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A top Department of Justice lawyer warns that posting offensive material on Islam will have legal repercussions.
Judicial Watch reported – via Ace:
In its latest effort to protect followers of Islam in the U.S. the Obama Justice Department warns against using social media to spread information considered inflammatory against Muslims, threatening that it could constitute a violation of civil rights.
The move comes a few years after the administration became the first in history to dispatch a U.S. Attorney General to personally reassure Muslims that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is dedicated to protecting them. In the unprecedented event, Attorney General Eric Holder assured a San Francisco-based organization (Muslim Advocates) that urges members not to cooperate in federal terrorism investigations that the "us versus them" environment created by the U.S. government, law enforcement agents and fellow citizens is unacceptable and inconsistent with what America is all about.
"Muslims and Arab Americans have helped build and strengthen our nation," Holder said after expressing that he is "grateful" to have Muslims as a partner in promoting tolerance, ensuring public safety and protecting civil rights. He also vowed to strengthen "crucial dialogue" between Muslim and Arab-American communities and law enforcement.
Evidently that was a precursor of sorts for an upcoming Tennessee event ("Public Disclosure in a Diverse Society") that will feature the region's top DOJ official, who serves as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, and an FBI representative. The goal is to increase awareness and understanding that American Muslims are not the terrorists some have made them out to be in social media and other circles, according to a local newspaper report. The June 4 powwow is sponsored by the American Muslim Advisory Council of Tennessee.
The area's top federal prosecutor, Bill Killian, will address a topic that most Americans are likely unfamiliar with, even those well versed on the Constitution; that federal civil rights laws can actually be violated by those who post inflammatory documents aimed at Muslims on social media. "This is an educational effort with civil rights laws as they play into freedom of religion and exercising freedom of religion," Killian says in the local news story. "This is also to inform the public what federal laws are in effect and what the consequences are."
Now Let me get this straight...If I say that Islam is a 7th century religion and all I learned about Islam I learned when I saw the planes crash into the WTC on 9/11. the D.O.J will come after me because I might offend a group of muslims....? Really?....you got to be shitting me.....The same D.O.J that selectively prosecutes cases depending on the agenda out of the white house? They will go after my 1st amendment rights....Lessee if I can find my 1st amendment rights real quick in my copy of the U.S. Constitution.:
FIRST AMENDMENT: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
Yep found it. What part of the 1st amendment does the D.O.J not get...? Where is the fucking ACLU? those bastards protest at the drop of the hat when they feel that their first amendment is being trampled on...unless it is Obama and his minions doing it, then they are silent. Where is the outrage of the left...they like to scream about their first amendment rights on a regular basis. They are silent also. They are so P.C. dominated that they are afraid to say anything for fear of being labeled haters that they will bow down before this.
As y'all can see from my language I have a real problem with this. Let me give a refresher on the 1st amendment...it protects all speech...even the "Unpopular" ones....The government cannot curtail what I say, it is my right as an American citizen to say what I want and have no fear of getting shipped off to a gulag. I see them trying to start a state religion...All other religions are at the same standard except Islam, it is held to a special category...why? All the prople in D.C. are intent on protecting Islam....is it our new state religion and I didn't get the memo...oh wait...I will have the D.O.J drop in for a visit and tell me that I have to kiss Islams ass or I will find myself in jail for violating the civil rights of muslims...what my civil right not to have a state religion forced down my and other Americans throat. What kind of crap is that....you have to be nice to Muslims....or else.
Yep be nice to muslims or they get offended and either blow themselves up along with a bunch of innocents people or they cut your head off.
Why are we being nice to these savages? We are expected to be tolerant of their religious belief, but they are not tolerant of others.....You doubt me...Ask the Copts in Obama's Egypt. They have churches burned on a regular basis and the same with other religions in places where Islam is dominant. But nothing is said from the Obama white house now let people here in America make unkind comments about Islam in social media and they will put me in jail....? well fuck them this crap really pisses me off. Also mentioned in the ist amendment...you know the one that the ACLU assholes like to preach about....there is a part where it states that
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
Well it looks like we have a state religion now.....They can insult Christianity on a regular basis and it is OK, but insult the imams of Islam and there is hell to pay. or they chop your head off...


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A productive, well-thought-out social media strategy is no longer just a "nice-to-have" for PR professionals. As social media moves to the core of marketing communications, PR managers and directors are increasingly being tasked with showing how using social platforms can juice the top and bottom lines. This year, the pressure is expected to be even greater.
In light of the groundswell for monetizing social, here are some tips on how to tackle social media ROI, courtesy of Jennifer Burnham, director of social and content strategy at Salesforce.com:
Focus on the primary metrics that drive the bottom line: "In the boardroom, the brass want to see how social media contributes to the health of the business, provides new sources of prospect traffic, collects valid leads and drives money," Burnham says. Consider measuring key performance indicators such as subscriber growth, share of conversation, inbound prospect traffic and offer conversions.
Measure what matters and analyze changes: Measuring share of voice, for example, which shows where you stack up against competitors, can provide value, but it's important to delve into your numbers.
Measure and plan social activities within the media mix (not in a silo): Campaign success can be measured and reported by closely analyzing both quantitative and qualitative results on a monthly basis, ranging from traditional media and blog impressions to tweets and group participations.
Be disciplined and consistent when reporting progress against goals: When the goal was to double Salesforce.com's subscribers year-over-year, the goal was broken down to a less-daunting and consistently measurable goal of increasing subscribers 6% month-over-month. "We gave really direct guidance to teams to tell them what direct success was," Burhnam says.
- Fix any leaky plumbing to measure the pipeline from social offers: "Salesforce uses campaign IDs—anything that gets pushed out via social can be tracked back to pipeline using campaign IDs via bit.ly," Burnham says.
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The Game: As Chef Peter Pepper, you climb around a multi-level factory whose sole function is to make some really big burgers. We're talking about some BIG burgers here. But your ingredients aren't exactly cooperating with you… (Namco, 1985 [Japan] / Data East, 1987 [US])
Memories: A little bit of an oddity – a Data East-originated arcade game ported to the Famicom by arcade competitor Namco (and then sold in the US by Data East itself) – this version serves up a happy meal worth of authentic Burgertime action on the NES.
But if you're planning on doing exactly what worked for you in the arcade, NES Burgertime has some surprises in store for you. Its enemy AI, and the arcade game's very specific rules of how enemy characters move, don't necessarily apply here. In the arcade game, for example, hot dogs were limited to moving laterally until they reached a ladder, at which point they had to either ascend or descend that ladder. On the NES, the hot dogs have a bit more freedom to pursue Chef Peter Pepper. What's their beef?
Since the game only uses four-directional movement, the D-pad is a near-perfect control setup, and audiovisually it's as good a take-home Burgertime meal as anyone could get until '90s arcade compilations brought real live emulation of the original arcade code home. The only real question left is: would you like a drink with your order?


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Time was invented by the Babylonians, who were sick of people saying the punchlines to their jokes before they had finished the set-up. This innovative psychology of sequence so angered their parents, the Grownuplonians, that they disappeared from history, ironically leaving an effect without a cause. Thus the Babylonians grew up with a sense of passing time — a grief that haunts humanity still and can be forgotten only by reciting ancient knock-knock jokes. And drinking to excess, obviously.
Most physicists and cosmologists believe, like Einstein, that time is nothing more than a stubbornly persistent illusion. (Bertie's father was a watchmaker, so what kind of Oedipal issue are we seeing worked through there, hmm?) But when you want to find out why one thing comes…


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July 5, 2011 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - It was at the end of September 1937 that Adolf Eichmann and Herbert Hagen, two Nazi SS-officers from Berlin, boarded a Rumanian steamship in the Rumanian port of Constanza. It was the beginning of a remarkable trip to the Middle East. And it was also just two years before the outbreak of the Second World War during which the same Adolf Eichmann would play a key role in the so-called "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" a Nazi term for killing six million European Jews, also known as the Shoah or the Holocaust.
On November 4, 1939, SS-Hauptscharfuehrer (master sergeant) Eichmann and his boss SS-Oberscharfuehrer Hagen reported to their superiors in Berlin. Their nearly 60-page report is very interesting. It showed that both SS-officers espoused the Palestinian Arab cause. By that time "Palestine" was a British mandate. Militant Palestinian Arabs revolted against British rule and growing Jewish immigration. Their leader was a notorious Jew-hater named Haj Mohammed Amin Al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. Al-Husseini strongly admired Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
Eichmann and Hagen arrived in the port of Haifa on October 2, 1937. But the British restricted their stay to 48 hours, despite their tourist visas. Two days later, their Rumanian steamship arrived in Alexandria, Egypt. They took the train to Cairo where they failed to obtain a visa for Palestine. The British obviously did not trust the two Nazis from Berlin. Eichmann and Hagen initially intended to meet Grand Mufti Al-Husseini, but met one of Mufti's representatives instead. He was a journalist from Jerusalem who traveled to Cairo. Fearing arrest by the British, the Mufti would soon flee to Lebanon. Eichmann and Hagen, however, reported early November 1937 that the Mufti had fled to Syria.
