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Liberators - Soviet troops deserve the lion's share of credit for liberating Belgrade from the Germans in 1944. / "Reiss Institute" October 20, 2014
By Nebojsa Malic
Soviet troops deserve the lion's share of credit for liberating Belgrade from the Germans in 1944. The same cannot be said for those who hijacked that victory for their own ends – or their clueless critics.
Winston Churchill and Josip Broz "Tito", British-backed ruler of Yugoslavia
On October 20, 1944, Belgrade was liberated from Nazi German occupation, following a six-day strategic offensive by the Red Army's 3rd Ukrainian Front. Commanding the army group was the newly promoted Marshal of the Soviet Union, Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbuhkin.
Though the Bulgarian units taking part in the operation [1] were directly subordinated to Tolbukhin, officially there was an arrangement for independent but coordinated efforts between the Soviets and the "National Liberation Army of Yugoslavia" (NOVJ) – commanded by general Peko Dapčević.
In all likelihood that was merely a politically correct fiction, but one that enabled the NOVJ leader Josip Broz "Tito" to claim his "Partisans" had liberated Yugoslavia single-handed, with just a little bit of help from the brotherly Soviet peoples. The Bulgarians went unmentioned in postwar Yugoslav histories; the magical transformation from occupiers to liberators within a day was too much even for Tito's court historians.
Following the liberation of Belgrade, Tolbukhin's units moved north towards Hungary, where they would get involved in the three-month battle for Budapest. Not until April 1945 did they have tanks and artillery to spare for bailing out Tito, whose army was bogged down in bloody frontal assaults on German fortifications in Syrmia and Slavonia.
Few had bothered to ask why the NOVJ hadn't simply used its guerrilla skills to go around the Germans, through the mountains of Bosnia they had roamed so freely in 1942-43. Doing so would not only have saved some ten thousand lives from the Syrmian abattoir, but also the countless lives of Serbs and Jews that the Nazi Croatians continued to murder until April 1945. Furthermore, the bulk of the casualties in Syrmia were fresh conscripts from areas that had been royalist strongholds – Belgrade, modern-day Serbia and Macedonia. Given the Yugoslav Communists' obsession with "Greaterserbian bourgeois oppressors" [2], the theory that Tito was deliberately sacrificing Serb lives – in Syrmia, Bosnia and Croatia – while stopping to consolidate authority in "Serbia" through executions, sounds more like common sense than controversy or conspiracy.
Seventy years later, many Serbs rightfully objecting to Tito's transgressions are making a category error by refusing to celebrate the liberation of Belgrade by the Soviets, seeing it instead as a "beginning of Communist occupation." Yet just like Tito's followers, they gloss over important but inconvenient facts:
- that it wasn't Stalin, but Churchill, that installed Tito in power.
- that, unlike any other European country it liberated, the Red Army left Yugoslavia – under an agreement with both Tito and his Western sponsors;
- that in June 1948, Tito initiated a break with the Soviet bloc and began working openly with the West.
No use. Time and again, royalist historians have blasted "Broz's Bolshevism", and blamed Stalin and the Soviets for the sorrows of Serbia. This misplaced Cold War rhetoric has led many Serbs in the diaspora to join the West's assault on the Serbian people during the 1990s, because in their eyes Serbian president Slobodan Milošević was a "Communist." Even though this objectively put them on the same side as the Serbs' enemies (and Hitler's heirs), with disastrous effects: from the Western media's demonization of Serbs and the falsified charges of "aggression" and "genocide", to the October 2000 coup and the subsequent occupation of Serbia itself.
Along the way, few if any have stopped to think why their efforts – such as they were – against Tito have never amounted to much. Could it be because they were barking up the wrong tree? Even today, twenty-five years since Communism began to crumble, they see "Reds" everywhere and blame the past 70 years of Serbian suffering on Communist conspiracies. They look for Communist "moles" in British intelligence who falsely attributed the deeds of Mihailović's men to Tito – but ignore the fact that Churchill's own son was sent as envoy to Tito, and that the British PM knew perfectly well what was going on because he wanted it that way.
They object to Belgrade streets bearing the names of Soviet liberators – not just Tolbukhin, but also his heroic subordinates, Vladimir Ivanovich Zhdanov and Sergey Semyonovich Biryuzov, who died in a mysterious plane crash en route to the anniversary celebration in 1964 – but don't insist on erecting monuments to victims of NATO's 1999 aggression. Or even talking about it that much, lest their "democratic friends, partners and allies" (who aren't any of those things) get offended.
Which leads to such incongruities that the politicians who built their careers by pretending to be royalists and patriots are now the puppets of the same Western governments that backed Tito, and praise Tito's men at the parade of what little of Serbia's military survived 15 years of "democratic reforms" – while almost apologizing for Vladimir Putin's presence in the stands. Yet Putin had earned every right to be there, by not rejecting the heroic deeds of Soviet soldiers even as he leads a nation that has rejected Communism.
