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POPSSome Aloha State Natives are Blaming Obama In Part for Visitors Slump Hawaii no longer an economic paradise ..... Some residents blame the visiting President Obama. “We’re losing the group business that’s either canceled due to economic reasons or concerns about being seen as a company going to Hawaii,” said Keith Vieira, senior vice president and director of operations for Starwood Hotels & Resorts in Hawaii and French Polynesia. Some Hawaiians are underwhelmed by the return of their native son. In the scruffy town of Wahiawa on Oahu, far from the beaches and fancy hotels, some locals waiting by a pawnshop for the bus were decidedly ambivalent about the president. “It’s not good here " there are no jobs,” said Hu Toelupe, who said she didn’t expect to see the president and didn’t care if she missed him. Broken Country Blog http://bit.ly/8fOTgd
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POPSPilots warns against knee-jerk reaction to terrorism Well, what an amazing article! Pilots are concerned about 'knee-jerk reactions"? I would think they would be among the first to take this continuing AND accelerating tactic more seriously. Of course, they don't want the flying-public to be frightened away from flying for many reasons; especially financial. He speaks of "heightened security measures"...how about implementing those that are already in place? And most revolting is when this person asks the idiotic question concerning what the flying-public should expect from it's security workers!!!! "Minimal wages" are an excuse for sloppy, inefficient, lack, non-existent, irresponsible work performance??!!! Amazing.
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POPSMichael Jackson tops Google, Yahoo search in 2009 According to Google's Zeitgeist findings, "Michael Jackson" was the "fastest rising" worldwide search term of 2009. In the U.S., "Michael Jackson" placed second behind "Twitter." Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of search products and user experience, in a blog post also pointed to an up-and-coming music sensation:
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POPS“Don’t think we’re not keeping score, brother,” Obama told DeFazio 
Personal calls from Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and former Vice President Al Gore couldn’t persuade him to vote for the Speaker’s climate change bill. He also opposed the $787 billion stimulus, citing concerns that only 7 percent was devoted to infrastructure spending. DeFazio was one of only two Democrats to vote against those measures and the $700 billion bank bailout. (The other was Rep. Gene Taylor (D-Miss.) a Blue Dog conservative.) Yet he’s also a pro-gun Democrat who has a B rating from the National Rifle Association. “I would have less of a voice and I would have less respect if I voted for things I didn’t believe in because of pressure from the leadership,” DeFazio told The Hill in an interview. Obama himself has taken notice. “Don’t think we’re not keeping score, brother,” Obama told DeFazio during a closed-door meeting of the House Democratic Caucus, according to members afterward. But poking a stick at those in power is what DeFazio does.
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POPSPepsi taking a year off from Super Bowl, will anyone notice? I love this quote from the "marketing expert" who is a professor at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Managment. He thinks there will be a backlash from consumers if they don't see Pepsi advertising in the Super Bowl. Yea, I can see this igniting protests all around the country right after the game. People are sure to be pretty pissed that a company didn't drop $3 million on a 30 second spot. (I hope you can hear my sarcasm)
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POPSOnly "Reckless Fools" Would Reject The Science Behind Global Warming "I will ask my fellow US citizens who share my sense of urgency to join me in asking President Obama and the leadership of the US Senate to set a deadline of April 22, 2010 -- the 40th anniversary of Earth Day -- for final action on the US legislation," Gore said. Gore said that only "reckless fools" reject the science behind global warming. What's the matter Al baby, scared the votes will be gone after the 2010 elections.
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POPS Inconvenient Goof The embarrassing error cast another shadow over the conference after the controversy over the hacked e-mails from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit, which appeared to suggest that scientists had manipulated data to strengthen their argument that human activities were causing global warming. For Gaia’s sake, he’s not a scientist, he’s an alarmist! Didn’t the Norwegian Nobel Committee make that clear? He can’t be expected to stick to facty stuff. Too much depends on it. Jules Crittenden http://bit.ly/6sXBQJ
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POPSSYSPRO provides the heartbeat for Cappella's commercialisation plans
Medical device company Cappella has selected a SYSPRO ERP system from K3 Business Technology Group (K3) to help drive forward its commercialisation plans. The new fully validated and integrated manufacturing, financial and distribution system will enable the innovative vascular stent manufacturer to service its growing customer base in the UK, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands. Ken Beatty, Vice President Sales and Operations at Cappella, is an experienced ERP user having implemented SAP and QAD (MFG/PRO) for other companies. He says: "We need a scalable system to support our expansion and SYSPRO provides the exact flexibility we require. Other key features that confirmed our decision to select SYSPRO included the Microsoft .NET architecture and the complete end-to-end traceability function provided by the Lot Traceability module. K3's demonstration of SYSPRO clearly showed that this was the system for us."
