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Friday, May 2, 2014

The Unknown Black Book

The Unknown Black Book: "These documents, from residents of cities, small towns, and rural areas, are first-hand accounts by survivors of work camps, ghettos, forced marches, beatings, starvation, and disease. Collected under the direction of two renowned Soviet Jewish journalists, Vasily Grossman and Ilya Ehrenburg, they tell of Jews who lived in pits, walled-off corners of apartments, attics, and basement dugouts, unable to emerge due to fear that their neighbours would betray them, which often occurred."



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Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Something Every Parent Should Have – A How To Booklet- Never Trust Anyone From CPS | How Child Protection Services Buys and Sells Our Children

Something Every Parent Should Have – A How To Booklet- Never Trust Anyone From CPS | How Child Protection Services Buys and Sells Our Children: "There is no system ever devised by mankind that is guaranteed to rip husband and wife or father, mother and child apart so bitterly than our present Family Court System.�

Judge Brian Lindsay

Retired Supreme Court Judge

New York, New York"



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Thursday, January 10, 2013

The Top Nine Steps to Set and Achieve Your Goals in 2008

The Top Nine Steps to Set and Achieve Your Goals in 2008: "Share your goals.
Telling other (supportive!) people about your intentions is an excellent morale booster. These people can encourage you when you get off track and keep you focused on what you're trying to achieve."

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The Pattern System — Get a Detailed Understanding of Your Psyche

The Pattern System — Get a Detailed Understanding of Your Psyche: "understand the structure of your inner conflicts and see the leading edge of your growth. The Pattern System will make clear what you need to explore next to resolve the issues that are most important to you. Y"

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Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Power outages? Flooded highways? Who cares! Israelis love a rainy dayIsrael News - Haaretz Israeli News source.

Power outages? Flooded highways? Who cares! Israelis love a rainy dayIsrael News - Haaretz Israeli News source.: "It is equally forbidden to act unhappy when it rains - moaning about the rain is a major social faux pas in Israel. We need the rain desperately. For me, one the most difficult part of heavy rainstorms in Israel is the social pressure not to complain about it, even if Tel Aviv is practically paralyzed due to flooding"

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The importance of the rains in their proper times, in the right amount, a simple yet not so publicized understanding of G-d's providence over such things, especially in Israel the eternal home of and for the Jewish people.

Sunday, December 16, 2012

The 8th Wonder of the World

The 8th Wonder of the World: "Great Wall of China or the Coliseum (the one in Rome, not Los Angeles).

Of course, there’s always the 7 “Natural” Wonders such as the Grand Canyon and Mount Everest or the “Manmade” Wonders such as the Brooklyn Bridge, the Chunnel or the London Sewage System (you can’t make this stuff up)."

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Saturday, July 14, 2012

Enterprise Cloud Spending Set to Double by 2016: Gartner

Enterprise Cloud Spending Set to Double by 2016: Gartner: "tner, wrote in a July 9 research note accompanying the data. “There has been little change in either business confidence or consumer sentiment in the past quarter, so the short-term outlook is for continued caution in IT spending.”
The bulk of that cloud-related spending is for what Gartner terms “business process as a service,” followed by Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).
Overall, Gartner predicts overall spending on IT will increase from $3.5 trillion in 2011 to $3.7 trillion in 2013."

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