Syria is now the center of the Pan Arab movement, Eichmann and Hagen reported. It is via Syria that Arab leaders now transfer money and weapons to Palestine to enable the victory of the Palestinian Arabs over the Jews and the British, they write. The (Palestinian) revolt is now being led from Syria. It is in Syria that German propaganda among the Arabs can achieve results, they claimed.
Eichmann and Hagen discovered that Arabs and Egyptians did not like the Jews, but they were not yet ready for the "National-Socialist" view of the Jewish question. When "ordinary Arabs" hear the name of Hitler they are elated, Eichmann and Hagen reported, they honor and repect him but National-Socialism is not a political or ideological concept for them.
Hitler's plan to conquer the Middle East and "Palestine"
It is not widely known, but Hitler, the so-called Nazi "Fuehrer" (=leader), did actually plan to conquer "Palestine", defeat the British forces in the Middle East and kill all the Jews in the region. The Mufti would be proclaimed as the future Arab leader in the Middle East, subordinate, though, to Hitler only.On June 22, 1941, Hitler's armies invaded the Soviet Union ("Operation Barbarossa"). Arab nationalists except those who were Communists or leftists welcomed the German invasion and condemned the British for now alligning themselves with the "Godless Soviets". By the end of 1941, the Nazi forces were not very far from the Caucasus. That same year Haj Amin Al-Husseini fled to Nazi Germany. He was received by Hitler and his Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop on November 28, 1941.
Hitler told the Mufti that "Germany stood for uncompromising war against the Jews. That naturally included active opposition to the Jewish national home in Palestine, which was nothing other than a center, in the form of a state, for the exercise of destructive influence by Jewish interests."
"Germany was now engaged in very severe battles to force the gateway to the northern Caucasus region," Hitler said. "At some moment which was impossible to set exactly today but which in any event was not distant, the German armies would in the course of this struggle reach the sourthern exit of Caucasia. As soon as this had happened, the Fuehrer would on his own give the Arab world the assurance that its hour of liberation had arrived. Germany's objective would then solely be the destruction of the Jewish element residing in the Arab sphere under the protection of British power. In that hour the Mufti would be the most authoritative spokesman for the Arab world. It would then be his task to set off the Arab operations which he had secretly prepared." "The moment that Germany's tank divisions and air squadrons had made their appearance south of the Caucasus, the public appeal requested by the Grand Mufti could go out to the Arab world."
According the Mufti's own account, Hitler had said: "The road from Rostov (southern Russia, V.) to Iran and Iraq is shorter than the distance from Berlin and Rostov." "When we shall have arrived in the Southern Caucasus, then the time of the liberation of the Arabs will have arrived. And you can rely on my word."
In other words, once the German armies had conquered the southern Caucasus and reached Iran and Iraq, British rule in the Middle East would soon be over. The Arabs would then welcome the Nazis as their liberators from British "colonial rule" and Hitler would proclaim Haj Amin Al-Husseini as the new Arab leader. "Palestine," would be liberated, too, of course, not only by armies approaching from the north or east, though.
In the Autumn of 1941, there were three options considered by Hitler and his generals. According to the first option, the Germans would "liberate" the Near (Middle) East by Nazi forces approaching from the Caucasus. The second option under consideration entailed that German forces would reach "Palestine" via Turkey and Syria. If need be, Turkey could be forced into allowing German troops to pass through Turkish territory. It was assumed that the French "Vichy" rulers who controlled Syria would also cooperate. The third option was a military advance through British occupied Egypt towards the Suez Canal by the so-called "Africa Corps" (Afrikakorps) in Libya. The Africa Corps was commanded by general Erwin Rommel, a brilliant strategist. All these military operations could, Hitler and his generals hoped, more or less be carried out simultaneously. If successfull, the British forces in the Middle East would then be caught in a gigantic pincer movement and Hitler would be able to occupy Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Trans-Jordan, Egypt, etc.
This diabolical scheme to occupy the Middle East almost succeeded. But thanks to the British, the Russians and fatal mistakes by Hitler himself, the Nazis failed to achieve their military objectives.
First, the Russians halted the Nazi advance just in time and drove the Nazi armies back all the way back to Berlin. Second, the Germans just did not have sufficient manpower to launch a major offensive via Turkey and Syria. Second, British general Bernard Montgomery finally managed to stop general Rommel and his Africa Corps at El Alamein in October and November 1942. Sir Winston Churchill wrote that the battle of (El) Alamein "marked in fact the turning point of 'the Hinge of Fate'. It may almost be said, 'Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.'" The British lost more than 13,500 men at El Alamein in just twelve days.
In June and July 1942, though, prospects for a British victory still looked very gloomy indeed. Klaus-Michael Mallmann and Martin Cüppers, two German historians, made the following observation: "On June 29, the (German) Panzer Army Africa also conquered the fortress of Marsa Matruh, located some 350 km. to the east, on Egyptian soil. In the following days German and Italian forces drove the British units, believed to be defeated, onward to the east as they rolled on, and in early July, stood at the gates of their presumably final defensive position near El Alamein, just over 100 km. from Alexandria. The conquest of Cairo, crossing the Nile, and reaching the Suez Canal now loomed as a possibility on the desert horizon. The path to Palestine was now a relatively short matter: it was the same distance that the German and Italian forces had covered in the span of ten days after taking Tobruk and advancing on El Alamein."
Haj Amin Al-Husseini remarkably well informed about British military planning and the Holocaust
What the British did not know at the time, was the fact the Haj Amin Al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, was remarkably well informed about British and American military planning. Nearly twenty years after the war, Oscar Reile, a former Nazi intelligence officer close to military intelligence chief Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, made the following staggering revelation. "Already in October 1942 Haj Amin Al-Husseini told Abwehr (=German military intelligence) officer Oberstleutnant Franz Seubert that between November 5 and 10, the following month, that is, nine American and four British divisions would attempt to land at Casablanca, Port-Lyantey, Oran and Algiers. The informant of the Grand Mufti, who had been in touch with the Abwehr for many years, was none other than Mohammed V, the Sultan of Morocco." However, no one really paid attention to Reile's book when it was published back in 1973. He had inside information on the matter.
It is also not very wellknown that Haj Amin Al-Husseini knew exacly what was going on in Nazi extermination camps such as Auschwitz, Sobibor, Treblinka and Majdanek (Lublin). In his thorough study "The Third Reich and the Arab East" Lukasz Hirszowicz reveals that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem "wrote letters to the governments of Bulgaria (May 6, 1943), Italy (June 10, 1943), Rumania (June 28, 1943) and Hungary (of the same date) demanding that they rescind permission for Jewish emigration. He urged that the Jews should be sent to Poland instead, 'where they are under active supervision'." "Active supervision" in Nazi occupied Poland meant death. It was what the Nazis referred to as "Special Treatment" or "Sonderbehandlung" another misleading term for the gas chambers. All the major death camps were located in Poland.
The Mufti also cooperated closely with Adolf Eichmann and Heinrich Himmler. Eichmann's right hand man Dieter Wisliceny wrote in the summer of 1946 that "Eichmann, with the approval of Himmler, gave an order to bring about ten thousand Jewish children from Poland to Theresienstadt. It was planned to exchange these children for German civilian prisoners, through the services of the International Red Cross." But the Mufti suddenly intervened. Wisliceny was then "summoned to Berlin by Eichmann." "And he disclosed to me," Wisliceny wrote, "that the idea of the planned operation had become known to the Grand Mufti, by means of his intelligence service in Palestine. As a result he (the Mufti, V.) protested vigorously to Himmler, using the argument that these Jewish children would, within a few years be permitted to emigrate to Palestine. Following this, Himmler (as he told me) forbade the whole operation."
Thus, even men like Himmler and Eichmann were obviously impressed by the Mufti's efficient intelligence network.
Eichmann, Himmler and the Mufti planned another Holocaust - in "Palestine"
As referenced above, Himmler and Eichmann knew the Mufti quite well. (At his trial in Jerusalem Eichmann later claimed that he had met the Mufti only once, but this assertion is not very credible.)
Eichmann told Wisliceny that the Mufti had visited him at his own SS-office (Department IVB4, "Jewish Affairs") at 166 Kurfürstenstrasse, Berlin. Eichmann "told me in detail about this visit," Wisliceny wrote. "Eichmann lectured the Grand Mufti in his map room, where he had collected statistical accounts of the Jewish population of various European countries he lectured in detail about the solution of the Jewish Question in Europe. The Grand Mufti, according to him, was most impressed and said to Eichmann that he had already asked Himmler's consent on this point, that a representative of Eichmann should come to Jerusalem as his personal advisor when, he, the Grand Mufti, would go back after the victory of the Axis Powers. In that conversation Eichmann asked me whether I was willing to accept the post. But I rejected in principle to such oriental adventures."Gideon Hausner, the Public Prosecutor at the Eichmann Trial in Jerusalem, later wrote: "The ex-Mufti's ties with Eichmann were long standing. At the beginning of 1942 Eichmann received him and his retenue at the department's headquarters and lectured to them on the Final Solution in Europe. The ex-Mufti was so strongly impressed that he immediately requested Himmler to designate someone on Eichmann's team to be his 'personal advisor' on 'finally solving' the Jewish problem also in Palestine, once the ex-Mufti was reinstated in his office by the victorious allies. Eichmann welcomed the offer. 'A priceless Jewell The biggest friend of the Arabs,' recorded the ex-Mufti on Eichmann in his personal diary."
