MEINE SACHEN

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THIS IS REALLY AMAZING!


laughingsquid.com/rust-oleum-neverwet-superhydrophobic-coating-that-makes-everyday-materials-repel-liquid/ 

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FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE NOT SEEN "HOW WE GOT TO MARS" HERE IS THE LINK. COOL!!! 

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Saturday, July 20, 2013Did Bill Gates KNOW His Polio Vaccination Push Would Paralyze Children?
At least he certainly OUGHT to have known that oral polio vaccines were discontinued in the U.S. due to their known contribution to vaccine-derived paralysis.


Aaron Dykes
Activist Post

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation created the GAVI alliance to push vaccinations on the poorest parts of the developing world in the name of “saving lives” and stopping disease.

In particular, Bill Gates expects to take credit for wiping out polio worldwide by making it one of his primary issues. But at what cost?

SAD, BUT TRUE!

www.activistpost.com/2013/07/did-bill-gates-know-his-polio.html?utm_medium=ad&utm_source=mgid&utm_campaign=activistpost.com&utm_term=2966&utm_content=1580379

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Something to consider as we age! 

biggeekdad.com/2013/08/geriatric-traffic-jam/
   

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Boehner Sends Letter to Obama Seeking Answers on Syria

By Matt Fuller Posted at 5:15 p.m. on Aug. 28

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Speaker John A. Boehner sent a letter to President Barack Obama Wednesday seeking a “clear, unambiguous explanation” of how a strike on Syria fits into U.S. objectives and questioning the president’s legal authority to do so absent Congressional authorization.

The Ohio Republican makes clear he believes the consultation with Congress so far has been insufficient, and it comes as numerous House members have signed on to a letter to Obama demanding Congressional authorization before strikes.

“It is essential you address on what basis any use of force would be legally justified and how the justification comports with the exclusive authority of Congressional authorization under Article I of the Constitution,” Boehner said.

The speaker also noted that he has supported Obama’s policies on Syria, including making the use of chemical weapons a “red line” and seeking the resignation of President Bashar al-Assad. But he also asked a long list of questions of the president, including whether he has contingency plans for a counterattack by the Syrian regime and whether he expects to ask for more funding to pay for military action.

“It will take Presidential leadership and a clear explanation of our policy, our interests, and our objectives to gain public and Congressional support for any military action against Syria,” Boehner wrote.

Full text of the letter follows:


Dear Mr. President:

I deeply respect your role as our country’s commander-in-chief, and I am mindful that Syria is one of the few places where the immediate national security interests of the United States so visibly converge with broader U.S. security interests and objectives. Our nation’s response to the deterioration and atrocities in Syria has implications not just in Syria, but also for America’s credibility across the globe, especially in places like Iran.

Even as the United States grapples with the alarming scale of the human suffering, we are immediately confronted with contemplating the potential scenarios our response might trigger or accelerate. These considerations include the Assad regime potentially losing command and control of its stock of chemical weapons or terrorist organizations – especially those tied to al Qaeda – gaining greater control of and maintaining territory. How the United States responds also has a significant impact on the security and stability of U.S. allies in the region, which are struggling with the large exodus of Syrian refugees and the growing spillover of violence feeding off of ethnic and religious tensions. The House of Representatives takes these interests and potential consequences seriously in weighing any potential U.S. and international response in Syria.

Since March of 2011, your policy has been to call for a stop to the violence in Syria and to advocate for a political transition to a more democratic form of government. On August 18, 2012, you called for President Assad’s resignation, adding his removal as part of the official policy of the United States. In addition, it has been the objective of the United States to prevent the use or transfer of chemical weapons. I support these policies and publically agreed with you when you established your red line regarding the use or transfer of chemical weapons last August.