There is a lesson for Serbs there, if they are willing to learn it.
[1] Bulgaria had joined the Axis by signing the Tripartite Pact on March 1, 1941, and took part in the invasion of Yugoslavia in April that year. Following the invasion, Bulgaria annexed most of present-day Macedonia and southeastern Serbia. It did not, however, take part in the Axis invasion of the USSR (though its Navy battled the Soviets in the Black Sea). As the Soviet armies advanced, Bulgaria switched sides on September 8, 1944; thus the Bulgarian soldiers that until a few days earlier were executing Serbian peasants for insurrection became their "liberators," in one of the many ironies of the war.
[2] See here how the Communist newspaper "Proleter" wrote about Yugoslavia in 1929, for example.
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http://www.reiss-institute.org/articles/liberators/#more-1015
Posted by Aleksandra at Monday, October 20, 2014
This is an astonishing article by Nebojsa Malic, and not in a good way. The imposition by force of communism on Yugoslavia in 1944 was no liberation or freedom at all, particularly as the Germans were looking at surrender or withdrawal. There are hundreds of thousands of victims left dead by this evil political system, and Malic should not look to rehabilitate them. With communism, Vojvodina, Kosovo, and Macedonia were hived off of Serbia as separate 'republics', borders of republics were drawn up by communists to later strand ethnic Serbs in lands where even today they get abuse, Ustashi criminals were incorporated into the communist army by the thousands. Lies made up the history of the communists. Others worked for liberty only to die at their hands. For example, the town of Krusevac being liberated by Major Dragutin Keserovic, his Chetnik forces, with Russian help. After the town's liberation, the Russians handed the Chetniks over to the Yugoslav communists to be liquidated. Really, Nebojsa Malic does himself or no-one else any credit with the backing communists at any cost. The Russians in the modern day should know what misery their ancestors imposed on the Serbian people 70 years ago. No point in sweeping history under the carpet. The Germans wanted to surrender to Mihailovic's forces, but the idea was vetoed by Churchill, who didn't want to end the war in that region so soon because Tito's communists were not involved, and that was the particular 'horse' that he, Churchill had backed.
That article is a severe lack of judgement, unfortunately, by the General Mihailovic website and I am showing relations and friends a printout of the article. That a Mihailovic website publishes something advocating communist rehabilitation is astonishing and I am amazed by the incredible and non-credible writing in the article.
I don't expect you to publish my comment, but I can promise you that plenty of people will read what has been written in Malic's article and will steer clear of your pro-commie website which publishes trash like this. So far, the reaction has been very negative about the article.
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Who will get $25k handout confirmed
by Samantha Maiden
Scott Morrison will fire the starter's gun on a renovation rescue for the economy with $25,000 cash grants for new homes and renos from midnight tonight.
But you will only qualify for the cash splash if you're spending $150,000 or more on a renovation and you meet an income test, with swimming pools and tennis court projects banned.
For new home builds, the value of the property must be $750,000 or less.
News.com.au has confirmed the full details of the new scheme, to be called HomeBuilder, including the income test to qualify for the cash.
To qualify for HomeBuilder, you need to be building a new home worth less than $750,000 or if you are renovating an existing property it needs to have been previously valued at less than $1.5 million.
"If you've been putting off that renovation or new build, the extra $25,000 we're putting on the table along with record low interest rates means now's the time to do it,'' the Prime Minister said.
"This investment isn't just about helping Australians bring their dream home to life, it's about creating jobs and helping support the more than one million workers in the sector including builders, painters, plumbers and electricians across the country."
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison will dole out grants of $25,000. Picture: AAP Image/Lukas Coch
As revealed by news.com.au on Monday, the value of the grants will be $25,000.
In NSW, that means first home buyers building a new home could get $35,000 in grants to build and stamp duty concessions when the $25,000 grant is combined with existing state schemes.
Applicants for HomeBuilder must also meet the following two income caps to qualify for the scheme.
• Singles must be earning $125,000 or less based on their 2018/19 tax return or later.
• Couples must have a combined income of less than $200,000 based on their tax returns.
The cash splash will be offered for any contracts entered into between 4 June 2020 and 31 December 2020.
That means singles and couples who are currently building a new home will miss out on the cash with the short, sharp stimulus to end on New Year's Eve.
Investors and owner builders will be banned from claiming the cash with the scheme designed to help low and middle income earners claim the property ladder.
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Projects will have to meet a ranger of criteria to qualify for the handout. Picture: Supplied
First home buyers looking to build a new home are not the only winners, with the cash grants to be extended to owner occupiers who want to renovate the family home.
However, an income test will apply to the grants to ensure that millionaires and people minimising their taxable income through trusts cannot claim the cash.
To qualify for the HomeBuilder scheme, you must be aged 18 years or older, an Australian citizen and be an individual, not a company or trust.
Those rules follow claims that wealthy families rorted the Howard Government's original First Home Buyers Scheme by purchasing properties for toddlers and children and pocketing the cash.
