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All Saints: Oct. 31–Nov. 1, 2009
Rev 7:2-4, 9-14; Ps 24:1-6; 1 John 3:1-3; Matt 5:1-12a
If one of my late grandmothers were here, she would have taken one look at you sitting here in the pews and said, or at least thought, "You're all a bunch of hypocrites." Why? What did you do? Well, you're in church! And she would think that I, as the priest, was the worst one of all! When she was growing up in Michigan in the '20s and '30s, she was raised Methodist; and as soon as she had the chance she left it all behind—home, Michigan, church. As my mom was growing up, she regularly heard my grandmother say, "The church is just a bunch of hypocrites."
My grandmother wasn't very nice sometimes, was she? And why talk about hypocrisy on All Saints?
Our word "hypocrite" comes directly from the Greek hupocritês, which meant an actor in the theater—someone who played a role that he was not, and maybe even wore a mask. As Jesus used the word, in the original Greek of the New Testament, and as we do today, a hypocrite is someone whose appearance and heart don't match; someone who says and does things to win the esteem of other people. The hypocrite wants other people to think that he is better than he is; that he does only good actions, when that is not the whole truth; that he is acting only for good motives, like serving God and other people, when really his motives are mixed.
Many people celebrated Halloween yesterday by putting on costumes and masks, dressing up as many different things—but often as ghosts, skeletons, zombies, monsters—something to do with death and rottenness. Hypocrisy is like Halloween, but in reverse. In the Gospel of Matthew [23:26-27], Jesus said, "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and every kind of filth. … on the outside you appear righteous, but inside you are filled with hypocrisy and evildoing." On Halloween, the living put on the mask of death and rottenness; but in hypocrisy, the dead and rotten put on the mask of life and health.
No one likes hypocrisy in others. But perhaps the people who most strongly object to it are teenagers and young adults. They are just getting out from under the authority of their parents and teachers, and they are very ready to point the finger at those who have been telling them what to do, and say, "Look at how you live! You don't live according to what you tell me to do either! You hypocrite! I am going to be authentic." And perhaps that young person does live in some consistent, "authentic" way—for a while.
So how is it that this "authentic" young person turns into one more hypocritical not-so-young person? And hypocritical sounds pretty harsh, so let's say, "inconsistent." It might be that the young person discovers that authenticity carries consequences. If they are authentically selfish, they find that others disapprove. If they are authentically selfless and generous, they find that they don't get everything they want. Perhaps one day they realize: "If I appear one way on the outside, while I do something different on the inside, I can have it all! I don't have to choose!"
Or maybe their inconsistency is born in a different way. Perhaps they discover that it's hard to live up to their moral ideals. They try, and they fail. And they still do believe in the ideals, and they want others to follow them, including their children. Now, so far so good, right? That's our condition as sinners. But what makes it inconsistency or hypocrisy is if they not only speak the ideals, but also pretend that they live up to them—and hope that that no one ever finds out the truth.
Does this inconsistency hurt anyone? I think there are two big dangers that come from it. One is that the hypocrite will deceive himself, and come to believe his own propaganda: believing that he really is good and upstanding and even better than other people. This was the state of those who opposed Jesus and shut him out, not letting him heal and strengthen them.
Another danger is that the hypocrite may cause disillusionment and despair in others. It may the angry disillusionment in someone who doesn't want to follow Jesus' way and now has an excuse not to. Or it may be the sad disillusionment of someone who was hoping that the stories about Jesus and his promises were true, and now it seems that they are not; and all his hopes fall to the ground.
Enter the saints.
The saints all started somewhere that was far different from where they ended up. I have a book entitled "Saints Behaving Badly" that is a lot of fun, as it details some of the most colorfully sinful pasts of some of the saints. If we scan down its table of contents, we see entries like:
- St. Matthew, extortionist
- St. Christopher, servant of the devil
- St. Pelagia, promiscuous actress
- St. Moses the Ethiopian, cutthroat and gang leader
- St. Olga, mass murderer
- St. Margaret of Cortona, rich man's mistress
- St. John of God, gambler and drunkard
- St. Philip Howard, cynic and negligent husband
But of course not all of their sins were so attention-grabbing; some were much more ordinary sinners, such that we would recognize them as being like us. In fact, no matter who you are, you will find among the saints men and women who are just like you. Some were rich; some were poor; some, middle class. Some were kings and queens; some, lawyers, teachers, doctors, nurses, farmers, soldiers, servants, housewives. As we heard in the first reading, they came from every nation, race, people, and tongue; they came from every continent, every ethnic group, every manner of dress and way of life.
And we can bet that most of them were hypocrites at some point, pretending to be better than they really were. But we know that every one of them, at some early point in their growth in holiness, took off the mask so that they could face who they really were and be honest in God's sight. And what did they see when they did? They found Jesus looking on them with love and mercy: loving them intensely just as they were; and also loving them too much to let them stay that way. And so we might say that the moment that they took off the mask and looked into Jesus' eyes is when their story really began.
As we look at the tremendous variety in this great multitude of saints, one thing we can say is that every one of them is holy. Now the funny thing about English is that it sounds like an assertion to say, "a saint is holy." But that is because our language gets split between the linguistic roots behind "saint, sanctity, sanctification," and "holy, hallowed, holiness." In other languages, it is just one word. In Spanish we would be saying, Un santo es santo: a saint is holy.
And what is this holiness? It is first a quality of God himself, three times holy, as we sing in every Mass: "Holy, holy, holy Lord." And it is something which he gives to other things and people, sanctifying them, making them holy. With the People of Israel under the Old Covenant, this was something largely external. Then Jesus Christ was seen to have a holiness of a higher order, identical to the holiness of God the Father. And in the New and everlasting Covenant, for which he shed his precious blood for you and for all, Christ gives his holiness not just externally but internally. He gives us his Holy Spirit to dwell within us and to change us: not just at the level of the hypocrite's mask, but in the heart. So that, in the words of today's psalm, our hands may become sinless, our heart may become clean, our desires may become not for what is vain. It is a holiness that penetrates the heart, to our most secret thoughts and desires and wants and fears.
