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Alleluia! Christ is risen. The Lord is risen indeed
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The women on their way to the tomb were saying to one another, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the door of the tomb?â[Mark 16:3]
Blessed be God forever: Amen.
In all four gospels, it was women who come first to the tomb; and, Matthew, Mark and Luke all tell us the purpose: to anoint Jesus' body. The Burial on Friday had been hurried and the soldiers had not broken his legs to speed death.{{more}} He was already dead. As the Sabbath was at hand, Joseph of Arimathea was moved to give his own freshly hewn tomb, which was, St John tells us, very near to the Place of the Skull. Nicodemus had given spices, but Jesus' own inner circle had not been able to care for his body in the customary way. There had been so much hurry. They loved him so much; nevertheless, they could still do what was right, what at the very least they owed him, when the Sabbath ended.
They surely recognized their problem and that the immense wheel-like stone had been rolled over the entrance to the tomb. St Mark tells us that they had actually seen this happen. Maybe they had also heard about Pilate's order that the tomb be sealed and a guard set to keep things that way. It is St Matthew that records for us this detail.
So, the women meet very early on Sunday after deciding sometime after sundown on Saturday. They must do what it is right to do, and what could not be done on Friday. They can now prepare the spices and the ointments. It is still dark and they must arrive near first light.
Everything is, of course, very confused and confusing. Their grief is overwhelming. Have they forgotten about the stone? Do they not think about the stone until they are actually on their way? Do each think about it earlier, but not discuss it? We cannot know; all we can know is that on their way to the tomb they are saying to one another, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the door of the tomb?â
Followers of Jesus often face what seem to them insurmountable problems, challenges for which there seem to be no apparent solutions. They will nevertheless do what is right, what they can do, even if there is a part of the puzzle they do not have or cannot conceive. Trust in their God drives them on. With God, there has always been a way through in the past, so why not trust Him now?
An adolescent in rebellion? A friendship betrayed? Wars and rumours of wars? A terribly injured child? An impossible situation at work? A marriage in tatters? Some debilitating illness or handicap? An unjust accusation? Domestic or civil violence? Whatever the present impossibility, let us continue trusting in God to deal with them too.
We can wonder what the women spoke of as they went in the darkness toward the tomb of Jesus. Was there more than "Who will roll away the stone for us from the door of the tomb?â Might they have remembered the Passover story of long ago, the very feast being celebrated in these same days? How the first-born of Israel had been delivered? Might they next have recalled the victory at the Red Sea, when all God's people were saved and all of Pharaoh's army drowned? Might they have remembered Jericho, where the walls miraculously tumbled down? Could they have encouraged one another with the stories of Ruth or Esther, or Daniel or the Three Hebrew Men? Might they have spoken of Judas? Could they have rehearsed some of the miracles they had seen at the hands of their crucified rabbi? The healings, the feedings, the castings out, the raisings from the dead? Might they have even dared to wonder about his teaching concerning what would follow his own death? We cannot say what broke the silence of their preparation of the spices and ointments, or the silence of their walk to the tomb. We are sure of their grief â for that is why they were meeting â and we are sure of the one question: "Who will roll away the stone for us from the door of the tomb?â
In all of our speculation about the run-up to the arrival of the women at the tomb, it is very hard to imagine that the women could have imagined in advance what actually confronted them on arrival. God is so much bigger than our thoughts or imaginings. Even the rehearsal of earlier mighty deeds does not prepare us for the immensity of what he can do in the present moment, in the face of our seemingly insurmountable challenges. Yes, he often appoints brothers and sisters, or sometimes even strangers, to help us â to help us in quite ordinary, quite natural ways. But sometimes, there is the supernatural, and the great stories seem to be filled with this. Indeed, at their arrival, they would soon have the greatest story of all time to tell. God would act. God powerfully, God unmistakably. God alone. Without man's help.
God addresses our human challenges both naturally and supernaturally. He is God, after all. Our chief attitude needs to be to trust him, no matter what we face. His operation, whether natural or supernatural, is his choice, his provision by whatever means. He is the Creator, sustainer and end of everything, so why do we doubt?
But tonight's work – this dawn of the day work – is God's alone. "Who will roll away the stone for us from the door of the tomb?â God will. God does. There is earthquake. There is an angel, dazzling light. The guards fall away. The stone is rolled back.
But there is more, much more. The tomb is empty. "He has been raised, as he said.â They are invited to see the place where the body had lain. They are given a message. (Forget the spices and the ointments.) "Go tell his disciples.â It hadn't been about the stone after all; or, about a dead body. The crucifixion wasn't the last word. Not at all. They had misread what God was up to. Yes, they were being faithful, but their plan â their challenge â was much too small. Fear â a different kind of fear â and great joy are now theirs. They hadn't run from their problem, from their grief, but had headed straight into it. Now everything was changed. So, now they run with a different purpose. They are bearers of the greatest good news of all time. And suddenly he himself meets them: "Greetings!â They fall and worship, and so do we. And his last words to them are "Go and tell.â We, too, now fall and worship. Our next step is to go and tell.
There is now, with Jesus, no challenge we cannot face, not even death. For now the last challenge has been swallowed up in victory; and, for those who put their faith in him, no stones that cannot be rolled away. There is nothing now that can separate us from the Father's love or Jesus' resurrection or the Spirit's power. Rejoice, this Easter Day! Rejoice, like never before! Rejoice, for the stone on the tomb proved no problem to our God.
Alleluia! Christ is risen. The Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia.
Archbishop and Primate
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Jason Ritter knows how to make the most of an opportunity. When the 32-year-old actor was invited to guest star on the first season of the NBC dramedy Parenthood, he was only supposed to appear in a three-episode arc as sexy, mild-mannered high school teacher Mark Cyr. Cut to Season 4: Ritter has an Emmy nomination under his belt, his character is engaged to fortysomething single mom Sarah (Lauren Graham) — age difference be damned — and he's even managed to wangle his way into the official family portrait. But all that could be at risk, thanks to the recent arrival of Sarah's new boss, Hank, played with crotchety magnetism by Ray Romano. Ritter opens up about his status as an almost-Braverman, life lessons from his late dad, John, and what's really beneath the nice-guy façade. (Spoiler alert: Unless he's really good at hiding it, there's no secret dungeon filled with puppies.)
TV Guide Magazine: Guest stars on Parenthood come and go. What's the trick to your staying power?
Ritter: It was sort of a slow burn. I loved those first three episodes I did so much. Then they kept bringing me back — even while I was doing my [2010-2011] show The Event. I'd read every script thinking, "This could be it!" But now Mark feels like a real part of the show. At least for now. I got in the [family] picture!
TV Guide Magazine: Is your chemistry with Lauren Graham as good as it looks?
Ritter: I know there are actors who can pretend they're in love but in real life cannot stand the person. For me, it really helps when there's a friendship. It's so much fun to come into work and play around with Lauren and flirt and try to make her laugh and then go home. That is such a great day.
