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Using Popular Culture as Christians
Lights, Camera...Faith!: A Movie Lectionary, Cycle A
Eyes Wide Open: Looking for God in Popular Culture
Beyond the Mirror: Reflections on Death and
At the Wellspring: Jesus and the Samaritan Woman
The Poem as Sacrament: The Theological Aesthetic of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Christ for All People: Celebrating a World of Christian Art
The Nurse's Calling: A Christian Spirituality of Caring for the Sick
LIGHTS, CAMERA...FAITH!: A Movie Lectionary,
Cycle A, by Peter Malone, M.S.C., with Rose Pacatte,
F.S.P. Pauline Books & Media. 393 pp. $24.95.
EYES WIDE OPEN: Looking for God in Popular
Culture, by William D. Romanowski. Brazos Press. 171
pp. $12.99.
Reviewed by MICHAEL J. DALEY, who teaches at St. Xavier
High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has a B.A. in theology
from Xavier University (Ohio) and an M.A. in religious studies
from Villanova University (Pennsylvania). His articles and
book reviews have appeared in St. Anthony Messenger,
Momentum, Catholic Update, Youth Update and Religion
Teacher's Journal.
ONE THING EVERY first-year teacher learns is the adage:
"In order for students to go through your door, you first
have to go through theirs." If there is to be any learning,
then the teacher must be aware of and perhaps use things
that the students are seeing at the movies and on TV, listening
to on the radio and their CD players, or reading in books
and magazines. All of this is done in the attempt to draw
them to the teacher's goal: the door of truth. This process
can and, given the day in which we live, must also be applied
when it comes to the intersection of faith and culture.
So, put another way, "In order for the door of faith to
be entered, the door of culture must first be opened."
It is with this premise in mind that Lights, Camera...Faith!:
A Movie Lectionary, Cycle A should be read and used.
The authors, Father Peter Malone, president of Signis, the
new Catholic organization for cinema, TV, radio and electronic
media and a member of the Pontifical Council for Social
Communications, and Sister Rose Pacatte, a media-literacy
education expert and director of the Pauline Center for
Media Studies, are serious about the possibility of creating
a dialogue between faith and culture through the use of
movies. They realize that film, like the Gospels, speaks
to the human condition, which cries out for meaning.
This book was born when a friend challenged Father Malone:
"Why don't you find a movie that links to the Sunday Gospel?
It might make a good homily."
Lights, Camera...Faith! is the first in a three-part
series, which follows the Lectionary cycles A, B and C used
by the Catholic Church and other Christian denominations.
Each chapter presents the readings for that Sunday, followed
by a synopsis of the paired movie, commentary on the film,
dialogue with the Gospel, key scenes and themes from the
movie, and ends with questions for reflection and conversation.
It includes not only Sundays, but also feast days and national
holidays, like Thanksgiving and Mother's Day.
So whether it's Terminator or It's a Wonderful
Life, the drama of popular culture is used as a bridge
to connect us with the drama of the Massthe life,
death and resurrection of Jesus.
Before turning to Lights, Camera...Faith!, though,
it may prove beneficial to have a better understanding of
why popular culture should be used in the first place to
search for, connect us with and comment upon faith. This
is the goal of Eyes Wide Open: Looking for God in Popular
Culture, by William D. Romanowski, professor of communication
arts and sciences at Calvin College. In it he wants to provide
the reader with a "fascinating, easy-to-read guide for interpreting
and evaluating popular culture as a Christian."
Romanowski begins by acknowledging that popular culture
is part of our lives. Its presence is here to stay. This
is perhaps illustrated best by that most significant anniversary
recently "celebrated"the 20th anniversary of MTV.
For Romanowski, though, it's not the presence of popular
culture which is problematic but our response to it.
Arguing "that we have not thought deeply enough about the
nature of popular art and its role as a cultural communicator,"
Romanowski believes this "...leaves us with very little
to contribute to the discourse about popular art and culture."
Neither reviling nor embracing it, Eyes Wide Open
echoes the refrain of "looking for God in popular culture."
He stresses that "Christians have to be actively engaged
with culture: studying it, discerning positive and negative
aspects, and working to redeem it." If this is not done,
the shadow side of popular cultureits consumerism,
violence, individualism and privatization of life and religionwill
carry the day.
Eyes Wide Open allows us the opportunity to discover
what our response to popular culture iscondemnation,
appropriation or consumptionor should be as Christians.
Romanowski takes seriously the possibility that some expressions
of popular art have serious application and comment on our
At the same time, Romanowski challenges us to consider
what process of discernment we bring to popular artwhy
do we watch what we do; what stories (or myths) are presented
through the music, magazines and movies of popular culture?
Taken together, Lights, Camera...Faith! and Eyes
Wide Open serve as powerful aids in allowing us to respond
to popular culture not as passive consumers but as active
believers. There is something here for all who are concerned
about the direction of our children and the culture which
influences them. They should be a welcome resource for allparents,
teachers, homilists, adult religious educators and youth
ministerswho seek to make the Gospel relevant and
meaningful in today's popular culture.
You can order LIGHTS, CAMERA...FAITH!: A Movie Lectionary,
Cycle A and EYES WIDE OPEN: Looking for God in Popular
Culture from St.
Francis Bookshop.
BEYOND THE MIRROR: Reflections on Death
and Life, by Henri J.M. Nouwen. Crossroad Publishing
Company. 93 pp. $14.95.
Reviewed by MARY LYNNE RAPIEN, wife, mother, grandmother, clinical counselor, bereavement minister, catechist and homily writer for St. Anthony Messenger Press.
NO ONE COULD EVER accuse Henri Nouwen of living an unreflective
life. In fact, he shares his reflections during and following
major "interruptions," as he calls them, by writing books.
This slender sharing is just such a work, written after
an accident that brought him to death's door. He was hit
by the mirror of a passing truck while walking on an icy
road in 1989.
Robert Durback gives the value of the book in his Foreword.
He says, "Led by Nouwen, we can walk through our mirrors
into the real world of our true selfhood, designed by a
loving God and destined for a future beyond our imagining."
In Beyond the Mirror, Nouwen draws us into his intense
religious experience, to a new freedom, a deeper realization
of God's unconditional love, of the divine presence, "the
Lord of my life, saying, 'Come to me, come.'"
Nouwen shares that it was not the fear of leaving loved
ones behind that caused him to cling to life here. He said
it was his "unfinished business." "The pain of forgiveness
withheld, by me and from me, kept me clinging to my wounded
It was in the hospital, surrounded by caring people while
totally dependent on them for his needs, that Nouwen understood
at a new level the peace and freedom of "becoming like a
little child." He says he glimpsed "beyond the mirror" and
"had a taste of the Kingdom."
Nouwen's book is easy to read in one sitting and contains
kernels of wisdom and gems of insight. Purchasing this work
is like buying a Tommy Hilfiger shirt: You get the quality,
but you pay a premium for the name. Other books that deal
with facing our mortality, like Gift of Peace by
Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, Tuesdays With Morrie by
Mitch Albom and Lessons From the School of Suffering
by Father Jim Willig, offer at least as much for the money.
You can order BEYOND
THE MIRROR: Reflections on Death and Life from St.
Francis Bookshop.
AT THE WELLSPRING: Jesus and the Samaritan
Woman, by Brother John of Taizé. Alba House.
93 pp. $9.95.
Reviewed by ANTHONY ADENU-MENSAH, O.F.M.Conv., who
studied social communications at the Gregorian University
in Rome. He did an internship at St. Anthony Messenger last
summer and has returned to Ghana to edit a Franciscan magazine,
Catholic Messenger.
ONE ALWAYS NEEDS some sort of guide to appreciate fully
the various meanings present in a piece of art. One often
hears people exclaiming, "I never thought of that," when
they come to discover something new in a familiar artistic
This is comparable to the story of Jesus and the Samaritan
woman at the well, reported in the Gospel of John. It's
really a piece of art full of meanings and calls for a guide
to point them out. Brother John of Taiz�, who spends most
of his time giving biblical introductions to young adults,
plays that role, bringing out the beauty of the episode.
In an easy-to-follow style, Brother John divides his book
into two main parts: foreground and background. But what
is remarkable about his style is his blending of Jewish
folkloric tradition and Scripture to bring out a meaning
for the modern-day reader.
He writes with the conviction that Jesus "is the tangible
expression in the world of the unseen God" and that "this
encounter with an unnamed Samaritan woman at a well...reveals
more about God and his 'thirst' for a human response to
the love he freely gives."
Brother John first situates the theme of wells and water
in the general context of Hebrew tradition and Scripture.
