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The weekend of the SSP conference, we also had a sighting/contact experience on top of Mt Shasta the evening of Aug 29th, when I spotted Arcturis dancing in the sky. No one else in our party of four (Denny, Vivian & Don) could see it dance, but a few minutes later another star lit up and began dancing. That time Vivian saw it, the others didn't. Then, another lit up and Denny saw it, Don didn't.
Shortly afterward, Ross's group arrived and the second part of the contact experience is described by Ross, his video is posted below.
The next day, Denny said he felt I was "facilitating" the sighting, or contact experience. I will say this much, at one point I was standing on a picnic table pointing the orbs out as they lit-up and saw someone standing next to me out of the corner of my eye, when I looked nobody was there – in 3D.
So, when did stars begin to dance in the sky? I had never heard of that until I found an answer in Tunkashila, Grandfather Speaks, excerpt:
One specific star of all the myriad stars you see twinkling in your night sky sends its spirit to Earth to incarnate in your individual human form. Your ego is designed to help that spirit to remain creatively incarnate here. Until you have bonded with the star consciousness, you remain unfinished. Your race is soon to experience widespread awakenings, or as some will see it, a massive descent of beings from the stars.
Then last week at home, I received visitations from what may be the same Golden Pyramid race that appeared in Shasta. I had just awakened with the sun-rise, to warm solar energy and golden light pouring thru my crown chakra at the earliest stages of dawn. A few minutes later, while in a meditational state, several small golden pyramids beaming golden light descended into my energy field, they gave me a few personal messages and departed.
They also told me their name, translated in human language it means "Children of the Sun". They're a benevolent collective, with a delightful, loving energy. The messages are telepathic, with no discernable "voices". Whew, thank goodness!
They also have a sense of humor, the second morning they visited me in Shasta they actually had me laughing. Unfortunately I was soooo exhausted by then, the memories of what they said didn't remain in my conscious awareness.
A few minutes later Ross Feinstein arrived with a few people, we all did a contact meditation after I activated a sacred geometry vortex around a stone circle. Immediately after the meditation several orbs/spheres began powering up in the valley across from us.
Below is Ross's video of the second sighting after they appeared.
At the top of Mt. Shasta, Vivian, Denny, Annette, Brian, I, and more, did a contact meditation and were immediately gifted a wonderful show and interaction with these spheres. When I asked if they were THE spheres at 1:12, a whole bunch of them flashed across the sky we received a major download that night, as we focused on the glowing golden ones, we could all see geometry flowing outward from them straight into our heads, wrapping around the third eye and hugging us from the inside out. It was amazing

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Musharraf's mother revisits ancestral home, college
March 17, 2005 13:48 IST
Last Updated: March 17, 2005 19:44 IST
It was a trip down the memory lane for Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's mother Zarin when she visited her ancestral home and the college she passed out from in New Delhi�on Thursday.
Octogenarian Zarin, along with son Javed and Musharraf's son Bilal, inspected the Neharwali Haveli in old Delhi's congested Daryaganj area. The haveli was once was the family's abode and Musharraf was born in there.
Enthusiastic crowds thronged the lanes and gathered on rooftops for a glimpse of the high-profile visitors. The trio spent around 30 minutes inside the building, interacting with the current inmates of the house.
Frail Zarin, on a wheelchair, recalled her memories of the family's ancestral place, which she was visiting after a gap of nearly 23 years.
"Everything seems to have undergone a change here. There is a new sky here. I remember meeting Aruna Asaf Ali the last time I came here, which was in 1982," remarked Zarin. The trio also took part in the birthday celebrations of ten-year-old Aiswarya, a resident of the haveli.
Deputy Speaker of Delhi Assembly Shoaib Iqbal received the Pakistani guests at Daryaganj.
Later, Zarin also visited the Indraprastha College, from where she had passed out 70 years back.
She went around the college compound, recollecting the time she spent with friends, whose names she tried to recall.
"We enjoyed the college days. We used to be a gang of six students, called Chagadha gang. My favourite hang-out place was the garden," said Zarin, accompanied by Javed and Bilal.
"We used to come to the college in a bus. It was a fun place. But I lost contact with my old friends after partition," she said.
Recording her emotions, she wrote in the visitor's register: "I am touched to be back here in my beloved college. It made me indeed very proud to be associated with this great institution."
While interacting with students and teachers, Zarin favoured an exchange programme for students of the India and Pakistan to improve relations through people-to-people contacts.
Asked whether she was ever punished during her college days, she said, "I got scolding in high school, not in college."
When the students sought her blessings, she advised them to 'concentrate on studies'. She quickly added, "Do not neglect sports. Sports is also important. Body and mind should be fit. You should have fun, but within limits."