TV Guide Magazine: So is Hank actually going to mess up all that Mark-Sarah magic?
Ritter: That's the question. The biggest threat is always the idea that you would be happier elsewhere. She and Mark have been through a lot, but now that they're living together, the realities are different from the fantasy dating section of the relationship, when no one's ever leaving the seat up. Plus, Hank is so real and grounded, even if he does have a bleak outlook. Mark has a lot of ideals.
TV Guide Magazine: If Sarah cheats on Mark, will fans riot?
Ritter: Maybe fans would riot. Here's the thing I love about the show so much: It's about life's little triumphs and setbacks, idiosyncrasies of the human heart — so you don't need to have them have a full-on affair to break Mark's heart. There are lots of threats that don't necessarily end with Hank and Sarah in a hotel room. But I don't think Sarah would do that to Mark. Though the sooner Hank gets out of town, the better.
TV Guide Magazine: On the November 20 episode, Mark's dad skills will be put to the test when he walks in on Sarah's teenage son, Drew (Miles Heizer), in a compromising position.
Ritter: Mark's not a disciplinarian. He's finding himself in all of these positions he doesn't know how to navigate but wants to so badly. Like he thinks, "I should give Drew the birds-and-the-bees talk," which of course Drew has heard before.
TV Guide Magazine: Did having TV icon John Ritter as your father make it harder or easier to break into this business?
Ritter: When I was starting out, I would go in for auditions and I would get overwhelmed by my own insecurities. I would have my little jokes prepared, and the casting director would say, "Before you start, I want to tell you that your dad was so funny" — and give him a nice compliment — and I would think, "Oh, my God, you're about to see how far I am from him." I wasn't just a guy in the room; I was humiliating my family. But there were ways it helped a lot, too. I was going into a business where he had been really gracious to a lot of the people around him.
TV Guide Magazine: He passed away in 2003, two weeks before the premiere of your first series, Joan of Arcadia. Did he ever get to see you act?
Ritter: He saw the pilot of the show. I did a play that both he and my mom came to see, and he saw me in episodes of Law & Order. He'd tell me he was proud of me. I do wish he'd been able to see all of the things since his death, but I also think somewhere maybe he is seeing them and all the things in the future. My dad always had an eye on the ball as far as what was important; this whole idea of celebrity really bugged him. He told me I have total control over whether I'm an actor or not — I can go into the park and perform something, and that makes me an actor.
TV Guide Magazine: You've played a lot of good guys. Be honest: Are you ever a big jerk in real life?
Ritter: I can be very frustrating! I'll be at dinner with friends and if someone comes up to me, rather than spending a couple minutes saying hello, I engage with this person and miss out on my evening instead. I don't understand why. The conversation with the stranger will even wind down, and I'll go like, "So, what else?" It's really weird. Even though it's not directly being a jerk, it is still jerky behavior.
Parenthood airs Tuesdays at 10/9c on NBC.


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Building Composite Applications
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Published 08 July 2007
IBM Form #: SG24-7367-00
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Authors: Juan Rodriguez, Alex Barbosa Coqueiro, Belen Gonzalez Agudo, Sunil Patel, Ricardo Rossi, Rafael Sanchez, Robert Schneider, Guillermo Villavicencio, Art Whorley, Michael Zink
This IBM Redbooks publication covers composite applications for desktop solutions that require multiple types of applications to run in a cooperative environment by providing intercommunication between components. Service-oriented architecture (SOA) composite applications deliver high levels of business services and this book covers the architecture, available tools, component considerations, as well as assembling, deploying and wiring components in WebSphere Portal and Rich Client Platforms, such as Lotus Expeditor and Lotus Notes 8.
Lotus Expeditor is a client platform for end-to-end smart client application solutions. Expeditor provides services to install and manage these applications and allows users to easily launch and switch among these applications. Expeditor leverages Eclipse technology to provide a client solution that runs on multiple operating systems. The benefits of composite applications include reducing the total cost of ownership for client solutions through reusability of existing components and the sharing of these components across applications, migrating existing applications to run on the client platform, controlling access to applications based on roles assigned to users and improving the user experience by allowing composite application components to easily communicate between them.
This publication is targeted at architects, developers and administrators who need to understand the implemented architecture to develop, assemble and deploy composite applications in Lotus Expeditor V6.1.
Table of contents
Chapter 1. Introduction to SOA
Chapter 2. Composite applications
Chapter 3. Utilities for developing composite applications
Chapter 4. Components in composite applications
Chapter 5. Component communication
Chapter 6. Portal composite applications
Chapter 7. Developing portlet components
Chapter 8. An overview of RCP components
Chapter 9. Developing RCP components
Chapter 10. Integrating AWT or Swing components in composite applications
Chapter 11. Debugging the wired composite applications in Lotus Expeditor
Chapter 12. Integrating OLE documents and ActiveX Controls in composite applications
Chapter 13. Using the OSGi Event Admin
Chapter 14. Managed composite applications
Chapter 15. Exporting components and publishing the update site
Chapter 16. Assembling and deploying managed client composite applications
Chapter 17. Adding components to a composite application
Chapter 18. Multipage applications and cross-page wiring
Chapter 19. The ITSO Car Rental sample composite application
Chapter 20. Assembling Portal-administered composite applications
Chapter 21. Component development tools
Chapter 22. NSF component development
Chapter 23. Utilities for assembling composite applications
Chapter 24. Assembling composite applications using the Composite Application Editor
Chapter 25. Lotus Notes 8 sample scenario
Chapter 26. Provisioning the Lotus Expeditor clients with Device Management
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This has been found! See This Post
So it has happened, my Quadropter has decided to take it's own flight across Christchurch and would have dropped out of the sky somewhere.
It has got super bright Blue and Red LED light strips on it so can be seen from a distance, if you hear a rather annoying beep that's possibly it yelling it's out of battery.
This Quadropter is my pride and joy, and I would love for anyone to help me find it - if you have got any leads or have actually found this hopefully without it causing any damage to human, cats, dogs, animals or physical objects please flick me a message - email@example.com
I have whipped up a quick site on where I think it might have fallen based on battery, wind, speed and altitude - share it to anyone in Christchurch in hope of getting this back - http://murfy.co.nz
How did it happen?
I was flying it at night in Middleton Park here in Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, wasn't doing anything crazy but was just making it as visible as anything, I had just placed some LED light strips on it (ironic) and all the sudden it lost contact with my receiver.
This is no off the shelf Quad, it's fully custom built complete with an aluminium frame and a MultiWii flight computer, they're no cheap motors either - costing approx $60US/ea to import excluding shipping so it's got quite a bit of power to it.
It has got a killswitch on it in case of it losing contact with the receiver of which it's supposed to attempt to land (by killing the motors essentially) - but this normally gives me quick control of getting it to safety in case anything crazy goes on - but it seems that the board it had lost contact with the radio receivers.
