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I want everyone to observe what I'm about to to point out closely. When Glenn Beck held a positive, uplifting, non-political rally where he talked about restoring honor and greatness to America, saluting and supporting our military and encouraging people to renew their relationships with God, he hit the nest. And the demons just flew everywhere.
I'm not talking about the birds in formation like the Holy Spirit before the rally began. I'm talking about the buzzards that were flying around newsrooms across America.
Yes, we saw the tears in Glenn's and Sarah's eyes. Yes, we heard brilliant and prayerful words from Alveda King. And yes, we left that rally feeling better about ourselves and our nation because we knew we were no longer alone - we had each other and we had God. But Satan doesn't like that and he is roaring out of the gates of hell to reclaim his earthy territory.
Lucifer took to Beau Friedlander's keyboard yesterday and posted a nasty article on the Huffington Post - an article so nasty that even the Huffington Post took it down. He was offering $100,000 for a sex tape or anything that would destroy Glenn Beck's career. How much for that soul again, oh prince of darkness?
Pulling the Huffpo article didn't stop Satan. He also has a platform on MSNBC. "And then God will do magic tricks," Keith Olbermann said mockingly of Beck. Satan also shows up in newsrooms across America with the head count: 87,000 attended the rally. About 500,000 people were actually at the rally and he had no souls to show for it. Of course he's going to skew the numbers.
Since he has unwittingly gotten into the minds of writers at the Daily Kos, MSNBC and the New York Times, Satan leads a busy life. Souls used to be easy to come by when Americans shied away from invoking God in its political discourse. But ever since Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin teamed up and actually talked long enough for the laughing, the mocking and the angry yelling to stop, people actually began to realize that there might just be something to this.
How many people would be trying to destroy Glenn Beck if he was still a no name drunk doing a small town radio show? How many people would be trying to destroy Sarah Palin if she was still a no name Hockey mom running a fishing business in Wasilla, Alaska? Remember, I asked you to observe at the beginning of this article.
Glenn Beck prayed with Alveda King, niece of civil rights hero Dr. Martin Luther King. So much for the racist angle. What a loss for the great deceiver. Beck was a philandering drunk years ago. That soul was in the bag, or so he thought. But Glenn Beck turned his life around and did something that negative unhappy people cannot stomach: he changed his way of thinking. He found the good and pursued it.
There is something cruel about our nature; and Satan capitalizes on that. The more good someone does, the more crap they take. It's easy to understand why people would just take the money and run. But good people don't do that. They persevere. They do things because of a higher calling. And those who envy them can either be happy for them, aspire to be like them or they can hate them for juxtaposing that success next to their own miserable personal failures.
No good deed goes unpunished. Expect the beatings to only get worse for Glenn and Sarah. Why? Because they are only getting better and stronger with each passing day. This will not sit well with Satan.
Word around the internet (Glenn himself may have started this) is that Sarah Palin prayed for ten minutes before giving her speech. Who in their right mind can possibly hate this woman? Disagree with her politically? Fine. But hate her? Come on!
This is the same woman who is vilified by hateful negative people who want to do nothing but tear her down. They wrote lies that were read on national news shows to destroy her vice presidential candidacy. They filed unfounded frivolous ethics complaints that destroyed her governorship. They lied about her children and they lied about her marriage.
A friend of mine texted me while I was writing this article. He couldn't understand why CNN was tearing Palin down. Do you want to know why this is happening? Want to know why Palin's unfavorables are still high? Just ask Satan to explain how he uses the media to plant those demons of doubt and dislike into the minds of unsuspecting independents who will tell you they don't think Sarah Palin can be president yet can't really explain why.
I asked two friends of mine on Long Island why people in New York don't like Sarah Palin. One said he thinks it's because she kills turkeys or something. The other thinks Palin personally gets into helicopters and shoots wolves for sport.
The truth burns negative people like holy water and in their anguish they poison people like my friends in New York. Every miserable dead-butt in America keeps buying into it. They project their misery onto people like Beck and Palin instead of facing themselves in the mirror and seeing their own inadequacies.
