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When creating a presentation a person whats to have the right amount of style and formating. Too much style can take away from a presentation and when dealing with the Millennium Goal Project one wants to keep the emphasis on the goal/issue/topic at hand. When looking for inspiration i found this amazing competition (from Core77) :

People use a provided software to create intricate and highly complex scenes. These scenes are riddled with design elements and principles. The highly knowledgeable people creating these designs are putting many hours into the complex scenes (which must be completed around a sphere).

This is truly amazing and i think that its a great way to get a community of people to come together. I would like to use this same concept to get people to help Goal #7 to design a proper presentation.

Here are the rules:

1) The design must not be too flashy. The issue at hand is a serious one and a person does not want to take away from the issue at hand.

2) The design should relate to water pollution in a graphic way in terms of a power point presentation.

3) The structure should relay information easily to the reader. Should present the information in sections, partitioned into slides which relate to one another with transitions between them.

These are the goals of the presentation that one would have to take int account. The information is up to the researcher, but the way it is presented can make or break a project. Hopefully we will have many great submissions and to create an incentive to the community we will offer a $5.00 gift card valid at local Jimmy John locations.

Pick any of the delicious and well made sandwiches from their gourmet menu:

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GRRRR!!! O.K. First off "upload file" jerk face thing can really make me angry! I just typed this thing up and i wanted a nice little picture and boom, new entry started and my existing one gone. Soo, here we go /end rant

Are we better off living in todays society? Are we better thinkers, are we less corrupt, and are we better people? As we walk through gratuitous amounts of concrete are we subjecting our mind with unnecessary confrontations and situations? What is it in todays society to survive out in the iron jungle? And as we walk through it, does our subconscious record things that will shape us into different people? There is a string of hard questions dealing with the unseen, the unknown. These are hard questions because we cannot talk to subconscious, it sits and takes in information, but can affect us greatly. The subconscious can be a good thing, it makes us hungry, thirsty, and gives us sex drive. Not bad eh, but it also makes addicts want more drugs and smokers to want more cigarettes. So here we go, if we want to search the hidden subconscious

Now we are on the same wave length lets think on how human beings were designed. Do you believe we were destined to take over the world and dominate over all other beings? In most cases kill them and take their land? I feel like clockwork has faltered here. There must have been a turning point back in history were something went horribly wrong. I'm not one to guess when that was or how drastic of a change it would have to be. But i believe that the overall values and beliefs that human beings can dominate and not coexist is bad news bears. On our current track maybe Aldous Huxley (brave new world) will be hailed in the future for being such a genius at predicting the outcome of the human race, i hope not. Maybe I'm going crazy from CO2 dumping cars and building-ed horizons. We all need a vacation, yeah. The sound of leaves in our ears and the smell of wind coming off of water.

Lol cats, as promised

*I do not endorse the use of ANY illegal drug use.

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As human beings we take our environment for granted. Society in general believes that the earth is so large that it can contain and deal with our species short comings. Obviously we were wrong. I don't want to get into global warming and all that jazz, because i feel as if that topic has been beat to death. So lets talk about oil:

The above figure illustrates oil production in the world. What happens when we reach the peak? There is going to be an oil crisis (period). Lets take a look at oil discovery:

As you can see, oil discovery has become less and less. We are finding less and less oil because we are good at finding it. We have found the large quantities out there, but there are only small fields left. After we stop finding new ones and others go dry there will be no more oil to drill for. Then what? Alternative energy sources? What about public transportation? Or just TRANSPORTATION!?? What are we going to do? There isn't much time, supposedly there will be a crisis within 20-30 years. Can we design and engineer other ways of transporting a nation?

Transportation is not the only issue that we will run into when the oil runs dry. Look at any man made object and there is a very good likelihood that it was built from petroleum products. The computer you are viewing this page from is made of 90% plastic which is an product of oil. Your car is mainly plastic, most containers are plastic, you entire environment is surrounded by oil products.

So i leave you with a thought, what can you do to reduce your dependency on oil? Condition yourself, because the end is near!

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