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VHeadline commentarist Oscar Heck writes: They're at it again … as in 2002 and 2003 … anti-Chavez and anti-Venezuela hate-propaganda is being propagated by mainstream corporate media outlets in the USA and by US-based "think-tanks" and "analysts" and "experts."
There have been hundreds of articles in the last few weeks attacking Chavez in any fashion possible … but some of the articles, even if they are opinion articles, sound more like hate articles.
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Note: http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=88325
Oscar Heck oscar.heck@vheadline.com
Published: Wednesday, February 10, 2010
| Published Feb 16, 2010 - 11:51 AM | comments?  |
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R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe is a love note to people who like to think.
It's a distinction that feels vague. After all, doesn't every person like to think? But there is definitely a variety of person who avoids independent thinking whenever possible and a full-length, one-man show dealing exclusively with the life of the genius responsible for the geodesic dome is a pretty reliable method for ferreting them out.
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Note: Vanguard Portland
By: Alia Stearns
Issue date: 11/4/08 Section: Arts and Culture
http://media.www.dailyvanguard.com/media/storage/paper941/news/2008/11/04/ArtsAndCulture/A.Fuller.Understanding-3523046.shtml
| Published Nov 04, 2008 - 06:13 PM | comments? |
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How to Go from Introvert to Extrovert
If you're an introvert, how do you balance the introvert and extrovert parts of yourself, such that you enjoy both types of activities equally, rather than looking forward to one and dreading the other? If you’re very introverted, you may undervalue the positive role people can play in your life, such as knowledge, friendship, growth, laughter, and so on. The optimal outcome is to strike a balance between the two and become an ambivert, or someone who enjoys social interaction and solitude equally.
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Note: wikiHow The How-to manual that you can edit
http://www.wikihow.com/Go-from-Introvert-to-Extrovert
| Published Oct 14, 2008 - 11:00 AM | comments? |
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The film Traitor isn’t exactly burning up the domestic box office charts, having just passed the $12 million mark. But coming on the heels of story idea originator Steve Martin’s splendid memoir Born Standing Up, it is yet another reminder that the 63-year-old Waco, Texas native remains Hollywood’s true Renaissance Man, able to glide from one artistic endeavor to another.
Think about it for a second: over the years, Mensa member Martin has enjoyed success as a playwright, novelist, banjo player, New Yorker back page essayist, amateur magician, TV variety show writer, Oscar telecast MC, film actor, art collector, TV comedian, zeitgeist stand-up and more.
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Note: by Richard Horgan
Filmstew.com Blog
http://www.filmstew.com/showBlog.aspx?blog_id=1400
9/4/2008 at 9:36:26 PM
| Published Sep 09, 2008 - 07:55 PM | comments? |
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Kit and I are back from Denver, where we both spoke at U.S. Mensa's Annual Gathering. Several readers have asked what a Mensa gathering is like. Mensans simply have one thing in common: they're all in the 98th percentile of intelligence -- pretty smart people.
Smart doesn't necessarily mean they're well educated (though they tend to be), nor does it mean they necessarily have any common sense, nor does it necessarily mean they have any social skills, nor any other particular trait not related to intelligence. All in all, most of them are pretty normal people ...with a few "outliers" that help to give Mensa its reputation for being weird or nerdy. Some can be stand-offish and superior, but most are humble, interesting people.
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Note: Randy Cassingham's Blog Historical Details and Author's Notes from This is True® - the First For-Profit E-mail Publication (and Still Going Strong).
http://www.thisistrue.com/blog-denver_mensa_ag.html
| Published Jul 11, 2008 - 12:59 PM | comments? |
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Just before Thanksgiving I volunteered on a nonprofit farm near Princeton, chopping beets to donate to local families in need. While we worked, I started chatting with one of the workers. He appeared to enjoy his work, and seemed like a nice guy - until we got on the subject of the people we were helping.
Poor people, especially those on welfare, are "lazy," he said. "They" sit on their stoops in Trenton in the middle of the day, "when they should be out looking for work." He said he knew they were on welfare because of their skin color.
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Note: by Hannah Zaic
NEW JERSEY HELPING HANDS
Monday July 07, 2008, 6:00 AM
http://www.nj.com/helpinghands/index.ssf/2008/07/good_work_bad_attitude_negativ.html
| Published Jul 11, 2008 - 12:35 PM | comments? |
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Do you agree?
1. The Simpsons
2. Seinfeld
3. All in the Family
4. Mary Tyler Moore Show
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Note: The 50 Best Comedies – Ever
By Kimberly Potts
http://television.aol.com/photos/best-tv-comedies
| Published Apr 30, 2008 - 01:15 PM | comments? |
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‘I’d much rather understand, perceive and imagine — and be unhappy — than be stupid and content’
Think of a Mensa meeting and you imagine either a bunch of affable masterminds or overbearing snobs. Oliver Roberts discovers that genius is indiscriminate.
On the third Thursday of every month, a group of extraordinary people infiltrates the musty halls of the Old Edwardian Sports Club in Houghton.
Among the brass plaques, framed photographs of conquering teams and smell of Deep Heat they lurk, holding cups of tea and appearing uncomfortable even when they’re comfortable. Some have rounded shoulders, others wear glasses comically repaired with tape, and many flaunt a self-satisfied confidence. They are the brain jocks, and they don’t belong here.
This abode of beer games and towel-flicks is, however, one of the few places they can go to seek refuge from the condition that has both cursed and blessed them throughout their lives. Outside the hall where they find each other is a blackboard with an arrow, and above it, the word that spells out their hope for connection and an exchange of warm, intellectual juices — Mensa.
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Note: Published: Mar 15, 2008 The Times of South Africa
| Published Mar 25, 2008 - 01:27 AM | comments? |
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Do you like puzzles? Really hard ones? The results from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s 2007 Mystery Hunt are now on the web.
Teams worked non stop from Friday until Sunday unraveling the fiendishly hard puzzles in this annual event. Check out the puzzles and see how you do.
http://web.mit.edu/puzzle/www/07/
| Published Feb 18, 2007 - 08:26 PM | comments? |
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