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<strong>bwin</strong> lives in a world of grey, over-thinking, meek committee decisions, and predictable<br />
sameness – it’s all around us. We’re surrounded by calls for safety, for settling, for<br />
compromise.<br />
We think it’s time for some home truths. Before we got where we are, we were boys and girls.<br />
And those before us were monkeys. They jumped, ran and gleefully dove into all that life had<br />
to offer. Before we started building walls and became obsessed with playing it safe, we acted<br />
on our instincts and stretched ourselves – because we had to.<br />
Today, of course we don’t have to. And we’re encouraged not to. Big girls don’t cry and men<br />
wear grey suits. Right? Wrong!<br />
This is a reminder from <strong>bwin</strong> that life is for living, not for protecting ourselves from. That we<br />
must play and try ourselves out to really live. To seek thrills and enjoy them - to not be afraid to<br />
trust our guts and put our money where our mouth is. That’s what we call the <strong>bwin</strong> attitude!<br />
The folks on these pages achieved something remarkable. On a tiny or huge scale, they were<br />
part of exceptional stories which took guts to live through. They took a risk, pushed against<br />
conventions; acted on their instincts to change things. The results were often big leaps<br />
forward in technology, art or business and sometimes huge failures.<br />
That’s exactly why these stories are so relevant to <strong>bwin</strong>. They encouraged us to quit listening<br />
to our insurance salesman, trust our guts and start something new in ’97. They helped us build<br />
the <strong>bwin</strong> attitude and live through disasters like ’06. Their stories still encourage us to not be<br />
afraid to play – now that we’re huge and supposed to be ‘all grown up’ – but to take risks, to<br />
stay hungry and keep pushing forward. And of course to love every minute of it!
“Dr. , I presume?”<br />
(your name here)
They say Shackleton placed advertisements in London newspapers that<br />
read: “MEN WANTED: for hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter<br />
cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return<br />
doubtful. Honor and recognition in case of success”.<br />
When polar explorer Ernest Shackleton named his ship Endurance, he<br />
never imagined how fitting that name would become for his attempt<br />
to cross the Antarctic. This expedition became a true tale of heroism,<br />
courage and persistence in the face of indescribable hardship.<br />
The exploration is the survival story of 28 men who set sail in 1914,<br />
got trapped by ice, abandoned their ship and lived in camps on ice -<br />
returning home two years later. After 500 days without outside help<br />
and without the loss of a single life, Shackleton mounted a valiant<br />
rescue mission for his ship’s men.<br />
As WWI broke out, Endurance embarked from London carrying<br />
the first team attempting the cross from sea to sea via the South<br />
Pole. Nearing its destination, the ship became trapped in an ice floe.<br />
Realizing that the Endurance would ultimately succumb, Shackleton<br />
ordered the crew to abandon ship and set up camp on Elephant Island.<br />
They hadn’t touched solid ground for 497 days.<br />
Help was 1,300km away. So while 22 men and 70 dogs waited,<br />
Shackleton and a crew of five took a 20-foot lifeboat on a seemingly<br />
futile rescue mission. Undeterred, they endured a harrowing journey<br />
at the mercy of black, stormy, ice-cold seas.<br />
After several failed attempts to land on South Georgia Island, their<br />
adventure was not over – help was on the other side of the island.<br />
Shackleton risked a land crossing. Leaving three of the men at the<br />
landing point, he travelled with the other two over mountains for 36<br />
hours to reach the whaling station at Stromness.<br />
Once there, he sent a boat to pick up the three men they’d left behind<br />
while he set to work to organize the rescue of the 22 Elephant Island<br />
men. It would take another four months and four rescue attempts,<br />
but in August 1916, Ernest finally arrived on Elephant Island in a<br />
Chilean steamer. He anxiously looked through his binoculars counting<br />
the number of men – there were 22. All the men were rescued, making<br />
the Endurance’s voyage one of the most incredible (and unsuccessful!)<br />
adventure stories of all time.<br />
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“<br />
Alice laughed. “There’s no use<br />
trying,” she said “one can’t believe<br />
impossible things.”<br />
“I daresay you haven’t had much<br />
practice,” said the Queen. “When I<br />
was your age, I always did it for<br />
half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes<br />
I’ve believed as many as six impossible<br />
things before breakfast.”<br />
— “Through the looking glass”, Lewis Carroll
Look at a picture of a spaceship. Okay, now build one. That’s right. Except<br />
do it with just a hula hoop, tin foil and a banana. A slight exaggeration –<br />
but it gives you an idea of what William Kamkwamba had to deal with.<br />
When he was 14, he stumbled onto a photograph of a windmill in a library<br />
book and thought to himself, “I could build one of those”.<br />
You see, William lived in a remote Malawian village with no access to<br />
electricity. In fact, he had to drop out of school because his family couldn’t<br />
afford the $80 tuition. But did he wallow in his poverty? No, sir! He<br />
focused on what he could get his talented fingers on and built his family a<br />
windmill using a basket frame, bluegum trees, bicycle parts – all courtesy<br />
of the local scrapyard.<br />
William also had something else helpful – an unwavering belief in his<br />
ability. His family laughed at him and the villagers declared him crazy, but<br />
William never let the possibility of failure get him down. He trusted his<br />
intuition and knew the secret was not in the knowing but in the doing.<br />
What did he have to lose? And more importantly, what did he have to gain?<br />
As it turns out, a lot. His windmill powered light bulbs in all rooms of his<br />
family’s home along with a radio and a TV. And that just got him going!<br />
He’s already built two more windmills and a solar-powered water pump<br />
that supplies drinking water to his village. Not so crazy after all, is he?
