Thought Of The Day
“Those who find the right words never offend anyone. Yet they speak the truth. Their words are clear but never harsh. They do not take offence, and they do not give in.”
The Buddha
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Hong Kong In The 1950s Captured By A Teenager

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These stunning photographs of Hong Kong in the 1950s are captured beautifully by a teenager. Ho Fan who arrived from Shanghai in 1949. The streets, filled with vendors, coolies and rickshaw drivers, fascinated Ho. Taking pictures in a studio was the norm then, but the Ho was more interested in random, candid shots of strangers. His targets, however, did not always smile into the lens of his Rolleiflex…

But it is great street photography that gives a peek into daily life in Hong Kong at that time..

The photography is part of his book “A Hong Kong Memoir”

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Watch as 1000 years of European borders change timelapse map

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iha3OS8ShYs

 

 

Mike Pence Tries to “Disprove” Evolution

Indiana Governor and Republican Vice Presidential nominee Mike Pence has had a history of not understanding quite how evolution works. RightWingWatch has a video of Pence attempting to “disprove” evolution on the floor of the House of Representatives in 2002.

In the speech, Pence shows that he has no idea what “theory” means in a scientific context and repeatedly cites the Bible as evidence against evolution.

You can read Pence’s complete remarks in the Congressional record.

 

French grocery stores provide 10 million meals to people in need every year

French grocery stores provide 10 million meals to people in need every year by donating unsold food. Here is the shocking difference between food waste in France and America:

Posted by Opposing Views on Friday, 23 September 2016

 

French grocery stores provide 10 million meals to people in need every year by donating unsold food. Here is the shocking difference between food waste in France and America

 

It’s About Time – John Denver

 

It’s About Time – John Denver

There’s a full moon over India and Gandhi lives again.
Who’s to say you have to lose for someone else to win?
In the eyes of all the people, the look is much the same,
for the first is just the last one when you play a deadly game.
It’s about time we realize it, we’re all in this together.
It’s about time we find out, it’s all of us or none.
It’s about time we recognize it, these changes in the weather.
It’s about time, it’s about changes, and it’s about time.

There’s a light in the Vatican window for all the world to see
and a voice cries in the wilderness and sometimes he speaks for me.
I suppose I love him most of all when he kneels to kiss the land,
with his lips upon our mother’s breast, he makes his strongest stand.
It’s about time we start to see it, the earth is our only home.
It’s about time we start to face it, we can’t make it here all alone.
It’s about time we start to listen to the voices in the wind,
it’s about time and it’s about changes and it’s about time.

There’s a man who is my brother, I just don’t know his name.
But I know his home and family because I know we feel the same.
And it hurts me when he’s hungry and when his children cry.
I too am a father, and that little one is mine.
It’s about time we begin it, to turn the world around.
It’s about time we start to make it, the dream we’ve always known.
It’s about time we start to live it, the family of man.
It’s about time, it’s about changes and it’s about time.
It’s about peace and it’s about plenty and it’s about time,
It’s about you and me together and it’s about time.