He uses this style to throw more light on the fact that
in Jesus one finds the continuation of God's revelation
to the Jews. To this end, three texts, which reveal a patriarchal
connection with wells, water and women, are cited.
The first is the episode of Rebekah meeting a servant of
Abraham at a well and leading to her marriage to Isaac (Genesis
24). Then there is the Jacob-Rachel encounter at a well
also ending in marriage (Genesis 29). Finally, there is
Moses who meets the daughters of Reuel at a well and later
marries one of them (Exodus 2).
It is interesting to know that water and wells play the
significant roles of "source of life; gathering place; site
of conflict and reconciliation; meeting place, notably between
a man and a woman with the view to marriage; and symbols
of a God who takes care of his people."
The second part of the book is devoted to a step-by-step
treatment of the episode between Jesus and the Samaritan
woman with a style that captures the attention of the reader.
Never abandoning the rich Jewish traditional background,
Brother John leads the reader to the understanding that
Jesus is "the fullness of what these symbols [wells and
water] always wished to communicate."
Through the use of questions intended as points for reflection,
the reader is led to prayer and to action, the goal of the
many young adults who flock to Taiz� every year. Years of
encounter with them show in the writings of Brother John
and especially in this book. It is really a wellspring from
which one can draw inspiration and strengthen Christian
life. No one can read it and remain untouched by the words.
You can order AT THE WELLSPRING: Jesus and the Samaritan
Woman from St.
Francis Bookshop.
THE POEM AS SACRAMENT: The Theological Aesthetic of Gerard Manley Hopkins
by Philip A. Ballinger. William B. Eerdmans. 272 pp. $30.
Reviewed by the REV. DONNA SCHAPER, pastor of Coral Gables Congregational Church in Miami, Florida. Prior to that, she was the western area minister for the Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ.
HOPKINS IS WELL-KNOWN for two very complex terms of a spiritual
nature. One is inscape, the other is instress.
Both are words Hopkins coined himself so that he could say
what he wanted to say. Spell-check hates both words: it
keeps substituting unstress or escape. Neither
manages to get close to the spiritual security implied by
the deep internality Hopkins means by these words. Both
refer to internal strength, grounded by God, what people
mean by "guts" or "belly." And then both, though different,
mean more.
In "Wreck of the Deutschland," one of Hopkins's poems,
we get as close to what he is trying to say as possible:
"Since tho' he is under the world's splendor and wonder
His MYSTERY must be stressed, instressed
For I greet him the days I meet him, and bless when I understand."
The meaning of these words is terribly important to the
preacher. It is where our deepest parts meet God in a mysterious
salvation- and security-giving encounter. It is conversion
from our deep insides.
Hopkins's goal as a poet was to bring beauty back to faith.
He believes we can access God by using our senses. He achieves
the goal by showing what he sees poetically. Whether it's
through sea or sunset, or human interaction with the divine,
Hopkins writes a sacramental poetry. He shows what God is
up to in creation.
From God's point of view, the issue is sacramental, normally
defined as the outer experience of an inner grace.
Ballinger's survey of Hopkins's work is, unfortunately,
not for the novice. Such a book would be useful for preachers
and other students of the Word of God. Nevertheless, this
beautiful book of criticism takes a believer's perspective
on poetry often only approached aesthetically. In that approach,
the book finds its value.
Hopkins is a linker, a maker of matches. He was trying
to match faith to beauty, and this is not an easy task.
You can order THE POEM AS SACRAMENT: The Theological
Aesthetic of Gerard Manley Hopkins from St.
Francis Bookshop.
CHRIST FOR ALL PEOPLE: Celebrating a World of Christian Art
edited by Ron O'Grady. Orbis Books. 159 pp. $39.95.
Reviewed by JEANNE KORTEKAMP, art director of St. Anthony Messenger.
HOW DO WE see Jesus today? This is the question that is explored
in Christ for All People through an examination of
Christian art in a variety of media.
The book begins with a brief overview of historical depictions
of Jesus (16 pages). These images and others like them have
shaped our perceptions of how we see God. Who is not familiar
with the Jesus in DaVinci's Last Supper or in Michelangelo's
The bulk of this book, however, deals with contemporary Christian
art from around the world. And that is exactly what will fascinate
readers. For we have become so accustomed to classic European
religious art that we tend to forget that it was created for
a specific audience in a particular time and place.
As the reader leafs through the pages of the book, it becomes
quite evident that Jesus is much more than the familiar presentations
of him. I found myself not only seeing Jesus in new ways but
also asking over and over, "Who is this artist? What is her
background? Where does he live? When was this piece of art
created? What is the story behind this art?"
The commentaries of the international writers that accompany
the images create a context and illuminate each piece.
In the mural by Tanzanian artist Charles S. Ndege, Jesus
Meets the Women of Jerusalem, Jesus and the women appear
as Africans. Jesus embraces his cross as the women kneel with
their children in the road before him, weeping and wailing.
Do they cry for him or for the pain of their own lives? Both
Two paintings entitled The Good Samaritan place the
scene in Latin American countries in the 1980s. The one by
Rudolfo Arellano depicts a Nicaraguan setting; the other by
Josu� Sanchez Cerron is Peruvian. The story takes on a whole
new dimension when we see it in the context of these countries
where the people have suffered so much. What fate befell this
stranger found lying on the road? Have we not viewed this
very scene in the photos of journalists who bring us the stories
of massacres?
To my delight, another side of Christ's humanity is brought
forth in a paper collage by Kim Jae Im of Korea. In very simple
shapes of torn paper, Jesus smiles broadly as his hands rest
on the heads of a young boy and girl. How refreshing to see
the evidence of his pleasure in these little ones! In contrast
to this abstract image, the adjacent page shows in great detail
Jesus blessing the children in a pen-and-wash drawing by Ketut
Lasia of Indonesia. Whereas the children in the paper collage
could be any children, the children in the pen-and-wash drawing
are definitely Asian.
Gazing at a crucifixion scene in a tapestry entitled I
Will Choose Life by Swedish artist Sandra Ikse raised
many questions in my mind. A woman's face appears at the head
of the cross. Beneath her face are the faces of a man, two
young children, a child in the womb and a blank face. At the
foot of the cross are the profiles of an older man and woman,
and the outline of a mother cradling her baby over the face
of a boy. The making of the tapestry became a tool for healing
from a tragic event in the life of the artistthe drowning
of her four-year-old son. This is her personal cross with
the hope for new life, the baby in the womb, anchored firmly
in the center.
The good news of Christ for All People is that, whether
we live in Jerusalem or Chicago, Jesus can be found. As the
works of these artists show, people will seek him and find
him in the faces that surround them. Our God is alive and
present to usand that is good news, indeed!
You can order CHRIST FOR ALL PEOPLE: Celebrating a World
of Christian Art from St.
Francis Bookshop.
THE NURSE'S CALLING: A Christian Spirituality of Caring for the Sick
by Mary Elizabeth O'Brien, Ph.D., R.N. Paulist Press. 141 pp. $11.95.
Reviewed by KATHLEEN J. WILKINS, R.N., B.S.N., whose 25-year nursing career has included the surgical floor, hemodialysis and ICU/CCU. For the past 10 years she has worked as a surgical nurse in the operating room, and now at Bethesda North Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio.
IN THE BOOK The Nurse's Calling: A Christian Spirituality
of Caring for the Sick, Mary Elizabeth O'Brien shares
her experiences as a nurse, as well as her religious background,
to offer job-related inspiration. O'Brien deftly takes some
of her favorite passages from the Old and New Testaments and
shows how they are reflected in the nursing profession of
Many of the stories are from O'Brien's personal experiences,
but she also uses experiences and thoughts on caregiving from
other medical professionals. She includes quotations from
religious leaders and saints to support and add dimension
to each chapter's theme.
O'Brien demonstrates that caring for the sick has been as
important throughout history as it is now. "From the time
of Jesus, Christian nursing of the sick has been guided by
a spiritual call to care. This spiritual ministry was directed
especially toward the care of the poor and the vulnerable:
'For I was ill and you cared for me. Amen, I say to you, whatever
you did for these least brothers of mine, you did for me'
(Matthew 25:35-36,40)."
In a later chapter O'Brien empathizes with today's nurses
who are continually aware of the cost restrictions put on
the organizations they work for. "When cost reduction is mandated,
nursing is often one of the first services affected....Nurses
are concerned that they will be required to focus on simply
getting the work done rather than on truly caring for patients."
It is nice to hear a word of sympathy, yet O'Brien goes on
to show examples of nurses rising above those constraints
to meet more than just the physical needs of their patients.
