# abel — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 16 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover abel. Page: Feed: --- ## [GIFSEP, UNDP Push Nasarawa Communities to Sustain Waste-to-Wealth Gains](https://sunrise.ng/gifsep-undp-push-nasarawa-communities-to-sustain-waste-to-wealth-gains/) _2026-08-20 · Editor Sunrise · Sunrise News_ The Global Initiative for Food Security and Ecosystem Preservation (GIFSEP) and the United Nations Development Programme Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme (UNDP GEF-SGP) have urged communities in Nasarawa State to sustain and expand the waste-to-wealth initiatives introduced under the #BioWaste4Resilience project. The call was made on Thursday at a Knowledge Management Workshop… ## [NAPTIP Seals Port Harcourt Maternity Over Alleged ₦13.5m Baby Sale](https://sunrise.ng/naptip-seals-port-harcourt-maternity-over-alleged-%e2%82%a613-5m-baby-sale/) _2026-08-20 · Editor Sunrise · Sunrise News_ … …Liberian woman allegedly took custody of three children within one month The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has sealed a high-profile maternity facility in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, over an alleged ₦13.5 million baby-sale and child-trafficking operation involving a Liberian national resident in Belgium. The agency, acting jointly with \[…\] The post… ## [ASCSN Hails Enitan’s Appointment as HoS, Says Career Officer ‘Fit for the Task’](https://sunrise.ng/ascsn-hails-enitans-appointment-as-hos-says-career-officer-fit-for-the-task/) _2026-08-20 · Editor Sunrise · Sunrise News_ The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) has described the appointment of Dr. Abel Olumuyiwa Enitan as the new Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HoCSF) as a reward for excellence, integrity and years of meritorious service in the Federal Civil Service. The association, in a statement issued on Thursday by \[…\] The post ASCSN Hails Enitan’s Appointment as HoS, Says… ## [The Human Touch.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-human-touch.html) _2026-08-20 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ I noticed something a few moments ago as I was having a cheese omelet on a stale onion roll for lunch. (Since there are virtually no bakeries left in amerikkka, just about all of the bread you can buy is either injected full of chemical preservatives or stale.) I noticed the plastic pepper mill on the table was proudly festooned with a logo that proclaimed “NON GMO.” Much of South East Asia was… ## [Nigeria’s ₦159.28 Trillion Public Debt Crisis: A Public Policy Analysis of Its Causes, Fiscal Challenges, Governance Gaps and the Sustainable Solutions Required Under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu](https://sunrise.ng/nigerias-%e2%82%a6159-28-trillion-public-debt-crisis-a-public-policy-analysis-of-its-causes-fiscal-challenges-governance-gaps-and-the-sustainable-solutions-required-under-president-bola-ah/) _2026-08-20 · Editor Sunrise · Sunrise News_ By Rotarian Funso Jide Adekunle, Public Policy Analyst and Political Strategist.Industrial Relation Expert and Historian The issue of Nigeria’s rising public debt should not be reduced to a simple argument over whether the current administration “borrowed too much” or whether the increase is merely the result of inherited liabilities and naira depreciation. From a public \[…\] The post Nigeria’s… ## [Smart Boys Movement Celebrates Oyo Youth Agency Chairman, Falana, at Birthday](https://sunrise.ng/smart-boys-movement-celebrates-oyo-youth-agency-chairman-falana-at-birthday/) _2026-08-20 · Editor Sunrise · Sunrise News_ By Ibrahim Kegbegbe The National Executives of the Smart Boys Movement, under the leadership of Honourable (Rotarian) Funso Jide Adekunle, popularly known as Honourable Fushi, and the Oyo State Chapter of the organisation, led by Comrade Ayoade Waheed Lawal, have felicitated with the Chairman of Oyo State Youth Development Agency, Prince Adebowale Falana, on the \[…\] The post Smart Boys Movement… ## [2027 Presidency: Tinubu will be defeated by 4 p.m. on election day – Hakeem Baba-Ahmed](https://sunrise.ng/2027-presidency-tinubu-will-be-defeated-by-4-p-m-on-election-day-hakeem-baba-ahmed/) _2026-08-20 · Editor Sunrise · Sunrise News_ The National Chairman of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has predicted that President Bola Tinubu will lose the 2027 presidential election by 4 p.m. on election day. Baba-Ahmed, however, said such an outcome would only be possible if the election is conducted in a free, fair and credible manner. He made the remarks \[…\] The post 2027 Presidency: Tinubu will be defeated by 4… ## [Tinubu appoints Abel Enitan Head of Civil Service of the Federation](https://sunrise.ng/tinubu-appoints-abel-enitan-head-of-civil-service-of-the-federation/) _2026-08-20 · Editor Sunrise · Sunrise News_ President Bola Tinubu has appointed Mr Abel Olumuyiwa Enitan as the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, effective August 27, 2026. This is contained in a statement by Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, on Wednesday. Enitan is replacing Mrs Didi Esther Walson-Jack, who is set to retire from the Federal \[…\] The post Tinubu appoints Abel Enitan Head of Civil Service… ## [Abuja flood: Demolition will reach every part of FCT – Wike](https://sunrise.ng/abuja-flood-demolition-will-reach-every-part-of-fct-wike/) _2026-08-20 · Editor Sunrise · Sunrise News_ Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has announced that ongoing demolitions targeting illegal structures built on drainage channels will expand from Maitama District across the entire territory without exception. Speaking during a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday, following an extensive inspection tour of major infrastructure projects across the Federal Capital… ## [Osun election: Adeleke receives Certificate of Return from INEC](https://sunrise.ng/osun-election-adeleke-receives-certificate-of-return-from-inec/) _2026-08-20 · Editor Sunrise · Sunrise News_ Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has received his Certificate of Return from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) following his victory in the August 15 governorship election. Adeleke received the certificate on Wednesday at the INEC office in Osogbo, formally confirming his re-election for another term in office. The governor dedicated the certificate to the \[…\] The post Osun… ## [Ultra-Quiet Business Mini (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/JeDYH2VFHLOK) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ Compact business mini, ultra-quiet for focused work. ## [2027: Amaechi knows when to fight hard – Atiku’s aide](https://sunrise.ng/2027-amaechi-knows-when-to-fight-hard-atikus-aide/) _2026-08-20 · Editor Sunrise · Sunrise News_ Demola Olarewaju, the Senior Political Assistant to the African Democratic Congress, ADC, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has described the party’s running mate, Rotimi Amaechi, as a statesman who knows when to fight hard. Olarewaju said Amaechi knows when to put aside his personal interests for the larger agenda of removing President Bola Tinubu in 2027. \[…\] The post 2027: Amaechi knows… ## [PRESIDENTIAL SECRECY ABOUT HEALTH: WHY TRUMP’S DECEIT IS AN UNACCEPTABLE THROWBACK](https://andreasankar1.substack.com/p/presidential-secrecy-about-health) _2026-08-19 · andrea sankar · Urgent Care_ Emily K. Abel ## [Friends.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/08/friends.html) _2026-08-19 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ Since Covid covered New York six-and-a-half years ago, and my wife and I packed a bag each (and two or three bags for our eight-year-old golden retriever, Whiskey) we have turned our ramshackle pile of seaside boards scattered willy-nilly along the rocky Gingham Coast into our primary residence. If you can call this living. My 1966 Simca 1500. Purrs like a kitten. A dead one. Much of the… ## [A Lot of People Will Hate This One.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/08/a-lot-of-people-will-hate-this-one.html) _2026-08-18 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ I often think of myself as a can of soup. Or a French mustard. Or an Italian olive oil or balsamic vinegar. You can go to any grocery store and find about 259 others that look just like me. 259 others that have roughly the same ingredients, provenance and heritage. 259 others that do roughly everything I do roughly as well as I do it. That’s the world most of us face every day. Whether we’re… ## [The Irrelevancing of the Ad Industry. (And Us.)](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-irrelevancing-of-ad-industry-and-us.html) _2026-08-17 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ Last week, you couldn’t spit without hitting about 97,000 posts on LinkedIn and the bought-and-paid-for trade press about last week’s most important advertising topic. Or the most important topic according to all those easily shiny-objected out of noticing what’s really happening in the world. To you really care about instagram’s “runic” “r.” Does it change the facts about the brand (no matter how… ## [Boundaries and Blessings: What about Money? | Abel Cheah](https://www.htbb.org/podcast/2026/8/17/boundaries-and-blessings-what-about-money-abel-cheah) _2026-08-17 · Laiyee Kong · HTBB Talks_ How much money do you actually want to have? It's a strange question, but it cuts right to the heart of what we treasure, fear, and hope in. In this message from 1 Corinthians 15:54–16:3, Abel talks about Paul's teachings on the resurrection and on financial giving. If we know we've been given everything in Christ, it changes how we hold what we have here on earth. 