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Time to Patch: HPE SSDs Will Fail After 32,768 Hours

HPE learned of the defect from the SSDs' unnamed manufacturer, and dozen of different products, including individual memory drives to server models, suffer from the bug.




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Cooler Master Blames Parents for Thermal Paste Tube Redesign

It no longer looks like a syringe, so parents can stop being suspicious their kid is doing drugs.




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Gender Gaps Alter Benefits of Extracurricular Activities, Study Finds

A new study finds that extracurricular activities have differing positive effects for rural boys compared to girls.




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Alaska Reporter Will Study Rural Education as 2nd Chronister Fellowship Recipient

Victoria Petersen, of the Peninsula Clarion on the Kenai Peninsula, will report on the challenges of rural education, especially in a state as vast as Alaska.




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Not your stereotypical missionary

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Youth League quarter-final line-up complete

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Manchester City-Barcelona, Chelsea-Porto in #UYL semis

Manchester City defeated Liverpool on penalties to set up a semi-final with Barcelona, victors at Atlético Madrid, while Porto beat Tottenham Hotspur and face Chelsea, who won at Real Madrid.




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Youth League quarter-finals full of drama

Holders Barcelona, fellow two-time winners Chelsea, Porto and debutants Hoffenheim won their quarter-finals to reach Nyon.





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Wintrust Financial Corporation Reports Record Full-Year 2019 Net Income of $355.7 million and Fourth Quarter 2019 Net Income of $86.0 million, up 8% from the Fourth Quarter 2018

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Wintrust Financial Corporation Announces Cash Dividends, Increasing Quarterly Common Stock Dividend Rate 12%

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Wintrust Financial Corporation Working Tirelessly To Support Strong Community Interest in the Paycheck Protection Program

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Fin24.com | WATCH: South Africans suggest alternatives to tax hikes

Fin24 took to the streets of Cape Town and Johannesburg asking people to share their views on Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan's Budget Speech.




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Fin24.com | WATCH: Gigaba explains the rand's drop after budget speech

Fin24's Matthew le Cordeur spoke with Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba after his maiden mini budget speech in Parliament on Wednesday. Watch.




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Fin24.com | WATCH: Three ministers who may not survive a Ramaphosa reshuffle

With Ramaphosa sworn in as president, the SA public will be watching closely to see if, and when, he reshuffles Jacob Zuma's last Cabinet.




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Ghosts and life after death

By Bishop Arthur Serratelli

One of the most famous figures of all English literature is the ghost of Hamlet’s father. Three times he appears in Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. He demands that his son settle accounts with his uncle who murdered the dead king. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Julius Caesar and Richard III, ghosts also appear. From the 3rd century B.C. Epic of Gilgamesh through Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Shakespeare and Dickens, ghosts populated the pages of literature. They have appeared in films and even starred in their own TV show, Ghost Hunters.

Are ghosts merely fictional? Do they really exist?  First Lady Grace Coolidge said that she saw Abraham Lincoln’s ghost looking out the window of the Oval Office. Many others have, likewise, reported sightings of the ghost of our 16th President at the White House. Among those claiming to have seen a spectral Lincoln are Theodore Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands and President Reagan’s daughter Maureen.

Within the Old Testament, there is the famous incident of the ghost of the prophet Samuel. In 1 Samuel 28, King Saul is facing a fierce battle with the Philistines. He wants to know the outcome; and, so he consults the witch of Endor. The spirit of the dead prophet Samuel appears and predicts Saul’s imminent defeat and death. Some commentators say that Samuel came because God allowed him to come and speak on God’s behalf (cf. Sir 46:20). Other commentators consider this incident a demonic apparition. In either case, they accept the apparition.

The New Testament gives evidence that the disciples of Jesus believed in the reality of ghosts. After the miracle of the loaves and fish, “when the disciples saw Jesus walking on the sea, they were terrified. ‘It is a ghost,’ they said, and they cried out in fear” (Mt 14:26). When the Risen Lord appeared to the disciples in the Upper Room in Jerusalem on Easter Sunday, “they were startled and terrified and thought that they were seeing a ghost. Then [Jesus] said to them, ‘Why are you troubled? And why do questions arise in your hearts? Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you can see I have’ ” (Lk 24:37-39). 

The word “ghost” simply means “spirit.” It refers to the spirit of a deceased person who has made himself or herself present to the living. According to polls taken in the last ten years, almost forty-two percent of Americans believe in ghosts. According to a recent poll, almost thirty percent of Americans say they have been in touch with someone who has died.

Stories about contact with the dead continue to fascinate us. They provoke the imagination. They manifest our awareness that there is more to reality than the physical world which we empirically experience. These reports of the spirits of those who have died clearly suggest personal survival after death. 

In her wisdom, the Church rightly condemns consulting mediums to be in touch with the dead. In fact, “all forms of divination are to be rejected: recourse to Satan or demons, conjuring up the dead or other practices falsely supposed to ‘unveil’ the future. Consulting horoscopes, astrology, palm reading, interpretation of omens and lots, the phenomena of clairvoyance, and recourse to mediums all conceal a desire for power over time, history, and, in the last analysis, other human beings, as well as a wish to conciliate hidden powers. They contradict the honor, respect, and loving fear that we owe to God alone” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2116).

As Catholics, we hold that, at death, we face an immediate judgment of our lives. If we are in the state of perfect charity, we go to heaven. If we die in the state of mortal sin (God forbid!), we suffer eternal estrangement from God in hell. And, those of us who die in the state of grace, but not in perfect charity, undergo a purification of love in purgatory before we come into the presence of God. In a word, death is not the end of our personal existence. Nor does the Grim Reaper sever our relationships with each other. All tales of ominous specters appearing from beyond the grave pale before the brilliant truth of the Risen Christ who leaves the tomb empty and joins the living and the dead in one holy Communion of Saints where we assist each other with our prayers!
 



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Hope for daughter number five

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The joy of a glass of water

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Transforming lives through literacy

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Relief for eternal life

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European forces to collide in quarter-finals

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Master the Ball: Free promotional futsal flier

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Not your stereotypical missionary

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Fin24.com | Somerset West among the Western Cape's fastest-growing property hotspots

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Fin24.com | All 3 property sectors now a buyers’ market in Western Cape - minister

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Fin24.com | What interest rate cut means for residential property market

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The Best VPN Routers for 2020

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AMD Looks to Shake Up the Data Center With 'Naples'

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AMD's Epyc 7000 Server Chips Will Soon Invade Data Centers

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Chip Maker Marvell Buys Cavium in $6B Cloud Data Center Push

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Business Choice Awards 2018: Routers and Servers

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Tired of Waiting, Apple Cancels $1B Irish Data Center

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Microsoft Puts a Data Center on the Sea Floor

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Facebook Chooses Singapore for $1B Data Center

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Illegal Data Center in Old Military Bunker Shut Down

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Google Secures 549M Gallons of Groundwater to Cool Servers

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Spend After-School Aid on School Choice for Military Families, Think Tank Argues

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Education Funding Bill Progresses in House After School Safety Money Restored

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The Role of After-School Environments in Students' Academic Performance

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Strengthening After-School Programs by Building a 'Knowledge Neighborhood'

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After-School Learning

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After School

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After School

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Student Killed During Activities After School in North Las Vegas

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After-School Programs Keep Learning Going With Student Data

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After-School Programs Enter Career-Tech Space

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How After-School and Summer Programs Can Turn a Student Around

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