Quite simply put, it decided to go in it's own direction with the wind and ignore everything from my controller, I couldn't reinstate communication with it at all.
What about safety?
This is the worst thing that could ever happen with any hobbyist due to the unpredictable nature of such things, especially if all you were doing is testing something and it decides to fly off on it's own - if it does this there is no way of getting it down until the speed controllers decide to cut the motors due to low battery especially with something like a Quadropter - since it weighs in at approx 1.8kg it could cause some serious damage if it decides to hit anyone - I'm just hoping that since it's night it will have nobody to hit - and hopefully my estimations are correct and it's landed in a field.
Please note, Police have been contacted just in case. They're on the lookout too.
Cheers for your time - share this with anyone in Christchurch: http://murfy.co.nz and let's see if I am able to get this back. Also my contact is firstname.lastname@example.com


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Four workers hurt as stairs collapse at Southport home
FAIRFIELD --Four workers were injured when two sets of temporary stairs in a home under construction collapsed Friday morning as they carried a cast-iron tub to the third floor.
The tub and two staircases toppled into the basement, with one of the staircases falling onto the men, said Assistant Fire Chief Scott Bisson.
The workers fell between 15 and 20 feet, Bisson said, and suffered serious but not life-threatening injuries.
Two of the injured men are employed by Electrical Connections Inc. of Newington and the other two by All American Heating and Air Conditioning of Wolcott, Bisson said.
Both companies are subcontractors on a house under construction on South Gate Lane, a dead-end street in the Southport section of town. The home at 138 South Gate Lane was purchased in May by an Easton-based LLC for $650,000, and the 74-year-old structure was demolished to make way for the new dwelling.
All four workers were extricated shortly after the 9:15 a.m. incident. Two were brought to St. Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport, and two went to Bridgeport Hospital for treatment of injuries.
One man had a broken leg, one had broken ankle and another suffered head pain and complained of a lack of feeling in his arm. One of the workers taken to Bridgeport Hospital was expected to be treated and released, according to John Cappiello, hospital spokesman. The second man there was being evaluated for what he called "non-critical" injuries in the incident.
The two injured workers taken to St. Vincent's Medical Center were treated in the emergency room. A St. Vincent's spokeswoman said Thursday afternoon that one worker would be kept overnight for observation and that the other had been treated and released.
Bisson said firefighters created a rope-and-pulley system to lift the men about 15 feet out of the debris the fell into the basement. A paramedic from AMR and four firefighters were first lowered into the basement to begin treating the injured workers and to remove the wooden stairs that had collapsed on them.
The workers were placed in Stokes baskets and on backboards, with cervical collars to stabilize their injuries, the assistant chief said.
The rescue operation took less than an hour, fire officials said.
Town Building Official Jim Gilleran was on the scene, along with an inspector from Occupational Health and Safety Administration. Gilleran estimated the cast-iron tub weighed between 200 and 300 pounds and questioned why it was being carried up a temporary staircase. "They have a forklift on the job," Gilleran said. "What they could've done is picked it up and taken through a window on the second floor."
He said no one from his department had done an interior inspection on the structure as of Thursday, but added that is not out of the ordinary. Gilleran said interior inspections are done when a house is made water-tight.
Gilleran said the foreman for the job was having a work meeting at the site when he heard the crash and saw a cloud of dust.
He said it will be up to OSHA to determine if fines will be levied against the property owner, who apparently was serving as the general contractor, or any of the subcontractors.
In a statement issued after the incident, Fire Chief Richard Felner said, "The guys did an outstanding job ... They did exactly what they were supposed to do. This could have been much more serious, but I often say training pays off and they proved it today."
After fire crews cleared the scene, Gilleran and OSHA Safety and Occupational Health Specialist Paul Bernor remained on the scene to investigate.
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Ricoh CX5 Review
Image Quality
All of the sample images in this Review were taken using the 10 megapixel Fine JPEG setting, which gives an average image size of around 3.5Mb.
The Ricoh CX5 produced images of excellent quality during the review period. The Ricoh CX5's main drawback in terms of image quality is noise, with ISO 400 showing some noise and blurring of detail. The noise and loss of fine detail get progressively worse as you go from ISO 400 to ISO 1600, with the fastest 3200 setting not really worth using. The MAX noise reduction mode does noticeably reduce the noise levels at each ISO setting, but at the expense of further reducing detail in the image.
The Ricoh CX5 handled chromatic aberrations well with limited purple fringing effects appearing only in high contrast situations. The 10 megapixel images were just a little soft straight out of the camera at the default sharpen setting of Normal and either require some further sharpening in an application like Adobe Photoshop, or you should set the in-camera sharpening to Sharp. The night photograph was OK, with the maximum shutter speed of 8 seconds allowing you to capture just enough light for most situations.
Macro performance is a stand-out highlight, allowing you to focus as close as 1cm away from the subject, although there is a lot of lens distortion and shadowing at such a close distance. Anti-shake works very well when hand-holding the camera in low-light conditions or when using the telephoto end of the zoom range. The built-in flash worked well indoors, with no red-eye and good overall exposure.
The Dynamic Range mode works really well, resulting in images that have noticeably more dynamic range that those shot in the Normal mode. If you want to shoot images that retain detail in both the highlight and shadow areas, then the Ricoh CX5 is a great choice. There is one main drawback though; the DR images have noticeably less saturated colours than the Normal version, which more accurately matches the scene.
It's easy to tell which image was taken with Super Resolution turned on and which ones with it turned off, particularly if viewing onscreen at 100% magnification. The difference isn't quite so apparent on a print up to A3 in size, but I'm not convinced enough to recommend it except when you really need the extra reach - it undoubtedly improves on the digital zoom, but not so much that I'd regularly use it.
There are 6 ISO settings available on the Ricoh CX5. Here are some 100% crops which show the noise levels for each ISO setting, with noise reduction set to Off and the strongest setting of MAX.
|Noise Reduction Off
|Noise Reduction MAX
ISO 100 (100% Crop)
ISO 100 (100% Crop)
ISO 200 (100% Crop)
ISO 200 (100% Crop)
ISO 400 (100% Crop)
ISO 400 (100% Crop)
ISO 800 (100% Crop)
ISO 800 (100% Crop)
ISO 1600 (100% Crop)
ISO 1600 (100% Crop)
ISO 3200 (100% Crop)
ISO 3200 (100% Crop)
Focal Range
The Ricoh CX5's 10.7x zoom lens offers a very versatile focal range, as illustrated by these examples:
Super Resolution
This either makes a standard image look like a higher resolution one by processing the contour areas, texture areas and smooth areas individually, or it digitally boosts the zoom magnification from 10x to 20x with a claimed minimal loss of quality and no reduction in resolution.