“<br />
People who say it<br />
cannot be done should<br />
not interrupt those<br />
who are doing it.<br />
— George Bernard Shaw via Nalden
“<br />
People who say it<br />
cannot be done should<br />
not interrupt those<br />
who are doing it.<br />
— George Bernard Shaw via Nalden
youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA
Thomas Edison may have been referring to George Stephenson when he<br />
said “Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration”.<br />
His life is proof that the road to success isn’t easy. There’s no secret, no<br />
shortcuts and no excuses. It’s through tenacity, ambition and good oldfashioned<br />
hard work that Stephenson achieved his greatest dreams and<br />
made his mark in the world.<br />
He was willing to take the road less travelled – sweat and sacrifice was<br />
ingrained in him from a young age. Born into a poor family in a coal mining<br />
village of England, his first job was in the mines. Clever George then moved<br />
steadily through the ranks as a fireman, plugman, brakeman, and engineer.<br />
But Stephenson knew that all work and no play made George a dull boy.<br />
In his free time he loved to tinker with engines - taking them apart and<br />
improving them. He put himself through night school where he learned to<br />
read, write, and do math at 18.<br />
He learnt quickly that he had to make his own opportunities. When he<br />
was 23, he walked (yes, walked) to Scotland for a job in a coal mine<br />
that used one of the best steam engines of the day. To fund his personal<br />
projects, he worked nights. Committed to the long haul, Stephenson finally<br />
got his chance to construct his first locomotive, the first steam engine<br />
powered locomotive to run on a railroad. He built sixteen engines in all,<br />
including the now-famous locomotive ‘Rocket’. It ran at an outrageous<br />
5mph. Hold on to your hats!
One day in 1954 Eve Branson stopped the car a few<br />
miles from home and dropped off her four-year-old son<br />
on the side of the road and drove off saying “Find your<br />
own way home, Ricky.” This single moment perhaps<br />
gave the young Richard Branson the mettle and determination<br />
to take on the world in his own way.<br />
And look where it’s got him...<br />
Thanks Mum.<br />
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*bumblebee, bum-ble-bee [buhm-buhl-bi]<br />
noun; — see also humble-bee; any robust hairy social<br />
bee of the genus Bombus of temperate regions.<br />
As late as the 1930s, the Bumblebee was seen as<br />
an insect that should not fly. Clever aerodynamics<br />
scientists demonstrated that according to all sorts of<br />
complicated and unpronounceable rules a Bumblebee<br />
cannot fly.<br />
And the Bumblebee?<br />
It of course neither knows any of this nor cares the<br />
slightest bit. And flies.
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Your young daughter has just come crashing down a<br />
ramp from the roof of the family shed in a wooden box.<br />
She’s crawled out of her contraption sporting a bruised<br />
lip and a torn dress. Completely exhilarated, she leaps<br />
and shouts, “It’s just like flying!”<br />
It must have been quite an emotional rollercoaster<br />
being little Amelia Earhart’s parents.<br />
Earhart was told to play it safe. And then she was<br />
told again. And again. By everyone. But Amelia was<br />
hard-wired for risk. While others kept their feet on<br />
the ground, she kept her eyes on the prize – to reach<br />
the sky. Gutsy and headstrong, she knew she wasn’t<br />
like most people. Fuelled by an iron-jawed spirit of<br />
adventure and with kerosene running in her veins, she<br />
soared to heights not thought possible for a woman to<br />
pursue her dreams.
