Put your heart mind and soul into your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
{Swami Sivananda}
Category: News and Views
EMPIRE
There are a few television series that I watch and Empire happens to be one of them. Empire started out hot it was on fire every episode left you wanting more. I waited in anticipation for season two but so far it has not lived up to the hype that was built up in season one. The two episodes in season two have been disappointing so far. Just last week I was saying to my daughter that I am not feeling Empire at all, seems like I am not the only one who feel this way after learning today that they have lost about three million viewers last week. Their story line is just not clicking. They need to look back at season one and see what they are doing wrong in season two. I would hate to see Empire not lasting more than two seasons.
Where Did Autumn go
I don’t know how it is in your neck of the woods but where I am here in New York it seems as if old man Winter has hijacked Autumn this year. One moment we were in the eighties and seventies looking forward to the mild sixties, instead temperatures have plummeted to the forties and fifties.
Old man Winter I know you love us, a little too much perhaps . But since you are going to be around for a long time could you please give our dear friend Autumn a chance.
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GHOSTS OS HIS PAST
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He was a politician shrewdly carving his way to the top. Born to a life of luxury Nicholas Rochester usually got whatever he wanted. However just when he thought he had left his secret past behind he finds himself coming face to face with the ghosts of his past.
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Oregon Shooting Claims 10
A shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg Oregon left ten people dead and another twenty injured. Reports coming out of Oregon said the shooter was killed. This is an all too familiar scene. It is happening way too frequent. How many more will have to die before tougher gun laws come into effect?
Inspirational Quote
Lunar Eclipse
Take a look at the sky there is a lunar Eclipse tonight.
If you are lucky to have a powerful camera you might get a good picture.
I tried taking one with my phone didn’t get it too clear but I can make out the red moon.
Maybe you might have better luck depending on where you are.
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The Greatest Danger on Earth comes From Man
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How terrible it is that we have this wonderful world given to us and the freedom to choose between good and bad and so often we choose the latter. A part of the Pope’s message that still rings in my head is when he said the real danger in the world comes from man. We are blessed with the ability to choose to live in peace and harmony with one another yet we choose war. We build weapons of mass destruction and we slaughter each other. We abuse, condemn and reject one another and we choose hate over love. It is time for us to turn away from evil, turn away from hate, stop slaughtering each other and know that we are one people, all a part of the human race. We must reject hate and war and treat each other with acceptance and love.
Pope Francis Visits New York
Thousands of New Yorkers lined the streets to get a glimpse of Pope Francis and there were excited cheers from people everywhere he went. The message he brought us was one of love, unity, equality and acceptance.
He delivered a powerful speech to the United Nations General Assembly. He spoke about the abuse of power and about those more powerful countries that lend money to poorer countries with stringent measures that keep those countries in poverty. He spoke about those cast off by society who live on what is discarded by others and suffer the most from abuse of the environment.
He noted that the environment was not ours to abuse much less to destroy and touched on the topic of man creating weapons of mass destruction. “In wars and conflict there are individuals who weep, suffer and die,” he said. He did not stop there but also spoke about human trafficking, the sale of body parts and the sexual exploitation of little girls and boys. Every subject he touched had something to do with us as individuals and our environment. The thing I hope everyone who listened to that speech took note of is these words that ring so true -The real danger in the world comes from man – what are we going to do about it? Continue down the path of destruction, inflicting pain on one another or are we going to change?
Boycott Turing Pharmaceuticals
Say No to the hike in Price of Daraprim Tablets
For years drug companies have gotten away with overpricing life saving drugs and making the lives of users more stressful financially than it ought to be. It is now time for us to come together and take a stand against unscrupulous drugs companies like TURING PHARMACEUTICALS.
The recent hike in the price of the Drug DARAPRIM should serve as a wakeup call for all of us. This drug has been on the market since 1953. It is currently used by AIDS and Cancer patients. For 62 years this drug was affordable however now that has changed. In August Turing Pharmaceuticals acquired exclusive rights to the drug and the price has increased from $13.50 to $750.00 per tablet. Reason for this increase… GREED. This increase by Turing Pharmaceuticals is obnoxious and disgusting and it makes my stomach turn to know that they should want to profit this much from the plight of the most medically vulnerable among us.
We have to take a stand we cannot remain passive. We must lobby for measures to be put in place to protect patients from continued exploitation. If Turing Pharmaceuticals is allowed to get away with this price hike more companies will do the same. They have no moral conscience, no empathy for the patients battling complex diseases. Greed has clouded their judgment and stripped them of all humanity and moral obligation to act like decent human beings. Let us take a stand against Turing Pharmaceuticals. Boycott the sale of DARAPRIM. Let us stand in solidarity with AIDS and Cancer patients.
Author Marva Seaton 
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