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Air Pollution Pollutes Brains as Well!?

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:56:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Heavy air pollution has and is endangering the future of your children and our society as well as others.

Clip Source: www.sciencenews.org

Mexico City’s air pollution may be undermining neural and mental functioning in some children

Mexico City wears a thick coat of air pollution that clogs lungs and takes a toll on hearts and blood vessels. But that’s just the beginning — the metropolis’s dirty air may have contributed to brain inflammation and intellectual deficits in at least some school-age children, a new study suggests.

Among healthy children aged 7 to 18, lifelong Mexico City residents scored lower than their peers from Polotitlán — a Mexican city with low levels of air pollution — on tests of memory, flexible thinking, novel problem-solving skill and the ability to monitor and change one’s behavior during challenging tasks, scientists report in an upcoming Brain and Cognition. These tests make up part of standard IQ measures for school children.

Tags: global warming, green, pollution, dumb and dumber

Computers Should Scan Palms, Eyes, Chertoff Suggests

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:30:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: George Orwell must be spinning in his grave.

Clip Source: blogs.cqpolitics.com

Computers Should Scan Palms, Eyes, Chertoff Suggests

In the near future computers should make users scan their palms and retinas before letting them in, Homeland Security Department chief Michael Chertoff suggested Wednesday.

Passwords and Social Security numbers are already antiquated, so easily stolen or cracked that they're virtually useless as security measures, Chertoff said during a roundtable discussion with bloggers in downtown Washington, D.C.

Internet users need a "paradigm shift" in the way they think about personal and corporate security, said Chertoff, who as a Justice Department lawyer in 2001 helped design the bundle of counterterrorism measures that became known as the Patriot Act.

"It's another initiative we've talked about," he said.

"I'm suggesting we paradigm-shift," he said.

If you -- bear with me for a second --

Refocus campaigns on things like affordability.

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:02:10 GMT

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lasma TV or new car.

So is there any good ne

worse, the tightening credit market means that for many, even if they were so in

With the downturn, advertisers are going to need to refocus campaigns on things like affordability. Those pitching big-ticket items may simply be up the creek — it looks like consumers, for at least the near future, aren’t willing to shell out for huge purchases. Even clined, won’t be able to avail themselves as easily to financing plans for the plasma TV or new car.

So is there any good news to be found in all this gloom? According to Ad Age, yes:

There was something of a silver lining for marketers trying to figure out how to proceed during a time sure to be marked by a focus on savings. The OMD study tested consumer feelings about advertising and found that 81% said advertisers need to continue to communicate about their products during a recession, adding that they’ll be more receptive to cost-savings messages and products that are positioned as investments.

Pentagon's Secret Budget Numbers

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:19:19 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Do you hear that strange sucking sound? That's the US taxpayer dollars being sucked into the voracious black hole of the Military Industrial Complex. This secret budget is ON TOP of the announced 600+ billion dollars already allocated. That is a hell of a lot of money!

Bombs or food? Not my choice to make, but are more bombs really what America needs? Really?

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Shocker: Pentagon's Secret Budget Numbers

The Pentagon has been struggling with what to spend money on in light of the coming financial squeeze, and now they have made their choice...everything!

Pentagon officials have prepared a secret budget estimate that they plan to spring on the next president right before they leave town.

It's only $450 billion more than the apparently disingenuous number they put out last February.

With the economy circling the bowl, the next commander-in-chief might want to cast it aside.

But he would have to pay a political price -- and that's the point.

"This is a political document,"

"It sets up the new administration immediately to have to make a decision of how to deal with the perception that they are either cutting defense or adding to it."

The Defense Department's comptroller's office declined to dispute the numbers.

Cdr. Darryn James, a Pentagon spokesman, said it was "premature to discuss future budgets because they were still being worked on."

QUOTES

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:56:25 GMT

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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

An American to make us all proud

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:30:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Leave the past behind, vote for the future. Vote for Obama

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Obama - MIchelle Obama Speaks at UCLA Rally

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New BBC Series on America

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:29:01 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The first episode of The American Future: A History will be broadcast on Friday 10 October on BBC Two at 9pm BST. There are three further episodes on subsequent Fridays, at the same time, covering war, faith, and immigration.