She also reminds nurses how to "touch with love" and shares
several biblical quotations exemplifying Jesus' touching and
Perhaps the most inspirational message comes in a deeply
moving prayer offered before the book even begins. "The Sacred
Covenant: A Nurse's Prayer" reminded me of how special this
calling can be. I was reinvigorated with the spirit of why
I chose this profession. It helped me to see God in each of
my patients. Now my care seems a little more loving and a
little less like work.
Caregivers in any walk of life can draw strength and inspiration
from the stories and biblical quotations.
You can order THE NURSE'S CALLING: A Christian Spirituality
of Caring for the Sick from St.
Francis Bookshop.
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City Manager Doug Friend, Department of Public Safety Director Drew Juden and Mayor Jerry Pullen, pictured from left, look over preliminary floor plans for a proposed new DPS headquarters building Monday.
(Photo by Scott Welton, Staff)
(Photo by Scott Welton, Staff)
Building would be located near new BMU
SIKESTON -- City officials will soon get a firm price on what it would cost for a new Sikeston Department of Public Safety headquarters.
After about a year of fine-tuning, city officials are expecting to receive building plans from the Dille and Traxel architectural firm in Poplar Bluff by the end of the month.
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I just turned off the Patriots – Ravens game and headed on over to Family Guy, where I caught this little gem. Consider it bonus Lee-Jackson Day material
Family Guy's Lee LogsJanuary 20, 2013 @KevinLevin
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Insurance Companies Cancel Thousands of Policies
Some Policies Targeted
Both Independence and Highmark are cancelling so-called "guaranteed issue" policies, which had been sold to customers who had pre-existing medical conditions when they signed up. Policyholders with regular policies because they did not have health problems will be given an option to extend their coverage through next year.
Consumer advocates say such cancellations raise concerns that companies may be targeting their most costly enrollees.
They may be "doing this as an opportunity to push their populations into the exchange and purge their systems" of policyholders they no longer want, said Jerry Flanagan, an attorney with the advocacy group Consumer Watchdog in California.
Insurers deny that, saying they are encouraging existing customers to re-enroll in their new plans.
"We continue to cover people with all types of health conditions," said Highmark spokeswoman Kristin Ash.
She said some policyholders who may have faced limited coverage for their medical conditions will get new plans with "richer benefits" and the policies "in most cases, will be at a lower rate."
Paula Sunshine, vice president of marketing with Independence, said the insurer hopes the cancelled policyholders will "choose Blue when they decide on a new plan."
Higher Costs?
Some receiving cancellations say it looks like their costs will go up, despite studies projecting that about half of all enrollees will get income-based subsidies.
Kris Malean, 56, lives outside Seattle, and has a health policy that costs $390 a month with a $2,500 deductible and a $10,000 in potential out-of-pocket costs for such things as doctor visits, drug costs or hospital care.
As a replacement, Regence BlueShield is offering her a plan for $79 more a month with a deductible twice as large as what she pays now, but which limits her potential out-of-pocket costs to $6,250 a year, including the deductible.
"My impression was ...there would be a lot more choice, driving some of the rates down," said Malean, who does not believe she is eligible for a subsidy.
Regence spokeswoman Rachelle Cunningham said the new plans offer consumers broader benefits, which "in many cases translate into higher costs."
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Healthcare Reform: Insurers Drop, Upside for Drugmakers?
Health care stocks slid when Sen. Olympia Snowe (R., Maine) announced she would vote for the health reform bill that just passed the Senate Finance Committee. And following the official vote moving the bill out of committee, health shares moved even lower. In fact, now the S&P Health Care Sector index is the worst-performing segment of the S&P 500, taking over for the financials which were the worst performers for most of the day.
Within the healthcare index, insurers are seeing the steepest declines. Aetna, United Health and Coventry Health are bringing up the rear, down more than 3.5%. That's slightly worse than Cigna, which is down just under 3%. Of course the Senate bill has the potential to hit more than just insurers, with drug companies the second industry most likely to be touched if a bill becomes law.
That impact, however, might not be all bad, according to a note out today from UBS equity analysts. For one thing, the drug companies have already worked to strike deals with the government that should help the industry avoid the most potentially painful potential parts of a bill.
But there's also the distinct possibility that boosting the total number of insured Americans could result in a surge of sales, UBS says. "A higher number of lives under insurance coverage — those with insurance tend to take higher number of prescriptions compared to the uninsured — could be a boost to earnings in the future," UBS analysts write, adding that once the details of the plan are fleshed out and investors become more comfortable with the idea, "large-cap pharma might benefit disproportionately given that the final impact from reform in our view, is unlikely to be as bad as feared."
In the meantime, investors don't seem convinced. The Standard & Poor's pharmaceutical index is down 1.5%, outpacing the declines in the health care index and the S&P 500.


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Greg Grunberg, Digital Coupon Superhero
"Geo-location" may be the trending topic at this year's South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, but you don't need to preach the merits of using location-aware mobile services to Greg Grunberg. The actor, who currently stars as Matt Parkman on NBC's "Heroes," is also the co-creator of Yowza, an iPhone and iPod Touch app that uses GPS technology to pinpoint the user's location and deliver digital coupons, complete with scannable barcode, to their mobile device.
To celebrate Yowza's first appearance at SXSW, Grunberg and partner August Trometer targeted several Austin-based based companies to negotiate special coupons for their app, such as the indie record store Waterloo Records, the Alamo Drafthouse movie theater, Frank, a hot dog restaurant, and clothing stores Secret Oktober and Gallery D.
"We're helping brick and mortar," said Grunberg in a phone interview, who added that they sought out "cool local spots." "The app is a great example of mixing people and technology, and solving a very direct problem that helps both consumers and merchants."
Grunberg, who describes himself as "frugal," came up with the idea for a digital coupon app while shopping at Bed, Bath and Beyond with his wife in late 2008 and realizing he had left their store coupons in the car. Two months later, Trometer contacted Grunberg via his Twitter account about setting up an app for his celebrity rock band. The two began talking, realized each had previously run businesses (a frozen yogurt place for Grunberg, and a muffin/bagel store for August), and Yowza was born. The two, along with third partner Rick Yeager, remain actively involved in the day-to-day running of the company, which Grunberg balances with his acting, music, charity work, and maintenance of his Twitter account, which currently boasts of over 1.4 million followers. "Some recently asked me on Twitter when I was going to start writing about non-Yowza stuff," he said."But that's what Twitter is all about — being able to talk about and market what you want."
Yowza even co-hosted a party at SXSW on March 14, which Grunberg was unable to attend, though he adds that he was still working on the company's behalf. The previous night, his band, which includes actors Hugh Laurie and Jesse Spencer from the show "House" and is aptly named the Band From TV, performed at the grand opening of a Loehmanns's store — whose coupons are available on Yowza — in Costa Mesa, California, in exchange for donations to charity.
"It was a bit of an infomercial, and Hugh kept giving me an 'are-you-f—ing-kidding-me-face,'" said Grunberg. "But in the end, the money goes right out to these charities, which is exceptional."


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MUMBAI: Many midcap companies seem to have lived up to expectations, or so it seems from the trend in fourth quarter numbers released so far.
While it is too early to talk about the performance of India's midcap sector as a whole, analysts feel that more and more companies are expected to announce good numbers. They expect that the big picture will be positive as topline growth is likely to be higher than large cap companies. Engineering, capital goods, petrochemicals, metal and construction companies are expected to record strong earnings, according to analysts.


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Exclusive: DNA links Fair Park rapes suspect to ambush of woman, two children
[Editor's note: This item was originally posted at 2:17 p.m. We have now posted new details below about the rape investigation. We will be continuing to update this blog post.]
Accused serial rapist Van Dralan Dixson has been taken into custody.
Dixson was arrested in Baton Rouge Tuesday afternoon.
Dixson, a crime watch block captain who was accused of rape in the 1990s, has been linked by DNA to at least four of the nine sexual assaults. Police have said that lab results are pending in two additional rapes, but physical evidence is unavailable in the three remaining cases.
DNA first linked him to the Aug. 30 rape, according to police documents.
The victim in that case told police that she was walking with her 15-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son, to the DART station when a man wearing a tan stocking mask over his face approached them in the 3200 block of Meadow Street.
He pointed a gun and demanded money. The woman's 9-year-old son began to cry. The man waved a gun at the boy, "telling him to shut up," according to police documents. She told officers that she became "very frantic trying to offer her purse and find the $20 that she had with her out of fear for her children's safety."
She fumbled with her shirt, believing money to be there. When her shirt came undone, he told her two children to leave. She told them to go home and sit on the porch and wait and promised him that they wouldn't tell.
