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http://nation.foxnews.com/media-matters/2012/02/13/white-house-coordinating-media-matters
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D.M. Murdock, also known as "Acharya S," is an independent scholar of comparative religion and mythology, specializing in the ancient astrotheological origins of popular religious systems and beliefs. Murdock, was classically educated, receiving an undergraduate degree in Classics, Greek Civilization, from Franklin & Marshall College. She's a member of "The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece." D.M. is well-travelled and speaks, reads and/or writes English, Greek, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese and a smattering of other languages to varying degrees. She has gained expertise in several religions, as well as knowledge about other esoterica and mystical subjects. D.M. is the author of "The Christ Conspiracy", "Suns of God", "Who Was Jesus" and "Christ in Egypt". She'll talk about the roots of Christianity. We discuss how Christianity and the myth of Jesus Christ were created by members of various secret societies, mystery schools and religions in order to unify the Roman Empire under one state religion. The Christ Conspiracy can be divided into two strands, the political and the mythological.
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We started discussing Chinua Achebe's short story Dead Men's Path. (pg 269 Backpack Lit)
Democracy (dēmokratía):
- "rule of the people"
- Started in ancient Greece along with legislation, courts, etc.
- Only possible in small numbers, voting in large populations leads to representatives
- Ideal v. reality (representatives focus on personal agendas)
- "money/wealth rules"
- Democracy meets corruption
- Think about the exclusiveness of US elections, if you don't have money, you can't run
- Destroys democracy's ideals
- "those rule who are deserving"
- Meritocracy is in place in hiring for jobs, based on merit
- The ideal government
- "the superior, elite, or "best" (ariston) rule"
- Tends to lean towards plutocracy, who decides who is best?
- Used to describe nobility because kings were considered closer to God than the rest of the public
- U.S. founded to eliminate aristocracy, but we see American aristocrats (Bushes, Kennedys, Roosevelts as well as old money)
- "ruled by God"
- God punishes or rewards governments/countries according to morality
- Most commonly attributed to The Middle East/Islamic States under the law of Sharia, but also visible in issues like abortion, LBGT rights, and church votes
- Tyrants use theocracy to manipulate beliefs and universal human insecurities/fear and gain control
- Exclusive
- "Ruled by prostitutes"
- Politicians are not only easily corrupted by power, but they also forget that all eyes are on them
- Politicians whore themselves out for power and favor, selling integrity and ideals for popuar vo9te
- Tied to autocracy
Nigerian missionary-run schoolMission (mittere): to send
Spreading religion was and still is used to cover up colonization and exploitation of workers and natural resourcesMichael Obi is the main character
- young
- enthusiastic native, but the name Michael shows he is Christianized
- loves modernity, sees tradition as foolishFinal thoughts/ramblings:
Don't rely to heavily on technology and gadgets. Think of the "modern man" in W.H. Auden's The Unknown Citizen who is valued for his belongings rather than his ability.Be critical when listening to politicians. All are corrupt and prideful.
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Date: 02-11-12 Host: John B. Wells Guests: Philip Marshall, Susan Lindauer
John B. Wells welcomed Philip Marshall, a veteran airline captain and former government 'special activities' contract pilot, for a discussion on connections between the Saudi intelligence community and the hijackers on 9/11.
In the first hour, former U.S. intelligence asset Susan Lindauer talked about how she gave advance warning about the 9/11 attack and became one of the first non-Arab Americans arrested under the Patriot Act. -
Date: 02-10-12 Host: George Noory Guests: Dr. Ian Rubenstein, Open Lines Rubenstein recalled the time he attended a family party where his cousin, a former spiritual healer, confirmed the psychic patient's message about spirits wanting to work with him. He also recounted a bizarre experience during his first year in medical school, when he saw a "blond-haired snow queen" appear in place of his friend, Felicity. According to Rubenstein, the being was Felicity's spirit guide who had appeared to protect her and pass on a message to him. After so many unusual happenings, Rubenstein said he was advised to join a psychic development circle at a spiritist church. He talked about the first message he ever gave to someone—a 66-year-old woman named Lucy who had come to see him about depression. Rubenstein remembered writing a prescription for a mild anti-depressant, feeling a blow to the back of the head (like with the keys), and a voice urging him to ask about the woman's deceased father. Rubenstein claimed to have seen the misty outline of a man appear over the woman's left shoulder, a sighting that was validated by another psychic, he added.
