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Spanning nearly all of the Pacific Ocean, World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument preserves and interprets the stories and key events in the Pacific Theater leading up to the U.S. entering World War II, its impacts on the mainland, through to the Peace Treaty in Tokyo Bay, Japan ending the war.
Spanning nearly all of the Pacific Ocean, World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument preserves and interprets the stories and key events in the Pacific Theater leading up to the U.S. entering World War II, its impacts on the mainland, through to the Peace Treaty in Tokyo Bay, Japan ending the war.
The World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument is a United States national monument honoring several aspects of American engagement in World War II.
The park occupies 25 acres of land and has 25 rides and attractions. Including an 18-hole high end miniature golf facility.
The 18-hole "West Loch" course at the West Loch Municipal Golf Course facility in Ewa Beach, Hawaii features 6,335 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 72.
A truly comprehensive country club, Waikele CC features a golf shop with the finest names in equipment and apparel, locker rooms, a restaurant, and a full-service driving range, chipping, and putting area. Golf club and shoe rentals and lessons are available, and Waikele CC's PGA golf professionals are happy to share pointers on course strategy.
Royal Kunia Country Club is a Robin Nelson designed golf course, situated high above the Ewa plains. The course offers an uncompromised panoramic view of the entire south shore of Oahu. Spectacular views of Pearl Harbor, the Ko'olau and Waianae mountain ranges, the city of Honolulu and Diamond Head await every golf shot. The scenic, rolling fairways are lined with palm trees and other tropical native flora, along with six water features and 101 bunkers which adds to the aesthetic appeal of this picturesque golf course.
One of the finest Golf Courses on Oahu, Pearl Country Club has been in operation since 1967. Graced with stately trees of many varieties this beautiful Hawaii golf course challenges all golfers with its varied terrain. Pearl Country Club overlooks Pearl Harbor, the USS Arizona Memorial, the USS Missouri, and the Waianae Mountain Range to the west. Easy to access from Waikiki and the airport.
The 18-hole "Pali" course at the Pali Municipal Golf Course facility in Kaneohe, Hawaii features 6,524 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 72.
Olomana Golf Links invites you to venture our diverse course. We offer two distinctly different nines, each equally challenging. Our front nine features level fairways with a formidable water hazard at each hole. The back nine's irregular rolling hills are stippled with sand bunkers. Our signature 8th hole's elevated tee overlooks a cavernous water hazard which leads to a well guarded green.
Since opening in 1966, the par 72, 6,455-yard Mililani Golf Club has established itself as one of Hawaii's finest golf experiences. Nestled on a plateau, with the Waianae Mountains and the Ko'olau Mountains stretching away in the distance, Mililani Golf Club provides a "get away from it all" feeling of remoteness. The course beautifully carves its way through Norfolk Pines, Eucalyptus Trees, African Tulip trees, and lush tropical Hawaii foliage, in bloom all year around.
Carved out of a magnificent tropical rain forest on the windward side of the 2,000-foot Ko'olau Ridge mountain range, Ko'olau encompasses three distinct climate zones and features winding ravines, extreme elevation changes, and breathtaking views of cascading waterfalls.
Ko Olina Golf Club is a challenging, 18-hole championship golf course on Hawaii's beautiful island of Oahu. Located on the sunny West Coast of Oahu, just a short drive from Honolulu and Waikiki, this Ted Robinson designed course boasts exceptional water features, multi-tiered greens and expansive landing areas for your tee shots.
Our Beautiful 18 Hole Championship Golf Course is one of the finest creations of Ted Robinson. The Course features five strategically places lakes, 80 bunkers, undulated fairways, and elevated greens, providing a challenging and enjoyable round for both men and women of varying skills.
Designed by Arnold Palmer and Ed Seay, this unique course boasts 27 dramatic holes - the only golf course of its kind in Hawaii. Situated on the Ewa Plain of Oahu, it occupies 270 acres of sheer beauty and offers stunning views of the rain-carved Waianae Mountains.
With a Championship Course and an Executive Course, Hawaii Kai Golf Course is located in East Honolulu, 13 miles from Waikiki. While golfing, the Pacific Ocean can be seen from every hole. On clear days, enjoy a view of Maui and Molokai. In the winter months, whales can be seen spouting water on their way to waters off Maui to give birth.
The 18-hole "Ewa Villages" course at the Ewa Villages Golf Course facility in Ewa Beach, Hawaii features 6,455 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 73 .
Water comes into play on at least 13 holes, mostly in the form of natural spring fed lakes or coral creeks. Players will find the cool prevailing 15-20 mph winds pleasant, but take note that this "cool breeze" can play havoc with any shot you play, making the water hazards an even greater threat.
The 18-hole "Barbers Point" course at the Barbers Point Golf Course facility in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii features 6,394 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 72 .
The 18-hole Ala Wai Golf Course in Honolulu, HI is a public golf course that opened in 1931. Designed by Donald MacKay, Ala Wai Golf Course measures 6208 yards from the longest tees and has a slope rating of 116 and a 67.2 USGA rating. The course features 3 sets of tees for different skill levels. Greens and fairways are bermuda grass.
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It turns out that Lima, Ohio, was just too small to contain the big dreams of the show choir kids of "Glee."
For three seasons, Fox's phenomenally popular musical series has been set largely within the halls of an Ohio high school, where the highs and lows of creatively inclined misfits played out in a small pond. But with the graduation of several of the show's key characters last spring, "Glee's" pond just got a whole lot bigger: Rachel (Lea Michele) has entered a prestigious New York school for the arts, while her pal Kurt (Chris Colfer) is itching to make his way in the Big Apple as well; Puck (Mark Salling) and Mercedes (Amber Riley) hope to it big in Los Angeles; Mike Chang (Harry Shum, Jr.) pursues his dream of dance in Chicago; and Finn's (Cory Monteith) new stint in the military could land him just about anywhere.
Meanwhile, their dedicated teacher Will (Matthew Morrison) continues to build the ambitions of the classmates left behind, while also welcoming a new generation of budding talents to New Directions.
"I think it's the perfect time," Morrison says of the fourth season's expanded scope, still centered at McKinley High but newly expanded to follow the ups and downs of the creatively striving alumni. "I mean, the only high school show that I have in my mind when I think of a high school show is 'Saved by the Bell,' and they did the 'New Class' and the 'College Years.' It wasn't always the same thing, but it's all in the context of one show, so I'm excited."
Michele says she's equally stoked about the chance to follow Rachel's path to Broadway fame under the guidance of stern but compassionate instructor Carmen Tibideaux (Whoopi Goldberg) – or failure, if her new dance teacher Cassandra July's (Kate Hudson) relentless grilling breaks her spirit. "I'm working with Kate Hudson, I'm at school in New York City, I'm working with Chris Colfer and Cory Monteith and a new guy on show named Dean Geyer right now," says Michele, who in Finn's absence may find herself courted by Geyer's confident upperclassman Brody Weston.
The actress says the cast has embraced the show's broadening horizons, even if they don't get to work together as often as they have in the past. "I mean I still see everybody every single day," she says, "and it's great because they're on one unit and I'm on another, so it's like we're just not shooting scenes together but we're still all there. So it's like the best, actually."
Monteith remains mum as to how Finn fits into upcoming storylines – largely because he remains a bit in the dark himself, being MIA on screen in early episodes. "I've done one or two scenes from season four so far, so I start a little further into the season," he reveals. "It's definitely a different world, but it's a great new show. It feels like a rebirth in a sense."
There's certainly no shortage of plotlines for the show's increasingly expansive cast of characters: in the first episode alone, we see Kurt struggling with post-graduation life, working a dead-end job at the Lima Bean coffee shop and spending too much time visiting the halls of McKinley; Rachel struggling to adapt to her new life in New York; Sue raising her new baby daughter while putting a new "head bitch" named Kitty (cast member Becca Tobin) in charge of the Cheerios; the remaining members of New Directions – Artie, Tina, Sam, Joe and Sugar – bask in newfound popularity after their win at Nationals; and former rival Wade Adams a.k.a. the cross-dressing Unique transfers to McKinley, joining other new glee club aspirants such as the secret-keeping Marley Rose (Melissa Benoist) and the moody, mysterious Jake (Jacob Artist).
Amid all the changes, there is one constant: the never-ending string of top pop songs performed by the cast. Episode One – "The New Rachel" offers music from a wide ranging array of artists, including Carly Rae Jepsen, Lady Gaga, Billy Joel, Adele, The Fray and Jennifer Lopez.