While on sports, she said Sachin Tendulkar was her favourite Indian cricketer.
Zarin, who spent almost half-an-hour at the college, also promised to attend an old students association programme next year.
The college presented her a shawl.
Before visiting the college, Musharraf's family visited the historic Red Fort and drove around Chandni Chowk.
"We have got a very good tour guide. He gave a very detailed description of the origin of Mughals," said Bilal at Red Fort.
"I have been to Turkey and I was constantly drawing parallels between Ottomen and Mughals," he said.
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For the first time since its 1999 launch, Internet Retailer magazine has undergone a complete redesign that features a fresh look and feel, as well as new story formats.
The changes start in the front of the magazine where the editors replaced Newsline, a section that featured news stories from the previous month, with Buzz, which provides quick snapshots of industry news and statistics. For instance, April's Buzz features details about HSN Inc.'s web site redesign, highlights a free tool that retailers can use to see who is following them on Twitter, and e-commerce data points like those that previously appeared on the magazine's Did You Know? page.
The magazine also features several new story formats, such as Debate, which features two e-commerce experts offering contrasting views on an important topic. In April's Debate, Gary Shar, CEO of apparel e-retailer Isaay.com, and Erik Jeffries, information technology manager at software e-retailer RoyalDiscount.com, square off over the merits of using open-source or traditional, closed-source technology to build their web sites. "Debate features e-commerce professionals talking through and justifying the approaches they've taken to solving contemporary industry issues," says Allison Enright, Internet Retailer editor. "Providing that forum with Debate and several other new sections was an important objective of the redesign."
The back page of the new format is devoted to a new feature called Discuss, which offers another way for e-commerce insiders to share their opinions on pressing and controversial industry topics. Internet Retailer aims to include feedback from readers sharing their thoughts on Internet Retailer's Facebook page and on Twitter, where responses to Discuss questions will feature the hashtag #IRDiscuss. Any word that starts with a pound sign (#) is a hashtag, which becomes a clickable link to all other mentions of that word. For example, a tweet that says, "I'm going to sell more on eBay now thanks to its new pricing #IRDiscuss" makes IRDiscuss a clickable link that brings up other tweets that include that term.
Internet Retailer worked with design firm Bates Creative Group to complete the redesign. "Just as e-commerce sites have to evolve their look to meet consumers' expectations, we're doing that to Internet Retailer to give readers what they're looking for," Enright says. The new design includes a more balanced use of white space and graphic elements, and a contemporary color palette, for example.
The debut of the redesigned magazine comes five months after Vertical Web Media, the media and business intelligence company behind Internet Retailer, sold its events business to event management firm George Little Management. The move was aimed at enabling Vertical Web Media to focus its resources on growing its media business—including Internet Retailer magazine, InternetRetailer.com, the IRNewsLink newsletter and research products like the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide—and extending its global reach.
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Last weekend I went to the Couleur Café Festival in Brussels. Saturday's headliner was Macklemore & Ryan Lewis who flooded the airwaves of Europe with 'Thrift Shop' this spring, a song which may be about creating a unique, personal style through second hand shopping – or it might just be a one finger salute to the consumer society. Or simply an excuse to rap a ton of bad words.
Whatever the deeper meaning of the song, a silly scene played out during the performance in Brussels. Someone in the audience was kind enough to lend his fat fox fur coat to Macklemore while performing, but when trying to crowd-surf the coat back afterwards, another someone decided to keep the souvenir. Awkward situation, the rapper had to urge the thief to let go of the fur coat, and it was just one of those situations where most of the crowd thought "not so cool, dude. Return the coat" (which eventually happened).
Now, as much as this situation probably was about a fan wanting a souvenir from his idol, the whole thing did make me think about the ethics of wearing fur. In the fur debate, ethics are pretty much defined as having to do with animal welfare, the necessity of the product, the utilization of the fur animals, environmental impact, and, to some people, the intrinsic value of the animals – but what about the value to humans?
The only theme in the ethical debate that matters for the animals is the welfare provided for them whilst they are alive. Animals do not have an opinion about global warming, and they certainly do not have a clue of whether they are becoming food or fashion. Because animal welfare is the only thing from the debate animals can feel and experience, animal welfare is the single most important argument in the moral justification of using fur.
The rest of the arguments are only relevant to humans, and Macklemore's fur coat kind of inspired me to an extra take on that.
Say we have a plate of chicken and a fur coat. Say that the chicken is deliciously prepared, and the consumer who eats the chicken gains both a full stomach and some joyful moments because this was a particularly sweet and tasty chicken. The next day however, her stomach is empty, and a few days after that the chicken is erased from our consumer's memory forever.