Contracts must be entered into before December 31, 2020 to qualify for the cash.
For renovators, the works must improve the accessibility, safety and liveability of the dwelling.
Homebuilder grants cannot be used for additions to the property that are unconnected to the principle place of residence such as swimming pools, tennis courts, outdoor spas and saunas, sheds or garages.
But the new $25,000 grants is on top of existing State and Territory First Home Owner Grant programs, stamp duty concessions and other grant schemes, as well as the Commonwealth's First Home Loan Deposit Scheme and First Home Super Saver Scheme.
HomeBuilder is on top of existing state grants. Picture: Supplied
The cost of the scheme is estimated at $688 million but it is a demand driven scheme and could cost more or less depending on how many Australians claim the cash.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg predicted the scheme would support 140,000 direct jobs and another 1,000,000 related jobs in the residential construction sector.
"The construction sector is the number one industry covered by the Government's JobKeeper program with more than a million Australians employed across the sector,'' he said.
"However with dwelling investment expected to decline by around 20 per cent through the June Quarter, the HomeBuilder program will support residential construction activity and jobs across the industry at a time when the economy and the sector needs it most."
Housing Minister Michael Sukkar said the scheme would complement the government's First Home Loan Deposit Scheme which has helped 10,000 first home buyers get into a home of their own this year.
"HomeBuilder will build upon this, creating even more opportunities for Australians to build a new home or renovate an existing home for their family, while supporting our vital residential construction industry."
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New museum sheds light on long-ignored history
Don Flood
More than most cities, Montgomery, Ala., remains rooted in the past even as it steps gingerly into the future. Outside town, large highway signs direct visitors to the First White House of the Confederacy. In town, a historical marker shows where, in 1955, the modern Civil Rights movement began, with Rosa Parks's refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man.
On April 23, Montgomery marked the annual Confederate Memorial Day - a state holiday - to honor those who died defending slavery.
Later that same week, Montgomery celebrated something new: the opening of two sites dedicated to shedding fresh light on the legacy of slavery.
On April 26, Bryan Stevenson, a Milton native and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, opened both the organization's Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice.
A graduate of Cape Henlopen High School and Harvard Law School, Stevenson has spent most of his adult life defending death-row prisoners, a story he tells in his best-selling book "Just Mercy."
My wife and I traveled to Montgomery for the opening. Though boasting a population of 200,000 - well over twice the size of Delaware's largest city - the state capital retains the low-lying skyline of a much smaller town. Montgomery is steeped in American history, not all of it related to the Civil War and civil rights. Two giants of 20th century popular music, Hank Williams and Nat King Cole, called Montgomery home. Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald lived there briefly with Zelda, in a house that now serves as a museum.
The Legacy Museum occupies a 19th century commercial structure a couple of blocks from the Alabama River. Before the Civil War, slaves were discharged at the docks and marched up Commerce Street to buildings such as the one that now houses the museum. The museum's entry-room wall bears an inscription, "You are standing on a site where enslaved people were warehoused."
The word "warehoused" sounds jarring when applied to flesh and blood, but it's accurate. The goods, in this case, were human beings, waiting to be sold to the highest bidder at the nearby auction circle, next to the courthouse and down the street from the state capitol. It's hard to overstate the centrality of slave-trading to the life and economy of Montgomery. In 1860, the town had more establishments dedicated to human trafficking than it did churches and hotels. The first steps into the museum proper are, appropriately enough, a descent into darkness.
To the right you see ghostly figures behind bars, holograms that share their stories of enslavement. One, the eldest of six, tells visitors, "We were all separated, no two together. I have not seen my mother since the sale." Two haunted-eyed children stare out in silence. A woman wails a heartrending lament. The main area of the museum is much brighter, literally, but it details one of the darkest chapters in American history - the domestic terrorism that resulted in the lynching of more than 4,000 African-Americans.
Among the displays is a photo of Delaware's notorious Red Hannah, the state whipping post. Delaware has the dubious distinction of being the last state to outlaw the whipping post, its last use occurring within living memory, in 1952. An interactive map shows where lynchings took place.
I checked Delaware and found one that I hadn't known about. In 1903, in New Castle County, a black man was accused of fatally stabbing a white woman. The man was burned to death in a case so horrific it attracted international condemnation, including one from President Teddy Roosevelt.
What struck me about many of the lynchings was their sheer banality. In 1940, in Luverne, Ala., a black man was lynched because he addressed a police officer without saying "Mister." A year later, in Camp Blanding, Fla., a black construction worker was lynched "for insisting that a white co-worker return his shovel."
For me, two stand out. In 1909, in Doss, La., a man was lynched Here was a man, living in the worst of the Jim Crow era, who nevertheless had enough faith in the rule of law to take a white man to court. That trust cost him his life. In the other case, a newspaper announced an impending murder in much the same way it might publicize the opening of the state fair. The headline on the front page of the June 26, 1919, New Orleans newspaper read, "John Hartfield will be lynched by Ellisville Mob at 5 o'clock this afternoon." And so he was - the governor of Mississippi having washed his hands of this lawless and very public spectacle.