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Robyn O'Neil
- April 16, 2013 7:00 PM
April 16-Robyn O'Neil, artist
Robyn O'Neil is a Los Angeles-based artist with Texas roots whose labor-intensive narrative drawings have a cinematic flair with Shakespearean-like titles that add to their mystery and intrigue. O'Neil is a consummate learner, having begun her education in British Studies, British Art, and British Architecture at Kings College in London before settling on art. After a BFA at Texas A&M University, Commerce, O'Neil entered the graduate program at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Opportunities followed that landed her work in the 2004 Whitney Biennial and began a significant exhibition record, bringing her critical acclaim. As the 2009 Huntington Prize recipient, O'Neil focused on her studio, and in 2010, she took an opportunity to attend Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School in Los Angeles where, in collaboration with director Eoghan Kidney, she created We, The Masses, an otherworldly animated adaptation of the artist's skillful, dark, and enticing drawings for which she received a FRAMEWORKS Grant from the Irish Film Board and was awarded the 2012 Spirit Award at the Brooklyn Film Festival. The Modern is proud to have attained O'Neil's seminal These final hours embrace at last; this is our ending, this is our past., 2007, which brings to a close an almost decade-long series of drawings. The sole figure in the work is "forever hanging in the middle ground of the drawing, attached to heaven by a fraying thread, suspended above a monstrous ocean wave" as the last of the artist's "men in sweat suits."
For her Tuesday Evenings presentation, "Ending Things," O'Neil discerningly addresses the nature of "endings," from the last lines of poems to final episodes of TV sitcoms, explaining that, "Endings can be inconclusive, but yet are still called 'endings'. They are also starting points; things must end so that something else will happen. In order to be reborn, one must first die."
The spring series for Tuesday Evenings at the Modern begins February 12 and ends April 23. These lectures and presentations by artists, architects, historians, and critics are held in the Modern's auditorium and begin at 7 pm. Free admission tickets (limit two) can be picked up at the Modern's information desk beginning at 5 pm on the day of the lecture. Seating begins at 6:30 pm and is limited to the first 250 ticketholders. A live broadcast of the lectures is shown in Café Modern for any additional guests. The Museum galleries remain open until 7 pm on Tuesdays during the series (regular gallery admission charge applies).
Café Modern is open for dinner on Tuesday nights during the lecture series. Enjoy a fine dining experience before or after the lecture; seating is available from 5 pm to 8:30 pm. For reservations, call 817.840.2157 or visit www.themodern.org/cafe.
Robyn O'Neil, These Final Hours embrace at last; this is our ending, this is our past, 2007. Graphite on paper, 83 x 166 ¾ inches. Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Museum Purchase.


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JAWS Roy Scheider signed photo 8" x 10" - Action photo on the Orca with shark - End Scene !
Obtained a private signing, at Roy Scheiders home in the USA. Very rare in genuine form.
This is a stunning and VERY RARE action photo of Scheider on the Orca shooting the shark in the end scene.
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Comes with stunning wooden "Orca" effect frame. Orca was Quint's boat which sinks at the end of the movie, and the mast is partly shown in the photo.
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Chateau Bellefont Belcier, Saint Emilion, bordeaux, France
Bordeaux Saint Emilion Chateau Bellefont Belcier, stock photography samples, by Per Karlsson, BKWine.
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Château Bellefont-Belcier is a vineyard located a few kilometres east of the town of St Emilion in the commune of St. Laurent des Combes. It has 13 hectares of appellation land, all located around the chateau building. The grape variety is mainly merlot, with some cabernet sauvignon and cabernet franc added. It is owned by the Faure and Labusquiere families, under the control of Jacques Berrebi and Alain Laguillaumie. Dominique Hebrard is responsible for the winemaking together with the assistant technical winemaker Emmanuel de Saint Salvy. The winery is traditional with concrete and stainless steel fermenting vats but uses modern technologies. The wine is matured in oak barrels in the elegant barrique cellar.
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Long time no post
I wasn't even sure if my username/password would still work b/c it has been a while since I have logged on. I don't even know where I was weight-wise when I quit blogging but things have been up and down since then. I made my WW goal this summer (160) and maintained for a few months but then really started struggling. I was hoping the accountability of weighing in every month at WW would make things easier but it just added to the stress. So now I'm trying to go it on my own and just live a "normal" life. How's that going? Not so hot. This morning I weighed in at 183, a wee bit higher than the 160.So here I go again. My realistic goal is somewhere in the 160s. When I was 160 I was between a 6/8 and although I loved it I had to work too hard to keep it. But the mid 160's keep me in the size 8 range which is unbelievable to me. At my heaviest I forced myself into a 24! Right now I'm forcing myself into those 8's but since I don't have anything bigger it's what I'm going to have to do. I refuse to buy bigger clothes.I plan to be a much more regular blogger and hope to reconnect w/some old friends as well as make new ones. My first goal is to be below 175 by Thanksgiving.


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It's been another great month at CAS Mix Up! Thank you all for taking the time to share your masked creations with us!
Our Top Pick for November
We loved this Northen Lights techique and the creative masking blew us away!
Congratulations to Anke, Cornelia, Heather, Jane, Karen, Kim, Maura, Nonni, and Viv!
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Growing up all over the country, Erin Dionne knew how it felt to get picked on and teased as the new kid trying to fit into school. Now, Dionne is celebrating the publication of her second novel for young readers, "The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet," tonight at 7 at The Center for Arts in Natick.
Growing up all over the country, Erin Dionne knew how it felt to get picked on and teased as the new kid trying to fit into school.
If that didn't make childhood stink, she had to wear a "horrible peach-colored dress" as a 12-year-old bridesmaid at her cousin's wedding.
Now a new mom with a baby daughter and a college teaching job, the Framingham author has channeled those icky adolescent memories into novels for 'tweens going through what she did.
Dionne will celebrate publication of her second novel for young readers, "The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet," today at 7 p.m. at the Center for Arts in Natick.
"I wanted to celebrate my novel as a community experience," she said Monday. "And I want to thank friends who've supported me and thank people at Morse Institute Library where I can write in peace."
At the Good Reads Web site, which tracks fiction for young readers, Dionne's two novels have averaged four-star reviews out of a possible five stars.
Of her newest book, a reader named Rachel wrote: "This is one solid book. I loved it. Five stars, hands down. I will not only allow my girls to read it when they reach junior high but I will hand it to them."
Another reader who identified herself as Bronwyn Parhad also gave it five stars and wrote, "I find the main character Celeste to be wonderfully real, poignant and funny."
Like the characters in her books, Dionne has taken a long, circuitous path to achieve success and happiness.
After high school, she majored in English at Boston College and then earned a master's of fine arts in creative writing at Emerson College. While working in publishing and magazine writing for several years, she never abandoned her dream of writing children's fiction.
She joined the faculty of Montserrat College of Art in Beverly. As an assistant professor in the liberal arts department, she teaches composition, literature and creative writing.
After four years of writing and revision, Dionne published her first novel, "Models Don't Eat Chocolate Cookies," in February 2009. It began as an award-winning short story about a heavy girl trying to overcome a poor self-image.
She remembered, "I was driving to Beverly when I got this image of an overweight girl eating alone in the cafeteria. I drove home trying to think who she was," she said. Dionne's epiphany of a chubby girl's solitude grew into her first published novel which led to a two-book contract with Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Books.
She is married to Frank Colagiovanni, a freelance copywriter. Their daughter, Charlotte Poe, was born in May 2008, a month after Dionne finished her first novel.
Now 34, Dionne has found her "natural voice" writing for "middle grade" readers from 9 to 12 and young adults, 12 and up.
"My theory is all writers have a voice and a time when they're most comfortable. I'm most comfortable in the eighth grade," she said. "It's the voice I feel most comfortable with and it's the stories I want to tell."
With her father in the high-tech business, Dionne grew up all over the U.S., moving from Rhode Island where she was born, to Walpole, New York, southern and then northern California in Laguna Hills and Los Altos.
She learned to read at age 4 and growing up found the comfort and confidence "to survive junior high" in novels about Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys and Dr. Seuss's menagerie of wild characters.
Dionne recalled, "I just loved to read. As a child, I didn't think of anything else. To me, the idea of writing stories just seemed like the best job."
She aims "never to write down" to her young readers or "gloss over" or "shy away" from the knotty complexities of adolescence.
"As a former kid myself, I think kids often don't know how to deal with their own lives. They can do it vicariously through my novels," said Dionne.
While working on another book to be published later this year, she described her novels as "a way for kids to process and deal with experiences they haven't had yet."
"If I set out to write a book with a 'moral,' I think it'd feel stilted to kids. For me, books are always about character. I start with a character and try to figure out who it is," she said. "I'm not a plotter. I see where my character is going and let it happen. Hopefully, the character grows and learns something. And, hopefully, my readers will too."
To learn about The Center for Arts in Natick, 14 Summer St., call 508-647-0097 or visit www.natickarts.org.
Erin Dionne will discuss her books and sign copies tonight at 7 p.m. at The Center for Arts in Natick, and on Friday, Feb. 19, at 1 p.m. at Barnes & Noble in Burlington. Her books are available at Barnes & Noble, Borders Bookstore, Amazon.com or wherever books are sold.
To learn more about Dionne or order her books, visit www.erindionne.com.