Now, having again determined your red line has been crossed, should a decisive response involve the use of the United States military, it is essential that you provide a clear, unambiguous explanation of how military action – which is a means, not a policy – will secure U.S. objectives and how it fits into your overall policy. I respectfully request that you, as our country’s commander-in-chief, personally make the case to the American people and Congress for how potential military action will secure American national security interests, preserve America’s credibility, deter the future use of chemical weapons, and, critically, be a part of our broader policy and strategy. In addition, it is essential you address on what basis any use of force would be legally justified and how the justification comports with the exclusive authority of Congressional authorization under Article I of the Constitution.

Specifically:

What standard did the Administration use to determine that this scope of chemical weapons use warrants potential military action?

Does the Administration consider such a response to be precedent-setting, should further humanitarian atrocities occur?

What result is the Administration seeking from its response?

What is the intended effect of the potential military strikes?

If potential strikes do not have the intended effect, will further strikes be conducted?

Would the sole purpose of a potential strike be to send a warning to the Assad regime about the use of chemical weapons? Or would a potential strike be intended to help shift the security momentum away from the regime and toward the opposition?

If it remains unclear whether the strikes compel the Assad regime to renounce and stop the use of chemical weapons against the Syrian people, or if President Assad escalates their usage, will the Administration contemplate escalatory military action?

Will your Administration conduct strikes if chemical weapons are utilized on a smaller scale?

Would you consider using the United States military to respond to situations or scenarios that do not directly involve the use or transfer of chemical weapons?

Assuming the targets of potential military strikes are restricted to the Assad inner circle and military leadership, does the Administration have contingency plans in case the strikes disrupt or throw into confusion the command and control of the regime’s weapons stocks?

Does the Administration have contingency plans if the momentum does shift away from the regime but toward terrorist organizations fighting to gain and maintain control of territory?

Does the Administration have contingency plans to deter or respond should Assad retaliate against U.S. interests or allies in the region?

Does the Administration have contingency plans should the strikes implicate foreign power interests, such as Iran or Russia?
Does the Administration intend to submit a supplemental appropriations request to Congress, should the scope and duration of the potential military strikes exceed the initial planning?

I have conferred with the chairmen of the national security committees who have received initial outreach from senior Administration officials, and while the outreach has been appreciated, it is apparent from the questions above that the outreach has, to date, not reached the level of substantive consultation.

It will take Presidential leadership and a clear explanation of our policy, our interests, and our objectives to gain public and Congressional support for any military action against Syria. After spending the last 12 years fighting those who seek to harm our fellow citizens, our interests, and our allies, we all have a greater appreciation of what it means for our country to enter into conflict. It will take that public support and congressional will to sustain the Administration’s efforts, and our military, as well as their families, deserve to have the confidence that we collectively have their backs – and a thorough strategy in place.

I urge you to fully address the questions raised above.

Sincerely

John Boehner

ROLL CALL:  blogs.rollcall.com/goppers/boehner-sends-letter-to-obama-seeking-answers-on-syria/

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140 House members say Obama needs approval from Congress on Syria

By Rebecca Shabad - 08/29/13 03:01 PM ET


Read more: thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/319127-55-house-members-say-obama-needs-approval-from-congress-in-syria-strikes#ixzz2dP4oqHsU  

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CHURCHILL IN 1899 RE ISLAM

This is amazing. Even more amazing is that this hasn't been published long before now.

CHURCHILL ON ISLAM

Unbelievable, but the speech below was written in 1899... (check Wikipedia - The River War).

The attached short speech from Winston Churchill, was delivered by him in 1899 when he was a young soldier and journalist. It probably sets out the current views of many, but expresses in the wonderful Churchillian turn of phrase and use of the English language, of which he was a past master. Sir Winston Churchill was, without doubt, one of the greatest men of the late 19th and 20th centuries.

He was a brave young soldier, a brilliant journalist, an extraordinary politician and statesman, a great war leader and British Prime Minister, to whom the Western world must be forever in his debt. He was a prophet in his own time. He died on 24th January 1965, at the grand old age of 90 and, after a lifetime of service to his country, was accorded a State funeral.


HERE IS THE SPEECH:

"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries, improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement, the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome ..."

Sir Winston Churchill; (Source: The River War, first edition, Vol II, pages 248-250 London).