In one of court sessions Hausner said: "After the victory, which was coming, as they hoped, these people were planning the same bloody work in the whole world, which would fall at their feet. And the Mufti, who had spilled the blood of the Jews in Hebron, in Jaffa and in Jerusalem, in the riots of 1921, 1936 and 1939, was looking for a man like himself who would help him finish the job. He saw that they did it better there."
In other words, Himmler, Eichmann and the Mufti planned another Holocaust - in Palestine, that is. By no means should a Jewish National Home be established there. They only had to wait for Rommel's Panzer Army Africa to conquer Egypt and neighboring Palestine subsequently.
A special mobile death squadron, the "Einsatzkommando Egypt", was on standby in Athens. It was part of Rommel's Panzer Army Africa. "The planned central purpose of operations for the unit was the implementation of the 'Final Solution' in mandatory Palestine," Klaus-Michael Mallmann and Martin Cüppers write. At that time (the summer and autumn of 1942) the notorious "SS-Einsatzgruppen" and "SS-Einsatzkommandos" had already killed hundreds of thousands of Jews in Nazi occupied Russia, the Baltic, Byelorussia and the Ukraine. (The total number of Jews to be shot to death by these death squadrons would be more than one million bete.) The "Einsatzkommando Egypt" was led by SS Obersturmbannführer Walther Rauff. Hitler said on October 25, 1941, in the presence of Heydrich (Eichmann's chief) and Himmler: "The attempt to establish a Jewish national state will end in failure." (One month later he would meet Haj Aim Al-Husseini.)
Influential Hamas cleric: "The Holocaust is still to come upon the Jews"
Haj Amin Al-Husseini was, as Mallmann and Cüppers write, "a National Socialist and Islamic fundamentalist at one and the same time." He is the spiritual father of both modern jihadism and Palestinian resistance to Jewish statehood. "Kill the Jews whereever you find them," he said in one of his many radio broadcasts from Berlin, the capital of Nazi Germany. "This pleases God, history and religion." This is also the agenda of today's Al-Qaeda. They declared war on the Jews and so-called (American) "Crusaders". And although Hamas and Al-Qaeda are not the same, the official Hamas Charter does quote the Muslim prophet Mohammed, who, according to the Islamic tradition, is believed to have said: "The Final Hour will not come until Muslims fight against the Jews and the Muslims kill them, and until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, and a stone or tree would say: 'O Muslim, servant of God, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him.'" In other words: "Kill the Jews whereever you find them," is also an integral part of the Hamas creed.
It is, therefore, not just Israel and the Israelis who are targeted by Hamas. It is the Jews themselves. Hamas clerics frequently lash out against the Jews, as I personally witnessed myself during a visit to Gaza in 2002. For example, in March 2008, Sheik Yunus Al-Astal, a Hamas legislator and imam, discussed the Koranic verse suggesting that "suffering by fire is the Jews' destiny in this world and the next." "But the urgent question is," Sheik Al-Astal said, "is it possible that they will have the punishment of burning in this world, before the great punishment" (of hell)? Many religious leaders believe so, he said, adding: "Therefore we are sure that the Holocaust is still to come upon the Jews."
Another Hamas cleric, Imam Yousif Al-Zahar, told his followers: "Jews are people who cannot be trusted. They have been traitors to all agreements. Go back to history. Their fate is their vanishing."
There are no Jews in the Hamas controlled Gaza strip, let alone synagogues. If Hamas would militarily prevail over Israel and conquer its territory, the fate of the Jews would be none other than their total eradication. But only if Hamas and other mortal enemies of the Jews and Israel (Hezbollah, Iran, Al-Qaeda) would have their way. This is not going to happen. But the Jews and Israelis should be alerted when their enemies say that the Holocaust is still to come upon them.
Emerson Vermaat is author of a Dutch study on "Heinrich Himmler en de Cultus van de Dood" (Heinrich Himmler and the Cult of Death), Aspekt Publishers, the Netherlands, 2010. Website: emersonvermaat.com.
Bericht über die Palestina-Ägyptenreise von SS-Hauptscharführer Eichmann und SS-Oberscharführer Hagen, November 4, 1937, p. 19 ("Kein Araber oder nationalbewusster Ägypter schätzt die Juden "), p. 27-32 (Mufti), Bundesarchiv (Federal German Archives), BArch Berlin R58/954.
Lukasz Hirszowicz, The Third Reach and the Arab East (London:Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1966), p. 195 ("Godless Soviets"), p. 313 (" where they are under active supervision."); Gerhard Höpp (Ed.), Mufti-Papiere. Briefe, Memoranden, Reden und Aufrufe Amin al-Husainis aus dem Exil, 1940-1945 (Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2004), p. 179, 180. (Letters in French, the diplomatic language at the time: " où ils se trouveraient sous une surveillance active comme en Pologne ") David G. Dalin and John F. Rothmann, Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam (New Brunswick and London: Transaction Books, 2009, p. 54 ("Kill the Jews whereever you find them "), p. 158-162 (Full text of the "Record of the conversation between the Fuehrer and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem on 28 November 1941"), p. 164 ('The road from Rostov to Iran and Iraq is shorter than the distance from Berlin to Rostov.")
Andreas Hillgruber, Hitlers Strategie. Politik und Kriegführung 1940-1941 (Munich: Bernard & Graefe Verlag, 1982), p. 381, 382. (" weiterverfolgten Absicht Hitlers, eine weiträumige zangenartige Landoperation (pincer movement) gegen die britische Nahoststellung führen zu lassen, und zwar von Westen her durch einen Angriff aus Libyen mit Stossrichtung nach Ägypten und zum Suez-Kanal, von Nordwesten her durch eine im November bekanntlich zurückgestellte Offensive von Bulgarien aus durch die Türkei nach Syrien Palästina und schliesslich als Ergänzung durch eine dritte Operation von Norden aus Transkaukasien heraus durch Iran nach den Ölquellen des Irak und weiter bis nach Basra. Die Türkei sollte dabei 'politisch gefügig' gemacht, anderenfalls ihr Widerstand mit Waffengewalt gebrochen werden.") See also footnotes 25, 27, and 28.
Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War, Volume Four, The Hinge of Fate (London: The Reprint Society, 1953), p. 486 ("We lost more than 13,500 men at Alamein "), p. 487.
Klaus Michael Mallmann and Martin Cüppers, "Elimination of the Jewish National Home in Palestine": The Einsatzkommando of the Panzer Army Africa, 1942, in: Yad Vashem Studies, 35 (1) (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2007), p. 122, 123 ("The path to Palestine was now a relatively short matter..."), p. 113-122 ("Einsatzkommando Egypt"), p. 124 (quote from Hitler), 130 ("The Grand Mufti was a National Socialist and Islamic fundamentalist at one and the same time.")
Oscar Reile, Treff Lutetia Paris. Der Kampf der Geheimdienste im westlichen Operationsgebiet, in England und Nordafrika, 1939-1945 (Munich: Verlag Welsermühl, 1973), p. 231, 232. "Unter anderen hat der Gross-Mufti von Jerusalem, Hadi Amine Al Husseini, bereits im Oktober 1942 dem Abwehroffizier Oberstleutnant Franz Seubert gemeldet, dass im kommenden November zwischen 5. und 10. des Monats, neun amerikanische und vier britische Divisionen in Casablanca, Port-Litantey, Oran und Algier einen Landungsversuch unternehmen würden. Der Gewährsmann des Gross-Mufti, der (the Mufti, that is, V.) bereits seit Jahren mit der Abwehr in Verbindung stand, war kein Geringerer als Mohamed V, der Sultan von Morocco." The author wishes to thank Dutch historian Dr. Perry Pierik for showing this study to him.
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann. Record of the Proceedings in the District Court of Jerusalem, Volume I (Jerusalem: State of Israel/Ministry of Justice, 1992), p. 243, 244 (Eichmann and Grand Mufti Al-Husseini), Volume V (Jerusalem: 1994), p. 2028 (" these people were planning the same bloody work ").
Khaled Hroub, Hamas. Political Thought and Practice (Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 2000), p. 272 (Hamas Charter, Article 7).International Herald Tribune, April 1, 2008, p. 1, 8 ("Hamas ratches up anti-Jewish rhetoric"). Anti-Semitic quotes from prominent Hamas clerics.
©2011 Emerson Vermaat. All rights reserved.


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text: On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 10:25:22AM -0800, Mike Melanson wrote: > Diego Biurrun wrote: > >Fixing these defects is also going to be a status thing I guess. The > >xine people loudly say how horrible the MPlayer code is at every > >possible occasion. Nevertheless their defect rate is considerably > >higher than ours. > > 0.416 > 0.465? Back to school, Diego. Haha, that comment sure motivated some people :) Nevertheless read the following in the article about Coverity on lwn.net: The projects with the lowest defect density include Ethereal, OpenVPN, Perl, and xmms; the all-time winner is xmms, with a total of six detected errors. At the other end of the scale, one finds Amanda, Firebird, NetSNMP, OpenLDAP, Samba, X, and Xine. http://lwn.net/Articles/174769/ http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/174769/07c92421c084afbb/ ;-p Diego


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Happy Mabon everyone!