So why this Feast of All Saints? Nine hundred years ago, St. Bernard of Clairvaux said in a homily:
Why should our praise and glorification, or even the celebration of this feast day, mean anything to the saints? What do they care about earthly honors when their heavenly Father honors them …? … The saints have no need of honor from us; neither does our devotion add the slightest thing to what is theirs. Clearly, if we venerate their memory, it serves us, not them. … I tell you, when I think of them, I feel myself inflamed by a tremendous yearning.
When we look at the saints, we see what we want to become. We certainly see their blessedness in heaven, where they are face to face with God, in the Beatific Vision, and where there is no more death or mourning, wailing or pain, for he has wiped very tear from their eyes [Rev 21:3-4]. But even more than that, I think we see what we want to become. In the lives of the saints, we see what it looks like to love without limits, without pretending or hypocrisy; without hurting, or gossiping, or backstabbing; to love without lust or resentment or lying; without selfishly holding back or holding on. In the lives of the saints we see what it looks like to live out Jesus' Sermon on the Mount: what it looks like to be clean of heart, poor in spirit, merciful, peacemakers; what it looks like to hunger and thirst for righteousness. We see what it looks like to be patient and kind; faithful, hopeful; strong, wise; afraid of no one, never conquered by temptation; and always walking in the sight of God.
St. John tells us, Beloved, we are God's children now. Through our baptism, we are little saints. But we are meant for much more. We are meant to grow up into big saints, like the saints we celebrate today; we are meant to become like Christ.
We know what it cost them. How many of the saints were martyrs? And we know that all of them, before their death, had to die little deaths each day, as they had to make those hard, little, internal choices; against temptation and sin; and for being and living in a holy way. We know the cost. But look at the result. Isn't that what we want to become?
In our world today, we need more than ever to tell the stories of the saints. People like my grandmother need these, to learn that holiness really is possible. We need them, to see and imitate the model of their lives. We need to get to know the saints, to make them our friends. And we need to seek their intercession, to ask God to help us in our journey as we follow in their footsteps.
Six hundred years ago, St. Catherine of Siena said, "If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world on fire." Is it time to take off the Halloween mask of hypocrisy and step into the light of All Saints? In the words of St. Therese of Lisieux, "You cannot be half a saint. You must be a whole saint or no saint at all."
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Alistair Morris is a visual artist who is both profoundly deaf and autistic. Drawing became a way in which Alistair was able to clearly communicate information. If he wanted to visit friends in Napanee, he would sketch a perfect picture of their Victorian house on the calendar. If he was looking for something, and couldn't make himself understood in sign language, he drew the object he was looking for and the problem was solved. An obsession for light bulbs, with intricate and interesting filaments, showed an eye for detail and Alistair was guided to make stained glass and Japanese dolls.
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LONDON - 18th April - Bank customers are no more likely to switch now than they were before the government-backed Current Account Switch Service was launched in September, new data from TNS UK has shown. But the drift of customers away from the Big Four High Street banks has continued.
The TNS Current Account Switching Index (CASI) has found that the number of those switching is little different now from the immediate pre-Switch period, and that the banks most likely to gain and lose switching customers are the same.
TNS UK surveyed 94,596 between July 2013 and March 2014, covering the quarter before the launch of switch and the two quarters since then.
The main change since Switch was launched is that many fewer people are leaving their old accounts open when they move banks. Before Switch, 54% of switchers left their old account open: in the most recent quarter, this had fallen to 40%.
Satisfaction levels with the switching process and with the switchers' new banks are virtually identical in the pre-Switch and post-Switch periods.
The main reason for switching away from a bank remains poor service, and the number citing this factor has remained virtually constant at just under a quarter of switchers in all three quarters.
The main reason for choosing a new bank is still reputation - the level has fallen slightly, from 17% in the pre-switch quarter to 14% in both of the recent quarters, but this may be because customers have become accustomed to banking scandals, with few banks are now untainted by allegations of some description.
The number of those citing rewards as a reason for choosing their new bank has risen in the last quarter, and convenient branch location is a more important factor than it was before Switch. A physical branch reassures customers that, if something goes wrong, they can go and talk to someone.
Santander, Halifax and Nationwide were the main gainers through switching in the three quarters surveyed. Santander alone consistently attracts around a fifth of switchers, and has improved its net gain figure over the three quarters. Halifax had a low level of net gains until the latest quarter.
Lloyds TSB (surveyed together for survey consistency), NatWest, Barclays and HSBC have seen the largest numbers of departures among their customers, and all have suffered net losses over the period.
Maureen Duffy of TNS said, "Santander, Halifax and Nationwide are gaining steadily, and Santander appears to be on the way to catching up with the traditional Big Four players in the market.
"This continues the trend away from the Big Four. As their dominance reduces new account openers (Generation Y) will have a wider consideration set. That said we know that there is still a strong tendency for young people to open their first current accounts at their parents' bank.
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Nationally representative sample of 94,596 consumers interviewed between July 2013 and March 2014. Interviews conducted face-to-face in-home twice weekly.
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2013 pre-switch 16,552 respondents - 688 switchers in last 12 months/277 in last 6 months/197 in last 3 months
2013 post switch 33,774 respondents - 1176 switchers in last 12 months/650 in last 6 months/380 in last 3 months
2014 post switch 44,270 respondents - 1,441 switchers in last 12 months / 727 in last 6 months/367 last 3 months
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Date: 8:00am - 6:00pm PDT March 23, 2018 Location: McCarty Classroom Complex - Room 2, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, OR
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A South Jersey landfill showed it recognized the rising public profile of toxic PFAS chemicals when it abruptly canceled a plan to take a consignment of contaminated soil from a Pennsylvania military base, observers said on Wednesday.
The Cumberland County Improvement Authority backtracked on its agreement to take 4,500 tons of PFAS-contaminated soil from the former Naval Air Station at Willow Grove, Pa., shortly after NJ Spotlight reported the plan on Monday.
The operator of the landfill at Rosenhayn near Vineland agreed in mid-December to take the soil after determining that it met the definition of non-hazardous material but has now reversed its decision before any soil was delivered.
The quick about-face indicates that the operator was aware of growing concern by the public and by state officials that PFAS chemicals are a threat to public health through drinking water sources that might have been tainted by the soil, according to environmentalists and the head of an association of environmental commissioners.