In the first half, George Noory welcomed Dr. Ian Rubenstein, who shared the story of how he went from a skeptical physician to trained medium, and his attempts to combine the two practices. Rubenstein's journey into practical mediumship began in 2003, when a patient walked into his office to give him a message from his deceased grandfather. "The stuff he told me was pretty amazing," Rubenstein said, "he either read my mind, or he was in contact with the spirit of my dead grandfather." The psychic patient instructed him to begin listening to the spirits for himself, Rubenstein explained. A series of strange events followed, including a peculiar dream in which a short Indian man taught him about psychic powers and auras, and the astonishing day he felt a physical blow to the back of his head and heard a voice warn him about his car keys getting stolen. The keys did get taken, he noted.
The next 90 minutes was devoted to Open Lines. George fielded calls from several people who phoned in response to his query about getting badly cut with fingernail clippers. The final half hour featured a replay from the Secret Door VIII show on April 7, 2009, when Dr. Roger Leir shared an update on his work with alien implants.
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Date: 02-11-12 Host: John B. Wells Guests: Philip Marshall, Susan Lindauer
John B. Wells welcomed Philip Marshall, a veteran airline captain and former government 'special activities' contract pilot, for a discussion on connections between the Saudi intelligence community and the hijackers on 9/11.
In the first hour, former U.S. intelligence asset Susan Lindauer talked about how she gave advance warning about the 9/11 attack and became one of the first non-Arab Americans arrested under the Patriot Act.
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"We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and yell and get very little accomplished, but you can disagree very much with the next guy and still be friends and acquaintances".
We need more of this and less hate.
1) It's not necessary to hate someone just because you don't agree with them.
2)Take your time. Listen to what the other person is saying. Try putting yourself in their position.
3)Take the person or thing that you don't like, find the negative point and create a positive.
4)Take what you consider a fact and try to prove it wrong. If it can't be applied to every situation equally and repeatable every time it isn't a fact.5)Virtuality is not reality. One is and one almost is.
I think we all should give this a try...myself included.
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David Icke ~ TMRN 2012 02~06 Time Monk Radio Interviews Present --
THIS IS A 2012 FEB INTERVIEW -
Jenelle Concepcion
Jo-marriane Serrano
Lex Ignacio
1-AEC
A Proposal to Research the Video Piracy in the Philippines
Rationale:
Piracy is a thorny issue in the Philippines.
Piracy is a very big business all over the world. We are talking about syndicates investing a huge amount of money in machinery, regularly bribing Customs personnel and other government officials, and shipping their products to different international markets.
The Philippines might be more of a consumer rather than a manufacturer of pirated videos, but the criminals who bring these goods in illegally and make them available to retailers wouldn't be doing this if piracy wasn't a big business.
Objective:
In this review our groups aims to achieve the following goals:
1. 1. Are there any advantages in piracy?
2. 2. Determine how Philippines can lessen the piracy.
Methodology:
Case study is the method used in this research.
Output:
The research paper is expected to be completed before the 2nd week of March and have 9-11 pages including References.
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para el día martes 21 de febrero.
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Attachment: Mining as one of the factor in achieving economic growth in the Philippines.docx (14.0KB)
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Can we all share any links that we find to be useful here? So that we can refer to it, and at the same time have many reference sources.
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In the effort to keep the district website as up to date as possible, please forward your current email address as well as club contact email to your Area Governor, who in turn will send to the appropriate Division Governor.Remember that if you have Freetoasthost in your website name, you are losing that website Friday, February 17th. Take the time now to update your website on the Toastmasters International site under Club Central.
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This forum offers an opportunity for my students to ask me any of their maths related questions
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Advertising has become part of our every day lives, appearing in magazines, on the radio, on television, and throughout the internet. Today, I would like you to take a deeper look at this medium. In groups of two or three, I would like you to pick a commericial, and prepare a short informal presentation to the class discussing:
- What company and/or product is the commericial adversting?
- What is the tone of the commericial (humour, serious, etc.)?
- What market do you think this commericial is targeted towards (i.e., teens, adults, seniors, men, women)?
- Does the company have a slogan? If so, what is it?
- What impression of the company do you have based on the above information?
After you have presented to class, I would like you prepare a forum posting which contains a link to your commercial and a summary of your presentation.
