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Could a microwave save your electronics during an EMP attack?

Could a microwave save your electronics during an EMP attack?

You sleep with your iPhone beside you, waking up in the middle of the night to check your e-mail? Feel anxious when separated from your smartphone?

An electromagnetic pulse (EMP) is a wave of energy that follows nuclear detonations and threatens to fry your personal electronics. Could something already in your abode save your electronics from an early demise? Let’s answer this question as we look at the nature of electromagnetic pulses and if your microwave could prevent damage from an energy attack.

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Phototherapy vs. Biologic Treatment | Daavlin

While biological drug therapies have become popular in the last few years, it is important to evaluate the safety of these medications. Every one of the following drugs has had numerous adverse effects and deaths where the drug was listed as the primary suspected cause.

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Today is National Former POW Recognition Day and Winston Churchill Day http://waynechurch.net/UnerasedHistory/?p=641Unerased History - Things to learn today - April 9th | UnerasedHistoryLearn about the Alaska Purchase, 1st public library, General Lee surrenders, dried milk, USS North Carolina, Bataan Death March, Journey of Reconciliation, Creature from the Black Lagoon and the 26 me…

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Survey Says Bosses Fear Being Filmed By Employees - Slashdot

New submitter Cazekiel writes “If you think your boss is a fearless, miserable beast whose only worries lie in how well his company or business competes, think again. The ‘Business Video Behavior Project’ survey conducted by Qumu reveals that those in-charge are growing more and more paranoid about something the Average Joe fears just walking down the street nowadays: employees who will ‘secretly film him with his metaphorical pants down and then post the footage for public delectation.’ It would seem that it doesn’t matter if you’re powerful, wealthy and lording over hundreds of cubicles; they know the internet exists, everyone has a cell phone camera and thick wallets don’t make discarded banana peels magically move out of their path.” The company that paid for the study, note, promises to “securely distribute business video simultaneously over multiple Edge routes,” so they probably don’t mind some workplace paranoia.

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Website Uses Social Media to Pressure Deadbeat Debtors to Pay

The Debtor List (www.thedebtorlist.com) is a free service that provides a searchable, public database where users can submit a claim for debt(s) owed to them. Once a claim has been filed, users use social media tools like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Google +1 to share the claim with their social network. The power of social media circulates the claim in the web and motivates the debtor(s) to pay.

The Debtor is informed of the claim via email and has a chance to dispute the claim. Otherwise the claim remains searchable on the website for 5 years.

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Familiarity Breeds Contempt – 2012 Update « Obviously Brilliant
IBM’s Big Data Challenge: A Telescope That Generates More Data Than the Whole Internet
Why Groupon is poised for collapse | Eric Rice, Lone Wolf Inc
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It always looked great for consumers but bad for business. They sure were smart to not take the $6 billion offer from Google weren’t they?

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Another Example of You Get What You Pay For « Obviously Brilliant

A lady I know bought a ring off of one of those shows on TV. She was excited right until it showed up. The band was soooo thin it looked like a wire… and a thin one. The emeralds were the size of a pin head and she was pissed. I asked what she paid for this spectacular ring. She said it was only $149.

Who wants the lowest price for the highest quality?

Well who in the hell doesn’t? I want a Rolls Royce for the cost of a BMW 325i. I want a McMansion for the cost of a bungalow. I want a private jet at the cost of a Piper Cub.

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Funeral Home Employee Fingered For Corpse Abuse

Toledo, OH - Lawrence J. Clement, 57, has turned himself in to Toledo police after having been told that there was an active warrant for his arrest. This in response to allegations that he was discovered touching a corpse ‘in a sexual manner’ while working at a funeral home.

Police say Clement – of Temperance Michigan – had “sexual contact by means of touching the erogenous zone” of Brenda Shular-Cameron, 51. Shular-Cameron had died Sunday of multiple organ failure. Shular-Cameron’s family was reportedly told that another funeral home employee witnessed Clement “fondling” the woman’s corpse.

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