Piecing it all together<br />
On June 17, 1972 at 9 o’clock, Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward was<br />
annoyed. He’d thought waking up early on a Saturday and being called into<br />
the office to cover a story about a break-in at the Watergate was behind him.<br />
A story for those even more junior than he. Of course, what appeared to be a<br />
routine crime story soon developed into a series of articles that led to the first<br />
resignation of a U.S. president and changed American politics forever.<br />
This story has it all – scandal, conspiracy, dirty tricks, and two maverick<br />
reporters who uncovered the truth at any cost. For the next two years, Bob<br />
Woodward and Carl Bernstein risked their lives and careers to piece together<br />
a puzzle that would shed light on corrupt government. Here’s the story.<br />
On June 17, 1972 at the Watergate<br />
Hotel, a security guard found a door<br />
with a piece of tape preventing it<br />
from locking. Removing the tape, he<br />
continued his rounds. When he<br />
went back later, he discovered that<br />
someone had re-taped it. He was<br />
suspicious and called the police. Five<br />
men wearing business suits and latex<br />
gloves were arrested.<br />
What first appeared to be a thirdrate<br />
burglary of the Democratic<br />
Party Headquarters turned out to<br />
be a wiretapping operation. The<br />
men were actually there to fix some<br />
bugs that they had planted a week<br />
earlier. They had ties to the Nixon<br />
administration and were out to spy on<br />
the Democratic Party.<br />
The resulting cover-up of his involvement<br />
by President Nixon became<br />
known as Watergate, the greatest<br />
political scandal of that century.<br />
Facing near-certain impeachment,<br />
Nixon resigned the presidency on<br />
August 9, 1974, the first American<br />
president ever to do so.<br />
The worst scandal in American history<br />
also completely redefined the role<br />
of the media in American politics.<br />
Reporters at the Washington Post and<br />
the New York Times were responsible<br />
for untangling the scandal.<br />
Woodward and Bernstein did a<br />
majority of the reporting on the story,<br />
revealing the possibility of a link<br />
between the burglars and Nixon.<br />
They had done so against open and<br />
implicit threats on their personal safety<br />
and livelihoods. The full weight<br />
of the American government weighed<br />
down on them at many points – a<br />
scary opponent.<br />
Gene Roberts, the former executive<br />
editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer<br />
and former managing editor of The<br />
New York Times called the work of<br />
Woodward and Bernstein “maybe<br />
the single greatest reporting effort of<br />
all time.” Since Watergate, the press<br />
has played a major role in keeping<br />
government honest and accountable.
Joe Pistone<br />
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Pretty ballsy, right? How’d he pull it off?<br />
How to survive the streets… and to live life.<br />
1. Play the part. Think, eat, sleep and breathe the world.<br />
2. Live honorably. Your reputation is everything.<br />
3. Don’t let them see you sweat. Even during a six-hour grilling.<br />
4. Know when to talk and when to shut up. The walls have ears.<br />
5. Don’t be a wise guy. Be wise.<br />
By Joe Pistone<br />
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Joe Pistone knew that nothing could be won if nothing was at<br />
stake. And what was at stake was his life. In 1976, undercover<br />
FBI agent Joe Pistone assumed a secret identity and infiltrated the<br />
New York City Mafia as small-time jewel thief Donnie Brasco. Over<br />
time he rolled with gangsters and earned the trust of the mob. In<br />
fact, he was so damn convincing that they wanted to induct him<br />
as a member of the family.<br />
When he got pulled out in 1982, Pistone put more than 100<br />
Mafiosi behind bars, single-handedly broke up the ‘Family’, and<br />
took down much of New York’s underworld. Thirty years on, he still<br />
travels in disguise and under an alias. There’s a mob contract out<br />
on him with a reward of $500,000 USD.<br />
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“<br />
I’ve missed more than 9,000<br />
shots in my career. I’ve lost<br />
almost 300 games. 26 times,<br />
I’ve been trusted to take the<br />
game winning shot and missed.<br />
I’ve failed over and over and<br />
over again in my life.<br />
And that is why I succeed.<br />
— Michael Jordan
Do you have difficulty waking up for work, but are<br />
raring to go at 6 a.m. for an early morning run or to<br />
catch a plane for a much-anticipated holiday? That’s<br />
intrinsic motivation. It’s doing something for the sheer<br />
pleasure of it because it’s inherently enjoyable or<br />
important to you. The reward is in the task itself. No<br />
carrot needed. It could be reading a great thriller,<br />
cooking, painting, playing an instrument, playing chess<br />
or even solving a math problem. (You’ll be surprised<br />
by what turns people on.)<br />
The great thing about intrinsic motivation is that it’s<br />
child’s play… literally. And since we were all children<br />
at one time, it’s built in to each and every one of us.<br />
Children seemed to have grasped the secret – it’s<br />
not in the thinking but in the doing. They act with their<br />
heart not their head and do things simply because<br />
they want to. Driven by instinct, curiosity, spontaneity<br />
and a natural fascination with the world, they explore,<br />
experiment, learn faster, create more and have more fun.<br />
A professor at Harvard Business School studied the<br />
effect of motivation on creative performance with two<br />
groups of children. The first group was simply told to<br />
paint a picture. The second group was promised candy<br />
if they painted a really good picture. Which group<br />
produced better pictures? The first group. Why? They<br />
were focused on painting for its own sake but the other<br />
group was distracted by the thought of the reward.
