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Fresh off winning First Prize for Best Picture at Flickers: Rhode Island International Film Festival, the independent film "Funeral Kings" has come back to the Ocean State for a limited engagement. The film, which was shot in Rhode Island using many local performers and crew, will open at the Cable Car Cinema in Providence on Saturday, January 26th at 7:30 PM, which will be followed by a Q & A with the producers.
"Funeral Kings" was written and directed by Warwick natives Matthew and Kevin McManus. Since opening in Austin at South by Southwest Film Festival last March, the film has had a whirlwind tour, playing festivals across the US and Canada, and winning Best Narrative Feature at the Arizona Underground Film Festival and Audience Award at the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival. After a deluge of positive press, including a rave review by Variety, the film opened theatrically at the world famous Grauman's Chinese in Hollywood this past November.
"We're more than thrilled to have the movie finally play an engagement in Providence," said director Matthew McManus. "There are so many incredible Rhode Islanders involved in the film, we feel really fortunate to be able to bring it back home to them."
"Funeral Kings" is a dark comedy about three booze drinking, cigarette smoking, foul-mouthed altar boys, whose irreverent personalities eventually put them in a situation that is too big for them to handle. It stars three young actors – Dylan Hartigan ("The Stepford Wives", "The Black Donnellys"), Alex Maizus (Broadway: "The Story of My Life") and Jordan Puzzo ("Moonrise Kingdom") – and features performances from Kevin Corrigan ("The Departed", "Pineapple Express", "Fringe") and Rhode Island's own Michaela McManus ("Law & Order: SVU", "The Vampire Diaries", "Awake"). Locals served as producers and crew, with dozens of Rhode Islanders appearing in supporting and background roles.
The film plays the Cable Car before moving on to screenings at BUFF Film Festival in Malmö, Sweden in March, and the Festival Mauvais Genre in Tours, France in April. It will be released for Video-On-Demand services February 26th.
"Funeral Kings" opens in Rhode Island at the Cable Car Cinema (204 South Main Street, Providence, RI 02903). Information about show times, tickets and director Q&A's are available at CableCarCinema.com. Information about "Funeral Kings" can be found by following the film's Facebook page, Twitter, or website FuneralKings.com.
"I grew up watching indie's at Cable Car," says McManus. "It's my favorite place to catch a movie, and it's pretty surreal to think our film will be on that same screen."
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The families of two girls from the Cypress area are worried about the church pals, who have been missing for days.
Liana Andrews, 16, and Kacie Watson, 14, vanished over the weekend, KHOU and Fox26 reported on Wednesday. They were last seen hanging out in Liana's bedroom Friday night, KHOU says.
A car belonging to Liana's mother, a 2001 Gold Chrysler Sebring, reportedly disappeared also.
It's believed that the teens fled to San Antonio to meet a man they were in contact with online.
KHOU reports Liana sent a message to her grandmother, telling her both she and her friend will be back on Saturday afternoon. They never showed up.
Relatives say this is not a simple runaway case, but the pair could be in danger. The car, with the girls' belongings inside, has been found in downtown San Antonio. But there is no sign of the teens.
Liana's mother tells KHOU: "My daughter and her friend are in danger. I know that and I want them found."
Liana is described as 5 feet 2 inches and weighs about 100 pounds. She has a burn scar on the bottom of her right foot. Kacie is 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 132 pounds. She was last seen wearing a pink long-sleeve button-down shirt, brown leggings and brown shoes.
Both of the girls have brown hair and eyes.
If you have any information on their whereabouts, call the Harris County Sheriff's Office at 713-221-6000 or visit hcso.beenmissing.org.
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KHOU: 2 local missing teens drove to San Antonio to meet a man from the Internet
Fox26: Missing Cypress Teens Considered "Endangered Runaways"
Ana Ley of the San Antonio Express-News also contributed to this report.

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Text messages introduced Thursday in the rape trial of two Ohio high school football players provided differing accounts of what happened between them and a 16-year-old girl: one from a defendant described mutual sex, while another from the alleged victim said she couldn't remember what happened.
The flurry of text messages sent around the eastern Ohio city of Steubenville after the alleged rape last year were presented as evidence on the second day of the trial before Special Judge Thomas Lipps, who is hearing the case without a jury.
"Swear to God I don't remember doing anything with them," the girl wrote to a friend who authorities say saw the assaults. "I wasn't being a slut. They were taking advantage of me," she also wrote to the same boy.
Ma'Lik Richmond, 16, and Trent Mays, 17, are charged with digitally penetrating the West Virginia girl, first in the back seat of a moving car after a party Aug. 11 and then in the basement of a house. Mays also is charged with illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material. The two maintain their innocence.
Prosecutors insist the girl was too drunk to consent to sex, while defense attorneys have portrayed her as someone who was intoxicated but still in control of her actions.
Witnesses have said the girl was so drunk she threw up and had trouble walking and speaking.
In one text after the alleged assault, the girl told a boy who prosecutors say watched the attack, "Wait, I think I was drugged. I know I have no memory from after I left" the party.
The case has riveted the small city of Steubenville amid allegations that more students should have been charged and has led to questions about the influence of the local football team, a source of a pride in a community that suffered massive job losses with the collapse of the steel industry.
The texts introduced Thursday in juvenile court also included an admission by Mays that he digitally penetrated the girl. In other messages, he told friends he'd participated in a different, mutual sex act with the girl.
He also sent messages to his friends to try to get them to gloss over what happened that night. In a text to a boy who lives in the house where the second attack is said to have happened, Mays wrote: "Just say she came to your house and passed out."
Additional testimony Thursday came from Sean McGhee, a former Steubenville high school student who said he considered the girl his friend, and said she was extremely drunk the night of the party. He said he was upset after hearing about the alleged assault and texted Mays.
Dissatisfied with Mays' account, he texted back: "I saw the pix, bro. Don't lie."
Walter Madison, an attorney for Richmond, challenged McGhee's account, saying he may have exaggerated in his mind the girl's intoxication because of his anger over the allegations.
Authorities said they collected 17 cellphones in their investigation. The evidence they yielded is considered crucial to prosecutors' case against the boys because of photos taken that evening.
Three teenage boys who are key to the prosecution's case are to take the stand this week. Defense attorneys could call the girl to testify since a West Virginia judge ruled Tuesday night that she and two of her friends could be subpoenaed.
If convicted, Mays and Richmond could be held in a juvenile jail until they turn 21.
The Associated Press normally does not identify minors charged in juvenile court, but Mays and Richmond have been widely identified in news coverage, and their names have been used in open court.
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How could a company paying its interns the equivalent of $67,000 a year, not be a great place to work? Facebook pays its interns $5,602 a month and is the highest-rated place to work in the world, according to a recent report.
The report comes from Glassdoor.com, a jobs and career website, which ranks Facebook as No. 1, No. 2 is McKinsey & Company, a management consulting firm and No. 3 is San Francisco-based computer network manufacturer and consultant Riverbed Technology. Google ranked No. 6, LinkedIn was No. 14 and Apple No. 34.