Super Resolution - Off (100% Crop)
Super Resolution - Weak (100% Crop)
Super Resolution - Strong (100% Crop)
Super Resolution Zoom - Off
Super Resolution Zoom - On - 21.7x
Dynamic Range
When the Ricoh CX5 is in DR mode (Dynamic Range double shot) it takes two images with different exposures, and then records a single image that combines the properly exposed parts of each one. You can also choose to take a DR and Normal image at the same time (both are saved to the memory card). Here is an example which was shot with Normal and then the four DR modes (Very Weak, Weak, Medium and Strong).
Dynamic Range - Very Weak
Dynamic Range - Weak
Dynamic Range - Medium
Dynamic Range - Strong
Here are two 100% crops which have been Saved as Web - Quality 50 in Photoshop. The right-hand image has had some sharpening applied in Photoshop. The out-of-the camera images are a little soft at the default sharpening setting of Normal. You can change the in-camera sharpening level to one of the preset levels (Sharp, Normal or Soft) if you don't like the default look.
Original (100% Crop)
Sharpened (100% Crop)
File Quality
The Ricoh CX5 has 2 different image quality settings available, with Fine being the highest quality option. Here are some 100% crops which show the quality of the various options, with the file size shown in brackets.
10M Fine (3.58Mb) (100% Crop)
10M Normal (2.04Mb) (100% Crop)
Chromatic Aberrations
The Ricoh CX5 handled chromatic aberrations well during the review, with limited purple and green fringing present around the edges of objects in certain high-contrast situations, as shown in the examples below.
Example 1 (100% Crop)
Example 2 (100% Crop)
The Ricoh CX5 offers a Macro setting that allows you to focus on a subject that is just 1cm away from the camera when the lens is set to wide-angle. The first image shows how close you can get to the subject (in this case a compact flash card). The second image is a 100% crop.
Macro Shot
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The flash settings on the Ricoh CX5 are Auto flash, Red-eye Flash, Flash On, Flash Synchro and Flash Off. These shots of a white coloured wall were taken at a distance of 1.5m.
Suppressed Flash - Wide Angle (28mm)
Forced Flash - Wide Angle (28mm)
Suppressed Flash - Telephoto (300mm)
Forced Flash - Telephoto (300mm)
And here are some portrait shots. As you can see, neither the Flash On or the Red-eye Flash settings caused any red-eye.
Forced Flash
|Forced Flash (100% Crop)
Red-eye Reduction Auto
Red-eye Reduction Auto (100% Crop)
The Ricoh CX5's maximum shutter speed is 8 seconds via the Time Exposure main menu option, which is fairly good news if you're seriously interested in night photography. The shot below was taken using a shutter speed of 8 seconds at ISO 100.
The Night Landscape Multi-shot mode takes up to 4 shots and combines them to help prevent blur and reduce noise. This mode can also be used hand-held without a tripod.
Night Shot
Night Shot (100% Crop)
Night Landscape Multi-shot
Night Landscape Multi-shot (100% Crop)
Anti Shake
The Ricoh CX5 has an anti-shake mechanism, which allows you to take sharp photos at slower shutter speeds than other digital cameras. To test this, I took 2 handheld shots of the same subject with the same settings. The first shot was taken with anti shake turned off, the second with it turned on. Here are some 100% crops of the images to show the results. As you can see, with anti shake turned on, the images are much sharper than with anti shake turned off. This feature really does seem to make a difference and could mean capturing a successful, sharp shot or missing the opportunity altogether.
Shutter Speed / Focal Length
Anti Shake Off (100% Crop)
Anti Shake On (100% Crop)
|1/9th / 28mm
|1/6th / 300mm
Creative Modes
The CX5 offers a range of creative filters that sit under the Creative Shooting mode, including Dynamic Range, Miniaturize, High Contrast B&W, Soft Focus, Cross Process and Toy Camera.
Dynamic Range - Auto
High Contrast B&W
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The story of former Middletown superintendent-turned-Level 2 sex offender Robert Sigler is now the subject of a book.
The story of former Middletown superintendent-turned-Level 2 sex offender Robert Sigler is now the subject of a book.
He was superintendent from 1996 until January 2003, when he pleaded guilty to second-degree sodomy involving a male student at his home.
"Behind the Schoolhouse Doors" is a self-published book by former Middletown High School Principal Bernie Cohen. It went on sale on Amazon.com last week. According to Cohen, 60 copies of the book sold over the weekend.
"I wrote the book because there are too many Jekyll-and-Hyde pedophiles in trustworthy and honorable settings, like this superintendent and Coach Jerry Sandusky at Penn State," said Cohen, 70, of Nyack.
Cohen, whom some regard as the whistle-blower in this case, was initially suspended and then fired in 2005 for allegedly failing to properly report his concerns about Sigler, who carried on an 18-month relationship with the boy.
He sued the district for wrongful firing and the case was settled out of court. Cohen says he was made a scapegoat by district officials who failed to act after he notified them of his suspicions.
"I would be lying if I said there wasn't absolutely a catharsis in getting the truth out there," he said.
Cohen explained that he began working on the book about five years ago, after he and his lawyer paid a visit to Sigler in state prison to get a deposition from him for Cohen's own lawsuit against the district.
Did Sigler appear remorseful?
"No, not at all," said Cohen. "I say that in the book."
Sigler, 65, moved to Orlando, Fla., shortly after he served out his full five-year term at the Oneida Correctional Facility. He had just one comment when contacted by phone about Cohen's book.
"I'm surprised that anyone would find such a project worthwhile," Sigler said.
Meanwhile, the boy he sexually abused is now about 25. He couldn't be reached for comment, but his father said they had nothing to say right now.
Cohen works as a character actor under the name Bern Cohen and has acting credits in about 30 films, including the 2010 indie film "Holy Rollers" and "27 Dresses" with Katherine Heigl.
He said the book is written in a narrative, non-fiction style made famous by Truman Capote. To protect the victim and teachers, he changed all of the names, including the school district's.
"Local readers may remember real names," he said. "The rest of the country will learn a lesson from this book, and the characters' and location names don't matter."


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More than 40 charitable groups, many formed following the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, have collected nearly $20.4 million since the Dec. 14 shooting, with about 15 percent of the money being distributed, the attorney general's office said Tuesday.
In an effort to get a handle on how much money had been collected, the attorney general's office and state Department of Consumer Protection sent a survey to more than 70 charities identified as raising money following the slaying of 20 first-graders and six women. Officials wanted to know how much money they raised, what they planned to use it for and whether any of it was going to the victims' families.
The responses showed that about $3 million has been distributed to a wide variety of causes.
Newtown Youth and Family Services has used some of the $1 million in donations to hire four employees to handle the crush of residents seeking counseling.
Donors.Org donated $250 gift cards to 453 Newtown teachers to be used to purchase materials for a project in their classrooms.
