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A few months ago I got an e-mail from a woman about a story I'd written nearly three years ago. To protect her privacy I'll call her Samantha Sugarlips.
In that story, which I'd written for my somewhat more sarcastic blog, I mocked this woman for posting photos and other personal information to Facebook, then turning around and suing the social network for allowing other people to view them. At the time it seemed like nothing more than a desperate attempt to generate publicity for Samantha, an aspiring actress, especially given the fact that she had posted similar photos to her own Web site as well as to MySpace. (As it turns out, the real story is quite different -- but that's a topic for another time.)
My blog post was hardly the only one to talk about the suit, but I had a bit of fun at her expense and included some of the photos available on her other pages. Those photos, with links to my story, kept showing up in Google Images whenever anyone searched on her real name. Now Samantha was writing to me to ask if I would please remove that post, as she was embarking on a new career and my story could prove embarrassing if not outright damaging to her reputation. (See also "How to Protect Your Professional Reputation on Facebook Timeline.")
- Five things you should never do on Facebook (or anywhere else)
- Welcome to Google Data Armageddon
- Seven ways to rescue your online reputation
I thought about this for a bit before agreeing. If I had written a straight news story, and if Samantha had been a public figure, I probably would have declined. There's a long history of people in power trying to erase or distort the past, and that's not something I can endorse. That's one reason why no amount of gentle persuasion is likely to convince a real news site to remove those stories about her. But this was a silly story that was well past its pull date and of no importance to anyone but Samantha -- and it seemed quite important to her.
I compromised by leaving the story in place but redacting her name where it appeared. I replaced most of her photos with pictures of adorable kittens. I removed any tags that included her name and changed the filename for the one photo I kept of her where I had obscured her features. I submitted a request to Google asking them to remove the old page from its cache and created a new URL for the redacted story. I told Samantha that it would be a while but eventually Google would drop the story featuring her name and photo from its cache and replace it with the redacted one. I thought my work was done.
I was wrong.
Recently Samantha wrote to me again, telling me she had Googled her name and found an unredacted copy of my story on a very popular Web site. And of course she had -- I had posted it there, in order to drive traffic, and then totally forgotten about it. Oops. I wrote to that site and explained the situation. Within an hour they had removed it. (Though it's still in Google's cache as I write this.)
But Samantha still wasn't out of the woods. Searching for her name and the name of my site produced a number of other hits that were largely out of my -- and her -- control. For example, I had left a comment on a popular tech blog linking back to my original story. I tried to remove that comment recently and could not, because that blog had dumped its old commenting system in favor of Facebook more than a year ago. A Google search on Samantha's real name and the name of my other blog still points to the redacted story, even though her name cannot be found there, most probably because of this link and others like it.
Among the others:
Some bot-driven online dictionary had a "definition" for her real first name and used the title of my story as part of that definition.
A tech news publication in the IDG family linked to that story and quoted a piece of it containing Samantha's last name.
Someone in Yahoo Answers had linked to the original photo of Samantha on my blog in response to a question about male strippers. The link no longer worked, but it still had her name in it.
A XXX image-sharing site featuring some truly nasty male enlargement ads had scraped one of the original images of Samantha's G-rated Facebook profile that I had captured and reposted it for reasons unknown. (I e-mailed the address on the DNS record for this site, asking for that image to be removed; 12 hours later it was gone. Even I am amazed at that.)
The good news is that Samantha is a smart cookie. She knew that the best way to bury bad news online is to replace it with good news. So over the last two years she created a ton of profile pages on social sites like Flickr, Vimeo, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Tumblr, and About.me, to name a few, and managed to get them ranked higher by Google than the news stories about her unfortunate lawsuit.
How did she manage that? By continually creating new content and uploading it to each of those sites. This is something companies like Reputation.com charge megabucks to do for people whose online reputations are in tatters. Samantha was doing it all on her own.
The other smart thing Samantha did was ask politely. Many people in her situation would have been angry and made demands, or worse. I've had a few lawyer threats thrown at me lately, and I can tell you that's probably the worst thing you can do to a journalist -- 99 percent of the time it backfires. Samantha's request was so simple and reasonable it was hard to ignore. Had she come at me with guns blazing, I might not have been so willing to accommodate her.
The lesson here? Once something sticks to the Web it's very hard to get it unstuck, thanks in large part to bots and other algorithms that operate independently from humans. Things take on a life of their own. And though Samantha did better than most at cleaning up what was a relatively small mess, she couldn't get to all of it.
Fortunately this incident has not impacted her new career, and with luck it never will.
It's a cliche, but it still bears repeating: Before you do anything in the public arena, think long and hard about how your activities are going to play out on the Web. Don't post anything stupid or do anything silly online just for attention -- and don't let your friends catch you in the act and share it with the world, either. One day it could come back to bite you. And if you don't believe me, just ask Samantha.
Got a question about social media? TY4NS blogger Dan Tynanmay have the answer (and if not, he'll make something up). Visit his snarky, occasionally NSFW blog eSarcasmor follow him on Twitter: @tynanwrites. For the latest IT news, analysis and how-to's, follow ITworld on Twitterand Facebook.
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Lincoln County will receive more than $500,000 for low income housing, the Nebraska Department of Economic Development announced Tuesday.
The money comes from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. It will be used for two projects.
The first project will invest $195,040 in National Affordable Housing Trust Funds to purchase and rehabilitate four rental units.
The rehab is already underway, said Nancy Striebel, the executive director of the Lincoln County CDC.
"We did a three-unit a year ago at Fifth and Miles, and they were rented just like that," she said.
The homes are rented to qualifying families earning at or below 80 percent of the average median income, which is $50,000 for a family of four.
The second project will use $310,000 in "HOME" funds to buy or accept donations of five homes, which are then rehabilitated and resold in Lincoln County.
The CDC has rehabbed 30 some houses like this in North Platte since 2003, Striebel said. Families can buy the houses by making part of the downpayment and monthly low interest loan payments. The CDC picks up the closing costs and most of the downpayment as a separate loan, which is forgiven if a buyer stays in the house for five years, Stribel said.