The fur coat is another matter. If it is a cool fur coat, our consumer is likely to talk a lot about it, and this will lead to others talking about it. The fur coat might become a subject of admiration, maybe even envy, and even strangers will admire the fur coat. Perhaps, at some point in its life span, the fur coat will ignite an emotional debate about ethics too, but in the most cold of those winters, no one can argue against the value of the fur coat, and the owner's appreciation is certain to grow. Year after year, the fur coat will provide moments of human feel-good and appreciation, perhaps even happiness, to its owner.
The chicken, on the other hand, is forgotten the same week it is consumed.
The life span of a fur coat is maybe 20-25 years. The value to the consumer during this time is obviously tremendous in comparison with a plate of chicken. And then, when the life of the fur coat seems to be over, it may just get another life through the thrift shop and revoke another number of positive human moments.
"What you know about rockin' a wolf on your noggin?
What you knowin' about wearin' a fur fox skin?
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After it was officially revealed in some images last week, the VW Golf Plug-in Hybrid is being placed into the spotlights once again, this time with the German based automaker releasing new details on it. According to the car manufacturer, the Volkswagen Golf Plug-in Hybrid will use the same powertrain as the concept version of the Audi A3 e-tron plug-in hybrid, when it will make its way onto the market sometimes next year, in its final production form.
The VW Golf Plug-in Hybrid will get a 1.4 liter TFSI engine under its hood, producing 150 HP (110 kW) and an electric motor with 102 HP (75 kW), mated to a dual clutch e-S tronic six-speed transmission. The total output stands at 204 HP (150 kW) and 350 Nm of torque (258 lb-ft), which is enough to allow the model to accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) in just 7.6 seconds, and to burn an impressive 1.5 L of fuel every 100 km (188 mpg UK / 156.5 mpg US), while emitting 35 g/km of CO2. The "green" Golf can travel in electric mode for up to 50 km (31 miles) and it can hit a top speed of 130 km/h (81 mph). The model will be brought to Geneva, next month.
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Atlantix Global Systems Joins Dell's PartnerDirect Program
Atlantix Global Systems, a leading privately-held technology asset recovery company, today announced it has joined Dell's PartnerDirect program as a Registered Dell Partner.
Built on three main tenets of simplifying IT, less complexity, and the advantages offered by the Dell business model, PartnerDirect will create a lasting and mutually beneficial relationship between Dell and Atlantix."PartnerDirect is designed to provide companies like Atlantix with the opportunity to utilize Dell's enterprise expertise while also helping us to evolve our culture," said Greg Davis, Dell vice president and general manager of Americas Channel Group. "Allowing our partners to utilize many of the features that we provide to end users to help make their companies more efficient, PartnerDirect relationships also help us to create an environment where our teams are out winning on behalf of Dell."
Over the past year, Atlantix has been passionate about capturing market share in the IT industry. Atlantix views its participation in and commitment to Dell's Partner Direct program as a testament to their future potential.
"We are pleased with the progress we are making in achieving our goals for 2008 and the decision to add Dell to our partner list has helped us get there," said Brian Glahn, senior vice president, Atlantix Global Systems. "As a Dell partner, our management team has created a plan that positions us as a leader in the IT life cycle management process. We are pleased to see the fruit it has produced."
Through PartnerDirect, Dell is formalizing existing initiatives to help partners like Atlantix increase profitability and deliver greater value and choice to their customers. In December 2007, Dell launched a dedicated partner online community to broaden conversations about how Dell can best meet the needs of its partners and work with them to simplify information technology for their customers.
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Ponting facing what Border went through in the 1980sNovember 22nd, 2008 - 2:03 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Nov.22 (ANI): Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting is probably going through a phase in his sporting life that was something similar to what his predecessor Allan Border went through in the mid-1980s.
According to the Daily Telegraph, Ponting is facing a n inquisition of sorts on tense selection issues, the insecurity of under-performing players, the glee of other nations at extending the once-invincible champions and a nosy media, all of which were experienced by Border when he took over the Australian captaincy after the tearful and shocking retirement of Kim Hughes and the retirements of stalwarts like Greg Chappell, Dennis Lillee and Rodney Marsh.
Mark Taylor once said five years was the sensible limit for a Test captain. Border did it for 10. Ponting has done it for four and a half. Next month he will be 34, the same age at which Taylor retired.
Ponting is determined to press on and so he will. But there will be no silken ride into retirement. His toughest years will be his last and no one wants that.
It is clear from the last month of international cricket that Ponting''s challenge as captain is not simply to keep his team fresh and energised but also himself in the same condition.
It is a shame Ponting remains angry at Border for criticizing his bowling tactics in Nagpur because Border is one of the few captains who can relate to Ponting''s challenge.
Border retired just as Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath were reaching full bloom. For much of his career his attack was in a state of flux.