1 Corinthians 15:54-16:3 [Listen](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bd67c2129f2cc6e1ce1fdde/t/6a82737a1a30951f24418e27/1786934156006/SERMON+ENG_16+aug.MP3) ## [Paddling the River Avon to Bath](https://inflatablekayaksandpackrafts.com/2026/08/16/paddling-the-avon-to-bath/) _2026-08-16 · Chris S · Inflatable Kayaks & Packrafts_ See also:The Bradford-on-Avon Loop Returning from a week’s e-biking in Wales took me right past Bradford-on-Avon, a good chance to paddle the Avon again, this time 17km all the way to Bath via five weirs. Last year I did the shorter loop from BoA, returning via the Kennet canal which runs alongside and even crosses \[…\] ## [We Should No Better.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/08/we-should-no-better.html) _2026-08-14 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ Back about twenty years ago, someone had passed me a counterfeit ten-dollar bill. It looked a little strange, slightly washed out, but without thinking too much about it, I went to a local restaurant and bought a roast chicken with it. And two sides. If you threw out everything that comes your way that looks off, the entire ad industry, every relationship you’ve ever had, and the world economy… ## [GE Palmeiras #551 - Empate amargo na Libertadores e oscilação no momento errado](https://omny.fm/shows/ge-palmeiras/ge-palmeiras-551-empate-amargo-na-libertadores-e-oscila-o-no-momento-errado) _2026-08-13 · GE Palmeiras_ O Palmeiras empatou com o Cerro Porteño por 1 a 1 na última quarta-feira, no Nubank Parque, no jogo de ida das oitavas de final da Libertadores. O resultado frustrou a torcida e traz missão mais complicada para o Verdão na competição continental, precisando vencer em Assunção. Camila Alves, Guilherme Xavier e Thiago Ferri debatem a atuação abaixo da crítica da equipe de Abel Ferreira, a falha de… [Listen](https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/651a251e-06e1-47e0-9336-ac5a00f41628/57f7982c-022b-4cec-bf43-ac7f00d5a656/2f8f8098-c845-43b2-8673-b4a501584112/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=7620ac94-a454-40c5-985f-ac7f00d5a65f) ## [There’s a Test for That.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/08/theres-test-for-that.html) _2026-08-13 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ Over the last couple of weeks, WPP’s stock has risen considerably. Its share price, which was down in the low-teens six months ago, is now in the mid-to-high twenties. Its market-cap, which had plummeted to about $3 billion from a high of about $16 billion has climbed to almost $6 billion. Much of that rebounding comes after WPP’s latest earnings report which financial people regard as… ## [Ship software peacefully (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Scy8Da2ZtozH) _2026-08-13 · **Sponsored**_ Connect your repo and deploy instantly — Railway handles config, scaling, and monitoring. ## [RFK, JR.’S ATTACKS ON ANTI-DEPRESSANTS](https://andreasankar1.substack.com/p/rfk-jrs-attacks-on-anti-depressants) _2026-08-12 · andrea sankar · Urgent Care_ Emily K. Abel ## [Two is the Loneliest Number.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/08/two-is-loneliest-number.html) _2026-08-12 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ It’s Sunday morning as I type this. Sparkle has been walked. She’s had an hour in the dog park with various canine friends. Especially Graham. I’ve done two walks me-self. One of two miles in the dog park. Another of two miles along the beach. It’s about 200 degrees out and I’m schvitzed. I have two posts written for next week, and can’t relax until I get a third. That’s the rule. If I don’t have… ## [Be a Rube.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/08/be-rube.html) _2026-08-11 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ About 15 years ago when I went back to Ogilvy to help run the IBM account, I came to the realization that while a lot of people jabber on and on about technology, very few people understand what technology actually does or how it actually works. Even fewer can actually explain it so it’s memorable and sexy. I also realized that journalism had started doing a better job explaining processes and… ## [Damn You.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/08/damn-you.html) _2026-08-10 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ As we head into the midterm elections, I can’t help but thinking there is too much lee-way in the world. Without getting into politics, there are somethings that are just wrong. Wrong enough so you should be excluded from “people-facing” roles for ever. A senatorial candidate with a Nazi tattoo. OUT. A designer who said he loved Hitler and told Jewish women that they should have been gassed. OUT.