The $5,602 a month figure comes from Glassdoor's 28 personal reviews of the company, according to Business Insider, which comes out to $67,000 a year -- about $25,000 more than the average American.
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Now, interns generally only work full-time in the summer, so while it's nice bank it will only be a quarter of that $67,000 paycheck before back to hitting the books.
Does that make you feel better?
We don't think it's surprising that pretty good-paying jobs are ranked higher, although from what I read in the reviews, there definitely is cultural pressure to do your best work as well as work hard for the company.
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WASHINGTON – An intoxicated driver caused $10,000 worth of damage after crashing into the Fairfax City police headquarters early Thursday morning.
Fairfax police say Anthony John Skrobacz, 49, of Spotsylvania, drove a a Mercury Marquis through the closed garage door to the police processing area about 2 a.m. and then drove off.
The garage doors sustained considerable damage but no one was injured and no contents inside the building on Old Lee Highway were damaged. Officials estimate the damage will cost $10,000 to repair.
Soon after the hit-and-run at police headquarters, police were called to an accident at University Drive and Willard Way and found the Mercury and Skrobacz stopped on top of a parking lot median, police say.
Skrobacz was arrested on charges of driving under the influence of drugs, reckless driving and hit-and-run, police say.
He was taken to the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center and held in lieu of $5,000 bail, police say.
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LR/PS - Making a Movie in Photoshop Extended (Part 2)
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[♪music♪] [Adobe TV Presents] [The Complete Picture by Julieanne Kost] Hi, and welcome. My name is Julieanne Kost. In today's episode of The Complete Picture, we're going to continue making our movie from our time-lapse still images in Photoshop. So, I thought I'd start off--we've got our imported sequence, and we've played through it by just tapping either the space bar or clicking on the play button here in order to see the image. Now what if I wanted to apply some effects over time? Because that's one of the beautiful things in Photoshop; with the animation timeline you can decide when you want to show or hide effects. So it's kind of like masking, but over time. Now if you wanted to add something like a filter, in this case, if I wanted to blur a portion of the image, but not the whole thing, what I need to do is I need to turn my movie layer into a smart object. Because, otherwise, if you just add a filter it would just add a filter to the first image in the sequence, and it's just not what you want. So what you do, typically, is you would turn this layer into a smart object. And you can do that by just holding down the command key or the control key and converting it to a smart object, or you can use the menu. We can go here underneath the layer menu and then choose smart objects and convert to smart object. That makes the movie file a smart object, and then you can add a filter. So, for example, if you were going to add a Gaussian blur to your whole image, you can do that and then you'll notice as you play through the movie the entire movie is blurred. Of course, because this is a smart filter, we can go ahead and use the mask associated with the smart filter in order to selectively blur or sharpen areas. But, for this technique that is not good enough. What I want to do is I actually want to add a lens blur to each one of the individual frames. Now, how would I go about doing that? Well, I could do it manually, but it would take me forever, so I'm going to do it using actions and batch processing. All right. What do we need to do? We need to close this image, and we just need to open up the first of the sequence. Just the first Photoshop document. And this is actually why I exported from Lightroom as PSD as Photoshop and not as a JPEG, because I didn't want to recompress the files because I knew I was going to run this action. Now, I also need to figure out where it is that I want to blur. And I don't really want to bore you or take the time to do that, so you could just say maybe, like I'm kind of like Julia Child, and I already have this created. And this is my lens blur depth map. Now if you want to learn more about this, I have another episode of The Complete Picture where I take a bird's nest and I apply the lens blur filter on that. We talk a lot about masking in that situation. So, here, I'm not going to repeat myself. All I'm going to do is select this and copy it, move over to the Hong Kong--the first picture--go to my channels panel, and then actually create a new channel and paste it just to show you what it is that I'm doing. So what's going to happen is all of the areas that are red are going to be blurred and the areas that are not red--and they're red, by the way, because I got the visibility eye icon next to this Alpha channel here in my channels panel-- the reason that they're red is because it's black, and where it's white, the area is not red. It's like a ruby overlay. If you've been in the industry a long time, you might know what that is. Regardless, it doesn't affect anything now. I just wanted to show you that this is what I'm going to use when I run the lens blur filter. So, how are we going to do this? Well, I need to create an action. If you're not familiar with actions, I have other movies on The Complete Picture that go over actions. Basically, I'm going to create a new set, and this set can be called LB for lens blur. And then I'm going to create a new action. Before I hit record, though, I don't actually want this Alpha channel in this file because it's not going to be in any of the rest of the files. I just wanted to show you that I'm using this in order to blur using the lens blur filter. So let's just throw it away in the trash. Okay, excellent. I'm going to start recording my action. Let's tap the new icon right here, and we will call this Lens Blur Hong Kong Harbor. Great. I'll hit record and now Photoshop is going to keep track of everything that I do. So the first thing I want to do is turn my background into a layer. I'll hold down the option key and just double-click on the background. That turns it into a layer. You can see that I've recorded that step. Now, I need to go and get that Alpha channel. It's important if you create your own depth map that you actually save that out as an individual file, because what I need to do is I need to go and open that file. But I can see the depth map is actually still open, so let's stop recording for a moment. That's the great thing about actions; they're totally flexible because I hardly ever get through an entire action without making a mistake. So I just close the depth map. And now we're going to start recording again. And I'm going to do a file open, so file open. And I'm going to open up the depth map. I'm going to do a select all. I'm going to copy it to the clipboard, and then I'm going to close it. I'm going to go to my channels panel. I'm going to create a new channel, that's my Alpha channel, and I'm going to paste it in and deselect. Now the important thing here is that I go back and I click to activate the RGB channel because I want to run the lens blur filter on that channel. So now I'll go to filter and then blur and then lens blur. And you can see from my source, it's picking up that Alpha channel. It's blurring all of the edges here and keeping the center in focus. Now, I have to say I have the invert button on because I realized that when I created this Alpha channel, it's actually the opposite of what I wanted, so luckily the lens blur filter has the ability to invert that Alpha channel. That's exactly what I want, so I'll click okay. I'm still recording in my action. And now I'll do a save as. I'm going to go ahead and save this one as a JPEG. And since I'm just building the action, I'll go ahead and save it to the desktop, click save. Let's set it to 12 for my quality, click okay, and then close the file without saving the original. Excellent, we can stop recording now. So now I have my whole action here, and all I need to do is run this action on all the rest of those files. That's very, very easy. So what I'll do is I'll select file and then automate and then batch. It's picked the set for me and the action because they're targeted in my actions panel. And then I'll just choose a folder. We'll go here to Hong Kong and click choose. I do not want to override the action open commands. I need the batch command to open up that extra file, that one that I'm going to use as the depth map in my lens blur filter. There are no subfolders. I don't need to supress any file open options or color profile warnings, so we'll leave those blank. For my destination, I'll go ahead and choose another folder. We'll click choose, and let's go back