"She was terrified the Suspect would shoot them," the records state.
The man let the two children leave and she remained with him as he held her at gunpoint. He grabbed her and forced her to walk to a nearby grassy alleyway where he ordered her to pull down her pants. She did so.
He made her perform oral sex as he held a gun to her head. As he tried to rape her, she could feel him "bumping the back of her head with the gun." He then made her perform oral sex again.
The rapist then told her to walk away. She ran to her home, where she found her two children sitting on the porch. She called the police. She couldn't give police investigators a complete description of the man since he had covered his face.
A day after police publicly announced that there had been a series of rapes near Fair Park, a Crime Stoppers tip came in last Wednesday about a possible suspect who lived in the 4700 block of Baldwin Street. The tip said that the man matched the description of the rapist.
It was Dixson's address.
That same day, officers saw Dixson park a silver 2003 Silver Saturn in his garage.
When a detective approached him, he asked if he would willing to come to police headquarters to speak with investigators at police headquarters. Dixson had two outstanding Plano traffic warrants but Dixson agreed to come in willingly to talk with detectives.
During questioning, Dixson gave police a DNA sample. He also gave consent to search his bedroom closet and his vehicle. Police looked for a gun, but did not find one.
On Saturday, results came back showing that Dixson's DNA matched that of the attacker in the Aug. 30 rape.


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The Passing of the Year
by Robert Service
Stanza 4 Summary
Get out the microscope, because we're going through this poem line-by-line.
Lines 25-26
And you, O neighbour on my right
So sleek, so prosperously clad!
- Now the speaker turns to another person in the audience, someone who is sitting next to him.
- We don't learn much about who this person is, even if it's a man or a woman, but right away we can tell that his or her mood or appearance is completely different from that of the sad girl. This person is well-groomed ("sleek") and sharply dressed in fine clothes ("prosperously clad").
Line 27-28
What see you in that aged wight
That makes your smile so gay and glad?
- The speaker refers to an "aged wight." That might trip you up at first, but it's just a fancy way of saying old person and unfortunate. (Again with the gloomy mood.)
- And who is this "aged wight"? It's the Old Year, of course.
- Apparently when the speaker's "neighbor" (from line 25) looks at the Old Year up on the stage, he or she feels happy, and finds a reason to smile brightly. The speaker wonders, like he did with the Maiden, what could be making this person feel that way?
Line 29-30
What opportunity unmissed?
What golden gain, what pride of place?
- Like before, he guesses what might have happened during this happy person's year. He speculates that maybe it was some success ("an opportunity unmissed"). Maybe that success was financial ("golden gain") or social ("pride of place" means importance, being first in line, etc.).
Line 31-32
What splendid hope? O Optimist!
What read you in that withered face?
- Now we say goodbye to the "prosperous neighbor" with a last couple of lines. Just like he did with the Maiden (in lines 23-24), the speaker continues to wonder what might have happened this year to make this person an "optimist." Again, he gets no answer.
- Notice how he balances the sad girl and the happy neighbor. He puts these two stanzas side by side, and follows basically the same pattern, but in completely different moods.


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PUXICO -- Helen Blackburn, 78, died Feb. 10, 2003, at the Three Rivers Healthcare-North Campus in Poplar Bluff.
Born Feb. 15, 1924, in Clarkton, daughter of the late Huston and Lena Waltrip Champ, she had lived in the Puxico area most of her life and was a retired cook who had worked at restaurants in the Puxico area. She was a member of the Stanfield Baptist Church in Clarkton.
On March 16, 1941, she married Robert Blackburn who preceded her in death on June 13, 1973.
Survivors include: one son, Winfred Blackburn of Puxico; and two grandsons, Brad Blackburn of Puxico and Brian Blackburn of Cape Girardeau.
One grandson, Jerry Blackburn, preceded her in death on Dec. 4, 1997.
Visitation is after 6 p.m. Wednesday at Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Puxico, where services are scheduled for 11 a.m. Thursday. The Rev. Jack Allen of Clarkton will officiate.
Burial will follow in the Stanfield Cemetery in Clarkton.


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Sheridan, Wy (AP) - Authorities say two dogs are dead and a cat is still unaccounted for after a home fire in Sheridan.
Fire Chief Terry Lenhart tells The Sheridan Press that firefighters were called just before 8 a.m. Thursday and found a portion of the home engulfed in flames. About 15 percent of the home was damaged.
Investigators have not said what caused the blaze.
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"Msgr. Newton said that those priests who had joined the ordinariate would receive state pensions they had accrued while working for the Church of England"
Mgr Newton is incorrect. The pension accrued by the priests while working for the Church of England is a CHURCH pension, paid for by the Church of England. The STATE pension is paid to everyone in the country and has nothing to do the Church of England.


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Hello all,I need some help with a problem with Shooting RAW and JPEG .I have shot RAW Slot 1 JPEG slot 2 a few times before without any problems. Last night as I was doing a firework shoot I decided to use this option again to have a go at processing the firework images myself. I used the following settings1. Role played by card in slot 2 - RAW Slot 1 JPEG slot 22. Image Quality - RAW + JPEG Fine3. NEF Recoring - Type ON Loseless Compressed NEF bit depth 14 bit.Fired a test shot in my lounge and confirmed there was a RAW file on card 1 and JPEG on card 2. Went and did the firework shoot. Didn't have time to look at them when I got back. Today did some photo's with the children before they went to bed and now have downloaded both cards and I am somewhat miffed by the files on the Card from slot 1. The initial test shot was NEF then all the firework images from last night were JPEG. Tonight the photos with the children were as follows, the first 12 were NEF then 1 JPEG the 1 NEF then 22 JPEG then 1 JPEG and 1 NEF with the same File number of DSC_1789. This seems very strange as no settings were altered on the camera at all since setting it up last night. All photos on Slot 2 were JPEG and all present and correct. Any help with this would be much appreciated.
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#1. "RE: Nikon D7000 Raw Slot 1 - JPEG Slot 2" | In response to Reply # 0
Have you applied the latest "firmware" update? The initial firmware had a problem when writing to the SD cards. Sorry, but I can't remember the specific card writing issue, but it is explained at the Nikon firmware download webpage. Link is below.Added: There are many "fixes" to the firmware, but the two I've listed below may fix your issue.Modifications enabled with B firmware Ver. 1.03...•An error where the card may not have been recognized when some memory cards were used has been addressed.•The setting for Role played by card in Slot 2 may change between Overflow, Backup, and RAW Slot 1- JPEG Slot 2.U.S.A.http://support.nikonusa.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/17542/session/L2F2LzEvdGltZS8xMzUyMjMzNzg5L3NpZC9obW9nUUNhbA%3D%3D(U.K. / Ireland) https://nikoneurope-en.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/50625Edited: to add link and pertinent fixes in latest firmware update.Jerry
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#2. "RE: Nikon D7000 Raw Slot 1 - JPEG Slot 2" | In response to Reply # 1
Hi Jerry, I have done a couple of Firmware updates and am currently on A 1.02 B 1.03 L 1.002 which I presume is the latest update.
#3. "RE: Nikon D7000 Raw Slot 1 - JPEG Slot 2" | In response to Reply # 2
I updated my post, but yes you have the most recent firmware update. Strange, because the second "fix" I listed sounded like it would pertain to your issue.If you are interested there is a newer "Lens Distortion Control" update that you don't have installed (1.002 > 1.006). Link is below.U.S.Ahttp://www.nikonimglib.com/dcdata/index.html#os-windowsU.K. / Europe http://nikonimglib.com/dcdata/#os-windowsThey look like the same website, but just to be sure/safe. JerryEdited: to add additional website.
#4. "RE: Nikon D7000 Raw Slot 1 - JPEG Slot 2" | In response to Reply # 3
Thanks Jerry,I will apply that update today.Martin
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#5. "RE: Nikon D7000 Raw Slot 1 - JPEG Slot 2" | In response to Reply # 0
Any chance that you accidentally had the mode dial bumped, and were maybe between modes (U1, U2, A, S, M) or on the wrong mode when this happened? I've had similar weird things happen, and then realize that I had bumped that dial and was actually in between modes.That's about the only thought I have...
#6. "RE: Nikon D7000 Raw Slot 1 - JPEG Slot 2" | In response to Reply # 5
Hi, no the camera was on U2 all the time for both shoots.
