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Joe Biden demands international investigation into Chinese lab leak theory
Joe Biden has called for an international investigation to establish whether Covid-19 leaked from a Chinese laboratory as he tried to rally G7 leaders behind a "competition with autocracies".
But his remarks about a "lab leak" on Sunday were played down by other leaders and the G7 summit broke up without bridging major rifts over China.
The leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Britain and the United States called for the World Health Organisation to convene a "a timely, transparent, expert-led, and science-based" investigation into the origins of Covid-19, "including in China," in a joint statement issued after three days of talks on Sunday.
In comments that will infuriate Beijing, Mr Biden said neither he nor US intelligence had reached a conclusion about whether the virus had come from a laboratory but said he wanted to establish a "bottom line" for transparency as part of measures to prevent another pandemic.
"Transparency matters across the board. We haven't had access to laboratories to determine whether or not… this was a consequence of [the] market place and the interface with animals and the environment, or whether it was an experiment gone awry in a laboratory," Mr Biden said.
Boris Johnson said it was "unlikely" the coronavirus pandemic emerged from a lab, but added: "Clearly anyone sensible would want to keep an open mind on that."
Emmanuel Macron, the French president, said "there was no discussion among leaders on the origins of the virus" and dismissed the theory as a distraction from combating the disease.
Mr Macron said the G7 was not a club that was hostile to China, despite differences over human rights.
The disagreement reflected broader rifts over how far to go in confronting China over human rights and strategic competition.
Mr Biden arrived in Cornwall seeking strong language condemning China's human rights record and a more direct recognition of the global struggle for influence between the West and Beijing.
He explicitly framed an agreement to create a "build back better" green-infrastructure programme for developing countries as a competitor to China's Belt and Road Initiative and demanded condemnation of China's use of Uyghur muslims as forced labour in clothes factories.
But he faced significant pushback from European allies, especially Mr Macron, who did not want to portray the group as "hostile" to China.
The final communique called on China to "respect" human rights in Xinjiang and Hong Kong and separately condemned the use of forced labour in global supply chains, but made no reference to Uyghur prison labour.
It also underscored the "importance of peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait" rather than criticising China for aggressive behaviour.
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Mr Biden declared himself "satisfied" with the outcome of the talks.
"We're in a contest with autocrats and autocratic governments around the world as to whether or not democracies can compete with them in a rapidly changing 21st century," he said. "I have walked away from the meeting with all my colleagues and believe me, they are convinced that is correct," he added.
The UK, US, Canada and EU in March announced a raft of sanctions against Chinese officials for human rights violations in Xinjiang.
Rifts over China were already apparent long before the leaders arrived in Cornwall on Thursday.
Mr Johnson, who hosted the summit, initially proposed forging a semi-formal "D10" group of democracies with guest powers Australia, India, South African and South Korea in what critics called a thinly-veiled attempt to build an anti-China alliance.
The idea was dropped following objections from France, Germany and Japan.
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In spite of the disappointing times of discouragement and heartbreak, tears and troubles and all the things that Life throws at us from time to time, One of the main lessons that I have learned in this life is to Never Stop Dreaming Like God. It's our Dreams that keep us "Alive" and Active and full of Joy. Our Dreams and our Vision(s) is the fuel that keeps us focused, in step with time and season and headed towards our goals. In fact, Proverbs 29:18 teaches us that without a Dream or a Vision to follow, the people perish. The Hebrew word for perish means to throw off discipline. So without a dream or vision to keep us focused, in step with time and season and headed towards our goals, people have a tendency to walk aimlessly through life.
How many people do you know who just seem to simply blow with the wind or follow the wrong people, move in the wrong direction Or give up much too soon?
It's your Dream that fuels your purpose.
I certainly know that sometimes our Dream is Shattered, because as we know Life Happens. But I also know that when one Dream is shattered it's so that God can replace our dream with His Dream for our lives.
I want to encourage you today to take some time out of your busy schedule and go to the Dream Cemetery on the canvass of your imagination where healthy dreams are Sometimes abandoned and left to die and make a Prophetic Demand on your Dream to Live and Thrive. Speak to your Dream and then go and present that Dream to God for His inspection and approval. Finally, Trust and Believe in the Power of God. Your Dream is important to God.
Jeremiah 29:11 says " I know the plans (dreams and thoughts) I have for you. Thoughts and Dreams of Peace and not Evil to give you an expected End." So Dream on my friends. You are not too old or too young to have a Dream. And you are Never too old to Live it out!!!


