Thursday, March 31, 2016

The forgotten founder

Ronald G Wayne is 81. When he was 41, he worked at Atari. And it was there he met a young, impressionable Steve Jobs who would regularly turn to Wayne for all manner of advice. Wayne considered himself the "adult supervision" to the Jobs dream. The rest is history as Jobs' story went on to become the greatest ever story of entrepreneurship.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35940300

The Sock Capital of the World

Read the fascinating story of how Gina combined her family's sock-making tradition with her passion of organic living and sustainability.

http://zkano.com/pages/about-us

Check this out

Cowboy boots, checked shirts and country music might conjure up images of the American south, but Dolly Parton and her fellow country singers have a dedicated following across the world - not least in Uganda.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35929315

Monday, February 8, 2016

The Elephants that came to dinner

It's their world too...

Absolutely, stunningly, wonderful


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

For us who were forever changed by Love Story

Actors Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal return to Harvard University 45 years after Love Story...


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3425993/Love-Story-actors-return-Harvard-45-years-later.html

Saturday, February 6, 2016

Two Afghan boys

Wasil Ahmad dies a martyr at age 11. He had been praised for his bravery - for 43 days he had commanded a police unit as it fought to repel a Taliban siege.

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/04/asia/afghanistan-boy-hero-taliban-killed/index.html

and

Murtaza Ahmadi, a five-year-old boy, plays football wearing a striped plastic bag with the name of his hero written in felt-tip pen on the back.
                                                                    Messi
                                                                       10                      

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3431446/I-t-wait-meet-Messi-Afghan-boy-5-broke-hearts-playing-football-blue-white-plastic-bag-excited-meet-hero.html

Thursday, January 21, 2016

India’s first LGBT radio taxi service

Wings Rainbow, India’s first LGBT radio taxi service, was flagged off on Wednesday, 20 January 2016. This initiative by the Wings Travels and Humsafar Trust is expected to start functioning in 2017. Five volunteers from The Humsafar Trust, an LGBT rights organisation have signed up.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/news/indias-first-lgbt-radio-taxi-service-announced/article8132750.ece?homepage=true