The museum, which should be seen first, presents information. The memorial, less than a mile away, offers a space for reflection.
It is as somber and moving as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City.
Like every place we have visited in America, Montgomery is fascinating in its own way, even more so now with the two new world-class centers opened under the leadership of Bryan Stevenson. It's a worth the trip.
Postscript: After returning home, I saw a story in the Guardian, a British newspaper that provides extensive coverage of the United States. The reporter asked people in Montgomery about the new museum and memorial. Not all were pleased. One person objected to the museum "stirring" things up again. Another said, "We've moved past it." One man said he thought that many in Montgomery felt it was "better to let sleeping dogs lie."
It's funny. I've never heard that kind of remark about the huge New York September 11 Memorial. And even now, it's not uncommon to see bumper sticks that say "9/11 Never Forget." When it comes to victims of international terrorism we're told we should "never forget." Not so when it comes to victims of domestic terrorism.
In a 2015 commencement speech at the College of the Holy Cross, Stevenson said, "Old people of color come to me sometime and they say, 'I get so angry when I hear someone on TV talk about how we're dealing with terrorism for the first time in our nation's history after 9/11. We grew up with terrorism. We had to be worried about being bombed, and lynched, and menaced.'" I doubt that, following 9/11, many white Americans would have shared and considered that point of view.
That's why the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice are an important destination for all Americans.
(Full coverage of the museum and memorial openings appeared in the May 4 Cape Gazette.)
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ACTIVISTS IN Boston mobilized on February 11 to defend abortion rights, and in particular to defend Planned Parenthood from an assault by right-wingers calling for anti-abortion demonstrations in front of clinics across the country.
Anti-women bigots brought hundreds of professionally made signs that remained unused in boxes when their side mobilized only about 50 people throughout the morning.
For more than four hours, pro-choice activists chanted and drowned out the anti-women chants and prayers. We covered their signs and fake photos with our own sign reading "Abortion on Demand and Without Apology."
The most popular chants were "Pray, you'll need it. Your cause will be defeated," "Get up, get down! Boston is a pro-choice town!" and one of the final chants as we outlasted the bigots: "We're younger, we're stronger. We're gonna be here longer!"
Police pens forced both sides behind the same pen, making it easy to directly confront and drown out the bigots as they attempted to harass women and workers going into Planned Parenthood in Boston.
Countering the anti-choice bigots outside a Planned Parenthood clinic
From the start of the protests, it became clear who the police sided with, as they asked us not to use our bullhorns and made sure we stayed behind the pens, while allowing some of the anti-women demonstrators to stand near the entrance to Planned Parenthood, where they harassed women entering the building.
But by consistently challenging the police when they applied their rules unfairly, we were able to get them to not allow a PA system to be set up on the anti-choice side, and officers began to yell at the bigots to stop standing at the entrance, without us even having to ask them to do so.
BETWEEN 50 and 60 pro-choice activists mobilized for the first clinic defense in years in Boston on Saturday, which was organized by COMBAT (Coalition to Organize and Mobilize Boston Against Trump), the International Socialist Organization and the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
Our side could have seen numbers in the thousands like those who stated on social media that they would attend demonstrations to defend Planned Parenthood. However, Planned Parenthood itself organized and argued against activists to cancel demonstrations in Boston and elsewhere.
Their statements demobilized hundreds of new activists and women who are tired of seeing control over their own bodies legislated away over the last few decades. Canceling demonstrations has been a losing strategy that has conceded ground to the right wing without a confrontation.
Lisa, an activist who attended the protest, said that her first clinic defense in Boston was in 1989:
I am unbelievably tired of the fact that I've been protesting for the right to choose since 1989 or before. And I'm sure that before Roe v. Wade was passed in 1973, it was even worse.
I'll keep protesting until the day I die if I have to, but I am tired of trying to drag this country forward, especially in the light of the last several years. No one should have to walk through the gauntlet of those disgusting so-called people. All my friends and my friends kids who need this service--I'm not going to let them become second-class citizens.
Helen and Jess, best friends who attended the protest, saw a CNN article about the "Defund Planned Parenthood" website in which people mistook "defund" for "defend" and decided to come to the clinic to protest the right wing, not even knowing that others had called a counterprotest. "If we had to protest them on our own, we would have done it," they said.
PLANNED PARENTHOOD personnel at the Commonwealth Avenue site where we demonstrated were split on their attitude toward pro-choice protesters. While one staffer came out several times to argue with us to either leave or not chant, other volunteers and staffers thanked us for attending and handed out hand-warmers as well.
Arguments by the political wing of Planned Parenthood that women couldn't differentiate between our chants and the anti-women chants fell flat in the face of our own experiences as patients who have been harassed by the bigots.