"PFAS has been a very high-profile issue," said Amy Goldsmith, New Jersey state director of Clean Water Action. "Its contamination of drinking water is huge. Its health effects are huge. I'm sure the landfill operators are sensitive to public pressure."
'It would have been a slow-moving disaster'
Authority president Jerry Velazquez did not respond to requests for comment on the decision, which he confirmed to several media outlets.
In December, the Navy published plans to remove the most highly contaminated soil from the base, which has very high PFAS levels because the chemicals were used in firefighting foam there for decades.
"To haul in PFAS-contaminated soil from Willow Grove and dump it in South Jersey would have been a slow-moving disaster," especially in a part of the state that's heavily dependent on groundwater, said Doug O'Malley, director of Environment New Jersey. "It was a bad idea from the start, and that's why Cumberland County backed down so quickly."
He dismissed landfill officials' assurances that the double-lined facility would ensure the contaminated material does not leak, saying that any liner is likely to tear eventually.
Jennifer Coffey, executive director of the Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions, said the landfill's reversal showed a growing awareness of public opinion on the chemicals, which are linked to health problems including cancer, low birth weights and immune system problems.
"All officials overseeing any pathway for these toxic chemicals to enter the environment and our bodies need to make more conscientious decisions," Coffey said in a statement. "Hopefully, Cumberland County Improvement Authority's decision is an indication of greater awareness and good choices in the name of public health."
Need for tighter regulations
Some environmental groups called for tighter regulations or new laws to prevent any other New Jersey landfill agreeing to take PFAS-contaminated material, given that the soil would have complied with the operating permit issued to the Cumberland County facility.
Public concern about PFAS chemicals has been stoked by recent state and federal reports showing the chemicals are present in more places and at higher concentrations in New Jersey than in many other states. The state has responded by recommending strict new health limits for several of the chemicals. Environmental officials have adopted a strict new standard for one of them, PFNA, and say they will do the same this spring for two others, PFOA and PFOS.
The chemicals are not regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency which according to a report in Politico this week has decided not to set standards for PFOA and PFOS, two of the most widespread PFAS chemicals.
The absence of federal leadership has increased pressure on states like New Jersey to set their own PFAS standards for protecting public health.
Given New Jersey's national leadership on curbing the chemicals, it would have been ironic if any amount of them had been brought into the state to be dumped in a landfill, O'Malley said.
'…distributing the contamination'
"It's wildly incongruent to acknowledge that these are dangerous chemicals and then allow an out-of-state entity to dump their contaminated soil in our back yard," he said.
The chemicals, once used in consumer products like nonstick cookware, are no longer made in the U.S. but persist in some places because they don't break down in the environment, and so must be subject to strict regulation, said Tracy Carluccio of the environmental group Delaware Riverkeeper Network.
"Taking waste such as PFAS contaminated soils, sewage sludge and stormwater from one place and releasing it in another is simply distributing the contamination further into communities and our environment," she said.
State Sen. Bob Smith (D-Middlesex), chairman of the Environment and Energy Committee, said the landfill authority appeared to have taken a prudent step in deciding not to take the soil. He said he hopes to hold a committee hearing on PFAS regulation in May or June. "The stories about the impact of these chemicals on human health are getting worse and worse," he said.


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Doctor Foster will MURDER her own son in dramatic series finale next week, fans claim
Viewers were quick to put forward the grisly theory after the creator of the hit BBC show revealed that the drama is based on 2,500-year-old Greek tragedy Medea
DOCTOR Foster fans could see the dramatic series end in a bloodbath - with the title character murdering her son in a shock twist.
Tuesday night's penultimate episode left viewers stunned by a cliffhanger in which Gemma Foster, played by Suranne Jones, seemed poised to run over her cheating ex Simon.
But now rumours are circulating that it is not just her ex-husband who looks set to meet a grisly end in next week's series finale, but also their teen son Tom.
Fans were quick to put forward the theory that Gemma will murder Tom after the BBC drama's creator Mike Bartlett revealed that the idea for the show stemmed from a 2,500-year-old Greek tragedy.
The award-winning playwright and screen writer citied the ancient tragedy of Medea, who killed her own children in act of revenge for her husband's betrayal, as the basis for the show's plot.
Speaking to the Radio Times, Mike said: "In the original pitch, I never actually said, 'We're going to do Medea at 9pm on BBC,' because it probably wouldn't have gone down very well. But that idea was always behind it."
Mike refused to reveal if the scorned doctor will kill her own son, but praised the young actor who plays him, Tom Taylor, who he predicted will "become a global star".
The latest episode left viewers on the edge of their seats as the final moments saw Gemma swerved her car towards ex-husband Simon as he marched down the road.
Long-time fans were delighted to see Simon get his comeuppance when Gemma told Kate they had slept together and that he had been lying to her for years.
Kate came to her senses about her husband as Gemma revealed their wedding song was her favourite and that he wore cuff links she had gifted him on their seventh anniversary.
She said coming back had been for her "benefit" and that he was still obsessed with her.
Gemma also finally revealed that the wedding speech Simon gave about her was what was in the box she handed to her in episode one.
Simon arrived home to find Kate had moved everything out of their impressive mansion and left him with nothing but a small bag of clothes.
Gemma arrived after Kate had left with their parents and daughter and Simon screamed at her through the car door that she had ruined his life.
However, as she drove away she felt guilty for leaving her ex with nothing as her son Tom asked if he was OK.
She offered to pay for two nights in a hotel but he refused and set off on foot to "get his son".
Simon's parting words were: "The only way I'm leaving . . . is in a coffin."
BEEB'S FINAL TWIST Next week's Doctor Foster series finale may be last episode EVER, hints writer
A determined looking Gemma then watched him walk down the road before she sped towards him.
The chilling ending comes after promotional shots for the X-rated BBC1 hit showed ex-Coronation Street star Suranne with a bloody wedding ring finger.
Some fans have speculated Gemma will kill Simon — played by Bertie Carvel, 40 — while others reckon she will regret her actions after knocking him over and use her medical expertise to save him.
One wrote: "Imagine it's a twist...and she swerves crashes into a tree or something and dies?! Sh!ts about to get real. #DoctorFoster".
Another added: "That #DoctorFoster finale is going to be baaaaaaadass! Top TV! Too much talk of "leaving in a coffin" for it not to happen..."