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Where you only saw trash,<br />
this man sees educational toys.<br />
“Keep collecting junk and experimenting. If the<br />
toy works the first time, it is no fun at all! So<br />
keep trying – never give up.”<br />
— Arvind Gupta is an Indian toy inventor and<br />
populariser of science. He creates simple toys<br />
and educational experiments using locally<br />
available materials as well as items usually thrown<br />
away as trash.
Tim Berners-Lee<br />
‘TimBL’<br />
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http://www.taringa.net/posts/info/4924909/Internet-cumple-20-anos.html<br />
British computer scientist, MIT professor and the inventor of the World Wide Web<br />
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On 25 December 1990, with the help of Robert Cailliau and a young student at CERN<br />
http://twitter.com/#!/timberners_lee<br />
Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA (born 8 June 1955)<br />
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/jan/21/timbernerslee-government-data<br />
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He made a proposal for an information management system in March 1989<br />
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Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet.<br />
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How far would you go to achieve your dream? Philippe Petit broke the law.<br />
But he also broke the mold, achieving an unimaginable feat a quarter mile<br />
above Manhattan’s streets.<br />
When he chanced upon an article in a Paris dentist office of plans to build<br />
the Twin Towers, Petit became a man obsessed. For the next six years, he<br />
would think of nothing else but traversing a tightrope between the towers.<br />
He collected articles on the buildings. Travelled to New York several times.<br />
Wandered the towers for hours. Took photos. Noted access routes.<br />
Obtained security codes. Made fake ID cards. Impersonated journalists.<br />
Even smuggled a bow-and-arrow through Kennedy airport in a suitcase.<br />
No stone was left unturned.<br />
On August 6, 1974, posing as construction workers he and his band of<br />
pranksters snuck up to the top floor, remained hidden until it was dark and<br />
spent the night rigging the cable from one tower to the other. Shortly after<br />
7:15 the next morning, he stepped off the ledge and… had New York at<br />
his feet.
“<br />
A rock pile ceases to be a rock<br />
pile the moment a single man<br />
contemplates it, bearing within<br />
him the image of a cathedral.<br />
— Antoine de St. Exupéry
What’s the difference between sight and vision? In the<br />
case of Justo Gallego, it’s single-minded dedication.<br />
When he was 27 he entered the monastery of Santa<br />
María de la Huerta with the intention of dedicating<br />
his life to the church. After eight years he fell ill with<br />
tuberculosis and was forced to leave for the safety of<br />
the others. Devastated, he returned to his family home<br />
but rather than feeling defeated or try and join another<br />
monastery he set about building his own cathedral!<br />
That’s what he set out to do more than a half a century<br />
ago, and hasn’t stopped since.<br />
With no formal training in construction, he steadfastly<br />
gets up at 3:30 every morning; at 4 a.m. he collects<br />
reject bricks and broken tiles from nearby factories and<br />
scrap yards and then confronts the extreme heat and<br />
bitter cold day in and day out to single-handedly tackle<br />
this monstrous task. It matters little to him how long it<br />
will take or if he’ll ever complete it. This is his dream<br />
and his illusion. For him that’s good enough.