The Healing Newtown Arts Fund is using its $18,800 to create an art center to display some of the drawings sent to Newtown by children from throughout the world.
Pack 170, the local Boy Scout troop, indicated that it has raised $62,000 that it plans to split among the five families whose slain children were affiliated with the group. It has given $10,000 to the Benjamin Wheeler Foundation, named after one of the first-graders killed.
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The Sandy Hook Parent Teacher Association has received nearly $800,000 in donations but spent only about $5,000 "to support our transition to the new school and to provide funds for events which bring together students, parents, and teachers and staff of SHS." Students from Sandy Hook Elementary moved to a school in Monroe.
When it submitted its response, the Newtown-Sandy Hook Community Foundation Inc., which controls the largest fund, had not committed any of its $11 million.
But last week, under growing criticism that it was moving too slowly, the foundation announced that it would release $4 million to 40 victims and families, including the 26 dead, 12 families whose children survived in the two first-grade classrooms attacked by shooter Adam Lanza and two shooting victims who survived. The foundation, which took over the fund from the United Way, did not announce how that money would be divided.
Some of the 26 victims' families met last week with attorney Kenneth Feinberg, who has advised organizers of funds following several mass murders, most recently in Aurora, Colo., the scene of the movie theater shooting in which 12 people were killed and 58 wounded.
Officials associated with the foundation have been adamant that the fund was not established as a victims' compensation fund but designed for use by the whole community. In its filing with the attorney general's office, the foundation makes it even clearer that it considers this a long-term fund.
The foundation indicated that it expects the funds to "be spent down over the next 15-20 years."
All of the surveys are being posted on the attorney general's website. At least 20 agencies did not respond. Attorney General George Jepsen said Tuesday that his office would be following up with those groups.
"This request was an initial step to provide information to the public, Newtown community and other charitable organizations trying to meet the needs of those affected by this tragedy," Jepsen said.
The Courant reported last month that more than $15 million had been collected by a wide-ranging group from national organizations to housewives in Missouri who sold bracelets. Only about 30 of them had registered with the consumer protection department, as required by law.
"Our offices may reach out in the future to all the charities to determine how the donations were expended and the steps taken to prevent fraud or misuse of funds," Consumer Protection Commissioner William Rubenstein said. "We see this as a good first step toward providing transparency to the activities of the various funds, and guiding future donors who may wish to make a contribution."


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When shooting The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, I always felt an awareness of how many people this film would reach and as a result, knew that this film did not just belong to myself, the producers and the studio, but more so, to all of you, the fans of The Twilight Saga.
At the end of the day, after all the hard work is done, all that's left is the film itself, and your overwhelmingly positive and supportive responses have made me feel like we must have done something right. As a filmmaker, this is a rare and strange feeling of connection with an audience of which I will never forget and I thank you all for it.


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The President of the United States is... a murderer! Yes, Fitzgerald Grant took a life. Even if that life was going to be cut short soon anyway, it's still murder!
Thursday's episode of Scandal — which would've served as a season finale had ABC not picked up the political fixer drama for a full season — revealed who really put the hit out on Fitz (Tony Goldwyn): It was Verna (Debra Mooney)! Shocker! She revealed the betrayal to the President on her deathbed, filling him in on the why: The Illuminati — Olivia (Kerry Washington), Cyrus (Jeff Perry), Mellie (Bellamy Young), Hollis (Gregg Henry) and Verna — had rigged the election that won him the White House. But she planned on also revealing the news to David Rosen (Joshua Malina), who would finally have the hard evidence he needed to blow this scandal wide open. Faced with the possibility of having his legacy tarnished, Fitz decided to eliminate the problem and kill Verna instead. Gasp!
Scandal Burning Questions: Will Fitz get a divorce? Will OPA find out about the election?
But our hearts really broke when Fitz, who earlier in the episode asked Olivia to wait for him, went back on his word. This led Olivia to deduce that the POTUS had uncovered the truth. Sad face!
So what's next for Olivia & Co.? TVGuide.com caught up with executive producer Shonda Rhimes to get the dish on how Fitz will deal with the Illuminati, Scott Foley's juicy new role and (wait for it!) a new, more kickass Quinn (Katie Lowes)! Check it out:
Are the remaining members of the Illuminati now off the hook for being formally charged with election rigging?
Shonda Rhimes: David has painted himself into a corner and gotten himself into a hole that he can probably never get out of. He's probably no longer the threat that he was. For now, things are peaceful. We're coming into the next episode not suggesting that everything is fine, but when you come back 10 months later, you see where things have gotten.
How is Fitz a different president now knowing this and having murdered Verna?
Rhimes: The betrayal he experienced was really damaging, more so from Olivia than anybody else. Mainly because Olivia, the one person who believed in him, voting to rig the election, basically said, "Everything your father ever said about you is true," in psychobabble terms. For him, it's a really damaging moment. He's a different kind of president. I think, in a weird way, he might be a better president because he has just a different attitude towards everything. He's definitely doing a lot of this on his own, which I think is interesting. Who he feels like he can lean on and who he can trust comes into play when we come back in this next episode. You really see them all dealing with: Is Fitz confident now?
Fitz is staying with Mellie?! Why does she get a pass? Is it because he expects something like this from her?
Rhimes: I think there are two things. One, you know that Mellie is a monster in his mind ... so it doesn't hurt when Mellie does something like this because that's who Mellie is. He thought Liv was somebody else and something else. He thought it wasn't about him being president, that it was about her caring about him. It wasn't about ambition and the search for power. It was about their relationship. Two, I also think that in the guilt that comes from having killed Verna, [he feels that] Mellie [is] all he deserves. That's what that was about. When he says, "No matter who I am and what I've done," Mellie can't judge because she's just as bad in a lot of ways.
Scandal Postmortem: Shonda Rhimes answers burning questions!
How is Olivia dealing with her role in this betrayal 10 months down the road?
Rhimes: What I love about Olivia Pope is that she's still Olivia Pope and she's found her ways to cope with this and deal with it. We come back 10 months later and the wounds are that much deeper — they're 10 months deeper, not 10 months healed, for all of them. But everybody is coping. Olivia is not a curl-up-in-the-corner-and-cry kind of person. She's doing what needs to be done. She actually has a scene where she talks about how she's coping. And she is, very well. That relationship is never going to go away.
What was the decision behind the 10-month jump?
Rhimes: Ten months feel like just the right amount of time for Olivia and Fitz not to be catatonic. It just felt right emotionally, and a political season could've gone by and people have gotten their act together. You come back in the middle of things and discover where people are emotionally and what's happened to them. You discover what's happened to David since you left him.
What can you tell us about the charge to the finale in the second half of the season?