Glenn Beck scalded the Devil with his positive God loving words Saturday. The demonic dragon is now angered by the pain and breathes more fire and life into the ugliness that makes up the darkest recesses of the souls who cannot look at that picture above and feel love. The fight for the country will require more resolve, more steel spines and more faith than ever before because of this. But, as Sarah Palin told us Saturday, we can do it.
The negative people described in this article and the rest of the Beck and Palin haters don't wake up in the morning and say "ah, I'm going to find Satan today and become evil." It doesn't work that way. Satan finds them. Satan is the car in your blind spot. He is that piece of broken glass that cuts you before you see it. If you don't know he's there, he will get you by default. We must always stay on our toes.
Those haters are fellow human beings who need our prayers. They are unknowingly and unwillingly Satan's puppets. The evil spew that they direct at Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck is like the puke that comes from Linda Blair's mouth in The Exorcist. The holy water burns and they must refute or have their miserable world views refuted.
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Dominion which was unfortunately hindered on this occasion by an incorrect interpretation of the rules – my fault. However it was a pleasant surprise that Gwen was enthusiastic about this game and thought that it compared well with Fresco, a game I thought she would prefer. Somewhere along the way we managed to squeeze in some chocolate panatone as the munchies for this evening, sorry no photo's.
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Continuing with the promotion of the new line of summer shades from R&D Eyewear – iCandy™ – my good friend and model, Debora Santos do Nacimiento, wears the shades as we visit the streets of Miami! Thank you Debbie, what a good time we had, I hope you enjoy these photographs as much as I enjoyed working with you. Miss you…Be blessed!
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May 4th R&D EyeWear took downtown Miami by storm. Waxy O'Connor's hosted their first promo party and if you weren't able to attend lets re-cap the highlighted event.
Raisa Cohen and Daniel Franklin were on hand in association with Mr. Miami Marvin, Eyes On Miami, and TatyCohen Photography to present R&D's first product line called iCandy's and launched their web site to the world. R&D's fan base was out in force to support the two young entrepreneurs.
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Before we even turned on the news or opened the paper this morning, we knew that the Vatican had chosen a new pope. How? Well, as we were making toast for our breakfast, a puff of white smoke issued from the toaster.Then we were amazed to find what was surely a sign from on high: a piece of toast emblazoned with the unmistakable image of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the new Pope Benedict XVI.
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A trend toward smaller tuition hikes?
Several colleges have announced minimal tuition increases for the 2011-12 academic year, following a recent trend toward smaller tuition bumps in an academy increasingly concerned about price.
George Washington University trustees last week approved a 2.9-percent tuition increase for incoming undergraduates and capped the total cost-of-attendance increase at 2.7 percent.
GWU's board also reaffirmed the unusual 2004 initiative that holds tuition at a set rate for five years, more or less locking students in at the tuition they pay as freshmen.
Tuition for 2011 undergraduate students will be $44,148 annually for up to five years, provided they remain in good academic standing.
It's noteworthy that both GWU and Georgetown University have inched down the dreaded list of most expensive colleges in the past few years, which is what happens when you pitch your tuition increases a point or two lower than peer institutions.
Tuition is rising about 4.5 percent a year in the higher education industry as a whole. Surveys and studies consistently show college sticker prices are rising more slowly now (since the Great Recession) than at most times in the past 20 years. Aid is rising faster than price, which means the net price of college (tuition minus aid) is actually declining a bit. Fifty-thousand-dollar price tags suggest otherwise, but the truth is that college does not cost more to the average student now than five years ago.
Stanford University trustees approved a 3.5-percent increase in total undergraduate charges, including living expenses, for 2011-12. The "comprehensive" fee will reach $52,341, including $40,050 in tuition.
Closer in, Marymount University in Virginia reports a 2.5-percent tuition increase, its lowest in at least a decade. Undergraduate tuition and fees for 2011-12 will total $23,700.
I haven't heard from any other colleges. I see from the wires, though, that tuition at Brown is up a 3.5 percent for 2011-12.
And in New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has said he will oppose any increase in tuition at the state's public universities.