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Breakfast smoothie
1 container yogurt of your choice
1/2 c Pom juice
1 c frozen fruit (or fresh fruit if you live somewhere where fruit is fresh now)
Blend everything together in the blender. Process until smooth, and drink! You can add honey, or ice cubes, or milk, or anything else you want.


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When: Sat Jan 05, 2019 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: The Black Irish Pub
Tunes happens at the Black Irish Pub in Vanier (corner of Montreal and River Roads) every Saturday afternoon from 1 to 4ish. Greg starts things off playing for the first half-hour, then turns it over to a special guest – different every week – who performs for an hour. All this is followed by an open mic.
For more info on any of the performers, people can "friend" Greg on Facebook to receive a weekly update about the weekend's performance.
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June 26, 2014
By Amen Oyiboke
LAWT Contributing Writer
Dreams Are Colder Than Death explores the concept of being Black through the perceptions of the African-American community.
Showcased at the LA Film Festival director Arthur Jafa created the documentary to open up discussion about the current state of mind in Black society. Throughout the documentary multiple people weighed in on black sensitivity and purpose. This subject alone is something that quite often circulates in my mind.
I've always wondered what the meaning of being African-American in a White ran society actually meant. At times, I would question myself, "What does it mean to be Black in America?"
Jafa attempts to answer questions like mine by using voices of professors Hortense Spillers, Saidiya Hartman, Magic City exotic dancer Portia Jordan, poet Fred Moten and countless other intuitive people. The documentary evaluates the state of societal mindsets for African-Americans, especially during a time where we have a Black president and Black advancement in multiple areas; but we still see major racial disparities in wealth, mentalities and in the prison system greatly.
This film opens up the conversations that many people tend to shy away from because society believes we live in a post-racial time. In our society, the concept of blackness seems to be unacceptable. Acting "Black" or associating yourself with what people think Black culture is and suppose to be usually leaves outsiders judging the value of our race. The symbols and generalizations that come with being Black devalue, hinder, and criminalize the whole group. One of the strongest points stated in the film said, "We have to find the symbols that coincide with blackness and stop them." Everyday African-American people mentally store and put to use these same symbols related to the persona of being black.
Throughout the film, the subjects of the documentary were never filmed in on-camera interviews. Jafa opted to an audio-image route that left an artistic frame for the entirety of the film. The documentary was a rolling display of b-roll footage capturing the everyday life and eye-opening pictures of culture and Black history.
Jafa did a great job with capturing in depth interviews and intense close-ups of deep contours of black skin, lips, eyes, and hair; but I still found myself in a puddle of confusion. The complexity of the film is not for the faint hearted. To truly process the depth of this film it must be watched more than once. The heavy use of symbols of the universe and how they coincide with black culture left me thinking about what those symbols actually meant.
After the screening, Jafa had a panel discussion about his views on "abnormativity" and how some African-American function under a "White-gaze." "Black people function under a white gaze when it comes to survival modalities'. We have to recognize that we're functioning under what we think is right for a white mentality and separate ourselves from the view and evaluate our own outlook."


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(CNN) – This Thursday was a day of deal making, on scales both large on small. Here's what we have for you in today's News Day:
Sources tell CNN that a bipartisan group of U.S. senators is proposing tougher border security measures - including doubling the current 21,000-agent border patrol - as part of a deal to get more Republican support for an immigration reform bill. CNN's Lisa Desjardins explains the latest.
The Illinois General Assembly's black caucus may prove to be the deciding bloc of votes in deciding same-sex marriage in Illinois. The caucus is facing pressure from black religious leaders on both sides of the issue – exposing the rift inside the black community over whether same-sex marriage rights are equal to civil rights. CNN's Nova Safo reports.
What do you do when you are overrun by an endangered species? About 80 miles north of LA in Tehachapi, CA, there is a gated community called Bear Valley Springs, and it's under siege by condors. The residents can do very little to chase them away but these big birds are wreaking havoc; tearing up shingle roofs, damaging air conditions, not to mention the big drops of condor scat. What are fish and wildlife officials doing it? CNN's Jim Roope has the story.
By Michael Schulder
Follow Michael at: www.wavemaker.me
Editor's Note: Listen to our full interview with director Geoffrey Fletcher, with whom Gandolfini recently worked.
(CNN) - Imagine James Gandolfini as a man who is weary of the world – resigned to the fact that his remaining days will be filled with regret and longing. And yet, despite the resignation to his unhappiness, he still has embers of his humanity burning. He is not passive. He is trying to make things right until the very end.
This is not the James Gandolfini of HBO's "The Sopranos." It is the James Gandolfini of the new movie, "Violet & Daisy," one of his last projects.
He plays a character with no name – who spends much of his time in a comfortable chair waiting to be killed. FULL POST
By Nova Safo, CNN
Follow on Twitter: @nova_safo
Chicago, Illinois (CNN) - L. Bernard Jakes, the pastor at West Point Baptist Church, has come out in support of a gay marriage bill in the Illinois legislature. He has the support of a majority of his congregation, but not of his fellow pastors.
[2:15] "I've definitely been criticized. There are many that have bastardized me, said that I was going to hell on social media. There was even one radio station that encouraged their listeners to call here to the church and tell me I was going to hell."
The Illinois senate approved a gay marriage bill in February, but it has gotten stalled in the house, where it is short of having enough votes to pass. Legislators are expected to take up the measure again in the fall, and the traditionally liberal black caucus in the state house has emerged as an important voting block.
Caucus members are facing pressure from black pastors both in favor and opposed to gay marriage, even though only two of the caucus' legislators have so far come out in support of gay marriage.
By Emma Lacey-Bordeaux, CNN
Follow on Twitter: @CNNEmma
Editor's Note: Listen to the full story in our player above, and join the conversation in our comments section below.
(CNN) - Elizabeth Becker's latest book was in part, born out of frustration. The seasoned journalist, who got her start as a war correspondent, began to notice a growing global economic force; a sector of the global economy changing whole societies and ecosystems but one relegated to the lifestyle section of most major papers.
So she decided to write a book about it and give it the attention it deserves:
[1:19] "My new book is Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism," she says.


