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	<title>Journeys through space and time</title>
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	<description>Thoughts for the global nomad  - places, people, strategy</description>
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		<title>No one can stop the rising tide.</title>
		<link>http://www.griergovorko.com/blog/2009/10/16/no-one-can-stop-the-rising-tide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grier</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Most things go here]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[experience in the 21st century]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hotels]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you may know that I designed and am developing Somnus-Neu® &#8211; which will change the traveler experience within hotels. I&#8217;m going to outline why I think the time is now.
As a frequent traveler for 20 years I pretty much lived in hotel rooms &#8211; I&#8217;ve been through the $6.00 a minute phone charges [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Note to self.</title>
		<link>http://www.griergovorko.com/blog/2009/10/06/note-to-self/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grier</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.griergovorko.com/blog/?p=643</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When most people invest in something we expect to see a return on our investment &#8211; with a house (prior to the market implosion) 25% return on investment over time, maybe if you were really lucky 100%, double your money, in stocks you might see  18% growth and think &#8220;well that was good going&#8221; I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not helping</title>
		<link>http://www.griergovorko.com/blog/2009/09/20/its-not-helping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grier</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Afghanastan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I hate the phrase &#8220;hearts and minds&#8221; &#8211; it makes me want to puke every-time I read it or see it. &#8220;Winning hearts and minds&#8221; what a nonsensical phrase.
Men in someone elses country with guns and tanks and bombs don&#8217;t win hearts and minds, they piss people off. Did the French think when the Nazi&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook buttons&#8230;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.griergovorko.com/blog/2009/09/17/facebook-buttons/</link>
		<comments>http://www.griergovorko.com/blog/2009/09/17/facebook-buttons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grier</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.griergovorko.com/blog/?p=636</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Trying to get our heads around these little facebook icons &#8211; after stumbling through some friendly advice from the facebook &#8220;help&#8221; page &#8211; here&#8217;s a link to the Somnus-Neu page &#8211; feel free to click it and drop in.
Somnus-Neu

Promote Your Page Too
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		<title>Free!</title>
		<link>http://www.griergovorko.com/blog/2009/09/11/free/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grier</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[free-speech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health-care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[speech]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.griergovorko.com/blog/?p=627</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t believe in conspiracy theories. But I do believe in evolution, in this particular sense, I&#8217;m not talking about Darwin&#8217;s theory of evolution, although I wholeheartedly believe in that. I&#8217;m talking about another kind of evolution, a more insidious type of shift.
We seem to have evolved our free-speech to such an extent that it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whats good for the goose &#8211; not so good for the gander.</title>
		<link>http://www.griergovorko.com/blog/2009/09/06/whats-good-for-the-goose-not-so-good-for-the-gander/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The finance ministers of the G20 can&#8217;t agree on how to limit bonuses to bankers &#8211; the U.S, the U.K and Canada seemingly would rather do nothing about it what so ever. The BBC report here .
One great idea they came up with,  is to &#8220;claw-back&#8221; bonuses if they are deemed ill-fitting to the goal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are we missing the forest for the trees?</title>
		<link>http://www.griergovorko.com/blog/2009/09/01/are-we-missing-the-forest-for-the-trees/</link>
		<comments>http://www.griergovorko.com/blog/2009/09/01/are-we-missing-the-forest-for-the-trees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1 Carbon credit is supposedly the offset for 1 ton of carbon.  Credits can be traded ,with the obvious advent of more and more carbon somehow they will become a trade-able commodity if I&#8217;m to understand it correctly.
We&#8217;ve just witnessed the melt-down of the financial world &#8211; which came about primarily through unregulated markets being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When the new thing has been staring you in the face</title>
		<link>http://www.griergovorko.com/blog/2009/08/23/when-the-new-thing-has-been-staring-you-in-the-face/</link>
		<comments>http://www.griergovorko.com/blog/2009/08/23/when-the-new-thing-has-been-staring-you-in-the-face/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grier</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.griergovorko.com/blog/?p=617</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Amazingly enough if you chip away at a problem long enough &#8211; the break through comes when you least expect it &#8211; can&#8217;t plan for them:)
For 2 months I&#8217;ve been confounded by a technical concern &#8211; turns out the answer had been screaming at me the whole time &#8211; I was looking in the wrong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deal us a fair hand.</title>
		<link>http://www.griergovorko.com/blog/2009/08/19/somone-deal-us-a-fair-hand/</link>
		<comments>http://www.griergovorko.com/blog/2009/08/19/somone-deal-us-a-fair-hand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grier</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Most things go here]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medical reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reform]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.griergovorko.com/blog/?p=609</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When the process of change is impeded by the process itself, is change possible?  Is pragmatism an option?
From a pragmatic standpoint the debate on health care reform in the U.S is at odds with itself. The underlying concern is to get 47 million or so uninsured people insured. But if you take the word insurance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s my name&#8230;when you write about me?</title>
		<link>http://www.griergovorko.com/blog/2009/08/12/who-am-i-when-you-write-about-me/</link>
		<comments>http://www.griergovorko.com/blog/2009/08/12/who-am-i-when-you-write-about-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grier</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Most things go here]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media spin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[propaganda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[18 months ago I read the Bangkok post as Viktor Bout was hauled out of the Sofitel hotel on Silom Rd in Bangkok for allegedly agreeing to sell arms to U.S agents masquerading as FARC members.
Today the Thai court ruled against extradition to the U.S which well they should have. It&#8217;s really time the U.S [...]]]></description>
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