There is much to be learnt from him, particularly because if he did it again there would be plenty of things he would change.
As a leader Ponting is more relaxed than Border and so he should be.
During this time Border never even changed his home phone number, though often when he answered the phone with a tense "Hullooo" you could tell the strain that was riding with him.
Border was at the helm for most of a four-year period in the mid-1980s when Australia had such a poor side they did not win a series. Despite this, he managed a Test average of above 50 - a truly exceptional performance. Every team in the world tried to nail him. No one did. (ANI)
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Texans' Jacoby Jones hopes to inflate his return numbers against the coverage-challenged Vikings
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Twice named the AFC's Special-Teams Player of the Week, the Texans' Jacoby Jones could be on the cusp of becoming one of the game's most feared punt returners.
In contrast, the Minnesota Vikings' punt-coverage team qualifies as fearful, having offered up bad moments, surrendering three touchdowns and free-falling to the bottom of the NFL rankings in yards allowed per return.
With the Texans visiting Minnesota on Sunday, this becomes a crucial matchup, and one where the Texans seem to have an outcome-tilting edge. Still, Texans special-teams coach Joe Marciano readily says, "(The Vikings) sure have given up some big plays," but he's hardly licking his chops.
Marciano grudgingly admits liking where Jones is heading after a fumble-prone preseason, saying: "Jacoby is growing up. He's making some good decisions. He's keeping the football tied to his body."
But Marciano doesn't believe the second-year pro or the Texans' return game has arrived, and he comes quickly to the Vikings' defense, noting how they have been victimized, certainly in the case of New Orleans' Reggie Bush, by extraordinary efforts, not lackluster play. Bush ran two punts back for touchdowns against Minnesota.
"That was a guy making a play with no blocking," Marciano said. "Look at the film. He got it all on his own. It wasn't lack of trying (by Minnesota), believe me."
Having seen the harm a Reggie Bush can do, the wary Vikings won't overlook or underestimate Jones, who picked up his second punt-return touchdown against Cincinnati on Sunday after taking one the distance against Miami two weeks earlier.
The 73- and 70-yard scampers — both ending in the arms of his mother and other family members, who conveniently occupy front-row seats just beyond the north end zone at Reliant Stadium — give him a gaudy 14.7-yard average over 15 returns.
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That's second only to Bush's 20.4 among all returners with more than seven attempts. But as coaches are wont to do, Marciano sees that glass as half-empty.
"Take away the two long runs," he said, "and we're probably last in the league. We haven't got any consistency going."
When a reporter interjected, "but," Marciano cut him off.
"Ain't no but about it," Marciano said. "Every time someone says 'but' there's an excuse coming. The week before, we had a minus-12 on a return and (Jones) was back there hiding on another."
That's called tough love, NFL-style. Remember Marciano's strategy after Jones fumbled in the preseason opener against Denver?
Following practices the next week, he was made to run a gantlet of teammates who were doing everything they could to strip the football from him. Then, when Jones coughed it up again in New Orleans, he spent the next 21 days carrying a ball everywhere he went. Marciano's orders.
Jones said, with a half-smile: "It worked," and he hasn't committed a turnover during the regular season. But that hasn't made Marciano easier to live with.
"Joe's going to ride me no matter what," Jones said. "You just roll with it. This is a game of adversity. You have your ups and downs, and you're only as good as your last play. That's hard to handle sometimes, but you try to keep the man above on your side and just fight through it."
Coach Gary Kubiak applauds Marciano for how he kept after Jones, and Jones for how he responded.
"You've got to give Joe a lot of credit," Kubiak said. "(Jones) went through a tough time and put some balls on the ground, but Joe continued to stay with him and coach him. We worked really hard on his protecting the ball. He's basically gotten his confidence back and become a big factor on the field."
As for the opportunity for more fireworks that appears to beckon in the Vikings' Metrodome, Jones said: "Maybe they've fixed things, maybe they haven't. It's on us as a team anyway. The main thing is we've got some chemistry now. Everybody's doing his job."
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With great pleasure, too.
"It's great to have Jacoby back there," said veteran safety and special-teams contributor Nick Ferguson. "I'll tell you what, when you look at our first few games, we weren't playing well on special teams as far as giving our offense and defense field position. But Jacoby's shown he can break out any time and either score points or give you great field position."


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Played in SpikeFlail for years, some time after NA release until 2009/2010 and is now applying to my shell in XIV. Bravura WAR, PLD, etc.
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Played in SpikeFlail for years, some time after NA release until 2009/2010 and is now applying to my shell in XIV. Bravura WAR, PLD, etc.
edit: UGH SORRY, Darkbrilliance is the character name.