I just did a short ritual today honoring Brigid, I know you're supposed to honor the god aspect, but I've been drawn to her and I thought this would be the perfect time to ask for her help with school and such.
I burned some oil I bought at Moonfyre Metaphysical, made by Sun's Eye Oils. Smells sweet and fruity, like a harvest I guess. I also wrote down what I wanted over this semester and I have a box to add all my assignments and research for Brigid to help me with.
I already have the drive to succeed, but a little help couldn't hurt.
I also did some card reading, one was for my X to see how he is doing and the other was about changing my major.
As far as I can tell my X is fine and I should just stick with my major of creative writing because I already am almost there.
I also found this great wine at Target, sweet and mellow Junebug, white wine, moscato. Really good.
I can't believe it's "fall", it's over 90 degrees here, ugh, my apartment is so HOT. Hope it cools down soon and I have use for my new sweaters!
Happy Mabon, blessed be!
Shadow Moon
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Happy Mabon!
Happy Mabon everyone!
Sunday, September 18, 2011
More Strange Dreams and How Did My Niece Do
Again, two strange dreams, I can remember, from the past few nights:
1. My boyfriend and I went to a Pinkberry and were accused of stealing money from them.
2. A comic book depicts the future through poems and vivid illustration.
I thought the comic book one was very interesting. And apparently I laugh in my sleep, according to my boyfriend anyway,
As for my niece's interview, Starbucks was ok, but Whole Foods basically hired her, so I think my energy sent a good boost. YAY!
Right now I've been sick off and on for about 2 weeks, this cold is hitting me hard at the moment so I'm a little groggy, even though I'm hyped up on serious caffeine, girls gotta work.
On a more magical note, I think I'm going to get a box and focus on honoring Brigid at the Fall Equinox, mainly to help me keep track with school and such. I will decorate the box and put a new fact/something I learned or researched in the box to show her I'm learning and devoting time to better my education. It's just a small offering, but I'm trying to earn at least Bs in all of my classes so I don't feel so bad about myself.
Blessed be,
Shadow Moon
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Spell for Success
I am a hard worker, but who doesn't want a little assistance in searching for a job right now? I just did a little spell to help my niece out with her interviews, and with the economy as it is she needs all the prayer, luck, spells and success thrown at her.
She did do half the work in looking for a job, she is also a hard worker and currently has a job, where she was offered a promotion, however she declined because it was too much work for a minuscule raise in pay.
So, for the spell for her I used 2 GREEN candles (to symbolize her two interviews today) and a modified incense from Scott Cunninghams Incense, Oils and Brews (1989).
3 parts WOOD ALOE
2 parts RED STORAX (all storax is unavailable so use FRANKINCENSE or GUM ARABIC)
1 part NUTMEG
3 parts SANDALWOOD with Creativity Oil
2 parts GUM ARABIC
1 part NUTMEG
1 part ROSE
I added 1 part ROSE PETALS for love/purity of intent and some Creativity Oil by Dancing Witch from Serpents Kiss.
To further the intent I burned a pice of paper with a few sentences stating how my niece WILL have a good interview, she WILL receive a call back, ect. This is to compensate for my lack of meditation focus. Sometimes, especially when I don't feel 100% I just can't keep my visualization up, so I burned my willful words instead.
Hope this helps anyone who needs some success in their life. And please be careful when using fire. :)
Have any successful spell stories you want to share?
Blessed be,
Shadow Moon
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Junction supports children in South Australia with our range of services including Residential Care, Counselling and supportive programs. Our aim is for children to be heard, feel respected, have a safe place to live and to be happy.
Junction operates two Community Centres that are open to the public, and we invite and encourage you and your family to visit our friendly staff, participate in the programs on offer and meet new people.
Please visit the Community Centres page for more information.
Our experienced counsellors help many children, young people and adults each year to manage their feelings and actions, understand their behaviour, gain confidence to make necessary changes in their lives and increase their overall sense of well-being.
We offer support in two main areas: Parent & Adolescent Counselling and Sexual Abuse Counselling.
Please visit the Counselling page for more information.
'Siblings in Focus' is a program that provides the opportunity for children to take time out of their caring role so they can enjoy being a child, and spend time with other children of their age to develop skills and better cope with their life.
All of the children who participate in Siblings in Focus have one, or more, siblings with a disability or illness. Children in these situations can become isolated, which can impact on their mental health and development.
This is a Communities for Children activity funded by the Australian Government Department of Social Services.
View the Siblings in Focus brochure.
When a child or young person is unable to live at home with their birth family, they may be referred to Junction by the Department for Child Protection for short or long term residential care.
While living at one of Junction's residential care homes, children and young people are offered support through our 'Therapeutic Support Services' (TSS).
Our vision for children and young people in residential care is to provide safe and stable home environments for young people under the Guardianship of the Minister, and to help build resilience, heal from trauma and provide hope for the future.


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When you were a kid, you told yourself the future would be super-cool. Little did you know the only improvement would be an ability to use an app to get table-service at Wetherspoon's.
Well, that and computer-generated names for pets.
Portland Guinea Pig Rescue (obviously this is a Portland, Oregon thing) has relied on artificial intelligence to name the animals that it has made available for adoption.
Certainly a much better idea than using the adjective "popcorniest" in a sentence, which is something PGPR has also done.
As reported by Gizmodo, the rescue centre called on research scientist Janelle Shane to create a neural network to name guinea pigs. For those a little unclear on this, Shane explains in a blog post that 'Neural networks are a type of computer program that mimic the way human brains learn'.
'Despite having no concept of what these furry round rodents actually are, a neural network is indeed uncannily good at naming them,' she explains.
Shane isn't wrong. Here's a selection of some of the best names given to the little rascals: Sure, technically some sound like ice cream flavours, but what good pet name doesn't?
Other names selected by the AI, but currently not allocated to guinea pigs, include Rockass, Spackles and Boooy. Sure, it's got three Os, but it's not like he'll have to spell it out for anyone – he's a guinea pig for God's sake.
Oh, and finally, let's not forget the cream of the crop...
(Images: Portland Guinea Pig Rescue)


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exertion headache:
Throughout an intense physical activity, the temperature within the body rises and blood circulation conjointly increases, resulting in the enlargement of blood vessels.
Finding the most effective treatment with the least harmful side effects can be a big struggle for many headache and migraine sufferers. In some cases, preventative or abortive headache medication can cause other side effects like drowsiness and dizziness. Some people opt out of taking medication all together.
If you're prone to side effects, there are still alternative non-pharmaceutical treatments that could help reduce or treat your headaches or migraines, depending on the cause of your head pain.
According to an article in the New York Times, a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine demonstrated that acupuncture can relieve chronic pain such as migraines.
"Acupuncture involves stimulating specific points on the body," according to Medline Plus. "This is most often done by inserting thin needles through the skin, to cause a change in the physical functions of the body."
Dorothy Pang, an acupuncturist, said in an email that many of her patients with migraines benefit from acupuncture.
"My patients often seek acupuncture care because they do not want to take prescription medications, which tend to be so strong in side effects that they can't work or drive," Pang said.
She said this form of treatment can reduce migraine intensity by the end of the session in some cases, but it depends on the individual for long-term effects.
"Long term effects, as in prevention of return migraines, can take several weeks to several months to happen," Pang said.
She added that acupuncture creates a "whole system balance," and sometimes improves other health problems like sleep and digestion.
Some studies have shown that acupuncture is no better than a placebo though. According to Reuters, a "sham" acupuncture treatment was just as helpful as a traditional acupuncture treatment.
Another option is chiropractic adjustments. According to the American Chiropractic Association's website, spinal manipulation could relieve headaches that start in the neck.
Dr. Austin Cohen, a chiropractor and health coach, said in an email that he suggests traction for the neck to help treat headaches and migraines, as well as chiropractic adjustments.
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Playfish disables Pet Society feature amidst child safety concerns
For those unfamiliar with this feature, it was basically a link that appeared on the left side of your screen that allowed you to visit the real world Facebook profile of another player. The link would appear on the homes of pets that signed up to be viewable in the Pet Society Cafe, a virtual in-game hangout that allowed players to showcase their virtual pets and homes to people they didn't know on Facebook. Normally, you can only interact with players who already have Pet Society installed and are friends with you on Facebook.
Hence, the point of this feature was to make adding new Pet Society players as friends through Facebook a lot easier. Because Facebook games desire virality, many games will reward players for having lots of friends and tasks are also designed to be easier with the more friends you have. That said, the awesome connectivity of Facebook and other social networks can sometimes lead to wonderful, happy endings.
Regardless, the review mentioned above shows that players had reservations from the beginning regarding the feature if not for children's safety, then just general privacy's sake. There's no word yet if Playfish has taken down the feature for good or if they're tweaking it to make it safer. We've contacted Playfish for comment.
[Image Credit: Pet Society Anonymous]
[Hat-tip: Scam Detectives]
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Today I saw Dr. Clarke after my 6 week respite. In that time, I accomplished opening my jaw another millimeter and a half. Not too bad indeed.