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POPS HAS ANYONE SEEN PHIL JONES???" Polar Bear Goes Hunting for Climate-Gate Scientist at Copenhagen Summit 
It was Jones who, in an e-mail to a colleague, wrote of using a "trick" to "hide the decline" of data indicating global warming from the 1980s and onward. That e-mail and thousands of others were posted online in November, and have since been taken as evidence by skeptics to claim global warming is a scam. One of those skeptics was the man behind the bear suit: Phelim McAleer, a journalist and filmmaker who last year produced "Not Evil Just Wrong," which disputes many of the assertions made in former Vice President Al Gore's documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth." McAleer, a persistent critic of Gore's film, frequently attends public events and venues to question and discuss the Nobel Prize-winner's position on environmental issues. McAleer has now turned his sights on Jones and the Climate-Gate scandal. Jones and others have come under intense fire since the hacked e-mails became public. Other climate researchers were revealed to have blackballed dissenting scientists .....
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POPSAl Gore busted on World Stage "It’s unclear to me how this figure was arrived at,” Dr Maslowski said. “I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this.” Mr Gore’s office later admitted that the 75 per cent figure was one used by Dr Maslowksi as a “ballpark figure” several years ago in a conversation with Mr Gore. The embarrassing error cast another shadow over the conference after the controversy over the hacked e-mails from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit, which appeared to suggest that scientists had manipulated data to strengthen their argument that human activities were causing global warming."
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POPSWhy It seems that Palin is in the news, thats great, she would make a great president or vice president.
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POPSAl Gore Goes From "Save The Whales" To "Join The Whales"
"I've finished on one mountain and starting on the second one. We've also got trees planted in Brazil and small gardens planted all over Central America, but I admit that I'm a little behind", he joked as only Al Gore can. "Butt I should be able to catch up by doubling up on the tree planting." Gore said he has made contacts all over the world in his new venture and even helped a family in Afghanistan. "They were growing poppies to sell for opium because they needed the income to feed their families. I suggested that they grow food instead of poppies to begin with and it was like a light bulb...the new fluorescent ones of course, went off in the farmer's head." Gore said the organizing of the new "Join The Whales" will begin this weekend at his home in east Tennessee. "We've got a big room here at the house that five of us can easily fit into." Gore went on to say that himself and Tipper take special pills to cut down on the flatulence, "Our effort to cut down on Global
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POPSTop Banana Club DreamMaker Philippines Lenny's Lottery Win/Win Ticket......The Dream... To buy a 'Lottery Ticket'.. starts a 'Chain Reaction' thought process...prior to the 'Lucky Winners' numbers being called out.... Only to be dashed the moment YOU realise it's not YOU thats is going to 'Live' that 'Dream'...The 'Negative Effect' this causes is insurmountable....Yet without fail YOU go right out and buy another and another, the vicious cycle begins. Well I don't trust 'MY' future to 'Luck'. How Big is YOUR Dream? Copy & paste http.tiny.cc/ClubPhilipines click on 'Opportunity' . Beware of 'DreamStealers'
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POPSWhat A Country We Live In "For eight years, he ran the Bush administration on the sneak, unleashing a campaign of fear, warfare and wild spending that has caused the very viability of this American experiment to teeter on the brink of collapse. This was the man who claimed the office of the vice president was not part of the Executive Branch because he did not want to obey the law and hand his official papers over to the National Archive. Dick Cheney belongs in a prison cell, not in a conversation about the presidency of the United States. That we actually have people floating his name in the first place reveals just how dark some of the corners of our politics really are. Worse, these are the people whose ideals and ideology were the dominant force in government for most of this decade, so dismissing them out of hand is a truly dangerous error in judgment. Indeed, quite a country we live in."
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POPSWhy college students drop out Most dropouts get overwhelmed by balancing work, school, and money. Only a quarter of college students typical live-in-the-dorms students; nearly as many have children.
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POPSWhat is White House Covering Up in “GateCrashers” Scandal? - 
"While their current whereabouts are not confirmed, what is known about the Salahis is that their past includes a bankrupt winery; a long string of civil suits, some of which involve Loudoun businesses; cars and at least one boat repossessed; a residence in foreclosure; and his elderly parents evicted from their home." In addition, according to the article, Charles Muldoon says he was asked by Tareq Salahi to help him organize the inaugural America's Cup polo match help raise money for lymphoma cancer research through Journey for the Cure, Salahi's "personal charity." The Foreign Connection But other than Joseph Farah's work at WorldNetDaily, (http://bit.ly/8hMmnq) there has been virtually no attention paid to Tareq Salahi's links to Rashid Khalidi. According to the Internet publication, "Tareq Salahi served on the board of the American Task Force for Palestine, where Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi served as vice president...
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POPSThe HR Futurist HR 2.0 – A workforce linked by networked individualism, demands strategically deployed collaborative infrastructure to thrive. How do we as employers adapt our environment and tap into the new social norms of conversation vs. communication in more permeable and flexible environments to capture information, identify leaders, promote innovation and reward success?
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POPSAl Gore wird mit "Climategate" konfrontiert Entlarvung des Klimaschwindels durch Hacker http://alles-schallundrauch.blogspot.com/2009/11/entlarvung-des-klimaschwindels-durch.html Kopenhagen " 11 Tage fressen, saufen und CO2 produzieren http://alles-schallundrauch.blogspot.com/2009/12/kopenhagen-11-tage-fressen-saufen-und.html
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