The explosive scenes came after writer Mike Bartlett hinted that the series two finale could mean the end of the drama for good.
He teased: "Depending on what happens at the end of series two, a third might not be possible… That's all I can say really."
- Doctor Foster ends next Tuesday at 9pm on BBC One
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On the Polynesian island of Motunui, the inhabitants worship the goddess Te Fiti, who brought life to the ocean, using a pounamu stone as her heart and the source of her power. Maui, the shapeshifting demigod, and master of sailing steals the heart to give humanity the power of creation. However, Te Fiti disintegrates, and Maui is attacked by Te Kā, a volcanic demon, losing both his magical giant fishhook and the heart to the depths.
A millennium later, Moana, daughter of Motunui's chief Tui, is chosen by the ocean to return the heart to Te Fiti. However, Tui arrives and takes Moana away, causing her to lose the heart. Tui and Moana's mother, Sina, try to keep her away from the ocean to prepare her for ascension as the island's chief. Years later, a blight strikes the island, rotting the coconuts and dwindling the number of fish caught. Moana suggests going beyond the island's reef to find more fish, but Tui forbids it. Moana tries conquering the reef but is overpowered by the tides and shipwrecked back on Motunui.
Moana's grandmother Tala shows her a secret cave, where a number of ships are hidden, revealing to Moana that their people used to be voyagers. Tala explains they stopped when Maui stole Te Fiti's heart and that Te Kā's darkness is poisoning the island, but it can be cured if Moana finds Maui and makes him restore the heart of Te Fiti, which she gives to Moana. Tala falls ill shortly after and dies.
Moana sets sail on a camakau found in the cavern. She is caught in a typhoon and shipwrecked on an island where she finds the stranded Maui, who traps her and steals the camakau, but Moana catches up to him with help from the ocean. She demands that Maui return the heart but he refuses. Maui is accompanied by a sentient "Mini-Maui" tattoo, acting as his conscience.
They are attacked by Kakamora—coconut-armored pirates—who seek the heart, but Moana and Maui outwit them. Moana realizes Maui is no longer a hero, and convinces him to redeem himself by returning the heart. Maui first needs to obtain his magical fishhook, which is located in Lalotai, the Realm of Monsters, and is in the possession of Tamatoa, a giant, greedy coconut crab. Maui retrieves his fishhook while Moana distracts Tamatoa, but Maui discovers he cannot control his shapeshifting and loses self-confidence, quickly becoming overpowered by Tamatoa. Moana's quick thinking allows them to escape with the hook. Maui reveals that his first tattoo was earned when his mortal parents rejected him. After reassurance from Moana, Maui teaches her the art of sailing and regains control of his powers.
The two arrive at Te Fiti's island, only to be attacked by Te Kā, who badly damages Maui's fishhook. Fearful he will lose his hook, and therefore his power, Maui angrily abandons Moana, who tearfully asks the ocean to find someone else to restore the heart. The ocean obliges and takes the heart from Moana. Tala's spirit appears, inspiring Moana to find her true calling. She retrieves the heart and sails back to confront Te Kā. Maui returns, having had a change of heart, and buys Moana time to reach Te Fiti by fighting Te Kā, destroying his fishhook in the process. Moana discovers Te Fiti is missing, and realizes Te Kā is Te Fiti without her heart. Moana tells the ocean to clear a path, allowing her to restore Te Fiti's heart, transforming her back to normal. Te Fiti then heals the ocean and islands of the blight. Maui apologizes to Te Fiti, who restores his fishhook and falls into a deep sleep.
Moana bids farewell to Maui, returning home where she reunites with her parents. She takes up her role as chief and wayfinder, leading her people on a voyage.
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Saurik talks about the iPhone jailbreak
Jay Freeman, better known as Saurik, the creator of Cydia, was interviewed by the home radio Make It Work. He speaks about the history and the future of the iPhone jailbreak.
Saurik describes the origins of Jailbreak and Unlock for the very first model of the iPhone. Jay explains that initially there were two important things to do with the iPhone 2G - to use other carrier than AT&T and to install any application.
He continues discussing the main applications from Cydia. Cycorder was the first to allow video recording, and Winterboard was the only one that allowed users to change the graphical interface of the iPhone. He also speaks about Comex, the hacker who is currently working with the Dev Team for releasing and Unlock for the iPhone 4. According to Saurik the tool is still not ready to be released to the public due to severe bugs in the code. Here the second part:
Apple Approves Video Recording App for the iPhone 2G/3G
Apple has approved iVideoCamera, an application which lets you record video on any iPhone including the iPhone 2G and iPhone 3G. Now you don't need a 3GS to record and share videos with your friends and family. Works with firmware 3.1 OS installed and includes:
Ability to save to your camera roll or "Photos" and share via:
- YouTube
- Vimeo
- Twitter and more coming soon
- The iPhone can only capture about 3 frames per second
- Videos are limited to about 1 minute in length
- Resolution is low: 160x213
You can purchase iVideoCamera in App Store for $0.99 (
This is a great step forward, because Apple did not allow such apps to be in Appstore before. The quality of the recorded video is quite low, however it might be improved in the future. Could the acceptance of iVideoCamera open the door for Cycorder, popular video recording app that can be installed via Cydia?
List of Cydia Apps compatible and incompatible with firmware 3.1
Some users have already performed jailbeak for firmware 3.1 and faced problems with several Cydia applications. Some work with no problems, others send the iPhone to Safe Mode. Here is a list of compatible and non-compatible apps.
Applications NOT compatible with Firmware 3.1:
- Winterboard
- Backgrounder
- Mobile Finder
- ActivateMMS2G
- Cycorder
- PasteBoardStacker
Applications partially compatible with Firmware 3.1:
- Cydia (apparently does not show the badge icon when there are updates available)
- SBSettings (everything works except the button "Restart")
- BossPrefs (everything works except the button "Respring")
Applications fully compartible with Firmware 3.1
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Cydia apps on firmware 3.0: working and non-working apps list
It is always good to know what is working and what is not. This list will be changed quite soon, becasue developers are trying their best to make apps work. But for now here it is:
SEMI-Functional Applications:
- Winterboard: This only works in some cases. The themes and can not be fully supported yet.
