Hocus Pocus

Hoax 

Hocus Pocus: Mislead/Deceive/Dupe

Christmas: Hocus Pocus 

December 25 

Date was chosen to counter Pagan festivities connected with Winter Solistice 

Saturnalia To Christmas 

Saturnalia To Sol Invictus To Christmas 

Sol Invictus To 12 th Century Europe 

First Christmas celebration in England: King Arthur in York 

Modern  Christmas: Christmas Tree

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Hocus Pocus Makes You Loose All Focus 

Kaleidoscope

Reality

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The Ruined House: Ruby Namdar

Andrew: The Ruined House 

                               Andrew’s world unravels and he is forced to question all his beliefs

 Masterpiece of modern religious literature. Religion in modern day life presenting as deep, disturbing and unresolved issues. 

"The Ruined House” ancient Jewish holiness bleeds, insistently, horrifically, into the present. 

Andrew’s story is being narrated, unusually, as part of the trajectory of the long Jewish past.

Uneasy links between that past and the present animate the visions that begin, over the course of the novel, to flood Andrew’s senses and invade his dreams, frightening and finally paralyzing him. 

Ruby Namdar

In 2014, for the first time, the award was won by a writer (Reuven Namdar) living outside Israel. Thereafter, it was decided that only candidates resident in Israel would be eligible to submit their works for the prize.

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World Cancer Day

Cancer Warning

Avoid Cancer by knowing Cancer 

Current Events

Knowing Cancer: Obesity

For millennials, cancers fueled by obesity are on rise, study says

"The risk of cancer is increasing in young adults for half of the obesity-related cancers, with the increase steeper in progressively younger ages," said co-author Ahmedin Jemal, who is the vice president of the Surveillance and Health Services Research Program for the American Cancer Society. 

The study, published in The Lancet Public Health, examined data on 12 obesity-related cancers between 1995 and 2014, as well as 18 common cancers not associated with weight. They found a disturbing trend among adults age 24 to 49.

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Volume

Volume: Amount of space an object takes up

Human Body: 70 % Water

Hypovolemia

Loss of Blood and Fluids 

Hypovolemia To Hypovolemic Shock

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Eve Drop

Eve Eavesdrop

Word Origin 

Word In Context

In this day and age its hard not to eavesdrop

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Current Events

US intelligence warns China is using student spies to steal secrets

Beijing is leaning on expatriate Chinese scientists, businesspeople and students  of roughly 350,000 from China who study in the US every year -- to gain access to anything and everything at American universities and companies that's of interest to Beijing, according to current and former US intelligence officials, lawmakers and several experts.

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