So, the appointment has been made for my teeth implants! I am all set for the end of June, the morning of the 28th. This work is in my gums, at the root, so after the implants are in place the mouth has to heal, and will actully take in the titanium, and make it a part of me. Only after I heal can the porcelain teeth be connected. Crazy. We won't be sure if I need any grafting until the procedure is in process. So it could take "embarrassingly short, to 2 hours" as Dr. Clarke put it. Another 4-6 weeks from then, I will finally have my new set of permanent teeth; complete with bridge and crowns. This part of the plan will be completed by my other doctor Dr. Vallejos. Hopefully our plans will come together nicely, in a good time-frame.
So I am pleased! The timing to use the fact I have no front teeth for Halloween, and permanents by my 34th year is right on track!
Monday, May 24, 2010
Teeth Implants Scheduled
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- AnonymousMay 25, 2010 at 5:42 AM
Whoop whoop! New chompers :)ReplyDelete
Awesome!!! So happy for you. Now the question is... what fantastic meal will you make to sink your new teeth into when all is said and done?ReplyDelete
I am hoping to have a fabulous turkey dinner, complete with mashed potatoes, stuffing, and gravy as my first "new chompers" meal. Thanks for the comments you two!ReplyDelete
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You know those chocolate covered ice cream cones? Not straight out of the freezer, but after they've been out at room temperature for a while, so the chocolate is still hard but the inside ice cream is getting melty? These cupcakes are exactly like that, which is to say – delicious.
Gluten-Free Vanilla Cupcakes
Adapted from Gluten-Free Goddess
Makes 40 mini cupcakes
- 1 cup sorghum flour
- 1 cup tapioca starch
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp xanthan gum
- 1 cup milk
- 2 eggs
- 3 tbsp butter, melted
- 1 tbsp vanilla
- 1/4 tsp vinegar
- Preheat the oven to 350F.
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, tapioca starch, sugar, salt, baking powder and soda, and xanthan gum.
- In a separate bowl, beat the eggs, milk, melted butter, vanilla, and vinegar until combined.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and combine until the mixture is smooth.
- Drop the batter into your baking pan and bake for 10 to 15 minutes, until the center is firm and slightly puffed.
- When the cupcakes are cool enough to touch, remove from the pan and transfer to a wire rack to continue cooling to room temperature.
- If making ahead of time, store in the freezer in an in airtight container with a piece of wax or parchment paper over the top to prevent freezer burn.
Marshmallow Frosting
Adapted from Martha Stewart
Makes enough to frost 100 mini cupcakes
- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- 3 large egg whites, room temperature
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/4 tsp cream of tartar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- Beat together sugar, egg whites, water, and cream of tartar until foamy. Set bowl over a pan of barely simmering water and whisk until sugar is dissolved and mixture is warm to the touch, about 3 to 5 minutes. Transfer bowl to stand mixer fitted with a whisk attachment. Beat on high speed until frosting forms stiff peaks, about 12 to 16 minutes. Add vanilla and beat until combined.
Chocolate Coating
- 24 oz. semisweet chocolate, roughly chopped
- 6 tbsp neutral flavored oil (vegetable or canola)
- Melt together chocolate and oil over double boiler until combined. Transfer to a container and let cool slightly.
- Transfer marshmallow frosting to a pastry bag fitted with a round tip. Pipe a spiral of frosting into a cone shape. Place the frosted cupcakes in freezer while you prepare the chocolate coating.
- Let the chocolate coating cool slightly before dipping the cupcakes in – if the chocolate is too hot, it'll melt the frosting. Shake the cupcakes slightly to let the excess chocolate drip off. Return the cupcakes to the freezer to let the chocolate harden.
- Continue all cupcakes are decorated and store completed cupcakes in freezer.
Hi-hats have been on my to-bake list for quite so time now and I'm so glad I finally made them. The frosting gets really melty and soft at room temperature, but the chocolate shell stays intact, so when you bite into it, you get a nice burst of melty marshmallow, almost like ice cream.
I made these with vanilla and chocolate cupcakes, but these would be great with other options too. Perhaps a riff on an ice cream sundae – a vanilla cupcake with a cherry filling and then some sprinkles on top of the chocolate shell. I'll save that one for the summer.
These cupcakes can be served either at room temperature or cold from the fridge. If you serve them cold, the chocolate shell will crack once you bite into it, giving way to a sweet explosion of frosting. It reminds me a lot of that awesome Magic Shell from Smucker's. If you let them come to room temp, the chocolate will soften up slightly – it'll still be intact, but it won't make as much of a mess when you eat it.
Either way, this is a cupcake that's sure to impress. I actually like them best as minis because then you can pop them in your mouth so easily. And before you know it, you'll plow through a dozen and get a sugar high. No wait, that was me.


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In light of the 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage (EYCH 2018), NECSTouR - the Network of European Regions for Sustainable and Competitive Tourism - and the Catalan Government organised the Workshop "Better Places to Live, Better Places to Visit", launching a Pan-European Dialogue on Tourism to find a balance between Culture, Society and Businesses for a Sustainable Tourism.
The event gathered around 350 participants form the cultural and the tourism private and public stakeholders, leading experts, and citizens representatives from 12 different European Countries, from local to international level and generated a social dialogue between them.
Event's Material
At the end of the day, the Barcelona Declaration on Tourism and Cultural Heritage has been presented: it summarises all the main principles and actions agreed during the day and represents a clear commitment in order to ensure the sustainability of cultural heritage and its territory and destination and to generate a beneficial balance between the culture, the host community and the tourists.
Through the outcomes of that workshop, NECSTouR members will pursue on contributing to the implementation of a Sustainable Tourism Policy around Europe and will tackle those Sustainable Development Goals related with Tourism and which are part of the Agenda 2030 by the United Nations.
For more information, check the event's website!


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|Chatral Sangye Dorje
Namo gurubhya
Primordial protector, who realized the natural manifestation of original purity,
Vajrasattva, the magical net endowed with seven aspects of spontaneous presence,
Their nondual unity, the play of the Lake-Born Vajra,
In a single embodiment, Buddha Vajra, I respectfully honor you.
The tradition of early translations, like a treasure churning from the ocean of milk,
And Kahma and Terma, like the sun and moon, unimpaired in his late age,
As a birth that springs from space, when undertaking this endeavor,
Divine three roots, may you pay heed to bestow your blessings and permission.
Like a king among the victorious ones, Padmakara is a great universal monarch of all siddhas and knowledge-holders of India and Tibet, the keepers of the lineage of the luminous Great Perfection. My Lord of the Circle whose name is difficult to utter, performs the magical dance of his three mysteries. He is the all-pervasive sovereign of all Buddha families and mandalas. Now, for a specific purpose, I shall here mention the renown of his name, Lord of refuge Chatral Sangye Dorje Rinpoche, who pervades the three levels of existence like a white umbrella unfurled. Since, he personally has awakened, since primordial time within the expanse of Samantabhadra, the awareness that is liberated within the ground, it is exclusively the domain of buddhas to describe thoroughly the superior qualities of this great master, which are like the rivers streaming from Lake Manasarovar, which appear in the shared experience of other beings to be influenced. Let me mention a quote to illustrate this:
When even the Vajra tongue is mute for exactly describing
A great bodhisattva who dwells on the higher levels
And whose magical display of the three mysteries is a never-ending wheel of adornment,
They are beyond the reach of someone who is utterly entangled like me.
The childish mind of an ignorant person like myself lacks, just as the quote above, the courage to describe his qualities in full, but nevertheless, I will adhere to authentic predictions from vajra termas and to the reliable words of truth. In doing so, I will cast far away attempts to exaggerate or underplay, to be deceitful or partisan, to excessively flatter, and other such flaws of unwholesome bonds. Instead, I see it as being exceedingly meaningful to put down in writing some brief words of straightforward narration to function as seeds of trust and faith, taking into account the way we ordinary disciples perceive things at present. At tantra mentions this point:
Compared to meditating for hundred thousands of eons
Upon the deity endowed with the major and minor marks,
It is better to think of your guru for a single moment.
Compared to reciting the mantras for approach and accomplishment
It is better to make a single subjugation to the guru.
The master Jigmey Rigpey Lodro said:
Compared to honoring the countless conquerors of the three times
With music and songs of praise magically emanated from your tongue,
Inspire yourself with the fact that the merit is greater
From praising a single pore of your guru's body.
Moreover, the Chronicles of Padma mention:
Because he teaches many methods and key points of utmost profundity,
For anyone who practices the Unexcelled Secret Mantra
The guru's life story is therefore taught to be the most supreme.
In accordance with these statements, this is why the innumerable sutras and tantras, treatises and pith instructions, mention that the mass of merit from making supplicating and honoring him with words of praise by means of bringing to mind the qualities of the glorious guru, plants roots of goodness superior to everything else.
That such masters and sublime beings, whom we disciples in common perceive to appear in this world and display activities to influence others, manifest in numbers that equal motes of dust on a vast plain or rays from the sun and the moon, and accomplish the immense benefit for the teachings and beings — this unceasing manifestation is the play of activity of the conquerors and the bodhisattvas. The Tantra of Vajrasattva's Great Magical Net mentions:
Because of being linked with great compassion
They manifest to the six classes of beings, in all time and places.
