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Vulture's Erykah Badu Haiku Contest: We Have a Winner!
A truly top-notch haiku.
Thanks very much to all those who took the time out to enter our Erykah Badu ticket giveaway haiku contest. We had some great submissions, but unfortunately, only one haiku can reign supreme. Now, after carefully parsing through the entrants, we're ready to declare that winner. And it is ... the following gem, submitted by nymag.com commenter SASSBLCKNEIGHBR:
View from window seat,
It's Badu badonkadonk!
Dallas can't handle.
Big Congrats to SASSBLCKNEIGHBR, who wins two tickets to Badu's June 7 show at Roseland Ballroom, as well as a meet-and-greet session after the concert. Everyone else: Keep sharpening your haiku skills and stay tuned for the next Vulture giveaway.


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SOURCE: Olenick & Associates
January 24, 2014 16:00 ET
CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwired - Jan 24, 2014) - Olenick & Associates announces our newest practice -- Big Data. It is with great enthusiasm that we welcome Joan Macijunas, Associate, to the Olenick family.
Joan has an extensive background in the Oracle arena with a concentration in successfully identifying and resolving performance issues. It was a natural evolution for her career to integrate Big Data and Hadoop Technology. As a Hadoop Solutions Architect she works with clients to understand and configure a Hadoop Ecosystem, design use cases, develop and train Big Data Teams, and ensure an unprecedented competitive advantage from this compelling technology.
"Ms. Macijunas solidifies our existing Big Data / Hadoop Testing and System Administration Services and significantly enhances the impact we can have on clients' Big Data / Hadoop initiatives by adding solution architecture and implementation capabilities. We are excited to have Joan and Big Data / Hadoop as an integral part of Olenick's delivery team."
- Richard Lesley, Senior Vice President, Olenick & Associates
Watch for Joan's blog 'Make-Sense?' published on the olenick.com insights page.
Olenick & Associates is ready to assist you in making sense out of Big Data. Whether you are in the initial discovery phase of a POC or experiencing performance and latency issues in a Hadoop cluster, turn to us for results.
This technology provides unprecedented competitive advantage, is extremely scalable, complements existing Data Warehouses, provides advanced analytic capabilities, and can be extremely cost effective.
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Beach front on private street end; miles of natural beach for long walks and beautiful sunsets; Rent the bottom floor two rooms for $150/night (sleeps 6), or both floors, 4 rooms, 12 beds for 14 people $300+/night (depends on number of people & ages).
End of street. Private entrance, Steps from beautiful beach. Walking distance from pharmacies
Places of Interest Nearby: Camuy Caves and Arecibo satellite
Rio Camuy Caves
Cueva del Indio Cavern
Arecibo Observatory (world's most powerful radar-radio telescope)
Punta Los Morrillos Lighthouse
Cambalache Forest Reserve
Caguana Indian Ceremonial Park
Prime Outlets Shopping
Only an hour to Rincon and great surfing; 40 minutes to Aguadilla and great diving. Centric to all of Puerto Rico....rent a car and get to know La Isla del Encantada!
Perfect couple retreat...: Romantic bottom floor room with beautiful views. Enjoy a good book from master library in the hammock. Savor a glass of wine while watching the sunset in the rocker. Relax in the luxury linens each night. Take long walks on the beach and watch the waves roll in. Stay up at night and make a wish on a falling star (really, we see a lot of them!).
Fully stocked kitchen...: Everything you would need to be a gourmet cook, even cookbooks to try something new. Sam's Club is just down the street and Walmart is across the street for the groceries. And if you drink and eat too much, Walgreen's is open 24 hours and within walking distance. Don't want to cook, try the local restaurants....
I had a group of 13 people, mostly from the Rocky Mountains in Utah. We pulled up and the first thing people said was "this big one is where we are staying?!" Casa Glad had all we needed, and everyone had a bed, so it's good for big groups/families. You are only a few steps from the beach, which is a great spot to hang out and relax. The sand is good, and there is constantly waves rolling in with a nice breeze. As far swimming goes, I would recommend caution. We found out when high tide was and were able to swim ok, but there are some rocks that can be dangerous if you're not careful. They are a little ways out though, so getting in up to your thighs to just relax and enjoy is great. We weren't used to the hot humidity in PR, so it was a little warm. Opening the big doors helped because there was a nice breeze. At night you can turn on small air conditioning units in the bedrooms that are amazing to sleep with.
I had no problems at all with booking or paying, and everything was great when we showed up. The house is kind of in a commercial area, which was good because there are plenty of stores near by. Some great food stands literally right up the street to get "pinchos" (kebabs) or sandwiches, and a nice little cafe called "Delicias" at the top of the street with espresso and great breakfast. Although it is a somewhat commercial area, once you get to the end of the little road where the house is, you're in your own little paradise. The waves, the palm trees (with iguanas and tiny little lizards here and there) the breeze...just so great!
This is a great place if you don't want to be in the middle of San Juan and all the touristy stuff. There are some great things nearby too! Cueva del Indio was really cool, good surfing in Isabella...if you can, take a beautiful drive to San Sebastián and go to Gozalandia Falls, you won't regret it.
All in all, Casa Glad was exactly what my group wanted. I would absolutely recommend this place, especially if you want to get out of San Juan and see a little more of what Puerto Rico has to offer!
Just came back from an amazing 2 week stay at CASA GLAD! The home is situated on at the end of a small block a top a hill from a beach. Amazing sunrises and sunsets, cool ocean breezes day and night allowing you to enjoy sitting outdoors with family and friends. The large dinning area allowed us to successfully reunite family, enjoy home cooked meals, family game nights, and overall joys of talking and laughing. The home has all you could need for cooking with a huge kitchen where we did our own home cooked puerto rican meals thanks to my husband and his family here on the island, cleaning up after days at the beach, and overall relaxation. The bedrooms were spacious and comfortable. And we only booked the bottom floor! 😊 There is a rooftop terrace that has amazing views. Up the road from the house is access to all different local foods, supermarkets, etc. We didnt want to leave! Joy was always available for questions etc. Mari the housekeeper is just as great too!
Thank you Joy for the opportunity to stay in your home!
We thoroughly enjoyed our stay for an extended weekend. Just the two of us. Beautiful, well appointed property! Amazing views, great amenities, truly a vacation. Would definitely stay here again! Thanks so much!🌞
We thoroughly enjoyed our stay. Property was clean, spacious, fantastic location, within feet of beach and close to mall and eateries. Owner was wonderful - very attentive and accommodating. The description of this listing is spot on. We're already planning for our next stay. Highly recommended.
We live in San Juan, but wanted to get out of the city for a weekend. Casa Glad was just the ticket! With a fully-equipped kitchen and close proximity to dining and shopping, we had everything we needed. We spent a quiet weekend watching movies, reading, and walking on the beach. A truly perfect weekend to relax! We would totally recommend this beachfront home to those looking for a quiet getaway on the beach!
We had an amazing time at Casa Glad! We rented both the top and bottom floors, and we could have not asked for more. Anything we needed was at our fingertips, and truthfully, if we couldn't find something, it was because we did not look hard enough or we simply didn't need it. This home is truly stocked with all the essentials of home. From the moment we drove up and stepped out of the vehicle, we had an amazing ocean breeze that cooled us immediately. As we turned the key to go inside, we were not disappointed. The home was very clean and had a fresh scent that was welcoming. The bedding and pillows were very clean. Honestly, It has all the amenities we desired, right down to a washer and dryer. We opened all the windows and invited the breeze that greeted us and we never closed the windows until we departed. Packing could wait and we headed down to what seemed our private beach. Found beach chairs in the garage and refreshed ourselves with a few cocktails, beachside of course!! Joy was alway available by phone and it was nice to know if we would have needed something, Mari, Joys housekeeper was only minutes away. We stayed nine days, with each day giving us amazing sunshine and nights that would lull you to sleep, Our only regret, is our stay was not nearly long enough. So looking forward to our next visit Joy. Thanks for a great vacation!!
The uniqueness of this house is it is on the beach and right off the main highway between Arecibo and Hatillo and you can go any where in Puerto Rico; but when your at the house, it's like you are away from it all. You don't hear anything but the ocean. It's a very private beach, that only locals use. The beach house is located very central to see all of Puerto Rico and many tourist attractions: 20 minutes to the Arecibo caves and satellite; 20 minutes to great outlet shopping at Barceloneta; 1 hr to Rincon; 1/2 hr to Dorado and golf, 1 hr to San Juan, 1 hr to Ponce, 1 hr to many diving spots (Crashboat) and all with a scenic drive. The house next door, El Escape, which is perfect to rent both for large family gatherings.
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Bottom floor available to rent separately at $150/night, both floors would be $300/night. Check in after 4pm/check out noon. Can be flexible with prior notification. Payment must be made in full 45 days prior, or reservation will be cancelled. Minimum of 50% deposit to at time of reservation to hold reservation. $100 or more/per floor house set up cleaning fee is due in cash to receive house keys; depends on how many people.


