Mr Movember 2009 #5 The Silver Arch — MISCHA
(who’s taking his moustache to Russia next week)
Mr Movember 2009 The People’s Vote (online) #17 Columbian Escobar — Daniel
A huge thank you to everyone who has contributed to the campaign. We raised just over €1100!
Great effort [...]]]>
Mr Movember 2009 #5 The Silver Arch — MISCHA
(who’s taking his moustache to Russia next week)
Mr Movember 2009 The People’s Vote (online) #17 Columbian Escobar — Daniel
A huge thank you to everyone who has contributed to the campaign. We raised just over €1100!
Great effort from all the Mo Bros and Mo Sistas including a few special mentions…
Kruno ‘The Network’ for his beer sponsorship, Pasqualina for her brilliant fundraising skills and coming in on her day off, David C and Jan Willem for arranging the photo shoot, Paulo for illustrating and designing the posters, 180 for donating all of the booze bottles in the raffle prizes, Mark K for working the online vote, Jenning’s for turning up and growing a great tache!
This year no one has volunteered, it’s cold out and there’s a risk of H1N1, so we’ll keep to growing our taches for Movember. Click on the picture to see the facial hair in all [...]]]>
This year no one has volunteered, it’s cold out and there’s a risk of H1N1, so we’ll keep to growing our taches for Movember. Click on the picture to see the facial hair in all it’s glory.
180 Men and their moustaches
Please vote below and these will be added to the votes taken at 180 by paying €1. So if you can’t come by the office to help raise money for Movember, you could always donate online.
At Chintsa East Public School [...]]]>
At Chintsa East Public School the principal presented the u13 and u15 boys with gleaming new football kits with a heartfelt speech. The netball girls also gratefully accepted their new uniforms beautifully embroidered with their school crest and a 180 logo.
Much singing and dancing ensued.
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At Bulugha farm school 180 LA were able raise enough money to also supply junior and senior boys with football gear and the netball team as well. At Bulugha we were greeted upon arrival by the entire school singing in unison and walking up the hill towards us. Here also we were given official speeches by teachers and school principal. We told them about 180 LA and also were introduced to the designer of their first ever school crest. A young grade 5 boy in collaboration with our own Germans Benjamin and Martin.
After all team photos were taken, the kids folded their uniforms up, put them back into the original plastic bags and returned to the headmaster. Ready for their next game, which was the coming Saturday.
On behalf of the teachers and kids of Chintsa and Bulugha, a big thanks. You made a genuine impact on these people. Great job. 180 at its best.
This is big news for us, check out the article on the amsterdamadblog.
‘All smiles’ – Andy Fackrell and Chris Mendola on the [...]]]>
This is big news for us, check out the article on the amsterdamadblog.
‘All smiles’ – Andy Fackrell and Chris Mendola on the front cover.
E.J. Corey is [...]]]>
E.J. Corey is a true 180-thinker. He taught the world’s top chemists to think backwards, starting with the end goal in mind. His disciples are responsible for creating tremendous breakthroughs in medicine, pharmaceuticals, petroleum, and other chemistry related industries. – David Rhee, Riot Amsterdam
Carol Gilligan is an Ethicist, psychologist and a Feminist. Gilligan’s work helped people to understand, [...]]]>
Carol Gilligan is an Ethicist, psychologist and a Feminist. Gilligan’s work helped people to understand, “Boys develop normally for boys, girls develop normally for girls.” Better than a 180-thinker, Gilligan’s Different Voice turned a world of backwards-thinkers around so they’re facing forward again. – David Rhee, Riot Amsterdam
All of us in marketing need to understand how our clients will incorporate Peter Drucker’s ideas in [...]]]>
All of us in marketing need to understand how our clients will incorporate Peter Drucker’s ideas in their 10-year competitive plans, so we can add value where none of our competitors can. – David Rhee, Riot Amsterdam
‘Moot’ the founder of the online messaging board 4chan is one of the most influential digital pirates out there at the moment. Described by The Observer as “The most influential web entrepreneur you’ve never heard of,” the 20 year old New [...]]]>
‘Moot’ the founder of the online messaging board 4chan is one of the most influential digital pirates out there at the moment. Described by The Observer as “The most influential web entrepreneur you’ve never heard of,” the 20 year old New Yorker has spoken at Yale University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the influence of Internet subcultures and activism.
The 4chan community, which he founded when he was 15 years old, has been closely linked to Anonymous, a community of internet activists once summarized by The Guardian as “lunatic, juvenile… brilliant, ridiculous and alarming”. Their online pursuits are not always kind, however they were responsible for the creation of many Internet memes including Lolcats. - Emma Vans-Colina, Riot
John Harrison was a carpenter who built and repaired clocks in his spare time. Legend has it that at the age of six while in bed with smallpox, he was given a watch to amuse himself, spending hours [...]]]>
John Harrison was a carpenter who built and repaired clocks in his spare time. Legend has it that at the age of six while in bed with smallpox, he was given a watch to amuse himself, spending hours listening to it and studying its moving parts.
From these humble beginnings he invented the marine chronometer, a long-sought and critically-needed way of establishing the longitude, of a ship at sea, thus revolutionizing and extending the possibility of safe long distance sea travel in the Age of Sail.
In Total, John Harrison created 6 movements, H1 to H6, each more practicable and efficient than the last, packed with ingenious solutions to the problem.
After steadfastly pursuing various methods during thirty years of experimentation, Harrison finally designed and built the world’s first successful marine chronometers, the highly accurate maritime time-keeping instruments that, for the first time, allowed a navigator to accurately assess his ship’s position. – Dean Maryon, 180 Amsterdam
As a young high-jumper in the early 1960s, Dick Fosbury had trouble mastering the standard technique, called the straddle. Instead he began doing the high-jump by approaching the bar with his back to it, doing a modified [...]]]>
As a young high-jumper in the early 1960s, Dick Fosbury had trouble mastering the standard technique, called the straddle. Instead he began doing the high-jump by approaching the bar with his back to it, doing a modified scissor-kick and going over the bar backwards and horizontal to the ground.
As goofy as it looked, it worked. Dubbed the “Fosbury Flop” by a Medford, Oregon reporter, Fosbury caused a sensation when he won the gold medal in the 1968 Olympics, jumping a height of 2.24 meters. The Fosbury Flop has since become a standard technique for high-jumpers. – Emile Wilmar, 180 Amsterdam