The homes are either moved to other sites or anchored to new foundations, then rehabilitated and sold to qualifying homebuyers. Rehabilitation may include repair or replacement of plumbing, heating, air conditioning, electrical systems and roofs. Lead-based paint issues also will be addressed.
An additional $203,000 from donations and reuse funding will complete the buy-rehab-resell projects, the DED said.
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Also Striebel is working with city officials to help clean up dilapidated homes in North Platte. A study is planned to development health and safety standards, and appoint a city health inspector, she said. The council could formally consider it next summer.
"We need mobile homes," Striebel said. "We don't need mobile homes that are unsafe or unhealthy, but we need mobile homes."
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Striebel said building renovations could occur in 2014 in Frontier County.
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Hi. I'm a healer in 3s. I want to assist my mage everytime I cast damage spells. Basically I want to be able to have anything targetted but when I fire that macro it will cast lava burst on my mage's target and not lose my target. Is there something similar to like target=mymage'sname'starget?
I don't want to /assist him because that would make me target the enemy and I don't want to target=targettarget because that means I have to target my mage first.
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Set your mage as your focus and use:
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/cast [@focustarget, harm] <spellname>
Thanks esevenf but that won't work because I need my focus for wind shears
You can go by name.
('-target' instead of 'target' is used as a suffix for party member name pseudo-unitIDs)Code:#showtooltip /cast [@magename-target, harm]Spell
Treeston that worked perfect thx!
i actually tried this out before at the dummies but didn't realise it had to be a party member for it to work.
thanks again
Yeah, character names are only valid unitIDs for people in your party or raid.
Hey, I'm pretty new to macros, so trying to get a better understanding of it through here!
I'm looking for a holy prism macro that prioritizes like this:
1. If my target of target is hostile, use on that.
2. If not, cast on focus (if it exists).
3. If no focus, cast on self.
Sorry if it's been posted before, but reading through 220+ pages takes a while
Thanks in advance!
I was hoping someone could write a macro that will:
1. Cast Crackling Jade Lightning on target
2. Cast Crackling Jade Lightning on target's target
3. Cast Crackling Jade Lightning on nearest enemy
I've managed to get the 2 first right, but cant seem to get the last part right. I would love to post it, but it seems, since i am a new poster on mmo, i am not allowed to post the macro ive made so far
Hopefully someone is able to help me! Thanks in advance!
Have not tested, just off the top of my head. Likely a better way to do this if it even works.
Should (I hope) target the nearest enemy player if you have no target, to prioritise players over pets/npcs.
Should target the nearest generic enemy if you have no target, and then to cast Jade Lightning if you have hostile target.
Put this starting on a new line after what you have so far.
Code:/targetenemyplayer [noexists] /targetenemy [noexists] /cast [@target,harm] Crackling Jade Lightning
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Is there anyway to make a priority macro? Like : Shot A > Shot B. Shot A will always be fired if avaible?
If not, is there a way to do a castsequence so I can bind two shots together?
I want to fire Glaive Toss on CD and Arcane shot every other time
So it would be: /castsequence Glaive Toss, Arcane Shot
Looking for an improved version of my void tendrils macro.
tar void / targetlasttarget is obviously a hassle/supoptimal and I'm looking for a macro that pw shields my tendril without deselecting my current target.(and casts void tendrils in the first place)tar void
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Trachsel climbs in music world
1995 CHS grad now serving as director of bands at Ohio University
By Jane Lawson
, The Daily Times Herald
March 27, 2013
Nestled on a hill on the south side of Carroll there was a home filled with a mother, a father and three boys. In every corner of that house, there was music.
Music was very much a part of the Trachsel household. There was a big wooden console stereo with a record player and radio in the living room, a Wurlitzer upright piano, various musical instruments and plenty of recorded music to enjoy. In the earlier years the family listened to records and 8-track cassettes.
Oldest son, Andy Trachsel, of Athens, Ohio, recalls the record player was always playing something. Music ranging from children's storybook albums to Christmas music during the holiday season, to recordings of the Iowa All-State Band from the mid-1960s when Trachsel's late father, Roger, played in the band as a clarinetist. Trachsel even remembers Michael Jackson's "Thriller" blaring from that old record player. The album was a Christmas gift one year.
In later years music was played by the boys on cassette tapes and CDs. Trachsel can still recall when he purchased his first CD in Ames in January 1992 at the mall in Ames. The CD was Nirvana's "Nevermind," and Trachsel said he was "blown away" by the overall sound of the musical group.
Today, Trachsel's music collection is still eclectic and has grown by quite a bit. On a recent business trip, Trachsel, director of bands at University of Ohio in Athens, Ohio, packed 50 CDs into his carry-on luggage from a music convention he'd attended in Chicago.
Trachsel's CD and digital music collection is extremely diverse and grows daily. His computer's hard drive has over 100 gigabytes of music, which would provide him over two months' worth of music played back to back.
These days you can find Trachsel grooving to anything from psychedelic rock and indie rock to the New York Philharmonic playing Tchaikovsky on his headphones.
"I love all kinds of music, and that is a direct outgrowth of all we listened to and played at home and in the community when I was growing up," Trachsel said.
Not only was Trachsel, a 1995 Carroll High School graduate, surrounded by music at home, but also at school and at church. Both of his parents, Lana Downing, of Guthrie Center and the late, Roger Trachsel, also grew up playing music. His mother played piano and sang in her school choir. Lana has always been active in church choir and also played in the bell choir at First United Methodist Church in Carroll. Roger played both clarinet and saxophone in high school.
While some parents enjoy a quiet household, Trachsel's parents encouraged their three sons Andy, Tony and Adam, to make music. Trachsel's mother taught Trachsel how to play the piano for several years until he began taking lessons from his neighbor, Joan Gronstal.
Besides home the music program at First United Methodist Church in Carroll also had an powerful impact on Trachsel. Simply sitting in the congregation listening to the music in the service including the voices in the choir, the organ, the piano and bell choir were not only enjoyable to Trachsel, but educational.