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This will have unexpected consequences. As colleges rely less on tuition and more on other sources of revenue, pressure on faculty to obtian research grants will increase. We will have even more of a "publish or perish" imperative and less emphasis on teaching. Class sizes will increase and more classes will be taught by graduate students. We have to face reality. It costs big bucks to hire people with Ph.D.'s to give live lectures and to heat large stone building with ivy covered exteriors. That money has to come from somewhere. Or we have to switch to a model of remote teaching by a smaller number of outstanding faculty. Then we have to figure out how to find jobs for all those laid off Ph.D.'s.
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Eben Sadie has released the latest vintages of both his two signature wines – 2011, that is, and the tenth vintage of Palladius! – and the eight wines in his Old Vineyard Series – 2012. Various factors make this the most impressive release so far. And I'd venture to suggest that there is no finer range of wines in the country. Given the scope of them, and the quality, I'd have no hesitation now in naming this the Cape's leading winery – though there are a few very close behind.
So why are these the best Sadie Family wines yet? Firstly, I suppose, Eben has been growing in uderstanding of the grapes and vines he works with. This particularly applies to the Old Vines Series, of which this is now the fourth vintage (one wine has been dropped – Eselshoek, the jerepigo, and a few were added in the second vintage).
It's not so much any improvements in the vineyards – though the careful, understanding viticulture of both Eben and Rosa Kruger (whose contribution to these wines should not be forgotten). Picking times are perhaps more appropriate, through increased understanding of both wines and vines – hence the generally lower alcohols. But even more, Eben feels, it is learning to understand the fermentations better. The OV wines are now generally fermented in larger tanks, and this is having an effect on the dryness (all these are brilliantly dry – not something always found in West Coast white wines), as well as on the focus, the steely, rapier-like concentration.
Freshness is perhaps the key to all the wines coming out of this cellar.
The "steely, rapier-like" remark is one that I intend as a characterisation of all these, including the reds. To which I add that the concentration does not lead to over-powerful, dense wines. They are, indeed, mouthfilling, and persistent in their flavours, but there is, mostly, a truly remarkable delicacy which crucially qualifies this. Indeed a rapier rather than a bludgeon used against us, the so-willing victims!
Another reason relates to, simply, Eben's growing maturity as a winemaker. He no longer wishes – or needs, as a new boy – to impress with that bludgeon. So now, even Columella has only a tiny new-oak component. It's lighter and fresher the last few years than it was – though don't underestimate how wonderful even his maiden 2000 still is to drink.
And more – these are the first wines made since Eben gave up his many annual Spanish visits to play a full role in making the wines of Terroir al Limit in Priorat. A little more focus on his part, then – but I can't help guessing that, somehow, just having more time to think about his wines is having an effect on them. He is the most thoughtful of winemakers. I talked to him recently about surfing – he's off this week to surf the mighty G-land break in Grajagan Bay in East Java – and he remarked on the enormous role played by mental preparedness and focus in top-level surfing: one reason why the best surfers in the world are (I gather) of an age at which tennis-players and footballers have long-since retired. Some similarity here, perhaps.
So, a few remarks on the individual wines (some much longer than others). I can't bring myself to score them and can see no point in doing so.
Skerpioen 2012 Surely the world's finest non-fortified wine made with a majority of palomino, the great sherry grape – 60% this year, with the remainder chenin. The most difficult to understand and appreciate of these wines, I'd venture. Perhaps you have to visit the remarkable chalky vineyard near the Atlantic to penetrate it! (See here for my account of the vineyard.) It is lean and steely, whiplash-lively, with a saline quality, and a depth of subtle flavour. At a mere 12.5%, it is, Eben thinks, probably at the lowest-viable level of alcoholic strength – any less, it would lose ageability as well as the ideal balance it now has. Vies with Palladius as my favourite in the whole line-up.
Skurfberg 2012 From three chenin blanc sites on the rough, low mountains between Clanwilliam and the Atlantic, each contributing something different. Still reductive in bottle; needs time. More texture, richness and power than Skerpioen – so a very different balance. Harmonious. Stone fruit, white flowers, stones, lovely lemon-tinged finish.