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A milestone for Music & MemoryMay 16, 2017
With how much positive press and research surrounding the benefit music can bring to people with dementia, it came as somewhat of a shock to me to find there had never been a nationwide study of the Music & Memory program — until now.
Don't pump up the jams: studyApril 06, 2015
Playing music too loud, or even just in the background too much, could impede seniors' ability to remember simple concepts, including names.
What long-term care can learn from Van HalenMarch 18, 2015
David Lee Roth, best known for being the theatrical frontman of the rock band Van Halen, is a decision-making genius whom long-term care providers can learn a lot from.
Senior centers should lower the music, research advisesFebruary 17, 2015
The positive benefits of music for the frail elderly abound in medical literature, but new research suggests music that is too loud may be more harmful than helpful.
Adjust residents' hearing aids before they listen to music, researcher advisesOctober 30, 2014
Nursing home residents might get more enjoyment and therapeutic value out of music if they change hearing aid settings, recently published findings suggest.
Amazing Grace Superstar: The great question of sacred or show-tune musicMay 08, 2014
Nothing is clear these days — in long-term care or life. Everything's brutally ambiguous. We're living an endless good-news, bad-news life loop, where all the things we think are good for us will eventually also prove our demise. Coffee. Chocolate. Wine. They're our salvation, and our downfall, so it's impossible to know what to think or do. About anything.
Reducing antipsychotics one resident at a timeDecember 02, 2013
Like many bad habits, the overuse of antipsychotics is not going down without a fight. Still, there are reasons for long-term optimism.
The day the music diedNovember 27, 2013
Is your community staying competitive with new changes in resident entertainment? There are ways to use music to increase the happiness of your residents.
Music a vital element in enhancing resident experienceJuly 22, 2013
Live entertainment can add to resident care and should be considered a priority. Running an effective entertainment program requires knowledge of the basics.
Tapping the power of therapeutic music in long-term careApril 22, 2013
You know the music you love personally, and how listening to a certain song makes you feel. But how can you tap the power of music to simultaneously enhance the lives of the many people in your and your team's care?
Musical training heads off age-related hearing difficulties, study findsJanuary 31, 2012
Lifelong musical training — particularly when continued late in life — can help overcome age-related hearing loss, a new study finds.
Will music improve MDS 3.0 scores?June 22, 2011
Using iPods to reconnect long-term care residents with their favorite music is a simple intervention with great upside potential and no side effects. They're an inexpensive tool that can have a positive impact on resident quality of life, which, in turn, should be reflected in an important subset of MDS 3.0 scores.
Dancing with your starsSeptember 28, 2010
Dancing is a powerful way for older adults to escape physical, mental and emotional challenges, and feel joy. And anyone—even those in wheelchairs—can do it.
Music: The language of well-beingJuly 06, 2010
Music can have a profound impact on long-term care residents with cognitive impairment. It triggers memories, improves mood and sparks a feeling of of connection with others.
Name that tune: Alzheimer's patients more easily recall new information when it is sung to themMay 13, 2010
It has been said that music has charms to soothe the savage beast. Now, research shows it also may have the power to help Alzheimer's patients remember new information.
Music and the mind: Using an iPod to treat Alzheimer'sDecember 23, 2009
The popular music device known as the iPod is a great way to help trigger memories and improve functioning in people with Alzheimer's disease.


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We are back from CHI 2016 and happy to present some impressions:
Harald Reiterer and Mario Schreiner co-organized Cross-Surface 2016, the second international workshop on interacting with multi-device ecologies "in the wild":
Jens Müller talked about Virtual Objects as Spatial Cues in Collaborative Mixed Reality Environments: How They Shape Communication Behavior and User Task Load (PDF, Video)
Uta Hinrichs and Simon Butscher presented their paper Diving in at the Deep End: The Value of Alternative In-Situ Approaches for Systematic Library Search (PDF, Video).
Together with their co-authors Jens Müller and Harald Reiterer they received an Honorable Mention Award.
Ulrike Pfeil and Johannes Zagermann talked about When Tablets meet Tabletops: The Effect of Tabletop Size on Around-the-Table Collaboration with Personal Tablets (PDF, Video)


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About GTRI
Since 1998, we've provided industry-leading consulting and services—helping clients derive real business value from their technology investments. We know that technology changes fast and that's why we are always on top of breakthroughs in application and infrastructure architecture. Our business is to solve your challenges and bring your business measurable results. At the end of the day though, we are still in the people business. Technology is just one of our strategic tools, but our roots are grounded in the concept that worker success across an entire organization with well-built technology provides the most value.
Business Problems First
Too many providers come in talking solutions before you have even described your problems. We drive intelligent and holistic conversations around your business pains to provide solutions that consider people, process and technology. Understanding the big picture helps us provide smart solutions with real value.
Operational Maturity
Operational maturity means running our business with thoughtful and disciplined planning. We build and maintain efficient processes, continually educating our personnel, and then measuring and monitoring our effectiveness. We have an automated Quality Management System with executive-led quarterly case reviews and continuous, systematic improvements. Plus, we model our services business around our Global Services Framework, a formal project methodology with automated milestones for project risk reduction and success.
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Our consulting talent pool was built to solve unique business and technical challenges. We successfully completed more than 2300 professional service projects with more than 500 clients in the past five years. And we have a 92% overall client satisfaction rating for our Professional Services division.
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In addition to in-house services such as:
- laundering, ironing and dry cleaning
- photocopying and faxing
- car rental
- transfer to airport or harbour
- cot
- shoe cleaning
- WiFi
it is possible to arrange tours in Kuressaare tower, use the tennis and golf course, rent bicycles and boats. You can also enjoy the spa centre and treatments at the fantastic Georg Ots Spa. Nearby, there are some unique shops like the
Zurramurra gift shop and cafe, the vintage furniture and clothes shops Tamara 1965 and Retro Ruum, and Ku-Kuu restaurant at Kuressaare Kuursaal with a beautiful view, summer terrace and excellent kitchen. We can arrange a dinner party at the Ekesparre Hotel or Ku-Kuu restaurant at Kuressaare Kuursaal.