Rhimes: It's an off-shoot of, and part of the consequences of, Defiance, in a way. That's how it begins, anyway. It's something that grows larger and is more twisted than you'd expect. We introduce Scott Foley's character, [Jake Weston], in the first episode back. He's got a pretty great entrance, and he turns out to be a really interesting character from the moment we meet him to the moment we leave him at the end of the episode. He's a very complex and interesting character who's going to shake things up for us a little bit.
Any truth to the rumor that he may be a love interest for Olivia?
Rhimes: That's an interesting rumor. It's possible. I don't know that Olivia is emotionally ready to have a love interest at this point.
Speaking of her love life, is Edison (Norm Lewis) gone for good?
Rhimes: I never say anybody is gone for good on this show because you never know. Will we be seeing him any time in the foreseeable future? Not for a little while.
Scandal Postmortem: What's next for Fitz? Tony Goldwyn speaks!
Since you say the second half of the season is a consequence of the first half, could we see the return of Governor Reston (Tom Amandes), whom Fitz stole the presidency from?
Rhimes: I don't think the second half is a consequence in a way that you think, but it's possible that we could see Governor Reston. It's interesting because Reston is a murderer himself, so it's not like he's the most delightful guy in the world who should've been president. We like Governor Reston and he was a great foil, so it's possible we might see him.
Turning to Cyrus, he almost had his own husband (Dan Bucatinsky) killed and he had Amanda Tanner (Liza Weil) killed. When does he start paying for these sins?
Rhimes: I don't know that he does. We're not telling a moral story here where at the end, people get their just deserts. Not yet anyway and not for a very long time. A lot of the time, Cyrus is one of our protagonists. You're rooting for Cyrus. Sometimes Cyrus is our villain, but sometimes he's not, so I don't necessarily know that Cyrus pays for anything.
Will he have to be accountable to Fitz for the election rigging?
Rhimes: I think they're all paying for that, including Fitz. Part of what Thursday's episode was about was that nobody is all good and nobody is all bad. Everybody in this world is light and dark. So they're all paying for it in their own way.
Scandal: Our 3 craziest theories why Huck was set up
Quinn made the choice to stay with the Gladiators, but will she finally get some closure?
Rhimes: When we come back, Quinn has taken a really interesting journey. Huck [Guillermo Diaz] has really taken her under his wing and is training her to do what he does right now. So you come back to a fairly different Quinn. She's a lot darker than she was and she's much more his right hand. We've had a lot of fun with these episodes watching the evolution of Quinn as she works with Huck. It's been really nice to see. She's not as naïve as she was, her innocence is gone and she's let it go.
Were you surprised that Fitz killed Verna? Are you sad about Fitz and Olivia not being together again? Hit the comments!
Stay tuned for more Scandal scoop in our weekly Mega Buzz column!
Scandal airs Thursdays at 10/9c on ABC.


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A barefoot, shirtless man who climbed down from an overpass on to a freeway sign and appeared ready to jump onto the 110 Freeway below brought traffic to a halt for about two hours in downtown Los Angeles.
The California Highway Patrol says reports came in shortly after 2 p.m. Monday saying the man climbed on to the sign from the 7th Street Bridge over the southbound side of the freeway, where all but one lane was shut down.
The CHP and LA police told the Los Angeles Times ( https://lat.ms/XLLXib ) the man did not jump and was taken into police custody at about 4 p.m., and freeway lanes were gradually reopened.
The man's name and reasons for climbing on to the sign have not been released.
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Remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, delivered at the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors' Meeting
Washington, 10 April 2014
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Mr. Chair, Ministers and Governors:
You made an impressive commitment in Sydney to lift its GDP by more than 2% above the baseline over the coming 5 years - this would amount, according to our simulations, to 18 million additional jobs.
But where would this additional growth come from? The answer is a two-pronged reform strategy aimed at fostering productivity growth and labour force participation at the same time. I would like to highlight in particular one area where you have great opportunities to achieve higher productivity growth, raise investment and foster job creation: this is competition.
We all need to foster competition in our economies. A lack of competition in many markets keeps prices high and output low. Too many firms are sheltered from the incentives to innovate and adopt management best practices. Competition is hampered in some countries by an outdated regulatory framework and rules which do not foster innovation and keep new firms out of the market. Weak enforcement of competition law adds to the problem. Also our education and apprenticeships systems need to look more at creativity and "innovative spirit"
This really matters! A large part in our IMF/OECD/World Bank analysis to identify gains from stronger G20 action come from higher productivity through stronger competition and more innovation. OECD estimates suggest that a 10% reduction in the level product market regulations can boost GDP by 1 to 1.5%. This corresponds to the size of reforms made by countries that have undertaken significant reforms over the past decade. And this is a challenge and an opportunity for advanced and emerging economies alike.
In particular, we need more competition in services to make them more efficient - which in turn will help your countries compete and upgrade in global value chains. Services sectors such as transport, logistics, trade finance are key to a smooth functioning of global value chains, while domestic services are increasingly important components in exports of valued added. Yet, these sectors often lagged behind with respect to the modernisation of their regulatory framework and remain impervious to competition – it's time to catch up! On 7 May, at our ministerial council meeting which some of you will attend, we will release our Services Trade Restrictiveness Indices (STRI), covering 40 countries and 18 services sectors. They will enable your countries to benchmark their individual service sectors against less restrictive and more efficient performers. They will provide the core information for you to pursue desirable policy reforms, with specific commitments under the national growth strategies.
Of course, competition is only one instrument in your weaponry and must be associated with other relevant policies. I am thinking of raising labour force participation, in particular participation of women in the labour market - which is critical to sustain economic growth over the medium to long-term, including in the context of ageing.
To conclude: Meeting the G20 2% commitment will not be "an easy walk" - and the sketches of your growth strategies show that additional efforts are needed. But you have the levers in your hands. Your ambition will help to lift the world economy. The OECD stands ready to help on the way to the Summit!
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Convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby's bid for early release from Bali's notorious Kerobokan jail is on hold indefinitely as Indonesian authorities move to close a loophole that may have allowed her to return to Australia if granted parole.
The development is a massive blow to Corby, who is already eligible to apply for parole, after being granted a further sentence remission in August, which followed a five-year cut to her 20-year prison term in May.
Immigration laws introduced last year did not include visa provisions for foreign prisoners released on parole, creating a loophole which meant they would either be placed in immigration detention or deported.
It meant Corby may have been able to return to Australia on being granted parole.
But any hopes she had of tasting freedom before the end of the year have now been completely dashed with parole applications suspended as the regulations are reviewed.
It is likely to take months before the conflict between the new immigration laws and the parole regulations are sorted out.
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"In the new immigration law a foreign citizen who is undergoing legal process or serving sentences is not able to be given a visa," director for prison training and service Rahmat Prio Sutarjo told AAP.
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The review will pave the way for foreign prisoners who are granted parole to be provided with documentation from Indonesia's department of immigration that would be similar to a visa.
It means foreign prisoners granted parole, including Corby, would have to serve out the period of early release in Indonesia.