'T Voetpad 2012 Field blend from one of the Cape's oldest and most fascinating vineyards (see here) An almond-essence note, as well as the straw of chenin. Composed and compact, with a fine acid bite and beautifully dry finish. Very together, lightly powerful, intense – again retaining an element of delicacy.
Kokerboom 2012 Quite a difficult, intellectual sort of wine this year, it seemed to me – less generous than last vintage. Lemony, mouthfilling, with a stony, mineral elegance – some sweet fruit on a bone-dry base. Fills mouth with dry flavour, and the lengthy finish points up the herbal, green lime elements. From red and standard semillon on the Skurfberg (see here).
Mev Kirsten 2012 From a mostly very old Stellenbosch chenin vineyard; tiny yield and the smallest bottling here, so the most expensive. Normally this is my top wine in the Series, but I was frankly confused by it this year. Very complex, as it always is, the oxidative element beautifully controlled, and all in balanced, with full fruit and some richness. But for me some disconcerting flavours, including a polony-type meatiness! I look forward to trying this wine again.
Pofadder 2012 From an oldish cinsaut block on the Riebeekberg. Delicate, perfumed fruitiness on nose. More volume than previous, and a touch less light-hearted, more rigorous – you no longer need to search so hard for the subtle profundity that is undoubtedly here. Very red, bright fruit. Restrained intensity.
Soldaat 2012 Earthy, dark fruit on this Piekenierskloof grenache. Explodes with power, and fine subtle intensity. Acid, tannin, lovely sweet fruit all in balance, with a cutting freshness. More obviously in need of time in the bottled than is Pofadder.
Treinspoor 2012 This tinta barocca is, again, the wine that delights me least. I just don't get it, though I think some people do – and people I spoke to who'd tasted it on the Friday as well as with me on the Saturday said it was showing better then. Some almost jammy, forward fruit on the nose, with hints of almond essence. A wild element to it, somehow. Fuller, fruitier than others and incomparably weightier tannin that I find sits uneasily with the ripe sweet fruit lasts. Lengthy finish. Difficult.
The signature wines
Palladius 2011 This tenth Palladius is the first with 24 months maturation in various formats before release. I reckon it's probably the best ever – and as I suggested in a tweet, I don't think there's a better white wine made in the Cape. Some thrilling oxidative notes with the incipiently complex fruit. Stunning. So elegant, refined, full of flavour, floral fruit earth aromas, flavours. Intense, mineral, complex, with waves of flavours. Huge intensity but utterly not overwhelming. Flavour lasts and lasts – literally for minutes, I think.
Columella 2011 In drawing parallels with wines of the Rhone, some of the Columellas have almost been more Chateauneuf-like in the rich power (the syrah helped in this direction by the customary 18% mourvedre). This is perhaps the most Northern-Rhone like yet (but of the more classic northern Rhones, not some of the horrid grandly modern, overripe ones!) There is, for a start, a real perfume, but not overdone. Very flowing, liquid, limpid, and restrained. No lack of ripeness, however, though definitely fresher than the Columellas of a few years back (I can't help feeling Eben has learned something from his own Pofadder cinsaut). Fine, serious tannins – tannins like these are the real joy of Swartland syrah, I think. Still very tight, coiled and waiting to spring – in a good few years. Very little new oak – just 10% of the barriques used for the first year of maturation; after that the wine is moved to much larger casks.


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BC: Published on Feb. 19th, 2010. Author: Jessica McGinnis.
FC: Life At Auschwitz death camp. By: Jessica McGinnis.
2: Here's some background information on the holocaust before i get started.
3: The holocaust was the genocide of all Jews.
4: Why I chose this topic. I chose the Auschwitz topic was because i was very interested in the camps that were formed during the Holocaust. I wanted to see what they were fed, what they had to do, what was the living conditions, and what were their punishments.
