Notations On Our World (Special Edition) : On the "Virtual Daily Prowl" & On #AiWeiwei

It has been another challenging morning as the people of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India had to deal with the aftermath of a major Earthquake.  This is as we are seeing an insurgency rage on with no end in sight.    Our team was also working away on the Daily Twitter Curations with some of the other on-going challenges.    It was distressing as we saw reports of  a bus carrying members of the Afghan Human Rights Commision was targeted.   

We also wanted to share this "newsflash" our founder shared with us.    Our "Visions" Channel has featured some of the projects on Kickstarter we've backed.   Our Foudner shared htis exceprt of one of the projects he personally backed  We had to edit out the actual link to the images which is owned by our Founder--but we hope all enjoy the time lapse video and how one man can make a difference:

Hello Mike  Thank you so much for supporting the Royal Academy’s first Kickstarter ever project. Thanks to you, we have been able to bring Ai Weiwei’s Treeto London for the public to enjoy. Your digital images, exclusive to our Kickstarter campaign, are now ready for download Tree is free to be enjoyed by visitors until 13 December in the RA’s Annenberg Courtyard. Watch a time-lapse of the installation and find your name in our list of 1,319 supporters. It was also of curious interest as we saw a report that Lego refused contributions to another of his projects becuase it was deemed "political".

Notations On Our World: On #uselection watch (On the Eve of the Election of Paul Ryan (@PRyan) As Speaker)

Our team recently ran across this "roster" of the Caucus that seems to be the key to power in the US House of Representatives that the Daily Signal reported.     Many of these members have not been known up to now.    One of their leaders, Jim Jordan, led the charge against Hillary Clinton during Mrs Clinton's marathon session which was "Nothing". 

It will be yet again an interesting week in Politics in the United States 

Notations On Our World: On The "Trash River" in #Beirut w/#YouStink

Our team has been watching with horror as we saw images of the Beirut Trash River taking over the streets of Beirut that the #YouStink movement reported on:

What is so shocking is that Lebanon has not had a President in over a year and the Government has not met in over 6 weeks as each Minister seems to just want to preserve its' own power.   It is shocking to be witness to it.

Notations For the W-End (Special Edition): On #Outsiders Mission

As our team has been working away gearing up for the new week, we wanted to share this we recevied here in our Virtual Studios:

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. ~ Mary Engelbreit

#Outsiders was launched with this simple objective in mind:  To help transform how we think about our World.   We look forward to the continued privilege to serve.

We are grateful for all our patrons and wish all a fabulous week and look forward to "seeing" all throughout our properties.

Notations On Our World (W-End Edition): An #Outsider Newsflash On #Israel & #Bangladesh

We have been monitoring reports out of Israel that the Israeli Prime Minister has agreed to 24-Hour Monitoring to insure that the World is aware that the status quo at Temple Mount has not changed.  Whether that will calm the situation down remains to be seen.     This is as we are seeing disturbing reports of the claims by Daesh (known in Western Media as IS/ISIL/etc.) is claiming responisblity for a blast in Bangaldesh.  

 

Notations on Our World (Breaking Developments From South Africa): Zero fee increases for 2016 – Zuma

We have been following student protests in South Africa over fee increases.    President Zuma announced that there would be no fee increases and a whole host of complaints by students will be reviewed as result of the #FreeMustFall Protests.   

 It was troubling as we reviewed reports that the viablity of Free Education was deemed possible by the South African Government three years ago--but the Higher Education Minister sat on it.



Please click here for the latest on South Afirca on this received here at our #Outsider Virtual Studios: Zero fee increases for 2016 – Zuma

The Friday Musical Interlude: Michael Jackson's "You Rock My World"....

It is Friday here in #Outsiders.     We hope all enjoy this selection from our artist of the week, Michael Jackson as as he sings "You Rock My World" with the fab Chris Rock: