Volume 5, Issue 3—no.

17—December 2009

SAIGON (Ho Chi Minh City) ♫

What is Wisdom??? 17
“The moment a person realizes that reality has many faces, he/she takes the first step on the road to wisdom.”

Bye Buffalo, Welcome Tiger

This is the final issue
of What is Wisdom???

It has been a communi-

cation vehicle for sto- Saigon, December 20, 2009—As Graduation Times are slowly becoming
ries, news and in parti- memories of a distant past, we all live very much in present time: creating ca-
cular, pictures. The reci- reers, making money, supporting family, and when the time is there, spending
pients are nearly all quality time. This time is getting close.
alumni & alumnae of
Dutch Delta University For most people in Europe, America, Africa and Australia, it’ll be Christmas
and Wittenborg Univer- soon, followed by New Year. In East Asia the Lunar Year (Buffalo) will end
sity. DDU closed its mid February 2010, followed by Chinese New Year - Tet in Vietnam. The Ye-
doors in July 2007 ar of the Tiger is around the corner. Nevertheless, the shopping centers here
(Deventer), and June
2008 (Amsterdam).
in Saigon are all decorated with fake snow and Santa Claus dolls. No tigers yet.
Wittenborg is doing No one here knows that the name of this weird bearded man is derived from
very well, and holds
many promises for the
Dutch ‘Sinterklaas’. Or that this character originated in Turkey. No one cares,
future. of course. It’s all loud & distorted Jingle Bells and White Christmas, in a city
that has never seen and never will see real snow. But knows how to party.
Yet, the ‘heart’ of Wis-
dom??? has alweays December 25 is an ordinary working day, but January 1 many people go out.
been DDU. DDU’s Everyone is longing for a break. Time to spend with our dears and beloved,
heart is no longer bea- family and friends. It’s like everyone on the planet is looking for an escape
ting, the spirit among its from work and the pressures of life. To have a …………………….
readers to keep this
magazine alive is fading.
And as my pal Peter is
no longer among us, I
have decided to end
What is Wisdom???
Perhaps we’ll do some-
thing different. We’ll
see what happens.
Happy
Loek

CONTENTS: a.o.
Holiday
The Final Issue

A Beauitiful Word
2

3
Season!!!
Wisdoms??? 5

Mixed news 6

What is Wisdom? 8 The value of a man is in what he gives and not in what
Graduation 2006 10 he is capable of receiving.
Lipstick on your ... 12 Albert Einstein (1879-1955—German-born American physicist)
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The Final Issue

Farewell, Peter!
When Peter asked me to make the ‘Wisdom Special’, I knew
what he wanted: a goodbye-to-all, sharing many fine memories of
wonderful people and great moments. I included the unforgetta-
ble moments of our final meetings. The ‘Peter Special’, as some
call it, has led to many spontaneous, heartfelt reactions.
Of course, many were eager to know how Peter was doing, and
like so many, I too believed, or rather, ‘hoped against better
judgment’ that somehow he would recover. Some told me that
they didn’t know what to say. Or had waited too long, and missed
a chance to say farewell.
Peter told me he enjoyed the avalanche of attention. He who ne-
ver cared for compliments or thankyou’s, and often tried to hide
when pictures were being taken. His memory, but more, his legacy
lives on. He dropped some of his values, wisdoms and qualities in
everyone who knew him, worked with him and learned from him.
He is most missed by his wife Annelies, his 3 daughters and son.
Although I miss his feedback, I feel we can communicate: after
all these years, I somehow know quite well how he looks at things.

Why terminating What is Wisdom???