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Advertising has become part of our every day lives, appearing in magazines, on the radio, on television, and throughout the internet. Today, I would like you to take a deeper look at this medium. In groups of two or three, I would like you to pick a commericial, and prepare a short informal presentation to the class discussing:
- What company and/or product is the commericial adversting?
- What is the tone of the commericial (humour, serious, etc.)?
- What market do you think this commericial is targeted towards (i.e., teens, adults, seniors, men, women)?
- Does the company have a slogan? If so, what is it?
- What impression of the company do you have based on the above information?
After you have presented to class, I would like you prepare a forum posting which contains a link to your commercial and a summary of your presentation.
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Advertising has become part of our every day lives, appearing in magazines, on the radio, on television, and throughout the internet. Today, I would like you to take a deeper look at this medium. In groups of two or three, I would like you to pick a commericial, and prepare a short informal presentation to the class discussing:
- What company and/or product is the commericial adversting?
- What is the tone of the commericial (humour, serious, etc.)?
- What market do you think this commericial is targeted towards (i.e., teens, adults, seniors, men, women)?
- Does the company have a slogan? If so, what is it?
- What impression of the company do you have based on the above information?
After you have presented to class, I would like you prepare a forum posting which contains a link to your commercial and a summary of your presentation.
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What did you search for?
For my blog search, I searched "Spiderman Comics."
Did you find any interesting results, and if so, what?
Yes, I found many interesting blogs and websites. One website I found was http://www.heavemedia.com/2012/02/09/smash-cut-the-spider-man-series. This website takes notoriously bad (in their opinion of course) films and rather than criticize and point out negatives, thinks in a more critical way (background, story, filmography etc.) I really liked the way the way the article compares the Tobey McGuire movies and compares them to the comics, considering Spider-Man has a history which extends to the past sixty years or so. While, I disagree with the statement that all of the Tobey McGuire Spider-Man movies were bad (except for the 3rd one, I think everyone would agree that one was pretty atrocious), the points and information used from the comics, the basis of the movies, were very interesting.
Did any searches come up dry? If so, which ones?
No, not at all. I had no issues finding a helpful article.Did you find the blog search engines useful? If so, how? If not, why?
Yes, they were incredible to deal with. I barely had to sift around (2 or 3 articles) to find this article which made it very easy! -
Topic: The Economic Performance of The Philippines during the the Asian financial Crisis(1997)
1.) What measures did the Philippine government undertake to deal with the financial crisis?
2.) How did the Philippines fare in the crisis compared to other developing nations in Southeast Asia?
3.) To avert another crisis from happening, what policies did the Philippine Government Implement?
4.) After the crisis, how did the Philippine economy perform?
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I was watching my PVR'd "Live from Lincoln Centre - Opening Night concert by the New York Philharmonic", which featured works by Wagner, Barber and Strauss - and they included these "truths" for conductors. I grabbed my phone to show them to you - sorry for the quality...They are the rules Strauss wrote down for conductors of his works....call me crazy, but I think there is a theme here....
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Attachment: CHAPTERS 1 & 2 (The Problem and Its Related Literature; Research Methodology).docx (104.0KB)
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I recently came across this article on NPR and found the discussion interesting. The question has been around for a while: How much of the process does a composer need to do for a piece of music to be their own composition?The new Bjork album contains several new apps that allow for touchscreen composition. I had seen her explain the concept of Biophilia on the Colbert Report (below) shortly before I read the article, so this is a topic I've been thinking about lately. There are video tutorials for the apps here.
The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Bjork Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog Video Archive The IBDP curriculum allows for the use of technology in students' composition portfolios, but strongly discourages the use of pre-made loops. Consequently, I don't let the students in my high school classes to use pre-made loops in their compositions. Even if they are composing a hip-hop song they have to perform/input all tracks themselves, using the drum kit and/or MIDI keyboard. I wonder if the use of Bjork's apps would be acceptable?
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Hi all
Colin here.
after reading all your comments on the weather in Britain I think you are all a bunch of wussies!!! get those boots and woolies out & enjoy the snow hot chocolate & neighbours
when first arriving in Winnipeg( known as Winterpeg in the prairie"s here in Canada ) the year 1967 we were shanghaied to work in the prairie"s the temperatures were -40 deg plus the wind shield factor making it about -75degs,so for us immigrants we had to work & know what cold weather was really like,not like it is today ...
the Russians were trained in Winnipeg to used to the cold before sending them to the front.
cheers
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Dúvidas e questões sobre linguagem C++ - Novo std...
