'What Thanksgiving is all about': Breezy Point teen raises $80K, lifting spirits in devastated hometown

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John Makely / NBC News Standing in front of what remains of his aunt's house, Matt Petronis takes in the burned section of Breezy Point, N.Y., where more than 100 homes were destroyed by fire at the height of Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 29. It was his first day back in his hometown from college since the storm.

Matthew Petronis sat in his dorm room on Oct. 29, watching TV in horror as "my childhood burned down."

Awkward Holiday Conversation: ‘Hi, I’m a Banker’

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By: Catherine Boyle Staff Writer, CNBC.com Published: Friday, 23 Nov 2012 | 6:25 AM ET

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Anshu Jain, co-chief executive of Deutsche Bank, has a problem with his job — it’s ever so slightly embarrassing.

He told a conference of bankers in Germany this week that, in case they hadn’t noticed: “If you go to a party these days, you’re asked what you do and you say you’re a banker, people go all quiet.”

Spare a thought for bankers this office party season, then. When they hit the bars of Manhattan or London, there could be even more potential for social awkwardness than usual. And with more job cuts and a muted bonus season looming, there isn’t even as much cash for champagne to go around any more.

 

NBC News Blocked Chelsea Clinton Marriage Equality Ad: Report

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Huffington Post Posted: Updated: 11/23/2012 11:27 am EST

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NBC News stopped Chelsea Clinton from appearing in an ad supporting same-sex marriage during the 2012 campaign, BuzzFeed reported on Thursday.

In August, Clinton told Vogue magazine that she is ready to embrace the more political aspects of her life, but her status as a "special correspondent" for NBC News appears to be getting in the way. Clinton has been on the NBC payroll since November 2011, working as a special correspondent. Though she has filed very few reports for the network, NBC has reportedly prevented her from making a series of political moves during the past year. In October, the New York Post claimed that Clinton had been virtually absent from the 2012 campaign trail because of her NBC job.

Accessing the Greater Light of Our Self~ Wes Annac

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I’m going to keep my writing short on this day and simply express how I’m feeling and where my personal journey is taking me thus far. Watching the extremes of duality play out on both ends, it seems increasingly that things are heating up more than ever and the heightened energies are affecting all of us differently.

We cannot appreciate pure joy and happiness without the measured-out pain and hardship we experience in our Lives and while many of us are ready to exit this Earth ride and re-find the higher realms we came here from, I think we are going to begin finding a greater appreciation for our Earth experience and for the surroundings we have around us.

Some people have probably already found this greater appreciation while the rest of us are just beginning to catch up but with how events have played-out in my Life these past few days, I think it can be accurate to predict as well that many of us will go through or have already been through an intense period of seeming hardship and a testing of our faith to it’s very core, before finding the greater appreciation.

Obama pushed Israel to accept Egyptian cease-fire agreement friendly to Hamas - Jihad Watch

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Here and Now Posted on November 23, 2012 by Laura Reblogged from World Chaos:

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President Barack Obama pressured Israel’s prime minister to adopt a cease-fire agreement with Hamas that was pushed by Hamas’ Egyptian ally, according to a White House statement released on Wednesday.

Obama “commended [Israel’s] Prime Minister for agreeing to the Egyptian ceasefire proposal – which the President recommended the Prime Minster do,” said the 12.31 a.m. EST statement from the White House.

 

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Part of Something Larger Than Ourselves

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Huffington Post Ted Weekends Posted: 11/23/2012 10:00 AM

Virtual Choir

It all began with that single video by Britlin Losee, and my god how it has blossomed from there.

Our third Virtual Choir video, "Water Night", was released this past Spring and features 3,746 videos from 73 different countries. We pushed the technology much further this time, making it easier than ever for singers to join and submit their videos. We even offered voice lessons and tech master classes in Google hangouts, professional and amateur singers teaching and helping anyone who asked. And as always, there is no audition process: every single video submitted makes it into the final film.

Watch Eric Whitacre's talk above about a global choir that came together on YouTube and the power of crowd-sourced creativity.

 

Méline Lafont: Message from the Pleiadians ~ Love one another these last days, progression will be achieved by this ~

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Méline Lafont: Message from the Pleiadians ~ Love one another these last days, progression will be achieved by this ~

 

 


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