Glympse

Hey Mark A. Kozak "Glympse is a fast, free, and simple way to share your location in real-time. We put you in control. You set who sees you and for how long." I've used it. Easy and fun.
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Glympse
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Glympse is a fast, free, and simple way to share your location in real-time. We put you in control. You set who sees you and for how long.

Ollolai, Italy: The town selling homes for $1

Hey! Let's get in on this! Call your people. I'll take a shicky shack in Italy. Christine Hoskin I am serious. Hook me up, even if they are little better than caves - no services. Beats camping outside?
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Ollolai, Italy: The town selling homes for $1
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Ever dreamed of owning a home in a pretty village in Italy? The news you've been waiting for has arrived. The Italian town of Ollolai is selling homes for a dollar.

Conan Hits The Streets Of Port-Au-Prince - CONAN on TBS

Conan walks the streets of Haiti and gives the people a chance to reply to Trump’s "shithole" comment. Priceless! Funny! My fave: "President Trump come to Haiti because every time you leave the country you make America great again." Hope you all see this!
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Conan Hits The Streets Of Port-Au-Prince - CONAN on TBS
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Conan meets Haitians who can string dance, carry popcorn on their heads, and expertly roast President Trump. More CONAN @ http://ift.tt/rMZfbT Team Coco...

NIYAZ feat. AZAM ALI - Noor

Launita Khan this is for you and Noor "the light in your eyes". I love you both so dearly.
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NIYAZ feat. AZAM ALI - Noor
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NIYAZ- Sabza Ba Naz (The Triumph of Love) Official Music Video

LOVE this band, NIYAZ. Makes me have to jump up bust a move! "NIYAZ has created a 21st century global trance tradition by seamlessly blending medieval Sufi poetry and folk songs from their native Iran and its surrounding countries in the Persian Gulf, with rich acoustic instrumentation and state-of-the-art modern electronics." Remember Whirling Dervishes? They are Sufi Muslims. The great poet Rumi was a dervish, see Rumi Quotes. Nayiz is heavily influenced, if not based on that music tradition so it has a trance-like undercurrent layered with percussive elements. They do the best folk music hammered dulcimer ever, Aaron Lisec. ;) Below: Song from a new favorite CD called "The Fourth Light". Last year, I had done research and a blog post about the first female Sufi mystic and poet Rabia Al Basr, 8th century Iraq. What an awesome coincidence! "In can be said that The Fourth Light is in many ways a feminist album. The central figure who served as the main source of inspiration for the music is the first female Sufi mystic and poet Rabia Al Basri, who was born in the 8th century in Iraq. She was a woman born into extreme poverty during a time when women’s rights were severely constrained. Sold into slavery at a young age, Rabia defied the odds and managed to find the inner strength and resolve that would eventually lead to her liberation both as a woman as well as a spiritual figure. “Rabia’s struggles even in the 8th century,” Azam adds, “remain quite relevant to our time when women continue to strive to rise above the status of inferiority placed upon them by many patriarchal societies around the world.”
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NIYAZ- Sabza Ba Naz (The Triumph of Love) Official Music Video
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From the album "The Fourth Light" NIYAZ offers a new rendition of traditional Afghan folk song with additional poetry and original music composed by Azam Ali...

50 Best-Selling Grammy Winners of All Time

#6 of all time 50? LED ZEPPELIN. #2 Elvis, #1 The Beatles Snub: I do not know the sounds of or care about 5,4, or 3. None are cool or epic. Never will be epic cool. I do not know who that is in the photo below. DON'T tell me. Please. My entertainment mental space is for things like The Three Stooges, Godzilla, Franz Liszt,
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50 Best-Selling Grammy Winners of All Time
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The 60th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony will be broadcast live from Madison Square Garden in New York City on Sunday, January 28.

Freaks by Wallace Ford

Satw this as a double feature wi #Amazon
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Freaks by Wallace Ford
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Freaks (DVD)This pre code movie, shocking for it's time, still pushes the edge of filmmaking with it's riveting tale of love and betrayal between a normal circus performer and the wealthy carnival midget whom she marries for money and then betrays.]]>

Listen to The New Yorker: Fiction on TuneIn

Hmmm. This may be too much.
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Listen to The New Yorker: Fiction on TuneIn
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A monthly reading and conversation with the New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman. Produced by The New Yorker and WNYC Studios.

Listen to New Yorker Poetry on TuneIn

Going for poetry. Hoping to enjoy and get insight instead of thinking too much.
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Listen to New Yorker Poetry on TuneIn
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Readings and conversation with The New Yorker's poetry editor, Paul Muldoon.