5: What i already knew & Where I got the information. I already knew that Auschwitz was the most extreme death/ extermination camp. www.google.com www.ask.com www.yahoo.com www.nicenet.org & www.ncwiseowl.net And where I got the information that I already knew was from a book we read in class and knowledge from other grades.
6: My first question. How many people occupied the camp and how many people could it hold ? Keywords i used: Auschwitz. & Population of Auschwitz. | One key pointer; The liberation of Auschwitz was on January 27th, 1945. The population: 2.1 million , to 2.5 million. How many people could it hold?: It could hold more than 200,000 prisoners at a time. But they always put an extra in.
7: Place's used: http://www.kawvalley.k12.ks.us/schools/rjh/marneyg/03_holcaust-projects/03_Brown_Auschwitz.htm http://www.jewishgen.org/ForgottenCamps/Camps/Auschwitz/Eng.html
8: My second question. What was one individual's daily meal at Auschwitz? | Answer. For breakfast. Ten ounces of bread with a small piece of salami, or one ounce of margarine and brown, tasteless coffee with no sugar.
9: For lunch. Around noon they were giving soup, with a quart of water, with a few carrots and rutabagas thrown in. | Their final meal of the day. The final meal of the day was a piece of bread, with a slice of rotten salami, or margarine and jam, sometimes a piece of rotten skim cheese was included.
10: My third question. What was the punishment for the Jew's that tried to escape Auschwitz? | The answer. I couldn't really find the answer, but i did know from prior knowledge. Mostly they got put to death in a gas chamber or shot in a mass grave or even beaten to death.
11: What i learned from this was that the concentration camps were horrible. The living conditions, the food they had to eat.


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CAIRO — At least seven Americans employed by pro-democracy groups in Egypt who have been under criminal investigation will be allowed to leave the country, Egyptian lawyers involved in the case said Wednesday, suggesting that Washington and Cairo might be close to resolving the controversy.
Egypt barred the Americans and several European citizens from leaving the country after authorities raided the Cairo offices of several foreign-funded non-governmental organizations in December. They included the Washington-based National Democratic Institute, the International Republican Institute and Freedom House.
The probe triggered threats from outraged U.S. lawmakers who threatened to cut off the $1.3 billion Egypt gets in U.S. military aid each year.
Hafez Abu Saada, a lawyer representing some of the 43 defendants, said the judicial authorities agreed to lift the travel ban on foreigners as long as each paid a roughly $332,000 bail.
"The case is still ongoing," said Abu Saada, a human rights lawyer who represents three of the Egyptians from Freedom House charged in the case.
Negad el Borai, another lawyer who represents IRI and Freedom House, confirmed in a tweet that the travel ban will be lifted if the foreigners pay the bail amount.
The Associated Press first reported the travel ban would be lifted Wednesday night, citing unnamed Egyptian officials, but it was unclear whether it would actually happen.
A spokesman for the Egyptian general prosecutor's office said Wednesday night that it was not up to them to lift the travel ban, distancing the office from the apparent decision to allow the foreigners to leave. The case began with investigative judges and the prosecution has no hand in the case, said spokesman Adel el Said on state television.
Phone calls to investigative Judge Ashraf Ashmawy, one of the judges overseeing the case, went unanswered on Wednesday.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said the Obama administration could not yet confirm a deal with Egyptian authorities.
"I would note that we have worked this issue very hard with our Egyptian counterparts," Carney told reporters. "It has been a priority of the president to resolve this. And we have made clear throughout the process — Secretary of State Clinton, Secretary of Defense Panetta and others — that we consider it a very serious matter and that it had the potential of affecting our relationship."
Carney declined to comment further, saying he didn't "want to get too far ahead of these reports until we have more details."
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday she was hopeful a resolution was near.
"We believe we will resolve this issue concerning our NGOs in the very near future," Clinton said on Capitol Hill during testimony about the State Department's budget. "That is my best assessment sitting here today."
An official at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo declined to comment.
On Tuesday a three-judge panel overseeing the case pulled out, saying they were "embarrassed," in a memo to Cairo's Court of Appeals. The court case is to be reassigned to another court.