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#7. "RE: Nikon D7000 Raw Slot 1 - JPEG Slot 2" | In response to Reply # 6
The D7000 decides what goes where and on what card. It anticipates what is coming and where its going to put it. Your RAW files in "slot 1" is only a preference. If the camera thinks its going to need more room and your card in SLOT 1 is not big enought it will put it in slot 2. I found 2 things. 1. stop using 2 different size cards and or 2. buy bigger cards. I NEVER have this problem because I do not leave my photos on my cards and I re-format everytime I unload them. Also just because it worked for you one time it shouldn't be such a shock if it doesnt work again. RAW files are never the same size from one photo shoot to the next.
#8. "RE: Nikon D7000 Raw Slot 1 - JPEG Slot 2" | In response to Reply # 7
Hi TheDraftsman, I have two 16gb cards and each card was emptied and formatted in the camera before the firework shoot, so I don't think it was a lack of space issue.


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I can take resposibility, so I'll just tom on some one
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When one is screwed over or put in an undesireable situation. Derived from Tom who was tomed in November of 2003.
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Technology update
Jul 26, 2012
AFM speeds up to film proteins
Researchers at Inserm in France are the first to have filmed moving cell-membrane proteins in real time. The imaging technique, based on high-speed atomic force microscopy, could be used to observe how these proteins interact with each other and their environment – an important field of study because a number of pathologies are thought to be linked to dysfunctional membrane proteins.
The cell membrane is the physical barrier separating a cell from its surroundings. It is selectively permeable to water, sugars and other nutritive substances and molecules, and controls what enters and leaves a cell. For it to work properly, the membrane surface is lined with special proteins whose function depends on their position and how they interact with other molecules in the cellular environment.
It is no easy task to study the structure of cell membranes and how they evolve and move at the same time. The membranes are very thin, around just 5 nm across, which makes them extremely difficult to study with conventional microscopy techniques that involve fluorescent markers that can be bigger than a membrane protein itself.
Simon Scheuring and colleagues of Aix-Marseille Université at Inserm (the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research) have now employed high-speed atomic force microscopy (AFM) to look at how membrane proteins organize themselves and how these molecules move. The technique, described in Nature Nanotechnology, is similar to traditional AFM except that the microscope cantilever is much shorter and the piezo scanner much smaller and faster. "All the elements have been miniaturized in fact and the electronics adapted to match the increased speed of the microscope," explained Scheuring.
Using their technique, the researchers succeeded in filming unlabelled proteins in the outer cell membranes of the bacteria Escherichia coli with unprecedented resolution. They also determined how the proteins interacted with one another and other molecules as they moved. "We were not only able to see one protein molecule but all of the molecules in a given membrane," Scheuring told nanotechweb.org. "This is different to fluorescence microscopy where you only observe the protein that has been tagged."
The team also found that if a protein molecule has space to move, then it moves very fast. However, if the space around the protein is crowded with other molecules, then the protein interacts with these. Such interactions are often crucial to the correct function of these proteins, says Scheuring.
The work could lead to applications in medicine, he adds. "Protein membranes are very important targets for a number of drugs so understanding how the membranes interact with these and other molecules will be crucial in further developing and improving these medicines."
The team says that it is now busy looking at more complex biological membranes using its technique.
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On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, David Brownell wrote:
> On Friday 18 April 2008, Woodruff, Richard wrote:
> > When capturing some traces with dynamic tick we were noticing the
> > interrupt latency seems to go up a good amount. If you look at the trace
> > the gpio IRQ is now offset a good amount. *Good news I guess is its
> > pretty predictable.
> That is, about 24 usec on this CPU ... an ARM v7, which I'm guessing
> is an OMAP34xx running fairly fast (order of 4x faster than most ARMs).
> Similar issues were noted, also using ETM trace, on an ARM920 core [1]
> from Atmel. There, the overhead of NO_HZ was observed to be more like
> 150 usec of per-IRQ overhead, which is enough to make NO_HZ non-viable
> in some configurations.
> > I was wondering what thoughts of optimizing this might be.
> Cutting down the math implied by jiffies updates might help.
> The 64 bit math for ktime structs isn't cheap; purely by eyeball,
> that was almost 1/3 the cost of that 24 usec (mostly __do_div64).
Hmm, I have no real good idea to avoid the div64 in the case of a long
idle sleep. Any brilliant patches are welcome


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A Ranger's Night of Rounding the Bases
History isn't always made in front of a proper audience. The official tally at Camden Yards during Tuesday's game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Texas Rangers was 11,263. That means only a scattered few got to watch Rangers slugger Josh Hamilton do something very rare, as he became just the 16th player in major-league history to hit four home runs in the same game.
Sports Illustrated's Cliff Corcoran helps to put that feat in clearer context. "Only one man has ever hit for more total bases in a single game than Hamilton's 18. That was Shawn Green, who collected 19 for the Dodgers in 2002," he writes. "Meanwhile, of the 17 men to have produced 16 or more total bases in a single game since 1918…just eight did so without making an out. Hamilton is one of those eight as well." More impressive than numbers, though, was the way Hamilton slowly turned the opposing fans into his own, as if they were picking up on the increasingly giggly vibes of his Ranger teammates. By his fourth home run, it sure sounded like every one of those 11,263 fans was cheering for the rare convergence of ability, power and opportunity. "The day Roy Halladay no-hit the Reds in the 2010 playoffs, I remember watching and thinking it would be a bigger shock if he gave up a hit than if he didn't," Danny Knobler writes for CBS Sports. "That was Hamilton on Tuesday night. When he came up in the seventh inning and again in the eighth, you'd have been more shocked if he didn't homer than if he did. And, of course, he did."
There was more to Hamilton's game than the warm feeling of a May victory: He happens to be a free agent after this season, and it seems like only a precipitous drop-off in scoring output between now and then could delay a monster contract. Hamilton's longevity has come into question because of his well-publicized struggle with drug addiction, and the fact that he's averaged 47 missed games over the last three years. But he's still younger than Albert Pujols, who recently received a 10-year, $240 million contract from the Los Angeles Angels, just one year removed from winning the American League MVP in 2010, and is currently having the best season of his already accomplished career. So, yes, he's probably going to make quite a lot of money, especially if he helps the Rangers to their third consecutive World Series berth. "When he's healthy — and he has played more than 133 games just once — there's no player capable of doing the things he can do," Richard Justice writes at MLB.com. "And to think, there was a time when almost no one thought he'd ever step foot on a Major League diamond."
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Over the last decade, the Indiana Pacers haven't been the first to do much of anything. On Tuesday, they were the only NBA team to close out its playoff series after entering the night with a 3-1 advantage. Facing an Orlando Magic squad missing Dwight Howard, the Pacers were expected to make short work of an already flawed team. But expectations didn't anticipate the way they disposed of Orlando in blitzkrieg fashion, outscoring them by 20 points in the fourth quarter en route to a 105-87 victory. Now, they have the luxury of waiting for their next opponent, which could be settled tonight as the Miami Heat look to close out the New York Knicks. They've come a long way since the Malice at the Palace incident that forced the dismantling of a championship contender. "It was, quite simply, the night The Brawl faded completely from view, the night the Pacers, patiently and marvelously rebuilt by team President Larry Bird and his front office, began to write a new chapter in franchise history," Bob Kravitz writes for the Indianapolis Star. "Has it really been that long? This was the Pacers' first playoff series victory since 2005 (over Boston), the first time they closed out a playoff series at home since the Finals run in 2000. Forever, it seems."
The other three teams looking to score the series win were left hanging, at least until Thursday. The Atlanta Hawks came as close as they could to giving away their victory to the Boston Celtics without actually doing do. Leading by one point with ten seconds left in the game, they allowed Rajon Rondo to steal their inbounds pass and bring the ball up court to look for a would-be game-winning shot. Fortunately, recently returned center Al Horford forced Rondo into fumbling the ball, allowing them to hold on. "Conventional wisdom says the Celtics should benefit from being back home and have an excellent chance to do what they should have done Tuesday," writes ESPN Boston's Chris Forsberg. "But as [Paul] Pierce lamented, the Hawks have confidence now, gutting out a must-win game and doing so with a familiar starting group that's been reassembled for the first time since January and provided the spark Atlanta coach Larry Drew had hoped for."
The Chicago Bulls and Denver Nuggets may have a similar chance against the Philadelphia 76ers and Los Angeles Lakers, respectively. The Bulls were supposed to be fine after losing star Derrick Rose to a torn anterior cruciate ligament in Game 1 of their series, as their defense was still tops in the league. But they've been truly dreadful on the offensive end since then, making their low-scoring 77-69 Game 5 victory both characteristic and somewhat unwatchable. A series comeback will require maintaining that defensively minded approach for two more games.