Pedestrians and drivers passing the demonstration were clearly capable of distinguishing between the two sides--most notably, with one car passenger's yelling at the anti-choice demonstrators turning into cheers as the vehicle passed those of us defending a woman's right to choose.
While the clinic defense was an astounding success, the greatest weakness was our numbers. The natural reaction for so many women's rights activists when they first heard about these "Defund Planned Parenthood" protests, especially after the confidence boosting Women's March, was to fight and confront these bigots.
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Florence City Pass > All Attractions > Museo Franco Zeffirelli
Museo Franco Zeffirelli
Visit the museum, which over 250 works by Maestro Zeffirelli, including set designs, drawings and costume sketches hosts.
The Museum begins along the staircase that leads to the first floor, with a tribute to the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, recalling the historic productions of William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida – Franco Zeffirelli's debut in scenography for the director Luchino Visconti (1949) – and, in the entrance corridor of the Museum, focusing on Euridice, set to music in the 1600s by Jacopo Peri (1960), both performed in the Boboli Gardens.
The Franco Zeffirelli International Centre for the Performing Arts, supported by the Maestro himself, brings together and makes available to his city and the world the entire artistic and cultural patrimony of his almost 70-year career.
An extraordinary patrimony – deemed "of particular historical interest" by the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities – that includes all his documents, from drawings to studies for theatrical and cinematic set designs, from director's notes to scripts, from set photos to a substantial correspondence and press releases, to testaments of his work in the world of international theatre and cinema, from the post-war period to today.
Through the use of the Archive, Library and Museum, The Franco Zeffirelli International Centre for the Performing Arts, located in the historic San Firenze complex, offers exhibition and educational activities, promoting culture associated with the art of show business and educating students in the disciplines of theatre, opera and cinema, in Florence, Italy, a cradle of culture for centuries. The Centre vaunts a hall for concerts and film projections, classrooms and workshop spaces.
Opening Hours Museo Franco Zeffirelli
Tuesday – Sunday: 10 am – 6 pm
Closed: 8 to 29 August.
Last admission 60 minutes before closing time
Admission Fee Museo Franco Zeffirelli
Adult: 12 €
With the Florence City Pass, your flexible Florence tourist ticket, you receive free admission.
From 1 January, the Franco Zeffirelli Museum ticket is worth more. Keep the ticket and get a first-class discount of €3 on the purchase of a ticket for Palazzo Strozzi.
Adress Museo Franco Zeffirelli
Piazza di S. Firenze 5
50122 Firenze FI
Directions Museo Franco Zeffirelli
Bus: C2 till Piazza Beccaria
Highlights Museo Franco Zeffirelli
is noted for the authentic details, grand scale of his opera productions and for his film adaptations of Shakespeare
over 250 works by Maestro Zeffirelli, including set designs, drawings and costume sketches
Franco Zeffirelli's debut in scenography for the director Luchino Visconti (1949)
Florence City Pass
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Greta Van Susteren Plastic Surgery Before and After Photos
Did Greta Van Susteren Undergo any Plastic Surgery
Greta Van Susteren has been the centre of attraction lately for plastic surgery rumors. Sources online, including leading websites and forums, are speculating whether Greta Van Susteren underwent several surgeries.It is common for celebrities to undergo the knife to enhance their looks. But to find out more, we need to uncover Greta Van Susteren before and after pictures before discussion
Who is Greta Van Susteren?
Greta Van Susteren is an Amercian commentator and television news host on ht eFox News Channel. Being a former defence and civil trial lawyer, Greta Van Susteren is a huge talent on television. In 2015, she was listed in Forbes as the 99th most powerful woman in the world. That is an amazing feat accomplished. She also shot to fame for her coverage on the O J Simpson murder trial for her natural style of delivery.
However, with all her intelligence and brilliance on TV and in the law arena, Greta Van Susteren could not stop the effects of aging. Now at age 61, it is inevitable that plastic surgery procedures look like an attractive proposition to solve aging symptoms.
Greta Van Susteren Eye lift Surgery
From the before and after photo comparisons, it looks like Greta Van Susteren has undergone eye lift surgery (Blepharoplasty) This is because her eyes look different with the eye bags seemingly removed. Her eyelid looks lifted to create the younger look, instead of retaining the saggy eyelids that come with aging. It was reported in People Magazine in 2002 that she has undergone eye lift surgery. Greta Van Susteren went against the trend of news anchors hiding all their plastic surgery secrets.
Greta was bold to admit and elaborated about her decision to undergo the eye lift surgery. Not many celebrities do that as they view plastic surgery taboo. Thus, it was a surprise that Greta brought this subject out in the open. Her eye lift cost her a month off her job but earned her raving comments about her new look.
The article in the People Magazine back then (all credit goes to people.com):
Photo Credit: People.com
There were rumors that Greta's announcement of her eye lift surgery was connected to her job. This rumor arose because she went the news went viral before she started work on Fox News. During that time, she was in the middle of a bidding war between CNN and Fox News for her services. Whether this rumor is true we will never know. But one thing is for sure, that is her eye lift surgery is largely a success. Unlike the plastic surgery disasters that many other celebrities underwent, Greta Van Susteren plastic surgery experience was a positive one.