Video at source. Series will perhaps we available at BBC site.

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Barack Obama's emergence as a presidential candidate in the US represents a profound change in the American psyche, distinguished historian Simon Schama argues in his new series for the BBC, The American Future.

He says that although Americans have a belief in their country as a "city on a hill" - a shining example to others - they are not complacent about the economic and foreign policy issues facing the US.

Americans are by no means as militaristic as the rest of the world seems to believe, he says, with the debate about how big the military should be going right back to the Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton.

But Professor Schama believes that one of America's great strengths is its ability to re-invent itself at the time of crisis.

And at the moment America's self-image is being remade.

Tags: simon schama, american politics, history

Future Vision

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:45:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: We need more talk like this - please listen Mr. Obama.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Turning Disaster Into Opportunity

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Gary Hart

Posted October 8, 2008 | 02:34 PM (EST)

Rare is the catastrophe that does not offer some promise. The key is having the genius to discover hope within the rubble.

An argument can be made that the current financial disaster offers a future president, Obama in this case, the chance to transform the U.S. economy. A weakened Wall Street and a chastened conservative community are not now in a position to resist thoughtful and sober re-regulation of markets. The Reagan era (actually Nixon-Reagan-Bush) is over and with it the arrogance that laissez faire always presumes.

The Wall Street disaster is a metaphor for excess and greed, but also for a time gone by. The world of the new century requires not just a new Democratic administration, but one that is prepared to transform our nation and help transform the world.

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Present Progressive Intro Diagram

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:20:34 GMT

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Present Progressive - Introduction Level: elementary

The present progressive puts emphasis on the course or duration of an action.

The present progressive is used for actions going on in the moment of speaking and for actions taking place only for a short period of time. It is also used to express development and actions that are arranged for the near future.

Present progressive is also known as present continuous.

computer timeline

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:12:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Konrad Zuse, a German engineer, completes the first general purpose progammable calculator in 1941.

Clip Source: www.superwarehouse.com

The History of the Computer: First PC's and the Future Computer Timeline

Tags: historical

history of the computer

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:22:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This webpage is about history of the computer and the future of computer timeline.It has details of Abacus,then the first electronic computer, the first personal computer and its affordability.

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The History of the Computer: First PC's and the Future Computer Timeline

Tags: computer

Fast for Human Rights of Immigrants

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:10:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The fear mongering against Latinos and Muslims is reaching new heights as some try to hijack all of or rights in the upcoming election. Act now for our future!

Clip Source: org2.democracyinaction.org

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Tags: future now, human rights, presidential election, migrants, globalism, hate, fear, action

Promotional Products

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:06:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Great site with lots of choice.

Clip Source: www.argonpromo.co.uk

Promotional Products, Pens, Mugs and Bags

Welcome to Argon Promotions, the UK’s number one supplier of Promotional products, items and promotional gifts. We a have a great selection of conference giveaways from promotional mugs, promotional pens to a corporate fleece and leather conference folders. In fact we have a huge selection of products available which ensure that your company will be able to find just the right product to promote yourselves to existing and future customers.

Tags: promotional products, promotional gifts

VISTA

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:44:55 GMT

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Windows Vista - the digital future starts here

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Unwritten Future~Documentary

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:36:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Yes, I went out of order, I started with part 5 because if you watch that one alone, you will get the gist of the documentary.

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UNWRITTEN FUTURE part 5

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(2008) A documentary that looks into the events during the Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, MN.

Footage contains excessive use of force and questionable tactics used by police toward activists. It also includes interviews with citizens, asking them what they are fighting for.

This documentary is strictly for educational purposes only and should never be sold. The footage contains graphic state terrorism of its own people and some adult language.

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omg im getting really scared seeing this video..im from holland and hope that this horrific violence against civilians wont happen here...

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UNWRITTEN FUTURE part 4

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UNWRITTEN FUTURE part 3

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UNWRITTEN FUTURE part 2

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UNWRITTEN FUTURE part 1

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UNWRITTEN FUTURE part 6

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Tags: politics, law, protest