The Egyptian government has accused the groups of working illegally in Egypt, taking illegal funds, doing illegal political work and sowing unrest in Egypt. Although none of the groups are officially licensed, they say they have worked to get registered and have denied the accusations of nefarious foreign funding.
By Leila Fadel, Updated: Wednesday, February 29, 9:55 PM
Staff writer Joby Warrick contributed to this report from Washington.
The Original article on Washington Post
In my opinion ( the site owner ) It was a political game from the beginning to hide their crimes .. the revolution will never stop until they leave


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Internet Privacy Issues of 2017
The widespread use of the Internet has inevitably led to intense debates about the issue of user privacy. There are individuals who spend all their waking hours on the Internet, divulging information and performing tasks that are easily accessible by millions of strangers from all around the world.
With this vast sea of information out in the public domain, it was only a matter of time before malicious parties started attacking and misusing this information, and this has led to a public outcry against the distribution of such information.
There are several privacy issues which are plaguing the Internet today, and most of these stem from the basic fact that most people do not know what kind of information they should and should not post on the Internet. The first piece of advice that any Internet user should remember is to not put any information out there that you do not want someone else to see.
You should accept the fact that anything that is on the Internet can be accessed by someone, one way or another, so nothing is totally secure. People who carry out financial transactions online need to post their details and information online, but they should also be aware that anything can happen anytime. So always be prepared for the worst.
There will come a time when advertisers will know everything about you so that they can send you a highly personalized advertisement, and who is to say that this is not a violation of one's privacy? The only way to avoid this is to regulate the information that you actually choose to share and express over the Internet.
In Phishing, usually a web page which looks similar or exactly same as the one requested by the user is sent to their browser. Then the user enters login credentials, like username and password on this webpage to which the hacker has complete access.
In Pharming, the user gets redirected to a totally different webpage from the one requested. This fraudulent web page then starts fetching critical information like login credentials, sites visited, etc.
There are several other platforms over which such hackers can operate, and the only person who will suffer is the individual whose information has been hacked into. Unfortunately, there is no way around this, since many people do perform financial transactions over the Internet. The only thing one can really do is pay and pray that one does not experience such a calamity.
For those of you to whom Dark web is something new, we will provide an explanation about the same. Dark web basically deals with things that are mostly illegal. There are several websites out there, which are into gambling, selling and buying drugs and weapons, abuse, illegitimate pornography, hiring a hit-man and plenty of other illegal stuff which might be inappropriate for a large number of internet users. Users visiting websites on the Dark web are critically prone towards being attacked by a hacker. Hence such websites should be avoided.
This issue becomes even more serious because some websites store cookies on one's browser without their permission. This is considered a grave offense, because the information provided in these cookies leads to the activation of malware, spyware, unwanted advertisements, and other spam. A cookie itself does not cause any harm, but the information that a cookie carried on the hard drive of a machine can be severely misused by many malicious parties.
Malware and Spyware are also huge threats to privacy because these are programs that sneak into the machine of an individual through the Internet, and then relay back information to another location from time to time. This eventually leads to data theft, illegal data distribution, and monetization of personal information of Internet users.
There are still no detailed laws that govern this realm. This is simply appalling, to say the least, since there are so many millions of people who are constantly online now through advanced smart-phones and tablets. The chances of someone's privacy getting violated over the Internet are at their highest right now, and we are eagerly awaiting a day when some stringent laws and tracking systems are enforced so that the people who break these laws are dealt with, in the harshest way possible.
- Always ensure that you use the format https://(name of the website) in the address bar of your browser. For example, https://www.buzzle.com
- Ensure that you make payments using your credit and debit cards only to the sources you are certain about.
- Use passwords that are difficult to predict and have a combination of capital and small alphabets, numbers as well as special characters.
- Do not use passwords that are easy to predict, such as names of family members, relatives or pets. Avoid using phone numbers or birth dates in your password. Such information can be easily found out through Social Engineering.
- Do not share critical information like username, password, credit / debit card number, PIN, etc over the phone to anybody under any circumstances. Visit the bank if necessary to make changes in your account.
