This is by far the best Thanksgiving tradition...

President Obama pardoned two of the turkeys, tater and tot (how many unfortunate ones) from being rendering their service.

I think this is the best of traditions and should  include not just two but all of them. Probably I wish the next President abolish the turkey killing all together.

My readers may click out of this post, but there it is. Sorry, this is how I feel. I value all life equally.

Very happy News...

I am very happy to hear this news.

Tiger named Laziz was saved from a zoo in Gaza and taken to a South African Zoo. This is great news and details here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3754949/Free-Loneliest-Bengal-tiger-living-hellhole-Gaza-zoo-mummified-animals-remains-FINALLY-future-miracle-rescue.html

The picture of rescued animal from the above link here:

According to the news,

"Animal welfare charity, Four Paws, managed to rescue the nine-year-old from his hell-hole cage along with 13 other tigers"

Consider supporting Four Paws by making a donation.
http://greatnonprofits.org/org/four-paws-international-inc

"FOUR PAWS is an international animal welfare organization that has, for more than two decades, consistently and successfully focused on one goal: to help animals who have been abused for entertainment, economic, scientific or other reasons. FOUR PAWS strives for improvements in animal welfare through sustainable campaigns, our sanctuaries and projects around the world. "
http://greatnonprofits.org/org/four-paws-international-inc

Taking Bollywood to the next level..

There are lots and lots of theme parks and Dubai has the very first Bollywood theme park. I am sure it is going to be a hit because of nearness to Mumbai, the center of Bollywood.

The Indian movies are very popular in many countries besides India and even enjoyed in Russia not to mention Middle Eastern countries.

If you are visiting Dubai may be you want to pop-in and check it out.
Visit the site to learn more:
https://www.bollywoodparksdubai.com/
Here are some site screen shots:

Tour of Munich, Budapest, Vienna, Prague and Salzburg - 3

June 20, 2016

Today we are on the move to Vienna from Budapest and we will visit a place called Szentendre which not really on our route to Vienna. However it not too far from Budapest either.

Szentendre has become a popular tourist spot because of its historical significance with  so many nationalities having lived there in the past and the tourist shops, museums and the church.

President elect Donald Trump will take no vacations and just $1 salary

This is very generous. Were there any Presidents who did not take a salary? I was quite surprised to hear this on a recent 60 Minutes showing. There is more here as well (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/us-elections-2016/Donald-Trump-says-will-take-1-as-salary-with-no-vacations/articleshow/55409658.cms). Actually he did pretty well in the 60 Minutes interview.

I often see or hear Presidents going off for 'Golf' or vacations as though it is the one of their most important things on their agenda. President elect Trump saying that he is not going to take a vacation appears to be sincere and serious.

I hope this is going to happen and he will become a role model for future Presidents.

Wrong, wrong, the polls were terribly wrong

Big data,
small data,
analytics!

Oh! They seemed to have extracted nothing from the data they had, mountains of data. Most polls proved wrong by a mile or more.

Of course, Bing made big bad predictions, I don't know about Google or Siri.

 November 11, 2016

November 6, 2016

 November 3, 2016

Vini, Vici, Vidi - Trump vanquishes Hillary to win the race

The victory was decisive. Trump won the Presidency with a huge margin. He won fair and square.

This result is all the more significant as he fought against the entrenched forces; massive advertisement spending from the other side; a ganged-up media; spending a percentage of what the other side spent; against a massive support by the sitting President and the First Lady; and a list too long to dwell upon not to speak of party insiders who wanted him to lose, lose badly.

Now with a clear mandate, he should have an open road towards fulfilling election promises so that those who were hurting for a longtime get some relief. Jobs, jobs and more jobs.

Long live democracy and hope we will have a multi-party government in the future years where there will be possibility of more checks. 

My election vote from Hawaii

I went down to the school nearby to cast my vote. There was no electronic machine, but two sheets of paper vote, one of which was mostly to do with 2016 Charter Amendments on two sides of the sheet.

There was some crowd but not a whole lot, not the crowds I used to see in Plainsboro, New Jersey.

Of course I had made up mind about the candidates and my interest in Democratic party had faded after Bernie got out of the race. I really need to see new faces; hear new sounds and hear new (rhetoric).

I am looking at the TV screen and Hillary seems to be lagging... Tomorrow morning we will hear the complete story.

Here are some pictures of the election locale: