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Zeitgeistpronounced[ˈt͡saɪtgaɪst] ( help · info ) ) is a German language expression literally translated: Zeit, time; Geist, spirit, meaning "the spirit of the age and its society ". The word zeitgeist describes the intellectual, cultural, ethical and political climate, ambiance and morals of an era or also a trend . In German, the word has more layers of meaning than the English translation, including the fact that Zeitgeist can only be observed for past events.

Origins The concept of Zeitgeist goes back to Johann Gottfried Herder and other German Romantics such as Cornelius Jagdmann, but is best known in relation to Hegel's philosophy of history. In 1769 Herder wrote a critique of the work Genius seculi by the philologist Christian Adolph Klotz and introduced the word Zeitgeist into German as a translation of genius seculiLatin: genius - "guardian spirit" and saeculi - "of the century").The German Romantics, habitually tempted to reduce the past to essences, treated the Zeitgeist as a historical character in its own right, rather than a generalized description for an era.

Definitions"Zeitgeist" refers to the ethos of an identified group of people, that expresses a particular world view which is prevalent at a particular period of socio-cultural progression.Zeitgeist is the experience of a dominant cultural climate that defines, particularly in Hegelian thinking, an era in the dialectical progression of a people or the world at large. Hegel's main contribution to the formulation of the concept of Volksgeist is the attribution of a historical character to the concept. The spirit of a nation is one of the manifestations of "World Spirit" (Weltgeist). That Spirit is essentially alive and active throughout mankind's history. Now, the spirit of a nation is an intermediate stage of world history as the history of the World Spirit. The World Spirit gives impetus to the realization of the historical spirits of various nations (Volksgeister').The spirits of individual nations are both the articulations (Gliederungen) of an organization and its realization. The spirits of individual nations represent a segment of the World Spirit out of which emerges the unlimited universal spirit. A comparison is introduced here between the status of an individual and that of a nation's spirit. In the process of his formation the individual undergoes various changes without, however, losing his identity. As a part of world history, a nation—exhibiting a certain trend expressed in its Volksgeist— plays its part in the total process of world history. But once it contributes its share to world history it can no longer play a role in the process of world history. The submersion in the total process prevents a people's cultural rebirth, because it has exhausted its creativity in the historical growth of its guiding spirit.

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       34 Unknown FactsSunday, February 8, 2009
      7:16 PM
      From: "carlito sarmiento" <carlito.sarmiento@gmail.com>A
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      1. Money isn't made out of paper. It's made out of cotton.
      2 The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper
      3. The dot over the letter 'I' is called a 'tittle'.
      4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down
            continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
      5. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
      6. 40% of McDonald's profits come from th e sales of Happy Meals.
      7. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
      8. The 'spot' on 7-UP comes from its inventor, who had red eyes. He was
            albino.
      9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily.
      10. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

      11. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system;
                 a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.
      12. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's
             stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
      13. Most lipstick contains fish scales (eeww).
      14. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because
                he doesn't wear pants.
      15. Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.
      16. Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' because in
                the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the
                 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that
                  stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.
      17. Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at
                 the same time hence, multitasking was invented.
      18. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II
            were made of wood.
      19. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
      20. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was never a
                    recorded Wendy before!

      21. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple,
                and silver!
      22. Leonardo DaVinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to
               paint Mona Lisa's lips.
      23. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad
               and sting itself to death.
      24. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original 'Halloween' was a
                Captain Kirk's mask painted white.
      25. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have
              $1.19 You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being
               able to make change for a dollar (good to know.)
      26. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in
                quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless.)
      27. The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from an old English law, which
               stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than
               your thumb.
      28. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for
              automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was
               the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
      29. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of
            celery than the celery has in it to begin with. It's the same with apples!

      30. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
      31. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
      32. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most
              often stolen from Public Libraries.
      33. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space
             because passing wind in a space suit damages it.    I NEED TO REMEMBER THIS.
      34. George Carlin said it best about Martha Stewart. 'Boy, I feel a lot
              safer now that she's behind bars. OJ Simpson and Kobe Bryant are still
              walking around; Osama Bin Laden too, but they take the ONE woman in
               America willing to cook, clean, and work in the yard,
               and they haul her fanny off to jail.
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NEVER MOCK GOD!

Make a personal reflection about this. Very interesting, read until the end...

It is written in the Bible       (Galatians 6:7):
"Be not deceived; God is not mocked:
     for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

Here are some men and women who mocked God:

JOHN LENNON:
Some years before, during his interview
         with an American Magazine, he said:
"Christianity will end, it will disappear. I do not have to argue about that. I am certain. Jesus was ok, but his subjects were too simple, Today we are more famous than Him" (1966). Lennon, after saying that the Beatles were more famous than Jesus Christ, was shot six times.

TANCREDO NEVES (President of Brazil):
During the Presidential campaign, he said if he got
   500,000 votes from his party, not even God would
   remove him from Presidency.
Sure he got the votes, but he got sick a day before being made President, then he died.

CAZUZA (Bi-sexual Brazilian composer,
                                singer and poet):
During a show in Canec م o ( Rio de Janeiro ),
   whilst smoking his cigarette, he puffed out
   some smoke into the air and said:
"God, that's for you."
He died at the age of 32 of AIDS in a horrible manner.

THE MAN WHO BUILT TITANIC:
After the construction of Titanic, a reporter asked him how safe the Titanic would be. With an ironic tone he said:
"Not even God can sink it"
The result: I think you all know what happened to the Titanic.