- iBluetooth
- MCleaner
- Categories (works well but the applications are no longer found by Spootlight)
- Status Notifier
- ibirthday
Applications not working:
- cydelete
- Backgrounder
- Cyntact
- iMobileCinema
- VideoRecorder for 3G
- Veency
- MobileFinder


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Report: NYC Public Housing Falls Short
The number of reports of multiple deficiencies in New York City's public housing units nearly doubled between 2008 and 2011 from 19 percent to 11 percent.
A report by the advocacy group Community Service Society says that compares to about 13 percent in private buildings.
The Wall Street Journal says the percentage of low-income households in both public and private rentals that reported four or more deficiencies hovered at 10-12 percent from 2002 to 2008.
More than a third of public-housing tenants reported heating, leaks or major repairs as serious problems. Seventeen percent of low-income private rental resident had the same complaints.
The New York City Housing Authority says since the 2011 census, it reduced the repair backlog from 420,000 to 80,000. It says it's open to the report's recommendations.


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Hoover Dam, Los Angeles and San FranciscoMay 31, 2011
Continuing from the previous post, we rented a car from Fox Rent A Car before heading East to Hoover Dam. Fox Rent A Car generally has pretty bad reviews all over the Internet. However, I thought I'd give them a shot. The pick up process was not ideal because the price on the reservation in their system didn't match what I was quoted during the booking process through American Express Travel. Luckily, I was able to convince them to honor mine since I had a printed copy of my reservation with him. The car they gave me was a Dodge Caliber, which was alright throughout the trip. The worst part was the post-rental experience. I had to deal with their claims management company because the end of the trip got rough in downtown San Francisco, the car was broken into, and the thief took stuff from it. Luckily, I had American Express Premium Car Rental Protection. They were able to cover the damage repair cost as well as part of the cost of the stolen laptop. I was very pleased with AMEX customer service. On the other hand, FOX Rent A Car or their claims management company, Khoury Alternative, wasn't very helpful during the claim process as they weren't willing to provide fleet utilization logs and administrative fee receipts to AMEX. That basically resulted in an $85.00 unpaid balance that AMEX wasn't able to cover. To be clear, AMEX would cover if FOX provided the requested info. Anyway, I had to settle with them out of pocket because they threatened to call a collection agency on me. Not cool. I guess the average review 2 starts out of 5 is fair for this rental company.
Now that I've finished my rant, I need to finish with the trip info. The rain started coming down as we left Vegas. We walked in drizzling rain at Hoover Dam. Spent like an hour there and didn't go on the bridge because we had a person in a wheel chair. I took about 5 hours to get to the suburb of LA and then probably another two hours to get to North Hollywood for some dinner in Thai Town. We ate at Sanamluang Cafe. It wasn't as good as the last time I came but probably because back then I compared it to food in State College instead of DC metro. After dinner, probably 9PM-ish, it still took another 90 minutes to get to the hotel in Pasadena. The next day was just awful in terms of weather. We drove around a ton but never got out of the car other than eating lunch at Hard Rock in Hollywood. It rained heavily non-stop and we left LA just after sunset. Stayed overnight in Ventura. Didn't stop in Santa Barbara because it was still raining hard. When we got to about midpoint on Highway 1, the rain would stop intermittently giving us short windows to get out of the car for some fresh air, photos and enjoy the view even though the visibility was probably less than a mile.
The rain finally stopped when we got to San Francisco. Had dim sum for dinner :p. The weather was fine for the rest of the trip. I have to say that the car incident was really eye-opening. After that trip, I never again leave stuff visibly in the car. I either lock it away in the trunk or take it with him. Camera gear is with me at all times.


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Imagine the scene, the year is 1812, the place is Barbados and a man is dead. This man is not a poor local but a gentleman born into affluence and privilege. His name is Thomas Chase. Sadly, he is not the only member of the Chase family lost in recent years, tragedy seems to have plagued the family.
Just two months before Thomas' death his daughter Dorcas had died, four years before that a young baby Mary-Ann had passed away.
The rituals they will perform today are rituals that have become familiar. The family have assembled, the church service is complete and now the solemn procession proceeds to the internment.
As they wait for the family vault to be unsealed, the mourners are comforted knowing that Thomas will soon rest with his children. Imagine their horror then when the door slides open to reveal the chamber within…
The shocking sight that greets them is one of confusion, turmoil and vandalism. The heavy lead lined coffins are no longer arranged in order, but are upended and strewn about the crypt as if they are weightless objects.
Troubled and bewildered the family can think of no one who would perform an act so wicked upon the caskets of their dead children. As they bury Thomas and reseal the vault they must surely hope this is the end of an unsavoury matter.
Sadly, it is just the beginning of an unsolved mystery, the mystery of the Chase family crypt.
The History of The Chase Family Crypt
The Chase family crypt was constructed in 1724 by James Eliot. Located in the Christ Church Parish Cemetery and built half into the ground, it was entered by descending six stone steps.
To seal the vault a giant slab of blue stone was placed across the entrance. The door was so heavy it took six or seven men to move it. There was little chance that anyone could enter the tomb without a great deal of effort.
Strangely the crypt remained empty until 1807 when a Mrs. Thomasina Goddard was interred. The following year it was purchased by Thomas Chase when his daughter Mary-Ann died. Chase decided to leave Thomasina's body undisturbed where it lay and the vault was resealed.
In 1812 it was opened again after the funeral of Dorcas Chase. Dorcas is rumored to have starved herself to death as a consequence of her father's cruelty. Two months later her father, perhaps plagued by guilt, committed suicide and joined his children in the vault.
After discovering the crypt in disarray during the funeral of the family patriarch, those left behind must have hoped that it was a sad but isolated occurrence, unfortunately it wasn't.
When the crypt was opened again in 1816 and in 1819 the family was greeted by the same disturbing scene. The stone led-lined coffins were upset, sometimes standing on end or tipped upside down.
Only the light wooden casket of Thomasina Goddard remained where it was originally placed. There seemed to be no rational explanation for the movement of these immensely heavy objects and soon whispers of supernatural activity began to sweep the area.
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As each strange incident occurred, rumours gathered pace among the deeply superstitious locals. Thomas Chase was a much hated plantation owner who had been cruel both to his slaves and to his own children.