The Nuggets, on the other hand, can only hope to out-run and out-gun the earthbound Lakers, who aren't as young or adrenaline-driven. Despite Javale McGee's bewildering habit of obvious goaltending, his 21 points and 14 rebounds were still the engine behind Denver's tight 102-99 victory. Kobe Bryant came close to winning the game by himself, as he sometimes does, finishing with 43 points and a missed attempt to tie the score with five seconds left in the final quarter. Not that this is entirely encouraging, depending on your perspective. "Bryant can still score 43, or more, when he wants to or has to. But this is not a championship formula for the Lakers," Ken Berger writes for CBS Sports. "Bryant's sixth title, if it comes, will not be delivered on his fingertips alone. Not now; not after 16 years, and not with two of the most gifted 7-footers in the NBA smothered by double teams that simply will not loosen without someone else putting the ball in the basket."
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In a fractured media landscape, sportswriters aren't as iconic as they used to be, and may never be again. (This Fixer sheds a falsely nostalgic tear.) Reflecting on a time when listing your future occupation as "journalist" wouldn't prompt a lecture on the death of print, Grantland's Bryan Curtis tells the story of the Chipmunks, the gang of upstart sportswriters who shouted their way to prominence back in the 1960s. Led by names like George Vecsey, Larry Merchant and Stan Isaacs, they helped guide the medium into snappier territory. "Back then, morning papers like the New York Times supplied the game replay, the who-what-where-when. At an afternoon paper, you had to break some news, come up with a funny angle," he writes. "It wasn't blogging — let's not insult anyone here. But it pushed against the prevailing currents of sportswriting in the same way."
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LOST: CatAnimal Name: ZiggyDescription: Small neutered gray shorthair with yellow eyes, white patch on neck under his chin and one white whisker on the left side of his face. Last Seen: Vly Atwood Road, Stone Ridge on 7/17/14. He may have gotten into a Heritage Energy service van in the morning without being noticed. Any Heritage customers who received service on 7/17 or 7/18 please look for him. Contact Name: Diane Silvergleid
LOST: DogAnimal Name: CharleyDescription: Tan with a black muzzle. Blind in one eye. Last seen wearing his collar and dragging a green leash with pawprints.Last Seen: 7/1914Contact Name: Ed
LOST: CatAnimal Name: ZiggyDescription: Small, neutered male, solid gray with white patch on chestLast Seen: 7/17/14 on Vly Atwood Road, Stone Ridge, NYContact Name: Diane or Sue
LOST: dogAnimal Name: ScoutDescription: Male light brown lab mix., small white on chest. Very shy, young Black collar with tags call Jim 845-532-2702 or 845-750-4713Last Seen: Bostock, Shokan New YorkContact Name: Jim
LOST: dogs two medium size one black Dog one is a Brown DogAnimal Name: breeDescription: two ran off together afraid of storm on Friday July 11,2014Last Seen: Bostock Road, Shokan nyContact Name: janice
LOST: DOGAnimal Name: ScoutDescription: is a 1 year old chocolate lab mix. very sweet but FEARFUL. HE is wearing a black collar with a metal tag. Missing since July 12 Saturday Afraid of thunder Last Seen: Upper Boiceville Road in Shokan. Ran away with another dog (who stopped running) and is home now. Still missing Scout. CASH REWARDContact Name: JIM
LOST: DogAnimal Name: AnnieDescription: White poodle; 9 pounds; 13 years old; deaf; no collar; microchippedLast Seen: July 12, 2014, Route 212, Shady, between Evening of Reynolds Lane and Church RoadContact Name: Lona
LOST: REDDISH BROWN Colored PITBULL WHO IS VERY SHY CALL US DO NOT CHASE HERAnimal Name: HAZELDescription: SLENDER AND MUSCULAR SEE PHOTO RESCUED SEVERAL YEARS AGO AND VERY TIMID. AND REDDISH BROWN COLOR. WHITE ON LEFT SIDE OF FACE. Last Seen: 5 pm TODAY 6/24/2014 HURLEY NY NEAR DEWITT MILLS ROAD AND LUCAS AVENUE. WE ARE OUT LOOKING FOR HER NOWContact Name: PAUL AND SIERRA
LOST: doberminAnimal Name: zenaDescription: 6/7mo. dobie puppy wearing pink collarLast Seen: 4:00 pm 5/8/14 Hurley areaContact Name: sandi
LOST: CatAnimal Name: LeoDescription: Male, grey with black stripes, wider black double stripes on arms. Green eyes, pink nose. No collar, 14yr old active hunter. Missing bottom left fang toothLast Seen: Bearsville, ny 4/21/2014Contact Name: ivy
LOST: Brown/Grey Female Tabby CatAnimal Name: SadieDescription: Petite and sweet brown/grey female tabby cat lost off of Pond Road (off Glenford Wittenberg). She is about 2 years old. Last Seen: Off of Pond Road, Bearsville, NY on Sat. April 12.Contact Name: Pat
LOST: Female Tabby CatAnimal Name: SadieDescription: Petite, brown/grey tabby house cat. Very sweet.Last Seen: 4-12-14 off of Pond Road (off of Glenford/Wittenberg Road) in BearsvilleContact Name: Pat
FOUND: LabradoodleDescription: Beige labradoodle in ShokanLast Seen: Friday, January 31stContact Name: Kerin
FOUND: Black LabDescription: Black lab, no other markings. Very sweet female about 7-8 years old, 70 lbs.Last Seen: Zena area of Woodstock: Van Dale RoadContact Name: Alan
LOST: CatAnimal Name: Dexter (she never responds)Description: 2 year old female, has been spayed, no collarLast Seen: 12/07/13 kingston nyContact Name: Tiana
LOST: CatAnimal Name: HecabeeDescription: 10 month female all black w/small white patch on chest. Has all claws. Very friendly, loud purr.Last Seen: 12/9/13 Corner of Browning Terrace and Miller\'s Lane, near Lucas Avenue.Contact Name: David L Howells, DC
FOUND: catAnimal Name: Shinique SmithDescription: Very sweet and friendly tabby-like striped and white cat found in Stone Ridge.Last Seen: Contact Name: Shinique Smith
LOST: brown chocolate lab retrieverAnimal Name: MaggieDescription: Chocolate Brown, has a limp. she is a small female. she was at the dog sitter at 7 cardinal drive. she lives in w. Saugerties road. owner is not there. more than likely she will go to w Saugerties road looking for her owner. pls. call Deborah at 518 989 6806. she is the owners friendLast Seen: she was lost today at 7 cardinal drive, Woodstock, nyContact Name: Deborah (dog sitter: 679 5086 - Gordan
LOST: catAnimal Name: CocoaDescription: Long- haired Calico cat Name is Cocoa Very friendly Missing from Witchtree Rd. in Woodstock Missing since Sept. 30 Please call 679-6621 if found RewardLast Seen: Sept 30Contact Name: Ginny Rose
FOUND: catDescription: small grey/brown tabbyLast Seen: Stone Ridge NYContact Name: "Darlene
LOST: catAnimal Name: CocoaDescription: Calico, long-haired multi-colored cat. Very sweet and affectionate.Last Seen: 9/30/13 Witchtree Road in ZenaContact Name: Ginny Rose
LOST: CatAnimal Name: MagwaDescription: Two year old male Havana Brown cat. Short hair, coat is brown, green eyes. He is neutered and was last seen wearing a brown, glittery collar with a bell on it.Last Seen: 09/12/2013 Lower Byrdcliffe Road Woodstock, NYContact Name: Vanessa
FOUND: CatAnimal Name: Found so has no name!Description: Small black and white cat/large kitten. Male. Last Seen: 690 Zena Road, Woodstock, NY Found September 6, 2013Contact Name: Karen Walker
FOUND: Black and White KittenDescription: Maybe around three to four months old - black and white kitten on Zena Rd. in Woodstock, NY on September 6, 2013.Last Seen: Contact Name: Karen Walker
FOUND: CatDescription: Black and white kitten. Found in Zena. Last Seen: Found at my house Friday Septmber 6, 2013Contact Name: Karen Walker
LOST: CatAnimal Name: JuneDescription: 3-legged calico catLast Seen: Missing for a week from Willow, NY, near Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary.Contact Name: Susan
LOST: DogAnimal Name: TyeDescription: Our dog Tye ran away from a car accident on the Tye is a large black, long hair dog. He has white on his paws and a graying muzzle. 12 years old. Very sweet guy. Last Seen: Taconic Pkwy just north of North Rd in Milan (northern Dutchess County) July 24th around 3:15pm. Last seen in the west side of the road. Contact Name: Sarah or Tom
LOST: Chihuahua MixAnimal Name: Jimmy Astaire--May answer more to "Astaire"Description: White and Brown 9 pound chihuahua mix. Brown and White Face. Extremely skittish--has tags and a red collar.Last Seen: 7/18/13, Morey Hill Rd., Woodstock/KingstonContact Name: Elisa Geliebter
LOST: Shih Tzu cross dogAnimal Name: DisneyDescription: Female, brown and whiteLast Seen: June 30, Highway 59 and Maplewood side road (just outside of Tavistock)Contact Name: Jodi
