Day: October 18, 2024

Prayer for God’s Guidance: Prayer of the Day for Saturday, October 19, 2024 #Pray

Father in Heaven,
You made me Your child
and called me to walk in the Light of Christ.
Free me from darkness
and keep me in the Light of Your Truth.
The Light of Jesus has scattered
the darkness of hatred and sin.
Called to that Light,
I ask for Your guidance.
Form my life in Your Truth,
my heart in Your Love.
Through the Holy Eucharist,
give me the power of Your Grace
that I may walk in the Light of Jesus
and serve Him faithfully.

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Picture of the day
Today is Durga Puja, an annual Hindu festival originating in the Indian subcontinent which reveres and pays homage to the Hindu goddess Durga and is also celebrated because of Durga’s victory over Mahishasur.
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30+ of the Best Dungeons and Dragons Memes of the Week (October 18, 2024) #Fun

Like many things, DnD is as good as what you put into it. Like with therapy, if you’re going to be purposefully withholding and commit to not applying or listening to anything your therapist tells you, then you’re probably not going to get that much out of it. DnD is only as good as what you’re willing to give to it as a player. You need a willing, inventive, and quick-on-their-feet dungeon master, you need players who are creative and excited to role-play, and you need a schedule that makes it possible for you to meet up every once in a while. 

And why is that the hardest out of the 3 to achieve? People have such busy schedules. It’s like, can we make a little time for acting like a wizard every week? Is that too much to ask? But in the meantime, you have these memes to keep you company.

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‘You know this call cost more than your meal, right?’: Traveling businessman works a 14-hour shift then uses a long-distance phone call to the bean-counters to prove an expensive point about meal reimbursements #Fun

This traveling businessman had had enough of their silly company policy because after a 14-hour shift and with no motivation to go out to a restaurant, this worker pointed out the flaws in his micromanager’s meal reimbursement rules.

If you’ve ever traveled for work, you know it’s no vacation. 

Somehow, traveling employees end up working egregiously long hours, awaiting micromanager’s orders, and eating takeout for every meal. While this is a dream for some, it’s a nightmare for homebodies and anyone who enjoys a home-cooked meal every now and then. But when the guy in this next story, a businessman out of the country for work, got home from a terribly long day, all he wanted was a simple meal delivered to his hotel room. Per company policy, and because he had a helicopter manager, the guy was forbidden to order room service–no matter what! 

So instead of paying out of pocket, the employee played out his patience on a long-distance phone call, waiting for 10 minutes on hold for his micromanager to approve a single meal reimbursement, accruing an insane amount of cellular fees for the sake of proving a point. Keep scrolling for this delicious compliance that ended in an exhausted worker getting to put his feet up for a change on an out-of-town shift.

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Imagining the Future

An unidentified illustration of NASA’s space shuttle. The space shuttle fleet flew 135 missions and helped construct the International Space Station between the first launch on April 12, 1981 and the final landing on July 21, 2011. There were five orbiters: Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour.

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Does the Sun Host a Black Hole at Its Center? #Paranormal

In 1971, Stephen Hawking suggested that a mini black hole from the early universe could be lurking at the center of the sun. His proposal was extended in 1975 by Don Clayton and collaborators who suggested that the power generated by the infall of matter onto such a black hole could explain the observed deficit in neutrinos of the electron flavor from the Sun. This deficit was known at that time as the solar neutrino problem, formulated by calculations of my early mentor, John Bahcall. Having a second power source in addition to nuclear fusion would have naturally reduced the…

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Tanzania: Who Is Tundu Lissu? Tanzania’s Opposition Leader Is Fighting for Change in the Face of Fresh Attacks On Political Freedoms #AfricaNews #Africa

[The Conversation Africa] Tundu Lissu has become the face of opposition in Tanzania following his defiant and unrelenting criticism of the government. Since he came into the national limelight in 1995 when running for a parliamentary seat, Lissu has been a champion of democracy and human rights. He has taken on the ruling elite, exposing corruption and demanding accountability. This almost cost him his life in 2017.

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Yahya Sinwar’s death: Is it the ‘beginning of the end’ for Hamas? -Times of India- #timesofindia #India #News

Yahya Sinwar, Hamas leader in Gaza, was killed by Israeli forces on October 17, 2024, in southern Gaza. Sinwar had masterminded last year’s deadly attack on Israel. His death leaves Hamas without a clear leader, creating uncertainty in Gaza’s future. Israeli PM Netanyahu called it a major victory and a crucial step towards ending the war.

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