Archive for October, 2009

Burpees and rope skipping

I just made up a great rope jumping exercise. I had a shoulder injury and I decided to focus on the legs and endurance. This is it:
1. You start with 20 min. rope jumping. Of course, you can use all techniques – double skipping, cross jumps, one foot, backward skips and etc. The idea is to [...]

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Днес имам имен ден. Така или иначе не празнувам, защото имам адски много да чета от една страна, а от друга, няма с кой, но ето какъв коментар намерих в Дневник за днешния ден. Коментарът е по повод на статия, че на днешния ден се работи най-малко в годината. Поствам го, защото много ме изкефи:
“Господа! [...]

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Meeting with Thomas Buergenthal

We just had a meeting with a giant. The GWU law school has organized a meeting with judge Thomas Buergenthal – judge at International Court of Justice.
The first thing that one immediately realizes about the judge is how humble he is. When the moderator was speaking about his achievements his face was reddish. Obviously he [...]

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Inferiority complex

Probably it is common for small nations. However Sweden, Norway, Singapore are considerably small nations but I have not detect this complex among their peoples.
Hence the complex must be common for also poor and “suppressed” nations. Particularly I detect it among Bulgarians and Moldavians. Actually I have only empirical data from these nations’ representatives. So, [...]

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