Peter was of course much more than a ‘preferred’ or ‘extended supplier’. We were partners. He
would tell me whether he liked something or not. Give his constructive comments and suggestions.
He taught me quite a bit about integrating pictures, and many ‘how to’s’ in such a way that a newbie
like me, devoid of any technical talent, but quite passionate about layout, could pick it up and use it.
And he took care of the Deventer, often old DDU and all Wittenborg pictures. ,

Apart from this, however, I must confess I’m just not enthusiastic about continuing What is Wis-
dom??? The feedback we received during the past 2 years has been minimal. Sometimes I had the fee-
ling we made the Wisdom??? just for a handful of friends. It took quite an effort to get pictures from
personal events, such as weddings and babies. Rarely we received notifications, or pictures.
One obvious cause of the lack of feedback is less and less attention for the graduates from your year.
And hence, more and more to people you don’t know. The inclusion of Wittenborg wasn’t appreciatd
by all. So I can imagine the magazine has lost some of its attractiveness. Besides, DDU no longer
exists, and Wisdom??? was 95% DDU. Wittenborg contributions totally depended on Peter.
On www.scribd.com you can find all Wisdom???’s. Not many know about this site; I mentioned its
existence once. The readers—who may have looked at a few pages—are not familar with DDU or
Wittenborg. They may have found it by Google (search ‘what is wisdom’) or by exploring the site.
Whatever their motivation, it’s interesting to note how many reads each issue has had over the past 9
months, since I uploaded them. Issue 5 (the one with the pretty cow, October 2006) sofar has 775
reads. Number two is issue 13 (October 2008): 469 reads. What makes issue 5 stand out from the rest?
It has the highest number of articles written by different contributors: not Peter or me, but people who are on our
mailing list. Of course Peter has contributed lots of articles and pictures to nearly all issues, including
no. 16. But from number 5 on, articles written by others have become rare. The last few issues contai-
ned no contributions from others; the feedback on nos. 15 and 16 has been nearly zero. Peter and I
agreed about reducing the frequency from 4 to 2 per year. No demand, no supply … And now, with
Peter gone, I decided to call it quits. It was great fun making them. All the best, Loek
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A Beautiful Word from Dr. Goodword

As you may have noticed, I’m a fan of Dr. Goodword—or Robert Beard, as is his real name. This year he published two fine
booklets: ‘The 100 Funniest Words in English’, and ‘The 100 Most Beautiful Words in English’. They cost $ 9,95 plus shipping,
and you can order directly from his website www.alphadictionary.com. Robert Beard writes in a witty, light style which I enjoy
reading. The example sentences are not just illustrative, but give you a real life picture of the word’s use. To give you a taste of a
Beautiful Word:

Becoming • Adjective
Pronunciation: bee-kum-ing
The fundamental meaning of becoming is “attractive” but it may refer either to attractive people or
attractive behavior (behaviour outside the US), where the meaning leans more toward “appropriate”.

A very comely word, this. The two sonorants, M and NG, help make this authentic English word
beautiful. The B and the M are labial sounds, made with the lips alone and their association with affection
helps beautify the word. This word originated as the present participle of the verb become but in a quirky
meaning that verb bears, “to make attractive,” as in, “That dress becomes you.” You may use this word
negatively if you properly prefix it, as in, “behavior unbecoming a gentleman.”

Remember the two senses of this word. It can refer to beauty itself: “Natalie Cladd’s broad-brimmed hat
sat askew on her hair in a becoming fashion no one could ignore.” As a result, Natalie herself was most
likely quite becoming. This word also refers to appropriateness, especially if referring to behavior: “I
thought the snippy remark from Maude Lynn Dresser about Natalie’s hat was most unbecoming of
Maude, though.”

The verb become has borne several meanings over its lifetime. In Old English it meant “come to,” which
led to the broader sense of the verb today “come to be,” as to become a doctor. The sense of “coming to”
also led to the sense of bekommen in German today, “to receive.” Later in Middle English it came to
mean “happen to, befall.” The sense of “to befit, to suit” apparently has been expressed as “come to” for a
long time in Indo-European languages since idët tebe, literally “it comes to you,” means “it suits you” in
Russian.
Amsterdam Elephants: becoming or unbecoming?