Churchill saw it coming......

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VIDEO: thehill.com/video/sunday-shows/318665-powell-us-needs-to-be-more-clever-in-middle-east

US needs to be more clever in Middle East, says Colin Powell
By Russell Berman - 08/25/13 11:52 AM ET

The United States needs to play a “much more clever role” in responding to the turmoil in Egypt and Syria and cannot expect to dictate the outcomes of those conflicts, former Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Sunday.
“We shouldn’t go around thinking that we can really make things happen,” Powell said on CBS’s "Face the Nation." “We can influence things, and we can be ready to help people when problems have been resolved or one side has prevailed over the other.

“These are internal struggles,” he added, “and parties insides those countries will have to sort it out amongst themselves.”

Powell served as secretary of State under President George W. Bush (R) and previously as national security adviser and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
He described the conflict in Syria as “just about now a civil war.” He sharply criticized Syrian President Bashar Assad, but he also raised questions about the resistance to his rule and whether it has come under the influence of al Qaeda.

“I have no affection for Mr. Assad,” Powell said. “I dealt with him. I know him, and he is a pathological liar with respect to my interactions with him. But at the same time, I am less sure about the resistance and what they represent.”

In Egypt, Powell said the general in charge of the military-led interim government, Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, had gone “all in” in trying to put down demonstrations and restore order, and that there was little the U.S. could do in the short term to influence him. He dismissed calls for the U.S. to cut off economic or military aid to Egypt as “trivial.”

“This is all sort of trivial,” Powell said. “He can do without it, and if we don’t give it to him, it won’t affect his actions right now. And if we give it to him, it probably won’t affect his behavior.”
“This is a side issue whether we provide aid or not aid,” he added.

Powell said that like others, he deplored the violence that has resulted in hundreds of fatalities in Egypt.
“It is not a good situation,” he said. “Hopefully this will quiet down in the near future so we can get back to a sensible path to a democratic Egypt.”


Read more: thehill.com/video/sunday-shows/318665-powell-us-needs-to-be-more-clever-in-middle-east#ixzz2eHKUXYJO
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www.aei-ideas.org/2013/09/five-charts-that-help-put-saudi-americas-shale-revolution-into-perspective/

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Obama Reduces 2014 Pay Hike for U.S. Troops, Still Fighting in Afghanistan
September 3, 2013 - 11:28 AM

(CNSNews.com) - As promised in his Fiscal Year 2014 budget, President Obama has just informed Congress that he will cap next year's pay raise for U.S. military personnel at 1 percent, instead of the 1.8 percent raise set by the formula Congress established.

The announcement came on Friday afternoon, at the start of the long Labor Day weekend, in a letter to Congress.

"I am strongly committed to supporting our uniformed service members, who have made such great contributions to our Nation over the past decade of war," President Obama wrote to congressional leaders. "As our country continues to recover from serious economic conditions affecting the general welfare, however, we must maintain efforts to keep our Nation on a sustainable fiscal course. This effort requires tough choices, especially in light of budget constraints faced by Federal agencies."

Obama said he has decided to "exercise my authority under section 1009(e) of title 37, United States Code, to set the 2014 monthly basic pay increase at 1.0 percent" for members of the military.

"This decision is consistent with my fiscal year 2014 Budget and will not materially affect the Federal Government's ability to attract and retain well-qualified members for the uniformed services," Obama wrote.

Federal law says military pay raises must be based on the Employment Cost Index, which is a quarterly measure of changes in labor costs compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Congress came up with the formula to tie annual military raises to private sector pay growth.

And based on that statutory formula, military personnel should be getting a 1.8 percent pay raise beginning in January 2014. - See more at: cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/obama-reduces-2014-pay-hike-us-troops-still-fighting-afghanistan#sthash.aVdhUwt1.dpuf


NOTE: (READ THE COMMENTS BELOW THE ARTICLE)

- See more at: cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/obama-reduces-2014-pay-hike-us-troops-still-fighting-afghanistan#sthash.aVdhUwt1.dpuf  



What would a Syria strike cost?