“<br />
The greatest pleasure in<br />
life is doing what people<br />
say you cannot do.<br />
— Walter Bagehot
I<br />
DON’T<br />
BELIEVE<br />
IN...<br />
“<br />
I don’t believe in magic.<br />
I don’t believe in I-ching.<br />
I don’t believe in Bible.<br />
I don’t believe in tarot.<br />
I don’t believe in Hitler.<br />
I don’t believe in Jesus.<br />
I don’t believe in Kennedy.<br />
I don’t believe in Buddha.<br />
I don’t believe in Mantra.<br />
I don’t believe in Gita.<br />
I don’t believe in Yoga.<br />
I don’t believe in kings.<br />
I don’t believe in Elvis.<br />
I don’t believe in Zimmerman.<br />
I don’t believe in Beatles.<br />
I just believe in me.<br />
— From the song “God” by John Lennon
When Rick Hoyt was born with cerebral palsy, doctors told his parents,<br />
Dick and Judy, to institutionalize him. He’d be a ‘vegetable’ for the rest of<br />
his life, they said. But the Hoyts were adamant that he live as normal a life<br />
as possible. As it turns out, his life is far from normal.<br />
At 11, he was able to communicate for the first time through a computer.<br />
His first words weren’t “Hi Mom” or “Hi Dad”. They were “Go Bruins!”<br />
referring to the Boston hockey team that made it to the Stanley Cup finals<br />
that year. So much for being a ‘vegetable’.<br />
When a high school classmate was paralyzed in an accident Rick wanted<br />
to participate in a charity run organized by his school. So his dad stepped<br />
up. While running, he pushed Rick’s wheelchair; they came next to last.<br />
But Rick was elated and that night said “Dad, when we’re running, it feels<br />
like I’m not handicapped.”<br />
It changed Dick’s life. From that day on, they were known as Team Hoyt,<br />
the inspiring father-son duo who is living proof that ‘Yes You Can’ achieve<br />
whatever you set your mind to. And boy, did they achieve.<br />
From 1977 until present, Dick has pushed, pulled and carried Rick in more<br />
than 1,000 races including marathons, duathlons and triathlons (6 of them<br />
being the gruelling Ironman competitions). Covering a distance of 12,427<br />
miles (20,000 km), it doubles to 24,854 miles (40,000 km), when you take<br />
into account the pair – that’s more than one time around the equator.<br />
Has Rick got any ambitions left? “The thing I’d most like is for my dad to sit<br />
in the chair and I would push him for once.”
* —A full tank, please.<br />
One August morning in 1888 she woke up especially early, silently slid<br />
out of bed, crept over to the room of her two sons and whispered to them<br />
to get dressed. Then all three gingerly pushed her husband’s recentlybuilt<br />
patented automobile a little way down the road so not to wake him<br />
and drove it, without permission from authorities, 60 miles (106 km)<br />
to her mother’s home. But Bertha Daimler wasn’t leaving her husband.<br />
She wanted to prove a point – that his latest invention could be a great<br />
success. In fact it scared so many people that it created a huge buzz –<br />
exactly what she was after.<br />
The epic 12-hour journey was the first time anyone had ever driven an<br />
automobile over a long distance. But there were a few bumps in the road.<br />
At the time petrol needed to fuel the car was only available in pharmacies<br />
so she had to plan her route carefully. Along the way, she needed a<br />
blacksmith to mend a broken chain and a cobbler to replace the leather<br />
brake linings. She even pulled a MacGyver and used a hairpin to unblock a<br />
fuel pipe and insulated a wire with her garter.<br />
See what lengths a woman will go to prove her husband wrong – or in this<br />
case, to prove him right. It was just the confidence boost he needed to<br />
market his Motorwagen to the world. So if you’re driving a Mercedes-Benz<br />
today, remember that ‘behind every great man is an even greater woman.’<br />
—Volltanken, bitte.*
“<br />
One person’s craziness<br />
is another person’s reality.<br />
— Tim Burton
“<br />
It’s a shame to only<br />
have dreams at night.<br />
You should have a few<br />
opportunities during<br />
the day.<br />
— Stephen Alesch
Wouldn’t you love to get a peak inside the brain of Jules Verne?<br />
Untapped grey matter, my ass. This sci-fi author wrote of submarines,<br />
flying machines and moon landings at a time when cars<br />
were just being invented. Fantastical, off-the-wall, and out-of-thisworld,<br />
some of his predictions were spot on. Others were off the<br />
mark. But it doesn’t matter because he pushed readers to suspend<br />
belief of what’s fact and fiction and go beyond the edge of<br />
what their minds could imagine – the plausible and implausible.<br />
FACT OR FICTION?<br />
What did Jules Verne get right and get wrong?<br />
Electric submarine<br />
From the book “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”, written in 1869.<br />
And it happened in 1881!<br />
Moon landing<br />
From the book “From the Earth to the Moon”, written in 1865.<br />
And it happened in 1969!<br />
Travel to the middle of the earth<br />
From the book “Journey to the Center of the Earth”, written in 1864.<br />
It has not happened yet.<br />
Purchase of the North Pole<br />
From the book “The Purchase of the North Pole”, written in 1889.<br />
It has not happened yet.<br />
Videoconferencing<br />
From the article “In the Year 2889”, written in 1889.<br />
And it happened in 1960!<br />
fact!!<br />
fact!!<br />
fact!!