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Sabi Sabi Earth Lodge is located on a private concession in the southern part of the Sabi Sand Region.
Each morning and evening, safaris drives take you through a wide variety of habitats, allowing you to view the vast interactions of the wild. Your game ranger and Shangaan tracker will take you deep into the bush by open safari vehicle, or on foot - close enough to share in a thrilling encounter with Africa's beautiful wild creatures!
Earth Lodge is sculpted deep into the earth and is inspired by natural textures, colours and shapes. Each of the 13 Suites is individually decorated with specially commissioned furnishings, a secluded plunge pool and open-air shower, with the added benefit of having a personal butler. The ultra-luxurious Amber Presidential Suite is vast and boasts its own exercise room, steam room, study, and kitchen. The boma is built from roots and makes a dramatic backdrop for dinners under an African Sky. Earth Nature Spa offers advanced skin and body treatments, while dining is just as luxurious an experience, with dishes that are beautifully styled and delicious to boot.
- Ultra-luxurious five-star lodge in game-laden southern Sabi Sand Game Reserve
- Sabi Sabi has many years of experience in the safari industry and it shows in their service and constant attention to detail
- Excellent on-site spa facilities, themed dinners, romantic touches, community tours, and even photographic tuition
- Benefit of having a personal butler
- Excellent cuisine with everything from healthy to simply decadent on offer


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See How Your Chosen Image Looks Matted and Framed
You may mat and frame any of my images right online, adjust the mat size and color, choose from tons of frame styles, and, if you wish, purchase the actual components as a framing kit. All this may be done at pictureframes.com. I have absolutely no affiliation with this site, but it does allow you to see (for free) what your image will look like framed, and if you wish to buy the framing components from them, their prices are reasonable. You will need a small sample of your chosen photo for online framing purposes, and to this end I have provided a free download sample of each of my images.
You download the sample image to your computer, and then upload it to the pictureframe.com site and start framing! Here's how to download your sample image:
1. Go to the page of your chosen image
2. Move your cursor over the "Buy" button near the top right corner of the page (don't worry, the download is free), then click on "Select Product."
3. Click on "Downloads," click on the image title, and then add the download to your cart.
4. Press the "Checkout Now" button (the system will not ask for any personal information) and download the image to your computer.
How to Frame Your Chosen Image Online
1. Go to the "Personal Frame Shop" of pictureframes.com.
2. Upload the image from your computer and then chose matting and framing for the image according to their instructions. A few tips:
• After uploading your image, enter the actual physical size of the image, and make sure the "Maintain Image Proportions"
box is checked (i.e. if on the actual print the image size is, say, 18 inches wide, their system will automatically calculate the correct
• The color of the mat core is usually white, and this will be visible as a thin white line
• At any time you may click on the "Larger View" button to see your framed artwork on a larger scale
• Remember that you may go back and change the mat color, mat size, frame style, etc., at any time, and you may change your mind
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For some useful information on how to chose an appropriate mat and frame for your image, click here.


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The Doshi STEM program housed at LIHSA, the magnet school operated by BOCES, and the Malverne board of education were closely tied since the program's inception. Malverne HS was allowing to enroll a substantial number of students, each year increasing … Continue reading
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Evelyn Lacuesta
Posted On January 16th, 2013 - Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Dec. 28, 2012
Evelyn Lacuesta, 43, of Waipahu died in Aiea. She was born in Bagabag, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines. She is survived by son Daniel M.; daughters Kasandra F. Coulter and Jericka-Jane and Jessicka M. Mirafuentes; parents Manuel and Lourdes; sisters Noralyn Montemayor and Maila Teves; and a grandchild. Private services.
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and we'll see you at our next event! All members of the Santa Fe Fat Tire Society automatically join the International Mountain Bicycling Association with all of the great IMBA membership benefits.
The Santa Fe Fat Tire Society is dedicated to the sport of mountain biking and to providing riders of all levels the opportunity to meet, socialize, improve their skills, and, most of all, to have fun. We are strong advocates for responsible mountain biking and for the development, creation, and maintenance of multi-use trails.
We are Santa Fe's local Mountain Bike Club and we like to say that 'Any friend of mountain biking is a friend of ours.'


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At the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, the Indian Civil Service consisted of some 1,000 men who administered a hugely varied population of 300 million spread out over the subcontinent. Whatever the rights and wrongs of imperialism, the fact that these men did so at all was an extraordinary achievement. David Gilmour further believes that, on the whole, they carried out the task conscientiously and well, often in extremely difficult circumstances.
This is a distinctly unfashionable view. Many recent books on the Raj, as Gilmour has complained elsewhere, seem unable to "find a single decent motive to attribute to officials who had spent a good part of their careers digging canals, building roads and organising famine relief", dismissing suggestions that ICS officers were often motivated by altruism rather than self-advancement as "imperial nostalgia". It is a nice irony that this view comes mainly from America, now the most imperialist nation on earth.
Gilmour's view is that many of these books are patronising and poorly researched, their authors relying more upon the work of their fellow academics in post-colonial studies than on original sources. His own extensive research among mounds of private papers has resulted in a detailed and balanced account, in which scholarship and good sense provide a counterblast to transatlantic posturing.
One of many acute observations in The Ruling Caste is that 19th-century Civilians (as ICS officials were known) regarded India as a career not a colony, "a place to work and move around rather than to settle in and put down roots". After a 25-year service there, on eventual return to Britain, many often felt utterly adrift and unable to find a suitable occupation. In India, they may have wielded considerable power and had the opportunity to explore an endlessly fascinating country with large retinues of biddable servants at their disposal. But they also spent long hours filling forms, endured a debilitating climate and were denied the normal comforts of family life.
While emphasising the absence of corruption and the generally fair way in which Civilians conducted themselves, Gilmour readily admits faults when he finds them. An entertaining chapter titled "Black Sheep" includes sections on Drunks, Debts and a Lunatic, Incompetents and Malcontents and The Odd Corruptible, while throughout the book a proportion of thoroughly bad hats (many of them high-ranking) make lively appearances. Gilmour pithily sums up the failings of even so famous a viceroy as Lord Lytton - "Parsimony in famine policy, combined with an expensive and pointless war against Afghanistan, were the main features of an irresponsible viceroyalty" - while missionaries are summarily dealt with in a section called Nuisances.
Furthermore, Gilmour frankly acknowledges the shortcomings of the imperial endeavour, noting that "a widely held view was that Indians were like children and should be treated as such", and although some radicals in the ICS genuinely believed that India would one day be capable of self-government (and became active supporters of the Indian National Congress), liberalism more often "meant 'sympathising' with the 'aspirations' of 'educated natives' and 'associating' Indians more closely with administration".
With a keen eye for the anecdote that illuminates as well as entertains, Gilmour shows precisely how the ICS worked and how its officials, from their first appearance on the subcontinent as young "griffins" to their retirement in Bayswater and Cheltenham, conducted both their public and private lives. "Probably there never was so strange and painful and wonderful and uninviting an existence lived since the world began to spin," one Civilian wrote in 1891. "History should do something for us." Gilmour has answered that plea splendidly in a book that is not only informative, but also lucid, witty, and extremely well-written.
Vyvyen Brendon has also been busy in attics and archives, conducting a huge amount of original research into the offspring of the Empire's servants [Children of the Raj, 362pp,Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £20 ]. She starts with the 18th-century reign of the East India Company, whose employees "jeopardised the emotional security of their children for the sake of their material prospects", and ends with the rather more caring parents who finally left India in 1947. Her sympathies, naturally enough, are for the "orphans of the Raj", who spent their first, often very happy, years in India, but for reasons of health or education were usually sent "home" to a country they neither knew nor liked.
It is enlightening to discover that by the 1860s the mortality rate among British children in India was no worse than in Britain, but by then children were sent home because of parents' worries about the "moral contamination" they risked if left with servants and exposed to "lascivious anecdotes of Hindu gods". Unsurprisingly, many children loved the colourful life they led among the "heathens", and found the relatives in England no substitute for their beloved ayahs.
Brendon has unearthed some excellent material among the interviews she carried out with British survivors of the Raj. Perhaps the most touching chapter in this absorbing if occasionally sprawling book deals with mixed-race children. Between 1767 and 1782, a startling 54 per cent of the children baptised at St John's Church in Calcutta were the illegitimate offspring of European men and Indian women. By the Victorian period, however, few army officers would claim, as the aristocratic William Gardner engagingly did in 1821, that "I would rather sprawl upon the floor with half a dozen of my dingy progeny tumbling and romping over me than sit upon the Governor-General's throne". It is cheering to be reminded by these two excellent books that the pernicious "race consciousness" that subsequently divided the British and the Indians was shared neither by Queen Victoria herself nor by the children of the Raj.


