Youth...

“Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on the young.”

As young people we have some of the best opportunities, an abundance of energy, and probably the greatest amount of free time that we will have. It isn’t until we are older that we realize we should have taken advantage of the time, energy, and opportunities we were given when we were younger.

We often don’t realize how great childhood and youth are until we experience adulthood, but at that point we can’t get back the time or opportunities that we lost along the way.

Now that sounds depressing, and there’s nothing we can do about growing older. 

But we can all make some changes to how things are from now on. With that being said: Live your life. TRULY live your life. Get off your cell phone. Log off Facebook. Quit snapchatting your life instead of actually experiencing it. Actually BE with the people you’re with. Talk to people and get to know them on a level that is deeper than what their Twitter profile portrays or what your Facebook stalking skills can help you figure out.

Moments...

Happiness is a state of mind, an emotional state and a mental state. But how can we define a happy person? We can look at their emotions and the degree of pleasure or displeasure that they cause.

The happiest people are not those who experience pleasurable emotions more intensely. Instead, they are those who have positive emotions with moderate intensity on a frequent basis. High-intensity gratifying moments are unusual, even for the happiest people. So, happiness is linked to a feeling of inner fulfillment and psychological well-being.

Asking the people around us if they are really happy, they will mention specific events that have made them feel momentary ecstasy. For example, the birth of a child or a grandchild, the purchase of a new home or winning the lottery are events that are usually associated with moments of joy.

But these types of events do not happen often. Therefore, basing happiness on a hope for extraordinary events can end in unhappiness.

Looking for the sublime or the pleasant constantly leads us to error, even when we achieve desired results. People who seek  “maximum happiness or maximum pleasure” at all times tend to change partners or jobs repeatedly and compulsively. They do not engage in long-lasting friendship relationships.

There will always be something better. It is exactly this incessant search for excellence and that addiction to change that makes them desperate and bored.

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Cheering ...

The statement came hours after Emirati-backed separatists regained control of Aden - the Yemeni government's de facto capital - forcing government troops who entered the city a day early to withdraw.

In further violence in the port city, ISIS group claimed a suicide bombing.

Yemen's Ministry of Defence said more than 300 people were killed and wounded in the UAE's air raids.

Yemen's government urged Saudi Arabia to intervene and halt the UAE's air raids on its forces.

"The Saudis wants to ensure the Houthis are not a threat across the south.

The United Arab Emirates wants to  establish an independent southern state. 

And the United States of America is helping.

Baseless...

A new channel called the War Room, the name of Infowars’ afternoon program, surfaced for a few hours and started posting videos. Alex Jones, the founder of the outlet known for spreading conspiracy theories and baseless information, was banned from YouTube and numerous other sites in 2018 after policy violations including posting hate speech and violent content. He had multiple channels on the site.

“It sometimes means leaving up content that is outside the mainstream, controversial or even offensive,” wrote Wojcicki. “But I believe that hearing a broad range of perspectives ultimately makes us a stronger and more informed society, even if we disagree with some of those views.”

The relaunch of the channel coincided with a blog post earlier this week by YouTube’s chief executive, Susan Wojcicki. In the blog post, Wojcicki called for allowing some controversial content to remain on YouTube in the interest of fostering a more informed society.

“It sometimes means leaving up content that is outside the mainstream, controversial or even offensive,” wrote Wojcicki. “But I believe that hearing a broad range of perspectives ultimately makes us a stronger and more informed society, even if we disagree with some of those views.”

Lidar...

A former Google engineer spent months downloading Google’s secret files on self-driving cars before he abruptly quit the company in 2016 to run Uber's autonomous vehicle program, federal prosecutors alleged.  The engineer, Anthony Levandowski, has been charged with 33 counts of stealing trade secrets.

The files included critical engineering information, schematics and engineering drawings related to Google’s self-driving vehicle program, as well as documents revealing how Google developed lidar, the company's groundbreaking technology that allows self-driving cars to detect other vehicles in the vicinity using laser light.

The FBI will not tolerate the theft of trade secrets,” said FBI Special Agent. “These are the crown jewels of companies. 

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Time...

Greta Thunberg, a teenage climate activist, arrived in Lower Manhattan today after sailing across the Atlantic.

The Swedish teenager caught the world’s attention after traveling across the Atlantic Ocean by boat for 15 days. She left England two weeks ago to embark on the nearly 3,000-mile voyage. 

Thunberg made the trip across the Atlantic to attend a United Nations climate summit taking place in September — and she did it without leaving a carbon footprint.

Crowds of people cheered on Thunberg as she completed her voyage into Manhattan, reports CBS2’s Tom Hanson.

Two weeks is a long time to cross the Atlantic now a days instead of six hours. That is the relationship that many call the climate issue as a hoax. In other word, you can't destroy life today, to save the earth 50 years down the road. Just a thought. 

Sarandon...

The Elizabeth Warren honeymoon may be coming to an end.

Warren’s weak fundraising and Native American controversy out of the gate gave her the look of a second-rate candidate.

Democrats are already opening up new lines of attack: calling her celebrated policy proposals a “fraud,” challenging her to say how she’d pay for a massive health care plan, highlighting a lack of diversity in her supporters and dropping reminders of Warren’s long span as a Republican.

The actress Susan Sarandon, while in Iowa supporting Bernie Sanders, threw shade at Warren last week. “[Sanders] is not someone who used to be Republican. He is not someone who used to take money, or still takes money, from Wall Street. He is the real deal,” she said.

Reckoning is coming on Warren’s menu of policy proposals soon.

House...

The American-led intervention in the Syrian Civil War refers to the United States-led support of Syrian opposition and the Federation of Northern Syria during the course of the Syrian Civil War and active military involvement led by the United States and its allies — the militaries of the United Kingdom, France, Jordan ..

The CIA had been facilitating the flow of arms from Libya to Syria "for more than a year" beforehand in collaboration with "the UK, Saudi Arabia and Qatar"; "the operation was largely run out of a covert CIA annex in Benghazi."

U.S. military intelligence predicted "the fall of the Assad regime would lead to chaos and, potentially, to Syria's takeover by jihadi extremists, much as was then happening in Libya.   

The outcome is grim. 10 millions refugees and six hundred thousands death.

On a different story, Barack and Michelle Obama are close to buying a massive Martha’s Vineyard estate.    It was most recently on the market asking $14.85 million.