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"DESIRE BEGINS CHANGE"

Adoro este anúncio da MARTINI®.

Inspirador. Motivador. Apetecível. Esperançoso.

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"To begin, you must Desire. Without that, you will achieve nothing. Love nothing. Change nothing. Because DESIRE is what starts it all. You know that feeling, that feeling at the beginning of the evening, when the possibilities sing to you their song of youth, begging you to just begin.

So
Begin…
To DESIRE…

Because…

DESIRE begins night. And the night is yours to love.
DESIRE begins beauty. And beauty is yours to create.
DESIRE begins true. And truth is your sword.
DESIRE begins love. And love… and love is everything.

Love my friend, is what the night is for, but to get it, to grasp it, to grasp the love, you must let the DESIRE begin.

Because…

DESIRE begins the fire. And you must find it in your heart, and let it burn, let it ignite, let is take you.

You must have, you must feel, you must know…"

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Comemora-se hoje o 108º aniversário de Hannah Arendt.

Nascida em  Linden, Alemanha, a 14 de outubro de 1906. Viria a falecer em Nova Iorque, Estados Unidos, a 4 de dezembro de 1975.

Hannah Arendt foi uma filósofa política alemã de origem judaica, uma das mais influentes do século XX. 

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"Haverá talvez verdades que ficam além da linguagem e que podem ser de grande relevância para o homem no singular, isto é, para o homem que, seja o que for, não é um ser político. Mas os homens no plural, isto é, os homens que vivem e se movem e agem neste mundo, só podem experimentar o significado das coisas por poderem falar e ser inteligíveis entre si e consigo mesmos.
        Mais próximo e talvez igualmente decisivo é outro acontecimento não menos ameaçador: o advento da automação, que dentro de algumas décadas provavelmente esvaziará as fábricas e libertará a humanidade do seu fardo mais antigo e mais natural, o fardo do trabalho e da sujeição à necessidade. Mais uma vez, trata-se de um aspecto fundamental da condição humana; mas a rebelião contra esse aspecto, o desejo de libertação das 'fadigas e penas' do trabalho é tão antigo como a história de que se tem registo. Por si, a isenção do trabalho não é novidade: já foi um dos mais arraigados privilégios de uma minoria. Neste segundo caso, parece que o progresso científico e as conquistas da técnica serviram apenas para a realização de algo com que todas as eras anteriores sonharam e nenhuma pôde realizar. (...) O que se nos depara, portanto, é a possibilidade de uma sociedade de trabalhadores sem trabalho, isto é, sem a única actividade que lhes resta. Certamente nada poderia ser pior."

Hannah Arendt, in A Condição Humana, 1958

"Eu sou muito inteligente, muito exigente e muito engenhosa para alguém ser capaz de tomar conta de mim inteiramente.

Ninguém me conhece ou me ama completamente.

Eu só tenho a mim mesma."

Simone de Beauvoir [1908 - 1986]

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O considerado Rei do Rock completaria hoje 79 anos de idade.

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Elvis Presley 

8 de Janeiro de 1935 - 16 de Agosto de 1977

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Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds Live - Hawaii 1973

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Elvis Presley - Baby What You Want Me To Do, 1968

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Tudo de bom na Vida para ti, meu amor.

Minha linda Pipoca Lagartixa!

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Quando vocês estiverem tristes, pensem em coisas lindas:
Balas, travessuras, carinho, carrinho, beijo de mãe,
Brincadeira de queimado, árvore de natal,
Árvore de jabuticaba, céu amarelo, bolas azuis,
Risadas, colo de pai, história de avó...
Quando vocês forem grandes e acharem que a vida não é linda,
Pensem em coisas lindas.
Mas pensem com força, com muita força,
Porque aí o céu vai ficar cheio de vacas gordas amarelas,
Cachorro bonzinho, bruxa simpática,
Sorvete de chocolate, caramelos e amigos
Vamos, vamos lá! vamos pensar só em coisas lindas!
Brincar na chuva, boneca nova, boneca velha, bola grande,
Mar verde, submarino amarelo, fruta molhada, banho de rio,
Guerra de travesseiro, boneco de areia, princesas,
Heróis, cavalos voadores...

Oswaldo Montenegro

"Mandela’s remarkable life changed history

and its legacy resonates around the world."

[TIME World]

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Prodigal Son
Mandela was born on July 18, 1918, in the village of Mviza in South Africa’s Eastern Cape. His father was a counselor to a local king. He chose for his son the name Rolihlahla, which translated from Xhosa means literally “pulling a branch off a tree” — or, more colloquially, “troublemaker.” A schoolteacher would confer upon him the name Nelson. [TIME World]

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Fighting the Law
Mandela and other co-defendants appear at the famous Treason Trial in Johannesburg, 1956. Mandela, along with his longtime ally Oliver Thambo and 154 others, was charged with treason. The case, which dragged on for five years, by which time all were acquitted, brought the struggle of the ANC to international attention. [TIME World]

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The Long Wait
Mandela sews prison clothes by the shore in 1964. He was sent to the infamous jail at Robben Island, a barren rock off the coast near Cape Town, in 1963 in part for his activities supporting the ANC’s militant wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (the Spear of the Nation). His 27-year-long imprisonment made him the world’s most famous political prisoner. [TIME World]

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Free at Last
Mandela walks with his wife Winnie after being released from prison, Feb. 11, 1990. [TIME World]

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Eye on the Prize
In 1993, Mandela is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize alongside then South African President F.W. de Klerk, whose rapprochement with Mandela and the ANC helped engineer the end of apartheid. [TIME World]

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Electioneering
Mandela greets the crowds on the campaign trail in February 1994 as South Africa readies for its first all-race general election. [TIME World]

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 Simple Message
Mandela supporters perch on a billboard in Durban, April 1994. [TIME World]

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Swearing In
Mandela, 75, takes the oath of office in the political capital Pretoria as the first democratically elected President of South Africa. De Klerk, once an adversary, joined government as Mandela’s deputy. [TIME World]

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 Nelson Mandela's Life and Leadership,
Narrated by TIME's Managing Editor, Rick Stengel

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 O Walkman está hoje de parabéns: comemora o 34º aniversário!