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Christina Grimmie Remembered in Touching Tribute at VidCon - Watch Here
Christina Grimmie was honored last week during 2016 VidCon after she was tragically shot to death three weeks ago.
Co-founders of the event John and Hank Green spoke before presenting the video.
"Christina Grimmie, a passionate and dedicated, innovated and talented YouTube creator, was killed after her concert, and then the next day 49 people were murdered at a gay club in Orlando," John said to the audience.
"Her innovation and her generosity will affect this industry and this community forever and I'm proud of that. Her memory will always be with us. A bunch of her friends reached out to us because they wanted to share a tribute that they were putting together in her memory. So please join us in listening to and watching dozens of YouTubers and her friends who worked with her performing one of her songs ['With Love']," Hank added.
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Paloma Faith wants quirky acting career
Paloma Faith wants to be a ''quirky'' actress.
The 26-year-old singer - who made appearances in 'The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus' and 'St. Trinians' - would resort to film work if her music career didn't work out, but she admits she would need some extra lessons first.
She said: ''I'd moonlight as an actress, in Christina Ricci's roles if I wasn't a musician. I'd like to be an actress. That would be my plan B. I'd want to be cast in the sort of roles that Christina Ricci gets - quirky, avant garde and a little bit disjointed.
''I really loved her in 'Buffalo '66' and 'Monster'. I'd probably have to look into theatre school first, though.''
However Paloma would not find it too hard to enter the world of acting, as she used to play a lot of make-believe as a child.
She said: ''When I was a child, I used to eat my dinner on the pavement outside our house in London.
''We didn't have a garden and there wasn't a lot of green space so my mum would put out a little table and tablecloth out on the pavement and pretend it was a restaurant. A little imagination goes a long way!''


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Churches Burn Palms In Preparation For Ash WednesdayA palm burning service outside Holy Name Cathedral on Tuesday morning was a sign that Ash Wednesday and Lent are almost here.
Christians Around Chicago Receive Ashes To Mark Beginning Of LentChicago church members are scattered all around the city today on Ash Wednesday giving Christians ashes.
Some Pastors Offer 'Ashes To Go' For Commuters On Ash WednesdayFor the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday, some ministers were catering to commuters, by placing ashes on their foreheads as they waited for their trains.
Ashes On-The-GoChristians in Chicago are pausing to reflect on their lives and their faith. Many of those who could not find the time to make it to their church had their faith find them instead.
Ashes For The Faithful Available 'To Go'If you don't have time to go to church on this Ash Wednesday, you might be able to get your ashes "to go."
Chicagoans Scarf Down Paczkis For CharityPaczkis are a guilty pleasure for many Chicagoans just ahead of Ash Wednesday. But nine teams took it a step farther -- battling it out Saturday in a paczki-eating contest for charity in Evanston.