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Watch Greta Van Susteren Interviewing Donald Trump in Feb 2016:
Compare it to a young Greta Van Susteren back in 1994 below:
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The Alligator oscillator is very similar to the Gator oscillator which we have examined previously in these pages. The difference between the two indicators lies almost entirely in the presentation of data. While the Gator oscillator presents any valid signals in a histogram below the price chart, the Alligator chart provides the oscillators in a raw form so as to enable wider and deeper analysis.
The Alligator oscillator, like the Gator oscillator, was developed by Bill Williams.
The chart looks very similar to a moving average chart, and that is what it is. The profitable phase of the market action is thought to exist between two contractions of the indicators. Every time the three components (jaw, teeth, lips) come together, and the mouth closes, an opportunity to open or close a position is presented. Trader lore states that the indicator emits correct signals about 30-50% of the time.
The Alligator indicator is really a very simple tool once you understand what it is. Three smoothed moving averages plotted on a price chart and shifted by a few bars into the future create this indicator, and the slower and the less sensitive the moving average is to market action, the further into the future it is shifted.
Jaw, or the blue line, is the 13-period smoothed moving average shifted 8 bars into the future. It is also the slowest indicator.
Teeth, or the red line, is the 8-period smoothed moving average shifted 5 bars into the future.
Lips, or the black line (although it is commonly depicted in green by charting software), is the fastest 5-period smoothed moving average, moved 3 bars into the future.
As it us the case with the Gator oscillator, the interaction between these three SMMA's determines the trade signal.
This indicator is constructed on the notion that each trend, and its phases (or mini-trends), consist of waves that coincide with start, development, culmination and exhaustion, akin to the logic behind the Elliot Wave Theory. Similar to the Gator indicator, the four phases of the alligator's life must be identified.
Alligator Waking: When the green, or black line falls above or below the blue line, (or when the teeth rise above or below the jaw) after a period of contraction, the alligator is said to be waking up. This is the typical indication of a beginning phase for a trend.
Alligator Eating: At this phase the mini-trend is well-established, and we see the teeth breaching through the lips, and 'eating' signifying that the trend is soon to reach its climax.
Alligator Sated: We now see the teeth coming back or below the blue line, and the three lines beginning to contract to a smaller area, as the price action decelerates, and the trend has run its course.
Alligator sleeping: At this phase the smoothed moving averages come together, or in more colourful language, the mouth closes as the jaw, lips and teeth adhere to each other once again. This phase signals that the current trend has exhausted itself at least in its present configuration, and it is time to sit back and reevaluate the situation.
Let's recall what the alligator oscillator oscillator is. It is three smoothed moving averages drawn together on a chart and shifted to the left a little with the purpose of identifying profitable scenarios. As such, very little distinguishes it from a standard moving average strategy, and the differences that exist do not exceptionally favour this indicator.
The Alligator oscillator is most suitable to a trending market. It can be used in shorter timeframes in the context of an overarching range pattern, but it will surely generate many false signals in a ranging market. The best indicators to supplement it are support/resistance lines, or Fibonacci indicators to determine price targets if you happen to be beginner. Just keep in mind that trends are violent will easily invalidate any imaginary line on the charts, however strong it may appear.
If you wish to use moving averages in your trend analysis, make use of the alligator instead. Otherwise, the Ichimoku cloud, also covered on this site, may be a better choice for greater clarity and depth of analysis.


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Nicole topples homes, kills 2 and causes widespread power outages in Florida
The hurricane made landfall just south of Vero Beach around 3 a.m. ET on the east coast of the Florida Peninsula on North Hutchinson Island, with sustained winds estimated at 75 mph, the National Hurricane Center said. Coastal homes collapsed in Wilbur-by-the-Sea, an unincorporated beachfront community, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office said. Twenty-five homes have been declared structurally unsafe, and in Daytona Beach Shores, north of the community, 24 hotels and condominiums were declared unsafe and ordered evacuated, it said. In Martin County, Nicole churned up sand and unearthed what appeared to be bones on Chastain Beach on South Hutchinson Island, the sheriff's office said. The site is believed to be a Native American burial ground, it said. The storm continued to weaken Thursday, and by 10 p.m. it was a tropical depression, according to the National Hurricane Center. But it was still bringing heavy rains to parts of the southeastern U.S., the agency said. Thursday night the now-tropical depression was centered about 20 miles north of Tallahassee on Florida's panhandle, and was moving northwest at 15 mph.
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Happy Friday, Confetti Babe Readers!
When I found out I was pregnant, I was so excited to capture every single moment of my pregnancy and my little one's milestones. In my efforts to be the "perfect mom," I started writing pregnancy letters to my "womb baby."