Quem não se lembra deste admirável aparelho?

De repente, podíamos ouvir a nossa música preferida em qualquer parte e a qualquer hora!

No final dos anos 80, tive um como o da imagem abaixo, mas em azul. E com bateria recarregável. Lindo! Era absolutamente fantástico e andava sempre comigo. Aliás, ainda o tenho. E guardo também as muitas dezenas de cassetes que fizeram parte daquela época maravilhosa e da minha vida.

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A Sony Corporation é detentora da marca registada Walkman®.

O Walkman original foi criado em 1979 no Japão pelo coordenador do sector de áudio da Sony - Nobutoshi Kihara - para um dos sócios da empresa, Akio Morita, que queria escutar ópera durante o trabalho.

Curiosamente, em abril de 1979 quando o primeiro aparelho ficou pronto, não suscitou muito entusiasmo junto dos vendedores... eles não acreditavam que tal dispositivo tivesse sucesso! Já Akio Morita, acreditava no produto e resolveu pôr-se à prova: se em dois anos de mercado não fossem vendidas 100 mil unidades, renunciaria à presidência da Sony! É verdade! E afinal, nos primeiros dois anos, foram vendidos 1,5 milhões de Walkman! 1,5 milhões!!

Em outubro de 2010, chegou ao fim o fabrico do Walkman. 

Em 30 anos, a Sony vendeu aproximadamente 200 milhões de unidades!

Valentina Tereshkova

At the age of 26,  she was the first woman in Space.

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First woman in space: Valentina

 

 

Valentina Tereshkova

 

 

 

16 June 2013

 

 

Valentina Tereshkova was born in Maslennikovo, near Yaroslavl, in Russia on 6 March 1937. Her father was a tractor driver and her mother worked in a textile factory. Interested in parachuting from a young age, Tereshkova began skydiving at a local flying club, making her first jump at the age of 22 in May 1959. At the time of her selection as a cosmonaut, she was working as a textile worker in a local factory.

After the first human spaceflight by Yuri Gagarin, the selection of female cosmonaut trainees was authorised by the Soviet government, with the aim of ensuring the first woman in space was a Soviet citizen.

On 16 February 1962, out of more than 400 applicants, five women were selected to join the cosmonaut corps: Tatyana Kuznetsova, Irina Solovyova, Zhanna Yorkina, Valentina Ponomaryova and Valentina Tereshkova. The group spent several months in training, which included weightless flights, isolation tests, centrifuge tests, 120 parachute jumps and pilot training in jet aircraft.

Four candidates passed the final examinations in November 1962, after which they were commissioned as lieutenants in the Soviet air force (meaning Tereshkova also became the first civilian to fly in space, since technically these were only honorary ranks).

Originally a joint mission was planned that would see two women launched on solo Vostok flights on consecutive days in March or April 1963. Tereshkova, Solovyova and Ponomaryova were the leading candidates. It was intended that Tereshkova would be launched first in Vostok 5, with Ponomaryova following her in Vostok 6.

However, this plan was changed in March 1963: Vostok 5 would carry a male cosmonaut, Valeri Bykovsky, flying the mission with a woman in Vostok 6 in June. The Russian space authorities nominated Tereshkova to make the joint flight.

 

 

Flight of the ‘Seagull’

 

Valentina Tereshkova

 

 

After watching the launch of Vostok 5 at Baikonur Cosmodrome on 14 June, Tereshkova completed preparations for her own flight. On the morning of 16 June, Tereshkova and her backup Solovyova both dressed in spacesuits and were taken to the launch pad by bus. After completing checks of communication and life support systems, she was sealed inside her spacecraft. 

After a two-hour countdown, Vostok 6 lifted off without fault and, within hours, she was in communication with Bykovsky in Vostok 5, marking the second time that two manned spacecraft were in space at the same time. With the radio call sign ‘Chaika’ (‘seagull’), Tereshkova had become the first woman in space. She was 26. 

Tereshkova’s televised image was broadcast throughout the Soviet Union and she spoke to Khrushchev by radio. She maintained a flight log and performed various tests to collect data on her body’s reaction to spaceflight. Her photographs of Earth and the horizon were later used to identify aerosol layers within the atmosphere.

Her mission lasted just under three days (two days, 23 hours, and 12 minutes). With a single flight, she had logged more flight time than the all the US Mercury astronauts who had flown to that date combined. Both Tereshkova and Bykovsky were record-holders. Bykovsky had spent nearly five days in orbit and even today he retains the record for having spent the longest period of time in space alone.

 

 

[Article from ESA]

 

 

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Apollo 17 'regressou a casa' há 40 anos.

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Vale a pena lembrar Jane Austen, no dia do seu 237º aniversário.

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 Jane Austen's House Museum

Austen 

Jane Austen 

The Jane Austen Centre

Jane Austen - Wikipedia

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Comemora-se hoje o 197º aniversário sobre o nascimento de Ada Lovelace, matemática inglesa e considerada a primeira programadora da História por ter desenvolvido um algoritmo para o cálculo da sequência de Bernoulli usando a máquina analítica de Babbage.

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 Ada Lovelace

Today, one more year begins for me...

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41º Anniversary of Meddle, Pink Floyd.

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The Pink Floyd's album Atom Heart Mother

was released this day in 1970.

A wonderful album.

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Happy 42º anniversary!

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