“<br />
One of our joys was to<br />
go into our workroom<br />
at night; we then perceived<br />
on all sides the<br />
feebly luminous silhouettes<br />
of the bottles or<br />
capsules containing our<br />
products. It was really<br />
a lovely sight and one<br />
always new to us. The<br />
glowing tubes looked<br />
like faint, fairy lights.<br />
— Marie Curie<br />
Few were her equal. Marie Curie shaped the world of the 20th and<br />
21st century with her insights and achievements. And deservingly<br />
so, became the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize and the<br />
first person to win two Nobel Prizes, in physics and chemistry.<br />
Curie discovered two new radioactive elements; radium and<br />
polonium. She studied the X-rays they emitted, and investigated<br />
the radiation of all compounds containing known radioactive<br />
elements, including uranium and thorium.<br />
What led to her findings? She was influenced by two discoveries.<br />
German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen discovered a kind of ray that<br />
could travel through flesh, providing photos of people’s bones.<br />
Shortly after, French physicist Henri Becquerel found that even if<br />
kept in the dark, uranium compounds emitted rays that would fog a<br />
photographic plate, but his findings were largely ignored.<br />
Only Curie took notice. Using a device invented by two of<br />
her brothers, the Curie electrometer, she carried out various<br />
measurements and tests that led to a fundamental shift in scientific<br />
understanding. At the time nobody grasped the massive amount<br />
of energy stored in atoms. To describe this behavior, she invented<br />
the word “radioactivity”. She also found that the radioactivity of<br />
radium could successfully attack cancer and harmful properties of<br />
X-rays were able to kill tumors.<br />
So driven was Curie that in the end she lost her own life to her<br />
research. Her greatest legacy is undoubtedly her huge contribution<br />
to the treatment of cancer and also to improving the quality of life<br />
for millions living with the disease.
“Georgia on my mind”<br />
“<br />
I was born with<br />
music inside me.<br />
— Ray Charles
“<br />
There is simply no greater<br />
threat to humanity than a<br />
viral pandemic.<br />
— Nathan Wolfe<br />
In countries all around the world there are lethal viruses that, at any<br />
moment, can cause a pandemic. SARS, Ebola and HIV are recent cases in<br />
point. About three-quarters of emerging infectious diseases are produced<br />
by viruses in animals. Nearly every new virus of recent times has spread by<br />
jumping to people. But viruses can only travel as far as the cell it infects.<br />
And herein lies the problem. As the world gets smaller and international<br />
travel becomes more accessible, everyone is at risk – from Bogota to<br />
Berlin, from New York to Nanjing.<br />
Enter Nathan Wolfe. The Indiana Jones of virus hunting. Intent on<br />
outwitting the next pandemic, and willing to risk everything to make the<br />
world a safer place. You won’t find him sitting in a lab culturing cells in<br />
a Petri dish. Nope, more often than not he’s in the far-flung reaches of<br />
rural Africa and Asia sifting through the blood of wild animals tracking<br />
down emerging infections before they spread and kill. He works with local<br />
villagers in viral hotspots to catch infectious diseases before they take<br />
root. It’s dangerous work. He almost died of malaria. Twice. But it hasn’t<br />
slowed him down. No risk, no reward. He figures nothing is worth doing if<br />
it’s not for something worthwhile.<br />
So, keep up with Dr. Jones to save millions of lives.<br />
respirator<br />
affe<br />
sao tome<br />
optimism<br />
rubella<br />
strength<br />
varicella-zoster virus<br />
dreams<br />
china<br />
adenovirus<br />
herpes simplex, type 1<br />
hepatitis c<br />
enjoyment<br />
hepatitis b<br />
pr congo<br />
amusement<br />
coxsackievirus<br />
cameroon<br />