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I have this void that I cannot avoid.
For the past several years I've been "forcing" myself back to the sport of triathlon. I enjoyed those 4 years of training/racing so much and I think I was chasing that. It seemed like every time I started getting into a training groove I would run into big life changes and I would put it all on hold for months at a time, get out of shape and do it all over again.
As you can imagine, that became exhausting and frustrating. During these past 3 years...wow, 3 years since I last raced - I have always thought about the idea of doing an open marathon. But not just for fun and games but to actually train for one and RACE it. I've thrown down a decent half marathon of 1:14 about 4 years ago and a bunch of sub 1:10's in regular lactate threshold training runs in college lol (I never even knew that was very fast at the time).
So fast forward to now! I started my own business, our baby girl Juliet is one and after discussing it with Amy - we think now is a good time to go after my new goal of breaking 2:40 in the marathon before I'm 40 years old which gives me 1 year and 4 months to train and accomplish this goal. I always tell my high school team that you have to have big goals to accomplish big things. 2:40 isn't necessarily super fast but for how out of shape I am right now and the little time I have, it really is.
It's not going to be easy. I'm definitely out of shape and have years of abuse on these legs. So lots of aches and pains as I get back to speed...pun? In the past my build up has been pretty aggressive as I think I'm still a young kid chasing dreams. This time, I'm putting on my coaches hat and training myself the same way I would train one of my athletes while incorporating key workouts that I know I respond well to.
I'm 3 weeks in back to training. Just easy 30-45 min runs each day ~20-25 miles a week (you can follow all of my workouts on Strava - link on the left). Mileage will slowly increase each week for the remainder of the year with zero intensity other than occasional runs where I feel good and increase pace a bit. Basically, giving what my body craves, whether that means taking a day off or going a little longer/faster - it's smart that way.
I'm targeting the San Diego Rock & Roll Marathon in June. I don't run well in the heat so that's not in my favor with a time goal but it's a local race where I can train and sleep at home during race week which will give me my best shot of doing it in my first attempt. I will have 2 build phases starting in January with some 5k, 10ks and a half marathons leading up to June. I'm excited to race in the local scene again - a lot of familiar names/faces are still racing and I can't wait to line up with them again like old times, with old legs and gray hair slowly starting to show.
So 2:40 before I'm 40. That's 6:06 / mile pace. Back to my first love. Let this new journey begin!
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Probably my biggest MOC so far (3x4 BP). After a few years of building, this was meant to sum up all the experience I've got so far. And the bricks that I've gathered of course.
Primarily inspired by Anno 1404 game, but the build soon began to grow and evolve its style. Starting with every house being completely different, the style later became more uniform (mainly white, brown and MdDkFlesh).
Thanks for your support during the WIP stage. The awareness of someone waiting for the pictures is the best motivation I can imagine!
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Reverend Andrew A. Wiren
By Joe McLaughlin
(undated Aroostook Republican newspaper clipping, Caribou, Maine; copy in Maine Swedish Colony files)
Until he retired and moved to Florida I 1977, Vaughan Wiren Pearson never really got to know his grandfather.
His grandfather had died when Vaughan's mother, Estella, was at a young age.
But today, Vaughan has learned a great deal about his grandfather. When he retired after 40 years of hard accounting work, he and his wife, Bertha, moved to Cape Coral, Florida.
"Somehow destiny and fate seemed to draw us to the place," Bertha remembers.
Through occasional references of Florida by his mother and her sister, Vaughan's Aunt Alice, the Pearsons learned that their grandfather may have settled on Sanibel Island, Florida, which was now just a few miles from their Cape Coral home.
After investigating old records and tracing their family roots, Vaughan discovered his grandfather's gravestone on the island. He also discovered that his grandfather had been one of the island's first settlers and a pioneer in his time.
Vaughan now knew more of his grandfather, the Rev. Andrew A. Wiren, than he ever had.
His mother had lived in Florida with her father (Rev. Andrew A. Wiren), mother, sister and two brothers from 1884 to 1890.
But Vaughan's mother never told her son much of that time. It was, he explained, a time she had just about blocked out of her mind.
"She had an unfortunate experience as a little girl (at nine years old)," Vaughan said of his mother, Estella. "She went to light a fire and the kerosene bottle exploded."
The accident left Estella with severe burns and she was bedridden for a year.
The other main reason his mother never recalled Florida, Vaughan said, was he death of her father in 1890.
The Rev. Andrew A. Wiren died and his family moved away from Sanibel.
They moved back to the first place that Rev. Wiren had served as pastor. It was the place where Vaughan was born, New Sweden, Maine.
The Rev. Wiren became the pastor of the present Gustaf Adolph Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1871.Under his leadership the present church was built, as he was the first ordained minister of the original Swedish colony which came to New Sweden, Maine from Sweden.
Rev. Wiren and his family stayed in New Sweden until 1884. They then moved to Sanibel Island, Florida as a friend suggested the move due to Wiren's health was failing because of tuberculosis.
But Rev. Wiren had laid down solid roots in New Sweden and it is these roots that may have been the force that somehow attracted the grandson that he had never knew to Sanibel Island, Florida.
Vaughan's grandmother, Abia A. Vaughan, also laid down firm roots that may have attracted her grandson to Florida.
Abia A. Vaughan was the daughter of the original owner of Caribou's Vaughan House. She became the first postmistress of New Sweden, Maine upon her return from Sanibel in 1890.
The love and friendship that her husband had given to New Sweden was given back to the Wiren family when they returned in 1890. The parishioners built a home for her family, which is the present Cheney home across from the New Sweden museum.
Her daughter, Estella, grew up and matured in the home and married New Sweden's Bernard Pearson. The couple lived in the home for 60 years and had two children, Vaughan and Donald.
Bernard prospered in New Sweden. He owned a general store for a number of years and then became a partner in the John N. Johnson Company, which was the Ford Garage of New Sweden.
But his son, Vaughan, did not follow into the footsteps of his father's business or into farming, the common occupation of his homeland in Aroostook County.
Those mysterious abstract qualities of fate and destiny seemed to draw him elsewhere. Vaughan, born in 1910 graduated from Caribou High School in 1927. He then attended Presque Isle Normal School for a year and taught school the next year to eight grades in a country school.
But he did not want to teach for the rest of his life, he remembers. "I did not want to teach or take up farming," he said.
His Aunt Alice, who lived in Nashua, New Hampshire, drew him to a career in business and away from his New Sweden home.
Alice told her nephew that he could live in New Hampshire and attend one of the area business colleges.
Vaughan went to Lowell Business College for a year and then to Boston University for three years of evening classes. He graduated with a degree in accounting and began to lay down some roots of his own in Nashua.
He met his wife, Bertha Cornwall, at a Young People's church outing in Nashua. The couple married in 1934. Ironically, they did not meet six years before when both took classes for teaching Sunday School in Ocean Park, Maine.
They both appeared in the graduation class photo from the school with Vaughan standing four people down from his eventual wife, Bertha Cornwall.
The couple had two sons and a daughter in their Nashua home. But, even though their family grew up in Nashua, they returned to New Sweden, Maine every summer to visit Vaughan's parents and his home.
They returned again this summer for another visit.
"I still cherish the friendships I had here as a boy growing up," Vaughan said.
After over 40 years of accounting work in Nashua, it was time for Vaughan and Bertha to move on. The cold New England winters were starting to take affect and with Vaughan's retirement, the reasons for staying in Nashua became less.
Fate once again started to direct them toward his grandfather's Sanibel Island home.
Some of their good friends had moved to the area and were urging Vaughan and Bertha to do the same. Vaughan's sister-in-law had also moved to the area. They decided to make the move and built a house in Cape Coral, Florida in 1977.
They then began the search for Vaughan's roots. Their search led them to Sanibel Island and Clarence Rutland. It seems Clarence was the son of one Othman Rutland who had bought a house that was first owned by the Rev. Andrew A. Wiren.
Clarence told Vaughan and Bertha that Othman and Rev. Wiren were buried side by side on Wiren's old homestead.
The couple then sprang into action. They wanted to preserve this historic site of the two pioneers and thus had the graves marked with a double headstone in 1980.
Recently, the Sanibel Historical Preservation Committee recognized the site and it will be protected and preserved as a landmark honoring two of the area's first pioneers.
Finding his grandfather after all these year, said Vaughan, "has really given us such a pleasant feeling of belonging after living in Nashua for so many years."
It seems like Vaughan and Bertha Pearson were destined to live and belong there all along. In their case, fate was a slow, but happy process.
When Vaughan Pearson moved to Cape, Florida in 1977, he discovered that a pioneer that settled a nearby island was his grandfather, the Rev. Andrew A. Wiren. Vaughan, with his wife Bertha, found his grandfather's burial place and erected a gravestone in 1980. The site has since been preserved by the local historical society. (Ketch photo of Bertha and Vaughan Pearson)
Florida Pioneer: The Rev. Andrew A. Wiren was one of the first settlers on Sanibel Island, Florida, in the 1880's after leaving his first parish in New Sweden, Maine. (Old photo of Rev. Andrew Wiren)
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US. Rep. Vern Buchanan insists Congress is about to seriously tackle the issue of reforming the nation's overly complex tax code.
"It's something we think there's a window of opportunity in the next six months or so," Buchanan, R-Longboat Key, told more than 100 people at a forum he organized on the New College of Florida campus.
But he could not have counted on his star guest at the Friday forum contradicting him on that point from the start.
Minutes after Buchanan's optimistic prediction, retired talk show host Neal Boortz turned to Buchanan and asked if he could pretend Buchanan was not there for a second. Surely not a good sign of what was to come.
"How can we get Congress to pass meaningful tax reform?" Boortz, an advocate of scrapping the current tax system, asked rhetorically.
"Answer: They are not going to do it."
Boortz, a self-proclaimed Libertarian, said members of Congress use the current tax code to hand out "favors to favored constituencies" and are not interested in really giving up that power. He said if tax reform ever happens, it is going to come from packed meeting halls with voters demanding the changes.
Still, Buchanan, a member of the House committee charged with writing tax policy, later repeated that he thinks there is still a chance for reform. He said President Barack Obama has signaled his willingness to have tax reform as part of a discussion about entitlement reform and Republicans should take that as an opportunity.
Boortz is advocating a more radical change called the FairTax. His plan would scrap the current income tax system for a single-rate national sale tax with no exemptions.
Boortz was making his first public appearance since retiring in January from his nationally syndicated radio show. Boortz, who lives in Naples, had been a radio host for more than 40 years and has co-authored books on the FairTax.
No governor bid
One of the only Democrats who has proven he can win statewide elections in Florida made clear last week he's not running for governor in 2014.
Though he has frequently criticized Gov. Rick Scott's policies, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, a Democrat, told reporters last week he's not running against him.
"I'm not planning to run for governor," Nelson said. "I have no intention of running for governor."
In November, Nelson won his third six-year term in the U.S. Senate by defeating former U.S. Rep. Connie Mack IV soundly.
Speculation picked up that Nelson might be interested in running for governor because he was in Tallahassee last week to criticize Scott for not doing more to help Florida's mortgage foreclosure crisis.
Nelson, now 70, has run for governor before. In 1990, Nelson lost badly in a Democratic primary to the late Gov. Lawton Chiles.
County hopeful?
Former Sarasota City Commissioner Danny Bilyeu confirmed on Friday that he is thinking about making a comeback.
The Republican, now an aide to Buchanan, said he's considering running for the County Commission in 2014.
Current District 2 County Commissioner Joe Barbetta is blocked by term limits from running, opening up a potential seat. Barbetta said he's been encouraging Bilyeu to jump into the race.
Bilyeu is not the only person with ties to Buchanan considering running. Sarasota Republican Party Chairman Joe Gruters, a former campaign manager for Buchanan, has also talked about a bid. No candidates have officially filed to run yet.
Buchanan upbeat about tax reform
US. Rep. Vern Buchanan insists Congress is about to seriously tackle the issue of reforming the nation's overly complex tax code.