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Saint April 17 : St. Kateri Tekakwitha : Patron of #Ecology and #Natives - #Mohawk (in Canada)
KATERI'S LIFE
Born: 1656, Ossernenon, Iroquois Confederacy (Modern Auriesville, New York)
Died: 17 April 1680 at Caughnawaga, Canada
Beatified: 22 June 1980 by Pope John Paul II
Major Shrine: St Francis Xavier Church, Kahnawake, Quebec, Canada
FEAST DAY is April 17 in Canada and July 14 in the USA
In 1656, Kateri Tekakwitha known as "Lily of the Mohawks" was born of an Algonquin mother and Mohawk father in Ossernenon in the Mohawk Valley, now known as Auriesville, New York. Kateri was four years old when the horrible European disease of smallpox devastated her village. Many perished along with Kateri's parents and younger brother. She survived the deadly disease but her eyesight was greatly affected and her face ravaged with smallpox scars.
Because of Kateri's near blindness, she held her hands in front of her to feel her way along and protect herself from injury. It was from this characteristic she was renamed Tekakwitha or "She moves things".
In 1667, 11 year old Kateri Tekakwitha meets the Jesuit Missionaries in her uncle's cabin. By this time the village had moved to the north side of the Mohawk River to Caughnawaga, now known as Fonda New York. As a young girl, she helped with the meals, collected berries from the woods, made baskets, did beadwork and strung the wampums. With the coming of the missionaries Kateri found comfort and understanding of her situation in Christianity and began her dialogue with Father James de Lamberville and expressed the ardent desire for Baptism in 1666, and was subsequently baptized in 1676 at the age of 20.
In 1677, Kateri Tekakwitha traveled from the Mohawk valley to the north eastern part of the Territory to the village of Kahnawake and the Mission of Saint Francis Xavier on the shore of the Saint Lawrence River. Father de Lamberville had given her a letter for the Superior of the Mission. The words of this letter were, " I ask you to please take charge of directing her; it is a treasure which we are giving you. Guard it well and make it bear fruit for the glory of God and the salvation of a soul which is certainly very dear to Him." A few months after her arrival, she received her First Holy Communion on Christmas Day at the age of 21.
In 1680 with her health failing, she became gravely ill and on April 17, 1680, 24 year old Kateri Tekakwitha died. Soon after her death and because of her faith in Christ, her scared face was restored to its former beauty and softness. She was buried in a wooden coffin next to the wooden cross where she prayed on the banks of the great river. The favors and miracles obtained through her intercession began immediately.
In 1717, the Mohawks of Kahnawake moved to their final and present day location where Kateri's remains were housed in a sacred chest of polished wood in the sacristy of the Mission.
On Saturday December 6, 1884 the Bishops and Archbishops of the United States of America of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore addressed the Sovereign Pontiff Leo XIII to institute the process for the beautification of Catherine Tekakwitha. Letters were submitted by various Indian tribes, petitioning the Introduction of the Cause of the Servant of God, Catherine Tekakwitha to the Sovereign Pontiff Leo XIII.
In 1931, after years of preparation the cause was instituted by the Most Reverend Bishop of Albany, Edmund Francis Gibbons and in June 1938, the Historical Section of the Congregation of Rites at Rome declared that the documents of the case of Tekakwitha were complete, genuine and trustworthy, that they established Tekakwitha's renown for holiness, and a solid basis for final judgement that her virtues were heroic.
On January 3rd 1943 his Holiness Pope Pius XII offered the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Then he solemnly proclaimed: It has been proved in this instance and for the purpose under consideration, that the theological virtues of Faith, Hope, Love of God and Neighbour, and the cardinal virtues, Prudence, Justice, Temperance, Fortitude and subordinate virtues of the Venerable Servant of God, Catherine Tekakwitha, were heroic. Pope Pius XII signed the DECREE in which Catherine Tekakwitha was "Venerable".
In 1980, Kateri Tekakwitha was beatified by Pope John Paul II and declared "BLESSED KATERI TEKAKWITHA".
In 2011, Pope Benedict XVI announced the canonization of Kateri Tekakwitha. He signed a decree approving a miracle attributed to Kateri for saving the life of a young boy, Jake Finkbonner who suffered from a flesh eating disease.The official date for her canonization ceremony was October 21, 2012 in Rome Italy. St Kateri Tekakwitha's Shrine is located at the St. Francis Xavier Mission in Kahnawake. Text from kateritekakwitha.net
Pope Francis Tenderly answers Boy who asks if his Atheist Daddy is in Heaven...Meeting with Children - FULL TEXT + Video
Meeting with the children
I. Leonardo:
Hi Pope Francis!
I wanted to know one thing: what is your favorite Gospel? And why?
Pope Francis:
Leonardo: Leonardo
Leonardo. Good Leonardo. The Gospel is full of beautiful, beautiful steps. But you asked me what is the favorite. I will answer as long as you return home, search the passage in the Gospel and read it. Promise?
Children: Yup!
Pope Francis:All?
A passage that I really like is that of the Gospel of Matthew, when Jesus meets that businessman, that traitor of the country that was called Matthew. He was right at the city gate, attached to the money, and he charged the taxes to tourists. Have you paid taxes to enter here?
Children: No!
Pope Francis :
No! But we see that there is no Matthew here, thank God! They do not charge you entry. Is fine. And that man was a traitor to the country because he paid taxes and gave it to the army that occupied Palestine at that time - it was the Roman army -; he gave it to the Romans. And this is a bad shame, is not it? What an ugly thing! A person attached to money is a bad person! But this more, because he had forgotten his belonging to his country; he sold his country every time he charged everyone. And Jesus passes - these people were despised by everyone - Jesus passes by, looks at him and says: "Get up, come". And this man could not believe it. A despised man, traitor, sinner ... And that man got up and followed Jesus.
And why do I like it? - the second question - because we see the strength that Jesus has to change a heart. This was the worst, yet Jesus managed to change it. Perhaps you will know people who say: "Ah, I will never be good, because I have so many things behind me, I will never be able to change ...". And Jesus is able to change the worst and make him an evangelist, an apostle and a saint. This is why I like this passage of the Gospel so much, because we see the power of Jesus to change our hearts, to make them good. Do not forget the promise: what was the promise?
Children: Read the Gospel.
But not all whole! Read that passage. You look for it. Matteo's name was Matteo, but his name was Levi at that time. Levi, Matteo. Look for it, read it at home and say: "Look at this, look at this ...". It's nice. Thanks Leonardo, thank you!
II. Carlotta:
Hi Pope Francis! When we receive baptism, we become children of God and people who are not baptized are not God's children?
Stay there. What's your name?
Carlotta:Carlotta.
Carlotta. Tell me Carlotta, giving back to you: what do you think? Are people who are not baptized, daughter of God or not a daughter of God? What does your heart tell you?
Carlotta:Yup.
Yes. Here, now explain. He responded well, he has a Christian flair, this! We are all children of God. Everyone, everyone. Even the unbaptized? Yes. Even those who believe in other religions, far away, who have idols? Yes, they are children of God. Are the mafia too God's children? ... You are not sure ... Yes, even the mafiosi are children of God. They prefer to behave like children of the devil, but they are children of God. All, all are children of God, everyone. But what is the difference? God created everyone, loved everyone and put conscience in the heart to recognize good and distinguish it from evil. All men have this. They know, they perceive what is good and what is healthy; even people who do not know Jesus, who do not know Christianity, all have this in the soul, because this has sown God. But when you were baptized, in that conscience the Holy Spirit entered and strengthened your belonging to God and in that sense you have become more daughter of God, because you are daughter of God like everyone, but also with the power of the Holy Spirit that has entered inside. Did you understand, Carlotta? I ask - everyone answers -: all men are children of God?
Pope Francis:Good people, are daughters of God?
Children:Yup!
Pope Francis:Bad people, are daughters of God?
Yes. Do people who do not know Jesus and have other distant religions, have idols, are daughters of God?
The mafia, are they children of God?
And we must pray for them to come back and truly recognize God! No one answers now, but responds to the heart: who of you prays for the mafia, why do they convert? Everyone answers in his heart. Then, when we are baptized, who enters our heart? ... Stronger!
The Holy Spirit!
Good boy! You're good! What's your name?
Lorenzo:
Lorenzo.
Bravo Lorenzo! The Holy Spirit enters, and this Holy Spirit makes us more sons of God, gives us more strength to behave like children of God. That is why St. Paul has a sentence, and I
I would like you to say it like me. He says: "Do not grieve the Holy Spirit within you". Why do you say that phrase? Because a Christian, a baptized person who behaves badly, saddens the Holy Spirit who is in us. The phrase is this: "Do not grieve the Holy Spirit within you". "Do not grieve the Holy Spirit within you". We say it?
Pope Francis with the children: Do not sadden the Holy Spirit within you.
Pope Francis: Another time! Pope Francis with the children: Do not sadden the Holy Spirit within you. Pope Francis: And we, children of God, that through Baptism we have the Holy Spirit inside, when we behave badly, when we sin, we grieve the Holy Spirit who is in us. Thanks Carlotta! III. Edoardo: Dear Pope Francis, how did you feel when they elected you Pope?
Pope Francis: What's your name?
Edoardo: Edoardo.
Pope Francis: Edoardo, good. I only heard that God wanted that, I got up and went ahead. I have not heard anything spectacular, but perhaps, this answer seems a little boring, but I have not felt fear, I have not felt a special joy. I heard that the Lord wanted that, and move on, Edoardo. The Lord often calls. I greeted one of you who is in vocational search because he feels that the Lord tells him something inside. But when the Lord calls and tells you: "Now you go that way", it gives you peace. This is what one feels when there is a true call of the Lord: peace. I felt peace. Thanks, Edoardo.
IV. Emanuele: I can not do it! ...
Pope Francis: Come, come to me Emanuele! Come to me and tell me in your ear. Tell it to your ear. Come, come, come to me. [Emanuele goes to Pope Francis and asks his question in his ear]
Pope Francis: Maybe all of us could cry like Emanuele when we have a pain as he has in his heart. He cried for his father and had the courage to do it in front of us, because in his heart there is love for his father. I asked Emanuele permission to say the question in public and he said yes. This is why I will say to you: "A short time ago my father died. He was an atheist, but he had all four children baptized. He was a good man. Is he in Heaven, my Daddy? "How nice that a son says of his dad:" He was good ". Beautiful testimony of that man who gave his children, because his children will be able to say: "He was a good man". It is a beautiful testimony of the son who inherited the strength of his father and, also, had the courage to cry in front of us all. If that man was able to make children like that, it's true, he was a good man. He was a good man. That man did not have the gift of faith, he was not a believer, but he had his children baptized. He had a good heart. And he has the doubt that his father, not to have been a believer, is not in Heaven. Who says who goes to Heaven is God. But how is the heart of God in front of a Father like that? As is? How does it look to you? ... A heart of daddy! God has a father's heart. And before a non-believer father, who was able to baptize his children and give them that skill to their children, do you think that God would be able to leave him far away? Do you think this? ... Strong, bravely ...
All: No!
Pope Francis: God abandons his children?
Pope Francis: God abandons his children when they are good?
Pope Francis: Here, Emanuele, this is the answer. God surely was proud of your father, because it is easier to be a believer, to baptize children, to baptize them as unbelievers. Surely this God loved it so much. Talk to your dad, pray your dad. Thanks Emanuele for your courage. We talked about dad and our dad is God. We all pray to our father, God. "Our Father ...". And now I will give you the blessing. Each of you think of those people he loves, those people he cares about, those people who love him, and even those we do not love or who are a bit 'enemies. We also pray for them, because the Lord also blesses them. May he bless us all and enlighten the heart.