up here to export. We'll create another new folder. I'll call it Hong Kong, but this time let's also put LB for lens blur afterwards. We'll click create, choose, and I want to override the action save as commands. The reason that I want to do that is because I still want to save as a JPEG, and it will still save as a JPEG, but I want it to save in the folder that I just pointed it to that I just created. I can rename the files, but there's really no need to, so let's just click on okay. And Photoshop will go ahead and batch process all of those files. [3 minutes later...] Okay. Now that we've batch processed all of those files, let's go ahead and use the open dialog box again. We'll go here to the lens blur images, select the first image, click image sequence, and open that as a movie layer with a frame rate of six frames per layer. You can see now how this bottom area and the top area have this great lens blur effect. It's almost as if we had shot this with a tilt-shift lens, but unfortunately I don't own one of those, so this is second best to that. Okay, great. So it's playing along nicely, although I will admit, when it gets to be dark it's a little bit too dark. So let's say we want to add an effect here. Now you can add really anything you want over time, so all we need to do is go ahead and add this adjustment. So in this case, let's add something that will be really, really obvious like a gradient map. Let's see, when it gets dark I want the sky and everything to go red-orange, so I will click to add my adjustment layer, and then we can click inside the gradient map area and pick a gradient that I've actually already created. And we can make adjustments to this if we want to fine tune them. When I click okay and I apply this, we can also change the opacity of it by going into the layers area here. But let's just say that at this point in time, right when it's starting to get dark, I want to control the visibility of this gradient map. So you can see on my animation timeline under the gradient map, see how this gradient map here spawns directly to the gradient map in my layers panel. I'm going to click on the stopwatch next to opacity. What that does is it sets a key frame here. And I'm actually going to decrease the opacity of this layer so that as it gets dark we don't see this gradient overlay, and then as we move forward in time and it gets darker, that's when I want to see the gradient overlay. And all I need to do is change the opacity here in order to make that overlay visible. Now we can see that all of my dark areas are red going up into yellow and orange. And then we'll move forward in time, cause I didn't even have to add a key frame there because I made a change and it added a key frame for me. But now as I go forward in the time, as it starts getting lighter, here I do want to add a key frame, so I'll click on the little key frame icon. That will keep my opacity at a 100 percent until that point, and then I'll move forward. And as soon as it becomes daylight again, I will go ahead and change the opacity back down to zero. It added that key frame for me, and if we pull back the time insertion marker and I tap the space bar, we can actually watch that play and see how, as it goes from daytime to nighttime, we go from the colored image into that gradient map. So the point really isn't there that you want to add a gradient map to all of your movies that you bring in, but just that you can do anything. Anything that you can do in Photoshop, you can now do it on the timeline and make things fade in and fade out. Look it, I can change the position of things, I can change the styles. If I add a drop shadow or something, I can change that. I can change my layer mask position. I can enable or disable a layer mask, all sorts of things. And, of course, I can do this not only for the gradient map, but for any of my different layers. So, one more thing, really quickly, that I want to do. I want to show you how to add audio to this. Again, I'm going to use the open dialog box. I'm going to navigate here to find some royalty-free music. I'll go ahead and open that up. You'll notice that the .mov is a Quick Time movie. But you can see that it's blank. It comes up as nothing, but there is audio in there. So what I need to do is simply view or tile my images so that I can see them both, and then it might be easiest to just drag from my layers panel. In fact, let me name this audio, ™19 and then just drag from my layers panel on top of my other open document. Then we no longer need the audio opened anymore, so let's close that. We'll set the timeline back to the starting point, and we'll click on this little icon right here that will allow us to preview our audio. And now when we hit play, we'll be able to hear the audio that we've added to the movie. [♪classical music♪] So that's fantastic. We've created a movie with audio inside the Photoshop CS4 Extended. But now what? How do we get it out? Well, that's very, very easy. You just go to the file menu, you come down to export, and there's an option here to render out your video. Now, the thing to notice is you need to render this as a Quick Time export. And when you go into the settings area, it will not appear that you can export sound, but in fact it will export the sound with the movie. So just make sure that you export as a Quick Time movie and you will get that audio with your video. Excellent. You're all set. Thank you so much for joining me. My name's Julieanne Kost, and I hope you'll join me again on the next episode of The Complete Picture. [♪music♪] [Executive Producer, Bob Dorlon; Producer, Karl Miller] [Director, Kush Amerasinghe; Post-Production, Erik Espera] [Adobe TV Productions]
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Your eyes are with you from the day you were born, so it's only fair that you take care of them.
At the computer
A big cause for eye strain in most people is the computer. It's become such a big part of our lives now that it really is important to remember to take little breaks often and a longer break every hour or so. Our eyes like to change focus often, and it's never good to be staring at something for too long. They say that you need to repeat something 100 times to become a habit, so make it a habit to have a 30 second daydream. Not only are you refocusing your eyes, you're also collecting your thoughts.
Take the time to soak in your surroundings when you're out and about. It's best to get yourself back in nature even if it's just a quick stroll through the park. Be conscious of the birds or the squirrels or the dogs, and notice the twigs and branches and veins on the leaves. Breathe in the air and hear the sounds immediately around you.
Take time out from your book or newspaper when you're on the train or the bus. Look out the window and let your eyes wander over the many colours and shapes of people, shop windows and street furniture. If I had kept my head down instead of looking around, I would have missed this charity shop's great window display:
Go out and throw a frisbee or play catch. A few summers ago I tried juggling, and although I never did manage to juggle three balls for more than four seconds, it did get me to use my eyes in a new range of motion Some people bounce a ball against a wall to help them think and it's a great way to enhance your hand-eye coordination.
The same healthy diet that's good for your heart and arteries can also help preserve your eyes and vision. After all, vision depends on tiny capillaries to supply the retina and other parts of the eye with nutrients and oxygen. Studies have shown that there are several key nutrientsthat may help ward off age-related vision problems such as macular degeneration and cataracts. Regularly eating these foods can help lead to good eye health:
- Lutein and Zeaxanthin may help protect against retinal damage and the onset of cataracts and age-related macular degeneration – Green leafy vegetables such as kale, spinach, turnip greens, romaine lettuce, broccoli, and Brussels sprouts
- Omega-3 fatty acids may reduce inflammation and therefore protect against cell damage and age-related eye diseases – Salmon, tuna, and other oily fish, walnuts and flaxseed
- Zinc helps with night vision and cataract prevention – Good sources include kidney beans, beef, seafood, poultry and pumpkin seeds
- Vitamin C helps support blood vessels in the eye and may reduce the risk of cataracts – Fruit and vegetables like oranges, peaches, strawberries, tomatoes, and red bell peppers
- Vitamin E protects the eyes from free radicals – Nuts such as peanuts, almonds, sunflower seeds, and hazelnuts
In Chinese medicine, the liver is linked to the eye, so it's no coincidence that when you've had an angry outburst or a particularly annoying day you tend to get headaches that creep in behind the eyes. Some people who are especially angry or irritable may notice that they have red eyes. Acupuncture can smooth liver qi to remove stagnation and allow it to flow nicely and evenly again or to rebalance the liver and remove excesses.