LOST: DogAnimal Name: GeorgeDescription: Small, 40 pound black and brown collie/rottweiler mix. Very skittish but will not bite. Red collar, blue tag. Last Seen: Saturday 3/16 evening. Woodstock, near 212 towards Bearsville. Contact Name: Eileen Landman
LOST: Dog-RottweilerAnimal Name: PrincessDescription: 3 yr old small female. About 80 lbs. lost between George sickle road and Philips road in Woodstock right off route 212. She is not wearing a collarLast Seen: Thursday 3/14 10 amContact Name: Jeff or Carly
LOST: RottwielerAnimal Name: PrincessDescription: Black female Rotty with leather collar and no tags. Last Seen: Last seen on Phillips Rd near 212 in Saugerties on Thursday March 14th. Please help!Contact Name: Jeffrey Decker
FOUND: dogDescription: tan dog, approx. 50 poundsLast Seen: 11 p.m. on Dubois Road, Shokan. ran into woods near Woodstock Chimes. Tried to locate, but the dog seemed scared and would not come out. Appeared to have docked tail.Contact Name: Melissa
LOST: Chocolate Lab PuppyAnimal Name: EddieDescription: 5 month old choco lab - needs meds and special foodLast Seen: Dec 17 Town of WallkillContact Name: Jean
LOST: CatAnimal Name: SugarDescription: Adult orange male.Last Seen: 2-3 weeks at Camp Alert property--corner of Hollow Road and Glenford-Wittenberg Road (opposite Walton Road). We all miss him so, including the children and his sister, Spice.Contact Name: Cybele Nielsen
FOUND: CATDescription: Last Seen: This cat has been found in front of the Radio Woodstock station at 293 Tinker Street in Woodstock, NYContact Name: Radio Woodstock 100.1
LOST: DogAnimal Name: LuckyDescription: 90-100 lbs, a black German Sheperd. He has been having allergies lately, so the corners of both eyes are reddish. He is loved not only by his family, but by the hundreds of patients, students, and colleagues of Dr. Nan Lu, his owner. www.findinglucky.comLast Seen: Lucky was taken from his home in West Paterson, NJ. Someone broke into the house in broad daylight and took Lucky and other belongings. Please help us reunite Lucky with his family, safe and sound. The owner is offering a $5,000 reward for any information that leads to Lucky's return, no questions asked.Contact Name: Meg Coons
LOST: CatAnimal Name: MochiDescription: Male Orange Tabby Cat. 12 years old with a small nick in his right ear.Last Seen: 10/27/12 Right before Hurricane Sandy by the Belvedere Mansion in StaatusburgContact Name: Jennifer
LOST: torti catAnimal Name: WeezieDescription: Small, black with gold markings, long-haired female.Last Seen: Last seen on September 22 in Lewis Hollow Road area of WoodstockContact Name: Katherine
FOUND: FOUND: FEMALE BLACK LAB AND MALE YORKIE/TERRIERAnimal Name: UnknownDescription: FOUND: HYDE PARK/RHINEBECK, NY. Female black lab wearing a black collar and male terrier with blue harness. Found on 9G around 2pm October 2, 2012. Dogs are at dutchess county SPCA. As of 3:30pm no one has called looking for them, no microchips. Please share!Last Seen: Contact Name: Mike Pfisterer
FOUND: Black lab and yorkieDescription: FOUND: HYDE PARK/Rhinebeck, NY. Female black lab wearing a black collar and male terrier with blue harness. Found on 9G around 2pm October 2, 2012. Dogs are at dutchess county SPCA. As of 3:30pm no one has called looking for them, no microchips. Please share!Last Seen: Contact Name: Mike Pfisterer
LOST: CatAnimal Name: "Baby"Description: Older white male cat with round polka dot on right side of body. Very docile, needs medication by Wed. night.Last Seen: Last seen very early Monday morning Sept. 17th at Tinker St. & Orchard Lane - the section that is closest to town heading into Woodstock.Contact Name: Susan
LOST: catAnimal Name: PicasoDescription: female, long hair, black with white chest, nose is half black half white, 11 years old Friendly, Shy, Needs MedicationLast Seen: Saturday, September 1, 2012 ByrdcliffContact Name: Rob & Cass


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Firefighters from a number of towns responded to a fire at 441 Hooper Rd. in Shapleigh early Thursday morning.
Dispatchers tell News 8 the call came in around 12:53 a.m. and it was originally reported as a barn fire.
Deputy Fire Chief Kirk Gagnon told News 8 the fire spread from the barn to the attached house and both are considered a total loss.
All five people inside were able to get out safely.
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No. 20 Water Polo Routs Fresno Pacific, 20-1
March 29, 2014
SAN DIEGO - No. T-20 San Diego State water polo improved to 2-0 in Golden Coast Conference action with its 20-1 victory over Fresno Pacific at Aztec Aquaplex Saturday morning. SDSU improves to 17-10 overall, while the Sunbirds fall to 7-17 and 0-3 in league play.
SDSU got off to a fast start by scoring four goals in under three minutes time. Makena Magro opened the scoring after she corralled a rebound off the post and put her shot past Kelsie Harvey. On its next possession, San Diego State's Anique Hermann utilized a skip shot to put the home side ahead by two. After a minute passed, Ioli Benekou squeezed her shot between Harvey and the post. Taylor Gums then capped the quarter with a 6-on-5 goal with six seconds left.
Up 4-0, the Aztecs added to their cushion quickly as Benekou scored her second of the game just 24 seconds into the second quarter. Alyssa Diacono followed with a pair of goals at two meters, which later led to a Hermann goal off a mid-pool turnover and Magro's second of the morning when she found the right corner. In the final minute of the half, Gums and Hermann added single tallies to lift San Diego State to an 11-0 lead.
The Aztecs continued to pitch a shutout in the third quarter while scoring four goals of their own. Diacono secured a hat trick with her goal at the 7:41 mark and Benekou followed suit with a long-range shot with 6:49 to play. Caroline Israels then joined in on the scoring with two goals as SDSU took a 15-0 lead into the final eight minutes.
SDSU received goals from Lesley Kerley, Hana-Elise Lambur and Nika Sedghi before Fresno Pacific was able to get on the board. The Sunbirds' Mallory Rettig scored with 3:29 left in the game and the Aztecs answered with another Lambur goal and a Risa Burke score to round out the scoring.
Emily Tylka received the start in net for the Aztecs and finished with four saves in three quarters of work. Melanie Merritt played the fourth period and made two stops.
San Diego State returns to the pool at 11:30 a.m., when it plays host to Brown.
No. T-20 San Diego State 20, Fresno Pacific 1
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ANZ Frequent Flyer Black Ad
A little-known credit card, "28 degrees", by GE Finance, is a fantastic card for travellers -- it offers foreign transactions with no surcharges.
It's unique on the Australian market -- the only credit card offering foreign purchases and ATM cash withdrawals at the MasterCard wholesale exchange rate, with no bank fees tacked on.
Typically, credit cards charge 3 - 3.5% on top of any purchase made in foreign currency ($30 - $35 on a $1,000 purchase), and charge $4-$5 plus 2-3% for an ATM cash withdrawal overseas ($24 - $35 for a $1,000 withdrawal).
However, the GE Finance 28 Degrees MasterCard (previously known as the Wizard Clear Advantage) charges no surcharge for international transactions, making it a money-saver for both travel and online shopping at foreign websites.
The card interest rate is aligned with 'reward' cards -- 20.24%, which suggests that GE Finance hopes to earn interest on carried balances to cover the international exchange fees it absorbs.
That being said, there is no annual fee -- something that is rare amongst reward cards.
The only other card on the market that Australian Business Traveller is aware of that offers no-fee international purchases and ATM withdrawals is the NAB Gold Visa Debit card, however that has a $10 per month fee unless you deposit $5,000 into it each month.
Of course, prepaid travel money cards are another way to do fee free foreign purchases and low-fee overseas ATM withdrawals, but even they have a fee to purchase the card, load money on to the card, and withdraw money at ATMs -- all of which are free on the 28 degrees MasterCard.
The best way to make use of the 28 degrees MasterCard from a money-saving perspective is to treat it like a prepaid travel money card -- deposit money into it before spending it, so the card is in credit, and spend only your own money, without dipping into debit.
