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Howard County, Maryland Must Be A Friendly Place To Visit.
Howard County Maryland is a community that chose to be a model of civility. They chose respect, consideration, empathy, and tolerance as their fundamental values, enhancing the community's quality of life. The Choose… -
A Must-See: Portofino, Italy
Portofino is a classic everyone-must-go-there-once holiday destination. No new houses have been built since 1935, making Portofino a gem of such shimmering polish that over the years it has dazzled everyone from Clark… -
Geek Heaven in Akihabara
With broadband connections ten times faster than the U.S. and 90 percent of the population owning mobile phones, it is not surprising that Japan has its own “Electronic Town.” Called Akihabara, it is the center of “o… -
Phone Booths Nearly Extinct in NYC!
Remember phone booths? Not pay phones, but the actual booths you got into in order to access that phone. Well there are only four left in all of Manhattan! Hey who needs privacy anymore? Maybe Clark Kent? -
Tweet Your Prayers to the Western Wall
For centuries, people have written prayers on scraps of paper and stuffed them into the ancient cracks in the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. In recent years they could fax or e-mail their prayers — and now t… -
Japan's Canned Coffee: A History
Ready-to-drink coffee in cans first became available in Japan in 1969. It was developed by a company called UCC Ueshima Coffee Co., a coffee manufacturer and retailer based in the city of Kobe. Until the arrival of can… -
Artic Ice Shrinks to Second Lowest Level
Crucial Arctic sea ice last summer shrank to its second lowest level on record, continuing an alarming trend, scientists announced. The ice covered 1.74 million square miles on Friday, marking a low point for this su… -
Bullet Trains: Japan High Speed Rail Lines
The Japanese Shinkansen is the world's busiest high-speed rail line. Carrying 151 million passengers a year, it has transported more passengers (4.5 billion) than all other high speed lines in the world combined. -
Pink Lights Scare Teens in the UK?
Wow did everyone see this story? I see that pink is used in a prison in Arizona to keep inmates in line but this is amazing. Pink lights have been installed on a housing estate in a bid to deter gathering teenagers by hi… -
Smart Car Vending Machine?
There are millions of vending machines in Japan. They dispense everything from beer and rice to comics and now smart cars?
About Gentemann@xanga
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- From: Gentemann@xanga
- Name: Gerald
- About Me: After working globally for both McCann Erickson and BBDO Worldwide in more than 26 countries I started a mobile marketing consulting firm called Mobilize Worldwide. We help Fortune 500 companies take advantage of the power of mobile devices. Mobilize starts and executes every assignment with the assumption that there is a tangible business goal to achieve and that our communication strategies must align with the business objectives of our clients.
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