonder which "we" he thinks he's speaking for on this point. Perhaps it's the administration, although we still don't know where some of them are. Anybody seen the Vice President lately? The man whose message this time last year was, 'I'll Protect You, The Other Guy Will Let You Die'?

I don't know which 'we' Mr. Bush meant.

For many of this country's citizens, the mantra has been — as we were taught in Social Studies it should always be — whether or not I voted for this President — he is still my President. I suspect anybody who had to give him that benefit of the doubt stopped doing so last week. I suspect a lot of his supporters, looking ahead to '08, are wondering how they can distance themselves from the two words which will define his government — our government — "New Orleans."

For him, it is a shame — in all senses of the word. A few changes of pronouns in there, and he might not have looked so much like a 21st Century Marie Antoinette. All that was needed was just a quick "I'm not satisfied with my government's response." Instead of hiding behind phrases like "no one could have foreseen," had he only remembered Winston Churchill's quote from the 1930's. "The responsibility," of government, Churchill told the British Parliament "for the public safety is absolute and requires no mandate. It is in fact, the prime object for which governments come into existence."

In forgetting that, the current administration did not merely damage itself — it damaged our confidence in our ability to rely on whoever is in the White House.

As we emphasized to you here all last week, the realities of the region are such that New Orleans is going to be largely uninhabitable for a lot longer than anybody is yet willing to recognize. Lord knows when the last body will be found, or the last artifact of the levee break, dug up. Could be next March. Could be 2100. By then, in the muck and toxic mire of New Orleans, they may even find our government's credibility.

Somewhere, in the City of Louisiana.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8514671/#050905a

2005-08-21T19:17:00.000-04:00

"He who knows the other is wise: he who knows hims...

2005-08-17T17:42:00.000-04:00

"He who knows the other is wise: he who knows himself is enlightened." - Lao-tzu

2005-07-27T18:54:00.000-04:00

"money makes a great slave and a terrible master. "

2005-07-26T13:19:00.000-04:00

'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says: "'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says

This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: 'We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?' They said: 'Of course.' My biolog"

2005-07-14T17:04:00.000-04:00

"The shortest distance between a problem and a solution is the distance between your knees and the floor. The one who kneels to the Lord can stand up to anything."

2005-06-20T15:38:00.000-04:00

"zeembel" - emu

2005-06-20T15:31:00.000-04:00

when wealth is lost . . . nothing lost
when health is lost . . . something is lost
when hope is lost . . . everything is lost
- emu

2005-05-26T04:50:00.000-04:00

Warren Buffet famously said, "In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield."

2005-05-18T03:19:00.000-04:00

Abesha :: View topic - Temporary Random thought thread: "'.... Science may have alleviate the miseries of distance and drudgery and provided an array of gadgetry for our entertainment and convenience, but it has let us in a world without wonder. Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed. Science proclaims that Planet Earth and its in inhabitants is a meaningless peck in the grand scheme. Even the technology that promises to unite us, dived us. Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone. We are bombarded with violence, division, fracture, and betrayal. Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it any wonder that humans now feel more depressed and defeated than they have at any point in human history? Does science hold anything sacred? Science looks for answers by probing our unborn fetuses. Science even presumes to rearrange our own DNA. It shatters God’s world into smaller and smaller pieces in quest of meaning… and all it find is more questions.....'"

2005-03-22T02:35:00.000-05:00

"If you enjoy what you do, you'll never work another day in your life." -- Chinese Philosopher Confucious

2005-03-21T13:55:00.000-05:00

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystrey. today is a GIFT" - Unknown

"Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about CREATING YOURSELF" - unknown

2005-01-26T20:49:00.000-05:00

the 3rd annual BLEN art SHOW | Celebrating the Life of Skunder Bughossian

2005-01-08T18:50:00.000-05:00

"The perfect human being is all human beings put together" - Socates

2004-12-21T03:09:00.000-05:00

"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved." - Victor Hugo

2004-11-30T14:45:00.000-05:00

"Never doubt the heart of a champion" -- Steve Waugh
"Strength of numbers is the quality of timid, the valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone" -- Unknown
"A good word might be effective but there is no word as effective as a well timed pause" -- Unkown