Valentina Lisitsa plays Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

Since early childhood, I have LOVED this piece!! Little kid. Don't recall how old, I could read beyond basics. But the songs I wanted to play didn't have words, so it did not matter. I spent many childhood years trying to learn THIS, progressively as I aged. It was a life project. Well thru college or anytime I accessed a piano, rare. I'd pick it back up without question had I a piano now. I had first heard a recording which I loved immediately, well enough to memorize the name "Liszt" (I couldn't spell it) and "Hungarian". Don't know how I heard the recording at home. I matched its title and artist with the music from one of Elaine's piano books by chance - I recognized it in the book "Liszt" and "Hungarian". I guessed by looking at the music on the page. It sounds very wide on the keyboard, I could tell by the music notation (that I couldn't really read) it too was hugely expansive. I started to try it. It was the right one! There are a few. I still recall the thrill! Deep bass keys you never touch were played in this. So beautifully. Took forever to find them, many were below into the space with no lines on the music notation. I'd still have to count out those notes. Grueling effort that got "easier" with the years. I made it from the beginning thru more and more of the piece over the years. Stanza by stanza. Had to figure out each note one by one. Anything below Middle C and above A on the right hand, I had to count out each note on the keys and the page - one by one. All left hand I had to count out. Treble clef Spaces: F,A,C,E. Lines: E,G,B,D,F. Every good boy does fine. Bass clef was different. Left hand. And I've forgotten. Starts with Spaces: A,C,E,G? All cows eat grass. Lines?? Don't recall. Who was home with me tolerating all this?! At mom's and dad's places. I would have choked me - "stop playing the same stupid thing over and over!!" Hence, I don't have kids. In some ways I wish I had been able to see this back then. It would have helped. On the other hand I don't think I would have been inspired after watching this. What was I thinking?! Totally determined. Loved doing it. So difficult but an awesome reward each session. I must admit, I lacked her flourishes and feathery touch. I want to play the piano! Bet I can still play the very beginning from memory. It's etched in my DNA.
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Valentina Lisitsa plays Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdH1hSWGFGU&sns=fb
Valentina Lisitsa plays Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. Recorded live on May 22th, 2010 in Leiden, Holland by von Aichberger & Roenneke GmbH Michael von Ai...

Mystery real-life Rosie the Riveter dies

"The women of this country these days need some icons," she told People magazine in 2016. "If they think I'm one, I'm happy." ~Naomi Parker Fraley, the real "Rosie the Riveter" Go in peace Naomi! We all know it's really you behind Rosie the Riveter, tho another women was long credited. It's a long and fascinating story.
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Mystery real-life Rosie the Riveter dies
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For years Naomi Parker Fraley lived quietly while another woman was credited as the famous feminist icon.

Toni Hoskin and family planted a memorial tree for Annabell Hoskins

I am posting this late - I just saw it online. For the sake of memory...I wrote this with the memorial tree I had planted, instead of flowers: "Aunt Annabell you are the bountiful blessing that nutured me so lovingly for so many years. My heart swells with the sound of your sweet voice, even if it's now only a dream. Our love together will nurture a new life in nature. One that will prosper and grow stronger with each year. Until it returns to us in the earth where all ends and begins anew. I love you Aunt Annabell...and I'm sorry I've misspelled your name for 50 years! :)"
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Toni Hoskin and family planted a memorial tree for Annabell Hoskins
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Aunt Annabell you are the bountiful blessing that nutured me so lovingly for so many years. My heart swells with the sound of your sweet voice, even if it's now only a dream. Our love together will nurture a new life in nature. One that will prosper and grow stronger with each year. Until it returns...

Mystery real-life Rosie the Riveter dies

"The women of this country these days need some icons," she told People magazine in 2016. "If they think I'm one, I'm happy." ~Naomi Parker Fraley, the real "Rosie the Riveter" Go in peace Naomi! We all know it's really you behind Rosie the Riveter, tho another women was long credited. It's a long and fascinating story.
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Mystery real-life Rosie the Riveter dies
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For years Naomi Parker Fraley lived quietly while another woman was credited as the famous feminist icon.

The story of jazz legend Masekela

Farewell. Go in peace after a full and rich life Hugh Masekela! He died at 78. A South African legend: leader in the struggle against Apartheid and "the father of South African jazz".
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The story of jazz legend Masekela
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Legendary jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela, a leading figure in the struggle to end apartheid and "the father of South African jazz", has died aged 78.

Shackled children found in California home

Horrid people. First...I am suspicious of American guys with this hair do aside from the beloved Captain Kangaroo, tho it is more Prince Valiant. Few guys from anywhere can it carry off. As for her...
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Shackled children found in California home
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Two parents are arrested after police find in their house 13 people who were allegedly held captive.

Denmark will increase defense spending to counter Russia: PM - Times of India

What?! Russia has gone ballistic or someone is overreacting.
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Denmark will increase defense spending to counter Russia: PM - Times of India
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Europe News: "Russia’s behavior has created an unpredictable and unstable security environment in the Baltic Sea region," Denmark's Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmu

Scientists confirm what women always knew: men really are the weaker sex

Interesting! Statistically, men don't survive times of extreme hardships as well as women. Boom, there it is!
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Scientists confirm what women always knew: men really are the weaker sex
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In times of famine, epidemic and hardship over the past 250 years, women have consistently outlived men, find researchers

The Real Reason Walmart Raised Its Minimum Wage

Excellent piece. It's a bit long for some of us, but a worthy read. Very interesting and presented in an economic context that effects us all. Christine you may find this interesting.
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The Real Reason Walmart Raised Its Minimum Wage
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“Walmart workers” used to be a handy synonym for “low-paid.”

Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin Wireless HiFi Speaker, White

I want this just because...well, my peeps all know why this would be epic (other than the $700 price👀). It has even has 'Zeppelin' printed across the back! 🎉
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Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin Wireless HiFi Speaker, White
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Zeppelin Wireless delivers a whole new standard in wireless home audio. Hi-Fi quality drive units, advanced digital processing, and a new, incredibly rigid body are combined with amazing connection options ensure that Zeppelin Wireless is the best sounding, best looking, best built Wireless speak...

Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin Wireless HiFi Speaker, White

I want this just because...well, my peeps all know why this would be epic (other than the $700 price👀). It has even has 'Zeppelin' printed across the back! 🎉
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Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin Wireless HiFi Speaker, White
http://ift.tt/2D27pKH
Zeppelin Wireless delivers a whole new standard in wireless home audio. Hi-Fi quality drive units, advanced digital processing, and a new, incredibly rigid body are combined with amazing connection options ensure that Zeppelin Wireless is the best sounding, best looking, best built Wireless speak...

Annabell Hoskins - Sunday, January 7th, 2018

It's not my place to post this. Apologies to the family. My dear cousins. I love you guys so very much! I'm so sorry for your heavy loss, regardless of what circumstances there may have been. Be it natural, tragic, or illness, the pain doesn't lessen with any reason. This is very deep in my personal karma. And my life. My family life. My childhood. My joy. A nurturer. She was so many things. Wise, witty, and sharp. Gentle and calm, like a springtime shower. My dearest Aunt Annabell. Aunt Annabell was deeply cherished and loved by so many - but few more than me. She was a truly beautiful human being with a strong but gentle zen-like nature. From little kid on up, I had spent countless hours and days at their house with my cousin Sandy - her youngest, and we with the next oldest Brenda once we got older and fun. Aunt Annabell had the kind of sweet voice, calmness, and smile, that crushed everything bad in your world when she spoke to you. Magical! I can't believe I'll never hear it again. I'm thankful that I have. She was my dad's sister in law. To me she was a mother when I visited my father all those summers. I love her so very much despite my absence. I cherish the bountiful blessing that her life bestowed upon me and will do so forever. I did chat with her a couple of years ago by chance, Sandy wasn't home. What a delight! I never knew that she talked much. But happily we both did for quite some time that day and a visit or two later. Random memories to lighten the moment... I had never seen, heard, or eaten, sloppy joes before Aunt Annabell made them and invited me for dinner (again and again). OMG! What delish! I still chow them down. I must end this with a bit of levity. Sandy and I were home with Aunt Annabell. Someone came to the door. Very rare on a week day. Sandy and I didn't know who it was. But Aunt Annabell did and she jumped ship! She ran downstairs and out the back door. We saw her go across the back yard from the upstairs window. I imagine so that she or we didn't have to lie and say she wasn't there. I don't recall if we even answered the door. I think so. It was just a guy with a white short-sleeved dress shirt and tie. It was a Jehovah's Witness. Ha ha ha!!! I'm sure she couldn't tell them to leave her alone. And she wasn't a liar. I love that one! She was a beautiful human being. A gem in my crown of life.
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Annabell Hoskins - Sunday, January 7th, 2018
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Annabell Ballard Hoskins Annabell Ballard Hoskins was born August 1, 1932, in Jackson, MS., to the union of Viola, nee Singletary, Ballard and Percy Ballard Sr. Her parents preceeded her in death. After moving to St. Louis, MO., at an early age, she and her siblings were raised by her Aunt, the late...

Sources: Oprah Winfrey 'actively thinking' about running for president

Oh no no no! Please, I want a president who went to law school, has held in an elected office and dealt with political insiders - something tangible. While she can't be as bad or worse than Trump - he is no measure of anything good. That's not enough. On the other hand, Oprah has dealt with a massive set of epic hurdles in her life with immeasurable success. She is brilliant, reads books, a thinker and doer. And most of all, a leader! She's created and done many things. Dealt with powerful people at the highest levels. She could be a true powerhouse after Obama's thwarted actions and Trump's overreactions. I admit, what I really fear is her politics. And potential assassination. Just as Oprah that would be a huge loss. But the heavy black framed glasses look so serious and smart. Like her!
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Sources: Oprah Winfrey 'actively thinking' about running for president
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"President Oprah Winfrey" was the talk of the Beverly Hilton ballroom after Winfrey accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes.

Shirley Temple - The Littlest Rebel - 1935

What is there to say? Beautiful. Amazing little girl too.
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Shirley Temple - The Littlest Rebel - 1935
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Shirley Temple, the little girl !

Spectacular Chinese Library Holds 1.2 Million Books within Its Curved Walls

Spectacular indeed! An incredible library in China. I love it when a library is so valued, treated with respect and reverence by such an investment in money and exceptional design. Admittedly, the upper levels look terrifying. This photo does it no justice. Take a look!
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Spectacular Chinese Library Holds 1.2 Million Books within Its Curved Walls
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The five story Tianjin Binhai Library houses up to 1.2 million books and features an oval opening onto the interior, with a large spherical auditorium.