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Hello again, Latest media resources say that Twitter is planning to have a button to report abuse with every Tweet. They have introduced a button for reporting abuse on their latest iPhone app and want to expand this function to Twitter proper. Mr. Tony Wang, head of Twitter’s UK operations said ‘we will suspend accounts; once reported to us found to be in breach of our rules.’ All this, of course, prompted by abusive messages against Ms. Caroline Perez, freelance journalist, who had successfully campaigned to have some women appear on English Banknotes – Jane Austen will appear on the new 10 ten pound note in 2017, accodrding to media sources. Reports vary as to how man people signed petitions for Twitter to change their ‘reporting abuse’ procedures from 12,500 – 50,000. A 21 year-old man was yesterday arrested in Manchester and held for questioning according to media sources. Feminist theologian, Ms. Vicky Beeching, cautions that we ‘take a step back’ when dealing with technology, reminding us that it is only a tool. Saying that in the overall scheme of things surely it is how we use technology that matters according to media sources. Solve these conundrums: If fire fighters fight fires and crime fighters fight crime, what do freedom fighters fight? A patient is rushed into the emergency ward of the Conundrum National Hospital after a horrific road crash, and is in urgent need of an operation to save his life. The surgeon on duty walks into the room and says ‘Oh my God that’s my SON! I can’t operate on him’, but the surgeon was not the boys father. How could this be? Answers tomorrow! Answers to yesterday’s stuff: A candle. It can have a hole. There’s no stairs in a bungalow. Asn umbrella. INSPIRATION: Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. – Albert Einstein On this day: 579 – Benedict I ends his reign as pope 657 – St. Vitalian begins his reign as Pope succeeding Eugene I 1419 – Anti-Catholic Hussites, followers of executed reformer, Jan Hus storm Prague town hall and throw the judge, the mayor and seven-thirteen councillors out the windows. All were killed by the fall or slaughtered by the mob outside. 1650 – Prince Willem II occupies Amsterdam. 1733 – The Society of Freemasons opens its first American lodge in Boston. 1836 – The first English newspaper was printed in Hawaii. Words to the wise: That’s right. ‘Taint yours and ‘taint mine.’ - Mark Twain agreeing with a friend’s comment that the money of a particular person was ‘tainted.’ Sacred Space: Health is the greatest gift, Contentment the greatest wealth Faithfulness the best relationship Smile a while: What pet is always found on the floor? A carpet When is a chair like a fabric? When it’s sat in. Did you hear about the boy who was named after his father? He was called ‘Dad’. Ciao Bellissimo Valerie