2004-11-26T20:15:00.000-05:00

"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them." (John C. Maxwell)

2004-11-17T23:00:00.000-05:00

"When you become obsessed with the enemy you become the enemy"

2004-11-02T19:41:00.000-05:00

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Saint Exupery

2004-10-24T16:37:00.000-04:00

"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." - Gandhi

2004-10-23T18:13:00.000-04:00

"AGE IS MANDATORY, growing is optional" -- Devine

2004-10-10T20:30:00.000-04:00

"Big things often come in small packages" - Bugs

2004-07-08T13:04:00.000-04:00

"Life stinks but I still like the smell of it" - Bugs

"Do what you like, the rest is noise in the background" - Unknown

2004-07-06T17:14:00.000-04:00

"Silence is the ultimate weapon of power." - Charles deGualle

2004-07-01T11:07:00.000-04:00

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King

2004-06-25T16:27:00.000-04:00

"To see things in the seed, that is genius." - Lao-tzu

2004-06-25T10:44:00.000-04:00

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." - Derek Bok

2004-06-25T10:31:00.000-04:00

"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little." - Jean Jacques Rousseau

2004-06-24T13:03:00.000-04:00

"A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit." - John C. Maxwell

2004-06-24T12:34:00.000-04:00

"Everything I've ever done my entire life has prepared me for what I'm just about to do." - John Bradshaw

2004-06-23T23:50:00.000-04:00

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."

2004-06-22T16:25:00.000-04:00

"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship." - John D. Rockefeller

2004-06-21T18:01:00.000-04:00

"It takes a genius to whine appealingly." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

2004-06-21T13:40:00.000-04:00

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people." - Hyman G. Rickover

2004-06-20T16:22:00.000-04:00

"A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own opinions."

2004-06-17T17:38:00.000-04:00

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak.Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." - Winston Churchill

2004-06-17T10:03:00.000-04:00

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford

2004-06-16T15:35:00.000-04:00

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." - D. Eisenhower

2004-06-15T12:47:00.000-04:00

"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds." - Roosevelt

2004-06-14T23:49:00.000-04:00

"Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence"

2004-06-14T23:33:00.000-04:00

"Don't shake the tree when the pears fall off themselves"

2004-06-10T23:58:00.000-04:00

"An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep." - Unkown

2004-06-09T11:19:00.000-04:00

"Knowledge is the power of the mind, wisdom is the power of the soul." - Julie Shannahan

2004-06-08T15:16:00.000-04:00

"Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved." - Van Kaam

2004-06-07T18:13:00.000-04:00

"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement."(Evan Hardin)

2004-06-07T16:02:00.000-04:00

"Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down." - Jimmy Durante

2004-06-07T12:59:00.000-04:00

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." - Helen Keller

2004-06-07T01:54:00.000-04:00

"Character is much easier kept than recovered." (Thomas Paine)

2004-06-06T23:58:00.000-04:00

"It is not that I am the great communicator, It's just that I communicate great things." - President Ronald Regan

2004-06-06T22:35:00.000-04:00

"If it is easy, I don't want it." - Karl Malone

2004-06-05T21:22:00.000-04:00

A human matures when intellengence become wisdom

2004-06-05T20:15:00.000-04:00

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." (Gandhi)

What you see depends on where you stand (U2, American Prayer)

"Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better." ~ John Carmack (chief programmer at id Software)

The beginning is the half of every action

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." (Oscar Wilde)

Fear can hold you prisoner, hope can set you free.

2004-06-04T21:42:00.000-04:00

"When you spend your life worrying about how other people feel, you lose track of how you feel."

2004-06-04T14:06:00.000-04:00

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." (Mario Andretti)

2004-06-04T02:20:00.000-04:00

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." (Jimi Hendrix)

2004-06-03T15:34:00.000-04:00

"The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live." - Eliot Hubbard