De-stressing is important: you may find exercise or a physical activity helps or that a softer approach such as meditation or even getting a massage. Start a hobby, practice mindfulness or just go out for a walk (remembering of course, to drink in your surroundings with your eyes).
There are certain acupressure points on the body that you can do yourself.
- On the foot: press down on the spot between your big toe and the 2nd toe. Press down and hold, you should feel a slight ache or soreness. Don't press so hard you leave fingerprint marks.
- On your hand: locate the spot between your thumb and index finger, it's the "meatier" part. As with the foot, rub and hold down, making sure you don't press so hard you leave fingerprint marks.
- On your face: Using your eyebrows as a guide, locate the area outside the bony rim (so between your eyebrow and your eye) and press gently along from the beginning of your eyebrow to the end.
Wear sunglasses
Protect your eyes from UVA and UVB rays to minimise the risk of macular degeneration and cataracts. Choose sunglasses that offer UV protection, and polarised lenses help reduce the glare, very handy when you're driving. Sunglasses may be associated with summer months but they should be with you even in the winter if it's a particularly bright day -there's a reason skiers wear shades. Not only will you be protecting your eyes, it will stop you from squinting and getting those furrows between your eyebrows.
Get annual checkups
Even if your vision is fine, you should still have a check up every year with an ophthalmologist or optometrist. And should you suddenly get blurred vision, blind spots, floaters or flashing lights go to A&E immediately.
Image: D Sharon Pruitt via Flickr
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The iPhone Dev team released an update for redsn0w. You can now jailbreak iOS 4.3.3 for most iOS devices including iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Most importantly, it supports untethered jailbreak.
As usual, we'll walk you through the whole jailbreak process with this tutorial post. But before we begin, let us highlight several points:
- This guide is intended to jailbreaking iPhone 4 and 3GS running iOS 4.3.3. But it should also work for iPad (1st generation) and iPod touch (3G/4G). Just make sure you download the correct firmware.
- If you depend on ultrasn0w unlocking, please stay away from jailbreaking with redsn0w. You should use PwnageTool instead that lets you create a custom IPSW while preserving the baseband version. If you don't know what we're talking about, just stay with your current iOS version. Don't upgrade to 4.3.3, otherwise, you'll lose the unlock.
- Make sure you use iTunes 10.2 or up for the jailbreak. As usual, backup all your contacts, sms, photos, etc via iTunes before jailbreaking.
- Disclaimer: Jailbreaking may void your warranty of iPhone. Again, jailbreak it at your own risk. There is no guarantee that this guide works on all iPhone devices.
Upgrade Your iPhone to 4.3.3To jailbreak iOS 4.3.3 with redsn0w, your iPhone should be upgraded to 4.3.3 via iTunes. Connect your iPhone to computer and upgrade it to the latest version of iOS. Or you can follow these instructions to upgrade it.
Note: If your iPhone is already using iOS 4.3.3, just download the firmware file (i.e. step 1) and skip the rest of the section.
1. Download iPhone OS 4.3.3 firmware (iPhone 4 [GSM] / 3GS) and save it into a folder.
2. Connect your iPhone via USB and launch iTunes.
3. Restore your iPhone with iPhone OS 4.3.3. For Windows, hold SHIFT key and click on the "Restore" button and select the firmware file (i.e. For 3GS, please select iPhone2,1_4.3.3_8J2_Restore.ipsw. For iPhone 4, please select iPhone3,1_4.3.3_8J2_Restore.ipsw) you have just downloaded. For Mac, hold option key and click on the "Restore" button and select the firmware file to restore.
4. iTunes will then upgrade your iPhone to iOS 4.3.3. Just wait until the process completes.
Jailbreaking iOS 4.3.3 using Redsn0w5. Next, download redsn0w 0.9.6rc15 from here:
Extract the zipped file after download.
6. Launch Redsn0w
7. Click "browse" and select the iPhone 4.3.3 firmware file. For iPhone 4, please select iPhone3,1_4.3.3_8J2_Restore.ipsw. For iPhone 3GS, please select iPhone2,1_4.3.3_8J2_Restore.ipsw. Redsn0w then verifies your firmware file.
8. RedSn0w will now try to identify and process the firmware file. Once the firmware file has been identified click Next to continue.
9. Redsn0w then starts preparing jailbreak data based on the IPSW file. Just wait till you see the below screen. Select "Install Cydia" and click "Next" to proceed.
10. Just follow the on-screen instruction. Make sure your iPhone is turned OFF and connected with your computer via USB cable. If you haven't done so, simply connect it with USB and then power it off before you click the "Next" button.
11. Once you click "Next", follow the procedures to put your iPhone into DFU mode. If you fail to do so, don't worry. It won't brick your iPhone. Just restart your device and go through the procedures again.
12. If you have successfully put your iPhone into DFU mode, redsn0w will do the rest. Just sit back and relax.
While jailbreaking, your iPhone will show downloading jailbreak data, etc. Just don't touch your iPhone and keep waiting. Once completed, redsn0w will let you know the jailbreak process is successful.
After reboot, your iPhone should be jailbroken with cydia installed. Lastly, sync back your backup data with iTunes and restore all your contacts & SMS.


text: Thursday, November 29, 2012 New in the Literature: Supine Sleep Position and Infant Rolling Abilities (Early Hum Dev. 2012 Nov 21. [Epub ahead of print]) The introduction of the supine sleep position to reduce the prevalence of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome has not altered the timing or sequence of infant rolling abilities, say authors of an article published online in Early Human Development. This information is valuable to health care providers involved in the surveillance of infants' development, they add. Original normative age estimates for these 2 motor abilities are still appropriate. The aim of this study was to compare the order and age of emergence of rolling prone to supine and supine to prone before the introduction of back to sleep guidelines and 20 years after their introduction. The original normative data for the Alberta Infant Motor Scale (AIMS) were collected just prior to the introduction of back to sleep guidelines in 1992. Currently these norms are being reevaluated. Data of rolling patterns of infants 36 weeks of age or younger from the original sample (n=1,114) and the contemporary sample (n=351) were evaluated to compare the sequence of appearance of prone to supine and supine to prone rolls (proportion of infants passing each roll) and the ages of emergence (estimated age when 50% of infants passed each roll). According to the results, the sequence of emergence and estimated age of appearance of both rolling directions were similar between the 2 time periods.


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The designer behind Michelle's SOTU dress: The cap-sleeve twill dress that the first lady wore in the audience ot last night's State of the Union Address was from Barbara Tfank's Resort 2012 collection. Tfank is a Los Angeles-based costume designer-turned-fashion designer who is known for incorporating jewel tones, bright colors and ladylike prints into her 1950s silhouettes.
Halle Berry's nanny loses restraining-order bid against Gabrielle Aubry: TMZ reports that the request of Halle Berry's nanny — who Gabriel Aubry allegedly pushed into a door while she was holding his daughter, Nahla — was rejected by a judge who called the petition "insufficient and speculative."