4 months preggo and starting my letter journey!
I wrote my first letter to baby when I was 18 weeks pregnant. My goal was to start earlier, but we got married when I was 13 weeks pregnant and finalizing everything for our wedding took up so much more time than I originally planned. I faithfully wrote a letter from 18 weeks until I was 38 weeks pregnant. It is crazy how quickly we forget about our pregnancy ailments once our babe is in our arms. Or is that just me? I hope Amelia enjoys reading these letters years from now as much as I loved writing them! I also hope that I commit the time to do this for baby #2 when that time comes!
The second thing I did to capture my memories for Amelia was to start a baby book. I searched high and low for the perfect book. There were several things I was looking for: detailed family history/pregnancy information, monthly highlights for the first year, milestone pages and continuing on to at least her fifth birthday. My mom finally located the perfect book in a small boutique in Norfolk, NE and surprised me with it at Amelia's baby shower [similar items here and here ]. So far, I have been diligent about writing each month and trying to capture all the little moments. I absolutely loved looking at my husband's baby book that my mother-in-law kept for him! Sadly, my mom never got around to making one for me and can't even remember what my first word was!
Pictures are another great way to capture just how small our babes once were! There are so many options out there for monthly photo shoots! Some of my favorites include: monthly stickers, writing on chalkboard [here] and wooden blocks [here]. We have a gender neutral, monthly sticker pack from a local natural parenting store [similar stickers here ]. My goal is to use these for each baby, (please let there be more babies!) so I went neutral instead of the super adorable gender specific ones! I photograph Amelia every month in the same spot: her changing pad and her rocking chair. It is absolutely crazy to see how much she has grown in just 6 short months! I strongly suggest using the same spot for each photo so the "scale" stays proportionate to actual growth.
Th final idea I have yet to incorporate, but plan on starting soon (like tomorrow!) is a milestone calendar. My mother-in-law tracked just about everything my husband did as a child from one to three years. On her calendar, she included new words and sentences, how high he was counting, special activities and outings, family birthday parties, potty training successes... you name it, you can find it on Brandon's calendar! I had NEVER heard of such a thing and I cannot wait to start working on Amelia's! I think it would be great to start at birth, but since I wasn't that on the ball, I would like to start tomorrow (her 1/2 birthday!) and record from here until whenever seems appropriate to stop. I found some milestone stickers on Amazon [here ] and a 2014 calendar on sale at Target. Because the year is already half over, I will most likely backdate some pages to include milestones that I recorded in her baby book!
Alright momma's... this is what I have done and still want to do for little miss Amelia. I would LOVE to hear what you all have done to capture the memories of your littles! I am always looking for new ideas.
Writing letters is so sweet! I wish that I would have thought of that. I'm doing a project for her 1st birthday. I've taken a picture of her every single day of her life so far and I want to make a photo album for her.
She's adorable by the way!!


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Apparat: Does 'The Devil's Walk' on Mute & simfy
In retrospect, Apparat's "DJ-Kicks" didn't just represent a perfect summary of 2010 in terms of electronica. It also marked both the end of an era and a fresh beginning for the project's mastermind Sascha Ring. With his new album The Devil's Walk, Apparat returns as a fully-fledged, four-piece band, a more rock-oriented sound and eleven veritable "songs" up his sleeves. To those merely familiar with Ring's collaborations with Ellen Allien (on releases like Berlinette and Orchestra of Bubble) or with pace-setting innovators Modeselektor (as part of their Moderat-joint-venture), the move may come as a surprise. But anyone with an attentive ear could already hear the seeds for change as far back as Apparat's Duplex (2003), on which acoustic instruments prominently acted as sound sources. And of course, in their own way, the pieces off Moderat's self-titled 2009-full-length had an unmistakable song-feeling to them as well, cutting the potentially infinite cycles of house and electro down to digestible four-minute-chunks. In this regard, The Devil's Walk merely constitutes the acme of a long phase of constant transition and transformation, which today in fact seems perfectly consequential and logical. Which is not to say it came about with hardship, obstacles, breakdowns and temporary collapses.
Writing the basic structures for The Devil's Walk, which is now available both digitally through online music community simfy or in a limited edition sporting a 24-page bound book, had still been easy. To be more precise, they had been laid-back, as Ring traveled to Mexico, met up with long-time production sparring partner Joshua Eustis of Telefon Tel Aviv and spent "60% of the time relaxing, 30% writing the actual music and 10% smoking cigarettes". Recordings took place in a huge rented house with individual rooms for each musician to work on initial ideas and sketches in privacy and a huge shared living room to flesh out concepts in more detail as a group. Mexico turned out to be a place of refuge and completely changed the parameters of typical Apparat-records around: "It was the potential of going to Mexico in the months of January and February to work on The Devil's Walk instead of being in Berlin or being in Chicago, both of which are completely freezing cold and totally miserable at that time", according to Eustis, "I could have come to Berlin and we could have worked on the album here, but it would have ended up being a very depressing record."