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http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/12/saturday-night-live-mocks-arianna-huffington-video/
‘Saturday Night Live’ mocks Arianna Huffington [VIDEO]
Vid is 3:31
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February 12, 2012
Panel Plus: 2/12
Watch the ‘FOX News Sunday' panel, Bill Kristol, Mara Liasson, Kimberley Strassel and Evan Bayh as they discuss the possibility of a brokered convention, in our web exclusive Panel Plus
Vid is 6:43
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/fox-news-sunday/index.html
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This video is jokes by jusreign youtube comedy.. person. Just skip to 1:45 to see the actual music video he made. Keep laughing!!!
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http://www.times-standard.com/statenews/ci_19944266
YTHE, Calif.—A major Southern California solar energy project could be delayed or even canceled following a deadly outbreak of distemper among kit foxes and the discovery of a prehistoric human settlement on the work site, according to a report Saturday. The $1 billion Genesis Solar Energy Project near Blythe in the desert east of Los Angeles was on track to start producing power for some 187,500 homes starting in 2014. But critics tell the Los Angeles Times ( http://lat.ms/wrtgOD) the distemper outbreak and discovery of a possible Native American cremation site show that expedited procedures approved by state and federal regulators failed to protect wildlife and irreplaceable cultural resources. They say the problems could probably have been avoided by more rigorous research and planning. The 250-megwatt plant was backed by an $825 million Department of Energy loan guarantee. Genesis had hoped to be among the first of a dozen approved solar farms to start operating in Southern California. An official with Florida-based NextEra Energy Resources, the builder of Genesis, told the Times the problems threaten the entire project. If too many acres are deemed off-limits to construction, "the project could become uneconomical," said Michael O'Sullivan, a NextEra senior vice president.
$1 billion Calif. solar project faces problems
Native Americans, including the leaders of a nearby reservation, and environmentalists are trying to have Genesis delayed or
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http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/CPAC-Scott-Government-Healthcare/2012/02/11/id/429144
Gov. Scott: Get Government Out of Healthcare
President Barack Obama’s healthcare plan will raise costs for the American people, and his rollback on the birth control rule will still force religious groups to pay for something they consider a sin, Florida Gov. Rick Scott told Newsmax.TV.
“The government should not be telling us what to buy with our money,” Scott said in an interview on the sidelines of the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington.
Faced with a firestorm of criticism, Obama on Friday backed off a rule requiring religious-affiliated institutions such as Catholic hospitals and schools to provide their employees with health insurance that covers birth control and sterilization. Obama said the responsibility for covering contraception would now be passed directly to the insurers.Scott dismissed that as mere semantics.
“The money is going to be coming out of the Catholic institution’s pocket,” he said, “so they are paying for it.”
He said Obama’s health care plan can’t work because the government will promise all kinds of services that it can’t afford, then underpay providers, which will only force up the price of health care and leave patients with fewer choices.
“It’s going to be horrible for patients,” he said. “It’s going to be devastating for our economy. When the government gets more involved in something they take away your rights.”
The Florida governor said the best way to drive down health care costs is to increase competition by allowing insurers to sell policies across state lines and to make health care providers post their prices. He also said individuals should be given tax breaks, just like an employer, and should receive credit for healthy lifestyle choices, such as exercising and not smoking.
Scott said unemployment dropped 2.1 percent in his state last year because tax breaks were making Florida a desirable place to do business.
“What I am doing with our state budget is I’m looking at where should we spend our money,” he said.He tod Newsmax.TV that Florida would be pouring $1 billion into education so the state would continue to produce qualified workers.
Scott said he was confident that the state’s plan to drug-test welfare recipients, now mired in the courts, would in the end be upheld.
“It’s the right thing to do. This is money that’s supposed to go for a needy child,” he said. “It shouldn’t go to a parent who’s using drugs. It can go to the other parent or a grandparent or a guardian” who will make sure the money is used for the child.
“Why should you as a taxpayer that’s hardworking, why should you be subsidizing someone using drugs?” he said.
Mitt Romney easily won Florida’s Republican presidential primary,
but Scott has not endorsed any one candidate.“My goal is to the the voters decide,” he told Newsmax.TV. “We’ve learned a lot about these candidates, we’ve learned what their platforms are.”