… ## [Boundaries and Blessings: How to Make Decisions in Grey Areas | Abel Cheah](https://www.htbb.org/podcast/2026/8/10/boundaries-and-blessings-how-to-make-decisions-in-grey-areas-abel-cheah) _2026-08-10 · Laiyee Kong · HTBB Talks_ What if the boundaries you're avoiding are actually the blessings you're looking for? In this first message of "Boundaries and Blessings," Abel opens 1 Corinthians 10 to unpack five simple questions for making wise decisions - in money, sex, and power - from a place of true freedom. 1 Corinthians 10:23-31 [Listen](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bd67c2129f2cc6e1ce1fdde/t/6a7a6079d1b2d4213e942740/1786404993933/SERMON+ENG_9+Aug.MP3) ## [Hit By Pitch.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/08/hit-by-pitch.html) _2026-08-07 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ I was batting fifth which is my favorite place to bat. You don’t have the pressure on you that the third batter has, in this case Danilo Garibay, who was in spitting distance of a .300 season, and already, with more than twenty games left, had knocked in over one-hundred runs. You also don’t have the weight of batting clean-up like Salome Rojas had. Salome, Hector said, often shaking his head at… ## Jubileum! - Det første panelet _2026-08-07 · Abels tårn_ Hvordan virker barberkrem? Med dette spørsmålet startet historien til Abels tårn for 15 år siden. Bli med på jubileumsfeiringa med en gjenforening av det aller første panelet. Hør episoden i appen NRK Radio [Listen](https://podkast.nrk.no/fil/abels_taarn/1714dacf-d103-4582-94da-cfd103558293_2_ID192MP3.mp3) ## [GE Palmeiras #550 - Dúvida para o ataque no futuro do Verdão](https://omny.fm/shows/ge-palmeiras/ge-palmeiras-550-d-vida-para-o-ataque-no-futuro-do-verd-o) _2026-08-06 · GE Palmeiras_ O Palmeiras foi derrotado por 3 a 2 pelo Fortaleza no jogo de volta das oitavas de final da Copa do Brasil, mas garantiu a classificação, já que havia vencido o jogo de ida por 3 a 0. Neste episódio, João Pedro Brandão, Camila Alves, Thiago Ferri e Leandro Bocca analisam a disputa por vagas no ataque do time titular do Verdão. O episódio marca a despedida de Leandro Bocca como voz da torcida no… [Listen](https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/651a251e-06e1-47e0-9336-ac5a00f41628/57f7982c-022b-4cec-bf43-ac7f00d5a656/fc725fda-c743-4006-bf58-b49e0170face/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=7620ac94-a454-40c5-985f-ac7f00d5a65f) ## [Wow Writing.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/08/wow-writing.html) _2026-08-06 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ I read this last week in The Economist: If you care about passé things like art, literature, craft, beauty and wit, this would be a hard article to ignore. Also if you’re from New York and you love it as so many New Yorkers do. Even if they’ve re-locaterized two-hours north to the Gingham Coast, where an outfit of Lilly Pulitzer is considered resolutely OG. Then if you make it to the first… ## [“GET ACTIVE” Yet Another Government Website We Don’t Need](https://andreasankar1.substack.com/p/get-active-yet-another-government) _2026-08-05 · andrea sankar · Urgent Care_ Emily K. Abel ## [One Cloud, Every AI Layer (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ooCQ9m1U14n3) _2026-08-05 · **Sponsored**_ Run agents, inference, and infrastructure on one stack — economics improve as you scale. ## [What Would HBR Say?](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/08/what-would-hbr-say.html) _2026-08-05 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ When I worked on Mercedes-Benz in the middle-90s, the brand, at least to my eyes had been shaken to the core by the advent of Japanese “super-luxury” competitors. Seemingly overnight, Mercedes no longer had the high-end of the car market to pretty much to themselves. All of a sudden they were being eaten alive by Infiniti, Acura and mostly mostly mostly Lexus. Because of vagaries of currency… ## [Disinformation X 2.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/08/disinformation.html) _2026-08-04 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ Disinformation has a Soviet ring to it. With a sprinkling of Kafka. Wrapped in corporate PR. And shrouded in military-industrial complex. Such is the prevalence of disinformation today—in every walk of life—and the success of disinformation today, that we seldom even hear the word anymore. People are too busy being “transparent” and “authentic.” That said, Google Ngram disagrees with me. (Ngram is… ## [Diff. Er. Ent.