And yet, there is still a tangible sense of melancholy, darkness, even sinisterness, a strange sensuality and eroticism noir to these pieces. Perhaps these are the result of a short phase of stasis in the writing process, when Ring had come back to Berlin from Mexico and suddenly found himself unable to satisfyingly continue and conclude the album. For months, the new Apparat album seemed an unattainable goal. It was only when Ring was introduced to guitarist Nackt (German for "naked") that The Devil's Walk was back on course again. Together, the duo culled the essence from the huge pile of material that Ring had amassed and turned it into concise pieces with immediately captivating hooks and a unique mood. It was an effortless process, which culminated in a successful live presentation at the Prince Charles club - and the uplifting mood displayed on a track like "Black Water" or anthemic first single "Ash/Black Veil".
Of course, The Devil's Walk represents new territory for Apparat in more than one respect. After all, it is also the first album recorded for the prestigious Mute label after four releases on Shitkatapult – an imprint Ring used to run with friend and T-Raumschmiere-head Marco Haas. It is, as the Apparat mastermind pointed out, a mutually benefitial constellation since Mute founder Daniel Miller had always been interested in Shitkatapult's unique blend of dancefloor energy and punk spirit, while Ring has sought for ways to publish outside of its boundaries. Of course, punk is not exactly where the album is headed. Rather, it penetrates a nerve shared by dream-pop-bands like Sigur Ros and then infuses it with its own personal vibe and colours. The Devil's Walk may not sum up 2011 the way the Apparat DJ-Kicks did last year. But it certainly makes for a promising start to a new chapter.
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Togel HK Taxing Lottery Winnings
Aug 13, 2022 Gambling, Togel
Before a lottery can be played, it must have a way to collect stakes. The majority of lotteries have a hierarchy of sales agents who pass up the stakes as money is paid for tickets. That money is then banked. Some national lotteries divide tickets into fractions, each costing slightly more than its share of the entire ticket price. These fractions are sold to customers for a small stake, and many agents purchase entire tickets at a discounted price.
Lotteries were banned in England from 1699 to 1709
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Togel hk lottery games were the only form of organized gambling in England. The lottery was a highly advertised form of gambling, with massive markups on the tickets. Because of this, it failed to generate tax revenue from side bets, and the government criticized lotteries as mass gambling and fraudulent drawing. As a result, lottery games were banned for three years in England. Fortunately, the ban was lifted in the early eighteenth century.
Although the history of the lottery is complicated, the game continues to flourish in other countries. Lotteries were banned in England from 1699 to 1709, but they have since returned and are estimated to make up 40 to 45 percent of the world's lottery sales. During the early days of the English Revolution, lotteries were known for their high markups. Contractors would purchase tickets at a discount and then sell them at an astronomical markup. The government banned lotteries, but soon saw the positive aspects of this popular gambling.
They are widely played in the United States
In the United States, lottery players come from all walks of life. The recent Powerball lottery set a record, with $1.6 billion in sales. The lottery industry did not focus on low-income players, instead marketing its games to the entire society. Approximately 80% of all lottery sales come from 20% of customers. According to a recent study, lottery players from Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota earn more than $55,000 per year, and a third of lottery players have incomes of $80,000 or more.
After the failure of Prohibition in the early twentieth century, negative attitudes about gambling began to shift. Some states, such as Nevada, legalized casino gambling, and people began to feel more comfortable with gambling for charitable purposes. However, lingering fears about fraud made many people reluctant to participate in lotteries. This is a big reason why many people in the US are still skeptical of the games.
They are a form of gambling
Lotteries are one of the oldest forms of gambling. During the Old Testament, Moses used lotteries to divide the land among the Israelites. Roman emperors used lotteries to give away slaves and property. The lottery was brought to the United States by British colonists. Eventually, ten states banned lotteries. However, the government continued to collect lottery profits for other purposes.
Financial lotteries are one of the most popular forms of lottery, and offer the opportunity to win big amounts of money for a small amount of money. While many people view financial lotteries as addictive forms of gambling, they do benefit the public sector. Despite these concerns, some lottery games are run for charitable causes. Generally, lottery winners are selected by a random drawing of tickets. However, the process can be designed so that it is fair for all participants.
They are tax-free
Most people assume that winning the lottery is taxable. But the reality is different. The government withholds close to half of all sales for tax purposes. This means that gambling is profitable for the government. So taxing lottery winnings would amount to double dipping. The government does not treat lottery winnings as taxable income. In fact, the government makes money from lottery sales. That being the case, taxing the winnings of lottery players would be a bad idea.
Generally, lottery winnings are taxed according to the federal income tax brackets. For instance, if you win the lottery in New York, 8.82% will be withheld by the city, on top of the 24% federal tax rate. However, in seven states, lottery winnings are tax-free. That means big lottery winners in these states will not be required to pay state income tax on their prize money. It's worth mentioning that some states do not have state lottery programs at all.