happiness<br />
adenovirus<br />
china<br />
varicella-zoster virus<br />
happiness<br />
strength<br />
laughs<br />
hepatitis a<br />
lao<br />
jovialty<br />
dr congo<br />
epstein-barr virus<br />
herpes simplex, type 2<br />
amusement<br />
longevity<br />
good humor<br />
equatorial guinea<br />
dreams<br />
equatorial guinea<br />
strength<br />
cameroon<br />
enjoyment<br />
hope<br />
strength<br />
health<br />
health<br />
rubella<br />
cytomegalovirus<br />
coxsackievirus<br />
hope<br />
optimism<br />
cameroon<br />
sao tome<br />
epstein-barr virus<br />
good humor<br />
affection<br />
respiratory syncytial<br />
coxsackievirus<br />
gabon<br />
happiness<br />
longevity<br />
adenovirus<br />
pesvirus, type 8<br />
china<br />
dreams<br />
dreams<br />
health<br />
optimism<br />
varicella-zoster virus<br />
dr congo<br />
positivism<br />
hiv<br />
strength<br />
ntral african republic<br />
rubella<br />
friendship<br />
hope<br />
influenza<br />
optimism<br />
jovialty<br />
rabies<br />
games<br />
measles<br />
sao tome<br />
security<br />
affection<br />
hepatitis a<br />
mumps<br />
wishes<br />
malaysia<br />
madagascar<br />
human papillomavirus<br />
education<br />
laughs<br />
poliovirus<br />
parainfluenza<br />
schools<br />
love<br />
poliovirus<br />
madagascar<br />
rabies<br />
friendship<br />
positivism<br />
respiratory syncytial<br />
equatorial guin<br />
amusement<br />
love<br />
pr congo<br />
schools<br />
goo<br />
hepatitis b<br />
parainfluenza<br />
enjoyment<br />
education<br />
hepatitis c<br />
strength<br />
malaysia<br />
human papillomavirus<br />
ep<br />
lao<br />
wishes<br />
longevity<br />
gabon<br />
cytomegalovirus<br />
herpes simplex, type 1<br />
strength<br />
enjoyment<br />
mumps<br />
amusement<br />
herpes simplex, type 2<br />
longevity<br />
longevity<br />
herpes simplex, type 1<br />
lao<br />
amusement<br />
security<br />
strength<br />
hepatitis c<br />
herpes simplex, type 2<br />
enjoyment<br />
games<br />
measles<br />
hepatitis b<br />
enjoyment<br />
pr congo<br />
strength<br />
amusement<br />
cytomegalovirus<br />
gabon<br />
hepatitis a<br />
humanherpesvirus, type 8<br />
dreams<br />
optimism<br />
hiv<br />
central african republic<br />
influenza<br />
laughs<br />
longevity<br />
jovialty<br />
dr congo<br />
hope<br />
adenovirus<br />
happiness<br />
cameroon<br />
coxsackievirus<br />
health<br />
equatorial guinea<br />
good humor<br />
epstein-barr virus
On December 1, 1955, a seamstress was on her way home<br />
from work in Montgomery, Alabama. The “whites only”<br />
section at the front of the bus was full and a few white men<br />
were standing.<br />
The bus driver walked down the aisle and moved the<br />
“colored” section sign behind Rosa Parks and demanded<br />
that four black people give up their seats. Three of them<br />
got up but she refused.<br />
Her arrest caused a public outcry and triggered a 381-day<br />
boycott of the bus system by blacks. It was led by a 26-yearold<br />
minister named Martin Luther King Jr. With this<br />
simple gesture of defiance, Parks ushered in a new era of<br />
the American civil rights movement.<br />
“She sat down in order that we might stand up”,<br />
said Reverend Jesse Jackson.<br />
On December 1, 1955, a seamstress was on her way home<br />
from work in Montgomery, Alabama. The “whites only”<br />
section at the front of the bus was full and a few white men<br />
were standing.<br />
The bus driver walked down the aisle and moved the<br />
“colored” section sign behind Rosa Parks and demanded<br />
that four black people give up their seats. Three of them<br />
got up but she refused.<br />
Her arrest caused a public outcry and triggered a 381-day<br />
boycott of the bus system by blacks. It was led by a 26-yearold<br />
minister named Martin Luther King Jr. With this<br />
simple gesture of defiance, Parks ushered in a new era of<br />
the American civil rights movement.<br />
“She sat down in order that we might stand up”,<br />
said Reverend Jesse Jackson.