Trachsel was exposed to reading four-part harmonies in the church hymnal at an early age by singing in the congregation. He also took part in the youth music program and later sang in the adult choir while in high school.
Not only did Trachsel love the listening to music at church, but also at home. Trachsel shared, "I loved sitting in the living room and listening to records on the stereo and hearing my mom play piano. My favorites were "Music Box Dancer," and "Chariots of Fire," but most memorably, the theme to "Star Wars."
Trachsel said he also learned a great deal about music at Fairview Elementary first with Ellen Severin and then Mary Johnson as his elementary music educators.
In fifth grade at Fairview, Trachsel began to play alto saxophone under the instruction of Ruth Carter. However, the saxophone was not his first choice. At first Trachsel succumbed to peer pressure and wanted to play the clarinet just like his friends, but when he told his parents of his decision, his father, Roger, an All-State clarinetist at Audubon High School, had a suggestion for his son. He explained that the saxophone might be a wiser choice because Trachsel could play jazz, as well as concert music.
"As a conductor, I love the clarinet, but I'm so glad that my folks wanted me to play saxophone instead. I wouldn't be doing what I am now without it," said Trachsel.
Trachsel's father's advice paid off, and he learned to play the saxophone throughout high school under the direction of siblings, Ruth Carter and Fred Burrack. Trachsel and Burrack, now head of music education and director of graduate studies at Kansas State University, still keep in touch on a regular basis.
"He's had a huge impact on my life and career," Trachsel said.
At Carroll High School Trachsel played in concert band, marching band, solo and ensemble contest, and several jazz bands and combos. He also played in the church band and was accompanied by Nancy Davis, who accompanied at both Trachsel's church and school.
The choral music program led by Doug Sweeney also played a large role in Trachsel's musical experience at Carroll High School. He participated in concert choir, swing choir, and solo and ensemble contests. Trachsel was also part of the Iowa All-State Choir as a tenor his senior year, as well as performed in the musicals "Bye, Bye Birdie" and "Into the Woods."
Trachsel enjoyed all aspects of the music program at Carroll High, but really loved performing with the jazz band. He recalls many hours of practice preparing for performances and competitions when he would practice his saxophone alone in his bedroom and his father would come up to give him advice.
By the time he was a senior, he was playing lead alto saxophone and got to play featured solos with the band. The band qualified for the Iowa Jazz Championships Trachsel's junior and senior years.
"As a saxophonist, it was where my instrument really got to shine as a featured instrument," Trachsel said.
Trachsel said he had a lot of fun playing in several combos in and out of school playing at school functions, nursing homes, women's luncheons, the Court Street Pub, the Carroll Country Club, etc.
Originally Trachel's career choice was to be a lawyer; however, he changed his mind very late in high school.
"The influence of my music teachers Fred Burrack and Doug Sweeney, as well as the success and enjoyment that I was experiencing in music, made it seem inevitable that I should study music in college," explained Trachsel.
Trachsel looked at a few colleges and settled on Drake University in Des Moines and majored in instrumental music education. His goal was to teach high school band in rural Iowa, something Trachsel calls "a fine and great career."
Unexpectedly during Trachsel's junior year at Drake his career goal began to shift when he became infatuated with the music of the concert band. He began studying conducting and collecting scores and recordings.
Trachsel's first teaching job was tougher than he expected. He was living on his own in Ankeny and teaching band was more frustrating than he anticipated. Then his father, Roger, passed away after a long battle with cancer. With this change in Trachsel's life came a shift in his career goal.
As he was driving to Iowa City one winter weekend to visit friends, he realized he was very excited to get there. Then it dawned on him.
"I was excited to go to a place where everyone was as passionate about their focus as I was about mine - a college town where experts in one field regularly interacted with leaders in another. It was then I realized I wanted and needed to go to graduate school to learn more about my field and become a collegiate conductor," recounted Trachsel.
One week later Trachsel was on the phone with the band conductors at the University of North Texas where his mentor at Drake University, Bob Meunier, director of bands, had studied. Trachsel inquired about joining the graduate wind conducting program and attended a conducting workshop at the University of North Texas the following summer.
Trachsel, a 1999 Drake University graduate, was director of bands at North Polk Junior-Senior High for one year and then a band teacher at Dallas Center-Grimes High School for three years before Trachsel and his wife, Kirsten, whom he met while attending Drake, moved to Texas. Kirsten, also a music major, was assistant director of bands at Southeast Polk High School for two years after graduation.
In 2003 Trachsel began his graduate studies at the University of North Texas and Kirsten taught at Boyd Independent School District, just north of Fort Worth. After four years in Texas, Trachsel earned a master of music in conducting and a doctor of musical arts in conducting. He was hired as a postdoctoral teaching fellow and assistant director of bands at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music at the University of Georgia. Kirsten was 36 weeks pregnant when the couple made their move east to Athens, Ga. Their baby was due on the first day of classes at the university, but thankfully, their son, Andersen was born one week past his due date.
Now 5 years old, Andersen is a preschooler following in his parents' footsteps loving the world of music. There is no doubt young Andersen loves music. Trachsel said music is always part of his play. When he was very young, he would pretend pot lids were cymbals, and he would march around the house singing the national anthem.
Kirsten stays home with Andersen while keeping busy with many different roles. She works part-time as the Christian education coordinator at their church, watches some of their friends' children during the day and also owns a fabric art business, Calico Skies Crafts, on etsy.com and sells her work at local art shows.
Trachsel has been director of bands at Ohio University in Athens, since 2008. He also teaches undergraduate and graduate conducting classes and a class on the history and repertoire of the wind band. Additionally he conducts the wind symphony, the school's select concert band, as well as the university's concert band, which is primarily for non-music majors.
Trachsel's duties don't stop at conducting as he is assistant director of recruiting and scheduling for the school of music.
In the summertime Trachsel coordinates and conducts a summer concert band series on campus. This concert series is made up of community and university members.
Currently there are 240 students in the university marching band, Marching 110. The name used to refer to the number of band members, but the band has been expanding for the past decade. In order to keep with the "110 theme," Trachsel and his colleague, Richard Suk, tell their students they expect them to give 110 percent in everything they do for historical and symbolic purposes.
