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POPSAbout Obama’s Comments At The Holocaust Memorial And Museum continued; going without at home to help the fighting men overseas. Words matter. Perhaps my words in the post, Obama: WWII won by speaking out as one voice, were not adequate to portray the betrayal of America’s–and the worlds–greatest generation. Perhaps I am simply making too much of nothing. Sure, Obama will say, it was just a euphemism; of course he honors the sacrifices, blah blah blah. But I do not believe this is the truth. I believe that his words do mean something. His words assault the reality and remove the sacrifices. His words turn my grandparents and great uncles and great aunts into nothing, pushed aside in favor of modern liberal rhetoric with no goal beyond winning an election. Our greatest generation did not speak out. They fought; they sacrificed; they died; and, ultimately, they saved the world.
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POPSThe Worlds Most Valuable Mars Bar Sold for $60,000 http://www.MalEmeryOnline.com The Worlds Most Valuable Mars Bar Sold for $60,000 Proceeds of this auction donated to: The Jenny McKenna Foundation and Ganngjalah Cultural Gardens Jenny McKenna, a 34 year old accomplished triathlete and cyclist, after a tragic accident is now facing an uncertain future, a long with over 6500 other young Australians who are forced into Age Care Nursing Home to receive the on going care they desperately need.
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POPSAussie Punter Buys Worlds Most Expensive Mars Bar for $60,00 http://www.MalEmeryOnline.com Aussie Punter Buys Worlds Most Expensive Mars Bar for $60,000 Two Mars Bars Sold For $60,000 Each For Charity Mal Emery is dubbed by some who should know best, as Australia's Napoleon Hill of the 21st century. Life wasn't always easy for Emery as he explains in his story of being unemployed at 22 years of age, creating 16 businesses in the next thirty years and how having a boiling fat fryer explode in his face helped him see the 'business light to success'.
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POPSKeep the marketing out... A professional organization I belong to had an impromtu meetup in Lively. Yes, unexpected guests arrived and my cartoon was kissed without permission. My cartoon was also invited to watch streaming web content of a "too polite to repeat here" subject. I had participated in the meetup with high hopes that Lively might be the place to hang out with professionals in a virtually social setting. Guess What? I like hanging out in virtual worlds because it is an escape from the barrage of marketing at me. I have to endure advertising and marketing messages on the radio, on TV, cable, satelite...the Internet is one huge bombardment of marketing messages. I want virtual worlds to be a respite from marketing. I want a place to have a 3d representation of myself where I can collaborate with others. My advice: KEEP YOUR MARKETING OUT OF VIRTUAL WORLDS.
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POPS"Do Humans Have 23 years to Go?" Play Superstruct and Find Out -Invent the Future! The Institute sees super-threats are "massively disrupting global society as we know it. There’s an entire generation of homeless people worldwide, as the number of climate refugees tops 250 million. Entrepreneurial chaos and “the axis of biofuel” wreak havoc in the alternative fuel industry. Carbon quotas plummet as food shortages mount. The existing structures of human civilization—from families and language to corporate society and technological infrastructures—just aren’t enough. We need a new set of superstructures to rise above, to take humans to the next stage." The Institute says: "You can help. Tell us your story. Strategize out loud. Superstruct now." Twitter that, Galaxians. Kind of makes Malthus look like a children's book.
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POPS"Do Humans Have 23 years to Go?" Play Superstruct and Find Out -Invent the Future! “The survival horizon identifies the point in time after which a threatened population is expected to experience a catastrophic collapse,” GEAS president Audrey Chen said. “It is the point from which it a species is unlikely to recover. By identifying a survival horizon of 2042, GEAS has given human civilization a definite deadline for making substantive changes to planet and practices.” According to Chen, the latest GEAS simulation harnessed over 70 petabytes of environmental, economic, and demographic data, and was cross-validated by ten different probabilistic models. The GEAS models revealed a potentially terminal combination of five so-called “super-threats”, which represent a collision of environmental, economic, and social risks.
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POPSTranslating for Tribe In November 2007, Prestige Network was approached by the BBC to translate a script for the popular BBC2 television series 'Tribe'.
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POPSNinety Percent of Virtual Worlds Projects Fail I did an MBA video project on virtual worlds (See my first clip). My assessment a year ago on this was that companies hadn't figured out how to make those worlds useful to the consumer. Instead they rushed head first into staking their virtual claim in the 3D world only to find out nobody cared or noticed except the typical hype mongers of the IT press that can't wait to be first to predict the next "BIG" thing. Maybe they were a little quick to judge.
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POPSAugustine and the relationship of the two cities in law --Christopher Neiswonger "But this confusion of proper ends toward merely pragmatic or “proximate” goals is ordained by God, so that there will be some semblance of peace on the Earth during this time when there are two worlds grinding against each other. A city of God and a city of man. We use the same Law but to a different final end."
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POPSlooking for Kafka in Tel-Aviv ?!! Hoffe died this year, leaving the inheritance to her two daughters. Researchers are hoping they will now be given access to the materials, which will help shed light on Kafka's biography and will likely spark new interest in the author in the academic and literary worlds.
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POPSStanley Kubrick's files -New archives reveal the film-maker's public and private worlds "... My main interest lies along these broad areas naturally assuming great plot and character. 1. The reasons for believing in the existence of intelligent extra-terrestrial life. 2. The impact (and perhaps even lack on impact in some quarters) such discovery would have on earth in the near future. 3. A space probe with a landing and exploration of the Moon and Mars. Would you consider coming sooner with a view to a meeting, the purpose of which would be to determine whether an idea might exist or arise which could sufficiently interest both of us enough to want to collaborate on a screenplay?”
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