Moreover, it says:
In the ten directions and four times, in unimaginable numbers,
They appear in various ways to benefit each being to be tamed.
With all the higher or lower vehicles,
To untold numbers of beings with distortions,
And to all the great assemblies of peaceful and wrathful ones,
They always manifest in ways that correspond to each individual.
The Uttarashastra mentions:
Without departing from the dharmakaya,
They manifest a variety of magical rupakayas.
It also says:
Just like the reflection of the deva king's body
Appears on the clean surface of the vaidurya gem,
The reflection of the Mighty Sage's body
Likewise appears on the clean surface of a being's mind.
Another quote mentions:
On the mirror of pure and impure realms
Appear billions of magical reflections.
These expressions of the bodhisattvas —
Though they long ago definitely renounced this world —
They stir up the ocean of compassion
And intentionally accept the play of existence.
Just like the youthful image of the moon
Can appear in separate vessels of water,
Their activities, spontaneously accomplished,
Appear in myriad types of magical display.
Accordingly, here is the way in which he appeared as the splendor of the teachings and beings, manifest in the magical form of a rupakaya in this age of strife that lies at the very end of the Dark Age. Within the Gongpa Yongdu, the sublime teachings revealed by the great treasure master Dudul Dorje, we find the following predictions:
A supreme emanation of the great scholar Vimalamitra
Well appear in the area of Katok with the name Buddha.
Another prediction mentions:
This present Gyalwa Lodro will
In future times, to the south of Katok,
Have the name Buddha, endowed with wisdom.
It is to that person you must give this teaching.
Moreover, we find the following passage among the predictions for the future revealed by Yonru Chimey Dorje, a close disciple of Chagdud Pema Dudul:
A supreme mind-emanation of Padma,
A boy who is blessed by Vimalamitra,
With the name Vajra, from the year of the Ox,
Will promote the teachings of the practice lineage.
Jigdral Yeshe Dorje, the great treasure master, has written:
In particular, may you, the magical display of Kharchu Sa,
Be victorious in the battle with the incorrigible, wrong views of the Dark Age
And increase even further the Dharma's reaches to fulfill our aims.
May your life last for one hundred years,
Blazing with the virtuous marks that spontaneously perfect the two benefits,
So that the sound of the secret teachings pervades through the threefold world.
Numerous sublime masters who appeared in the past were eulogized with unmistaken vajra predictions relating all the details of their location, time, teacher and retinue, year sign and activities. Accordingly, we find in the terma predictions of Nyagla Pema Dudul:
On the wondrous Southern Continent, to the east of the Land of Snow,
The middle of the Four Valleys, famed as the great Adzi Valley.
This describes his birthplace as being in the northern direction of Vajra Asana in Magadha that lies in the center of the Southern Jambu Continent — the realm of inference for the noble and sublime Avalokiteshvara as well as the incarnated Dharma Kings and the accomplished translators and panditas. In that land, in the area of Zalmo Ridge, lies, in the middle of the Four Valleys, the Nyag Adzi Valley that is suffused with the blessings of the three Family Lords (Manjushri, Avalokiteshvara and Vajrapani). Here, in the vicinity of Red Copper Cliff of Takhog Yak-Tamer, surrounded by an enclosure of gently flowing streams, fruit trees and vines, where turquoise foliage and myriad types of flowers abound — in other words, a place that in fact possesses the qualities of a hidden valley — lies a place of fertile grass lands.
He was born in this place as the son of Pema Dondrub belonging to the family line of Mukpo Dong and Sonam Tso, a lady of the Wakyung family. His parents had the deepest devotion and appreciation for the buddhas and spiritual teachers, cared for the lowly with loving kindness and were endowed with numerous qualities of wisdom. It was to this couple that our master took birth. It happened in Western year of 1913. According to the Tibetan calendar, it is the 46th in the 15th year cycle, known as Careful. I have heard from the master personally that he "was unsheathed from the clouds of the womb" in the year of the Female Water Ox, on the morning of the auspicious 10th day of the fifth month — the day Guru Rinpoche manifested in the powerful form of Dorje Drollo and concealed myriad terma treasures with teachings and samaya substance in the various districts of the snowy land of Tibet.
The great treasure revealer Jigdral Yeshe Dorje, moreover, wrote:
Lineage holder of Padma, regent of the guru who tames beings,
Sublime master and lord of Dharma,
Renunciant sky yogi, protector of the mandala,
Powerful Vajra King of the Wrathful Ones, I supplicate you.
Accordingly, I shall now describe a vision of Nyima Gyaltsen, the Asey Bigo Tulku who was an incarnation of the Indian master Chandragomi and whose clairvoyance and miraculous powers completely surpassed the domain of ordinary people. For instance, he had visions of sublime deities including Padmasambhava of Uddiyana, the noble Avalokiteshvara, Vajrapani the lord of secrets, and Arya Tara, the mother of all conquerors. Within an experience of pure luminosity, he even journeyed to the northern land of the yakshas and remained for three days. In a lucid vision this master saw a white mule loaded with scriptures that got unloaded at the house of the Tsekho Shasey family. The next day, he went joyfully to their home and, after relating the story of his vision, crowned the child with the name Trogyal Dorje [Vajra King of the Wrathful Ones]. There is a saying,
Like knowing water from water fowl
And knowing fire from smoke,
It is from his qualities that the wise
Can recognize someone of the bodhisattva type.
Like this example, our teacher was from an early age naturally endowed with the capacity of the Mahayana type such as loving kindness and compassion, perseverance and intelligence. From that time onwards, here is a brief mention of some of the masters — sublime spiritual guidance from every school — which he followed and studied with.
Nyima Gyaltsen, the Asey Bigo Tulku;
Chokyi Lodro, the incarnation of Jamyang Khyentse;
Pema Drimey, the Kongtrul incarnation of Zhechen;
Gyurmey Tenpa Namgyal, the supreme incarnation of Getsey;
Jigdral Chogkyi Langpo, the Mogtsa Tulku;
Jigmey Dechen Dorje, the sixth incarnation in the Drimey Shingkyong tulku line;
Pema Trinley Gyatso, the incarnation of Chaktsa Tulku;
Chokyi Gyatso, the Situ Panchen;
The great treasure revealer Jigdral Yeshe Dorje;
Tubten Chokyi Dorje, the fifth Dzogchen Tulku;
Gyurmey Dorje, the son of the Dharma King Adzom Drukpa;
Melong Dorje, the incarnation of Tokgo Tulku;
Pema Tendzin, the incarnation of the Dzamira Tulku;
Jowo Tashi Rabten, the great treasure master of Tsophu;
Orgyen Trinley Lingpa, the Apang Terton;
The great treasure revealer Dungsey Dorje Dradul;
Ngawang Chokyi Drakpa, the regent of Mindroling;
The sublime incarnation Jampal Dewey Nyima;
Tubten Chogkyi Langpo, the sublime Drubwang incarnation;
Sangsang Ngedon Gyatso, the incarnation of Dungkar Tulku;
Pema Namgyal, the Dungsey Gar Long-Yang;
The sublime incarnation Chokyi Dorje;
The sublime incarnation of Gongri Rinpoche;
Incarnation of Mugsang Tulku;
Orgyen Tenpel, the great scholar of Gotsa;
The master khenpo Lekshey Jorden Dulwey De;
The great scholar Nuden Khyentse Lodro;
The great khenpo Norbu Wangyal;
The master scholar Ngawang Norbu;
Khenpo Lodro of Palyul;
Drimey Özer, the great khenpo of Rishur;
The teacher Gelek Gyatso of Garwa;
The Nyungney teacher Rinchen Dargye;
Lama Pema Silo from Abey;
Lama Karma Dondrub from Akyab;
Lama Chodrak from Hashur;
Lama Palden of Trakya;
The incarnation of Deshur Lama;
The life-long retreat lama at Dungkar;
Dewey Dorje, the Sera Jetsun;
Chonyi Zangmo, the Shukseb Jetsun.
Khenchen Ngawang Palzang
"Khenpo Ngakchung"
In all, he studied and reflected upon the sutras, tantras and all the other topics of knowledge at the feet of more than one hundred learned and accomplished holders of the Early Translation School (Nyingma). In this way, he gained the renown of being a true mahapandita.
But especially, he was accepted as disciple by Khenchen Ngawang Palzang, the emanation of Mahapandita Vimalamitra also known as Pema Leydrel Tsal, and for six years and five months he served this master perfectly by the three ways of pleasing the teacher.
Beginning with the preliminary practices and continuing through the progressive stages of the path up to and including Trekcho and Togal belonging to the Innermost Luminosity, he was bestowed an oceanlike amount of Dharma teachings from the sutras, tantras and oral instructions, like a vase filled to the brim. Bringing them into the sphere of practice, the realization of Dzogchen's great equanimity dawned in his mind. He realized the four levels of vision and reached a high stage among the learned and accomplished beings in this world. In this way, he is significantly replete with the qualities of experience and realization.