The strange occurrences only began after his second daughter's internment. Thought to be responsible for her own death, the favoured theory was that her restless spirit displaced the heavy coffins.
Others believed that Thomasina Goddard was a vampire who had accepted the body of the tiny Mary-Ann lying close to her but was not going to accept the rest of the family.
Whipped into a fever of speculation, the events surrounding the tomb were used by the local people to explain any strange phenomena or unusual animal behaviour in the area. By 1819 the Governor of Barbados, Lord Combermere decided that enough was enough and a rational solution to the bizarre events must be sought.
The Investigation
Lord Combermere ordered that the crypt be opened and inspected for signs of penetration by outside forces. Amazingly, the lead coffins appeared to have been tampered with once more.
Once again the caskets were placed back in their correct positions and the vault thoroughly examined. No evidence of penetration could be found, the walls and floor remained intact much to Combermere's bewilderment.
This time before sealing the crypt, sand was sprinkled on the solid ground hoping to catch the footprints of any future intruders. The heavy door was replaced and the Governor's seal impressed upon it as a further precaution.
Some months later at the beginning of 1820 there was another death in the Chase family. Lord Combermere and others arrived to witness the internment. The Governor's seal was still intact upon the heavy stone door clearly showing that no human being had entered the vault in the interim months.
The group must have waited with a mixture of both anticipation and trepidation as the heavy stone door was slid back. Once more the coffins of the Chase family had been thrown around as if they were weightless boxes.
The tomb of Dorcas Chase had been smashed and a skeletal arm hung eerily out of its broken side as if pointing at some unknown force. Only the fragile wooden casket of Thomasina Goddard remained intact and untroubled.
Combermere decided that this was the final straw and ordered that all of the bodies be removed and reburied elsewhere in the graveyard. The crypt has remained empty ever since.
A Mystery Solved?
Over the years many theories have been proposed to explain the phenomenon of the moving coffins. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes books, suggested that the answer lay with the unquiet soul of Dorcas Chase.
Others have sought a more rational explanation. Seismic activity is one possible theory but this doesn't explain why other crypts or graves in the area have shown no evidence of disturbance.
Another viable theory is that the vault was flooding periodically causing the caskets to rise and float about the crypt. As the waters receded the coffins were deposited where they were eventually discovered.
This theory seems perfectly logical until you consider that the lightest wooden coffin was the only one that never displayed signs of disturbance or movement.
One Investigator, Joe Nickell, has suggested that the whole story is historically dubious and was based on a masonic myth of a secret vault. He goes on to suggest that the stories of the crypt are laden with masonic imagery that will be immediately obvious to a freemason.
While no evidence for the veracity of the story can be found in the local papers of the time, it is certain that the family did exist, they did own the crypt and their bodies are now buried in the graveyard.
Many people have tried to solve the puzzle of the moving coffins without success. The enigma still challenges the imagination of many and defies rational logic.
Unless you accept that the events never took place and are part of an elaborate hoax, you are left with incidents that can't be satisfactorily explained.
Many have turned to the paranormal for the solution including the author of the greatest detective stories in the English language.
To this day the events that took place on the island of Barbados two hundred years ago continue to baffle, intrigue and fascinate in equal measure.
What is for sure is that two centuries after the strange events occurred, the final answer to the mystery of the Chase family crypt remains unsolved and far from elementary.


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Mitri Michel Ghneim, painter and taxi driver, has had an unusual life. War has twice dispossessed him. His honeymoon lasted 12 years. And he has a highway in his garden.
Mr Ghneim was once very proud of his garden on the outskirts of Beit Jala, a Christian town in the Palestinian governorate of Bethlehem. "It was a paradise, full of trees and birds," he says. The birds and trees are long gone, replaced by the roar of traffic after Israel built Route 60, the main Jewish settler road in the West Bank, through his land.
Mr Ghneim can no longer see the road, nor the Judaean hills that stretch beyond it. Last year, bulldozers arrived to erect a 25ft- high concrete wall, part of the separation barrier Israel began building in the West Bank in 2002, ostensibly to protect Jewish territory – and Route 60 – from Palestinian attacks.
Deprived of a view over the landscape where Biblical shepherds once watched their flocks, Mr Ghneim has done his best to titivate his surroundings, painting the portion of wall in front of his home with a mural of the coastal town of Jaffa, now part of Tel Aviv, which he fled with his family when the first Israeli-Arab war broke out in 1948.
As a young man, Mr Ghneim then made the mistake of getting married on June 4, 1967 – 24 hours before the eruption of the Six Day War – and heading to Jordan for a one-week honeymoon. Israel did not allow him and his wife back until 1979, when he built his present home.
Now 65, Mr Ghneim admits he is finally beaten – and is trying to emigrate to Australia. "Since 1948, I've faced tragedy after tragedy. I don't want to keep looking at this wall."
Mr Ghneim is by no means alone. Next month, Israel is expected to extend its wall further into Palestinian territory, dividing an entire valley that serves as vital farmland for the people of Beit Jala. To intense Palestinian anger, the wall will not follow the boundary of the West Bank, which Israel has occupied since the Six Day War, but instead will frequently cut deep into it, leaving 12 per cent of the territory on the Israeli side of the barrier.
The reason for the wall's detour near Beit Jala lies across the valley. On the hilltop opposite stands the settlement of Gilo, once part of Bethlehem's land but now officially designated by Israel as a Jewish suburb of East Jerusalem, which was also occupied in 1967.
Gilo, too, was once surrounded by a wall; a bullet-proof barrier erected to protect it from militant attacks launched from Beit Jala during the Palestinian Intifada that erupted in 2000 and raged for four years.
In one of the rare examples of a wall in the Holy Land coming down, the barrier has since been removed after the threat to Gilo abated in the years of relative peace since the Intifada ended.
The sullen detente between Beit Jala and Gilo in many ways epitomises the calcified state of the peace process, each factor of the saga an encapsulation of a conflict whose lack of resolution, at its most simplistic, boils down to two issues: land and security.
A veneer of normality in the West Bank has certainly been restored – but history suggests that such periods are ephemeral.
The moderate leadership of the Palestinian Authority may, for now, have reined in the extremists who once sent suicide bombers into Israeli cities claiming hundreds of lives, but, from Israel's perspective, the only way to safeguard its citizens against a reprise of the violence is to create a hermetic seal between itself and the West Bank.