Trachsel credits colleague Suk, as the brains behind the band. Suk is in charge of Marching 110 and coordinates and teaches the majority of the day-to-day operations with help from teaching assistants.
Trachsel also credits the university's strong student leadership to a band that runs smoothly.
In May the Marching 110 and the wind symphony is traveling to Europe to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the band at Ohio University, an idea conceived by Trachsel and Suk. The groups will perform in Ireland and Italy over a period of eight days.
Marching 110 is well-known across the world. In the fall of 2011 the band performed the popular song "Party Rock Anthem" as part of a halftime show. A parent with two sons in the Marching 110 was in the stands and took video of the performance and posted it on YouTube that weekend.
What happened next was a total surprise. Within a week the video had over 1 million hits. The song was a chart-topper at the time and soon phone calls and emails were coming in from all over the world. The video was featured on television and the Internet many times.
Trachsel says the "Party Rock Anthem" performance is exactly what the band has been doing for 45 years, performing popular music in an exciting style that includes dancing.
Last fall the same thing happened when the band performed "Gangnam Style" by the Korean pop star Psy. This time it was arranged ahead of time to have the video taken with multiple cameras and cross-editing by a professional video production company. The video was pieced together in a camper outside the stadium immediately after the game and then posted on YouTube.
The video took off immediately gaining 1 million hits a day for five days. In those five days the video was featured on the "Today" show, Anderson Cooper's daytime show, ESPN, and many other media outlets. Trachsel even received a phone call from Tokyo from a television show that wanted approval for playing the video on their show.
Most of Marching 110's performances are as high-energy as "Party Rock Anthem" and "Gangnam Style." Trachsel said, "For the most part, what you see is what this band has been doing since 1967. Typically, for halftime shows they play popular music, marching one or two numbers, then the third tune is usually a dance-chart topper. Pregame is more traditional, but still with the band's unique brand of excitement - high-step marching style with a "swagger" from left to right, and dancing."
According to Trachsel, his young son, Andersen has great ears, picks up melodies easily and has always been able to sing things back at the same pitch. Trachsel recalls once for an entire week, Andersen kept singing a certain song over and over again and said it was a song he'd heard at a recent football game. Since the band typically plays pop tunes, Andersen belts out the melodies to the songs, minus the words.
The following week, Trachsel was standing on the field when the same song was played over the stadium's P.A. system. He looked for his son in the stands and found Andersen beaming from ear to ear knowing his dad finally heard the song he'd been hearing in his head for a week. The song turned out to be "Power" by R&B star Kanye West.
Andersen has memorized much of the music the Marching 110 plays including "Raise Your Glass" by Pink, "Cat Scratch Fever" by Ted Nugent and the words and melody to the Ohio University fight song.
Trachsel and his wife, Kirsten, have not pushed Andersen to take piano lessons, but that may be on the horizon very soon for their musical boy.
Trachsel's two younger brothers, Adam and Tony, also took piano lessons from their mother, and Adam continued lessons with Nancy Davis. Both played musical instruments when they were young, and both brothers are still involved in the arts.
Tony and Adam live in Portland, Ore. Tony works for Living Room Theaters in Portland where he is a theater programmer and develops alternative economical digital projection for mass distribution to theaters nationwide.
Adam has an active musical career.
Andy is very proud of his brother and said he is a "phenomenal bass player" who plays in several groups in Portland as a member of the bands and works as a freelance musician.
Adam has been a member of and played for several bands in the Northeast. He plays piano, guitar, and sitar and is the bassist and co-singer on The Lumineers' debut album, which has now gone platinum, selling 1 million copies. The Lumineers are a Denver-based folk-rock band that earned two Grammy nominations this year. Trachsel explains Adam is not credited as the bassist on the album because he played on the album as a freelance musician. However, he did appear with The Lumineers on Craig Ferguson's "Late Show" on CBS and performed their hit, "Hey Ho" on stage with them. Adam plays classically in the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and teaches music lessons on piano, guitar and bass.
Trachsel's mother, Lana, and stepfather, Dean Downing, live in Guthrie Center. Trachsel's grandmother, Carol Learmont, of Carroll attends Trachsel's childhood church and keeps up with her family online, enjoying the success of her grandsons.
Not only is Trachsel looking forward to the celebratory trip to Europe with the wind symphony, he's also excited to announce the wind symphony just released a commercial CD with Mark Records. Their premiere album is available many places including iTunes and Amazon.
The wind symphony is the group with whom Andy works the most. The album, "Mothership," features music by living composers Mason Bates, Michael Markowski, Robert Moran, and Joel Puckett; as well as George Gershwin and Percy Grainger.
"Mothership" represents a milestone is Trachsel's personal and professional career. As conductor Trachsel hopes the album speaks to its listeners the same way his first CD spoke to him in 1991.
Trachsel shared, "I think it's this feeling that we still try to reach through any form of artistry - music, visual art, dance, theater, etc. By being a listener we're trying to have those 'goose bump' moments, or aesthetic experiences, that are unforgettable."
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Fred's net income increased 16% to $9.5 million, or 24 cents per diluted share, compared with net income of $8.2 million, or 21 cents per diluted share in the year-earlier period.
The retailer said that total sales rose 3% to $484.4 million from $471.6 million for the same period last year. For comps, Fred's reported a 1% rise on top of a 2.2% increase for the first quarter last year.
Fred's gross profit for first quarter 2011 increased 1% to $137.9 million from $136.9 million in the prior-year period.
During the first quarter, Fred's opened one new store and four pharmacy express locations and closed seven underperforming stores and one pharmacy express location as part of its 2011 operating plan. Additionally, one franchise also was closed during the quarter. The company also remodeled and refreshed 56 stores with its new Core 5 elements in the quarter, bringing the total stores upgraded to 264 during 2010 and 2011.
Looking ahead, Fred's expects its earnings per share to increase between 8% and 23% for the second quarter to a range of 14 cents to 16 cents.