MARILYN MONROE:
She was visited by Billy Graham during a presentation of a show. He said the Spirit of God had sent him to preach to her. After hearing what the Preacher had to say, she said:"I don't need your Jesus".
A week later, she was found dead in her apartment.

BON SCOTT:
The ex-vocalist of the AC/DC. On one of his 1979
songs he sang:
"Don't stop me, I'm going down all the way, down the highway to hell".
On the 19th of February 1980, Bon Scott was found dead, he had been choked by his own vomit.

CAMPINAS/SP IN 2005
In Campinas, Brazil a group of friends, drunk, went to pick up a friend. The mother accompanied her to the car and was so worried about the drunkenness of her friends and she said to the daughter - holding her hand, who was already seated in the car:
"MY DAUGHTER, GO WITH GOD AND MAY HE PROTECT YOU."

She responded:
"ONLY IF HE (GOD) TRAVELS IN THE BOOT, CAUSE INSIDE HERE IT'S ALREADY FULL"
Hours later, news came by that they had been involved in a fatal accident, everyone had died, the car could not be recognized what type of car it had been, but surprisingly, the boot was intact. The police said there was no way the boot could have remained intact. To their surprise, inside the boot was a crate of eggs, none were broken.....
Boot means trunk .

        RIVERBANKS, Barangka
in this site formerly stood
          Universal Textiles  = UTEX
    Located just beside it
          the very first OTB in 1973
(then called MJCI Off-Track )
#80 Bonifacio St.
                   Barangka, Marikina

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Tanong
Barangka
Sta. Elena   OTB
San Roque OTB
Sto. Nino OTB
Lamuan OTB
Sta.Teresita
Concepcion Dos
Paliparan
Concepcion Uno
SSS village OTB
Liwasang Kalayaan    OTB
Meteor Homes
Parang OTB
Rancho Estate
Monterey
Fairlane
Majestic OTB
Tumana
Banaba
Gitlangbayan OTB
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The farthest OTB in the north is in Laoag,
Ilocos Norte and in the south is in
Bacolod City, Negros Occidental.
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Marikina City gets its first call center locator
By: Maricel E. Estavillo | BusinessWorld
27 February 2006 | 10:17 AM

Nasdaq-listed ICT Group, Inc. has started operation of its third site inside the Riverbanks Center in Marikina City, making it the first industry locator in the city. For its latest site, ICT is using the 5,000-square meter office building developed by Marikina-based property developer Riverbanks Development Corp. This used to be a factory of Universal Textile Mills, Inc., part of the 14-hectare property that Riverbanks Development bought from the textile company. "ICT is already using one-fourth of the building, while the remaining space is still being developed," Riverbanks Development President Meneleo J. Carlos, Jr. told BusinessWorld in an interview. In a statement, ICT said the Marikina facility is expected to have up to 800 seats in operation by middle of this year. As a pioneer call center locator in the two-hectare Riverbanks Center, ICT can leverage on the center's strategic position. It is currently being developed as the next business district in Metro Manila and it is also near the university area, counting Ateneo de Manila, University of the Philippines, Miriam College, and the Philippine School of Business Administration, among others. ICT's operation in Marikina City will add to the combined 1,500 seats ICT operates in its two sites in Makati City and in Ortigas Center, which began operation in April 2003 and in July 2004, respectively. The three sites support ICT clients in the US, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. The company targets its Philippine operation to account for over 25% of its global production by the fourth quarter, an increase from 17% in the same period last year. "We are pleased with the rapid expansion of our Philippines operations, which experienced call volume increases of over 50% in the fourth quarter of 2005 compared to the prior-year period," said John J. Brennan, chairman and chief executive of the ICT Group. Furthermore, ICT Group said that it is now looking at opening its fourth site outside Metro Manila by middle of this year.

Villa Ronar Garden Resort, Marikina Heights

                                                                               N.G. I.
                                                                               PARANG
                                                                               MARIKINA

FORTUNE TOBACCO
                                                                                                                                  FACTORY
Parang, Marikina

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                   Philippine International Footwear Center
                                         Marikina City

        It is sometimes called OTTO Building because it is where
                            the gigantic OTTO ad is placed.
        This is only one of the many places where you can find
                        low priced quality shoes and footwear.

A plaque of appreciation and Palm print ceremony
           in honor of the chess legend
                  GM Eugene Torre.

(front L to R):
Jundio& Rosie Salvador, GM Eugene Torre,Vice Mayor Marion Andres, Bgy.Capt. Avelina Cruz, Counc. Vic Sabiniano -
back partly covered L to R: NM Rudy Ibanez, IM Chito Garma,
Coun. Boy Bolok Santos

4:26 So is the kingdom of God - The inward kingdom is like seed which a man casts into the ground - This a preacher of the Gospel casts into the heart. And he sleeps and rises night and day - That is, he has it continually in his thoughts. Meantime it springs and grows up he knows not how - Even he that sowed it cannot explain how it grows. For as the earth by a curious kind of mechanism, which the greatest philosopherscannotcomprehend, does as it were spontaneously bring forth first the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear: so the soul, in an inexplicable manner, brings forth, first weak graces, then stronger, then full holiness: and all this of itself, as a machine, whose spring of motion is within itself.
Yet observe the amazing exactness of the comparison.
The earth brings forth no corn (as the soul no holiness) without both
the care and toil of man, and the benign influence of heaven.

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