"With that permit, the prisoner can be released from jail (on parole) and work among the society. But the prisoner would still be banned from travelling aboard until sentence is complete," Mr Sutarjo said.
Corby's lawyer, Iskander Nawing, confirmed that the 35-year-old's parole application could not be submitted until the situation was resolved.
"We're still waiting for the immigration department to be at one with prison authority," he said.
"There's still contradiction between ministerial regulation on parole and new immigration law. I hope it would be revised immediately.
"Once it's revised, we will submit our parole request."
Corby was arrested in 2004 attempting to smuggle 4.1 kilograms of marijuana into Bali in a bodyboard bag.
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U.S. Cellular will begin offering presale orders for the Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphone starting March 21. Priced at $199 (after instant rebate), the handset will be sold in Charcoal Black and Shimmery White options. To help spur sales and interest along, the carrier is offering customers a free $50 Google Play promotional code for anyone who preorders the device. The Samsung Galaxy S5 is expected to hit retail stores on April 11 along with the Gear 2, Gear 2 Neo, and Gear Fit wearable devices.
Device will be available for purchase in stores on April 11
CHICAGO (March 20, 2014) – U.S. Cellular (NYSE: USM) and Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC (Samsung Mobile) have announced that the 4G LTE™ Samsung Galaxy S® 5 will be available for customers to preorder atuscellular.com/GS5 beginning tomorrow. The Galaxy S 5 will be offered in Charcoal Black and Shimmery White and will be $199.99 after an instant rebate is applied. In addition, U.S. Cellular is offering a $50 Google Play promotional code for free to anyone who pre-orders the device online. It will be available in stores for purchase on April 11 along with the Samsung Gear™ 2, Samsung Gear 2 Neo and Samsung Gear Fit.
Customers who purchase the Galaxy S 5 from U.S. Cellular receive a valuable rewards program that recognizes customer loyalty and a network that covers them wherever they want to go. Currently 90 percent of U.S. Cellular customers are covered by a 4G LTE network, and the Galaxy S 5 is the latest 4G LTE smartphone to join the company's cutting-edge device line-up.
"The features on the Samsung Galaxy S 5 are designed to enrich customers' everyday lives, making it easier to get things done and stay connected with friends and family," said Joe Settimi, vice president of products, pricing and innovation for U.S. Cellular. "We will continue to focus on providing our customers the best-in-class network, devices and technology that gives them access to experiences that enrich their lives."
Residents of Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Milwaukee and Madison, Wis., can get an early look at the Galaxy S 5 and the Gear devices by visiting select U.S. Cellular stores in their area. These devices can be checked out in Iowa and Wisconsin exclusively at the following U.S. Cellular locations beginning on March 24th:
- 2315 Edgewood Rd., Cedar Rapids, Iowa
- 4444 1st Ave. NE, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
- 101 Junction Rd., Madison, Wis.
- 740 N. Water St., Milwaukee, Wis.
- 5670 N. Port Washington, Glendale, Wis.
The Galaxy S 5 has a 5.1-inch screen with a Full HD Super AMOLEDTM display and is powered by technology that enables intuitive new camera experiences, lightning fast data connections, and fitness and nutrition tracking. You can capture photos and memories in an instant, watch crisp HD videos on an adaptive display with wide viewing angles, and keep a close eye on your exercise progress and monitor your heartbeat with S HealthTM and the world's first built-in heart rate monitor †.
The second generation of Gear offers a refined look and customizable experience with a trio of options: Gear 2, Gear 2 Neo and Gear Fit. The Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo feature interchangeable straps, compatible with standard watch bands for a personalized look. Both feature a 1.63-inch Super AMOLED display with new shortcuts and additional app support for easier navigation. The Gear Fit has an athletic design with a 1.84-inch curved Super AMOLED display and interchangeable band, The Gear Fit tracks your steps, monitors your heart rate on the go, and provides notifications of incoming calls, texts and emails.
U.S. Cellular has the highest call quality and network satisfaction of any national carrier, and in partnership with King Street Wireless, offers 4G LTE service to nearly 90 percent of its customers.
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The table of contents to the left organizes the curriculum. Click on each section and the contents of that section will roll out below it. Click on any item in the table of contents and it will open the material. Work through the lesson and then take the quizzes and exercises at the end of each section and in the 'building proficiency' sections. Summary of the contents are provided for you below
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This is a collection of MaxForLive devices, that can be used with MaxForLive / Live9 Suite. I plan to add more devices here once they are finished. There is a dedicated page for the Granulator Instrument here.MaxForLive is a flavor of the Max programing language that only works in conjunction with Ableton Live and allows users to create their own devices and to share those. More info about MaxForLive can be found on the websites of Ableton and Cycling74. All devices here are published under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC 3.0 licence.
A collection of older Max For Live devices for Live 8 can be found here: Monolake M4L Devices for Live8I update those devices when ever I come up with a new interesting feature or find a bug. Version dates are shown in the info/about text of each device.
MicroDrum is a rough emulation of an 1980's 8bit drum sample cell.Current version: 1.7 - March 2016
Note Modulator is a step sequencer like device that modifies pitch, velocity and duration of incoming MIDI notes. It either advances from step to step via song tempo, or with each incoming MIDI Note. It is possible to reset it in regular intervals or via an incoming MIDI note of pitch 0.download version February 18 2013
Classic formant filtering with time smearing, choice between several formant tables and global transpose.download version February 17 2013
Provides 8 automateable knobs that can send MIDI CC messages. Makes it possible to edit CCs in Arranger. Live 9 does not support this natively. Text fields can be used for own notes. If device is turned off, no CCs are sent out.download version February 17 2013
A simple device for monitoring incoming MIDI data. This displays all data, Live can handle. Currently Live does not support SYSEX, MIDI channel info, polyphonic after touch / pressure and MIDI clock messages as part of a effect chain. ( MIDI Clock is recognized and can be sent by the application itself of course )download version February 11 2013
This device allows to use PGM change messages sent at the beginning of a MIDI clip to select a new chain in an Instrument Rack. Basically it provides a way to switch instruments in a track automatically.download version February 11 2013
Feel free to open the devices and modify them in any way you want. I tried to document their code as good as possible. My idea is to not only share a finished object but also provide inspiration for own creations. This is what the Max community is all about and I very much like this spirit. If you are interested in Max, the Max forums hosted by Cycling74 are a good source of information, too. I will most likely not be able to answer questions about the devices by myself or provide help with programing issues. Comments and bug reports are welcome nevertheless. All devices here are published under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC 3.0 licence.
Enjoy! Robert Henke


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The prayer rope is commonly made out of wool, symbolizing the flock of Christ; though in modern times other materials are used also. The traditional color of the rope is black (symbolizing mourning for one's sins) with either black or colored beads. The beads (if they are colored) and at least a portion of the tassel are traditionally red, symbolizing the blood of Christ and the blood of the martyrs. In recent times, however, prayer ropes have been made in a wide variety of colors.