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By Emily Yellin
Once the United States joined World War II, the urge to get married among many young couples proved too compelling to resist. In 1942 alone, 1.8 million weddings took place, up 83 percent from 10 years before. And two-thirds of those brides were marrying men newly enlisted in the military.
Few places epitomized this wartime rush to the altar more than the affectionately named Little Church Around the Corner , on East 29th Street, between Madison and Fifth Avenues in Manhattan, where couples would line up in the Episcopal church's ivy-covered courtyard, awaiting their turn.
In 1942 and 1943, more than 2,000 weddings were performed at the Church of the Transfiguration, the Little Church's official name. In 1943, the church's rector, the Rev. Dr. Randolph Ray, said that three ceremonies in the morning and three in the afternoon represented a "quiet midweek schedule" for him.
Still, the rector tried to apply some prewar standards to the thousands of wartime marriages he sanctioned. In 1944, he even wrote, "Marriage Is a Serious Business," a book for young couples in which he warned, "The hasty marriage, caused by glamour and excitement rather than by genuine affection, is one of the evil products of war."
While wartime romance continued to win out, the pomp of the ceremony was rarely the point. Stories abounded throughout the country of small wedding cakes baked with rationed ingredients, and of brides wearing modest, nontraditional dresses, some even made of silk from the parachutes that had saved their grooms in battle.
The few weddings at the Little Church that were notable enough to be written up in The New York Times reflected that shift.
In June 1945, Dr. Ray presided at Theodora Roosevelt's wedding to an artist. She was the granddaughter of former President Theodore Roosevelt, and a cousin of Eleanor Roosevelt . The Times reported that the couple had "dispensed with attendants" in a ceremony "witnessed only by immediate relatives." The bride wore "a brown faille suit, and straw hat with brown veiling," instead of a typical wedding gown.
And in another nod to wartime austerity within this privileged family, "a small reception was given at the home of the bride's aunt, Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt of 9 Sutton Place," after the ceremony at the Little Church.
In 1946, The Times reported on the almost-inevitable sequel to the wartime wedding boom: " The Whys of War Divorces ."
This early glimpse of service journalism has a gloomy lede: "More than half of America's 1,500,000 war-wed G.I.s have returned. Already one out of every four of these 800,000 men is entangled in divorce proceedings. Experts are predicting that by 1950, 1,000,000 of these wartime marriages – or two out of three – will end in divorce."
Oof. Concluding that "the epidemic of G.I. divorces offers the public an insight into the entire divorce problem," the reporter details the six main causes of marital dissolution – hasty marriages, separation, disillusionment, mésalliances (marriage to a person thought to be unsuitable or of a lower social position), fraternization and economic ills – and talks to experts about how such splits can be avoided.
Historically, many of Oregon's open structured habitats, those dominated by grasses, forbs, and/or shrubs, were maintained by disturbance. Fire, floods, wind, storms, and salt spray have historically played a key role in shaping many of these native habitats. Natural disturbances shape Oregon's landscapes by resetting plant succession, releasing nutrients, moving materials, creating new habitats, and maintaining native habitats, such as grasslands and savannas.
Altered fire regimes have changed vegetation patterns, affecting wildlife dependent on open landscapes. Fires have become statewide issues in the past century as Oregon's population has grown, placing homes and communities closer to where these disturbances occur. Fires were suppressed to protect valuable timber and towns. The unintended consequences included increased tree density and fuel load of forests, which contributed to insect outbreaks, other forest health issues, and the risk of uncharacteristically severe fires.
Dams were constructed to protect towns from flooding, produce electricity, and provide irrigation for farms. The unintended consequences include impeded or blocked aquatic passage, as well as changes in hydrologic regimes that resulted in loss of floodplain function, loss of fish spawning and rearing areas, and degraded riparian habitats. These changes have all impacted Oregon's fish and wildlife populations.
The recommended approach in the Conservation Strategy is to restore or mimic fire and flooding disturbance regimes to benefit fish and wildlife and reduce risks to people.Fire Suppression and Uncharacteristically Severe Wildfire
For thousands of years, fire has been one of the most important forces shaping Oregon's landscapes, both forested and un-forested. Whether started by lightning or Native Americans, fire strongly influenced wildlife habitats by altering the structure, composition, and landscape pattern of native vegetation.
To understand the natural role of fire and how it should be managed, researchers have determined the "natural" (historical, pre-1850) fire regimes for many of Oregon's habitats. Natural fire regimes are classified based on the historical range of fire frequency (e.g., the average number of years between fires) and fire severity prior to European settlement. Human intervention over the last hundred years has altered the historical fire regimes in many of Oregon's landscapes. This has resulted in a cascade of unintended consequences for ecological health, wildlife populations, and people.
Fire regime condition classes are used to describe the amount of departure from natural (historical) fire regimes and were developed for all natural vegetation types. The following chart contains a simplified description of the fire regime condition classes and associated potential risks.
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BALTIMORE-- The Angels came into Saturday's game against the Orioles with a 2-32 record when trailing after seven innings, but they improved on that statistic.
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The Angels had missed on some scoring chances earlier, not being able to come through with hits when needed. Still, everything changed in the eighth, when they turned a 2-1 deficit into a 6-2 lead.
"We had some big hits there; I think the biggest hit in the inning was Albert," manager Mike Scioscia said. "It was good clutch hitting in that inning. I think we had opportunities during the game that could have came back to haunt us, but we had a good eighth inning and got the lead."
Video: LAA@BAL: Fletcher on hitting, defensive adjustments
The Angels' first run came on Andrelton Simmons ' fourth-inning single, and they trailed for the first seven innings before things turned around in the eighth against Orioles reliever Mychal Givens (0-6) and, later, Tanner Scott .
Mike Trout and Justin Upton drew back-to-back one-out walks before Pujols sent a drive to the right-center-field wall for an RBI double. Scott replaced Givens, who induced the run-scoring fielder's choice from Young before hitting Martin Maldonado with the bases loaded to give Los Angeles a 4-2 lead.
Video: LAA@BAL: Maldonado adds a run with a hit-by-pitch
Fletcher followed with his two-run single to center. Justin Anderson (2-2) got the win in relief.
"Whenever you can grind out runs late in the game to come back and win, it's exciting," Fletcher said. " It's definitely something to give us confidence, coming back late in the game like that."
Los Angeles starter Tyler Skaggs allowed three straight singles to start the game and conceded two runs (one earned) in the first inning, but he didn't allow another run through five good innings, and he left trailing, 2-1, after throwing 79 pitches and allowing four hits with six strikeouts.
Video: LAA@BAL: Skaggs K's Wilkerson to escape a jam
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This is a video of Newt, my horse, trying to find his balance standing on a wooden box. Newt had previously been trained to cross over a wooden bridge, so when he first saw this box…he walked straight over it. For each of the seven days prior to this I spent a few minutes a day asking Newt to step onto the box. His first response was to want to walk directly over it. To change this, I asked him to step one front foot up and then immediately asked him back off the box. This resulted in Newt slowing down instead of trying to walk straight over it.
Next I asked for two front feet up and then asked him to back off the box. During this phase Newt figured out how far forward he could step until he found the front edge of the box. He even tried to step directly over it in a very wide straddle! If he tried to step to far I would ask him to back up. He did step off the front and even lost his balance and slipped off the front without harm.
Now that he knows where the front edge of the box is, and understands that I don't want him stepping off the front, he is now stepping forward with his hind feet. What I love about this video is that you can see how s-l-o-w Newt thinks. Many people would have asked him to do something during the long period while he was standing there. I like taking my time. It is funny to watch him mentally process this nice and slow.
It surprised me that Newt lost his balance so many times when he picked his last hind foot up off the ground. He seemed to think that he should counter balance by sticking that last leg out instead of adjusting his head. Another interesting observation to make about how Newt thinks. I love watching horses learn.
I have a bunch of this footage but I couldn't decide how to best use it. I have one version that is 25 minutes long but that seemed too long. How much of Newt's box footage would you like to see? How many more times do you think Newt had to practice before he found his balance?


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Honduras Reef, Ruins & Rainforest - 10 days, 9 nights
Arrive at San Pedro Sula, your guide will meet you at the airport and drive you to your hotel, evening is at leisure, overnight at San Pedro Sula.
Today we will have a half day tour of San Pedro Sula, known as the industrial capital of Honduras, a modern bustling city that treasures its rich history and tradition of the banana emporium era, a tour of a banana plantation and packing station as well as commercial and residential areas are included along with a visit to the local artisans market. In the afternoon, we depart for the Maya Ruins of Copan to arrive later in the evening, overnight at Copan.
In the morning, we will have a guided tour of the main archaeological site that features the hieroglyphic staircase, the ball court and the famous stelas; in the afternoon, learn about the various artifacts and art work carved in stone at the Museum of Maya sculpture and the Museum of Archaeology, where you will see a recreation of the Rosalila Temple in the tunnels, evening is at your disposal to stroll around the cobble stoned streets of the town of Copan and visit its numerous restaurants, coffee and souvenir shops, overnight at Copan.
No visit to Copan can be complete without a close encounter with the quarters of the royal families at "Las Sepulturas" site, we will end our Copan visit with a tour of the Macaw Mountain Bird park, rest of the day is at leisure, overnight at Copan.
Today, we will be on our way to the port town of La Ceiba, known as the eco adventure hub in Honduras, in route we will enjoy a guided visit of Lancetilla Botanical park, a former research center founded by United Fruit where a large collection of plants and trees from all over the world can be seen, later, we will have lunch a sea side restaurant in Tela, continuing our trip afterwards to arrive at La Ceiba mid-afternoon, evening free, overnight at La Ceiba.
At 8:00 A.M. you will be picked up at your location and transferred to the community of La Union, where we will board our hand pushed railroad cart on which we will enter the protected area, here, we will have a boat tour through the deep mangrove channels for wildlife observation, howler and spider monkey seldom fail to greet the visitors, this is a great bird watching place as well, if we get lucky, we will spot a crocodile or two and who knows perhaps we will get a glance at the endangered Manatee that inhabitants in these waters, in the afternoon we will enjoy a zip lining adventure at Pico Bonito, returning to the hotel late afternoon.
At 8:00 AM, we will transfer you to the La Ceiba's dock to catch the 9:30 AM ferry to Roatan arriving at 10:45 AM, dock pick up and transfer to your hotel for your 3 night leisure package at Roatan.
At leisure in Roatan, enjoy your time at the beach or any optional activities offered in the area.
At the appropriate time, transfer to the airport to catch your international departure flight.
- Accommodations in double occupancy
Not included: any meals not mentioned as included, airport taxes, gratuities to guides, drivers, porters or waiters and expenses of personal nature.