For example, you could pay $3,000 into the card before leaving on a trip, spend $1,500 on hotel accommodation and withdraw three lots of $500, and you wouldn't have to pay any interest on it, as you'd be spending your own money.
The only fees you would risk incurring while overseas would be fees directly charged by ATM operators (which can be considerable -- Australian Business Traveller staff have been stung by an undisclosed $15 fee charged by a English-language ATM in the lobby of a five star hotel in China).
Unlike travel money cards, which we've already exhaustively compared, you wouldn't lose 1% of the amount you paid into the card. The 28 degrees card is simply a credit card payment, not a "travel money card reload".
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Looks Like Selena Gomez is Definitely 21, Huh?
7/25/2013 1:00 PM PDT, by Emily Trainham
Guys, how great is Selena Gomez? She hasn't even been of legal drinking age for a week yet, and already she's producing hilarious videos that likely have nothing to do with the fact that she can legally consume alcohol in the United States!
In this darling little clip, you can see Selena arrive at her hotel, drop something on the ground, bend to pick it up, and then fall a little. You can also see her interact with some fans who were there to greet her with birthday gifts. The best part? The way she halfheartedly pushes her hair out of her face, because it is ALL up in her face, and tells them in this really weird, quiet little voice that she's tired and that she'll see them later.
And yeah, girl looks tired as all get out, like she's been out all night partying all week long and is not even able to come close to handling life right now, but that might not be the case at all. She might have just been out having a nice, innocent tea party. But you know what? Even if Selena had another night full of whiskey shots -- like she said she did the other day -- it's not that big a deal. Do you remember the week you turned 21, or even the year you turned 21? Things like this happen. It doesn't make Selena a bad person, it actually makes her a wonderful person for giving us this insanely funny video.
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D.C. Artists Among Former Howrey Pieces up for Sale
Howrey LLP stuck close to its Washington, D.C., headquarters when shopping for art to decorate its walls. Several years after the law firm's demise, those works are now being sold in—where else?—the nation's capital.
More than 50 pieces of art that once belonged to the now-bankrupt Howrey will be gaveled off next Wednesday at Weschler's, an auction house in downtown Washington. Among them are works by Sam Gilliam and Gene Davis, part of the Washington Color School group of D.C.-based artists whose use of color and form defined their abstract pieces.
Five Gilliam pieces from Howrey's former collection are for sale and are expected to sell for between $1,000 and $5,000 apiece. (Gilliam is still working in D.C., and you can read a recent WSJ profile of him here and see examples of his current work here.)
Bidders also have five Davis pieces to choose from, each of which feature the vertical stripes for which the late artist is known.
Bankruptcy Beat readers may recognize Weschler's name from its work selling the art of defunct firm Dewey & LeBoeuf. Next week's auction features a lone Dewey piece—a French movie poster expected to sell for $1,000 to $2,000.
You can preview the pieces in person at Weschler's until next Tuesday and review the catalog here.
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MIDDLEBORO — The Hideaway Restaurant will be the Middleboro stop on the Mass. Beer Tour. Todd Ruggere, the one-man beer tour, has pledged to visit all 351 towns in the Commonwealth in 365 days to raise money for the Jimmy Fund, and so far he's raised over $12,000.
Mr. Ruggere will be at The Hideaway at 5 p.m. tomorrow. Everyone is invited to stop in, meet him and help him with his goal: conquering cancer one town at a time. For more information on this unique project, visit the website www.351samadams.com or see his Facebook page, Mass Beer Tour.
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It may sound absurd and shocking, but legendary footballer Pele has been branded the 'traitor of the century' in his homeland of Brazil amid widespread protests.
Crowds of furious Brazilians have been gathering to denounce the three-times World Cup winner just months before the country hosts the tournament.
As arguably the greatest footballer the world has ever known and a Brazilian icon, it's a real shock to many to discover the extent of the vitriol that is now greeting the 73-year-old.
It all stems from the general anger at the vast sums of money spent on preparing the country for a World Cup that many in the country do not believe they can afford.
According to a report in The Times, it is the money spent on sports venues in a country that lacks adequate healthcare, policing and public transport that has angered so many with Pele having attached himself to much of the frustration.
The reason behind his link to the unrest?
Pele caused uproar as he called for calm during last June's huge demonstrations. This was in spite of the fact that many prominent Brazil stars were publicly supporting the protesters' demands.
In Rio earlier this week, 150 demonstrators staged another large-scale protest over the spiralling World Cup costs - which are believed to be around £8 billion.
Oh, and with a further £11 billion to follow for staging the Olympics in Rio in 2016, if reports are to be believed.
"There will be no Cup," angry demonstrators chanted, holding up a banner that read "Pele, traitor of the century", according to a report in The Times.
Pele - along with 2002 World Cup winner Ronaldo - is regarded as always being 'on message' for FIFA, not helped by the large sums of money he is believed to pick up in return for his various roles for the organisation.
Demonstrators now have the pair down as "enemies of the people".
"They [Pele and Ronaldo] were great players but now they are out of touch - it's a shame," one 32-year-old woman told the paper at the rally.
Another World Cup winner for Brazil, Romario, who now holds a seat in Congress, has not held back in slamming FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke and president Sepp Blatter to further stir up feeling against the governing body.
Romario told a congressional hearing of Brazil's Tourism and Sports Commission: "We can't expect anything from FIFA, where we have a blackmailer called Valcke and a corrupt thief and son of a bitch called Blatter.
He continued on his personal website:
He went on to say on his official website: "Brazilian authorities shouldn't trust [Valcke] when signing any deal related to the World Cup ... I wouldn't trust him if I had to give him 10 reals to buy me bread and milk.
"We have spent an absurd amount for the World Cup and going forward it will get even worse. Brazil has a lot of thieves, that's the truth.
"Now we have to cheer for Brazil to win on the field because it would be perfect for football but off the pitch we've already lost and there is no way to reverse it."
Pele, in stark contrast, has again called for protesters to not tarnish the image of the World Cup in Brazil, something for which he is unlikely to be praised for.
"As a Brazilian I feel sorry because you have two or three big opportunities to showcase the country — the Confederations Cup, the World Cup and the Olympic Games," he said.
"I think this will be a great opportunity to show the country, to make money, to get tourism. And it's important that the demonstrations do not damage everything, so we are going to work hard."
As an honorary ambassador for the tournament, Pele may continue to see his legendary and previously cherished status as a footballing god in the country besmirched due to his prominent status.
FIFA have Pele right where they want him: as a recognisable face of the tournament with all the integrity of a true great in the game.
But sadly his reputation in his homeland is being damaged by the day.
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Book your room at Rivoli Jardin Hotel
Get an overview of this hotelBoutique hotel in Helsinki close to Cathedral
Near Market Place
Charming townhouse hotel situated in Helsinki's city center; Design Block, Market Place, Senate Square, and Design Museum are all within walking distance to the hotel.
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A buffet breakfast is complimentary and served each morning in the Rivoli Jardin Hotel's conservatory, and drinks are available at the Lobby Bar in the evening; Internet access is available.
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Rivoli Jardin HotelKasarmikatu 40 Helsinki 00130
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Rivoli Jardin Hotel offers a bar or lounge and a coffee shop or café. The property provides room service during limited hours. This Helsinki property also offers a business center, complimentary wireless Internet access, and multilingual staff. The property has a 24-hour front desk and a fitness facility. This hotel is a smoke-free property.
- 24-hour front desk
- Bar/lounge
- Business center
- Coffee shop or café
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-in
- Express check-out
- Fitness facilities
- Free breakfast
- Free WiFi
- Luggage storage
- Multilingual staff
- Number of floors - 6
- Offsite parking discounted rates available
- One meeting room
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Sauna
- Smoke-free property
- Television in common areas
- Total number of rooms - 55
- Year Built 1984
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Offsite parking discounted rates available
Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
- Bidet
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Desk
- Free WiFi
- Hair dryer
- Minibar
- Pay movies
- Private bathroom
- Room service (limited hours)
- Satellite TV service
- Separate sitting area
- Soundproofed rooms
Where to Eat
Nearby restaurants (within a five-minute walk):
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Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Check-out time is noon
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- No pets or service animals allowed
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- No onsite parking is available.
No pets or service animals allowed
Optional extras
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: EUR 10 per 24-hour period (rates may vary)
- Fee for in-room high-speed Internet (wired): EUR 10 per 24-hour period (rates may vary)
- Early check-in fee: EUR 50
- Late check-out fee: EUR 50
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One child 12 years old or younger stays free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property.