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/08/diff-er-ent.html) _2026-08-03 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ Does work like this matter anymore? Almost forty years ago, I developed a test. A test of people. (As my daughters might say, I’m a judgey sonofa.) Around that time, even though I was young, often clients and others would ask me if I would talk to their niece or nephew, or a friend of a cousin’s tennis coach, because they wanted to get a job in advertising. When I started in 1993 or so teaching a… ## [When We’re Wrestling with God | SPTC Preachmania](https://www.htbb.org/podcast/2026/8/3/when-were-wrestling-with-god-sptc-preachmania) _2026-08-03 · Laiyee Kong · HTBB Talks_ In this message on Jacob’s midnight encounter in Genesis 32, Kenneth, YuShen, and Sarah explore what it means to stay engaged with God through our doubts, pain, and life struggles. Discover how clinging to Him with unpolished honesty—rather than pulling away—can break our self-reliance and transform our deepest wrestling into a source of divine blessing and new identity. Genesis 32:22-32 [Listen](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bd67c2129f2cc6e1ce1fdde/t/6a6fffcf51c18465933faece/1785724896607/SERMON+ENG_2+aug.MP3) ## [Boney Tenant.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/07/boney-tenant.html) _2026-07-31 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ Every once in a while, you read something or stumble across a story that is so profound that you feel obliged to check if it were written by Sophocles or Plutarch. This story here from Wednesday’s “Wall Street Journal” is an example of what I mean. You can read it here. I was never much of a Tony Bennett fan until 2001 when my father died. Around that time there was New York’s last jazz station… ## [GE Palmeiras #549 - Liderança aumenta no Brasileiro antes de foco no mata-mata](https://omny.fm/shows/ge-palmeiras/ge-palmeiras-549-lideran-a-aumenta-no-brasileiro-antes-de-foco-no-mata-mata) _2026-07-30 · GE Palmeiras_ O Verdão goleou o Vitória fora de casa e agora tem oito pontos de vantagem na ponta do Brasileirão. Nesta edição, Camila Alves, Thiago Ferri e Leandro Bocca, o Voz da Torcida, analisam o desempenho do time de Abel Ferreira, além dos lances polêmicos da arbitragem no confronto, e projetam a volta de Paulinho contra o Fortaleza, na Copa do Brasil. Dá o play! [Listen](https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/651a251e-06e1-47e0-9336-ac5a00f41628/57f7982c-022b-4cec-bf43-ac7f00d5a656/7ff5d206-e4d3-4f8a-b960-b497015d1358/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=7620ac94-a454-40c5-985f-ac7f00d5a65f) ## [GE Palmeiras #548 - Vitória segura com três zagueiros consolida vantagem na liderança](https://omny.fm/shows/ge-palmeiras/ge-palmeiras-548-vit-ria-segura-com-tr-s-zagueiros-consolida-vantagem-na-lideran-a) _2026-07-30 · GE Palmeiras_ O Palmeiras venceu o Coritiba por 3 a 1 na última quarta-feira, em Curitiba, e consolidou a vantagem de sete pontos na liderança do Campeonato Brasileiro. A excelente volta da Copa do Mundo teve brilho dos paraguaios e o novo esquema de três zagueiros, inaugurado pela chegada de Alexander Barboza, estreante na partida. Nesta edição, Guilherme Xavier e Leandro Bocca, o Voz da Torcida, debateram a… [Listen](https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/651a251e-06e1-47e0-9336-ac5a00f41628/57f7982c-022b-4cec-bf43-ac7f00d5a656/697facdf-e6e9-4725-98e6-b497015c90f7/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=7620ac94-a454-40c5-985f-ac7f00d5a65f) ## [Worms Matter.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/07/worms-matter.html) _2026-07-30 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ Words matter, about 2,000 pundits a day pompousicate on LinkedIn. Words matter, says every client in every meeting. Words matter, say hack-assed creative directors, without every bothering to read the words. Words matter, as another billboard goes up that hasn’t a soupçon of stopping power, charm or wit. Or even coherence. Words matter. And then we bring on legions of machines that don’t… ## [Can I Quote You?](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/07/can-i-quote-you.html) _2026-07-29 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ I don’t think people or agencies should quote notable advertising people—like Bernbach or Ogilvy—if they don’t at least take a stab at abiding by their standards of work, or how people are treated or the ethics of business those two men believed in. You shouldn’t cite someone’s words but ignore their intent. I recoil when I see Ogilvy, the entity, co-opting the words of their founder when there’s… ## [Apologies.