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Fujifilm FinePix F600EXR review
Falling into the compact 'travel zoom' category, by virtue of its retractable 15x optical zoom, the F600EXR comes with the further technological advantage of built-in GPS antenna, located in a hump above the lens. This affords the location tagging of images, as well as flagging up of local points of interest. Otherwise, looks would be its sales point: it's one of the most lavishly styled compacts available, with glossy white, red or matt black finishes.
The F600 is not just a pretty fascia, however: Fujifilm is making a big fuss about the 1/2in EXR sensor at the heart of this camera. First off, it's backlit, which means there are no wires blocking the path of light from lens to sensor. Then, as with previous generations, a trio of EXR modes allow the sensor's performance to be adjusted depending on what the photographer is trying to achieve.
You have a choice of full 16-megapixel shots, or the camera taking two lower resolution 8-megapixel images and combining them to reduce the appearance of noise/grain for low-light photography. The third option is increased dynamic range, again from the combination of two shots, one exposed for highlights the other for shadows, so detail in both is retained. If you can't decide which is best when faced with a tricky exposure, a reliable Auto EXR option lets the camera choose.
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Friday, January 7, 2005
Objections did not derail the certification of Bush and Cheney as election victors.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress certified President Bush's re-election Thursday but only after Democrats forced a challenge to the quadrennial count of electoral votes for just the second time since 1877.
Bush's Election Day triumph over Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., was never in doubt. After a near four-hour delay to consider and reject a dispute over voting in Ohio, lawmakers in joint session affirmed Bush's 286-251 electoral vote victory -- plus a single vote that a "faithless" Kerry elector cast for his running mate, former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C. A total of 270 votes are needed for victory.
"This announcement shall be a sufficient declaration of the persons elected president and vice president of the United States for the term beginning Jan. 20, 2005," Vice President Dick Cheney, who presided over the session, read without emotion when the final votes were tabulated.
In a drama that was historic if not suspenseful, Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Ohio, and Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., formally protested that the Ohio votes "were not, under all known circumstances, regularly given." That, by law, required the House and Senate to convene separately and debate the Ohio irregularities.
Boxer, Tubbs Jones and several other Democrats, including many black lawmakers, hoped the showdown would underscore the problems such as missing voting machines and unusually long lines that plagued some Ohio districts, many in minority neighborhoods, on Nov. 2.
"If they were willing to stand in polls for countless hours in the rain, as many did in Ohio, than I can surely stand up for them here in the halls of Congress," Tubbs Jones said.
Distancing themselves
Democratic leaders distanced themselves from the effort, which many in the party worried would make them look like sore losers. Bush won Ohio by 118,000 votes and carried the national contest by 3.3 million votes. Kerry himself -- meeting with troops in the Middle East -- did not support the challenge.
The debates were tinged by memories of the 2000 election, when Bush edged Al Gore after six weeks of recounts and turmoil in Florida.


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Now that the Newsweek sale is a done deal and editor in chief Jon Meacham has resigned, it's time to speculate about who will replace him and lead the magazine into the Sidney Harman era.
Keith Kelly has a few ideas in today's New York Post.
Newsweek's international editor, Fareed Zakaria, appears to be a likely candidate, though Kelly's sources tell him it's "not clear that Zakaria would want to tackle the task of trying to right the listing ship and stem the exodus of top-level talent from the magazine."
In which case the job might go to Mark Miller, Newsweek's editorial director and the editor of its website, Kelly reports.
Other names being floated include Daily Beast editrix Tina Brown; Jacob Weisberg, editor in chief of Slate (which is owned by outgoing Newsweek parent The Washington Post Co.); and Walter Issacson, the Aspen Institute CEO who's also a former CNN chief and former top editor at Time.
The Wrap's Dylan Stableford agrees that Issacson seems like an obvious choice:
Isaacson .. should be, on paper, the favorite to at least get an offer. The question is, would Isaacson even want to return to the magazine industry? "I read magazine content online," Isaacson said during a panel at the Magazine Innovation Summit in 2009. "I don't feel the need to subscribe to them."


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Caldwell is about love and family (you can taste it in our wines). But around here, it's a little bit about misbehaving, taking chances and mischief too.
John Caldwell is known by many names but here in legendary Napa Valley, he's a legend all his own. Over the last 40 years John has built Caldwell Vineyard into what is arguably one of the greatest and most unique wine estates in the world. With 28 different clone-specific grape varieties, Caldwell also has the distinction of being the one of the first U.S. wineries with its own on-site barrel cooperage, something only seven other wineries in the world can say.
The original wine industry maverick, John is the man responsible for introducing the most prized Bordeaux root stock and grapevine clones to California. Now considered the industry standard in U.S. vineyards, John worked with the French government to create and license the Entav-Inra clones for all of North America.
Planted in 1982, Caldwell has been the grape source to some pretty heavy hitters, over the years including: Moone Tsai (Philippe Melka), Merus and Brion (Mark Herold), Pahlmeyer (Helen Turley), Patz and Hall, Joseph Phelps' Insignia, Stéphane Derenoncourt and a heap of others.
When their first son was born, John and Joy decided to make a wine of their own to represent the best of what their vineyard had to offer. Working with Philippe Melka, they released the first vintage of 1998 Caldwell "Silver" Proprietary Red wine.
Today, alongside his wife Joy and winemaker Marbue Marke, Caldwell Vineyard makes more than 23 wines for the Caldwell Signature Collection, Varietal Collection, Rocket Science and the Society of Smugglers.
– The Real Deal About the Original Napa Smuggler
No bones about it, John Caldwell is known as the Napa grapevine smuggler, and for good reason. He did indeed smuggle grapevines into the U.S. to plant in his own vineyard (the full story of which you can read here). What many people don't know is the rest of the story, the real deal about the certified, clean vines he brought in and how these vines ended up becoming the industry standard in North America.
Back in the 80's John got a bad rap for smuggling grape vines into the country because only part of the story got told - which was the part about him getting caught by the local authorities in Napa for bringing in plant material that hadn't gone through a two-year quarantine process in the U.S.
The truth is that John brought in certified Entav-Inra rootstock and clonal material that was already certified by the French government to be 100% disease free.
The reason he didn't go through the standard customs route is because he was planting the vineyard during the start of the phylloxera epidemic, and the only commercially available rootstack at the time─the Davis-certified AXR─had been showing serious susceptibility to infection. John decided that betting his entire project on grapevines that were prone to phylloxera was just too risky. The standard import protocol at the time would have taken him 7 years, at best, to start producing wine, and would have only allowed him to bring in a few acres worth of vines.
During a visit to France, one of the respected nursery guys told him about a gentleman in Canada who had received a grant to work with the University of Toronto to test out Bordeaux varieties in their climate. The university brought in 6,000 vines of certified Entav-Inra Cabernet and Cab Franc. After conducting their research and trying to sell the vines in Canada, they realized that these varieties just wouldn't thrive in their climate, and no one wanted to try to grow Cabernet at Niagra by the Lake.
Over the course of the study, the vines had already gone through a quarantine period in North America – though it wasn't necessary given that the Entav-Inra certification policies are the same as ours in the United States, and Canada and France have a reciprocal agreement. Regardless, the French government had already visited the University and re-certifed the vines. Shortly after, John brought these vines into the U.S. and planted them in his vineyard.
A few years later he became the first licensee in the United States to propagate and sell the certified Entav-Inra rootstock and clones. In order to confirm that all the original "smuggled" vines were authentic, the French government came back to Caldwell Vineyard and tested everything again to confirm that it was certified and clean.