Was in spikeflail in xi for some time with DB, he worked hard leading the shell even after most leader quit the game an the shell was falling apart. Then we moved to xiv an again he spent most of his time arranging events and helping members of the linkshell progress. Skilled player an helpful person.
Hello I'm Amina and former leader and one of the founders of SF, I played with DB for over 6 years in FFXI and he was one of the most skilled and hardworking members of the linkshell.
There are apparently some rumors about him having something to do with the "hacking" of Itazuras account, but he had nothing to do with that. As far as I know it was all Yarlys work and he switched server very shortly after together with Kendlar.
Feel free to ask me any questions you want to know about him
Played with him for ~2 years in XI, he was a great person and good player back in there. I'm sure he will be a good member and I don't think you find any trouble/drama about him ^^
EDIT: Forgot to say my names! Kaolla (Ragnarok XI), Blintz Suu (Ragnarok XIV)
Played with him for over 4-5 years on SpikeFlail (Ragnarok). And like everyone said, he's a great person you can trust on, and a skilled player who will always help on anything.
I also played with him on FFXIV. Sadly I left this game, but will come back on 2.0. My FFXI name was Chonataru, and my FFXIV one is Choco Feru.
I was in a SF with Db for about 1-2 years, he was hard working and skilled player and always willing to help with members in the shell.
Solid player! Helped to keep the linkshell alive even when people were moving on for other games or rl endeavors.
Working hard and ready to invest lots of time - good addition to any serious LS.
Played with Db on FF for about 8 yrs, he is one of the most hardworking, loyal players out there and will always put in 110% to anything he does. He'll be the one playing up til 7am to get stuff done or help out other ls members and will always consider others before himself. An excellent addition to any ls who believes in excellence, respect, persistence and a no-drama policy; qualities that Db and we in SF lived by for years and instilled constantly by sacks to members. Ask the rest of the Ragnarok server!
Basically, you'll have no regrets picking him up :)
Played with him for some time, he was always helpful and attentive as a sack about the members of the LS, never saw him in a fight, he was also very hardworking and always helped to push the LS and events forwards.
Actually, his name was DarkBrillance in game. No, he had nothing to do with the Itazura thing, that was all me and that was a long time ago. DB always showed up for events and helped everyone out whether it was crafting (he was a high level clothcrafter I believe) or just killing shiz.
Don't miss out on snapping DB up for your shell. One of the most helpful, skillfull, knowledgeable and selfless players around. A great sackholder in SF on XI.
spent 5+ years in SF with DB before the ls slowly dissolved around the era of VNM's. I really don't think there was anything at all negative about him, always active for lots of events, kept up with current events/bg lurking and all that. would stay up to pretty abseurd times, can think of many occaisions he came thru for 3-6AM tiamats(those old days D:!). there is apparent some rumor he had something to do with itazura's account getting stripped, but as a member of the shell at the time(and one of SF's most active members) this is completely inaccurate @ the claims i'm hearing getting thrown around, i didn't even hear of this at the time when i was in the ls, and itaz frequented ventrilo with a small click of ls ppl that i was involved with, i never heard anything like this, hearing about it now out of left field seems so random, but i know for a fact db had nothing to do with it, hes always been a straight shooter, one of the players around from the old endgame "hardcore"(hardcore boring :E) days, so he knows his stuff, and knows how to quickly adapt/learn/keep up with the curve, i really really hope u dont pass him up, what id give to get him back on my server just to have that dedicated of a member. as one of the most active members of SF im kinda amazed i never heard a single chime of this, but id welcome cely or itaz (or whoever this is originating from) to come here and clarify, if someone out there is making any accusation, I expect them to come here, to this thread with 7+ of SF's leaders/most core/most dedicated people, and explain it to us. that would certainly clarify things.
Played with him in SpikeFlail, and I believe I posted his Bravura on the Relics thread myself. He was always helpful and kind, and I can't speak for the events claimed, since that was before I joined, but I cannot imagine him doing this kind of stuff to anyone. He was a good player in FFXI, hope you guys enjoy him in your shell, he was a really funny guy, too. (:
Good morning,
I played with Db for quite some time, his friends gave their word to support him joining our shell. I helped lead SF and it's previous shellname with the valuable time and dedication from righteous sackholders like Amina and Selim, who've posted already.
Darkbrilliance was not a sackholder at the time of Itazura's account being trashed, he was made sackholder after I quit FFXI; that's after the account pillage. So I don't see how any responsibility of moral, blame or judgement can be applied to him at all. The following is what I consider as fact, which is the password was conveyed through jurjur to Frankthetank and he deleted all the items in a childish act, purely due to disliking Ita.
On Db's behalf, even though he has had many positive reviews already. The friends who vouched for him were proven true, in the linkshell he developed into a core member who participated in many pushes through wyrms, sea and dynamis. I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't give a potentially awesome member like Db a trial.