Pope Francis "When the prophet speaks the truth and touches the heart, ...anger and persecutions are unleashed"
Pope at Mass: The Church needs prophets
VATICAN NEWS RELEASE: Pope Francis's homily on Tuesday morning focused on the liturgical reading that narrates the stoning of St. Stephen, the Church's first martyr. By Linda Bordoni Speaking during his homily at Mass in the Casa Santa Marta, Pope Francis said a true prophet is he who is capable of weeping for his people who do not heed him.
He reflected on the liturgical reading of the day in which Stephen accused the people, the elders and the scribes of being stiff-necked people who always oppose the Holy Spirit, and just like their ancestors did, they persecute the prophets.
Francis said that those people did not have open hearts, they did not want to listen to Stephen and they did not remember the history of Israel. Persecuted for speaking the truth
Just like their ancestors persecuted the prophets – the Pope said – those elders and scribes who were so infuriated rushed upon Stephen, threw him out of the city and began to stone him.
"When the prophet speaks the truth and touches the heart, or the heart opens or becomes stone, anger and persecutions are unleashed" he said "that's how life ends for the prophet".
A true prophet weeps for his people
"Sometimes truth is not easy to listen to" Francis pointed out noting that "prophets have always had to deal with being persecuted for speaking the truth.
A true prophet, he added, is he who not only speaks the truth, but is capable of weeping for his people who turn away from the truth.
And he recalled Jesus who, on the one hand reprimanded his people severely calling them an "evil and adulterous generation" and on the other, weeping for Jerusalem.
"A true prophet is he who is capable of weeping for his people but at the same time of saying strong things in a direct way" he said.
Giving hope
And developing his theme further, Pope Francis described a true prophet as someone who is also capable of giving hope: "Opening the doors of hearts, healing roots, reinforcing the sense of belonging to the people of God in order to go forward.
"A prophet knows when to scold but knows also how to throw open the doors to hope. A true prophet puts himself on the line" he said.
The Church needs prophets
Recalling Stephen who is put to death under Saul's eyes in order to be coherent with the truth, the Pope quoted from one of the first Fathers of the Church saying: "the blood of martyrs is the seed of Christians".
"The Church needs prophets. What's more: it needs each of us to be prophets, not critics… this is something else" he said.
He who just criticizes and is never happy with anything is not a prophet, Francis explained, a prophet is he who prays, looks to God, looks at his people and when the people err, he weeps.
"May this service of prophecy never be lacking in the Church, Francis concluded, in order to be able to always go forward".
Text Source: Vatican News
Posted by Jesus Caritas Est at 11:13 AM
#BreakingNews Christian Church Burned down by Attackers in Pakistan - Please PRAY
Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - A church in the city of Shahdara, near Lahore, was burned by unknown persons. As ascertained by the investigators, the arson broke out Sunday, April 15 because in the liturgical hall a sort of "artisan molotov bomb", made of fabrics impregnated with fuel was launched, which caught fire and in a few minutes burned all the inside of the building. The police registered a complaint against unknown persons. Mohammad Waryam, inspector of the police station of Shahdara, speaking to Agenzia Fides, said: "We have begun the investigation, but there are no eyewitnesses". The church, in the process of being completed but already accessible and regularly used for worship, belongs to the evangelical Christian community known as "The Gospel of Jesus Mission". The Church is open on Sundays for morning mass, in the afternoon for catechism and in the evening for youth meeting. The attack took place half an hour before catechism. The area is bounded by a wall and it is not easy to enter. The Christian community has lived in the city for almost four years, serving some 300 Christian families. The Pastor of the community Yousuf Aziz speaking to Fides notes: "We have not received any threats and we are not in conflict with anyone, this criminal act is shocking for all of us, everything was burnt: mats, rugs, chairs, furnishings, crosses, sacred books like the Bible, hymn books, catechism books". The Pastor continues: "The members of the community are in tears in seeing their Church like this, we pray for the guilty and leave everything in God's hands. God will protect his people".
In an interview with Fides, Archbishop Joseph Coutts of Karachi "condemns this criminal act" and, also recalling the recent aggression against the Christians of Quetta (see Fides 16/4/2018), says he is "worried about the protection of Christians in Pakistan". The National Commission and "Justice and Peace", within the Catholic Bishops' conference, has organized today, April 17, a protest demonstration across the country to express solidarity with the Christians of Quetta and Lahore: Fr. Bonnie Mendes, priest of Faisalabad, comments to Fides: "We note that attacks against religious minorities are increasing. The government must take serious measures and not underestimate the phenomenon".
The burned church is in the same place where the young Christian Patras Masih his cousin Sajid Masih were arrested in March 2018, for a case of alleged blasphemy (see Fides 3/3/2018). (AG) (Agenzia Fides, 17/4/2018) FULL TEXT Release: from Agenzia Fides
PLEASE PRAY for CHRISTIANS in PAKISTAN who are PERSECUTED
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#BreakingNews China Bans Church for Children and Religious Education - Please PRAY
Henan, church banned for children under 18:
Edited from an Asia News Report by Wang Zhicheng
Asia News reports that a circular notice issued also banned religious education for minors. Priests who do not follow it will be dismissed. So far the ban is applied in Henan and Xinjiang, but it is feared it will be applied nationwide. Amazement at the guarantors of the ban: Two priests.
Beijing (AsiaNews) - In Henan, a circular notice dated April 8prohibits all young people under 18 years of age from entering church to attend mass. It also forbids priests to organize any activities - conferences, summer or winter camps, etc ... - with young people. Below we publish the complete text of the circular note (and the photo of the document, with the official stamps), signed by the Henan Patriotic Association (PA) and the Henan Commission for Church Affairs.
The directive - justified as an application of the new religious regulations - is to be rolled out across both official and non-official communities. A priest from Anyang says that every Sunday PA agents stand at the entry to his church sending children who want to attend the mass away and that they have also posted a sign carrying the ban.
The circular note has been issued in every city, village, school. According to AsiaNews sources, the directive is in place not only in Henan, but also in Xinjiang. Catholics fear that it will be applied sooner or later throughout the country, dragging the situation back to the times of the Cultural Revolution. "In this way - a girl tells AsiaNews - they are taking the legs from under the growth of the Christian community, because they are snatching young people from religious education".
In recent days, various criticisms of the circular have appeared on the Chinese social networks from faithful to the official and non-official Church. Some note with shame that the president of Henan PA is a priest, Fr. Wang Yuezheng of Zhengzhou and that the secretary of the Henan Commission for Church Affairs is another priest, Fr. Li Jianlin. They wonder if the two priests are conniving and agree with this ban, or if they are only impotent victims of the excessive power of the Party.
It must be said that this year, Fr. Wang is a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a national body that should act as a "councilor" of the Chinese Communist Party.
In an attempt to continue the education of young people, several priests are trying to put into practice ways to circumvent the ban: even the priests of the official Church are forced to act and propose unofficial gatherings!
TEXT Source: AsiaNews IT
Here is the text of the circular notice:
The two official Church organs in the Henan Province - the Henan Catholic Patriotic Association, and the Henan Commission for Church Affairs - jointly issued a circular on April 8, 2018. This circular, with great severity, requires the affiliates of these two bodies at every level to implement the new regulations on religious activities, adhering to the principle of "separating religion from education", and in particular prohibits "religious associations to organize activities of any form to disseminate religious education for minors ".
Below are the detailed rules shown in this circular:
Throughout the Province, it is forbidden to organize activities of any form such as school, class, summer camp or winter camp, etc. for minors for religious education or formation;
The faithful are invited to go to church to leave their children in custody of others so as not to take the children with them to church;
Although in the past it was mainly used to inform and educate the people on the aforementioned issues, now it is "red line" and "high pressure line", and should not be overlooked;
In the event that these rules are not followed, those responsible for religious sites will be held responsible, under penalty of cancellation of the qualification and registration as employees of religious activities, as well as the closure of such religious sites;
The present circular and its contents must be disseminated in due course to every church and religious site.
Henan Catholic Patriotic Association
Henan Commission for Church Affairs
Today's Mass Readings and Video : Tuesday April 17, 2018 - #Eucharist
Tuesday of the Third Week of Easter
Lectionary: 274
Reading 1ACTS 7:51—8:1A
Stephen said to the people, the elders, and the scribes:
"You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears,
you always oppose the Holy Spirit;
you are just like your ancestors.
Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute?
They put to death those who foretold the coming of the righteous one,
whose betrayers and murderers you have now become.
You received the law as transmitted by angels,
but you did not observe it."
When they heard this, they were infuriated,
and they ground their teeth at him.
But Stephen, filled with the Holy Spirit,
looked up intently to heaven and saw the glory of God
and Jesus standing at the right hand of God,
and Stephen said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened
and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God."
But they cried out in a loud voice,
covered their ears, and rushed upon him together.
They threw him out of the city, and began to stone him.
The witnesses laid down their cloaks
at the feet of a young man named Saul.
As they were stoning Stephen, he called out,
"Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."
Then he fell to his knees and cried out in a loud voice,
"Lord, do not hold this sin against them";
and when he said this, he fell asleep.
Now Saul was consenting to his execution.
Responsorial PsalmPS 31:3CD-4, 6 AND 7B AND 8A, 17 AND 21AB
R. (6a) Into your hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit.
R. Alleluia.
Be my rock of refuge,
a stronghold to give me safety.
You are my rock and my fortress;
for your name's sake you will lead and guide me.
R. Into your hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit.
Into your hands I commend my spirit;
you will redeem me, O LORD, O faithful God.
My trust is in the LORD;
I will rejoice and be glad of your mercy.
Let your face shine upon your servant;
save me in your kindness.
You hide them in the shelter of your presence
from the plottings of men.
AlleluiaJN 6:35AB
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
I am the bread of life, says the Lord;
whoever comes to me will never hunger.
GospelJN 6:30-35
The crowd said to Jesus:
"What sign can you do, that we may see and believe in you?
Our ancestors ate manna in the desert, as it is written:
He gave them bread from heaven to eat."
So Jesus said to them,
"Amen, amen, I say to you,
it was not Moses who gave the bread from heaven;
my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.
For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven
and gives life to the world."
So they said to Jesus,
"Sir, give us this bread always."
Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life;
whoever comes to me will never hunger,
and whoever believes in me will never thirst."
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"KPG Real Estates Pvt. Ltd., the name of this Company is derived from the initials of the last names of the three Founding Members & Directors of the Company, viz. Mr. Rajendra P. Khorania, Mr. M.S. Poulose and Mr. C.P. Gulati. All the three Directors had been in the real estate business individually, before they came together as KPG Real Estates Pvt. Ltd. "