Dutch Lady???
Guess his name ...
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Wise Quotes & Crackers

“There is nothing more terrible than ignorance in action.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832—German playwright)
∞
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others
and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pike (1809-1891 - American journalist, lawyer, soldier)
∞
I am always doing things I can’t do, that’s how I get to do them.
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973—Spanish artist)
∞
Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to a point where it looks
impossible, and then gets discouraged. That’s not the place to become discouraged.
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931—American inventor & entrepreneur)
∞
If you’re still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by
the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today.
Joyce Chapman (American author)

Images that easily stick to my mind

Clockwise, from
top left:
An unidentied
bathing object;
Trumpet maestro
Dizzy Gillespie;
Two darling star-
lings;
Robert Crumb’s
drawing ‘Keep on
truckin’’

If you want your children to have a peaceful life, let them

suffer a little hunger and a little coldness. Chinese proverb
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S
P
E
C
I
A
L
S

August 2005—December 2009:

17+1 Wisdoms???
3 Valentine Wisdoms???
1 New Year Special, and the Peter Special.
476 Pages, a few 1,000 pictures, dozens of
articles, songs, and 100’s of quotes
See www.scribd.com for the orginals.
Loek & Peter
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Mixed Messages
Gladwell wrote several interesting & bestselling books, like The Tipping Point,
Blink, and Outliers. His latest is a collection of articles he wrote for The New Yorker
magazine. I couldn’t put it down until the final part, ‘Troublemakers’.
Each article offers a new viewpoint—and often more than one—on an issue that
somehow relates to my life and experiences. The title article is a great read for anyo-
ne who finds it hard to believe that other people can have a different viewpoint—let
alone, dogs. His remarks on the Enron affair are to-the-point. Subtitles of articles:
 What the Inventor of the Birth Control Pill Didn’t Know About Woman’s
Health
 Should a Charge of Plagiarism Ruin Your Life?
 Why Do We Hire When We Can’t Tell Who’s Right For The Job?
Just buy it, read it and fill your mind. (See also http://www.gladwell.com.)

Holiday Seasons in Holland: December 20, from Zaandam my sister Loes sent me the picture on the left,
while I was completing this Wisdom??? She saw her son Daan (waving) and his girlfriend, letting their dog out.
Note the seagulls. The pic on the right I took June 1, late springtime.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our

own power. Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881, British Prime Minister)

The Wittenborg Wisdom Section

Note: at the time of the completion of this issue of What is Wisdom???, no contributions from
Wittenborg were received. I refer the Wittenborg readers to http://www.wittenborg.eu for news.

Deventer, October 28, 2009—Around 30 Wittenborg students and 10

staff attended Peter van Oosten’s funeral service. Many more sent their
condolences.
(Source: email from Peter Birdsall)
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Loek & Jane in Holland

There were many
reasons to go. Peter
of course. But also, a
holiday. Meeting my
family. Seeing our
friends. Visiting pla-
ces we’d been befo-
re. New places. And
last but not least,
catching a glimpse of
autumn. We did all
that, and more. Right
now Holland is white With my friend Zane
in his Purmerend
Jane and her friend and cold. We miss backyard, one day
Minh after my Master- our friends, and our before he left for
class at Wittenborg family. South Africa

In Muiden, after a Jane meets Emily

photo shoot by my and a friend in
friends Dik & Anne, Kalverstraat. Gift
at Muiderslot castle shopping time!

Living as an expat in Vietnam means you have to abide with the local laws. For example, in order to drive a motorbi-
ke you need a Vietnamese driver’s license. Without it, you can get fined. The chance you get caught is tiny. But if it hap-
pens, as it did to a Dutch friend, they may even confiscate your motorbike for some time. So I went through the motions
of getting a license. You will recall the hassle of getting and keeping or extending
your residence permit in NL. My Tempo- rary Residence Permit enables me to travel in
& out of Vietnam until end 2012. One requirement: be involved in Vietnamese busi-
ness. I am: Alliance’s Director of Training.

The Alliance Team works at creating prepa-

ratory programs for study and work abroad.