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New measurement science and industry standards are needed to enable building systems and consumers to interact with a future "smart grid," which supports the national goal to modernize the electric system by making it more robust and reliable. In the United States, commercial and residential buildings consume 72 % of all electricity. As building-scale renewable energy systems become more common, buildings will increasingly become generators of electricity as well as consumers. Future electric vehicles will be charged through plug-in connections managed by home and building automation systems. Utility-scale renewable generation systems will require responsive loads to match the fluctuations caused by varying wind and solar conditions. Consumers will need access to their own energy consumption data to make informed decisions about their energy consuming habits. For all these reasons, integration of building systems with the grid is a critical part of the stability and success of the smart grid.
Objective -To develop the measurement science for industry standards that will enable interconnection of home and building automation and control systems with a future "smart" utility grid, provide consumers with energy usage information, and support industry efforts to develop the needed standards.
What is the new technical idea? The new technical idea is to integrate homes and buildings into the next generation "smart grid" by developing the technical basis for standards governing real-time pricing, distributed energy resources (DER) (including demand response (DR), distributed generation, and energy storage), electric vehicle charging control, and consumer access to energy usage information. This project will develop information models, data representation methods, and communication protocols to enable these activities, working with industry stakeholders to analyze use cases and develop approaches that can be adopted through consensus standards. In addition, this project will perform research into novel facility control methodologies based on DER availability, electricity price, and local markets, with testing in a simulation environment, in the NIST Virtual Cybernetic Building Testbed (VCBT), and in the NIST Net Zero Energy Residential Test Facility (NZERF).
What is the research plan? This project addresses communications, interoperability, and control approaches for residential, commercial, institutional and industrial buildings via three research components: (1) information model development to enable data exchange within building systems and between buildings and the smart grid, (2) building controls research for optimal response to dynamic pricing and demand management signals in commercial and residential buildings, and (3) simulation and testing in the Virtual Cybernetic Building Testbed and Net-Zero Energy Residential Test Facility. EL collaborates with industry stakeholders in the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) to identify interoperability standard gaps and research needs.
The information modeling effort includes definition of the building-to-grid communications interface, identifying key information elements needed for grid-to-facility communications, and development of priority facility interface standards as identified in the NIST Framework. These include price, demand response, energy usage and load, and communications for distributed energy resources (generation and storage) including load forecasting.
This work is resulting in Information modeling standards:
The building controls research component will develop load and generation prediction algorithms, and DR optimization strategies for residential and commercial building interaction with the smart grid. These algorithms will take into account: DR signals; future electricity price, weather and occupancy information; availability of renewable energy (including storage); and user inputs.
In parallel with the other activities, the simulation and testing component will utilize unique NIST laboratory facilities (the VCBT and NZERTF) to test and demonstrate success of the information models and control strategies, and provide input into building codes and standards.
EL will also support the broader NIST smart grid program, providing technical direction and leadership within the SGIP on issues related to building interactions with the smart grid. EL will also provide leadership within the ASHRAE BACnet, ASHRAE Facility Smart Grid Information Model, OASIS Energy Interoperation, and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Project Committee (PC) 118 committees to advance these standards.
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AUSTIN – A GOP primary challenger to Texas Supreme Court Justice Jeff Brown is pressing his legal fight to knock him off the ballot.
Joe Pool, in a lawsuit against the Republican Party of Texas, contends that Brown doesn't have the required number of valid signatures to be on the ballot, which Brown and the state GOP dispute.
Brown first was named to his seat by Gov. Rick Perry to fill a vacancy and is running to keep the post.
A state district judge earlier denied Pool's request for a temporary injunction in the case. Pool on Tuesday appealed to the Texas Supreme Court.
Brown's campaign has slammed Pool's legal action, pointing to his decision to hire attorney Buck Wood, a Democrat who specializes in election law.
"A rich fool and his money will soon part. We know that the Pool campaign has engaged longtime Democratic lawyer Buck Wood so he can sue the Republican Party of Texas, depriving it of time and money they could be spending focused on defeating Democrats and Battleground Texas. They now want to take an absurd legal argument, which was already denied once, and attempt to win an election by lawsuit, a liberal tactic. It is shameful," Brown spokesman Matt Mackowiak said.
Wood said while "everyone knows I'm a Democrat" that he represents Republicans "all the time," given his specialty. "There's not a lot of people around that really know a lot about this kind of law," Wood said.
The case centers on the requirement that Texas Supreme Court candidates submit at least 50 valid signatures of eligible voters from each court of appeals district to be on the ballot.
Pool, in his lawsuit, contends that some of those circulating the petitions didn't properly include an affidavit that was dated, some had improper dates and some were notarized by a notary whose commission expired.
Republican Party of Texas Chairman Steve Munisteri said there isn't a requirement in law for the petitions to include dates that Pool cites in his lawsuit, and that the improper date has a reasonable explanation.
Munisteri maintained that Brown has enough valid signatures. Even if he didn't, Munisteri said, the party told Brown that he did and so under the law, he would be able to correct such a problem.
Wood says he believes relief should be granted, but he acknowledged the difficulty.
"We're asking the Supreme Court, in effect, to disqualify a member of their own court," Wood said.
As for the cost of the case, Wood said that the state most likely will pay for attorney fees in the case.
"I don't think it's drained their resources at all," he said of the GOP.
Munisteri, however, said the state often may not pay the full rate charged by the attorney. He estimated the cost to the party at a ballpark $25,000 through the trial court action so far. He said the money that the party will end up paying "certainly" could otherwise be used to help Republican candidates.