Jody was consulted for her expertise in the July 28, 2013 issue ofSmart Moves a national column written by Ellen James Martin who provides practical real estate and housing information for consumers.
Jody was interviewed for an article about home staging for Bethesda MagazineMay/June 2014 Issue.
American Craft Council Show at the Baltimore Convention Center - February 2014. See the video here.


Debunking Christianity: Washington Post Story: "5 Churchy Phrases That are Scaring Off Millennials"
Washington Post Story: "5 Churchy Phrases That are Scaring Off Millennials"
The first line? "The statistics are in. The millennials are leaving the church, and nobody seems quite sure what to do about it." ;-) The five churchy phrases? 1) "The Bible clearly says…" 2) "God will never give you more than you can handle." 3) "Love on" (e.g. "As youth group leaders, we're just here to love on those kids"). 4) Black and white quantifiers of faith, such as "Believer, Unbeliever, Backsliding." 5) "God is in control...has a plan...works in mysterious ways." Take a look.


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Two weeks ago, Mongolian grunge band Nisvanis held their 16th Anniversary concert. They invited ten bands to perform at the showcase, ranging from metal to rock to indie to folk rock.
I recorded four of the bands at the show: Nisvanis, Mohanik, North Ducks, and Altan Urag.
Nisvanis:
Although they usually play plugged in and amped up, Nisvanis opened the show with an acoustic set. It was nice to hear some of the tunes I've heard before in a different way. It actually helped me appreciate the band more as musicians and songwriters.
Altan Urag:
Altan Urag is a staple of the Mongolian music scene. They're the first Mongolian band to be signed with a major American record label (BMI) and they regularly tour abroad. They're seen twice a week at one of the larger restaurants in town – but, like other bands who perform in bars/restaurants regularly, they have to play the same songs every time. It was refreshing to hear something a little different at NisNis Fest. It was also fun to see their fans banging their heads and dancing to Altan Urag's version of traditional Mongolian music.
North Ducks:
North Ducks are fairly new to the UB music scene. They represent a younger generation of artists, weened on alternative rock and influenced by indie bands.
Mohanik:
Last, but not least, Mohanik has been around for a few years now. The five members, who are friends from grade school, are now putting together their second album – which they say is more of a concept. They're returning their gaze toward Mongolia and writing songs inspired by nature, but in a way that is very rock and roll.


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[October 2018] : David Bordwell : His writings reflect on the fundamental nature of film, its artistic resources, and its social and political effects. His original contribution to the tradition lay in his arguments for mechanical recording as a virtue, not a deficit to be overcome. Contrary to the dominant strain of the 1920s and 1930s, Bazin believed cinema's essence to lie in its photographic capacity, its power to lay bare the phenomenal reality of the world. As a result, he argued that the "unfilmic" technique of the long take, conjoined to camera movement and depth of field photography, respected that reality. It was editing, the technique once held to be the supremely filmic technique, that introduced a level of artifice with which directors would have to contend. [read the essay]
[September 2014] : David Bordwell : Baby boomers who think that they lived in the best of times can find evidence in my relation to film archives. I started studying cinema in the late 1960s, when university film programs began and archives were starting to open up to university researchers. Over my forty-plus years of visits, archives have undergone many changes and confronted many challenges. I feel privileged to have watched these difficulties rise and be met—the need for preservation and restoration, the debate about rescuing nitrate-based copies, the rise of home video and cable television, and the pressures of digital media. What I hope to offer in the essay that follows are some sketchy answers to questions that arise from my own, admittedly limited, encounter with the archive world. [read the essay]
[March 2014] : David Bordwell : Viktor Shklovsky was one of the foremost literary theorists and critics of the twentieth century. In becoming a leader of the school of thought called "Russian Formalism," he exercised immense influence on modern conceptions of literature. He was also a journalist, a screenwriter, an experimental novelist, and a powerful voice against Stalinist oppression of literary culture. [read the essay]
[March 2013] : David Bordwell : In 1947, novelist Mitchell Wilson proclaimed: "Within the past ten years, we have been witnessing a new form of popular fiction—the story of suspense." We are so used to this genre—many of our bestsellers are suspense thrillers—that it's a little surprising to recall that once it was quite a new thing. On reflection, though, we might wonder: Was it really so new? Don't all novels and short stories, indeed all narratives in popular media, depend on suspense? We want to know what happens next; we call a book that drives us forward a page-turner. But writers of the period began to distinguish this general sort of suspense from something more specific. [read the essay]
[May 2012] : David Bordwell : We watch films with our eyes and ears, but we experience films with our minds and bodies. Films do things to us, but we also do things with them. A film pulls a surprise; we jump. It sets up scenes; we follow them. It plants hints; we remember them. It prompts us to feel emotions; we feel them. If we want to know more—the how, the secrets of the craft—it would seem logical to ask the filmmakers. What enables them to get us to respond so precisely? [read the essay]
[May 2011] : David Bordwell : Start with this question, which I think is one of the most fascinating we can ask: What enables us to understand films? All films? Well, set aside some hard cases, like Brakhage abstractions and transmissions of the Crab Nebula from the Hubble telescope (above). Let's start with a prototype: a film whose moving images present more or less recognizable persons, places, and things caught up in what we intuitively call stories. In other words, an ordinary movie shown in theatres and on video. [read the essay]
[November 2010] : David Bordwell : The camera tracks along a fearsome array of knives and cleavers. Cut to a young man, seen from behind, entering an office at Kowloon West police headquarters. Cut to a slow tracking shot that reveals a bulky, swaying shadow. A man backs into the frame holding a knife. The camera continues to glide until it provides a full view: a gigantic pig is hanging from the ceiling, and detective Bun lunges forward to stab it. Cut to show the young man, the novice cop Ho, staring at the spectacle along with other officers. The Mad Detective is tackling another case. [read the essay]
[September 2010] : David Bordwell, Janet Staiger, and Kristin Thompson : This is a look back at a book that we wrote in the early 1980s and that was published in 1985. For more on the book, and our rationale for posting this essay, see the blog entry here. … Here is the opening of our book proposal: "What we propose is not another study of an outstanding individual, a trend, or a genre. The Classical Hollywood Cinema analyzes the broad and basic conditions of American cinema as a historical institution. This project explores the common idea that Hollywood filmmaking constitutes both an art and an industry. We examine the artistic uniqueness and the mass-production aspects of the American studio cinema." [read the essay]
[March 2010] : David Bordwell : William Cameron Menzies was a wunderkind. He started working on films in 1919 when he was twenty-three; ten years later he won an Academy Award. By the time he died in 1956, he had participated in over seventy films. Why has nobody written a book about him? Don't look at me. After several years sporadically tracking his career, I'm aware that this is a mammoth task. Here I want just to float some ideas about a filmmaker as distinctive, and sometimes as delirious, as Busby Berkeley. Like Berkeley, Menzies shows that a strong imagination can yank the screen away from weak directors. Like Berkeley, he shows that the studio system gave considerable leeway to flamboyant, even peculiar imagery, as long as it could be somehow motivated by story and genre. Just as important, he shows how exceeding the limits of that sort of motivation can seem daring, or maybe just cockeyed. [read the essay]
[October 2009] : David Bordwell : What did teenage viewers think when Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) opened with the logo for Shawscope? Could they possibly have shared the frisson felt by baby-boomers who had haunted inner-city theatres thirty years before? Or by viewers who had watched "Kung-Fu Theatre" on 1980s television? Or by fanboys like Tarantino, freeze-framing cropped and trembling VHS tapes? For all those generations, the Shawscope blazon opens onto a world of one-armed swordfighters, beautiful woman warriors, and kung-fu masters with very long white eyebrows. Without denying the peculiar pleasures of these sagas, we can peer behind the logo and study this widescreen format's place in a broader dynamic. The Shaw mystique arose out of creative innovations of the studio's personnel, guided by the business policies of an all-powerful producer. We can as well analyze how Shaw directors forged a distinct widescreen aesthetic—one that still, as Tarantino seems to realize, has much to teach us about the ways movies can seize spectators. Hong Kong took tutorials in widescreen from its neighbors, but eventually it could offer lessons, and exhilarating ones, to the world. [read the essay]
[August 2009] : David Bordwell : The film image has always been biased toward the horizontal. The classic 4:3 rectangle has been the worldwide standard, and when it has varied, it has stretched lengthwise (CinemaScope, Panavision). Within a shot, figures usually move laterally and the camera swivels or travels accordingly. Apologists in the 1920s argued that this horizontality was simply natural. Our eyes are mounted side by side, and we have more eye muscles devoted to tracking objects on that axis than on the vertical one. Further, the commentators argued, painters and other graphic artists had long preferred the horizontal. [read the essay]
[June 2009] : Kristin Thompson : The parentheses in my title arise from the fact that Charles Dekeukeleire, a largely forgotten Belgian experiment filmmaker of the late 1920s, had only small recognition in his own day. Hans Scheugl and Ernst Schmidt, Jr., in their admirable reference book, Eine Subgeschichte des Films: Lexicon des Avantgarde-, Experimental-, und Undergroundfilms, say of his films: "They were so advanced in their formal means, so far ahead of their time, that they left behind the puzzled contemporary critics." There were in fact a few contemporary Belgian writers who discussed Dekeukeleire's films with insight, but certainly this minority response was not enough to insure his work a place in cinema history after he turned to documentary filmmaking in the 1930s. [read the essay]
[September 2008] : Nearly everybody loves movies. We aren't surprised that people rush to see the latest hit or rent a cult favorite from the video store. But there are some people who seek out old movies. And among those fans there's a still smaller group studying them. Let's call "old movies" anything older than twenty years. This of course creates a moving target. Baby boomers like us don't really consider The Godfather or M*A*S*H to be old movies, but many twentysomethings today will probably consider Pulp Fiction (1994) to be old — maybe because they saw it when they were in their teens. Our twenty-year cutoff is arbitrary, but in many cases that won't matter. Everybody agrees that La Grande Illusion from 1935 is an old movie, though it still seems fresh and vital. Now for the real question. Why would anyone be interested in watching and studying old movies? [read the essay]
[January 2008] : How do movies carry us from scene to scene? The question is simple, but not many people have explored it. I'm especially interested in how transitions are managed in mainstream, mass-audience movies, but I'll have some things to say about other traditions too. I'll also be talking a lot about unity, which can make the whole exercise seem fairly old-fashioned and Aristotelian. Yet examining how films create internal patterns reminds us that those patterns are almost always aimed at the audience. We're supposed to register those patterns, consciously or not, and they prompt us to react in particular ways. As so often, when we talk about form we're actually talking about the psychology of spectators. [read the essay]
[January 2007] : For a long time Kristin Thompson and I have been interested in how films tell stories. We're fascinated by the principles that govern different storytelling traditions. For the sake of simplicity, we've called the principles norms. The term implies a standard of craft competence, along with a dimension of collective decision-making. Norms are preferred alternatives within a tradition. A norm isn't a single and inflexible law; it's best seen as a roughly bounded set of options. Within any cluster of norms, there are always different ways to do anything. [read the essay]
[September 2006] : If you want your movie to fail, be sure to have an independent journalist publish a day-by-day account of its making. History is on your side. In Picture (1952), the founding entry in the genre, Lillian Ross followed the making of Huston's Red Badge of Courage; the movie sank. Theodore Gershunny's Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture (1980) expended 340 pages on Rosebud, one of Preminger's biggest embarrassments. In The Devil's Candy (1991), Julie Salamon chronicled the fiasco that was The Bonfire of the Vanities. Clearly, an outsider's making-of book portends a flop. [read the essay]
Preface to the Croatian edition of On the History of Film Style
[August 2005] : Visual style was a major preoccupation of critics, theorists, and filmmakers in the 1920s and thereafter, yet the study of it unaccountably went out of favor at just the moment when it should have been in full flower. As film studies entered the Western academy in the 1970s, most scholars turned away from such "aesthetic" concerns. Instead they promoted a cultural/political framework for examining cinema, emphasizing a symptomatic method of interpretation and a metapsychology derived from psychoanalysis. The influence of this framework is still being felt: Slavoj Žižek is continuing it, more playfully but no less dogmatically. Today's most influential frame of reference, cultural studies, has continued the anti-aesthetic tradition, replacing questions of artistic design and effect with questions about audiences and broad cultural processes. [read the essay]
[April 2005] : In The Fright of Real Tears: Krzysztof Kieslowski between Theory and Post‑Theory (London: BFI, 2001), Slavoj Žižek makes some criticisms of my arguments bearing on the history of film style. I reply to those criticisms in the last chapter of Figures Traced in Light (pp. 260–264). But there is much more to say about FRT, and this online essay supplements my remarks in Figures. [read the essay]
[March 2005] : An assembly of position papers in Cinema Journal, "In Focus: Film History, or a Baedeker Guide to the Historical Turn" (Cinema Journal 44, 1 [Fall 2004], 94–143) raises issues of continuing interest around how historical research might be pursued. It seems to me, however, that the collection offers as many grounds for discouragement as for hope.
The letdown can partly be attributed to the contributors' embrace of fairly fixed conventions of the symposium genre. The essays carry an unhappy cargo of truisms. We should "construct interdisciplinary discourse" (97); linear narrative is bad; we should encourage non-westerners to write histories of their cinemas; collaboration between scholars would be good (but it carries risks). And, in case anyone has forgotten, "history matters" (124). There's also the usual call to get with it, the announcement that we're tired of one thing and need a fresh departure (in particular, what the writer is currently working on). It's time to discard old habits. For Richard Abel, the primary question of historical research is, "Where next?" (107). "An exclusive focus on gender should be passé," the collection's editor Sumiko Higashi warns (97). Those who believe that academic work in the humanities is driven by fashion and a search for novelty at any cost will find some evidence here. [read the essay]
[2000] : People talk about the movies they see, and some people write about those movies for newspapers and magazines. How does film studies, as an academic discipline, accord with these more common ways of talking and thinking about films? The two ways of thinking about film aren't completely distinct, I think, but some differences are worth noting.
First, ordinary discourse about cinema centers on evaluative talk. "That movie was great! I loved it!" "Really? I didn't think it was very good." Likewise film reviewers take as their primary goal the evaluation of films, giving thumbs up or thumbs down, saying whether they regard them as worth the ticket price or not. Academic film studies can involve evaluation, but for most film scholars evaluating a particular movie isn't, or isn't always, the goal. [read the essay]
Annotated List of Principal Essays