When praying, the user normally holds the prayer rope in the left hand, leaving the right hand free to make the Sign of the Cross. When not in use, the prayer rope is traditionally wrapped around the left wrist so that it continues to remind one to pray without ceasing. If this is impractical, it may be placed in the (left) pocket, but should not be hung around the neck or suspended from the belt. The reason for this is humility: one should not be ostentatious or conspicuous in displaying the prayer rope for others to see.
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Rumors are rife in Paris that John Galliano will be able to have a fashion show this season — but it won't be in any old underground bunker. Sao Schlumberger, Galliano's fashion godmother, is said to be ready to lend the poor designer her apartment overlooking the Eiffel Tower. The only danger: The crowd might be more interested in Gabhan O'Keeffe's over-the-top decor than in Galliano's over-the-top clothes.
There's no trapping Calvin Klein. When members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals invaded Klein's headquarters last month, the designer said he was "always willing to participate in a free and open dialog on the subject." He did just that last Friday when he met with members of PETA.
"I can't tell you anything right now," said Dan Mathews, PETA's director of international campaigns. "But I think it was a very good meeting."
Klein, who quit working with fur in December when his license with Alixandre Furs expired, had no comment.
She may be getting up pretty early, but chances are Marisa Tomei will still look good at 5:30 Wednesday morning. That's because she'll be dressed in Chanel when she announces the nominees for the Academy Awards with Arthur Hiller, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, in Los Angeles. Chanel will have a high profile again the next day when Lynda Guber, Carole Isenberg and Cynthia Sikes Yorkin host a lunch to benefit their group, Education First, in the Rooftop Salon at the Chanel Boutique on Rodeo Drive in L.A. Nancy Daly, Maria Shriver, Judy Ovitz and Barbara Davis are all expected.


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Many of us spend a significant amount of time preparing for birthdays, weddings, family reunions, and other celebrations like Christmas and Easter. In Preparing for the Lord's Return, Don Salmans focuses our attention on Paul's advice to the Thessalonian believers regarding the Lord's return and how to prepare for it.
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Jamie Lee Curtis Comes With A Hefty Price For Charity To Dance On Dancing With The Stars
Wow, wouldn't it be cool if Dancing With The Stars could get Jamie Lee Curtis to dance? She wants a hefty price though which she'd give to charity. So, I doubt it will happen, do you? Also, check out her advise for the show in the last paragraph from E News below. I'd be all for it, would you?
"Never in a million years," Curtis told us at Global Green's 15th Annual Millennium Awards in Santa Monica. "I'll tell you how I would do Dancing With the Stars. If they gave me a million dollars to give to charity…I would only do it if there was a big charity component. "
But is she even a good dancer?
"Not like Jennifer Grey, I'm not," laughed Curtis, who has admitted to previously turning down an offer to be on the show.
While we won't be holding our breath for Curtis to make her Dancing debut anytime soon, she does have some interesting advice for the show's ABC execs.
"They've just done 12 seasons, I think they should now take all the twelve winners and do a season," she said. "They should do a Dancing All-Stars where they bring back everyone who won and make sure that they are not paired with any of the same people they were paired with originally."
Heidi's Note: Heh….since the show has been on 12 seasons and has been won only by Derek (3), Mark (2), Julianne (2), Cheryl (2), Kym (2) and Alec (1) there isn't much choice for most of them to dance with someone they haven't danced with before. 🙂 But other than that, there are a TON of reasons why it would be very hard, not the least of which is height, gender and personality. Other than that – great idea!! I like me and Derek's idea better – a season with all dancers who have experience similar to Nicole, Mya, Sabrina, Mel B, etc.


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Several months ago, I wrote an article asking what you would do when gas prices skyrocketed. Now, the price of gasoline is in freefall. It's already dipped below $2/gallon in some
Rising fuel costs are hard on everybody, but one group gets hit especially hard: Rural folks--especially rural folks who work in town. On my previous posts on expensive fuel,
Recession or not, I think the medium-term trend in energy costs is up. Just in case I'm right, you ought to have plan for that.
The image you're looking at is a classic VW ad from 1979, a response to the gas crisis at that time. I just filled up my tank, and 16 gallons of Plus Unleaded cost me over $52
CNN predicted a 22% increase in the cost
Having given us some good tips on dealing with the rising cost of bread, Myscha asked me to provide a bit of analysis on why bread has become so expensive. Oddly, the reasons behi
They key problem with energy is that it's really hard to store--it's tough to buy energy now and use it later, and most energy storage techniques lose a large fraction of the energ
In my recent post Plan for expensive fuel, I mentioned sustainable fuels in a somewhat dismissive fashion. [more]
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Proton Therapy For Prostate Cancer Criticized
Proton-beam therapy for prostate cancer provides no long-term benefit over traditional radiation despite far higher costs, according to a Yale analysis of 30,000 Medicare patients. WSJ's Melinda Beck reports. Photo: AP Images.
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The mission of the Matthews Veterans Advisory Committee (MVAC) is to promote a strong, healthy, and cooperative relationship between the Town of Matthews and service members, veterans and their families; to recognize the role played by veterans in the defense of this country; to promote equal and inclusive opportunities for veterans and their families in all aspects of society; and to identify and support all individuals and organizations that contribute to this mission.
The MVAC is composed of up to twenty members appointed by the Matthews Town Board of Commissioners. Members are not required to be active duty or veteran service members and are not required to be Matthews residents.
Meetings: Meetings of the MVAC are held on the first Wednesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. at the Town Hall, 232 Matthews Station Street. All meetings are open to the public and conform to the North Carolina Open Meetings Law.
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Any member, who shall fail to attend at least 75% of the regular and special meetings during any one-year period, may be removed. The Chairperson shall notify the Matthews Town Board of Commissioners of any member who shall so fail to attend. The vacancy can be filled, upon recommendation of the Committee liaison and Chairperson, by the Matthews Town Board of CommissionersEvents: Click here for a list of Military and Veterans events in the area. Interested in learning more?Please share your information so we can keep you updated on the news and events of the Military Veterans Advisory Committee. Please click on the link below to complete the form.


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National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day underway
Officials will collect unused, unwanted drugs for decompsing
The community of New Hampshire will take part in the sixth national prescription drug "Take-Back" Day Saturday.
Health and law enforcement partners want to remind the public that officials with the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England will be collecting potentially dangerous, expired, unused and unwanted prescription drugs for decomposing at multiple sites across the state.
The service is free and anonymous. Authorities will not ask any questions.
To find a nearby collecting site, just visit dea.gov and click on the "Got Drugs?" icon. Then, follow the links until a ZIP code database is provided.
Collection stations will be open and available to the public from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The New England Field Division collected 38,694 pounds of presciption medications in September 2012.
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