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/07/apologies.html) _2026-07-28 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ I’ve only been to Berlin, Germany once, and that was for an IBM shoot, not a tourist visit. Still I woke up around four in the morning every morning to try to get lost as well as I could. The hotel we were staying in had been a bank. It was on a plaza across from Humboldt University and not far from the location of the nazi’s notorious book burnings, the first of which flamed in May, 1933, just a… ## [ABORTION IN US HISTORY](https://andreasankar1.substack.com/p/abortion-in-us-history) _2026-07-27 · andrea sankar · Urgent Care_ Janet Farrell Brodie ## [Worms.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/07/worms.html) _2026-07-27 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ One of my first big bosses, a recent inductee to the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame, was John C. Jay, who steered the creative department at Bloomingdale’s in-house agency in the early 1980s. Later, John helped make Wieden & Kennedy great and Nike as hot as they ever were. John had an amazing array of talents. But perhaps more than anything, he could spot a trend long before anyone else. I guess… ## [Living an unshakable life | Dan McNab](https://www.htbb.org/podcast/2026/7/27/living-an-unshakable-life-dan-mcnab) _2026-07-27 · Laiyee Kong · HTBB Talks_ Dan unpacks how living an unshakeable life is less about strength, and more about surrender. This sermon takes a journey through Psalm 23, and how it mirrors the lives we live. Psalm 23 [Listen](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bd67c2129f2cc6e1ce1fdde/t/6a66cbd96672686600421d4f/1785121762512/SERMON+ENG_26+jul.MP3) ## [New Gumotex Caleya vs Gumotex Twist](https://inflatablekayaksandpackrafts.com/2026/07/25/new-gumotex-caleya-vs-gumotex-twist/) _2026-07-25 · Chris S · Inflatable Kayaks & Packrafts_ Gumotex IKs New for 2026 is the Gumotex Caleya single seater kayak (left) which seems to fill the gap between the two ten-year-old Twist models. It s 40cm shorter than a Twist 2 solo/double (below left), but 60cm longer than a dinky Twist 1. Up front you get a half deck which I find less useful \[ \] ## [Venereal Advertising.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/07/venereal-advertising.html) _2026-07-24 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ Not too long ago, there was an opinion piece in The New York Times by the founder of the retailer Patagonia. Assuming you can still read, you can find it here. Chouinard’s essay starts like this: Over 50 years ago, my wife, Malinda, and I bought a chef’s knife of carbon steel that we still use. It could be passed down to several generations. Compare that to the junk stainless steel ones that might… ## [Sketchy.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/07/sketchy.html) _2026-07-23 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ One of the great joys of my life in a life that, despite my lugubrious mien has many, is abebooks.com . Though abe sold itself to amazon back in 2008, and I despise amazon and its non-tax-paying owner, trillionaire jeff bezos, I still shop there. That’s the beauty of today’s monopolies. Standard Oil could sell their petroleum only once. Armour and Swift could sell their cows and hogs only once.… ## [Packrafting Durdle Door](https://inflatablekayaksandpackrafts.com/2026/07/22/packrafting-durdle-door/) _2026-07-22 · Chris S · Inflatable Kayaks & Packrafts_ Anfibio TXL main page The last time we paddled this part of the Jurassic Coast (video above; more here) we were zipping along under sail or navigating in choppy waters and I didn t get a chance to have a good look around. Now the latest heatwave and strong winds has subsided, today I wanted to \[ \] ## [Owned.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/07/owned.html) _2026-07-22 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ More than two decades ago, as a brief chapter in my Agency-wandering-Jew-ness, when I had four jobs in three cities in two years, I found myself in a giant coroner office of a giant bland agency that had hired me to un-bland them as long as I could do that without a) spending money or b) demanding original thinking or c) upsetting their profitable status quo. In other words, like so many clients… ## [Crashes.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/07/donkeys-chasing-carrots-forever.html) _2026-07-21 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ I finished late last night during another losing battle with Dame Insomnia, Andrew Ross Sorkin's great book you-should-drop-everything and read, "1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation." You can order it here for $12.52, with free shipping. If you order this book, or any book for that matter, you'll likely have it delivered in plastic packaging. The… ## [REVERSING FIFTY YEARS OF ADVANCES FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES](https://andreasankar1.substack.com/p/reversing-fifty-years-of-advances) _2026-07-20 · andrea sankar · Urgent Care_ Emily K. Abel