Studies have shown that one out of eight women will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lifetime. Even though medical science has revealed a lot about certain cancers such as breast cancer, there's still a large amount of uncertainty surrounding prevention and treatment. However, it has been shown that incorporating certain foods into your diet can aid in preventative efforts. Here are just a few foods to include in your diet to help reduce the risk of developing cancer.
Apples have countless health benefits, so it shouldn't be all too surprising that they're helpful in aiding breast cancer prevention. What is surprising, however, is that you have to eat the right part of the apple to reap these benefits. The peel of the apple, as it turns out, has the most nutrients when it comes to cancer prevention, so always keep the apple in its natural skin before enjoying it.
"If you normally peel your apple and toss away the colorful wrapping, you're also tossing away a rich source of antioxidants, fiber, and other compounds needed for anti-cancer nutrition. Lab studies suggest that apple peel can actually fight the spread of cancer cells. The good news is that you don't need exotic varieties -- this research used readily available Red Delicious apples, so add them to your breast cancer prevention shopping list," writes Madeline R. Vann on Everyday Health.
Nuts have a wide range of health benefits, but walnuts, in particular, are known for their healthy omega-3 fatty acids. These one-of-a-kind nutrients help the body fight inflammation. Plus, experts say walnuts can help to literally slow down the growth of breast cancer tumors in mice. With this in mind, it certainly makes sense to keep a bag of walnuts in your pantry to enjoy as a snack or top with certain meals.
As another great source of omega-3 fatty acids, fish deserves a place on this list. Certain types of fish are also sources of lean protein and thus a wholesome part of an overall cancer prevention diet. This is especially true because many dietitians advise against the consumption of red meats and processed meats, which includes bacon and packaged deli meats. Instead, pick out some fresh sardines, tuna, salmon, or mackerel, which are omega-3 rich and ideal for cancer prevention.
Berries have long been considered a 'superfood,' and for good reason. Dark-colored berries like blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, and strawberries are full of anti-inflammatory and antioxidant compounds that may help to reduce the growth of tumors and breast cancer cells. With that in mind, grab a frozen bag of mixed berries during your next trip to the supermarket, or pick up some fresh ones to top a bowl of oatmeal or cold cereal.
Ultimately, it's not difficult to incorporate these hearty foods into your diet as part of a cancer prevention lifestyle. Of course, it's always best to consult your doctor for the most accurate and personalized preventative care insight.
I sincerely hope we all can benefit from all this goodness!
Walnuts bedanya sama Hazelnuts itu gimana ya Mama Bo?
An apple a day, keeps the doctors away! Thank you for the info mbak :) But berries in Indonesia is a bit expensive, sadly.
Wah, apel sama berri-berrian bagus ya ternyata buat breast cancer. Aku kayaknya harus menambahkan mereka dan buah-buahannya ini enak juga.
I worry about breast cancer as it is what my grandma passed from, but I think colon cancer will be it for me. I eat a ton of berries daily. Blueberries and blackberries in my oatmeal every morning.


After the disastrous Delve 11, a night's sleep had restored 1 hp to each party member and Fasboo did all she could when she cast CLWs on the three most injured (Taggert +7, Norfaz +4, Ragnorf +5) but the four delvers remained 32 hp down from being fully healthy.
Gylvair apologized to them for not using her sleep spell in what looked-like easy encounters (which turned out to be nasty ones) and promised to be "quick on the trigger" with it today.
They then got their heads together looking for a relatively quick in-and-out delve since they were hurting so much. After very little debate they decided on Entrance C and exploring Room 6 (which had had a large group of something in it when the first delvers had peeked in on Delve 2 ten days before).
At the door they could hear voices so Gylvair prepared his spell . . . and as the door opened cast it on a group of five Hobgoblins.
Three dropped (two made their saves) but the others charged the party . . . but after a brief exchange of blows, Taggert and Norfaz each felled one (and the others were dispatched while sleeping . . . hey, nobody likes hobgoblins . . . not even their mothers, eh?).
The bodies only yielded 6 gp, but among the various goblets, plates, mugs and dishes in the various cupboards, the delvers found 5 scroll cases and 6 potions . . . all of which would be tested for magic later.
There were three other doors in Room 6; two on the east wall and one to the south. The northernmost one on the east wall revealed a corridor that turned north ending in a door that opened onto what looked like a storage room (#26) and two animating oddly-shaped Skeletons.
One skeleton went for Norfaz but fell down (fumbled) even as the Fighter missed him; the other missed Taggert, who whacked it for 6 pts of damage. But in doing so, Taggert lost his sword and fell down (i.e., fumbled his next swing), while Gylvair offed the one on the ground, then immediately fell down too (i.e., fumbled his next roll as well).
Eventually the last skeleton was finished off by Ragnorf, who then dropped his mace (deliberately) in case there was some sort of a curse with these skeletons since the two who hit them both fumbled right after they did so. A search of the room garnered four more possible potions . . . again to be tested for magic later.
Returning to Room 6, the other east door opened to a set of stairs leading down (S). Closing it they moved to the south door which opened onto a large room that was obviously a kitchen of some sort. It was unoccupied but had four further doors leading from it . . . two each on the east and south walls.
The first of these opened onto Room 27 (an obvious bunk room) which contained 5 Goblins. Gylvair cast sleep and again three went down (only rolled 4 on 2d8 and one saved), leaving two who Taggert and Norfaz offed without taking any damage. They had a total of 2 gp. There was one other door, which when opened revealed corridor which branched at about the end of visibility.
They closed the door and moved to the other east door. Opening on Room 28 they disturbed a Shrieker, which Norfaz killed. However the alarm had been given so they backtracked toward the main entrance.
Still they were uninjured so they decided to explore a bit further and discovered the stairs up to Entrance H. With this easy escape they decided to take a peek into Room 7. It contained seven small Goblins (all seven had either 1 or 2 hp), which Gylvair's last spell instantly silenced. A search of their bodies resulted in small coins adding up to a single gp's worth.
It being time to exit since Gylvair's spells were gone, they headed for exit H . . . and ran smack into three Bugbears (wandering monsters who had come up from Y attracted by the Shrieker).
Gylvair took 6 points of damage before Norfaz killed one of them (and fumbled his next attack . . . is there a curse?). Eventually the other two were slain without further injury. First aid was applied to Gylvair and amazingly he got two hp back.
The bugbear corpses yielded 15 gp, a silver torc and a copper bracelet. They had explored six rooms and taken minimal damage (for once), so they were happy to return to The Laughing Owl to await that evening's "Bag of Beans" which would determine if any of them would be delving during the next three days.
Well, that was a bit different. In spite of all the fumbles and pushing their luck it worked out pretty well comparatively. Seems like they're learning a bit (and getting a bit lucky, too).
Yup. Fortunately for them the Bugbears kept rolling single digits on their dice . . . or it would have been a very different story.
Of course they would have been safely out except for that last wandering monster roll.
So, when they're back in the Owl telling the tale of their latest adventure to the others, do they admit to the number of times they dropped their weapons?
It was a curse. It started just as soon as they hit those oddly-shaped skeletons . . . they were obviously cursed and the curse got transferred to them.