SF remake go? seems all you bros still lurk around here!
Lot of old people up in hur.
Been playing with DB long time ago was good hard working player
Wish him luck
I miss old days in TheCalm LS
Any way still ppl playing ?


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'Jena Six' defendant accused of assault in Texas
Published 6:00 pm, Wednesday, February 6, 2008
A "Jena Six" defendant has been released on bail today after his arrest on an assault charge after a fight with a fellow student at his new suburban Dallas high school.
Nineteen-year-old Bryant R. Purvis is now living in the Dallas area. He was freed from the Denton County jail today after he was charged with assault causing bodily injury.
The Class A misdemeanor is punishable by up to a year in jail and a fine of up to $4,000 fine.
Purvis' mother, Tina Jones, says her son got into an altercation with another student at Hebron High School yesterday after he was told the student had vandalized his car the night before.
Purvis was one six black Jena High School students initially charged with attempted murder in a December 2006 assault on white student Justin Barker at the school.
Soon after Purvis' arrest, Jones said she sent him to live with his uncle, Dallas Cowboys defensive lineman Jason Hatcher, so he could stay out of trouble and out of the limelight.
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Police, K9 foil burglar
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — Wilmington Police say last night they caught another burglar in the act.
Police were called to 2204 Princess Place Drive around 9:18 p.m. for a breaking and entering in progress. A K9 officer found the suspect, who ran from the scene.
Investigators say K9 Arko chased down Ronald Sellers, 29. He was taken to the hospital, where he was treated and released and then taken to jail.
Sellers is charged with felony breaking and entering, second degree trespass and resisting arrest. He was also served on an outstanding failure to appear warrant. He received a $5,100.
Court records show Sellers has pending drug charges in New Hanover County. The Department of Corrections website shows Sellers has a criminal history that includes DWI, larceny and reckless driving.
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White house: Obama considering new sanctions on Russia over Syria
White house spokesman Josh Ernest. Said that the background of the situation around Syria, Washington is considering the introduction of new anti-Russian sanctions.
According to him, President Barack Obama is considering various options, and his national security team regularly provides it new information."
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Adela of Messines, OSB Widow (PC)
Died Ypres, Flanders, 1071. Saint Adela, widow of Count Baldwin IV of Flanders, received the Benedictine habit from Pope Alexander II and retired to Messines Convent near Ypres (Benedictines).
Adrian (Hadrian) M and Natalia (RM)
Adrian died at Nicomedia on March 4, c. 304; other feasts for the martyr are celebrated on March 4 and August 26; September 8 is the date of the translation of his relics to Rome.
Saint Adrian, a Roman imperial officer (either a pagan or a catechumen), watched as 23 Christians were being beaten before Emperor Maximian at the imperial court of Nicomedia. Their bravery prompted him to cry out, "Let me be counted as one of these, for I too am a Christian."
When his Christian wife of 13 months, Natalia, learned the reason for her husband's arrest, she was extremely proud. She ministered to Adrian and his fellow prisoners, who suffered excruciating tortures, and arranged for her husband to be catechized while interned. After Adrian had been sentenced to death, visitors were forbidden, but Natalia disguised herself as a boy and bribed her way into the prison to ask Adrian's prayers for her in heaven.
Natalia accompanied her husband to the executioner's block where he was to be cut to pieces. As the axe dismembered Adrian over an anvil, Natalia managed to save one of his hands. Distraught, she had to be restrained from casting herself into the fire when Adrian's body was burned with those of other martyrs. A rain storm extinguished the fire, allowing the Christians to gather the remains and bury them. (Another version of the story relates that the prisoners were to be burned to death, but the rain put out the fire.)
A few months later a pagan official began pestering Natalia to marry him. She had no intention of consorting with the heathen who had been responsible for Saint Adrian's death. She set sail to Argyropolis on the Bosporus, near Constantinople, taking her husband's hand with her. There she died peacefully on December 1 and is said to have been buried among the martyrs. Adrian's relics were later translated to Rome, then to Decline, Flanders, where they were placed by Count Baldwin VI (husband of Saint Adela of Messines) in the abbey now named Saint Adrian (if I understood this circuitous tale correctly). Many miracles were wrought at this shrine and attributed to Saint Adrian.
It is unknown which version or how much of this romantic story is true. There were two martyrs named Adrian who suffered at Nicomedia: one under Diocletian and the other under Licinius (Attwater, Benedictines, Bentley, Delaney, Husenbeth, White).