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Today's Meditation
Read Ephesians 4:11-16
From [Christ] the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.
- Ephesians 4:16 (NIV)
I was finishing an incredibly stressful semester when one day I awoke facedown on the black-andwhite checkered floor of my college dorm's hallway. Luckily for me, as I would find out, what had happened was a relatively common form of fainting brought about by fatigue and dehydration. A very simple thing — the misfiring of one nerve — led to my passing out. It was a reminder of how incredibly complicated and miraculous our bodies are. Each is unique. Each has different challenges, struggles, and pains; but each body also has special beauty. The more that modern science tells us about how our bodies function, the more miraculous they seem.
In a similar way the body of Christ is a miracle. Despite our many differences, we somehow work together to do the work of Christ in the world. In today's reading, Paul describes the body of Christ in vivid detail, knit together by ligaments of love. Our striving together is a miracle of love. In spite of our human frailties, God does not keep distance from us but works alongside and through us to do truly amazing things.
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Thought for the Day: The body God gave me is a good and beautiful thing.
Prayer: Dear God, thank you for the gift of our bodies. Empower us to use them to further the message of Jesus. Amen.
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Art Institute displays cartoonist photographs
Local photographer Greg Preston will display work from his new book, "The Artist Within," through April 12 at The Art Institute of Las Vegas, 2350 Corporate Circle in Henderson.
For 15 years, Preston has been photographing cartoonists in their studios. The exhibit features a select group of portraits and biographies from the book.
The Art Institute of Las Vegas gallery is open to the public from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays.
Admission is free.
For more information, call 369-9944.