- Do not share the one time password that you get on your phone with anybody under any circumstances.
- Use secure modes of payment such as PayPal for making online purchases, especially from vendors overseas.
- If you are redirected to a web page different from the one you requested, immediately close your browser and clear the browser history and cookies.
- Learn to keep certain things private and use the social media judiciously.
- Avoid using the Dark web and clicking on links which have suffixes like .onion
- Do not click on the emails or links on websites that look suspicious to you. Be careful while going through the emails in the spam/junk folder of your mailbox. Click on them only if you are sure that it isn't spam and has been sent from a relevant source.


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The Hard Cold Facts: LeBron Will Soon Be 2-4 In NBA Finals….
If game one is any indicator, Even as close as the game was considering it went into overtime and also considering that Lebron's performance was superb (44 Pts. 8 Rebs. 6 Asst's). EXCEPT when it mattered most and the end result was a loss in game one. The Indicator witnessed, is indicating that it could be over quick for the Cavs. Now Today Cleveland received the BIGGEST indicator yet that it could be all OVER for them.
The bad thing is that Lebron is playing with four other players on the court as a team and while many were saying in the early aftermath of the Warriors home win, that James choked during the overtime, scoring just 2 of his 44 pts. you can't expect James to take on and defeat the whole Golden State team.
Cleveland suffered a HUGE devastating blow today when it became known that Kyrie Irving had fractured his left knee cap and will miss the rest of the championship series and with that news it leaves Center's Timofey Mozgov 16 pts. in game one, and Tristin Thompson a DISAPPOINTING 2 Pts. SG's, Iman Shumpert 6 Pts. and JR Smith 9 Pts. as the remaining top four starters for the Cavaliers.
if you take away now departed Kyrie Irving's 23 pts. for game one, that means the Cavs. would have lost 100 to 77, not counting what ever few other points Irving's sub. would have scored had he not played in game one and that's what Cleveland has to look at as they prepare for game two.
You cannot expect Lebron to be everywhere thru out the game, score double what the 2nd highest player on the team scores, haul in 8 Rebs. and still be completely fresh during OT . Even though 2 pt.s IS a significant drop off, the bottom line is that if Lebron had been out for any reason, The Cav's would have never made it to OT in the first place YET alone the playoffs….
The Warriors point distribution, on the other hand shows a much more balanced all around team. SF's Harrison Barnes 11 Pts. Draymond Green 12 Pts. C's Andrew Bogut 4 Pts. Marreese Speights 8 Pts and Festus Ezeli 5 Pts. PG's Stephen Curry 26 Pts. and Shaun Livingston 6 Pts. SG's Klay Thompson 21 Pts. Andre Iquodala 15 Pts. and Leandro Barbosa even scored 2 Pts.
So that's 10 players for the Warriors that contributed to the scoring vs 6 for the Cavs. It was rumored that the Warriors were thinking having a lottery during the overtime period with the winners from the crowd dressing out and getting in a few points for the team, but Lebron's 42 Pts. during regulation made them second guess the move. OH well, maybe in game two….
So with Kyrie now gone from the Cav's lineup how long can King James hold up? How many games will it take for the Warriors to clinch the inevitable? OR Can the Cleveland Lebronaliers manage a MIRACLE and pull it off?
This is Whats On My Sports Mind about this subject….
It would have been impossible for Kyrie Irving to last the entire series with his banged up knee. He probably should have NEVER played at all….
Lebron cannot win the series alone and what speaks VOLUMES to My Sports Mind is the LACK of support from the rest of the team OTHER than Irving had, who still managed to contribute 23 Pts in game one, bad knee and all and scored MORE points than all other HEALTHY players besides Lebron and by more than double than all other HEALTHY players except for Timofey Mozgof's 16 Pts.
I said in my article I posted on May 30th, that I expected the Warriors to win in 6, even though I didn't completely count out the Cav's since they do have Lebron on the team. If he was still in South Beach we wouldn't even be discussing the Cavs. BUT even with Lebron on the team it's time to start counting to ten and also time in My Sports Mind, to start re-counting the number of games it will take for Golden State to win the championship.
