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Kodak Files for Bankruptcy

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Digital Cameras and memory sticks and cards were seen as the culprit of the demise of Kodak as the makers of film and cameras. As the company filed for bankruptcy, the court will supervise the restructuring and selling of assets,lot of people hope that Kodak will bounce back. George Eastman, the Kodak founder began experimenting with film rolled around a spool in the 1880s, and launched Eastman Kodak in 1892 in Rochester, New York. Along with it, Eastman and  t he company developed a simple low-priced camera, the Kodak Brownie, to sell the film. It  introduced millions to photography. During the early 20th century as Kodak pioneered the use of camera, the catching words they use to advertised is "You push the button and we do the rest".

In Memory of the Victims of Holocaust

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Today is the International Day of commemoration in Memory of the Victims of Holocaust. Let us remember the countless people who were victims of the said tragic event. Many of them are catholics. I would like to borrow the words of the United Nation's Secretary General: "Today, we remember the millions of victims of the Nazis -- nearly one third of the Jewish people and countless other minorities -- who suffered atrocious acts of discrimination, deprivation, cruelty and murder. New initiatives in Holocaust remembrance and education have given us an authentic basis for hope. That hope is the theme of this year’s observance. But we can and must do more if we are to make that hope a reality. We must continue to examine why the world failed to prevent the Holocaust and other atrocities since. That way, we will be better armed to defeat anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance. We must continue to teach our children the lessons of history’s darkest chapters. That will help them ...