It is not the presence or absence of difficulty, but how you deal with
the inevitable difficulties of life. Jim Collins
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What is Wisdom? by Will Durant (1)

To the philosopher, all things are friendly and sacred, all events
profitable, all days holy, all men divine. – Emerson
What is wisdom? I feel like a droplet of spray which
proudly poised for a moment on the crest of a wave,
undertakes to analyze the sea.
Ideally, wisdom is total perspective -- seeing an object,
event, or idea in all its pertinent relationships. Spinoza
defined wisdom as seeing things sub specie eternitatis, in view
of eternity; I suggest defining it as seeing things sub specie
totius, in view of the whole.
Obviously we can only approach such total perspective;
to possess it would be to be God. The first lesson of
philosophy is that philosophy is the study of any part of
experience in the light of our whole experience; the
second lesson is that the philosopher is a very small part
in a very large whole. Just as philosopher means not a
‘possessor’ but a ‘lover’ of wisdom, so we can only seek
wisdom devotedly, like a lover fated, as on Keats’ Grecian
urn, never to possess, but only to desire. Perhaps it is more blessed to desire than to possess.
Shall we have examples? Rain falls; you mourn that your tennis games must be postponed; you are not a
philosopher. But you console yourself with the thought, “How grateful the parched earth will be for the
rain!” You have seen the event in a larger perspective, and you are beginning to approach wisdom.
You may be a young radical, or an old businessman crying out for limitless liberty, and as such you may
be a useful ferment in a lethargic mass; but if you think of yourself as part of a group, and recognize
morality as the cooperation of the part with the whole, you are approaching perspective and wisdom.
You may be a politician just elected to Congress for a term of two years; you spend half your time
planning re-election; the situation encourages a myopic perspective, contracepting wisdom. Or you may
be a secretary of state, or a president, seeking a policy that will protect and improve your country for
generations; this is the larger perspective that distinguishes the statesmen.
Or you may be an Ashoka, a Marcus Aurelius, or a Charlemange planning to help humanity rather than
merely your own country; you will then be a philosopher-king.
I have in my home a picture of the Virgin nursing her Child with St. Bernard looking at the Child. Your
first thought may be that he is looking in the wrong direction; you are not a philosopher. Or you may
remember Bernard as the persecutor who hounded Abelard from trial to tribulation until only the
philosopher’s bones were handed to Heloise; and you vision for a moment the long struggle of the
human mind for freedom; you are seeing the picture in a larger perspective; you touch the skirts of
wisdom.
Or, again, you see the mother and her child as a symbol of that vast Amazon of births and deaths and
births that is the engulfing river of history; you see woman as the main stream of life, the male as a
minor commissary tributary; you see the family as far more basic than the state, and love as wiser than
wisdom; perhaps then you are wise.
In a total perspective, all evil is seen as subjective, the misfortune of one self or part; we cannot say
whether it is evil for the group, or for humanity, or for life. After all, the mosquito does not think it a
tragedy that you should be bitten by a mosquito. It may be painful for a man to die for his country, but
Horace, safe on his Sabine farm, thought it very dulce et decorum – that is, very fitting and beautiful.
1. It’s so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
2. It’s so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don’t say it. Sam Levenson
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What is Wisdom? by Will Durant (2)