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As a child sitting with my mother at her sewing machine as she sewed beautiful garments or as she knitted I was destined to follow her example and create with my hands.
After retrenchment in the late 80's, from a major bank, I started my own business teaching patchwork and embroidery, doing commission work and the market circuit. I had completed a Commercial Needlecraft Certificate at TAFE earlier. I did this for 8 years and then went to work for another major bank – whilst there I completed a Certificate 4 in Training and Development, and spent a lot of time travelling Australia training staff on new systems. Patchwork was just impossible to complete when travelling, so one wet and windy day I ended up at Papercraft store in Bendigo, Victoria. My paper obsession began – both cardmaking and scrapbooking.
In 2008 I spent a year in China teaching English at a University and not long after I returned to Australia I left full time work. Moving to the Central Coast this year has been inspirational. I want to make a difference – I know it is a cliché – but I love to see people's reaction when they create something they never thought they could – be it a card or a layout. I make scrapbook pages for charity and making cards for Australian Defence Force troops overseas.
My scrapbooking style has evolved, I still like to design around the photos and make them the focus of my pages, however this year I have stretched myself and delved into more mixed media pages – I think I have a long way to go and will continue to challenge myself to learn new techniques.
In this layout I have used a patterned paper that had flowers and writing, Impasto Medium over a brick mask and then when dry Gelato crayons to colour match the outfits we were wearing and of course our hair colours.. The cousins quote came from the internet and so I raided all my stash to find flowers to add to the layout.
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Welcome to ARTastic Margaret. It's lovely to have you join us on ARTastic this month.
Remember you have until 11.55pm on November 30th submit your entries. We'd love to see your take on this challenge.


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(AP) — Chicago hotels continue to enjoy near-record occupancy, and Mayor Rahm Emanuel says it's a positive sign tourism is up in the nation's third-largest city.
Emanuel and the tourism office Choose Chicago announced Thursday hotels reported 81.2 percent occupancy in May. That's an 8.5 percent increase over May 2012.
The city also hit near-record tourism rates in 2012, with more than 46.2 million visitors.
(See related story: "Second City . . . actually make that 10th.")
Emanuel says the numbers show the city's strategic marketing approach is working. He says he's looking forward to more visitors coming to Chicago and that it's "going to be a wonderful summer."
The mayor has set a goal of attracting 50 million visitors to Chicago by 2020. That would be an increase of almost 11 million over 2010.


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I was recently invited to come down to Indianapolis for an exciting EV event where many new vehicles would be on display, and actively driving or racing!
I didnt realize how truly enormous the Indianapolis motor speedway is until I actually entered the in-field. I was directed to take the opening lap with many other EV's around the 2.5 mile oval, I was told to keep the speed under 35mph…that didn't last long!
After the opening lap we were greeted by many other EV's in the parking lot, including 2 new interesting trucks with charge equipment attached to them. These trucks were designed by a company called "Real Power" to be a "rescue" type of charge in case you ever did truly run out of power in a very rural area with little to no charging options.
They were outfitted with several level 1 (110v 15a) two level 2 (220v 30a) and one level 3 (480v DC fast charge). Having the level 3 can significantly decrease the charge time which would be important in such a situation where you would require a road side charge.
We all tried charging our EV's on the truck to prove they could really work in the real world with all types of chargers and batteries.
After this I decided to wander to the 2nd annual EV Grand Prix, this is where several colleges (I think 20 teams this year) duke it out with high performance electric powered go-karts on a half mile track.
I knew several members of the Purdue "EVC" team that built a very unique go-kart to compete in the race. Their Kart was designed with wireless battery reporting technology, High density battery cells, and brute structure for repeated impacts on the track. The cart and team held together extremely well throughout the 100 lap race where more then half (11 teams) were removed from the track due to impact damage, or engineering defects in design.
The race was a blast to watch, it is truly inspiring to see a whole generation of college students get so passionate about a new clean renewable technology like EV's, it really brings some hope for the future that their experience in these events can make them shape a clean, renewable edge to their product, or part design in the future.
After some close calls with other karts the Purdue EVC team took 1st place and received some prize money for their efforts, but all the teams did great with all the different power-train, battery, and chassis designs it was quite an amazing race to see from start to finish, and I hope even more colleges and sponsors get involved in the years to come.


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I am new to Open Max Technology. Can any one please help me on solving these basic queries?
What is Open Max Core? Is any specification available for Open Max Core.
I would like to Port Open Max Core for Windows CE 6.0 Operating system? Is there a port already available for Windows CE 6.0 OS?
If i sign an Open Max Adopters mempership? Can i get sample Open Max Core implementation from Khronos Group?