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Aki Watanabe, a student in the comparative biology doctoral program at the American Museum of Natural History's Richard Gilder Graduate School, was recently chosen as a beta-tester for Google Glass. Here, Aki gives his Glass to paleontology collections manager Carl Mehling for a behind-the-scenes look at the Big Bone Room, which houses some of the largest items in the Museum's paleontology collection.
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The second in a series, this post features the work of Museum scientists studying ayes-ayes, fishes, and leeches in Madagascar.
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Ten diminutive, colorful dart-poison frog species are featured in a lively vivarium in the Museum's live-animal exhibition Frogs: A Chorus of Colors, now open at the Museum. Get to know a few!
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On Tuesday, August 6, 2013, NASA's Curiosity rover celebrated one full year on Mars. Watch a video from Science Bulletins about the rover.
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A student in the Comparative Biology doctoral program at the Museum's Richard Gilder Graduate School (RGGS), Watanabe was recently chosen to be one of the beta-testers for Google Glass, a hands-free wearable computer.


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Situated 81-kilometres west of Dalby along the Warrego Highway in the Darling Downs is the Melon capital of Australia, Chinchilla - producing 25 per cent of the country's watermelons, rockmelons and honeydew melons. It's no wonder why there's fruit spare for the annual melon skiing, bungee and pip spitting competitions held every second February.
Visitors also flock to Chinchilla by the dozen to try their hand at fossicking the Chinchilla Red petrified wood. Licences can be purchased from the visitor information centre, where you're encouraged to settle in with a Devonshire tea and freshly-made scones on the verandah.
Stroll the main street lined in native cypress pines and dabble in the nearby cultural centre, art gallery and historical museum loaded with steam engines and saw mill artefacts. Step it up a notch on the local bushwalking trails and tourist district drives, detouring along sidetracks lined in unique Chinchilla White Gum (Eucalyptus argophloia).
Experience the night sky and stars from within a swag on the banks of the Condamine River and Charleys Creek, and throw a fishing line at the Chinchilla Weir for (almost) guaranteed freshwater golden perch and jewfish.
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Two cabinet ministers, an MLA and a town councillor heaped praise on their star candidate Tuesday night as Michelle Stilwell officially became a B.C. Liberal Party standard bearer for the May 14 provincial election.
The Paralympic multi-gold medalist and world champion was unopposed as she accepted the nomination from the Parksville-Qualicum constituency association. There were about 90 people at the meeting at the Parksville Civic Centre while a heavy rain that was snow elsewhere in the riding reportedly kept many members off the roads and away from the meeting.
"The economy will continue to grow and prosper with free enterprise and the B.C. Liberals leading the way," said Stilwell, 38, who seeks to hold a riding currently represented by fellow B.C. Liberal Ron Cantelon, who announced late last year he would not seek a third term in the B.C. Legislature. "This is a winnable seat and we can do it."
The motion to nominate Stilwell was made by Town of Qualicum Beach councillor Mary Brouilette and seconded by Cantelon. On hand to formerly introduce Stilwell was Minister of Children and Family Development Stephanie Cadieux. Later, Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Mary Polak implored the crowd to get involved in the campaign.
Like Stilwell, Cadieux, the MLA for Surrey-Panarama, is a paraplegic who uses a wheelchair.
"I don't think she (Stilwell) is spectacular in any way and I don't think she's special in any way," Cadiuex said, drawing laughter from the crowd. "I do, however, think she is an exceptional human being."
"It (running for office) takes someone with quite a spine and Michelle has that."
Brouilette called Stilwell "someone you really want to know."
She said much of the public may know about Stilwell's athletic achievements, but they may not know she is a wife, mother, community leader and business owner.
"There are many more facets to this amazing woman," said Brouilette.
Cantelon, who described himself as a "recovering politician," said Stilwell is "exactly the kind of someone who can listen to people, grab that understanding and take it to the legislature."
Cantelon could also be credited with the most partisan comment of the night:
"We're going to thrash whatever pathetic opposition there is."
Upon accepting the nomination, Stilwell told the crowd she would be leaving the country for seven weeks to train and compete in the world championships in Australia, a commitment she said she made before Cantelon made his announcement and before she knew she would seek the seat.
"I think it says a lot about my character that I'm going to stick to that commitment (to compete at the worlds) and be true to my word," Stilwell told The NEWS in an interview after the meeting.


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one whose is constantly taking pictures of herself with a washed out camera phone. They usually bombard their facebooks with atleast 10 pics a day of with either their face, thier lackluster body or their dog, with home they cling to so tight his fleas beg for freedom. The sad people tend to think that others enjoy looking at pictures of their distorted faces with Mr. Ed teeth or their short hemline and ghastly white (not ghostly, but gastly) legs. A pic-ho is usually boring, but tries to over compensate with chirpy banter and talks of past husband and how much they are wanted by the local boys, but yet, they are always alone. Pic-ho's do not make good friends, you will always end up being tagged in some loathy album that your other friends may see.
I wish she would stop taking so many washed out pictures of herself and posting them on facebook, she is a true pic-ho.
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We are glad you are considering becoming part of the diverse community at Trinity Christian College! A Trinity education is a life changing experience that will challenge you academically, enrich you spiritually, and equip you for your future career and calling.
Celebrating the Diverse Scholarly Work of Professors
Summer is often a time when Trinity faculty pursue scholarly work. That work was celebrated at a recent reception honoring the 2012 summer research grant recipients.
The research grant program is a competitive program for faculty-initiated summer professional development. It emphasizes shorter times of intensive, collaborative work, especially between disciplines.
Drs. Bill Boerman-Cornell, Mark Jones, Aaron Kuecker, Mark Peters, Keith Starkenburg, and Yudha Thianto shared highlights from their diverse projects.
Dr. Bill Boerman-Cornell, associate professor of education
As part of this ongoing project, Boerman-Cornell analyzed several graphic novels, selecting a corpus of novels with a variety of subjects, age levels, and subjective evaluations of quality. From that group, he developed a coding system based on the work of Scott McCloud, an American cartoonist and theorist.
Dr. Mark Jones, professor of English
Jones studied Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth and worked through the critical history of the novel. His research brought into focus three related topics that fall under the larger category of "Elements of Carnival in Scott's Kenilworth," the title of the article Jones is in the process of writing.