Pariah "Snubbed" by Oscars? The film got no nominations, while The Help cleaned up. Proof of "Hollywood's commitment to its tradition of honoring the same black images"? Ebony says yes.
Egyptians take to streets to mark revolution anniversary: A year ago today, Egyptians started a revolt that led to the fall of President Hosni Mubarak. Marking the day, tens of thousands of people took to the streets both in celebration and in protest of the military rulers that took Mubarak's place, NPR reports.
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text: Main Content Act 280 of 1939 friendly link Printer Friendly bills affecting index and updates Search within this Statute for THE SOCIAL WELFARE ACTAct 280 of 1939AN ACT to protect the welfare of the people of this state; to provide general assistance, hospitalization, infirmary and medical care to poor or unfortunate persons; to provide for compliance by this state with the social security act; to provide protection, welfare and services to aged persons, dependent children, the blind, and the permanently and totally disabled; to administer programs and services for the prevention and treatment of delinquency, dependency and neglect of children; to create a state department of social services; to prescribe the powers and duties of the department; to provide for the interstate and intercounty transfer of dependents; to create county and district departments of social services; to create within certain county departments, bureaus of social aid and certain divisions and offices thereunder; to prescribe the powers and duties of the departments, bureaus and officers; to provide for appeals in certain cases; to prescribe the powers and duties of the state department with respect to county and district departments; to prescribe certain duties of certain other state departments, officers, and agencies; to make an appropriation; to prescribe penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act; and to repeal certain parts of this act on specific dates. History: 1939, Act 280, Imd. Eff. June 16, 1939 ;-- Am. 1950, Ex. Sess., Act 42, Eff. Oct. 1, 1950 ;-- Am. 1957, Act 95, Eff. Sept. 27, 1957 ;-- Am. 1965, Act 283, Imd. Eff. July 22, 1965 ;-- Am. 1965, Act 401, Imd. Eff. Oct. 27, 1965 ;-- Am. 1967, Act 58, Imd. Eff. June 20, 1967 ;-- Am. 1969, Act 338, Imd. Eff. Dec. 8, 1969 ;-- Am. 1987, Act 184, Imd. Eff. Nov. 30, 1987 ;-- Am. 1987, Act 266, Imd. Eff. Dec. 28, 1987 Popular Name: Act 280 © 2020 Legislative Council, State of MichiganThe People of the State of Michigan enact: DocumentTypeDescription 280-1939-STATE-DEPARTMENT-OF-SOCIAL-SERVICESDivisionSTATE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES (400.1...400.21) 280-1939-OLD-AGE-ASSISTANCE-AID-TO-DEPENDENT-CHILDREN-AND-AID-TO-THE-BLINDDivisionOLD AGE ASSISTANCE, AID TO DEPENDENT CHILDREN, AND AID TO THE BLIND (400.22...400.44) 280-1939-COUNTY-DEPARTMENT-OF-SOCIAL-SERVICESDivisionCOUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES (400.45...400.122)


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As I was poorly last week I missed most of National Stationery Week, I decided I would post these certain posts this week and share them with you. Hope you like all things stationery….
I started bullet journalling in January 2017. I had heard about it through my auntie and the youtuber Lily Pebbles. I have always loved keeping diaries, so I thought I would try bullet journalling and I loved it. I thought I would share 5 things to know when you are starting a bullet journalling.
- Use your index pages
When you start to fill in your bullet journal, you should fill in the index. I found it is easier to find pages more efficiently. Especially when it starts to fill up with content.
2. Do not get too overwhelmed by some very creative and detailed bullet journals that you may see online
If you search online about bullet journals, you will be met with a huge amount of creative and artistic designs and layouts. However, even if you are not artistic you can still use a bullet journal. The great thing about bullet journals is you can tailor them to how you want them to look, so they can be as simple or as artistic as you want it to be. You can always add design and colour later on. As I continued bullet journalling my confidence grew and I became more creative with my layouts and designs.
3. Pinterest is great inspiration
There are so many posts on Pinterest about bullet journalling . Ideas for content and different layouts. I can spend so much time scrolling through and pinning so many creative ideas. I would definitely recommend searching Pinterest if you are struggling with what to do. You can always check out my Pinterest as I have plenty of pins all about bullet journals.
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I often have doodle pages where I practice titles, drawings and designs. I have made mistakes with designs or unhappy with titles. But for me it was a learning process how to create new designs and looks. So do not worry. My style and designs are always changing.
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I opted to get the Leuchtturm1917 bullet journals. The basic ones are £12.99 and newest designs are £19.99. But you can get less expensive notebooks dotted, lined or even plain pages. So if you want to start a bullet journal then you should.
I hope some of these tips or advice help you when you are thinking about or have started a bullet journal. Just remember everyone will want to include different content, designs and there is not specific information you have to include. Its tailored to you.
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Naughty Dog, the developer behind PS3 smash hit Uncharted, has shown off the latest game it is working on: The Last of Us.
The game sees you play middle-aged Joel, accompanied by a younger girl Ellie, travelling across America trying to avoid those who are affected by an unknown virus and others who just don't like you.
Following a previous trailer that saw the two being ambushed, Sony and Naughty Dog opted to show actual gameplay to close out the company's E3 press conference in LA.
The trailer sees the lead characters working their way through a building before being discovered. Tussles, heads in desks, and petrol bombs ensue before it ends with a quick shotgun blast to the head to dismiss the final assailant.
We can't tell much from the trailer as to how the game will play out, why the two lead characters are the only ones left, or, as yet, what the aim of the game is.
What we can see is that Naughty Dog has created a much darker experience than the Uncharted series, but one that still borrows heavily from the developer's way of presenting games. Low camera angles, great looking graphics, and a cinematic presentation style mean gamers should be in for a treat when The Last of Us comes out on the PS3.
Sadly, there's no word on when the finished game will be released, although we suspect it will be either late 2012 or early 2013. Fingers crossed.
UPDATE: After the Sony E3 press conference, The Last of Us was one of the games we most wanted to get some one-on-one time with and, although it ended up being one of Naughty Dog's producers that controlled the game, we managed to. It was just us, him and the level we saw on the big screen previously. Intimate.
And although we were viewing the action on a smaller display, it still felt as intense. In fact, even more so considering that the person playing it was trying to describe what he was doing along the way, and once or twice looked in genuine peril.
What is most interesting thing about the sequence we saw (and in the video above) is that this section focused on combat between our main characters and normal, virus-free enemies. The Last of Us is survival horror, no matter whether those who look to do you harm are zombies or recognisably human. If anything, it's these other survivors that are perhaps scarier. They are certainly cleverer.
The thing we got from actually being hand held through the level is that it seems to play similarly to Uncharted - no surprises there - and not on rails as some have speculated.
There's climbing sections and a lot of duck and cover action. However, this time stealth is a better ally than running in guns a-blazing. Partly because you have a little girl to look after, but mainly because you don't have much ammunition if at all.