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Rafaella McDonald, "Untitled 1", 2020. Icing sugar, gum tragacanth, aqua resin, recycled Victorian Ash cupboards, found candles from a skip, cotton jersey dyed with synthetic dye. Image courtesy of Aaron Christopher Rees.
In Rafaella McDonald's Untitled I, deep grooves have been carved by the artist into found wood and packed with icing sugar. A reference for Rafaella were the Renaissance sugar sculptures that were used as centrepieces in lavish celebrations. Rather than representational, Rafaella's carving is intuitive and meandering, the pattern is traced in candy sweet colours. The inclusion of the plastic candle, found in a skip, gives it the effect of an altar. The work invites contemplation into material and mark-making.
Rafaella has a painting and sculptural practice, working across gallery settings, public spaces, and clothing. Her practice is concerned with the gestural elements of materials, documenting interactions between materials and the body. Since 2014 Rafaella has exhibited solo and group exhibitions in Melbourne's not for profit and commercial galleries including Westspace, TCB Inc, Fort Delta and Daine Singer. She has completed several large public art work commissions for The Melbourne Metro Authority, The Substation, City of Stonnington, Shepparton Art Museum and Melbourne Fringe. Her work has been included the biennial Next Wave Festival for emerging artists, acquired by National Gallery of Victoria collection and private collections. In 2017 she was the recipient of the Midsumma Art Prize Award and received a Vic Arts Grant to undertake a month long residency in Los Angeles. Rafaella received First Class Honours at the Victorian College of the Arts (2015) and holds a Bachelor of Creative Arts from Melbourne University (2009). Her textile work has been included in publications such as Hessian Magazine and The Craft Companion (Thames and Hudson).
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How to watch 49ers vs. Giants in Week 3 online and on TV
The 49ers spent the entire week on the East Coast after their 31-13 win over the New York Jets, choosing to practice and stay in West Virginia in preparation for the team's return to MetLife Stadium in Week 3, when they'll face the New York Giants.
Both teams enter with significant injuries, as 49ers stars Nick Bosa, Jimmy Garoppolo, Raheem Mostert and Solomon Thomas all will be out against the Giants after suffering lower-body injuries on the controversial new turf at MetLife Stadium. The Giants meanwhile, lost star running back Saquon Barkley to a season-ending knee injury last week.
Despite numerous starters being out for the 49ers, head coach Kyle Shanahan's group enters Week 3 as sizable road favorites over the Giants and new head coach Joe Judge.
Before the action kicks off, tune in to 49ers Pregame Live at 9 a.m. on NBC Sports Bay Area. Immediately after the game ends, tune back to NBC Sports Bay Area for 49ers Postgame Live.
RELATED: Shanahan, 49ers have moved on from turf, ready for Giants
Here's how to watch 49ers-Giants in Week 3:
When: Sunday, Sept. 27, at 10 a.m. PT
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Sheep Shearing comes to the Tullamore Show for the first time, with competitions for Seniors & Juniors and both Blade & Machine Shearing.
Ivan Scott, from Kilmacrennan in County Donegal is the holder of the World lamb shearing record. He recently shore 744 lambs in eight hours, in New Zealand, breaking the old record by just two. The 30-year-old four-times All-Ireland Champion, is a regular shearer in New Zealand since he was a teenager.
Ivan, plus competitors from Ireland and England will be competing and demonstrating their skills in the Tullamore Show.
George Graham shall be displaying the 'Bowen Method' of shearing on the day; a method used by shearers the world over, holding the world record of shearing 481 sheep in 9 hours.
10.30 am Demonstration -By George Graham -A demonstration of the Godfrey Bone method of sheep searing.


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Old Victoria is maintained by the Society for the Restoration of Old Victoria, Inc and is open from Memorial Day weekend thru mid October each year and donations are suggested of $2.00. Learn the history of the pioneers during the Copper Rush and feel the romance of this place which time cannot change. Special events take place during the year are Craft Fairs and Log Cabin Day on the last Sunday in June each year.


The recently published ROCA (Return of Coppersmith's Attack) vulnerability continues to generate shock waves in the crypto and security community. This severe vulnerability, besides the immediate implications, serves as a wakeup call that highlights some of the underlying issues in today's typical crypto architectures.
The vulnerability stems from a flawed implementation of RSA key generation in a library developed by the German semiconductor manufacturer Infineon Technologies AG. This library runs on Infineon hardware that is then embedded in a range of products, some of them FIPS 140-2 and CC EAL 5+ certified devices. As these chips constitute a building block for numerous products, the range of affected devices is very broad, including the majority of Microsoft and Chromebook laptops developed by Fujitsu, HP and Lenovo. In addition, authentication tokens and even citizens' digital identity cards are impacted.
RSA 1024 and 2048 keys generated using the aforementioned chips may be vulnerable to a factorization attack, in which the private key could be factorized directly from the public key within practical timespans; factorizing an RSA 2048 key will take a little more than 2 weeks and $40k, while less than an hour and $76 will get you a 1024-bit key. Identifying whether a key is vulnerable is very quick, taking less than a millisecond.1 So far, the researchers have uncovered over 700,000 keys affected, with the full scope likely to be much broader. This is a devastating vulnerability, exposing keys used for the most sensitive operations such as data encryption, email encryption, code signing and national identity (e.g. eID).
Remediation is likely to take a long time, as fixing the vulnerability requires a firmware upgrade – which depends on availability from the OEM, and is far from straightforward to install. Microsoft has recently released a software patch to bypass the vulnerability that defaults to generate RSA keys on software on applicable devices. This, in turn, means that these keys will not be hardware protected going forward – until a firmware upgrade takes place.
What are the practical security implications of using crypto hardware?
Using dedicated hardware for managing crypto keys is considered by many the most secure option, protecting sensitive keys from the threats and vulnerabilities of general-purpose operating systems and applications. In theory, this pans out nicely security-wise, until a vulnerability like ROCA hits. Vulnerabilities in hardware are extremely problematic: a fix is likely to require a costly firmware upgrade (or even full hardware replacement), taking months or years to propagate through the supply chain, e.g. chip manufacturer –> device manufacturer –> OEM –> end user. In the meantime, thoughtfully built security systems may be completely broken and left exposed for a very long period of time as crypto infrastructure is at the root of the security architecture. Therefore, when relying on crypto hardware as part of the security architecture, the risks of potential vulnerabilities, long update time, hassle to users and high costs must seriously be considered.
As we all realize that vulnerabilities aren't going anywhere, we should think of better ways to build our crypto infrastructure using agile and software-based methods in which updates take a matter of days to implement and recovery is far easier.
This concerning question is raised as the said flawed modules behind ROCA have been certified by two internationally recognized certifications standards: FIPS 140-2 and Common Criteria. If such a serious vulnerability went undetected in a rigorously tested module, and within a function that is very mature and known for decades, what does it reflect on the core security value of these certifications?
Using crypto hardware on BYOD devices: is it a good idea?
Crypto hardware has become much more common, with secure elements, trusted platform modules (TPM), trusted execution environments (TEE) etc. built in to the hardware of many endpoint devices. While the use of such features for protecting sensitive operations like data protection or identity and payment verification is growing steadily, so are the risks. For example, consider the risk of a specific hardware function that is considered critical to the trust model for a user facing application without remedy: firstly, the complexity of the supply chain (which is demonstrated well in ROCA, where few vulnerable chips are embedded in hundreds of products) will slow down the detection and scope realization of the issue. Furthermore, the app provider does not even own the device and so cannot force the user to upgrade. In fact, they do not have a relationship at all with the device manufacturer and/or the vulnerable chip manufacturer in that context. This leads to an ironic scenario, where app providers are often held liable for misdeeds taking place on devices of their end users (think online ), while the app security model is built on third party vendors that have no business relationship with the app provider.
This is the place to say that such crypto hardware chips have great benefits and they should be leveraged by apps if they exist on the device and have no known unpatched vulnerabilities. However, relying on hardware alone can be very problematic. In other words, it's probably a better idea to treat these as an additional layer of security rather than a critical building block of the app security model. Security must be built in within the app you control, rather than be assumed to exist and function correctly on environments you have absolutely no control of.
Lastly, the ROCA story isn't over yet. Next week at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS), the full technical details behind the vulnerability will be uncovered. When these details are revealed, we will follow up with a technical analysis and our takeaways on how to build an agile and resilient crypto infrastructure.