"At “tens of millions of dollars,” as Hagel suggested, the sum would represent a tiny fraction of the military’s base budget, set at $527.5 billion for the current fiscal year.

Still, the costs could be much higher — in the hundreds of millions of dollars or more. And, of course, there’s always the chance a strike on Syria could lead to a full-scale military campaign: “I can never drag the risk of escalation to zero,” Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey told members of Congress on Wednesday."


Read more: www.politico.com/story/2013/09/syria-strike-may-not-be-so-cheap-96369.html#ixzz2eJe8lKeP



US: 'Common-sense test' holds Assad responsible

9/8/13  2 hours ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House asserted Sunday that a "common-sense test" rather than "irrefutable, beyond-a-reasonable-doubt evidence" makes the Syrian government responsible for a chemical weapons attack that President Barack Obama says demands a U.S. military response.

As part of a major push to win the backing of a divided Congress and skeptical American public, Obama's top aide made the rounds of the Sunday talk shows to press the case for "targeted, limited consequential action to deter and degrade" the capabilities of Syrian President Bashar Assad "to carry out these terrible attacks again."
news.yahoo.com/us-common-sense-test-holds-assad-responsible-130319320--politics.html

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• In the Asian, African and Latin American countries, well over 500 million people are living in what the World Bank has called "absolute poverty"
• Every year 15 million children die of hunger
• For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every day for 5 years
• Throughout the 1990's more than 100 million children will die from illness and starvation. Those 100 million deaths could be prevented for the price of ten Stealth bombers, or what the world spends on its military in two days!
• The World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the world is well-fed, one-third is under-fed one-third is starving- Since you've entered this site at least 200 people have died of starvation. Over 4 million will die this year.
• One in twelve people worldwide is malnourished, including 160 million children under the age of 5. United Nations Food and Agriculture
• The Indian subcontinent has nearly half the world's hungry people. Africa and the rest of Asia together have approximately 40%, and the remaining hungry people are found in Latin America and other parts of the world. Hunger in Global Economy
• Nearly one in four people, 1.3 billion - a majority of humanity - live on less than $1 per day, while the world's 358 billionaires have assets exceeding the combined annual incomes of countries with 45 percent of the world's people. UNICEF
• 3 billion people in the world today struggle to survive on US$2/day.
• In 1994 the Urban Institute in Washington DC estimated that one out of 6 elderly people in the U.S. has an inadequate diet.
• In the U.S. hunger and race are related. In 1991 46% of African-American children were chronically hungry, and 40% of Latino children were chronically hungry compared to 16% of white children.
• The infant mortality rate is closely linked to inadequate nutrition among pregnant women. The U.S. ranks 23rd among industrial nations in infant mortality. African-American infants die at nearly twice the rate of white infants.
• One out of every eight children under the age of twelve in the U.S. goes to bed hungry every night.
• Half of all children under five years of age in South Asia and one third of those in sub-Saharan Africa are malnourished.
• In 1997 alone, the lives of at least 300,000 young children were saved by vitamin A supplementation programmes in developing countries.
• Malnutrition is implicated in more than half of all child deaths worldwide - a proportion unmatched by any infectious disease since the Black Death
• About 183 million children weigh less than they should for their age
• To satisfy the world's sanitation and food requirements would cost only US$13 billion- what the people of the United States and the European Union spend on perfume each year.
• The assets of the world's three richest men are more than the combined GNP of all the least developed countries on the planet.
• Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger
• It is estimated that some 800 million people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition, about 100 times as many as those who actually die from it each year.


library.thinkquest.org/C002291/high/present/stats.htm

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The world hunger problem: Facts, figures and statistics