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Israel Likely Behind Bulgaria False Flag
By Stephen Lendman, Contributor
July 20, 2012
Israel's history is odious. State terror is policy. It's a dagger pointed at humanity's heart. False flags and targeted assassinations are specialties.
Mossad and Shin Bet (Israel's Security Agency) have notorious terrorist histories. Bet on either organization's dirty hands behind the latest Bulgaria attack.
Fingers point the wrong way. Israel blames Iran for its own crimes.
Unindicted war criminal Netanyahu said "Israel will respond forcefully to Iranian terror." At issue is a Bulgarian Sarafovo airport bomb attack. It's located in Burgas. It's a popular Black Sea resort destination. Israeli tourists and others were killed.
On July 19, Reuters headlined "Bulgaria says suicide bomber blew up airport bus," saying:
A bus carrying Israeli tourists and others was attacked. Eight deaths were reported. Around 30 others were injured. According to Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov:
"We have established a person who was a suicide bomber in this attack. This person had a fake driving license from the United States."
It wasn't coincidental that the attack came on the anniversary of the 1994 AMIA (Argentine Israelite Mutual Association) Buenos Aires bombing. It killed 85 and injured hundreds. Argentina has Latin America's largest Jewish population. It numbers around 200,000. Israel falsely blamed Iran.
Its officials jumped on the latest attack. Defense Minister Ehud Barak pointed fingers the wrong way, saying:
"The immediate executors are Hezbollah people, who of course have constant Iranian sponsorship."
A White House statement stopped short of blaming Iran and/or Hezbollah, saying:
Obama "strongly condemns today's barbaric terrorist attack on Israelis in Bulgaria….As Israel has tragically once more been a target of terrorism, the United States reaffirms our unshakeable commitment to Israel's security, and our deep friendship and solidarity with the Israeli people."
Hillary Clinton issued a similar statement.
America, Israel, and key NATO partners are responsible for more global terrorism and deaths than the rest of the world combined and then some.
Mossad specializes in targeted and larger scale killings. Car bombs are a favorite tactic. Assassinating former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri was classic Israeli state terror.
Compelling February 2005 visual and audio evidence revealed real time intercepted Israeli aerial surveillance footage of routes he used on the day he was killed.
Israel was clearly involved. Syria initially was blamed. Hezbollah was later falsely named and indicted. It was typical Mossad targeting. No one at the time knew for sure. A powerful car bomb caused a 30 foot crater. Over 20 were killed and over 100 injured.
No evidence whatever proved Hezbollah's involvement. It had nothing to gain but plenty to lose. Israel and Washington greatly benefitted.
Mossad's dirty hands were responsible like for many dozens of other incidents. Israel and America perfected the art of killing. They're also expert at pointing fingers the wrong way. Victims often are blamed.
On July 19, Haaretz headlined "Israel has no doubt about who is behind the deadly attack in Bulgaria."
Neither do independent observers familiar with its odious terrorist history. Netanyahu spuriously blamed Iran. Iranian Revolutionary Guards Quds Force General Qassem Suleimani was named. No corroborating evidence whatever was cited because there is none.
Netanyahu falsely claims Iran spreads terror worldwide. He also blames Hezbollah.
The New York Times outrageously said if Israel's accusation is true, "the Bulgarian blast would be the first successful attempt by Iranian operatives to kill Israelis in attacks abroad after a string of failed bomb plots targeting Israeli diplomats in Georgia, India and Thailand this year."
Iran, of course, had nothing to do with any of them. Blaming Tehran didn't pass the smell test. Last October, Iranians were falsely accused of trying to kill Saudi Arabia's ambassador in Washington. The charge resembled a bad film plot. It was baseless, and officials pointing fingers the wrong way knew it.
Last February, Israel again levied false charges. India and Georgia incidents were cited. Allegedly Israeli embassy workers in both countries were targeted. One injury was reported. No one was killed.
A Bangkok, Thailand incident happened around the same time. Iranians were detained after an explosion damaged their rented house. Despite no credible evidence, they were suspected of targeting Israeli diplomats.
Iran threatens no one. It painstakingly avoids provocations. It has everything to lose and nothing to gain from them. Israel benefits greatly. The above incidents and many others bore classic Mossad fingerprints. So does Bulgaria.
Israel and Washington wage covert and low-level hot war on Iran.
Tactics include computer viruses, other cyber attacks, bombings, sabotage, multiple rounds of sanctions, attempts to cripple its central bank and oil exports, targeted assassinations, satellite, drone, and other type spying, bogus accusations, a partial isolating blockade, and saber rattling stopping short of bombs away.
Both countries menace humanity. Iran threatens no one. Its neighbors know it. It hasn't attacked another country in over 200 years. No evidence suggests it's developing nuclear weapons.
Washington and Israel specialize in false flags, war, other belligerence, targeted killings, and state terror as official policy.
They're advancing the ball for war on Syria. They're itching for pretexts to attack Iran. One observer called Tehran a war looking for an excuse. They're easily instigated or invented.
Days before the Bulgaria incident, a Lebanese man was detained in Cyprus. Based on Israeli intelligence allegations, police connected him to Hezbollah.
Cypriot authorities claimed "possible charges pertaining to terrorism laws." He was accused of having photographs of "Israeli targets," El Al Airlines flight schedules, and tour bus information.
He was a tourist. Visitors take photos. They also have airline schedules and use buses for sightseeing. Relating this information to alleged terrorism doesn't wash.
Police claimed they found "documents" linking him to a "terror cell" planning attacks on Israeli targets. Blowing up a plane or bus was charged.
Unexplained was precisely what was found and why someone plotting these things would allegedly carry around indictable evidence.
No weapons or explosives were found. Charges don't hold water. Without clear corroborating evidence, there's no plot, no crime, or intention to commit one.
Bulgaria's bus attack was criminal. No evidence links Iran and/or Hezbollah. It bears classic Mossad fingerprints. Perhaps CIA operatives were also involved.
Both organizations are linked to assassinating Iranian scientists. They stay unaccountable while Iran and Hezbollah face repeated false charges.
Expect one or more future false flags to be pretext for war. Syria tops Washington's queue, then Iran. It's just a matter of time until full-scale intervention targets both countries.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. His new book is titled How Wall Street Fleeces America: Privatized Banking, Government Collusion and Class War
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§ 14-196.3. Cyberstalking.
(a) The following definitions apply in this section:
(1) Electronic communication. – Any transfer of signs, signals, writing, images, sounds, data, or intelligence of any nature, transmitted in whole or in part by a wire, radio, computer, electromagnetic, photoelectric, or photo-optical system.
(2) Electronic mail. – The transmission of information or communication by the use of the Internet, a computer, a facsimile machine, a pager, a cellular telephone, a video recorder, or other electronic means sent to a person identified by a unique address or address number and received by that person.
(b) It is unlawful for a person to:
(1) Use in electronic mail or electronic communication any words or language threatening to inflict bodily harm to any person or to that person's child, sibling, spouse, or dependent, or physical injury to the property of any person, or for the purpose of extorting money or other things of value from any person.
(2) Electronically mail or electronically communicate to another repeatedly, whether or not conversation ensues, for the purpose of abusing, annoying, threatening, terrifying, harassing, or embarrassing any person.
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(d) Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.
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Hulu's "Shark Tank" Problem
I think "Shark Tank" is one of the best hours on TV right now. Want to see for yourself? Tune in on Friday nights to ABC, where the reality show/start-up competition is in its fourth season. Mark Cuban makes a particularly excellent hero/villain.
Don't want to watch TV on Friday nights? Don't have a DVR? No problem.
A day after the show airs, you can see it on:
ABC's iPad and iPhone app
And, if you get pay TV, your pay-TV service's video on demand system.
One place you can't see it:
Hulu Plus. The $8-a-month subscription service offers only some of the show's episodes from previous seasons.
To beat that into the ground: If you want to watch "Shark Tank" someplace other than ABC, you have several legal options. Hulu Plus, the service that's supposed to give its customers more TV programming than the free version it hatched out of two years ago, isn't one of them.
Why not? Good question. An ABC rep says the company doesn't have the rights to distribute the show on subscription video services. It says it's up to Sony, which produces the show, to cut a deal with Hulu. But a Sony rep says ABC does have those rights. (Update: ABC now says the show is unavailable because of a "business-related decision.")
The net result is the same: Hulu Plus customers who want to watch the show on the service have to find another way, because of murky licensing issues.
It's hard to get whipped up about this. As noted above, there are plenty of other ways to watch "Shark Tank."*
The only people who are out of luck are the ones who wanted to watch the show on an Android phone or tablet (ABC doesn't make an app for that OS), or for people who don't have cable and want to watch the show on a device like a connected TV or an Apple TV.
I tried to watch the show via Apple TV on Saturday night. When that didn't work, I ended up watching via Time Warner Cable. No big deal.**
And the good news is that these weird, inexplicable-to-regular-humans licensing gaps seem to happen less often than they used to, because Hulu (owned by Disney, News Corp., and Comcast***) and its programming partners have gotten better at ironing this stuff out. But they still happen. Another example: Hulu Plus customers can't watch "The Simpsons" on their phones or TVs. Meanwhile, these rights gaps aren't limited to Hulu.
The digital media utopia will be when media makers no longer care where or when we watch their stuff, because our eyeballs will be just as valuable on any platform. And we're getting there! But it's going to take awhile. If the media guys are lucky, we'll be patient.
* And it really is quite good. If you're reading this site, decent odds you'll like it. It's VC approved!
** Yup. I'll own it — I spend my Saturday nights at home, watching reality shows.
*** News Corp. also owns this Web site.


