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After all, Richard is one of the most successful
entrepreneurs in the history of the world, with
over 300 companies and 50,000 employees.

His knowledge and insight is sought-after, and
accessing this kind of genius just doesn�t
happen very often.

What would be the one big question YOU
would ask him?

I�m writing you today because I may be able
to give you the chance to do exactly this!

My friends Alex Mandossian and Greg Habstritt
are hosting a series of incredible tele-training
calls, where they�re going to feature interviews
from some of the top minds in the world ..
including Richard Branson, Dr. Stephen
Covey, and 10 other amazing experts.

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The calls will happen every week with different
interviews, and you�ll be able to access ALL
of them at no cost!

In addition, during this series, you�ll have the
chance to submit a question for Richard
Branson (and the other speakers).

At a live event that�s happening later this
year, Greg will choose some of the questions
submitted and ask them LIVE.

Maybe your question is for Dr. Stephen Covey,
or maybe it�s for Tony Hsieh, the CEO of
Zappos.com that just sold to Amazon for
over $900 millions.

Perhaps you want to ask a question of Bill Phillips,
one of the world�s greatest authorities on health
and wellness, author of �Body-for-LIFE�.

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Maybe it would be a question for Marci Shimoff
(�Happy For No Reason�), or Janet Attwood
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If you think you�ve got a GREAT question to
ask Richard, or any one of the experts being
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This unique training series will not be repeated,
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So take a moment now and get the details by
going to this link before it�s too late:

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While this lifestyle can bring benefits like learning foreign languages and experiencing different ways of life, it can also adversely affect the health and wellbeing of TCKs, as they struggle with their sense of belonging in the world.

Life Matters hears from long time TCK researcher Ruth Van Reken, and also meets two young Third Culture Kids who have established a community for others to meet and share their stories.

Brice Royer, a half French/Vietnamese and Ethiopian Third Culture Kid who grew up in 7 countries before the age of 18, shares his challenge of “not fitting in” has caused several years of chronic pain, which baffled doctors. He was cured by discovering the emotional stress of lacking a sense of belonging has caused this illness.

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News article on ABC 

Winter…who needs it?

Three German children looking to escape the winter weather set off on a trip to Africa, but they only made it as far as their local train station, police said.

The adventurous trio, fed up with the cold temperatures, planned to ring in the new year under the African sun. And that’s not all — they also intended to celebrate a wedding, police spokesman Holger Jureczko said.

Six-year-old Mika and seven-year-old Anna-Lena, it turns out, “are very much in love and decided to get married in Africa where it is warm,” he said. They took Anna-Lena’s five-year-old sister along with them to act as a witness.

They got the idea from Mika’s tales of his recent holiday in Italy as their families celebrated together on New Year’s Eve. He assured the two girls that Africa would be even warmer, Jureczko said.

The next morning, while their parents slept, the children set off from the suburbs of Hanover, clutching cases packed with all the essentials needed for their trip: sunglasses, food, and swimsuits.

They boarded a tram to the central train station and were waiting for a train to take them to the airport when they were stopped by police.

Two officers managed to convince the kids that it would be hard to get to Africa with no money and no plane ticket. Instead, they got a decidedly less romantic tour of the police headquarters before being handed over to their parents.

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Very inspirational. This will be my new ring tone on my cell phone for the rest of the year. Yes We Can!

CONGRATULATIONS SIR!
President Obama! It sounds so good, dont’ you think? I must say I deeply admire this human being. We can feel he embraces the world. He is a very corageous man and I pray nothing wrong happens to him. I would also like to express my gratitude and admiration for the american friends for givings us such a beautiful lesson. You must be very proud.

Human nature is one of those things that everybody talks about but no one can define precisely. Every time we fall in love, fight with our spouse, get upset about the influx of immigrants into our country, or go to church, we are, in part, behaving as a human animal with our own unique evolved nature—human nature.

This means two things. First, our thoughts, feelings, and behavior are produced not only by our individual experiences and environment in our own lifetime but also by what happened to our ancestors millions of years ago. Second, our thoughts, feelings, and behavior are shared, to a large extent, by all men or women, despite seemingly large cultural differences.

Human behavior is a product both of our innate human nature and of our individual experience and environment. In this article, however, we emphasize biological influences on human behavior, because most social scientists explain human behavior as if evolution stops at the neck and as if our behavior is a product almost entirely of environment and socialization. In contrast, evolutionary psychologists see human nature as a collection of psychological adaptations that often operate beneath conscious thinking to solve problems of survival and reproduction by predisposing us to think or feel in certain ways. Our preference for sweets and fats is an evolved psychological mechanism. We do not consciously choose to like sweets and fats; they just taste good to us.

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I found this site so amazing check it out

I have found out more to the story of these pics. I have taken them out of this post, but here is the link.

This site is resposible for the work done on the Ford Car. Other photos are found there as well.

http://www.beckerautodesign.com/luxury.html

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Who can guess the song reference in this one?

BTW, it’s possible this one is fake but I am looking into it.

What Is Intelligence, Anyway?

By Isaac Asimov

What is intelligence, anyway?

When I was in the army, I received the kind of aptitude test that all soldiers took and, against a normal of 100, scored 160. No one at the base had ever seen a figure like that, and for two hours they made a big fuss over me.

(It didn’t mean anything. The next day I was still a buck private with KP – kitchen police – as my highest duty.)

All my life I’ve been registering scores like that, so that I have the complacent feeling that I’m highly intelligent, and I expect other people to think so too.

Actually, though, don’t such scores simply mean that I am very good at answering the type of academic questions that are considered worthy of answers by people who make up the intelligence tests – people with intellectual bents similar to mine?

For instance, I had an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not possibly have scored more than 80, by my estimate. I always took it for granted that I was far more intelligent than he was.

Yet, when anything went wrong with my car I hastened to him with it, watched him anxiously as he explored its vitals, and listened to his pronouncements as though they were divine oracles – and he always fixed my car.

Well, then, suppose my auto-repair man devised questions for an intelligence test.

Or suppose a carpenter did, or a farmer, or, indeed, almost anyone but an academician. By every one of those tests, I’d prove myself a moron, and I’d be a moron, too.

In a world where I could not use my academic training and my verbal talents but had to do something intricate or hard, working with my hands, I would do poorly.

My intelligence, then, is not absolute but is a function of the society I live in and of the fact that a small subsection of that society has managed to foist itself on the rest as an arbiter of such matters.

Consider my auto-repair man, again.

He had a habit of telling me jokes whenever he saw me.

One time he raised his head from under the automobile hood to say: “Doc, a deaf-and-mute guy went into a hardware store to ask for some nails. He put two fingers together on the counter and made hammering motions with the other hand.

“The clerk brought him a hammer. He shook his head and pointed to the two fingers he was hammering. The clerk brought him nails. He picked out the sizes he wanted, and left. Well, doc, the next guy who came in was a blind man. He wanted scissors. How do you suppose he asked for them?”

Indulgently, I lifted by right hand and made scissoring motions with my first two fingers.

Whereupon my auto-repair man laughed raucously and said, “Why, you dumb jerk, He used his voice and asked for them.”

Then he said smugly, “I’ve been trying that on all my customers today.” “Did you catch many?” I asked. “Quite a few,” he said, “but I knew for sure I’d catch you.”

“Why is that?” I asked. “Because you’re so goddamned educated, doc, I knew you couldn’t be very smart.”

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Autobiography by Dr. Isaac Asimov (1920–1992):

It’s Been a Good Life

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