I know my dharma or purpose in life. I have a life full of wonderful opportunities to express the gifts I have to offer in service. I am in the middle of one expression now as I facilitate at Harmony Hill Retreat Center. I am faculty here and we provide (at no-cost to the participants) three day retreats for people living with cancer and their companions. This is work of my Heart & Spirit.
Yet, last spring, I went through a difficult time. I found myself in a place of low energy and my Heart, the place of my spiritual center, was heavy, confused and felt closed. I knew I was in the discomfort of the underworld, so I bashed around looking for relief and only managed to confuse myself even more. Then I made the choice to Be still… To Be quiet. And what I began to observe were all the places I was clinging tight, attempting to control and where I was attached to a particular outcome.
From the still point of silence I also found the clarity of discernment. I began to choose: Yum or yuck?… Embrace or release? I began to let go. I began to shift my attention.
I spoke my truth where it was necessary and remained silent where speaking contained no value. I allowed my soft belly of vulnerability to be seen by a man friend who met this revelation with love, tenderness and support and to be seen by a man I was dating, who reacted and withdrew. I dearly cherish the former… I disconnected with the latter.
As the letting go made space for the next expression of my dharma, I asked The Divine which direction should I lean? How can I best serve? I know what calls… I simply asked for validation. That validation has appeared through synchronicity… What is synchronicity? Meaningful coincidence. Unrelated occurrences that create a pattern only apparent to the observer.
What is the direction I am leaning? I will continue assisting people with the difficult transitions of life. I will continue to dance with the fine art of presence. What I do not yet know is what will be the form… What is my next creative expression. I have many ideas and I am going to let them germinate a bit longer. I am going to continue to close some doors and at the same time, continue to open my Heart.
I have the intention to tend this blog. What appears here may be random but I see this as a valuable exercise in the creative process. Next I am going to take a closer look at these synchronicities. Recently many of them have centered around the strange gathering in the desert called Burning Man. More about that very soon… For tonight, it is late. Tomorrow is the last day of the retreat. I am laying in my bed at Harmony Hill, next to large windows overlooking the saltwater and now looking out at the stars.
The night sky contains the dark of the unseen moon… A perfect time to plant seeds deep.
We spent the evening in a drumming circle… Sharing the sound and movement of release. I am deliciously tired. Going to close my eyes and slip into sweet/salty dark-moon dreams. YES!


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Andrew Speaker's TB is Multi-Drug-Resistant, Not Extensively Drug-Resistant
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Speaker's TB is Multi-Drug-Resistant, Not Extensively Drug-Resistant
Laboratory tests conducted at National Jewish Medical and Research Center indicate that patient Andrew Speaker's tuberculosis is susceptible to some of the medications previously thought ineffective against his disease. He is now considered to have multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, not extensively drug-resistant disease. As a result, doctors have altered Mr. Speaker's antibiotic regimen and have put on hold a decision about lung surgery.
"These new test results are good news for Mr. Speaker. His prognosis has improved," said Charles Daley, MD, Head of the Infectious Disease Division at National Jewish. "Because of his newly determined drug susceptibility, we now have more effective medications available to fight his disease and may be able to treat him successfully without surgery."
The National Jewish mycobacteriology mycobacteriology laboratory conducted extensive drug-susceptibility tests on tuberculosis organisms taken from Mr. Speaker on three different occasions; April 25 in Atlanta, May 27 in New York, and June 1 in Denver.
All three isolates indicated definite resistance to three first-line drugs for tuberculosis: isoniazid, rifampin and pyrazinamide. All the isolates, however, were susceptible to all the fluoroquinolone drugs (ofloxacin, levofloxacin, moxifloxacin and ciprofloxacin), and the injectable drugs (amikacin, kanamycin, and capreomycin). Results on all three isolates were consistent for both testing methods used.
Previous test results from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had indicated that Mr. Speaker's tuberculosis was resistant to the fluoroquinolones and to the injectable drug kanamycin, and was therefore classified as extensively drug resistant. The new results indicate his tuberculosis is, instead, multi-drug-resistant.
The mycobacteriology laboratory at National Jewish has been a world leader for 25 years in the development and validation of innovative methods to determine drug-resistance of tuberculosis and other mycobacterial organisms. It routinely verifies drug resistance by a quantitative test (MIC determination) in addition to the conventional qualitative test (by agar proportion method). Because of its long experience and expertise, numerous other laboratories send isolates to National Jewish for verification of their drug-resistance results.
Based on the recent findings, National Jewish physicians have begun using some of the fluoroquinolones and injectable drugs to treat Mr. Speaker's tuberculosis. In general, these drugs are more effective and have fewer side effects than some of the medications doctors were using before they learned these were viable options.
The availability of these additional medications means that Mr. Speaker may be cured without having to undergo surgery. Doctors have put a decision about surgery on hold for now and will not make a determination until they have a chance to see how the new antibiotic regimen is working and whether or not the drugs are being tolerated, which could take several weeks.
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The Pogue Coin Collection
An 1804 silver dollar is worth $8 to $10m. The world's greatest private collection of American coins was sold in a record-breaking series of seven auctions at Sotherby's and Stack's Bowers Galleries. Gathered over more than 30 years by Texas property developer A. Mack Pogue and his son, D. Brent Pogue, the collection contains coins from the early years of the American republic, from 1792 to the 1830s.
These are the most sought-after U.S. coins in existence, as the crude production techniques of the period meant that the coins were fragile, making surviving high-quality examples extremely rare.
A 1796 quarter dollar
1793 chain cent–the nation's earliest penny
The 1795 Flowing Hair, Three Leaves silver dollar
1797 half dollar coin is worth up to $1.75m
1822 five dollar gold coin $8m
An 1808 quarter eagle led Stack's Bowers and Sotheby's sale of the Brent D Pogue collection in New York on May 20, 2015. The lot sold for $2.3m, setting a new world record for a US quarter eagle at auction.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2993515/The-valuable-coins-world-Texas-property-developer-s-treasured-collection-early-years-American-republic-expected-fetch-220MILLION-auction.html
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A Batman suit worn by Val Kilmer and a Riddler suit worn by Jim Carrey from the movie Batman Forever. The suits are each valued around $40,000
The full body radio-controlled figure used in 'Terminator 3: Rise of The Machines' which stood in for Arnold Schwarzenegger. $40,000
The prop gun used by Harrison Ford in Blade Runner. $100,000
Hugh Jackman's claws used in his role as Wolverine in X-Men: The Last Stand $30,000
This original stop-motion animation puppet from the movie Mars Attacks $8,000
The purple dress worn by Keira Knightley in Pirates of the Caribbean: $ 10,000
Richard Burton's costume from "Cleopatra." $ 20,000
The belt and costume worn by Michael Jackson during the filming of the video for the song Bad. $ 40,000
Captain America Auction. Lot #154 Captain America Hero Suit $233,700
The Superman outfit worn by Christopher Reeve in the 1978 film "Superman: The Movie". $ 75,000
Russell Crowe's chest armour from the legendary movie Gladiator $58,425
The costume worn by Robert Patrick in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, with chrome metal hook arms. $ 7,000
Matthew Broderick's leather jacket from Ferris Bueller's Day Off $ 10,000
Predator 2 costume and animatronic head $ 80,000
Original "Balok" Puppet Head from Star Trek: The Original Series (NBC-TV, 1966-69) $ 25,000
Judy Garland's costume from "The Wizard of Oz." $ 480,000
Claude Raines' costume from "Casablanca." $ 55,000
Aragorn's sword Andúril, made for Viggo Mortensen, from Lord of the Rings: The Return Of The King. $437,000. Saruman's wizard staff used by Sir Christopher Lee in The Lord Of The Rings trilogy. Sold for $125,000
Ripley's flamethrower Alien $ 40,000
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World's largest gold nuggets
#1 - Welcome Stranger The Welcome Stranger is the biggest alluvial gold nugget found, which had a calculated refined weight of 3,123 oz and was discovered by Cornish prospectors John Deason and Richard Oates on 5 February 1869 at Moliagul, Victoria, Australia, about 9 miles (14.6 kilometres) north-west of Dunolly.
# 2 - Pepita Canaa The title of the 'largest known nugget still in existence' goes to a nugget found at the Serra Pelada minesite in Brazil in 1983 by Julio de Deus Filho. Known variously as the 'Canaa Nugget' and 'Pepita Canaa Nugget', it is displayed in the Banco Central do Brasil's museum. Its gross weight is 60.82 kilograms with a gold content of 52.332 kilograms or 1,682.5 Troy ounces.
#3 - Golden Eagle nugget weighing in at 1136 oz., found by sixteen year old Jack Larcombe on January 8th, 1931 in Larkinville, Western Australia.
#4 - Newmont's Normandy Nugget. The world's 2nd largest existing gold nugget is the Normandy Nugget. It was discovered in 1995 in a dry creek bed near Kalgoorlie, Australia and weighs in at 899 oz. Currently its on display at the Perth Mint in Australia.
#5 - Hand of Faith nugget weighing in at 875 oz. It was found in 1980 in Wedderburn, Australia using a metal detector. It currently resides at the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas.
The "Boot of Cortez" is one of the most unusual nuggets in the World, and at 389.4 ounces Troy (32.4 Troy pounds), it is the largest surviving placer nugget discovered in the Western Hemisphere.
The solid gold nugget was found in the Mexican Sonora Desert near the Arizona border in 1989. It was found by a local prospector using a metal detector he bought at Radio Shack. The nugget sold for $1,853,500.00 at auction in Dallas, in 2008.
The Fricot Nugget is crystalline gold that was found by William Russell Davis in 1865. It was discovered while mining at the Grit Mine at Spanish Dry Diggin's in El Dorado County. It weighs 13.8 pounds (6.25 kg) and is the largest surviving crystalline gold nugget from the California Gold Rush era.
The largest gold nugget ever found in Alaska is named the Alaska Centennial Nugget at 294.10 Troy Ounces. It was found near Ruby, Alaska in 1998 by a miner as he operated his bulldozer. The nugget rolled off the pile of dirt ahead of the bulldozer blade.
An amateur prospector discovered a huge gold nugget with an estimated value of more than $300,000 in Australia's Victoria state in 2013.
The nugget weighing 177 ounces, or 5.5 kilograms was unearthed with a metal detector just outside Ballarat in a popular area for prospecting.
In early 2015 Berek Sawut, an ethnic Kazakh sheep herder, was taking an evening rest near the mine in China's northern Xinjiang region when he found a 17 pound nugget "practically lying on the bare ground."
It was found in the region's remote Altay Prefecture area.
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Juniors who are residents of Hilton Head Island, Bluffton and Okatie between the ages of 7 and 18, as of June 1, 2019 are welcome to join the Hilton Head Island Golf Association (HHIJGA).
The HHIJGA offers individual stroke play tournaments and team play formats. Junior golfers of all skill levels are invited to join the team format via PGA Junior League. Individual stroke play events are for juniors ready to make the next step in competition, as they will be playing their own ball for either nine or eighteen holes. Juniors 7 - 13 years old are automatically placed on a PGAJLG team as part of the HHIJGA. Juniors who reach their 14th birthday prior to August 1, 2019 are not eligible to play for PGAJLG team play.
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"To welcome area youth (ages 7-18) to participate in the HHIJGA. Our objective and goal is to introduce the game of golf, provide scholarships, offer quality instruction, and create a wide variety of events providing the opportunity for each junior to enjoy golf at his/her own level. We wish to promote and grow the game and have fun in the process."
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Saudi crown prince says Houthi missile attack was 'last-ditch effort'
NEW YORK: Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has told the New York Times that the seven missiles launched by Iranian-backed Houthi militia at Saudi Arabian cities from Yemen on Sunday was "a last-ditch effort" that only showed their growing weakness.
The crown prince also added that Saudi Arabia was seeking an end to the war through a political process, as well as trying to divide the Houthis by maintaining military pressure on them.
Mohammed bin Salman said, in the interview published by New York Times on Tuesday, that the Houthis who took over the Yemeni capital Sanaa in 2014 were increasingly isolated politically.
Other topics discussed in the article included his plans for economic and social changes in Saudi Arabia as well as his views on the Kingdom's conflicts with Iran and Qatar.
Crown Prince Mohammed accused Iran of seeking to acquire nuclear weapons so that it could create chaos in the Middle East without fear of retribution.
"We know the target of Iran," he said. "If they have a nuclear weapon, it's a shield for them to let them do whatever they want in the Middle East, to make sure that no one attacks them or they will use their nuclear weapons."
"Delaying it and watching them getting that bomb, that means you are waiting for the bullet to reach your head," Crown Prince Mohammed said during his first meeting with editors and reporters from New York Times. "So you have to move from today."
The US and other world powers reached a 2015 agreement to curb Iran's nuclear program in exchange for lifting sanctions. However, some American officials, including President Trump, have criticized the agreement and threatened to repeal it.
Mohammed bin Salman also spoke about Saudi Arabian efforts to combat extremism in the Middle East, saying that he believed Islam had been "hijacked," and criticizing the way he said that groups like the Muslim Brotherhood and terrorist organizations like Daesh and Al-Qaeda had distorted the religion.
The crown prince is on an extensive tour of the US, and having visited Washington and New York, he will also make trips to Silicon Valley and Houston. His trip is aimed at strengthening ties between Saudi Arabia and the US.
The New York Times interview was published as the Saudi-US CEO Forum began in New York.
The forum was attended by influential economic figures such as Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan, and Adena Friedman, CEO and president of NASDAQ.
It brings together the business elite from the US and the Kingdom for a day of formal presentations, panel discussions, and trade and cultural shows.
During the event, Saudi Arabian and American companies signed 36 memorandums of understanding for deals worth $20 billion.
Meanwhile, Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of Blackstone Group, was hosting an event for the crown prince.
During his last day in New York, Crown Prince Mohammed met with technology companies.Original Article