Dr. Aaron Kuecker, associate professor of theology
Two writing projects were the focus of Kuecker's work and are intended as chapters for an edited volume. The first chapter is a methodological overview of the current state of research into the concept of ethnicity in the New Testament. The second chapter is a comparative analysis of a cluster of identity-related phenomena in Luke-Acts and Vergil's Aeneid.
Dr. Mark Peters, professor of music
Peters focused his summer research on Feast of Visitation cantatas by Christoph Graupner (1683-1760), Hofkapellmeister in Hesse-Darmstadt. None of Graupner's Visitation cantatas has been published in a modern edition; Peters transcribed nearly five cantatas into modern editions using Finale music notation software. He also reviewed Tonus Peregrinus: The History of a Psalm-Tone and Its Use in Polyphonic Music, by Mattias Lundberg (published in Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 69 [2012]).
Dr. Keith Starkenburg, associate professor of theology
His research addressed the theology of Karl Barth, an important Swiss Reformed theologian in the twentieth century. The first part of the research argued that Barth's theology relates the work of the Holy Spirit to the work of Jesus Christ without reducing their mutual agencies to one another. The second part showed that Barth's doctrine of glory plays a significant role in how Barth accounts for the persuasive power of the Triune God's activity within the Christian community.
Dr. Yudha Thianto, professor of theology
Thianto's research focus is the study of the history of Bible translation into Malay at the time of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, in particular the earliest translation of the four Gospels and Acts, published in 1677.
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During the Civil War, Point Lookout was one of the largest prisons of CSA POWs. Many men died there from exposure, malaria, scurvy and TB. Originally, the soldiers were buried in two cemeteries near the prison camp. However, because the cemetery land started to erode into the Chesapeake, in 1870 the state of Maryland removed the remains. In 1910 they were moved again and re-interred in a burial trench one mile inland, near where a federal monument was constructed that year. The 80-foot granite obelisk marks the site, just outside Point Lookout State Park, but the actual boundaries of the pit are not marked.
'When the prisoners' remains were moved from Tanner's Creek to the present cemetery, they were moved by two black men, William Shorter and Yaret Hewlett. The skulls were put in one box, the arm bones in another and the leg bones in a third box. However, they were paid in accordance with the number of skull bones. Frequently, after having had too much to drink, they would gamble with the skull bones as stakes...'"Pt. Lookout Prison Camp for Confederates" pg. 198, by Edwin Beitzell.
The monument includes 12 bronze tablets inscribed with the names and command of 3,382 known Confederate soldiers and sailors, and 44 civilians who were buried at the prison. Four of these tablets are attached to the base of the monument, and eight are on the grass mound supporting the monument.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The St. Johns River Ferry was out of service all day Monday and Jaxport officials say it will stay parked until extensive repairs can be made.
The St. Johns River Ferry Commission met Monday night to try to find a way to get the ferry operational as soon as possible.
Officials said stress fractures have been discovered in the hull plate of the ferry, and a small amount of water is seeping into the vessel. The water is being pumped out, officials said.
"We were pretty shocked to find out about the cracks that were discovered today. But the public was never in any danger, and we are getting it fixed right away. It shouldn't be more than a few days," said Elaine Brown, St. Johns River Ferry Commission.
Riders should expect the ferry -- which connect State Road A1A between Mayport and Fort George Island -- to be out of service for at least the next several days since the ferry will have to be taken out of the water for repairs, according Jaxport spokeswoman Nancy Rubin
The U.S. Coast Guard has instructed that the ferry be removed from service until repairs are completed. Given that the ferry has no dedicated source of funding, where the money to pay to fix the ferry is unclear.
Jaxport decided earlier in the year it can no longer afford to operate the ferry and is turning over its operation to a non-profit St. Johns River Ferry Commission on Oct. 1. Jaxport the city of Jacksonville have each pledged $200,000 to the commission, but that is not enough money to run the ferry for the year.
A FDOT survey done of 3,000 ferry riders completed in March and April showed 46 percent were locals using the ferry for fun, sun and food.
"This is the people of Jacksonville, Nassau County's ferry, we love it. We want to keep it going, we need to ride it and support it, and hopefully next year we can put together some fun things that could happen. People could get married on it. We could have, if it's your birthday, ride free. A lot of things that make it a little bit more exciting," Brown said.
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i would like to ask about an automated tool that could list all subdomains for a target domain and not duplicate results
i tried goorecon but it displayed only 60 subdomains while i found manually through google 200 subdomains
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thx m-1-k-3 i tried dns - zone transfer , but i tried the zone transfer tool but i did not give me the required results , i want a tools that list all subdomains for a target domain for example give it the domain :
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to help me to make an automated script.
if zonetransfer is disabled, there is no possibility to list them all ... you can try to bruteforce it.
I was interested in this post so I made a short script in python.
What it does is scrapes the page for urls and follows them, then rescrapes them and removes duplicates as many times as you want.
I'm kind of liking it so I'll work on adding a scanner first to check for port 443/80/53 and if there isn't one it should check a DNS for 1-255 in the 4th octet of the domain's IP for sub-domains and rescan / re-scrape etc etc. So it would brute force some domains if they aren't handed to you on a silver platter.
I tested it on google, because I know I'll get some hits.
I chose to re-scrape twice for the sake of bandwidth.
The results I got for Google were:
Is this what you were looking for? Noise on the networkCode:http://translate.google.com http://pack.google.com http://video.google.com http://sites.google.com http://desktop.google.com http://groups.google.com http://images.google.com http://sketchup.google.com http://picasa.google.com http://maps.google.com http://code.google.com http://docs.google.com http://checkout.google.com http://toolbar.google.com http://labs.google.com http://earth.google.com https://www.google.com http://www.google.com https://checkout.google.com http://mail.google.com http://news.google.com http://knol.google.com http://books.google.com http://blogsearch.google.com
I've seen sites with 1000's of subdomains and I'm sure that wasn't even all of them.
Why would you want this tool other than curiosity?