Nevertheless, he has throughout his entire life been quite unattached to material things, content with his own possessions and free from craving the property of others. In short, He has been concerned with the welfare of sentient beings with contentment and detachment, while keeping the conduct of a yogi who hides his own qualities like keeping a lamp within a vase.
At a certain point of time, the mahapandita Ngagah Rinpoche bestowed his blessings upon our teacher, considering him his most unique disciple and successor with true realization. This was when he was crowned with the name Chatral Sangye Dorje and entrusted with the teachings and his spiritual aspirations.
Accordingly, the incarnated great treasure revealer, Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje wrote:
King of renunciants, in the definitive meaning,
Regent of the vidyadhara, incarnated to tame beings,
Lord of activity, benefiting whomever you encounter,
All-encompassing vajra master, think of me!
He also empowered our teacher to be his own regent, as the following text from his declaration shows.
"Let it be known to every sentient being, high or low, who lives in this world that I have now personally conferred the instructions of the Hearing Lineage containing the most profound teachings, the heart blood of the dakinis, upon the vidyadhara Trogyal Dorje. I have entrusted him with the realization of the true lineage, empowered him to be my regent to tame beings, and accordingly, assigned him with the task of guiding disciples of every kind to the path of liberation.
As every one of you — whether you be gods, demons or human beings — extend him your due assistance, it is a natural law that benefit and well-being will ensue both in this life and in those to follow.
In case someone possibly gives rise to malicious plans and deeds against him, even the tiniest, the guardians of the Dharma with their powerful strength and their eyes of wisdom, will immediately join forces to cut short those who are physically embodied and diminish the faculties of the formless so that not even their names remain. About this there is not the slightest doubt, so be extremely conscientious as to these benefits and dangers.
This unambiguous letter was written at the slope of Duri, the Mountain of Blazing Meteoric Iron in Kongpo, by the crazy yogi and wrathful heruka Jigdral Yeshe Drakpo Tsal."
In the same manner, we find in the terma predictions of Wangchen Gyepa Dorje, a descendant of Do Khyentse Yeshe Dorje the following mention. (Tsarong refers to Trehor Rongpa Tsa that is situated no longer than a morning's walk from our master's place of birth).
In the direction of Tsarong, Sangye Dorje will appear.
With a youthful manner, he will fulfill the wishes of the Dharma King.
Among the Jadrin Ngon Dawa writings of Lozang Donyo Dorje, the vajra-holder of Takpu, is found:
In Tibet, the one known as Buddha Vajra,
Will, by the kindness of the flawless master,
Enjoy a deep ocean of nectar.
Whoever links with him will be benefited.
Moreover, Jangchub Dorje, the master of Nyag, wrote:
Sangye Dorje, vidyadhara yogi,
With the sacred word, sign and statements and the power of your experience, realization and awareness,
The time is right for the altruistic resolve to nurture disciples,
So hoist the victory banner of practice for the doctrine of the Early Translations.
The vajra command that you will surely guide myriad beings
Is stamped with the seal that signifies the doctrine of unchanging secrets.
In accordance with this statement, our master became the personal guru of Tibet's regent king, the honorable Jampal Yeshe Tenpey Gyaltsen of Reting, an accomplished and great knowledge-holder, who also held the rank of Hutuktu Nomenhan. Acknowledge this to be a fact, which no intelligent person can possibly refute.
Furthermore, numerous people from all the districts of Tibet and Kham — high and low lama tulkus, appearing at the end of their succession of wonderful inclinations; sublime masters, rich in the qualities of scripture and realization; eminent dignitaries, lofty in their ranks and official positions; chieftains and aristocrats, elevated by their bloodlines, power and might; male and female benefactors, decorated in their noble riches of faith, resources and generosity — bowed at the auspicious golden wheels of his lotus feet and honored him as their personal guru.
From that time onwards, throughout his entire life he has remained untainted by even the tiniest shred of the attachment and dishonesty, hope and fear, spawned by the eight mundane concerns, towards every disciple, be they high or low, in his various travels in the countries of India and Tibet, Sikkim, Bhutan and Nepal.
He has continued the activity of overturning samsara from its depth to benefit beings — never excluding any one of the untold number of people from different backgrounds, countries and languages who every single day came to him — by giving them a spiritual connection in the form of personal advice, instructions, protection, empowerment, and blessings.
Never has he wasted even the smallest amount of the material goods that effortlessly flowed before him due to people's generous faith. On the contrary, he used them constructing practice centers in various sacred locations and as contributions towards the sustenance of people in retreat, for the Nyungney group practice, and the like.
In particular, as evidence that his stream-of-being is utterly replete with the awakened frame of mind, he has annually undertaken the generous activity of bestowing protection against fear to millions of helpless, doomed creatures such as fish and tadpoles, frogs, snakes, and birds, large and small. Simply in this regard his life example is unrivaled by anyone.
Chimey Dorje, the treasure revealer of Yonru, in the following words, prophesied our master's main seat:
In the sadhana place of Yanglesho
The incarnation of Kharchu will establish a practice center.
Dujompa declared:
Deathless lord Padma Totreng Tsal,
Pay heed, please gaze, since your disciple Kharchupa
With good intentions will found the noble stream of practice,
A retreat center in your sacred sadhana place,
Grant your blessings to pacify any adversity there may be
And to fulfill his every wish.
In accord with this prediction, our master went to the land personally visited and blessed by Buddha Shakyamuni, included in his prophecies, where you find the Langru Mountain and self-appeared stupa Gomasala Gandha, the great stupa Jarung Khashor and the stupa of Prince Fortitude where he sacrificed his body to the starving tigress, and where is situated the major charnel ground Mound of Spontaneous Perfection and many other sacred places. Here, is the power spot of both spiritual and mundane nature, known as Upachandho, a place of accomplished masters, the fame of which is renowned throughout all the books of Dharma history and secular travel books of this world as the kingdom of Nepal. It is here, no more than 13 kilometers to the south of the capital, that he founded the Glorious Grove of Vidyadhara Siddhas, the practice center at Yanglesho, which is the marvelous site where the precious master of Uddiyana performed the sadhana of the great glorious Vajra Kumara and attained the supreme accomplishment of Mahamudra.
At Godavari that is counted among the 24 major places, he also established the practice center known as the Sanctuary for Accomplishing the Supreme Samadhi of Unexcelled Luminosity. At Yolmo, a major sacred place encircled by snowy ranges, which has been foretold in the Avatamsaka Sutra and in the Chronicles of Padma found in the Seven Profound Cycles, he established the practice center and temple known as Kunsang Choling.
In Sikkim that lies to the south of Tibet, which was presently visited by Padmasambhava and is regarded as the king among hidden lands, he built Pakyong Katok Monastery. And at the opening to this sacred valley, near Darjeeling, at the distance a traditional hermitage is situated from a city, he built the practice center Kundrol Osel Tse that is connected to his monastery Puntsok Ngayab Choling.
Moreover, in the hidden valley of Langdrak in Bhutan, the terma place that has been visited by numerous great beings including the great terton Dorje Lingpa, Pema Lingpa and Sherab Mebar, you find Shar Kunsang Ling, a place that is counted among the omniscient Longchen Rabjam's eight Sanctuary Seats. Not far from there was the residence of Longchenpa's son, the prince and tulku Drakpa Özer, which our master subsequently restored by building the practice center Ngesang Tagten Ling.
In this way, he has constructed places for spiritual practitioners to congregate, consisting of temples and shrines, in sacred places and remote mountainsides belonging to various countries and hereby revived the Buddhadharma in the Dark Age. Never involved in deceptive schemes in the pursuit of material gain by catering to the living and the dead, he has lived in harmony with the conduct of the sublime forefathers and spent his life exclusively of keeping the lifestyle of the true renunciant.
In the Tokjo of Jadrin Ngon Dawa you find these lines:
Sangye Dorje, meaningful to encounter,
A lord of yogis who engages in Secret Mantra,
Will impart the instructions on the profound path to all the fortunate.
For quite a few fortunate men and women, whose former merit and aspirations have opportunely ripened, and for the many retreatants completing the set three years and three fortnights, our master has vastly unfurled white canopies of the excellent activity of bestowing the profound instructions of personal guidance in the luminous Great Perfection, the swift path for awakening to enlightenment in a single lifetime. And such activity is an act of indescribable kindness, which sustains the life-force of the Buddhadharma, both in general and in particular.
In this way he lives, and while doing so, may his life remain firm like the vajra throne and brilliant like full moon among the stars.
o – o – o
A Biographical Summary
This is an autobiography that hits the vital point of pith instruction, of me, a present-day crafty charlatan. May the masters and the Three Jewels gaze upon us!
At this junction, when I, the old father, am near the end of my 87th year and about to be 88, many people, known and unknown, who have encouraged me to write an autobiography for the sake of followers and disciples. But, seeing it as an obstacle and barrier for liberation, I don't feel the need for a heap of luring words. Taking as witness the fact that no one knows a person better than himself, I leave this Testament in Three Syllables in the manner of an advice.
The three qualities of ethics, samadhi and insight,
Untainted and proven through direct perception,
Like dry moss, free from the dampness of pretentious falsehood,
I consumed in the space of blazing fire jvala ram.
A religious façade, the jumble of materialism and Dharma,
I surely knew was not the friend of effective practice.