But the most resonating part of our demo, the part we'll take with us until we get a chance to taste further gameplay sessions, is the same as you can see in the video trailer; the hand-to-hand fight and shotgun moment. There's genuine fear in the enemies eyes, and the result further enforces The Last of Us' mantra of kill or be killed.
Uncharted was a big, boombastic action thriller. From our E3 demo, The Last of Us will be far more somber and memorable, we feel.


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Fans are leaving early and missing the excitement. For the third straight game, the Phillies have won in their last at-bat. Tuesday night's comeback was more improbable than Monday.
Cliff and Greinke were locked in a 1-1 duel through five innings. Then, Cliff was tagged for four home runs in the next 10 batters. Greinke had retired 18 of 19 when he was lifted after seven but leading 3-1.
Down, 6-1, the Phillies scored six times in the eighth, Kratz a two-run pinch homer and a bases-clearing double by Chooch who scored the winning run on a Hunter single.
So, the Phillies have won three in a row at home for only the second time this season. They've won a series at home for the first time since June 19-21 vs. Colorado. Since the All-Star break, 7-4, including two extra-inning losses that could have been wins.
Down On The Farm
Lehigh Valley ended a four-game losing streak with a 4-1 win over Norfolk, getting 8 singles. RH B. J. Rosenberg (5-2) was the winner, 0 runs, 2 hits, 1 walk, 9 strikeouts in 5 innings. 12th save for RH Phillippe Aumont.
Reading lost its sixth in a row, 6-2, to Altoona. C Sebastian Valle hit his 13th homer, his third in his last 8 games.
Clearwater moved into first place in the second half with a 3-1 win over Dunedin, third in a row for the Threshers. DH Brian Schneider, a 2-run double. LH Adam Morgan (4-8) allowed 1 run in 7 innings and fanned a career-high 13. RH Mike Nesseth, 4th save.
Lakewood lost its third in a row, 6-2, at Hagerstown. LF Aaron Altherr, 2-4.
Williamsport lost, 9-3, to Mahoning Valley. 2 hits each for 3B Mitch Walding and C Logan Moore.
Gulf Coast League Phillies lost, 2-1, to the Tigers in a game halted after 5.5 innings. Other game with Detroit was rained out. SS Zach Green, 2-2.
July 25, 1950: Shutouts by RHPs Bubba Church (7-0) and Robin Roberts (1-0) lead the Phillies to a sweep of a Shibe Park doubleheader vs. the Chicago Cubs before 32,726. The Phillies move into first place and stay there the rest of the season.
July 25, 1980, 1st game: RHP Dick Ruthven throws a Vet-record 12 innings in his complete game, 5-4, win over Atlanta. 3B Mike Schmidt hits his 260th home run to break Del Ennis' club record.
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Alumni Weekend is coming in August. Read all about it on www.phillies.com/alumni.


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Exostaff necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 117 diseños de 36 diseñadores freelance.
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One of Exostaff's clients is creating a new online game centered around the Big Brother reality tv show in the US. Players will be submitting questions and voting on their predictions, with a chance of winning great prizes.
The target audience for this game (and therefore, the logo) are Big Brother fans online. This isn't an official game from the Big Brother show, Endemol USA, or CBS... This is a game by fans, for fans. The audience should recognize the logo as being related to Big Brother if possible, but not be so similar that it's confused for the official company logos.
This is a pretty simple project that will hopefully be fun and let you experiment with creative takes on the concept. We need a logo which should contain the letters "BigBrotherPredict.com" and maybe have an icon with it... Something like a house similar to what the BB show uses might make sense. You can see the CBS.com site for examples of what their Big Brother logos look like, if that inspires ideas (and to make sure ours isn't too similar!).
The goal here is to create something that becomes easily recognizable as our site's logo, something which conveys the Big Brother game affiliation without being too similar, and which can be created quickly-- this is a short 3-day contest, because the site is launching very soon. :-)
Logo deliverable should be in vector (AI) format with a few rendered JPG, PNG, etc. files in sizes we'll specify. The usual standard stuff, nothing difficult here.
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I got wise. GenealogyWise that is... yesterday I joined GenealogyWise.com. GenealogyWise is a new social network site and when I first heard about it I thought "Oh no, just a Facebook wannabee..." I didn't expect to like it. I decided to give it a try though before giving it the thumbs down.
I am giving it one thumbs up and reserving that second thumb until more time has passed. I want to see if the initial euphoria and excitement of it wears off over time.
It is set up just for genealogists and it is rather nice to be connected to others who are passionate about genealogy too!
Not that I will give up Facebook. I have hundreds of friends, family and colleagues on Facebook and I enjoy everything I do there. But the more time I spent on GenealogyWise yesterday, the more I realized I can use both of them.
And GenealogyWise is the hottest thing in cyberspace right now. It took off like a rocket. When I joined there were about 200 members. 24 hours later there were over 1,000. You can link to me as Friend on My Page if you decide to pop over and give GenealogyWise a try.
Last night there were 332 Genealogy Groups. I've never seen so many genealogist set up so many groups so quickly! It almost became a race to see who could grab a good genealogy group name first. Here are a few of the groups I set up for genealogists to join:
Olive Tree Genealogy
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Lost Faces: Ancestor Photographs & Albums
Ontario Canada Genealogy
Ships Passenger Lists to USA
Naturalization Records
I hope you'll consider joining me, and other genealogists, in these groups. And there are hundreds more run by other genealogists!
There's lots you can do on GenealogyWise - Blogs, Forums, Groups, Videos, Photos.. you name it you can look at it or participate in it. It's free and easy to register, being part of the NING social network sites. If you are already registered with NING all you'll need to do is log in with your NING ID. Otherwise all you need do is give an email address, a password and fill out a brief profile page.
Hope to see you there! Be sure to look me up at My Page
July 10, 2009
I Got Wise... GenealogyWise that is....
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Congratulations on taking a chance on this social network site. There truly are so many different networks out there now and it's hard to find just the right one to meet your specific interests. No other field of interest is more condusive to a network that connects you with other researchers than genealogy. Thanks for the review.
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Our very good friends, Joe and Lydia, got married this past weekend! (yay! congrats guys!) I was recruited to make the cake. I've never made a fancy tiered cake before so I suggested we go with a small cake for them and a bunch of cupcakes. I found a pretty little cupcake stand on amazon which I used to display everything. I used the awesome cake recipe that I also used for Ava's rainbow birthday cake. I dyed a portion of the mix blue and swirled it in to the middle portion. I made a ton of little blue daisies to put on top out of gum paste. I think they came out super cute!
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The Obama administration's top constitutional lawyer confronted a skeptical US Supreme Court on Monday as he tried to convince a majority of justices that the president acted properly in January 2012 when he declared the Senate to be in recess and unilaterally appointed three new members of the National Labor Relations Board.
Without President Obama's quick action in using his recess appointment authority, the five-member NLRB would have lost its quorum and any ability to render decisions.