Curiosity !!!! i have a task to make some satistics about some domains and their subdomains so i want to list all subdomains instead fo searching them by "site:" operator @ google and have duplicated results and also hundreds of results
Long story short, I'd use Men and Mice web app and then brute force it with a python script and go for range based on the info i get from men and mice.
Good luck.Code:import scapy def resolve(host): dns = DNS(rd=1,qd=DNSQR(qname=host)) response = sr1(IP(dst='192.168.1.1')/UDP()/dns); if response.haslayer(DNS): answer = response.getlayer(DNS).an answer.show() #etc #etc
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MORE than 200 trade unionists marched through York city centre in protest at pay, pensions and cuts in public services.
Members of unions including the National Union of Teachers (NUT), Unison, Unite, the GMB, and the The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) took part in yesterday's march, which began by Clifford's Tower and ended with a rally in St Sampson's Square.
Shoppers and tourists looked on as marchers chanted: "What do we want? Fair Pay. When do we want it? Now!"
The march coincided with a one-day strike by public sector workers which affected schools and council services across York, North and East Yorkshire.
City of York Council said about ten per cent of its staff took part, with garden waste collections affected in Huntington and Haxby. Residents are being asked to present their waste again in two weeks. Communal recycling was also affected in Holgate Road/Acomb Road, as was kerbside recycling collections in a number of local streets.
Council facilities including Energise and Yearsley Pool and household waste and recycling centres were open as normal, while five primary schools were completely closed, and 12 primary and four secondary schools were partially closed.
Teacher and NUT member Steve Flintoff, who travelled fromScarborough to take part, said the action was not just about the one per cent cap in public sector pay but also about increasing workload and bureaucracy in schools which were resulting in teachers working a 60-hour week.
Emma Green, of Unison, who works for York's youth offending team, said that as well as pay, she was concerned about the continuing loss of qualified staff which left fewer employees working longer and harder, with an impact on the service they delivered.
Edmund Billing, of the FBU, said that while members were on strike as part of a continuing dispute over pensions, the action was deliberately timed to coincide with strikes by other public sector workers. At the rally, NUT member and Knaresborough teacher Gary Kaye played his guitar to lead marchers in a protest song before Heather McKenzie, who represents Unison members at York council, said: "We are in a desperate position. We have to take a stand."
Ian Craven, of the PCS, said: "This is a Government made up of the rich, for the rich... the message to the Government is this: end the pay cap or we will be back to strike again."
The Prime Minister and other senior politicians have attacked the strikes, arguing they were based on ballots conducted some years ago, and the Conservatives are drawing up plans to change employment law so a threshold of those balloted would have to be reached before industrial action could be held.
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THE strikers included council staff and school support workers, in unions such as Unison, who had dismissed a one per cent pay offer but who were also protesting against cuts which they said had left too few staff doing too much work.
Civil servants in the PCS union were also involved, with about 150 at Imphal Barracks and another 40 at RAF Linton on Ouse said to be on strike.
Teachers from the NUT were on strike over pay, but were also protesting about rising workloads.
Firefighters from the FBU were taking part in their latest strike in a long-running dispute over pensions and retirement age.


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Aleshanee at Estancia: Southwest home becomes desert playhouse for Minnesota natives
This desert home dances amid boulders and beneath the Southwest sky.
Tom and Michelle Tiller's 7,500-square-foot two-level insets a hillside acre at Estancia, the premiere gated golf club community adjacent 3,148-foot Pinnacle Peak in north Scottsdale.
"We like to climb two boulders by our bedroom — our Sunset Rock — enjoy cocktails and watch the sunset and city lights," she says. "It's just gorgeous."
Designed by Craig Wickersham, AIA, and built by R.J. Gurley Custom Homes, both of Scottsdale, the Italian Villa Vernacular-style custom — called "Aleshanee West" by the couple — includes three bedrooms, seven bathrooms and a one-bedroom casita.
The Vermont natives and high-school sweethearts also enjoy a four-car garage, theater and an outdoor kitchen, heated infinity pool and spa, all dramatically sited at the approach.
Tom Tiller's cousin, and also a native Vermonter, Debbie Villeneuve, ASID, with Debra Villeneuve Interiors, of Houston, provided the contemporary interior design, with the collaboration of the Tillers, Wickersham and Gurley. Because of their distant locations, they teleconferenced for most of their planning meetings.
The Tiller family started visiting Arizona 10 years ago on vacation from cold Minnesota, where they have lived for 13 years.
They moved in about a year ago. "We have great friends here, and there is so much to do here," says Michelle Tiller, who dedicates much of her empty-nester time for charities, such as raising money to build a home in the Valley for Honor House, which helps transition combat-wounded soldiers from the battlefield to new lives at home.
"I love my house in the sun."
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With Michelle Tiller's guidance, Wickersham designed a terpsichorean Aleshanee, a woman from the folklore of the Coos Native Americans of Oregon.
"It means, 'She plays all the time,' meaning that our Southwest home would be my desert playhouse, an opportunity for me to have fun with the colors, furnishings and finishes appropriate to the desert lifestyle," says Michelle Tiller, who returns to Minnesota for the summer.
Wickersham designed the symbol of the dancing woman in conjunction with a solar-shaped heart and a saguaro with five arms, representing the five Tiller family members, including their three sons, 19, 22, and 25. "We have one representation made out of iron over our front door, and we carried the symbol into the casita and throughout the house," she says.
"Michelle brought her own personality and design tastes to the house, for sure" says Wickersham, a graduate of Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright's schools in Arizona and Wisconsin. He has been designing superlative homes in the desert-sensitive Wrightian tradition for 35 years.
Wickersham had formulated the initial home design with his original client who was unable to continue, and the Tillers purchased it after the foundation was in and most of the framing completed. At this point, Gurley began working with Wickersham and the couple to finish the home.
"Italian Villa Vernacular is a good style for hillside living," Wickersham says, noting that the home reveals elegant rusticity from the outside, incorporating quarried rock from Montana and earth tones that complement the colors of the indigenous granite.
