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title: Week 25, 2024
issue: 25
year: 2024
weekNumber: 25
created: 2024-06-23T12:00:00
modified: 2025-12-19T18:37:27
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# Wisdom I Pondered This Week

* “A person will sometimes devotes all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.” — Robert Frost
* “Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.” — Ronald Reagan
* It’s remarkable how often the real problem is not what happened, but how it was communicated.
* 「我一生中擔心的大部份事情，從來都沒發生過。至於大多數確實發生的事，我永遠都無法預料。」 — Björn Natthiko Lindeblad, I May Be Wrong
* “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.” — Henry Ford

# Things I Learned This Week

* [The Water Pillow by Mediflow™](https://www.mediflow.com)
* [Asklepios](https://www.asklepios.com/) is one of Germany’s three largest operators of private hospitals. ↔ [Helios](https://www.helios-international.com/about-helios) is Europe’s leading private health care provider,
* Genghis Khan 成吉思汗
* The [Marathon Grand Championship]([https://www.mgc42195.jp/](https://www.mgc42195.jp/)) (MGC，日本馬拉松奧運選拔賽) is Japan’s official Olympic marathon trials, created by the [Japan Association of Athletics Federations]([https://www.jaaf.or.jp/english/](https://www.jaaf.or.jp/english/)) (JAAF，日本陸上競技聯盟) to select national representatives. In this decisive race, athletes who qualify through strict time standards in designated Japanese marathons compete for Olympic spots, with the **top two finishers** directly earning selection to the Olympic marathon team. Since its launch in 2019, the **MGC** has become the core of Japan’s marathon selection process, later expanding into the **MGC Series**, a nationwide points-based circuit used to determine who may enter future MGC races and to select athletes for other international events.
* [Cookpad](https://cookpad.com/us): 日本最大食譜網站