I think Lebron IS good enough and should get barely enough support from the Inadequate's to muster up two home wins. So I'm gonna trim one game off my prediction for the Warriors to win it in six games and give it to Golden State in five….BUT if Cleveland can't manage to win game 2 at Golden State OR game three in Cleveland, you can expect to see Warrior fans breaking out the brooms in anticipation of a sweep and that certainly would NOT set well with Lebron,,,,
So What's On Your Sports Mind about this subject?
Jul 23 2015
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Christensen launches 43m Custom Series Missing Link
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Christensen Shipyards has announced the launch of Missing Link, the first in its 43 metre Custom Series.
[Christensen signed the contract the new custom 43 metre series superyacht](www.boatinternational.com/2012/03/19/christensen-signs-contract-for-new-custom-43m-series-superyacht/) in March 2012. It was a deal brokered by Tom George of Tom George Yacht Group between the Vancouver yard and a US client.
"We are excited to see Missing Link sitting in the water perfectly on its lines as designed", says Christensen CEO Joe Foggio. "The hull is flawless in its finish and really strikes the attention of anyone who sees it. We are appreciative of the owners who chose Christensen to build with."
The interior, designed by Carol Williamson and Associates, has five staterooms, a full beam skylounge and an elevator through all the decks including the sun deck. Missing Link also has a helicopter touch-and-go facility. Within the nine metre beam, the boat boasts a capacious interior. The interior design features satin finished walnut cabinetry, accented by dark high gloss furniture and inlay stone floors. Notable within the design is the use of space and large windows, bringing natural light into the interior and showing off the dark gloss to its full effect. The dining table can seat 10 people.
Outdoor spaces are also integral to the guest experience on Missing Link, with three decks and a large sundeck up top, with plenty of room for sunloungers, despite having to make room for the heli-pad. A crew of eight will look after the guests on board.
She is powered by twin MTU 12V 4000 diesel engines, which Christensen predict would give her a 16-knot top speed and a range of 3,500 nautical miles. Classified and certified to ABS Commercial Yachting Services classification & MCA-LY2 Large Commercial Yacht Code Compliant, Missing Link is due to undergo sea trials and commissioning in time for a February delivery.


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At the start of a new calendar year folks make many promises to themselves and to others. Thus far, THE HIM, Hasan, made the New Years Resolution to be more of the debonair and 30 lbs lighter man he assured me I would have all the days of my life if I married him. He lied! And if he loses 30 lbs, his legs may get to skinny.
Who wants that? So, let's keep the weight so we can keep the legs.
See the trade off? It's worth it…right?
Your life and well-being is so much more relevant than weight, skinny legs or to be delegated to 365 days in a New Years Resolution.
With that being said, here are 2 things NOT to do for 2018.
- You will not make any New Years Resolutions. We said it! Close your mouf! None. Not one.
Your resolve comes over time. Some issues, you can create resolution in a month. In another matter, it may take the remainder of your life. Another heart thumper or head blocker may keep you stumped for a year or two. 2018 is not the beginning of your life. You jumpstart your life, not a new calendar year. You are the central focus of all of this. You make this merry round Go!
Sure, we encourage you to have self-awareness, to be a more directed learner, to put away your coins, to earn more coins, to start the business you want or to get the nerve to dye your hair purple in your 40's. Do that! Help is here if you want it. Don't relegate your desires, needs, dreams to a timeline created by man. We can work this out with you.
- You accept that your best moments may not develop in years or a specific year, but it will be moments in your life that give you the most joy.
Have you ever asked an elder what they enjoyed most in their life? You'll be hard-pressed to find one to tell you it was the year 1967 or Y2k.
Most you say something like, "When my first child was born…Driving my first car… The moment I met your father…Graduating from college…Buying a house…Seeing my grandchild for the first time…" Or even sharing an endearing childhood memory. Who the heck says it was their New Year's Resolution? No one. And you don't have to start the pattern. Seek to create the best moments of your life and get in as many as you can. Now, that is something you can start in 2018.


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