Such protection is to be afforded not just to those on undisputed Israeli territory, but to as many as possible of the 640,000 Jewish settlers who have made their homes – in contravention of international law – on Palestinian land occupied since 1967.
For the Palestinians, Israel's refusal to build the barrier on its side of the pre-1967 armistice lines is evidence that its prime motivation is not security but a deliberate policy of encroachment.
Yet there is no denying Israel's need for greater security – and not just in the West Bank.
On its remote southern border with Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, Israel is building another barrier that will run along the entire 150-mile frontier. It was initially designed to protect against illegal immigration; now Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, has ordered construction to be accelerated after initial results from Egypt's parliamentary elections pointed to a sweeping victory by Islamist parties.
Optimists have seen the Arab Spring as the triumph of democracy, predicting that a region unshackled from the dictators that suppressed it for so long will eventually bring both stability and prosperity to the Middle East. Mr Netanyahu is not one of them, describing the awakening as an "Islamic, anti-western, anti-liberal, anti-Israeli, undemocratic wave".
Israel's trepidation has a certain amount of justification. In September, an angry mob stormed its embassy in Cairo, forcing the evacuation of all Israeli diplomats from Egypt. Meanwhile, the Sinai has become increasingly dangerous, with militants using its barren remoteness to launch attacks on Israel. One Israeli cabinet minister says the region is turning into "a new Somalia".
Peace with Egypt, formalised in a treaty in 1979, is a cornerstone of Israel's security doctrine. The Muslim Brotherhood – which is set to dominate Egypt's new parliament – insists it has no intention of abrogating the pact but says that it will seek unspecified modifications of aspects of it.
Such words have done little to reassure Israel. "In every case where we have seen the overthrow of a so-called dictator, we have seen the rise of Islamic fundamentalists," one Israeli official says. "The status quo, which served Israel and western interests well, is disintegrating. To say there could again be a confrontation with Egypt or the Arab world is not alarmist. It is a realistic possibility that we must prepare for."
Israel has always regarded itself as "a villa in the jungle". But its sense of isolation, and of being beset by hostile forces, has only grown in the past year.
Relations with Turkey, once a vital ally in the region, have been all but ruptured. The threat from Iran is growing sharply, and, after years of silence, both Mr Netanyahu and his defence minister, Ehud Barak, are said to be pushing for cabinet support for a military strike against Tehran's nuclear facilities, possibly as soon as next year.
In the north, all is not well either. Palestinian refugees, influenced by the Arab Spring, twice tried to breach Israel's heavily fortified borders with Lebanon and Syria this year, resulting in more than 15 deaths. Israel responded by laying mines along the Syrian frontier, shoring up yet another border.
Many Israeli civilians hold the government's concerns over security. "People have to understand that this is not Scandinavia," says Yigal Ofran, an IT analyst in Jerusalem. "Without walls and checkpoints, we would still have terrorists murdering children and blowing up buses and cafes. How can you make peace with Arabs who want to exterminate us? The moment we make peace, it is a second death sentence for the Jewish race."
Yet, if Israel seems ever more vulnerable, Mr Netanyahu has responded with defiance and, in the eyes of his critics, a refusal to compromise. Reflecting frustration in Washington, Leon Panetta, the US defence secretary, has urged the Israeli leader to mend ties with Egypt and Turkey, a plea that has so far been rebuffed.
If anything, Mr Netanyahu is more confident than ever – even though his relationship with Barack Obama, the US president, is strained, particularly over Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank, the issue that has stalled peace talks with the Palestinians for the past three years.
During the first years of his presidency, Mr Obama's administration insisted that Israel freeze all settlement building, a call Mr Netanyahu ignored. But facing an angry backlash from the pro-Israel lobby, Congress and the US right, the White House has backtracked, quietly dropping its settlement demands.
In public at least, Mr Obama now presents himself as Israel's unquestioning ally. To Mr Netanyahu's delight, the president vowed to wield the US veto to block a Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations. So vehement was Mr Obama in his support for Israel during a key speech before the UN
General Assembly in September that Mahmoud Abbas, the moderate Palestinian president of the Palestinian Authority, sat listening to it with his head in his hands.
With the United States entering an election season, US criticism of Israeli policies will be more muted than ever in 2012. Mr Obama's Republican rivals are even more adamant in their support of Israel, with Newt Gingrich, the frontrunner on the right, even going as far as to claim that the Palestinians are an "invented people". Preoccupied with the eurozone crisis, Europe – traditionally more sympathetic to the Palestinians – is unlikely to focus too heavily on the region.
"In 2012, we are going to be operating in a serious political vacuum," says Mohammed Shtayyeh, a senior Palestinian official who – ironically – shares Israel's concerns about the rise of "political Islam" in the region.
All this has served to embolden the Israeli Right. In the country's parliament, the Knesset, the pro-settler lobby in Mr Netanyahu's coalition has advanced a series of bills that critics say are designed to tame the Supreme Court, human-rights groups and the liberal press – all of which are seen as obstacles to untrammelled settlement building.
The rising influence of ultra-orthodox Jewry has also led to an increasingly repressive atmosphere for women, who face growing segregation, while other legislative initiatives have targeted Israel's Arab minority. Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, has warned that Israel's proud democratic fabric is being undermined.
Within the fortress walls it has built, Israel is experiencing an identity crisis that is causing it to drift towards religious intolerance and authoritarianism, Mr Netanyahu's critics say.
"Israel needs to decide whether we are really a western-style democracy, whether we are a secular nation, or whether we are a right-wing fundamentalist society," says Gideon Levy, a leading left-wing columnist. "I think this is now what is at stake – it is as dramatic as that."
For some on the Israeli Right, the present situation might seem ideal. With international attention drifting, they can accelerate the settlement project in an atmosphere of relative peace.
But others warn that an historic opportunity is being missed, and that Israel will suffer the consequences as a result. Dov Weissglas, Israel's chief negotiator under Ariel Sharon, warns that Israel will never again find as moderate a Palestinian leader as Mr Abbas – who has said he will retire next year.
Hamas and Hizbollah, the two Islamist movements that have built up vast rocket arsenals, have also been weakened by crises facing their two chief patrons. Syria is too pre-occupied by a near civil war and is seen by both groups now as a liability, while Iran, struggling under international sanctions, has drastically cut funding.
