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• Call of Duty Giving Back

  
  BeefJack - The Gamer's Sauce. — Authority: 522
  Activision Blizzard, the people behind the wildly popular Call of Duty series, has announced what they are calling the Call of Duty Endowment (CODE). The purpose of this fund is to combat the struggle that veterans face when they come home from war. In the United States, at this time, there are over 500,000 unemployed ...
  5 hours ago

• Activision and Call of Duty Do Something Right for a Change

  
  Aeropause Games — Authority: 485
  I have been an avid critic of the things that Infinity Ward and Activision have done with the latest release of Call of Duty, to the point that I am actively boycotting the purchase of the title.  But now, I have to get behind at least one initiative with the Call of Duty brand that Activision is getting behind, and ...
  10 hours ago

• Rocco makes peace with Peoria

  
  Gratuitous Violins — Authority: 421
  So Rocco Landesman , chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts , made it to Peoria. (Thats him with the cast of Rent presented by the citys Eastlight Theatre .) As you may recall, the former head of Broadways Jujamcyn Theatres got himself in hot water for a comment to The New York Times about a certain ...
  15 hours ago

• Activision Donates 1M$ to Aid People Who Played on Veteran in Real Life

  
  LazyGamer .:: Console and PC Gaming News ::. — Authority: 493
  Today marks quite possibly the biggest videogame launch in the history of the multiverse. While some of you, particularly PC gamers, may be boycotting the game and others hate on Activision for whatever other reasons, today Activision shows us another, softer side. In what seems to go against Activison CEO Bobby ...
  16 hours ago

• Tearing Down and Building Up Walls

  
  Big Government — Authority: 793
  Today marks the twentieth anniversary of the destruction of the Berlin Wall, the most visible symbol of the Iron Curtain that divided the Free World from those in bondage. Only a few short years before, Ronald Reagan famously challenged Gorbachev to “tear down this wall” . Two years after the fall of the Wall, ...
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• Activision to use Modern Warfare 2 launch to help US Veterans

  
  Download Full Version Game Downloads Now — Authority: 162
  Filed under: Culture , FPS , Multiplayer , Modern Warfare 2 Tomorrow publisher Activision is supposed to officially launch Modern Warfare 2 (although as we have reported some stores have gone ahead and broken the street date for the game). This Wednesday, the US also celebrates the Veteran’s Day ...
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• SOMOS News

  
  Taos Real Estate — Authority: 124
  ULTIMA IS HERE! Thank you to Summer Wood, Alison Gonzales, George Jaramillo and  ALL  of the  committed volunteers for an  incredible event  @ the Taos Library Public Library and  @ the TCA on Saturday!!!  KUDOS  to all of you! PAINT A  MURAL, PAINT  AN OWL,  READ A STORY! ...
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• Temple Worship by Elder John A. Widtsoe

  
  Temple Study - LDS Temples, Mormon Temples, Study Blog Temple Study LDS Temples, Mormon Temples, Study Blog — Authority: 461
  Elder John A. Widtsoe (1872-1952) Occasionally you encounter a talk or book or article that is a classic.  Elder John A. Widtsoe ’s talk on “Temple Worship” given at a meeting of the Genealogical Society of Utah at the Assembly Hall in Salt Lake on October 12, 1920, is one of those talks.  There are ...
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• Activision donating $1 million to help war vets

  
  The Tanooki — Authority: 570
  Activision Blizzard has announced plans to donate $1 million to war veterans through a foundation titled The “Call of Duty Endowment,” or CODE. The funds are to help charities which specifically provided assistance for former troops to help find them careers post service. CEO of Activision Bobby Kotick spoke ...
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• Activision establishing Call of Duty Endowment, donating $1 million to war veteran aid

  
  Joystiq — Authority: 790
  On the eve of Modern Warfare 2 s official release, the games publisher has announced intentions to donate $1 million to veteran-related charities through a newly created foundation. The "Call of Duty Endowment" (or simply "CODE") is said to "support other groups that assist veterans with their careers," reports the ...
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• Making money from death, is it moral?

  
  Irish Mortgage Brokers Blog — Authority: 124
  Financial innovation has meant you can make money from many things which may or may not be considered morally correct, there are ’short sellers’ who make money when the price of a stock drops, some people consider that a bad thing, others feel that it is proof of an efficient market working correctly. Then you ...
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• Incrementing Eric Schmidt’s CHUTZPAH Count

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  When it comes to Google-based Chutzpah of the Week awards, my recent practice seems to have been to assign them at the corporate level , rather than singling out individuals. Nevertheless, Eric Schmidt is one of the earliest Chutzpah of the Week award winners ; and, in a week in which he has given us ...
  3 days ago

• Links We Like: Chapels and Temples — Glimpses inside each, and how they differ

  
  Mormon Women: Who We Are — Authority: 128
  Have you ever wondered what goes on inside of the meetinghouses of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? See this LDS Newsroom story that explains more about our buildings and what kinds of meetings we hold in them. As the article explains, our meetinghouses are both places of worship and centers of ...
  3 days ago

• Iranian dissident wins award

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  The exiled Iranian dissident and philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo has been awarded the 2009 Peace Prize by Spain’s Association for the United Nations. The award recognizes his intellectual contribution to advancing non-violence both as philosophy and political strategy.“I feel like it means I’m on the right path ...
  4 days ago

• No Longer Afraid of Her Shadow

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  The most humble of activists are often the most inspiring. Check out this profile of Elsa Mamani, a shy Peruvian woman – “I used to be an ordinary housewife, afraid of my own shadow” – who now leads CODECC (Coordinadora Departamental de Defensorías Comunitarias del Cusco), an energetic group of women fighting ...
  4 days ago

• Calling North Korea

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  The Obama administration’s prospective Special Envoy for North Korean human rights has called for more pro-democracy broadcasting into North Korea, just as the founder of Free North Korean Radio, is awarded an international human rights prize.The Taiwan Foundation for Democracy has awarded its 2009 Asia Democracy ...
  4 days ago

• Democracy events

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  November 9, 2009. 20 Years Ago: The Fall of the Berlin WallThe Friedrich Naumann Foundation invites you to a Roundtable Discussion with Torsten Herbst, Member of the State Legislature of Saxony, Secretary General of the Saxon Free Democratic Party (FDP). The Willard InterContinental Hotel, Crystal Room, 1401 ...
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• Jobs & Opportunities

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 434
  Rights & Democracy’s International conference on Sharia and family law reform Rights & Democracy, the Canadian democracy assistance group, is searching for two speakers to present papers at an international conference on Sharia and family law reform in Muslim countries that we are hosting next February in ...
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• Obama to Asia: The United States Is Back

  
  Guam Okinawa plus Washington Tokyo — Authority: 154
  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Douglas H. Paal Web Commentary, November 6, 2009 Next week, President Barack Obama leaves for his first tour of the Asia-Pacific region since he entered the White House in January. Obama will land in Tokyo, the first of stop in a 10-day, four-country tour of the ...
  4 days ago

• Consortium of Foundations Addresses the Role of Health in Educat...

  
  Money employment & careers - money-employment.marc8.com — Authority: 147
  Funded by the California Endowment and the James Irvine and William and Flora Hewlett foundations, the California Education Supports Project will work to explore the connection between health and education and help develop policy recommendations....
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