“<br />
It is a risk to love; what if it<br />
doesn’t work out?<br />
Ah, but what if it does?<br />
— Peter McWilliams
15.01.2009<br />
3:27:36 - Flight 1549<br />
Ah, this, uh, Cactus 1539. Hit birds, we<br />
lost thrust in both engines. We’re turning<br />
back towards LaGuardia.<br />
3:27:42 - New York TRACON<br />
Ok, yeah, you need to return to LaGuardia.<br />
Turn left heading of uh, 2-2-0.<br />
3:27:46 - Flight 1549<br />
2-2-0.<br />
3:28:05 - New York TRACON<br />
Cactus 1529, if we can get it to you, do<br />
you want to try to land runway 1-3?<br />
3:28:11 - Flight 1549<br />
We’re unable. We may end up in the<br />
Hudson.<br />
3:28:17 - New York TRACON<br />
Jet Link 2760, turn left 0-7-0.<br />
3:28:19 - Jet Link 2760<br />
Left turn, 0-7-0 Jet Link 2760.<br />
3:28:31 - New York TRACON<br />
All right cactus 1549. It’s going to be a<br />
left. Traffic to runway 3-1.<br />
3:28:34 - Flight 1549<br />
Unable.<br />
3:28:36 - New York TRACON<br />
Ok, what do you need to land?<br />
Transcripts from US Airways Flight 1549<br />
3:28:46 - New York TRACON<br />
Cactus 1549, runway four is available if<br />
you want to make left traffic to runway<br />
four.<br />
3:28:50 - Flight 1549<br />
I am not sure if we can make any runway.<br />
Oh, what’s that over to our right? Anything<br />
in New Jersey, maybe Teterboro?<br />
3:28:55 - New York TRACON<br />
Ok yeah, off to your right is Teterboro<br />
airport.<br />
3:29:02 - New York TRACON<br />
Do you want to try and go to Teterboro?<br />
3:29:03 - Flight 1549<br />
Yes.<br />
3:29:05 - New York TRACON<br />
Teterboro, uh, empire actually. LaGuardia<br />
departure got an emergency inbound.<br />
3:29:10 - Teterboro<br />
Okay, go ahead.<br />
3:29:21 - New York TRACON<br />
Cactus 1529, turn right 2-8-0, you can<br />
land runway one at Teterboro.<br />
3:29:25 - Flight 1549<br />
We can’t do it.<br />
3:29:26 - New York TRACON<br />
Ok, which runway would you like at<br />
Teterboro?<br />
3:29:28 - Flight 1549<br />
We’re gonna be in the Hudson.<br />
3:29:33 - New York TRACON<br />
I’m sorry, say again, Cactus.<br />
3:29:41 - New York TRACON<br />
Jetlink, 2760, contact New York. O-2-6<br />
point 8.<br />
3:29:45 - Jet Link 2760<br />
20-6-8 Jet Link 2760.<br />
3:29:51 - New York TRACON<br />
Cactus, ah, Cactus 1549, radar contact<br />
is lost. You also got Newark airport off<br />
your two o’clock and about 7 miles.<br />
3:30:06 - New York TRACON<br />
Eagle flight 4718, turn left heading 2-1-<br />
0.<br />
3:30:09 - Eagle Flight 4718<br />
2-1-0, um, 4718. I don’t know, I think he<br />
said he was going in the Hudson.<br />
3:30:14 - New York TRACON<br />
Cactus 1529, you still on?<br />
150<br />
+ 5<br />
- 0<br />
155<br />
passengers<br />
crew<br />
fatalities<br />
survivors
“Since 1990 I have been occupied creating new forms<br />
of life. Not pollen or seeds but yellow plastic tubes are<br />
used as the basic material of this new nature. I make<br />
skeletons that are able to walk on the wind, so they<br />
don’t have to eat. Over time, these skeletons have<br />
become increasingly better at surviving the elements<br />
such as storm and water and eventually I want to put<br />
these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will<br />
live their own lives.”<br />
— Theo Jansen is a Dutch artist and kinetic sculptor.
86<br />
Tools of the trade.<br />
We’ve put together a toolkit to help you make sure whatever you do is<br />
on-brand. You’ll find it here.<br />
Brand management:<br />
www.<strong>bwin</strong>.com/brandmanagement<br />
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play
Living the brand<br />
In a service brand the people who work for the organisation are the<br />
brand. The implication of this is that a service-based organisation has to<br />
focus on its internal audience to a far greater extent than product-based<br />
organisations. That’s why the phrase ‘living the brand’ is so appropriate for<br />
service businesses. Your staff – more than any others – need to live the<br />
brand and understand the relationship between service and product. So<br />
what’s the lesson? After the excitement of the creation, don’t neglect the<br />
brand, or ignore it, or take it for granted. It’s a vital part of the corporate<br />
DNA. Look after it. All of you. Good luck.<br />
Play for real<br />
Bwin is intangible. Just like Google, Amazon and a few other major<br />
successes of the early 21st century. There’s nothing to touch or feel or see<br />
– there’s no shop to visit except online. Bwin is truly virtual! So how do you<br />
express who you are and what you are when you’re not there? Through an<br />
attitude – expressed through everything you do. Bwin understands how to<br />
use the brand to make its personality clear to everybody it deals with.<br />
Judging by its success over the last ten years, this Bwin attitude is one<br />
that has struck a chord with millions of people all over the world. We at<br />
Saffron are proud to have played a part in this. The digital expression of an<br />
attitude in the form of a brand.<br />
Wally Olins<br />
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