In art, Saint Adrian is portrayed as a Roman soldier with an anvil. His hand may be chopped off on the anvil or Natalia may be shown holding his severed limbs (Roeder). Sometimes he may be shown with a sword, lion, or hammer; as being thrown from a cliff into the sea (perhaps another Adrian?), or being brought to land by dolphins(?) (White). Adrian is the patron of soldiers, butchers (Roeder), arms dealers (who use anvils in their work), and prison guards, and is invoked against the plague (White). They are venerated in Lisbon (Roeder).
Blessed Alanus de Rupe, OP (PC)
(also known as Alain or Alan de la Roche)
Born in Brittany, France, 1428; died in Zwolle, the Netherlands, c. 1475-79; cultus never officially confirmed.
Alan de la Roche is credited by many with inventing, popularizing, or revising the Rosary. Although he began the claim that Saint Dominic was the inventor of the Rosary (or the recipient of it from the Blessed Mother herself), the Jesuit Bollandists, Herbert Thurston (one of the foremost hagiographers ever), and the prudent Cardinal Schuster all agree that the first biographers of Dominic did not make this claim. In fact, there is evidence that the Rosary was in existence long before Dominic was born. It is clear that the legend of the origin of the Rosary as a gift from the Blessed Virgin to Saint Dominic while he was in ecstasy was begun by Blessed Alan
Some object to the extravagant miracles he relates in his popular book on the subject. Nevertheless, he founded the Confraternity of the Psalter of Jesus and Mary (now called the Confraternity of the Rosary) in Douai, France, in 1470. The first printed manual of the Confraternity of the Rosary, which explained how to say it and laid out the now general 15 mysteries, was published in Cologne in 1476.
Alan entered the Dominican Order at Dinan in the diocese of Saint- Malo in Brittany when religious life in the region was at a low ebb. He migrated from there to the Netherlands, where he preached, wrote, and organized. He was extraordinarily devoted to the Blessed Mother and never missed an opportunity to preach the Rosary.
Much of his history is shrouded because records were destroyed during the wars of the times in which he lived. He was a professor at Saint-Jacques in Paris, Lille, and Douai, so he must have been a capable and sound theologian. He received his master's degree in sacred theology in 1474. His best-known work was done in the Rheinland near Cologne, but he travelled throughout Europe including Poland, where he was visitator. By the time of his death, he was such a popular figure that it is difficult to sift the legend from the fact.
Alan is supposed to have had a vision of the Blessed Mother, who encouraged him to revive devotion to the Rosary. Thus, he preached on it and Saint Dominic, especially in Germany, where the founder's personal influence had never been felt. He also hoped that the confraternity he founded at Douai would become an international one. Previously such local groups were started by soon died out.
He (or Father James Sprenger) established a confraternity at Cologne during wartime, and centered it around the Rosary Altar, at which the faithful prayed for peace. When peace was won, he arranged for a feast of thanksgiving. He also petitioned Emperor Frederick III to arrange with the pope for an international confraternity to be begun and unified and organized to last by establishing certain obligations of prayer and penance for its members. The feast was held on the Feast of the Birth of Mary in 1479. The emperor's signature was first on the Register of the Confraternity, followed by that of his wife Eleanor and son Maximilien, then all his court. Blessed Alan died that very day.
But his confraternity did not die with him. Five thousand names were added within the first few months; 50,000 by the end of the year. In less than 25 years, the confraternity had reached every corner of Europe, perhaps because it meant so much for isolated individuals to be united in such an international effort and share in the work and merit of a great religious order. Membership offered indulgences never before available to the laity. Members were required to enroll with the Dominican fathers, say either the 150 Psalms or the complete Rosary once weekly, and receive the sacraments at stated times. Members were also allowed to enroll deceased friends and relatives who could then share in the indulgences. The confraternity still exists today in every Dominican parish, and the indulgences are yet available (Benedictines, Dorcy, Encyclopedia).
In art, Blessed Alanus is depicted as a Dominican holding a banner of the rosary as the Blessed Virgin takes him by the hand (Roeder).
Ammon, Theophilus, Neoterius & Companions MM (RM)
Date unknown. A group of 25 Christians martyred at Alexandria. All the names are known, but not the date or other information (Benedictines).
Corbinian of Freising B (RM)
Born at Châtres (near Melun), France; died 730. This early apostle of Bavaria was baptized Waldegiso after his father, but his mother changed his name to Corbinian, after herself--it must a been a very interesting family life! He lived as a anchorite for 14 years in a cell that he built near a chapel in Châtres on the road to Orléans. The fame of his sanctity, which was increased by the occurrence of several miracles and the prudent advice that he gave in spiritual matters, drew several followers whom he formed into a religious community under his discipline.
The distraction that this gave him made him think of seeking some new place where he might live in obscurity, and because he also had a devotion to Saint Peter, he determined to go to Rome and become an anchorite. He visited Pope Saint Gregory II to received his apostolic blessing on his new undertaking. But when the holy father discovered the saint's abilities, he admonished Corbinian to use his talents to harvest God's fields. The Frank agreed because he had learned to listen to what he thought was God's voice.