To optimize the views, he oriented the home so that the primary living and entertaining spaces look south to Pinnacle Peak, the Estancia links and city lights.
"What I find awesome about the home is the feeling you get when you are in the main living space/kitchen," says Gurley, whose dad, Bob, began building luxury homes in north Scottsdale in 1990.
"Craig did an amazing job. By tucking the motor court down and the garages under the living space, he was able to turn the presentation of the view around 180 degrees," says Gurley, who graduated from ASU in 1994 and then joined the company. "When you are up in the kitchen, living room, bar or pool patio, you are left with an amazing view, yet still you feel private."
Among a number of changes to the original plan, as requested by the Tillers to Wickersham: Gurley converted the space above the motor court into a partners' office and a deep crimson-colored home theater, where Tom watches NASCAR on one screen, college basketball on another and golf on the third. Gurley also converted one garage bay into an exercise room and made other small changes.
Although the lower-level motor court required extensive but sensitive hillside excavation, Wickersham was adept at leaving massive boulders in place and building the home and views around them.
"When you come up to the front door, Craig has set the view of the huge boulder in front and, in the back, a killer view up the hill through the large window," Gurley says. "After you experience that, you walk toward the kitchen, and the western view knocks you out!"
One multi-ton boulder in the back appears to be rolling down the granite-strewn slope through the earth-toned site wall and into the Tillers' Zen Garden. Wickersham then selected indigenous rocks and the Montana stone used throughout the home to integrate this intentionally ironic collision with the meditation area, which includes a soothing fireplace, seating area and a serene "rusting" steel-tub water feature designed by Michelle and fabricated locally.
Villa in the Valley
"We had seen lots of Tuscan homes in the desert and wanted something different," Michelle recalls of the first plan revisions with Wickersham and Villeneuve. "We wanted the house to feel like a villa in the Mediterranean. But we also wanted the outside to fit and feel like it belonged in Estancia, so we were careful to choose exterior stone and colors that blended with the environment."
At the same time, the Tillers envisioned an indoor/outdoor living space — a contemporary home, filled with light — Villeneuve explains, noting the challenge of using the existing footprint while redesigning the space.
"Interior details were simplified, and new material selections were luxurious, sleek and simple," she says. "Doors and windows were added, enlarged and repositioned to capture breathtaking views."
A skylight, for example, was requested above the bar area, just off the foyer, and two new windows near the ceiling in the master bedroom — above the original line-of sight windows by the bed — provide additional dramatic vignettes of the boulders on the hillside.
"I had seen homes in Italy that were restricted on the exterior by law to remain 'Old World,'" Wickersham explains. "The intention of this is to preserve the beauty and heritage of the historical vernacular."
However, these homes had very contemporary interiors, with the color palette traditional but the design, both in line and geometry, upscale and modern. "What really excited me was Michelle's desire to let me blend the two worlds here in Arizona," he says.
As a result, the color scheme is not a typical earth-tone palette, Wickersham says. "Warm grays and pearlescent plaster walls attract a healthy amount of natural light inside, thus avoiding the darkness of the typical Italian hill town villa," he says, noting that gray, one of Michelle's favorite colors, was also used on the dark-stained white oak hallway flooring and on a number of doors for a contemporizing effect.
Materials, custom furnishings, multi-color abstract artworks and other details reinforce this Contemporary eclecticism. The kitchen cabinets and other millwork showcase rich acrylic finishes, stone floors are imported from Europe, and the front-entry breakfast room includes an Alcantara-finished banco for a table faced with polished agate imported from Israel.
Additionally, a custom-cut pool bath sink countertop, manufactured by Vitraform, is in cobalt blue, which makes Michelle think oceanically, the dining room table blends an oak top with an underlit crushed glass center and brushed-steel trim and the television in the master bedroom pops up from the foot of bed.
The Tillers also celebrate shared Vermont roots and their winter home in Minnesota. The partners' desk is made of maple — the state tree is the sugar maple — and the shelves in their chic wine room were milled from oak trees from their Minnesota property. And, they have personalized their home with many family photos.
The result is a modern desert villa — a haven, Villeneuve says. "The Tillers desired a vacation home that seamlessly transitions the rocky desert exterior into a contemporary and fresh interior. The floor plan and furniture arrangements highlight the panoramic views, natural light and outdoor living areas. Friends and family are drawn into the home's heart — offering comfortable gathering areas and providing solitude, peace and privacy."


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A new church at last for the village of Hathituku
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Success Story
"Thank you ACN!" proclaims the large poster that the Catholic faithful of the village of Hathituku have attached above the entrance of their new church. All of them are in their festive clothing and rejoicing at the fact that their village church has finally been consecrated. At last they have their own modest, but fitting, House of God!
The village of Hathituku is around 15 miles from the parish centre in Telendiki, in the midst of the jungle. Wild beasts and the struggle for daily survival are part and parcel of life here. But Father Stephan Barla gives thanks for the strong faith of his people.The villages that make up the parish are anything from 5 to 20 miles from the central parish church. Since this is too far for most people, many of the villages have built their own churches, where the faithful can gather to pray together and where the priest can celebrate Holy Mass when he is able to visit. But the little church that was built 30 years ago by the faithful in Hathituku was only made of mud, and over the years it had become so decrepit that it was no longer even possible to renovate it. Besides, it was far too small. When it was first built, there were just 20 Catholic families in the village. Today there are 50.The people have already made big sacrifices for their new church. Although they themselves are extremely poor, they nonetheless gave money for it. They have also contributed their energies and the work of their hands, even though they already have to do hard physical work simply in order to survive and support their families.
Given the bad roads and the poor transport infrastructure, they themselves had to carry the building materials a good part of the way through the jungle and up the hill. On top of this, last year saw exceptionally heavy rainfall and flooding, which destroyed the crops in the fields. As a result all building work had to be suspended for some time. Still, none of this discouraged the faithful. But finally, the money ran out, and so Father Stephan Barla turned to ACN for help. We immediately gave $11,600 towards the cost of the project.
This project is an example of our work. Your donation will be attributed either to this or to another similar project that accords with the pastoral priorities of ACN.
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