Notations On Our World (Special Edition): On A Tragic Week

India and Iran suffered tragedies over the weekend as soldiers from both countries were attacked by elements based out of Pakistan.     India paid tribute to the fallen:

Throughout India, the fallen have been honored with full State Honors.  They are known as "Jawans"-one of them from the State of Tamil Nadu was creamted with Full State Honors as His Wife and 2 year Old Son looked on:

We join in saluting them all.

Notations On Our World (Special Valentine's Day Edition): On Love & Making a Difference

It is Valentine's Day as we went to press.   In honor of the Parkland Fallen, we join the team at A March For Our Lives as we go dark in all our properties through Feburary 17 as we pay tribute to all the Fallen and the survivors who have done more to change the conversation about Gun Violence. 

   We leave you all with this on the power of the possible by the team at Ecosia--what we have standardized for our search efforts: 

Notations On Our World (Tuesday Edition): On the US Politics Front

As we went to press, we were seeing reports of markets rising on the news of a Deal that we noted in our special edition  of  Notations--over 255 points.    This is as President Trump and Former Congressman Beto O'Rouke held competing rallies in Texas as the President formally launched his re-election effort--and Social Media was "abuzz" about Crowd Sizes.  

The outlines of a deal have emerged whereby it appears that Congress is determined to avert another shutdown by allowing for border security funding without a wall and some inroads on Immigration reform.   As we went to press, the President's response was not yet known with some reporting that President Trump may take Executive Action to insure that his base remains with him.

This is also as another interesting development just occurred on the Politics front:  Mark Kelly, the former Shuttle Commander, Gun Control Crusader and husband of former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords is running for the US Senate Seat.