Placing labor-friendly members on the NLRB was a high priority of the administration in 2011. Not everyone saw this as progress. Some of the board's actions triggered congressional opposition, opposition that bloomed into a concerted effort to block Obama nominees to the NLRB.
The effort didn't end there. Aware that the president might try to fill the vacant posts through recess appointments, the Senate agreed to remain in session throughout the winter break in December 2011 and January 2012.
To accomplish this, the Senate conducted a series of pro-forma sessions, one every three days throughout the entire period.
The action was designed to prevent the president from using his recess appointment authority to bypass the usual requirement that he obtain the advice and consent of the Senate for nominees.
It was against that backdrop that Mr. Obama in January 2012 brushed aside the Senate's pro-forma sessions and declared that he was making three recess appointments to the NLRB.
A month later, Noel Canning, a bottling company from Washington State, lost its case before the NLRB. As part of its appeal, company lawyers questioned the validity of the three recess appointments to the NLRB.
A federal appeals court agreed with Noel Canning and ruled that the three appointments were beyond the president's authority.
Now, the administration is asking the Supreme Court to reverse the appeals court and declare that the president has the power to ignore pro-forma Senate sessions and treat that period as if the Senate is in recess for purposes of making recess appointments.
US Solicitor General Donald Verrilli argued that the Senate could not manipulate its recess schedule in a way that would undermine the president's broad power to keep the executive branch fully staffed and operating efficiently.
He told the justices that nearly all the nation's presidents had made recess appointments under a variety of scenarios. If the court upheld the appeals court and ruled against the president, he said, it would "repudiate the constitutional legitimacy of thousands of appointments by presidents going back to George Washington."
More specifically, he said, dozens, and perhaps hundreds, of NLRB decisions would be "under a cloud."
Washington Appellate Lawyer Noel Francisco urged the justices to uphold the appeals court decision and embrace a more restrictive view of executive power.
The president's recess appointment authority is contingent on the Senate being in recess, a procedure that is entirely within the Senate's discretion, said Mr. Francisco, who is representing Noel Canning in the case.
"The one thing the president may not do is force the Senate to act against its will and run around the Senate's refusal to act [on a nominee]," he said.
Francisco noted that in the early days of the country, members of Congress would make the long, difficult journey to Washington to conduct the nation's business and then call a recess before returning home for months at a time. Since it was difficult to call Congress back into session every time a vacancy arose that needed to be filled, the framers of the Constitution included a provision to address that contingency.
The clause reads in part: "The president shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate."
Francisco said the clause sets out a procedure that is less relevant today than 200 years ago. Today, he said, senators could quickly be called back to Washington by the president in an emergency.
Washington Appellate Lawyer Miguel Estrada argued on behalf of Senate Republicans that the Obama recess appointments were aimed at bypassing the Senate's role in approving nominees, rather than upholding presidential prerogatives.
He said the president waited to make his recess appointments until Jan. 4, 2012, one day after the new Senate convened (in a pro-forma session) on Jan.3.
He noted that Obama could have taken the action before the new session began on Jan. 3, but that by waiting a day the length of the recess appointments increased from one year to two years.
Mr. Estrada said the episode represented "the bottom of the slippery slope on the Recess Appointments Clause" and "a complete abuse of the process."
"It is being used for no other purpose than to overcome the Senate opposition or the Senate disinclination to agree with the president's nominations," he said.
In his rebuttal, Solicitor General Verrilli challenged the charge. "It is just not the case that this is an end-run around the advice and consent of the Senate," he said.
Several of the justices raised similar questions during the 90-minute session.
Elena Kagan, an Obama appointee and former solicitor general in the Obama administration, noted that the Recess Appointments Clause appears to have been written to address the problem of congressional absence.
More recently, she said, "presidents of both parties essentially have used this clause as a way to deal, not with congressional absence, but with congressional intransigence, with a Congress that simply does not want to approve appointments that the president thinks ought to be approved."
"This is not the horse and buggy era anymore," Justice Kagan said. "There's no such thing truly as congressional absence anymore."
Verrilli, who replaced Kagan as solicitor general, disagreed. The president had to act, he said, the NLRB was about to "go dark."
"Yes," Kagan replied, "as a result of congressional refusal, not as a result of congressional action."
Verrilli tried to regroup. "Perhaps it sounds like this is an aggressive assertion of executive authority," he said. But what the Framers were most concerned about, he said, was Congress draining authority from the executive branch.
"The executive needed to be fortified against those actions by Congress," he said.
The case is National Labor Relations Board v. Noel Canning (12-1281).
A decision is expected by late June.


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Lorna Sagario has just shared her business with you. She makes clay pots for a living. When I came to center 35 to observe their weekly repayment meeting I was met with a lot of excitement and enthusiasm. Of all the centers that I have visited center 35 was particularly welcoming and it was a real pleasure to learn about their craft of clay oven making. The clay pots not only represent hot food but a source of income. Lorna is able to make clay stoves in 5 minutes.
While Lorna was the first person that wanted to show me how to make clay stoves, Joselyn Neiales in the green shirt and Melalyan Mayordo in the brown shirt also wanted to show me how they make their clay stoves. The clay stoves that you see being made are a common cooking appliance that families use in preparing their food. Many of the people in the Philippines live without the resources to afford a gas or electric stove and so these clay stoves serve as their only option for cooking foods.
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Those who knew her, worked alongside her, and those who simply admired her work and grace took to social media to honor the late actress and activist Ruby Dee, who died Wednesday at age 91.
Dee, who frequently collaborated with her husband of 56 years, Ossie Davis, performed on stage ("Jeb"), screen ("A Raisin in the Sun," "The Jackie Robinson Story," "American Gangster"), and worked tirelessly for equal rights: Dee and Davis served as masters of ceremonies for the historic 1963 March on Washington.
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Ann Triantafillos, who has timeshare properties at Myrtle Beach, S.C., and Disneyworld in Florida, apparently considered it a good opportunity. She paid the upfront fee of $1,800. Her son, Brian, said his mother suffered from Alzheimer's disease and he found out what happened while going through her financial records.
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"They prey on the elderly. They prey on people financially struggling, give them hope and then they suck you in with emotion, high pressure sales tactics. Then, they ask for the upfront fee. They've lured you in, and odds are pretty great you won't get anything in return," said Angie Barnett, president of the Greater Maryland Better Business Bureau.
"I think it's frustrating. It's unfortunate she was taken. I have to say even if she didn't have Alzheimer's, she probably would have bought into it. She was looking to sell the timeshares," Brian Triantafillos said.
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Title: North Korea May Fire A Missile Toward Hawaii
Post by: Janilee Wolff on June 18, 2009, 11:29:58 am
North Korea May Fire A Missile Toward Hawaii
HYUNG-JIN KIM | June 18, 2009 07:48 AM EST |
SEOUL, South Korea North Korea may fire a long-range ballistic missile toward Hawaii in early July, a Japanese news report said Thursday, as Russia and China urged the regime to return to international disarmament talks on its rogue nuclear program.