Even death may be a boon to life, replacing the old and exhausted form with one young and fresh; who
knows but death may be the greatest invention that life has ever made? The death of the part is the life
of the whole, as in the changing cells of our flesh. We cannot sit in judgment upon the world by asking
how well it conforms to the pleasure of a moment, or to the good of one individual, or one species, or
one star. How small our categories of pessimism and optimism seem when placed against the
perspective of the sky!
Are there any special ways of acquiring a large perspective? Yes. First, by living perceptively; so the
farmer, faced with a fateful immensity day after day, may become patient and wise. Secondly, by
studying things in space through science; partly in this way Einstein became wise. Thirdly, by studying
events in time through history. “May my son study history,” said Napoleon, “for it is the only true
philosophy, the only true psychology;” thereby we learn both the nature and the possibilities of man.
The past is not dead; it is the sum of the factors operating in the present. The present is the past rolled
up into a moment for action; the past is the present unraveled in history for our understanding.
Therefore invite the great men of the past into your homes. Put their works or lives on your shelves as
books, their architecture, sculpture, and painting on your walls as pictures; let them play their music for
you. Attune your ears to Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Berlioz, Schubert, Mendelssohn,
Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Brahms, Debussy. Make room in your rooms for Confucius, Buddha, Plato,
Euripides, Lucretius, Christ, Seneca, Montaigne, Marcus Aurelius, Heloise, Shakespeare, Bacon,
Spinoza, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Gibbon, Goethe, Shelley, Keats, Heine, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer,
Spengler, Anatole France, Albert Schweitzer. Let these men be your comrades, your bedfellows; give
them half an hour each day; slowly they will share in remaking you to perspective, tolerance, wisdom,
and a more avid love of a deepened life.
Don’t think of these men as dead; they will be alive hundreds of years after I shall be dead. They live in
a magic City of God, peopled by all the geniuses – the great statesmen, poets, artists, philosophers,
women, lovers, saints – whom humanity keeps alive in its memory.
Plato is there, leading his students through geometry to philosophy; Spinoza is there, polishing his
lenses, inhaling dust and exhaling wisdom; Goethe is there, thirsting like Faust for knowledge and
loveliness, and falling in love at seventy-three; Mendelssohn is there, teaching Goethe to savor
Beethoven; Shelley is there, with peanuts in one pocket and raisins in the other and content with them
as a well-balanced meal; they are all there in that amazing treasure house of our race, that veritable Fort
Knox of wisdom and beauty; patiently there they wait for you.
Be bold, young lovers of wisdom, and enter with open hands and minds the City of God.
Note: This material was first presented in the article entitled ‘What is Wisdom?’ Wisdom, II, No. 8 (1957), page 25-
26.

To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the es-
sential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a
danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential.
But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to
see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible know-
ledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge.
To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be

reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
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DDU GRADUATION TIMES: JUNE 2006

So many famous faces, although I cannot recall all their names: spot Lily, Amy, Kelly,
Twan, Anne, Amanda (Poland), Tony, Kevin, Sabrina, Van, Kamal, Sashanka, Saurav, Ri-
tesh, Jane, Jenny, Lan, Becky, Summer, Christina, Aaron, David, Amanda (China), Shirley,
Nasir, Nazia, Roshan, Giggs, Mallick, Bee. Peter would recall … Not all were 100% ready,
and needed to do one or two extra assignments to complete their IBA credits. Eventually,
all did.

Mr. Deelstra & Nazia

Group pictures by Sabrina &

Marjanne van Arendonk Peter Waite
Christina &
Esther

Mr.
Gerard
Smits &
David
Peter van Oosten & Mrs. Trees
congratulating the Graduates
Everybody say: DUTCH CHEESE! Amy &
David

On June 23, 2006 the final tradi-

tional DDU Graduation Event
took place. Traditional: using
wonderful Deventer venues to
celebrate the event. The group
pictures were taken in the Lebuï-
nus Church and outside the Ma-
ria Church, where the graduation
took place. After that we all took
the ferry across the IJssel for a
bowling-and-dinner party.
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DDU GRADUATION TIMES: JUNE 2006

Aaron

On the ferry:
Amanda,
Shirley,
and
Paul Scholey
& his wife Nasir Ali
The Chinese Graduates

Tony & Van

2006 is ‘only’ 3,5 years ago. And yet,

many events happened since. Several
got married. I see three DDU girls
who are now moms. Some have beco-
me Masters. Others now have several
years of working experience, relocated
to a new country and/or travelled.
Jane, Amy, Bee &
Mallick.

(Loek is in the
background,
hoping his
throw results
in a strike.)