Asia: India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Malay archipelago (Ref. 4833). Recorded from the Mekong (Ref. 4792, 36625).
Found in ponds, beels, canals and rivers (Ref. 1479). Occurs in medium to large-sized rivers of the lower and middle Mekong (Ref. 12975).


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Justin Timberlake gives wheelchair accessible van to family of teen with cerebral palsy
by: Bianca Marais and Nexstar Media Wire
MORRISTOWN, Tenn. (WJHL) – A teen popular in his Morristown, Tennessee neighborhood for sitting outside his house surrounded by signs reading "honk if you're happy," received a gift last week from a Tennessee-born entertainer known around the globe – Justin Timberlake.
Jake Stitt (Courtesy: WJHL)
Jake Stitt, 17, has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair, but his family did not have a wheelchair accessible van.
That changed when pop icon Justin Timberlake learned about Stitt's situation and decided to help.
Timberlake found out about an effort to raise money to buy Stitt a wheelchair accessible van. He reached out to the family on Tuesday and bought the vehicle.
Fundraiser underway to buy new wheelchair accessible van for East Tennessee teen
"He caught the story and was just very touched with what was going on with this thing and he wanted to reach out and decided that he wanted to purchase the van for Jacob and his needs," father Tim Stitt recalled. "It was just a … blessing to be able to speak to that gentleman and for him to be able to meet Jake and see what he needed."
Jake and his father found out about the $35,000 gift Wednesday morning, the day before Thanksgiving.
"It's going to make his life much easier as we go into our future and it's going to make my life a lot easier because there's not many people that can lift him up and sit him in a van like he needs," Tim Stitt said. "It's going to make our lives so much easier because of the independence he's going to have as a young man now."
Jake Stitt is a 17 year old who lives in Morristown TennesseeHe has cerebral palsy, and his family doesn't have a wheelchair accessible van. But that changed today when jake received the van as a gift from pop icon Justin Timberlake… pic.twitter.com/uSZ0y1dnYl
— Anslee Daniel WJHL (@Anslee_WJHL) November 25, 2020
Justin Timberlake told Jake the news over a Zoom call and then around 3 p.m. Wednesday, the van was delivered in a parade that came right to their house.
"It was a blessing and God bless," Jake said.
The thousands of dollars raised to purchase the van will not go to waste.
Timberlake's wish was that if he purchased the van, all money donated for the project would go to the Stitt family to help with Jake's care.
"God's always provided for us and we keep our faith and we're thankful everyday," Tim Stitt said. "It is a true meaning to Thanksgiving and all that's happened and stuff and it's a blessing to our family to make us be able to have peace and relax more and not have to have worries is amazing. It's very humbling."
Bears defensive end Mario Edwards suspended two games by the NFL
by Larry Hawley / Jan 15, 2021
LAKE FOREST - If he does return to Chicago for the 2021 season, Mario Edwards won't be available on the field to start the season.
On Friday, the National Football League suspended the defensive end for two games for a violation of the league's performance-enhancing substances policy.
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Sun-Ray Cinema to open permanent drive-in movie site in Riverside 🍿
The facility will have a concession trailer on-site, offering popcorn and hotdogs with more menu items expected to come in the future.
Author: First Coast News Staff
What started as a temporary solution to the COVID-19 pandemic has grown into an experience that the Sun-Ray Cinema hopes to keep around permanently.
The cinema announced Monday that it's under contract to buy the property at 869 Willow Branch Avenue for its drive-in movie showings.
"That address will be familiar to folks who've been following this crazy journey as the only drive-in site to feature drink service and has a spot in our hearts as one of the coziest, real Florida feeling little lots we looked at...," the cinema posted on Facebook. "Sun-Ray is under contract to buy this property as part of three and a half contiguous acres to grow into..."
Sun-Ray says that the move will allow them to have a permanent screen and projector set up which will save them money in the long-run. Because of this, the cinema is offering a weekend deal to movie-goers.
"...we're gonna pass the savings along to you, beginning this weekend screenings are $20 (plus tax) a carload," said the cinema.
The facility will also have a concession trailer on-site, slinging popcorn and hotdogs with more menu items expected to come in the future.
Schedule of showings:
Jan. 8 - WW84 at 6 p.m., The Goonies at 9 p.m.
Jan. 9 - WW84 5:30 p.m., Spirited Away at 8:30 p.m. (Dubbed)
For tickets head to sunraycinema.com
Construction of new 14-screen movie theater in Jacksonville shopping center spurs new restaurants, retailers
A look at the most anticipated movies bumped to 2021


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