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A female Ethiopian Jew, Pnina Tamano-Shata, was elected to Knesset yesterday as number 14 on the Yesh Atid Knesset list. She is the first Ethiopian woman to be elected to serve in the Knesset.

Pnina Tamano-Shata
First Female Ethiopian Jew Elected To Knesset
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com

A female Ethiopian Jew, Pnina Tamano-Shata, was elected to Knesset yesterday as number 14 on the Yesh Atid Knesset list. She is the first Ethiopian woman to be elected to serve in the Knesset.

Tamano-Shata – immigrated to Israel from Ethiopia when she was three-years-old – is an attorney. She has also worked as a reporter for Channel 1 News.

“I want to promote as much legislation [as possible]relating to equality and affordable housing. The middle class understands and knows exactly what it wants. It gave us its trust,” she told Channel 2 last…

There are 9 nominees for Best Picture this year and I must say, I can’t decide on a winner.  These 9 movies are truly Oscar worthy.  The nominees are:
Lincoln,  Argo,  Zero Dark Thirty,  Life of Pi,  Silver Linings Playbook,  Les Misèrables, Amour,  Django Unchained  and  Beast of the Southern Wild.

CLICK HEREto see a complete list of 2013 Oscar winners.

LINCOLN:      My rating:  10/10     Daniel Day-Lewis won Best Actor!
I picked Lincoln to win Best Picture because I was mesmerized from the onset of the movie.  I was in tears by the time the Gettysburg address was recited.  By the time Tommy Lee Jones came on the scene, I was frozen to my seat and taking in every word.  By the end of the movie I was totally engrossed not wanting…

Hidden beneath
our feet lies
the forgotten realm.

Its paths and relics
fade with time
and disintegrate.

They exist only
in a disappearing
landscape.

Preservation barely
recovers the
decaying past.

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The Netherlands’ Queen Beatrix announced Monday that she is ending her reign after 33 years and passing the crown to her eldest son, who has long been groomed to be king but who will have to work hard to match his mother’s popularity.

The widely expected abdication comes at a time of debate over the future of the largely ceremonial Dutch monarchy, but also as calm has descended upon the Netherlands after a decade of turmoil that saw Beatrix act as the glue that held together an increasingly divided society.

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In this Sept. 30, 2008 file photo Dutch Queen Beatrix smiles as she arrives for the opening of cold mill 22 at Corus steel factory in IJmuiden, western Netherlands. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

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.Click link below for story, slideshow, and video:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/28/queen-beatrix-to-abdicate_n_2567717.html

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In the last two weeks, my husband and I have welcomed a new dog into the family. Luke is a friendly, almost two year old, Golden Retriever who has had a rough start in life. As we are getting to know each other, I’m drawn back into the routine and wonder of dog ownership. All the while, our elderly cat, George, raises an eyebrow and wonders why he can’t live in a one cat household.

I’ve been re-reading and thoroughly enjoying Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home (And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals) by Rupert Sheldrake. Sheldrake is a biologist with a Ph.D. from Cambridge. As a pet owner himself he wondered why the stories of pet owners were so universally ignored by scientists. He felt that confining research to lab animals or wildlife observation misses entirely to capture a unique understanding man has with his companion…

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.Click link below for a taste of this book:

http://first750.com/twinkle-twinkle-little-star/

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Police say a man ran through the hallways of a Vancouver apartment building, slashing seven people in what they believe was a completely random attack,

Sgt. Randy Fincham said Friday seven people were injured in the high rise building on the city’s west end during the attack Thursday night. Six people were taken to hospital and one woman remains in critical condition. Another bystander was treated at the scene and released.

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