The missile, believed to be a Taepodong-2 with a range of up to 4,000 miles (6,500 kilometers), would be launched from North Korea's Dongchang-ni site on the northwestern coast, said the Yomiuri daily, Japan's top-selling newspaper. It cited an analysis by the Japanese Defense Ministry and intelligence gathered by U.S. reconnaissance satellites.
The missile launch could come between July 4 and 8, the paper said.
While the newspaper speculated the Taepodong-2 could fly over Japan and toward Hawaii, it said the missile would not be able to hit Hawaii's main islands, which are about 4,500 miles (7,200 kilometers) from the Korean peninsula.
A spokesman for the Japanese Defense Ministry declined to comment on the report. South Korea's Defense Ministry and the National Intelligence Service _ the country's main spy agency _ said they could not confirm it.
Tension on the divided Korean peninsula has spiked since the North conducted its second nuclear test on May 25 in defiance of repeated international warnings. The regime declared Saturday it would bolster its nuclear programs and threatened war in protest of U.N. sanctions taken for the nuclear test.
U.S. officials have said the North has been preparing to fire a long-range missile capable of striking the western U.S. In Washington on Tuesday, Gen. James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said it would take at least three to five years for North Korea to pose a real threat to the U.S. west coast.
President Barack Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak met in Washington on Tuesday for a landmark summit in which they agreed to build a regional and global "strategic alliance" to persuade North Korea to dismantle all its nuclear weapons. Obama declared North Korea a "grave threat" to the world and pledged that the new U.N. sanctions on the communist regime will be aggressively enforced.
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In Seoul, Vice Unification Minister Hong Yang-ho told a forum Thursday that the North's moves to strengthen its nuclear programs is "a very dangerous thing that can fundamentally change" the regional security environment. He said the South Korean government is bracing for "all possible scenarios" regarding the nuclear standoff.
The independent International Crisis Group think tank, meanwhile, said the North's massive stockpile of chemical weapons is no less serious a threat to the region than its nuclear arsenal.
It said the North is believed to have between 2,500 and 5,000 tons of chemical weapons, including mustard gas, phosgene, blood agents and sarin. These weapons can be delivered with ballistic missiles and long-range artillery and are "sufficient to inflict massive civilian casualties on South Korea."
"If progress is made on rolling back Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions, there could be opportunities to construct a cooperative diplomatic solution for chemical weapons and the suspected biological weapons program," the think tank said in a report released Thursday.
It also called on the U.S. to engage the North in dialogue to defuse the nuclear crisis, saying "diplomacy is the least bad option." The think tank said Washington should be prepared to send a high-level special envoy to Pyongyang to resolve the tension.
In a rare move, leaders of Russia and China used their meetings in Moscow on Wednesday to pressure the North to return to the nuclear talks and expressed "serious concerns" about tension on the Korean peninsula.
The joint appeal appeared to be a signal that Moscow and Beijing are growing impatient with Pyongyang's stubbornness. Northeastern China and Russia's Far East both border North Korea, and Pyongyang's unpredictable actions have raised concern in both countries.
After meetings at the Kremlin, Chinese President Hu Jintao joined Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in urging a peaceful resolution of the Korean standoff and the "swiftest renewal" of the now-frozen talks involving their countries as well as North and South Korea, Japan and the United States.
"Russia and China are ready to foster the lowering of tension in Northeast Asia and call for the continuation of efforts by all sides to resolve disagreements through peaceful means, through dialogue and consultations," their statement said.
The comments _ contained in a lengthy statement that discussed other global issues _ included no new initiatives, but it appeared to be carefully worded to avoid provoking Pyongyang. In remarks after their meetings, Medvedev made only a brief reference to North Korea, and Hu did not mention it.
South Korea's Lee said Wednesday in Washington that was essential for China and Russia to "actively cooperate" in getting the North to give up its nuclear program, suggesting the North's bombs program may trigger a regional arms race.
"If we acknowledge North Korea possessing nuclear programs, other non-nuclear countries in Northeast Asia would be tempted to possess nuclear weapons and this would not be helpful for stability in Northeast Asia," Lee said in a meeting with former U.S. officials and Korea experts, according to his office.
Associated Press writers Shino Yuasa in Tokyo, Jae-soon Chang and Ji-youn Oh in Seoul and Mike Eckel in Moscow contributed to this report.
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A South Korean soldier mans a weapon atop a military vehicle during a military drill against possible attack from North Korea near the border village of Panmunjom that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, South Korea, Wednesday, June 17, 2009. North Korea warned Wednesday of a "Thousand-Fold" military retaliation against the U.S. and its allies if provoked, the latest threat in a drumbeat of rhetoric in defense of its rogue nuclear program. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)


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By By Alison Mutler October 22, 2013
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Three Romanians have pleaded guilty to stealing seven paintings, including works by Picasso, Monet and Matisse, from a Dutch museum in a daring nighttime raid that shocked the art world.
Radu Dogaru, Alexandru Bitu and Eugen Darie, told a Bucharest court on Tuesday that they took the multimillion-dollar paintings from the Kunsthal Museum in October 2012. They were charged with the theft and of bringing the paintings into Romania.
The works have never been found, and may have been burned.
In their depositions to prosecutors, the suspects, who were arrested in January, said they brought the paintings to Romania, tried to sell them on the black market, then left them with Dogaru's mother, Olga Dogaru.
Chief suspect Radu Dogaru told the court Tuesday that when he stole the paintings on the night of Oct. 15-16, he thought they were fakes. "I could not believe you could enter as easily as that," he said. "The security was practically inexistent. The door was closed but not blocked. I entered practically just with a screwdriver."
He told the court that the paintings were handed over to a Russian Ukrainian man whom he identified and wrote the man's address on a piece of paper for the court. The name was not publicly confirmed.
He also claimed that at one point he had told a Dutch prosecutor that he would return five of the paintings to Dutch authorities, but that they declined the offer, asking for all seven.
Dogaru denied the paintings had been burned in his mother's stove. He said that remains of paint, canvas and nails identified in the ash by a Romanian museum could have been from a fence with handmade nails or from 19th-century icons that were in the family home.
Olga Dogaru, who is charged with handling stolen property, had told investigators she burned the paintings, but later denied it. Six Romanians have been put on trial in the case, including one who is being tried in absentia and another who is not under arrest.
Thieves broke in through a rear emergency exit of the Kunsthal, grabbed the paintings off the wall, put them in sacks and fled — all within minutes — in the biggest art heist to hit the Netherlands for more than a decade.
The stolen paintings were: Pablo Picasso's 1971 "Harlequin Head"; Claude Monet's 1901 "Waterloo Bridge, London" and "Charing Cross Bridge, London"; Henri Matisse's 1919 "Reading Girl in White and Yellow"; Paul Gauguin's 1898 "Girl in Front of Open Window"; Meyer de Haan's "Self-Portrait," around 1890; and Lucian Freud's 2002 work "Woman with Eyes Closed."
The paintings have an estimated value of tens of millions of dollars, if sold at auction.
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