So I tossed the dry ashes of deceit and insensitivity
To the wind from the mountaintop, as the letter yam.
Funds given for the living and the dead, a hindrance to freedom,
And the schemes to collect, hoard and invest them to build sacred objects,
I resolved to cleanse away with the clear stream
Of renunciation, detachment and revulsion, as the element kham.
I would like to make it explicitly clear that these verses were only uttered in reply to a questioning introspection of myself and definitely not as a message to the sublime and authentic beings who perceive the truth of dharmata and spontaneously fulfill the aims of others and themselves. Rather than misunderstanding my intent and reacting with envious annoyance, please keep your hearts at ease in blissful equanimity.
Even though I and people like me are not above ordinary beings, may this cause instigators disunity and distorters of the Buddhadharma, whose conceit inflate them to the sky, to understand the truth in my words and actively seek to be mindful, careful and conscientious.
o – o – o
So he spoke.
The writings of our master, which he gave in response to requests from devoted disciples have statements that connect them with the sutras, tantras and shastras; they have correct logical structures that are in harmony with the rules for grammar, reasoning and what is based on fact; and they are intelligible in that they are combined with clarifying instruction. In short, they possess the characteristics of genuine treatises in that they have clear wording with profound meaning.
His writings on refutation of criticism, monastic history, collection of praises, pithy advice, and the cycle on the Hearing Lineage of the Great Perfection — including records of teachings, lineage history, liturgical arrangements, and practice manuals for approach, accomplishment and enactment, together with manuals for sacred dances, mandala proportions, and chants, as well as for the use of ritual implements and musical instruments — there are on the whole a number of volumes equal to the five buddha families.
It is due to my own and other disciple's negligence and lack of concern, and due to the unfortunate circumstances of turbulent times in various countries here and there, that we have not yet found the time to effectively compile and publish them. Nevertheless, I humbly beg you well-meaning, intelligent people to extend your participation in bringing forth whatever is in your custody so that we soon can include here a list of all his writings.
Let me conclude with the prayer, repeated a hundredfold times, that our master may compassionately consider us miserable beings, so wrought up within the dense darkness of the five degenerations, and let his remarkable physical presence remain as steadfast as the vajra endowed with its seven qualities, turning unceasingly the wheel of the Dharma in harmony with the aspirations and potentials of those to be tamed.
o – o – o
Concluding verses.
Though my intellect and voice are too feeble to adequately express
The Ganga-like deeds of past conquerors and bodhisattvas,
How wonderful it is, to raise up with my finger a single drop of what I have heard and seen,
As an offering to delight devoted followers!
By the goodness of this writing may the essential teachings never wane,
May the sublime holder of the doctrine to live long,
And may I and every other sentient being
Cross samsara's ocean to reach omniscient enlightenment!
Though in dearth of eloquent and refined expression, its meaning may possibly yield an excellent crop.
Without the conceit pretentious scholarship, its authentic words have a potent taste.
Free from the eight concerns and ambitious craving, its contents bear the liberating story of our master.
Though lacking sweet words to fool people, may this writing be auspicious with virtuous goodness!
This was written in order to ensure that insistent requests from many vajra brothers and sisters who since a long time told me to please write a concise biography of our lord of refuge, and based on receiving his permission. In the Long-Nying Kadu Gyamtso you find these lines:
My body and possessions I offer you.
I shall do whatever you command.
If I succeed in fulfilling it, even at the cost of my life,
Please grant me accomplishment in this life!
To quote the Kabgye Yongdu:
Cast away the thought "I cannot fulfill
The wish he explicitly stated."
When you carry it out without timidity,
You achieve, unhindered, your every aim.
Accordingly, this was written by the wandering simpleton who goes by the name Tendzin Özer, someone who sits at the lowest end of the line from the Omniscient One, the khenzur from Tralek Sang-Ngak Podrang, which is one of the largest branch monasteries of Katok. It happened in the Western year of 1999, which corresponds to the seventeenth year-cycle, Pramati in Sanskrit that is Nyoden in Tibetan, Cha Mau in Chinese, and using our country's system of the four elements, it is the year of the Female Earth Hare. It was begun in the waxing part of the cloud-filled Purvasadha month (July/August), on the sacred day the incomparable King of Sages put in motion the Dharma Wheel the first set of teachings on the Four Truths for his human retinue of the five eminent ones and a celestial gathering of 84,000 devas.
In accordance with statements in the tantras, Padmasambhava pledged to kindly accept and bestow his compassionate blessings on all devoted followers of the Old School in this world on the tenth day of every waxing moon, in general, and all trustful Tibetan disciples, in particular. In the extraordinary astrological system included in Lama Gongdu, the tenth day of the sixth month is the blessed day Guru Rinpoche miraculously took birth in a physical form endowed with the major and minor marks upon the anthers of a lotus flower in a Sindhu island. On this auspicious day, accompanied by the radiant constellation Goddess Jungdenma, this writing was completed at the first rays of the sun.
By this merit, may we in all lifetimes be protected by our glorious lord guru's compassion! Sarva dakaleyanam bhavantu! May it be virtuous! May it be virtuous! May it be virtuous!
According to the Khenpo Tendzin Özer's wish and with his explanations, Erik Pema Kunsang translated this.


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The Bollin Valley Partnership has been working for 40 years providing a Countryside Management Service within the catchment of the River Bollin.
This website shows the sites and trails we look after, events and activities you can take part in and information about the Bollin Valley Partnership
Replacement of stiles with kissing gates along the route is now complete. Replacements for missing route marking roundals have been ordered and will be replaced as soon as they arrive.
Explore our countryside parks and other sites. Information about their location, facilities and the activities available can be found on our sites and trails pages.
A list of events run by the Bollin Valley Rangers or our partner organisations can be found on the events and activities pages of this website. Most of our events can be booked online.
Help the Rangers look after the countryside on your doorstep. We run practical conservation tasks, such as Himalayan balsam pulling, as part of our events and activities program. Our Community Projects Officer also organises schools projects and special events.
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Tomorrow is my husband's birthday and I don't have anything planned for us to do. Should we go out for dinner? Should we go watch a movie? Or maybe a surprise party? But, my guess would be we'll be staying in with the family.
My husband and I have been together for almost a decade now. I'm starting to forget dates and numbers I'm suppose to remember. But, when we were dating, every time it was his birthday, I use to give him something special — an expensive gift, Cirque du Soleil tickets or a fancy dinner. Am I too lazy to make an effort now or time starts blurring away the thrill and excitement I use to feel?
One of women's goals is to get married. This is in fact their biggest goal in life. Yes, we want to have the best career as much as possible. But, finding a man to marry and to have kids with is part of our dreams, ever since we were little. Our biggest nightmare is to be all alone, childless with 20 cats in an old house with a smelly carpet. Unfortunately, the man of your dreams doesn't magically appear in the most romantic scene knocking on your door and falls in love with you at first sight. It took me a long time to find my husband. And our story is nothing like the movies at all.
The reason I was not able to prepare something special for Paul's birthday is we all ended up catching the flu. Started with the kids then to Paul then last one was me. It was beyond terrible and disgusting — vomit and diarrhea on every inch of our place. It was so far the worst days of our lives! Good thing my husband took care of us. He bought groceries, cooked food, clean the house, took care of the laundry — he handled everything.
What's it like to be married? Marriage is being with someone, who is there for you even when you are sick and disgusting. Your used-to-be boyfriend is now family — a person, who genuinely cares for your well being for the rest of your life.


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Hawaii Live-Go! Microsoft launches Honolulu admin tool for cloud and on-prem
One tool to rule them all
Microsoft on Thursday moved its 'Project Honolulu' administration tools into general availability, dubbing the system Windows Admin Center.
A web-based system (you'll need either Edge or Chrome), Admin Center bills itself as a 'hybrid IT' management tool capable of handling both on-premise servers and Azure instances, along with Windows PCs, within a single control pane.
The idea, said Microsoft, was to develop a management tool that is better able to transition between on-prem and cloud services, as well as manage cloud applications and VMs. The Admin Center brings the services together on a single control panel and give a GUI option for tasks that previously required the CLI or a remote desktop connection.
First debuting at the 2017 Ignite conference, Honolulu/Admin Center is Microsoft's successor to the System Center management platform. Admins have been able to try out Honolulu for months (Microsoft claims the preview has already had 50,000 downloads), though the shift to general availability is Microsoft's official signal the tool is now ready for prime time.
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"If you're an IT administrator managing Windows Server and Windows, you probably open dozens of consoles for day-to-day activities, such as Event Viewer, Device Manager, Disk Management, Task Manager, Server Manager – the list goes on and on," Microsoft says of Admin Center.
"Windows Admin Center brings many of these consoles together in a modernized, simplified, integrated, and secure remote management experience."
Microsoft is making the tool free for anyone with a valid Windows 10 or Windows Server license.
Admin Center is also going to boast built-in support for the upcoming Windows Server 2019 launch.
Redmond notes that Admin Center isn't yet a complete replacement, however. Microsoft says things like Active Directory, DHCP, DNS and IIS are not yet supported (you'll still need Remote Server Administration Tools for that). ®
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