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The picture of JFK on the yacht, it appears, is a fake. It's actually part of a photo essay from Playboy in the sixties. The Smoking Gun has more details.
And after I spent all of that space giving TMZ props for being such a fine journalism organization, too. That'll be the last compliment I hand out for the rest of the year.
Great headline of the day
Things you can't do on Twitter
Well, for starters, you can't use these passwords.
(via TechCrunch)
Technology & Lists: A winning combination
The year-end lists go on and on. Someone should make a list.
The 4th most popular photo gallery from the Tyler Morning-Telegraph was one of the Brownsboro High Prom. And here it is.
The theme was "A Midnight in Paris." I don't think the sponsors were
referring to the Lamar County seat, but I could be wrong. I was wrong
about TMZ.
The argument for asking for directions
unit malfunctioned and sent a Nevada couple down a long and winding road, where
they were stuck in snow for three days in Oregon. Thankfully, they were prepared
for emergencies and had food, warm clothing, etc.
The song "The Way" has nothing to do with that, but it's about an Austin area couple that disappeared and was found dead in Arkansas.
I cannot tell you what a great song this is, as I have promised not to offer any more compliments this year.
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Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts William Galvin launched an exam sweep Wednesday into broker-dealers' sales of alternative investments to seniors, calling the often-risky products "accidents waiting to happen."
Galvin, who heads the Massachusetts Securities Division, subpoenaed BDs doing business in the state and asked them for information on their sales of alt products to seniors to determine the firms' supervision, compliance and training associated with the sales of these products.
Subpoenas went to Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, UBS Securities, Fidelity Brokerage Services, Charles Schwab & Co., Well Fargo Advisors, TD Ameritrade, ING Financial Partners, LPL Financial, Commonwealth Financial Network, MML Investor Services, Investors Capital Corp., Signator Investors, Meyers Associates and WFG Investments.
Galvin noted that "being included on the list is not an indication of wrongdoing at this time."
The alternative investments under Galvin's radar include REITs, oil and gas partnerships, private placements under Rule 506, structured products, tenancy-in-common and other securities carried on the broker dealers' nontraditional product platforms.
These products "are attractive to seniors as they provide a return considerably higher than that of traditional investment options," he said.
"With this higher return, however, come higher risks. The complexity of the products also makes them difficult for the average investor to understand."
Galvin noted his recent settlement with five independent broker dealers for improper sales of REITs to seniors, which returned more than $11 million to Massachusetts investors.
"My office's recent REIT investigation has only heightened my concern that the senior marketplace is being targeted for the sales of these high-risk, esoteric products," Galvin said. "While these products are not unsuitable in and of themselves, they are accidents waiting to happen when they are sold to inexperienced investors by untrained agents who push the products to score the large commissions associated with alternative investments."
Check out 5 Indie BDs Ordered to Pay $9.6M for Nontraded REIT Violations.


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So it's Thanksgiving Day. You've watched the parade with your kids, stuffed yourself at the annual family feast and are now settling down to watch a little football to cap off the day on which we are all supposed to give thanks for the abundance and blessings in our lives.
You've done that, too. But one blessing you might have omitted from your list, says the author of a new book, is your staff. And that could cost you—because remembering to be grateful for, and to, the people who keep your business running smoothly can pay off in ways you might not anticipate, all without costing you a dime.
Todd Patkin isn't your ordinary everyday businessman. As the former head of 18 stores for Autopart International, a family auto parts business—which was later sold to Advance Auto Parts, leaving him free to pursue philanthropic goals and spend more time with his family—Patkin says he discovered something radical.
That is that people crave three things more than money from their jobs: appreciation, respect, and—gasp!—love. Yes, you read that correctly. Says Patkin, "Starting this Thanksgiving, if you really begin to live out the holiday's spirit, you'll also find that happy, engaged employees are the single best way to impact your company's bottom line."
Author of the book Finding Happiness: One Man's Quest to Beat Depression and Anxiety and—Finally—Let the Sunshine In (StepWise Press, 2011, ISBN: 978-0-9658261-9-8, $19.95), Patkin says that when working in his family's business, he always put his employees first. "As a leader," says Patkin, "I quickly found that if my team was content and their work environment was a positive one, they would be more engaged and motivated, and they would also treat our customers better. Plus, it was even more rewarding for me to see that my employees were happy—and often even ecstatic—than it was for me that we were making money."
He adds, "It's more important now than ever before to show your employees love and appreciation, because we're in the midst of an economic downturn, so you probably won't have the money to give big raises and holiday bonuses that you once did."
Stressed-out employees, Patkin points out, are less motivated and more disengaged; the business suffers as they do only what they must to get by. And unhappy employees will be the first to jump ship once the economy improves. But happy ones will go more than the extra mile.
(See Angie Herbers' latest blog on five ways to keep your employees happy.)
Sound unlikely? Patkin tells of when he first entered the family business and started dealing out hugs all around. "The man who ran our 18 stores had a heart attack and my dad gave me the stores [to run]," he recalls. While he "knew nothing about auto parts," he "worked hard" at his new responsibilities, but part of what made the difference, he says, were the hugs.
Describing himself as short and the other employees as bigger in stature, he says at first they found it strange that he would hug them. But after a year or two, he adds, if he failed to do so, they would call to find out whether he was upset with them. "Big people are the same as little people," he says. "We all want to be loved." Describing himself as "all love," Patkin adds, "Managers think it's their job to catch people doing things wrong and I think it's the opposite. Catch people doing something good today," he urges, "and tell them."
Hugs aren't the only thing Patkin advocates—a good thing if you aren't the touchy-feely type. He also suggests sending "love notes" and leaving voicemails for their families to let employees know you noticed the good work they're doing and to praise them for it; publicly praising good work—and privately administering reprimands; and forgiving mistakes when an employee is otherwise a good worker and not just a complainer.
Scientifically, it may surprise you to know, Patkin's notions are borne out. A recent New York Times article reported that psychologists studying the effects of being thankful have found that gratitude produces better health and sleep, lessens anxiety and depression, and makes people both kinder toward others and more content with their lives—all good things when bad news dominates the headlines. Not only that, but a new study reveals a lessening of aggression among those who cultivate gratitude.
In a Northeastern University experiment, participants were given sabotaged computers and it was arranged for another student to fix them. Students whose computers were repaired by these good Samaritans were more likely to volunteer, in turn, to help someone else—thereby paying the good deed forward. Imagine such a result being replicated in your office, whereby employees praised for good work and feeling appreciated and grateful turn that benevolence on fellow employees and on your clients.
Patkin adds, "If there is one thing I would like to tell all leaders at all levels and in all industries, it's that you have nothing to lose and everything to gain—including an improved bottom line—by making your organization as happy a place to work as possible."


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