• In the Asian, African and Latin American countries, well over 500 million people are living in what the World Bank has called "absolute poverty"
• Every year 15 million children die of hunger
• For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every day for 5 years
• Throughout the 1990's more than 100 million children will die from illness and starvation. Those 100 million deaths could be prevented for the price of ten Stealth bombers, or what the world spends on its military in two days!
• The World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the world is well-fed, one-third is under-fed one-third is starving- Since you've entered this site at least 200 people have died of starvation. Over 4 million will die this year.
• One in twelve people worldwide is malnourished, including 160 million children under the age of 5. United Nations Food and Agriculture
• The Indian subcontinent has nearly half the world's hungry people. Africa and the rest of Asia together have approximately 40%, and the remaining hungry people are found in Latin America and other parts of the world. Hunger in Global Economy
• Nearly one in four people, 1.3 billion - a majority of humanity - live on less than $1 per day, while the world's 358 billionaires have assets exceeding the combined annual incomes of countries with 45 percent of the world's people. UNICEF
• 3 billion people in the world today struggle to survive on US$2/day.
• In 1994 the Urban Institute in Washington DC estimated that one out of 6 elderly people in the U.S. has an inadequate diet.
• In the U.S. hunger and race are related. In 1991 46% of African-American children were chronically hungry, and 40% of Latino children were chronically hungry compared to 16% of white children.
• The infant mortality rate is closely linked to inadequate nutrition among pregnant women. The U.S. ranks 23rd among industrial nations in infant mortality. African-American infants die at nearly twice the rate of white infants.
• One out of every eight children under the age of twelve in the U.S. goes to bed hungry every night.
• Half of all children under five years of age in South Asia and one third of those in sub-Saharan Africa are malnourished.
• In 1997 alone, the lives of at least 300,000 young children were saved by vitamin A supplementation programmes in developing countries.
• Malnutrition is implicated in more than half of all child deaths worldwide - a proportion unmatched by any infectious disease since the Black Death
• About 183 million children weigh less than they should for their age
• To satisfy the world's sanitation and food requirements would cost only US$13 billion- what the people of the United States and the European Union spend on perfume each year.
• The assets of the world's three richest men are more than the combined GNP of all the least developed countries on the planet.
• Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger
• It is estimated that some 800 million people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition, about 100 times as many as those who actually die from it each year.

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THE DONALD 

Trump: Putin Op-Ed Piece 'Just Amazing'

Saturday, 14 Sep 2013 12:10 PM

Donald Trump said on Friday that President Barack Obama was being "outplayed" by Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose op-ed piece in The New York Times earlier this week was "just amazing."

"We have a president that's not looking very good," the billionaire businessman told CNN. "It's making us look very bad as a country — and, certainly, he's looking very bad."

Putin's op-ed piece, published on Wednesday, was effective because "he said so much — and he said it in very nice way, but it wasn't very nice at all," Trump said. "It was tough. It was about as tough as you're going to get. And Obama's having a very tough time competing.

"The letter was very well-crafted," he added. "This was about as well-crafted as you could've imagined. I don’t know if he wrote it, but it certainly was his thoughts. It covered so much territory."

For example, Trump cited Putin's attack on Obama's use of the term "American exceptionalism." The president used the phrase in his speech to the American people on Syria Tuesday evening from the White House.

"You think of the term as being fine, but then, all of a sudden, you say: 'What if you're in Germany?' 'What if you're in Japan?' You're not going to like that term," Trump told CNN. "It's very insulting — and Putin really put it to him on that."

Trump wondered how could Obama describe the United States as "exceptional," having spent $1.5 trillion fighting in Iraq and losing thousands of American and other lives.

"We just went through a disaster in Iraq, and what did we get? Nothing," he said. "In fact, it's going to be taken over by Iran. Iran is already controlling it.

"But the letter was amazing in that it covered so much territory, covered it with respect and with a smile — and it was about as tough as you could do."


 www.newsmax.com/newswidget/trump-putin-obama/2013/09/14/id/525694?

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Aha, Some Lite Reading

themellowjihadi.com/2013/08/27/aha-lite-reading/

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Note the "SPECIAL FEATURES" at the right side of the main page.
www.davemanuel.com/

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Tue, Nov 26, 2013, 6:14 PM EST - U.S. Markets closed
Nasdaq closes above 4,000 for first time in 13 years
Reuters
50 minutes ago

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Nasdaq composite index closed above 4,000 on Tuesday for the first time since 2000, while the Dow and S&P ended barely changed.