Hamas, the overlord of Gaza, is instead turning to Egypt, which could have a moderating influence, despite the rise of the Islamists. According to the Palestinian government in the West Bank, Hamas is on the verge of renouncing violence and could even give its backing to negotiations with Israel – a claim whose credibility remains to be seen.
If there is an opportunity, Mr Netanyahu seems disinclined to see it. But the status quo is not sustainable believes Gilead Sher, another Israeli former chief negotiator. "Time is not running in our favour; rather it is running out," he says. "One should not look at the situation as one that is comfortable. As time passes we are only getting into a more and more complex situation. Things that were doable a decade ago, or even five years ago, are not as easy to do now."
Facing ever greater isolation in an increasingly volatile neighbourhood, Israel will eventually have to confront uncomfortable facts, according to members of the country's peace camp. In order to guarantee its long-term survival as a Jewish and democratic state, it will have to evacuate the vast majority of its West Bank settlements, they say.
With Arabs likely to form a majority of the population in the Holy Land before long (there are, by some estimates, currently 5.7 million Jews and 5.5 million Arabs), Israel cannot have both. If Israel gave the Arab majority a vote, it would no longer be Jewish. But, if it denies the majority the vote, it cannot be democratic.
"You have a choice to make here," says Mr Sher. "You have to cut the nonsense, and that can only be done by a disengagement from the vast majority of the West Bank."
A mile or two along the same ridge as Beit Jala stands the village of Walaja, also in the Bethlehem governorate. In 2012, it is due to be surrounded on all four sides by Israel's separation wall, a gate to Beit Jala providing its only entry and exit point.
Mr Ghneim may have a highway in his garden, but Omar Hajajilah will soon have a tunnel in his. His house sits on the hillside at the edge of Walaja, making it too difficult to erect the wall around it. Instead, Israel will build a fence, mounted with sensors, all the way around the building at a distance of 10 yards. Israel is also building a 250-metre tunnel, wide enough for a car, that will connect him and his family to the rest of Walaja – while ensuring that he cannot set foot on land that will become de facto Israeli territory.
But, unlike Mr Ghneim, Mr Hajajilah is determined to fight back. Every fortnight, the people of Walaja gather to demonstrate against Israel's wall – and although stones are sometimes thrown, such "non-violent" protests have become the new paradigm of Palestinian resistance against Israel.
Whether it will work remains to be seen. There are fears that such protests could easily escalate at a time when the West Bank is showing signs of volatility. Earlier this month, Israeli security forces killed a Palestinian protester in the village of Nabi Saleh after he threw a stone at an armoured military jeep.
But what they will not do, Palestinians say, is end their determination to fight for their rights. "We will stay on the land and we are going to win," says Mr Hajajilah. "A tunnel and a fence will not change us."


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"War is Hel"
Writer: Jason Aaron
Artist: Mike Del Mundo
With Color Assists by: Marco D'Alfonso
Cover Art: Mike Del Mundo
What You Need to Know: Thor and his band of Brothers (literally) have made an agreement after releasing their sister Hela to unite their Kingdoms in order to fight the Queen of Cinders and her Fire Goblin army for the throne. While some have disagreed to the marriage of former ruler Hela and the current ruler Blader, Thor has taken it upon himself to ask Loki to help "kill" him so that he can recruite the Valkyries. Just in time too as there is one last guest to the Wedding, Hela's love THANOS.
In This Issue: Thanos has arrived at the wedding and looking none too pleased to see Hela who is more than overjoyed. But the two have little time to celebrate as Queen of Cinders crashes the party with her army looking to finally destroy her rivals for the throne once and for all. And to make things better, it seems that Thanos is there to 'officially' break up with Hela now that the Infinity Stones have resurfaced. But Thor and the armies of Valhalla arrive just in time to even the odds. Including taking Hela's Crown and becoming the King of Hel to take on and defeat Cinder who flees before the final blow. With her gone, Hela demands her rightful place and it is Lady Karnilla wo takes the Wedding vows instead of her love. As her wedding present, Loki is able to send Thor, Blader and now Lady Brunnhilde back to the realm of the living where he also takes something from Thor's boat as his payment and Thor must now continue his fight in the War of the Realms.
SO, there is a lot going on this issue and while it can seem overwhelming, Aaron's writing makes it run smooth and entertaining. There is something going on in every page despite the full out war and everything is important. But let's not forget the little nibbles of humor thrown in to make things more entertaining, such as Thor's deep moment on what he might do now that his Master Thor is dead. The artwork on certain characters such as Cinder and Thor when he is the "King of Hel" is absolutely amazing to look at and some of my favorite pages. It also is a great set up for what will happen now that one of the Realms has been conquered since there are still more realms Thor has to deal with. Also, if you aren't reading Infinity War, this is a great reason to start with the appearance of Thanos and his big news.


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The UN children's agency UNICEF said the organisation and its partners had identified more than 400 children who have been orphaned or isolated during the outbreak.
PIC : In this file photo dated Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018, health workers walk with a boy suspected as having the Ebola virus at an Ebola treatment centre in Beni, Eastern Congo. (AFP Photo)
Children account for a third of Ebola cases in an outbreak of the disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with hundreds orphaned or isolated, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
Nearly 300 people have died from the highly contagious disease since August in the restive east around the city of Beni.
The UN children's agency UNICEF said the organisation and its partners had identified more than 400 children who have been orphaned or isolated during the outbreak.
"We are deeply concerned by the growing number of children confirmed to have contracted Ebola," said UNICEF's Regional Director for West and Central Africa, Marie-Pierre Poirier, returning from Beni.
"The earlier children infected with Ebola receive treatment in a specialised health facility, the greater their chances of survival. Community mobilisation and public awareness activities are also crucial."
After it was declared on August 1 -- the tenth outbreak in DR Congo since 1976 -- at least 285 people have died, according to the last health ministry update on December 9.
Nearly 44,000 people have been vaccinated.
The outbreak has hit an area already struggling with violence from armed groups.
In November, medical and vaccination efforts were briefly suspended and health workers evacuated after clashes between UN peacekeepers and fighters from the local Allied Democratic Forces militia.
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Uganda vaccinates health workers against Ebola
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