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The Anatomy Of Silence
By Jim Kirwan
Perhaps the most underrated weapon being used against the populations of people everywhere is silence. Not the kind of silence that denotes indecision or forbearance: NO this is the that brand of 'silence' that is rooted in sheer terror of what could happen if and when people finally snap-out-it; pick up a weapon and begin to make the streets run red with the blood of those that have been behind every single one of these treasons that have brought us to the brink of WWIII.
I'm not suggestng that anyone do this, I'm simply stating the obvious that history has shown to anyone that bothers to look at actual results, going all the way back to before formal history records were even kept. If we want to survive we must begin to take the chances that we each have been given; each and every day that require us to make the hard choices.
Live a little take a chance now and then because the rest of your life is at stake!
The day before yesterday I sent out this article, which carefully explains, with documentation, the entire saga behind the events surrounding the attempt by Israel to sink the USS Liberty, during the six day war in the Middle East. Far from "an accident or mistaken identity; the Liberty was sent to the spot where she was attacked, by orders in a plan called Cyanide. This PLAN was conceived TWO MONTHS BEFORE THAT WAR BEGAN: This involved US intelligence, the US Navy and Israel in a carefully constructed plan that was designed to sink the Liberty and blame it on the Egyptians. (1)
When the Liberty was attacked, the US ordered A-4 aircraft, with nuclear weapons to attack Egypt with nuclear weapons to obliterate Cairo. But as soon as Washington realized that the Attack on the Liberty had not succeeded the nuclear armed planes were ordered to return to the carrier. At the same time the Commander of the Fleet ordered aircraft (armed only with conventional weapons) to go to the aid of the Liberty. Washington again intervened and ordered the commander of the US Fleet to withdraw those rescue fighter-aircraft as well and all of this is documented by White House briefing notes, and other data from that day and time, in the Cyanide file that was discovered in the LBJ Library, by a time tested researcher.
The amazing thing that happened to my message of the 14th was this; from a friend of mine about this entire episode:
"As I mentioned last week, I already know that the CIA/FBI/NSA, and any number of letter agencies are monitoring social media such as Facebook. Therefore, I INTENTIONALLY submit truthful and politically incorrect websites to Facebook on a regular basis. Today, I submitted your below USS Liberty related link, right from that website itself, as can be done often with an imbedded social media icons links.
What happened doesn't happen very often at all, not to me. I clicked the "F" icon which represents Facebook, and I was immediately asked to submit my comment, which would be shown on Facebook with the link to the USS Liberty article. After typing a few angry sentences, it simply disappeared. So, I went to my Facebook profile to see if it appeared there anyway. The link to the USS Liberty article did indeed appear, but minus my angry and accusing comment. Moments later, I clicked off of my Profile page and onto my Facebook "Home" page, which shows all my contacts' submissions (which I subscribe to see as they are posted). I saw my own posts as well, which is normal, except the USS Liberty article link was now MISSING. An earlier post showed up which I had submitted, as well as a later post which I submitted from a totally unrelated website concerning homeopathies (I normally have several browsers open at once).
My comments disappeared first, then the link to the USS Liberty also disappeared from Facebook, while the other almost simultaneous link submissions I'd made were still there. That's political censorship in action, as it happens, in cyberspace.
Sure, I've thought I must have my "own" tiny group of censors monitoring me. Now I have the proof. Which of course means that YOU also have the same honor, because I receive your emails and write you back, and I submit your articles to my blogspot. But I think you're already aware also that you're being monitored." (Private email)
This is only the latest in the long chain of treasons that have been practiced against this country. The first one in the New Millennium was this horrific act:
"We left the United States Because on December 12, 2000, the United States Supreme Court nullified the results of a national election and installed George W. Bush as president. And then I saw millions of my fellow Americans deliriously happy the Rule of Law was broken by the Supreme Court of the Land so "their guy" could "win."
That's when I knew partisanship had ultimately won out over reality. More Americans believe in angels than election fraud. If millions of Americans could turn a blind eye to a stolen election, simply because their side stole it, and then have that coup legitimized by not only the Supreme Court but by all of Main Stream Media then I knew the country I lived in was not the land of my birth.
I can't emphasize this enough. Millions of Americans were ecstatic that George W. Bush won regardless of how he won. Unquestioning blind partisanship was more important than the law to these people. But more ominous was Main Stream Media ratifying the coup. At that moment Corporate Media proved they were committed to the destruction of our democratic republic.
That was pretty scary to witness. We've all heard of similar ham-fisted tactics used in banana republics south of the border but this was happening here." (2)
The third and clenching-condemnation of what was left of the old USA was when the congress chose to grant Bush-the-Dictator a License to Kill. With this action I started to write because it was now clear that these back-from-the-dead Robber-Barons would not stop until they owned or controlled everything that was once considered to be the USA. (3)
The final dropping of "the other shoe" came with the creation of The SUPER-CONGRESS and its thirteen members (that includes the resident of the Oval Office). This final travesty finally removes all possibility of any representation of or for the people, by any member of the congress: Thereby having formalized the creation of the POLICE-STATE firmly and clearly in that part of the public that has not chosen to remain oblivious to the continuing crimes being done to every American, 24-7, and 365 days every year. The USA is now clearly USI, and our freedoms and our supposed rights no longer exist!
Today the news has begun to take on the final elimination of the formerly fixed leaderships of all the players in the war-torn Middle-East, including the failing and almost-encircled Israel. Turkey has formed new alliances with Egypt and possibly Iran; while NATO's obscenities have begun to be exposed as never before in places like Libya and Syria, with Russian and China on the scene but still in the background.
It begins to appear that the yet to be house-broken Israel with all of her hatreds and fears has finally crossed the line in too many places now, and she too will soon be sacrificed on the alter of the New World Order. But however this plays out, it is certain that the surprise release of the long dead secrets that were kept in the Cyanide File for just such an occasion could not have been an accident.
There is however one very bright spot in all of this. These formerly dead bodies that have now been reincarnated have been using the wrong end of the microscope in their planning to destroy the public.
Their primary beneficiaries were always thought to be the massively criminal corporations many of which are larger than most of the nations in the world. But if this were true then you would think that the corporations would want to stay not just profitable but growing? Apparently; since the bankers and the corporations do NOT look at outcomes but only at profit margins and numbers, instead of people, they have managed to overlook the one thing that could very quickly kill them all: The people they pnce employed.
What once set this country apart from all others is that we were actually able to buy the products and services that this country once provided to the world. We can no longer do this. Moreover, the people that were thought to be needed to show a profit were downsized and traded-in for overseas workforces that cost next to nothing; because that would increase the companies profits even more while almost eliminating the costs of production. The companies, even though they are overseas now are still listed on the Stock Exchange as American companies but that is lie. Still this allows these corporations to buy and sell each other (out of view of the American public) which is how these basically destroyed American corporations can still show profits when everything is dying, everywhere in this country now.
But in their haste and greed they seem to have forgotten the most important thing of all, their own survival. All of the food and the water and the electricity that is needed to keep their lives and their obscenely grand mansions functioning is dependent not upon their profit and loss sheets but upon the slaves that are needed to keep everything moving. When the goods and services businesses can no longer survive; neither will they. No one can eat or drink their phony money or the gold and silver that they have amassed: And without real money there is no way to continue to pay their private-security forces to protect them from us. In countries very far from this one the ragged populations of the poor have figured out that even unarmed, and in their rags, these starving people could and did descend upon their overlords in such numbers that the corruptions that had been controlling them had to run for their lives and not the other way round. (4)
We have the power and the strength in numbers to overrun this government and end this nightmare once and for all. Ah but apparently things have not yet become BAD ENOUGH, but when they do reach that point - this will end their entire construct with such finality; that this will truly be over because most of those in charge now will be dead, precisely because they have overlooked this most-dangerous of all threats to their petty tyrannies and their grievous TREASONS which they are now practicing daily.
This time round the collapse of this nation will not be followed by tent-cities all over this land; it will be followed instead by a massive resistance against all those who have stolen and murdered their way through the entire infrastructure and the ruins (which they have created) from what was once the actual-culture of this flawed but thriving United States of America.
1) HOW ISRAEL ALMOST GOT THE U.S. TO NUKE EGYPT AND START WORLD WAR THREE WITH RUSSIA! - Video
2) Why We Left the United States
3) Open Letter to Congress 2002
4) Belonging see the first footnote The War on Democracy - film
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Bank of America reported that its wealth management unit's profits were down compared to last year, with expenses rising faster than revenues.
The bank said profits at its Global Wealth & Investment Management dipped 9.2% year-over-year, falling to $706 million for the fourth quarter from $778 million for the year-ago period.
Total revenues rose 2.7% year-over-year, rising to $4.6 billion from $4.4 billion. Non-interest expenses grew faster at 5.4% year-over-year, climbing to $3.4 billion from $3.2 billion.
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan said during a conference call with analysts that the rise in expenses was due to higher, performance-based incentives."
The division's assets under management flows dropped to $9.1 billion for the quarter from $15.9 billion for the year-ago period, and from $17 billion for the third quarter.
Client balances at the bank's Merrill Lynch unit rose to $2.03 trillion for the quarter from $1.91 trillion for the year-ago period, a 6.1% increase.
The bank also said FA productivity at Merrill Lynch increased to $1.07 million for the quarter from $1.03 million for the same period a year ago. Merrill Lynch's headcount grew by 85 during the quarter, reaching 14,085 advisors. The firm said its recruiting efforts boosted the ranks of experienced advisors by 73 for the year, resulting in an additional $12 billion in assets under management.
"Year-to-date retention remains at record levels," Moynihan said.
Overall headcount at Global Wealth & Investment Management was up about 700 advisors, topping 16,000 advisors. Alois Pirker, an analyst at Aite Group, notes that there have been articles about some high profile advisors leaving the firm, but the overall numbers are up and productivity remains high. Pirker, who says he isn't familiar with who the new hires are, says that the recruiting moves may be netting themselves out.
"At the end of the day, if you had an exclusive loss of big teams, then you would see that productivity drop more significantly than what you actually saw," Pirker says.
The company also said that 49% of its advisors had 50% or more of their client assets in fee-based relationships.
The bank's elite brokerage unit, U.S. Trust, which serves ultrawealthy individuals, reported that fourth quarter revenues dropped to $758 million from $762 million for the year-ago period, a 0.5% decrease.
U.S. Trust also reported that it had 310 private client advisors, a record high.
Client balances at U.S. Trust rose to $387 billion for the quarter from $376 billion from the year-ago period, a 3% increase.
Companywide, Bank of America reported $3 billion in profits, down from $3.4 billion for the same period a year ago.
Noninterest expenses at the Charlotte, N.C.-based company dropped to $14 billion from $17 billion, a 17.6% decrease. Total revenue also fell, dropping to $18.9 billion from $21.7 billion, a 12.9% decrease.
Litigation expenses dropped to $400 million from $2.3 billion from the year-ago period. During the third quarter, Bank of America reported that litigation expenses hit $6 billion.
"This is the lowest quarterly amount since the Merrill Lynch merger," CEO Moynihan said during the conference call.
Earnings-per-share dropped to $0.26 per share for the quarter from $0.30 for the year-ago period.
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The MacLaren Art Centre in downtown Barrie is the regional public art gallery serving the residents of Barrie, the County of Simcoe and the surrounding area. The Gallery has a permanent collection of 27,000 works of art held in trust for the public and presents a year-round programme of world-class exhibitions, education activities and special events. The MacLaren is housed in an award-winning building in downtown Barrie and the complex includes multiple galleries, an education centre, a sculpture courtyard, café, gift shop and framing department. The MacLaren is open to the public seven days week, excluding statutory holidays.
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A.P.J abdul kalam death on internet goes viral
|source via:- google search, India news, APJ Abdul kalam death
A.P.J Abdul Kalam Death news became so viral on the internet and its just a fake news, he is still alive and well, the trend of fake celebrity news now a day is trending for no reason and it's just not good.
You will get shocked when you see this photo of Jharkhand minister, who is giving tribute to the photo of A.P.J Abdul Kalam and that she's so ignorant that she believed the fake news.
This happened because of a Facebook page on the internet which was created with a name of "R.I.P ABDUL KALAM" it nearly attracted 1 million likes and people started commenting on the same and hence goes viral.
This kind of rumors are not funny and the people who post such kind of news to attract masses should stop this because by doing that you hurting many people's sentiments and feelings.
And one more thing people stop believing what you see on the internet when you see something just research properly about it and then take further actions,Thank you.