Nepalese:
Roshan,
Ritesh,
Saurav &
Sashanka
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Song Lyric: Lipstick on Your Collar (1959)

When you left me all alone at the record
hop
Told me you were goin’ out for a soda
pop
You were gone for quite a while, half an
hour or more
You came back and man oh man this is
Connie Francis what I saw:
Lipstick on you collar told a tale on you
Lipstick on you collar said you were untrue
Bet your bottom dollar you and I are through
‘Cause lipstick on you collar told a tale on you, yeah

You said it belonged to me, made me stop and think

Then I noticed yours was red, mine was baby pink
Who walked in but Mary Jane, lipstick all a mess
Were you smoochin’ my best friend, if the answer’s yes

Lipstick on you collar told a tale on you

Lipstick on you collar said you were untrue
Bet your bottom dollar you and I are through
‘Cause lipstick on you collar told a tale on you, boy—Told a tale on you, man
I remembered this song from my early days. I only knew what ‘lipstick’ ment: my older sisters used it. What struck me
however, was the guitar solo. It wasn’t on the radio that often; I heard it maybe 4 or 5 times. But when it came on, I rus-
hed to the radio to be thrilled by that briljant, perfect solo. Followed a ‘radio-silence’ of at least 30 years. Forgot about it.
In 1993 the BBC aired a serial, written by Dennis Potter. Title: Lipstick on your collar. With Connie Francis’ original
song as its theme! This is the debut of star actor Ewan McGregor. Like some other Potter TV-series (Pennies From Hea-
ven, The Singin’ Detective), Lipstick is on my DVD wish list. Potter’s
serials mix superlative British acting with great photography, vaudeville Young McGregor (right)
elements, both tongue-in-cheek and mad British humor, and an excellent
choice in music. I’d say: check it out on the internet. It’s all there.

The Guitar Solo

As an aside: if my me-
mory serves me well, Jan
Akkerman (a Dutch
professional guitarist)
once said that George
Barnes’ guitar solo on
Lipstick inspired him to
learn & play the guitar.
Barnes played jazz.
This was a studio gig, to
earn a quick buck.
George Barnes
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SAIGON (Ho Chi Minh City) ♫

WHAT IS Sometime in 2010 the co-production

WISDOM??? of Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings)
What is Wisdom??? has and Steven Spielberg (Indiana Jones,
been published 17 Saving Private Ryan) will be on the
times. silver screens around the world. I
doubt if they will be able to generate
All correspondence:
loek.hopstaken@gmail. the same mixture of innocent fun and
com. crazy adventure as I experienced when
I was a kid, and devoured one Tintin
Amsterdam/Saigon
album after another.
(Ho Chi Minh City)

YouTip: see what millions before you have seen: Kseniya Simonova’s incredibly moving and artistically briljant
performance ‘1945’ at a recent ‘Ukrain’s Got talent’ night: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=518XP8prwZo.
FYI, the Russian message at the end means: “You are always near.” I think she is referring to the millions of
innocent Ukrainians who died due to massive killings and destruction, which ended in 1945. The monument
she shows just before she finishes is the obelisk on Kiev’s Victory Square, erected in memory of the dead.

It’s still 2009, so not too late to remind you of the fact that 400 years ago Dutchmen set foot on American
soil. They bought an island called ‘Manhattan’ by and from the native Indians. Their settlement became ‘New
Amsterdam’. Many locations in this worldfamous city have Dutch roots. Such as Brooklyn (named after Breu-
kelen, a town close to Utrecht), Harlem (named after Haarlem), Broadway (the former ‘broodweg’- where the
17th century ‘Broodje Bart’-entrepreneurs had their shops), and Wallstreet (remember the Walstraat in Deven-
ter?). So, any idea which city is shown? Tip: the West is top. The English, who took over New Amsterdam
from the Dutch in 1664, renamed it. After one of their famous cities. You may have three guesses ...

Social networks have become part of everyday life. I have reduced mine to a few. No. 1 is LinkedIn
(business) and MSN no. 2 (the rest). After Yahoo! ended its 360° service, I ended adding to Yahoo! Too much
hassle. Yes, I’m on Facebook. But since a few weeks the Vietnamese government has ordered local providers
to block access to this site. Reason? You may have three guesses ...
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