Retailers and homebuilders were among the best performing sectors, responding to stronger-than-expected earnings and robust housing market data.

Big-cap technology stocks helped the Nasdaq the most on Friday to finish above 4,000 for the first time since the dot-com bubble burst in 2000 and sent the tech-heavy index hurtling.

Tiffany & Co (TIF) jumped 7 percent to $88.02 and was the S&P 500's top performer after the luxury retailer's third-quarter sales topped expectations. The S&P retail index (.SPXRT) advanced 0.9 percent.

"The wealth effect because the stock market has gone up has definitely helped the upper-end folks," said Gary Bradshaw at Hodges Capital Management in Dallas, Texas.

Moreover, Bradshaw said gasoline prices were giving a potential boost to broad-based holiday spending. Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT) shares rose 0.3 percent to close at an all-time high of $80.86 a day after the retailer named a new chief executive.

Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Inc (JOSB) surged 11.2 percent to $56.29 after Men's Wearhouse (MW) offered to buy the company for $55 per share in cash, a 9 percent premium to its Monday close. Men's Wearhouse jumped 7.5 percent to $50.60.

On the Nasdaq, Apple Inc (AAPL) gained 1.8 percent to $533.40, Google Inc (GOOG) rose 1.2 percent to $1,058.41 and Amazon.com Inc (AMZN) shares ended up 1.3 percent to $381.37.

The PHLX Housing Index (.HGX) rose 2.5 percent after stronger-than-expected figures on building permits for October and a steady rise in housing prices. Ryland Group (RYL) led the index, gaining 5.6 percent to $40.02 a share.

Permits for future U.S. home construction hit a 5-1/2 year high and an index of single-family home prices notched big gains in September.

"The takeaway here is that the whole partial government shutdown thing was a real non-event," said Jay Mueller, senior portfolio manager for Wells Capital Management.

The Dow Jones industrial average (^DJI) ended up 0.26 point to 16072.80. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index (^GSPC) gained 0.27 point, or 0.01 percent, to 1,802.75. The Nasdaq Composite Index (^IXIC) rose 23.18 points, or 0.58 percent, to 4,017.75.

The S&P 500 has risen nearly 27 percent this year, primarily bolstered by expectations the Federal Reserve's stimulus will continue at least until the end of the year.

The Walt Disney Company (DIS) led the Dow in percentage gain, with shares rising 2.1 percent to $71.18. The company announced better-than-expected earnings earlier in the month.

Trading is expected to remain light this week, with financial markets closed Thursday for the Thanksgiving holiday. Markets will also close early at 1 p.m. (1800 GMT) on Friday.

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I WILL BE GOING OFFLINE FOR A FEW WEEKS TO DEAL WITH PERSONAL HEALTH ISSUES ... 

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BELOW IS A LINK TO A GREAT INFO RESOURCE FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO WANT TO STAY UPDATED WHILE I AM NOT POSTING REGULARLY. ALSO, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO POST THE INFO YOU FIND that you feel can benefit your neighbors on ProBoards.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/infectious-disease-topics/h7n9-avian-influenza

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GOBI BEARS.... 

Can World's Rarest Bear Be Saved?

Fewer than three dozen Gobi bears survive in one of the harshest places on Earth.

Can World's Rarest Bear Be Saved?


Can World's Rarest Bear Be Saved?
Fewer than three dozen of the desert-dwelling Gobi bears survive in one of the harshest places on Earth.

news.nationalgeographic.com/news/special-features/2014/04/140417-rarest-bears-world-mongolia-gobi/?utm_source=NatGeocom&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=inside_20140501&utm_campaign=Content

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GONE UNTIL MONDAY ...

HAVE A BLESSED and HEALTHY WEEKEND!

doing the DD  

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  Working on updating this and other threads over the next few weeks!  In the meantime..