Now the question, he said, is “which one of them is going to turn our economy around?”
http://www.newsmax.com/video/viewid/e93b688f-c3e3-482f-b12c-606a5ba4f4ec
Vid is 7:41
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Pop Vocal Legend Whitney Houston Found Dead
I've always enjoyed hearing Houston sing. Sadly, her legacy is leaving a nineteen-year-old behind who she taught to use cocaine. Houston may not have taught her daughter in a literal sense, but by example.
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Mike Bara of Ancient Aliens is a self-described “Born Again conspiracy theorist.” His first book, Dark Mission-The Secret History of NASA was a New York Times bestseller in 2007 and his essay “The Occult History of NASA” appears in Secret and Suppressed II. Here, he discusses threats such as that of a massive solar flare and other changes that we might be facing--and how to use the principles of intentional choice to make changes that will help us flourish instead of fade.
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"Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances."
-- Dr. Lee DeForest, "Father of Radio& Grandfather of Television."
"The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives."- - Admiral William Leahy , US Atomic Bomb Project
"There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom."-- Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."-- Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."-- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year."--The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957
"But what is it good for?"-- Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
"640K ought to be enough for anybody."-- Bill Gates, 1981
This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us,"-- Western Union internal memo, 1876.
"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?"-- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.
"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible,"-- A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
"I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper,"--Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in "Gone With The Wind."
"A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make,"-- Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies.
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out,"-- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible,"-- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.
"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this,"- - Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" Notepads.
"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy,"-- Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859.
"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."- - Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University , 1929.
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value,"-- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre , France .
"Everything that can be invented has been invented,"-- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899.
"The super computer is technologically impossible. It would take all of the water that flows over Niagara Falls to cool the heat generated by the number of vacuum tubes required."-- Professor of Electrical Engineering, New York University
"I don't know what use any one could find for a machine that would make copies of documents. It certainly couldn't be a feasible business by itself."-- the head of IBM, refusing to back the idea, forcing the inventor to found Xerox.
"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction."-- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse , 1872
"The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon,"-- Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.
And last but not least...
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
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Date: 02-10-12 Host: George Noory Guests: Dr. Ian Rubenstein, Open Lines
In the first half, George Noory welcomed Dr. Ian Rubenstein, who shared the story of how he went from a skeptical physician to trained medium, and his attempts to combine the two practices. Rubenstein's journey into practical mediumship began in 2003, when a patient walked into his office to give him a message from his deceased grandfather. "The stuff he told me was pretty amazing," Rubenstein said, "he either read my mind, or he was in contact with the spirit of my dead grandfather." The psychic patient instructed him to begin listening to the spirits for himself, Rubenstein explained. A series of strange events followed, including a peculiar dream in which a short Indian man taught him about psychic powers and auras, and the astonishing day he felt a physical blow to the back of his head and heard a voice warn him about his car keys getting stolen. The keys did get taken, he noted.Rubenstein recalled the time he attended a family party where his cousin, a former spiritual healer, confirmed the psychic patient's message about spirits wanting to work with him. He also recounted a bizarre experience during his first year in medical school, when he saw a "blond-haired snow queen" appear in place of his friend, Felicity. According to Rubenstein, the being was Felicity's spirit guide who had appeared to protect her and pass on a message to him. After so many unusual happenings, Rubenstein said he was advised to join a psychic development circle at a spiritist church. He talked about the first message he ever gave to someone—a 66-year-old woman named Lucy who had come to see him about depression. Rubenstein remembered writing a prescription for a mild anti-depressant, feeling a blow to the back of the head (like with the keys), and a voice urging him to ask about the woman's deceased father. Rubenstein claimed to have seen the misty outline of a man appear over the woman's left shoulder, a sighting that was validated by another psychic, he added.
The next 90 minutes was devoted to Open Lines. George fielded calls from several people who phoned in response to his query about getting badly cut with fingernail clippers. The final half hour featured a replay from the Secret Door VIII show on April 7, 2009, when Dr. Roger Leir shared an update on his work with alien implants.
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1.The lyre sign refers to the splaying of the internal and external carotid by a carotid body tumour. Classically described on angiography
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Please translate the following sentences into Arabic:(1) The pen is long.
(2) The restaurant is large.
(3) He is a famous writer.
(4) Where is he? Where is she?
(5) She is there.
(6) The relatives are in India.
(7) He is a skillful physician.
(8) The food is delicious.
(9) Yes, he is busy.
(10) The minister is ill.
(11) The cup is clean.
(12) A child drank cold milk.
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Please tell me this isn't you..................