So Gregory sent Corbinian, who may already have been a bishop or who was so consecrated by Gregory, to preach in Bavaria, where he put himself under the protection of Duke Grimoald. After having successfully increased the number of Christians, he fixed his residence at Freising, in Upper Bavaria, which, however, did not become a regular episcopal see until Saint Boniface made it such in 739.
Though indefatigable in his apostolic duties, Corbinian was careful not to undertake more than he could handle, lest he should forget what he owed to his own soul. He always performed the divine office leisurely, and reserved several hours daily for holy meditation, so that he would have the spiritual resources with which to complete his obligations in the mission field.
When Saint Corbinian discovered that his Christian patron Grimoald had defied Church discipline by marrying his brother's widow, Biltrudis, he refused to deal with the duke until they separated. But the lady Biltrudis was offended by this truth and persecuted Corbinian in the hope of cowing him into allowing her to be reinstated. She abused him as a foreign interloper, specifically, a British bishop--which of course he was not. Losing hope she conspired to have him murdered. The saint took refuge at Meran, and remained in semi-exile until Grimoald (who had rejoined Biltrudis in his absence) was killed in battle shortly after and Biltrudis was carried off by the Franks.
Thereafter, Corbinian was recalled by Grimoald's successor, and continued his missionary work throughout Bavaria. Corbinian was buried at a monastery he had founded at Obermais, at Meran, but his body was brought to Freising in 765 by Aribo, his second successor and biographer (Benedictines, Delaney, Husenbeth, Walsh).
In art, Saint Corbinian is portrayed as a bishop making a bear carry his luggage because it has eaten his mule. The image may show just the bishop and a bear. Corbinian might also be shown with Duke Grimoald at his feet and the bear and mule in the background (Roeder).
Disibod (Disibode, Disen) of Bingen, OSB B (AC)
Died c. 700. Disibod was an Irishman, perhaps a bishop, who became disillusioned by his unsuccessful attempts to reform his compatriots. He migrated to the Continent with several companions. There they founded a monastery on a hill in the Nahe Valley near Bingen, Germany, which became known as Disibodenberg or Disenberg (Mons Disibodi). There they were more successful in winning souls for Christ. The monastery later became famous as the residence of Saint Hildegard, who wrote his vita in 1170 based on a mystical revelation. The few facts in the vita are simply the traditions about him that were then current (Benedictines, Farmer, Husenbeth, Montague). In art, Saint Disibod sits reading in a cell with a rosary and cross, his episcopal insignia at his feet. There are also some pictures of Disibod with Saint Hildegard of Bingen (Roeder). He is venerated at Disenberg and Bingen (Roeder).
Eusebius, Nestabus, Zeno, and Nestor MM (RM)
Died 362. These martyrs were massacred by a mob in the Gaza, Palestine, during the reign of Julian the Apostate because they had desecrated a pagan temple. The first three are brothers; Saint Nestor is the youth who was said to have died the day after his comrades. They were seized in their homes, thrown into prison, and severely scourged. The townspeople, gathered in the amphitheater, wanted the impudent men punished and, as often happens in large crowds, the emotional level rose to a frenzy. As a body they ran to the jail, hauled the confessors out of jail, and roughly dragged them across the pavement, as others pummeled them with stones, rocks, clubs, whatever was at hand. Women quit their work to run the points of their spindles into them, pour scalding water over them, and pierce them with their spits. Thus mangled, with their skulls so broken that their brains smeared over the ground, the martyrs were dragged to the pit outside town where dead beasts were thrown, and set ablaze. Their remains were mingled with those of the dead animals so that they would be more difficult for other Christians to recover. This is likely to be a fairly accurate account that was recorded in Church History by Theodoret and by So zomen (Benedictines, Husenbeth).
Ina and Ethelburga (PC)
Died at Rome, Italy, 727-730. It is said that Ina was an Anglo-Saxon king of Wessex (688- 726), who had a reputation as a trouble maker, but whose wife Ethelburga taught him right uses of his power and possessions. He is best remembered for restoring Glastonbury Abbey. He abdicated about 726 in order to make a pilgrimage with Ethelburga to Rome, where they ended their days in piety and penance (Benedictines, Encyclopedia- Feb.).
Blessed Martyrs of Japan (AC)
Died at Nagasaki, Japan, 1628 (1634?); beatified in 1867. These brave Christians all grew up amid scenes of terror, when Christians were dying regularly, yet they maintained the faith and developed it. The most complete information I have comes from the Dominicans and concentrates on just two of the martyrs, but will provide some background. There may be other martyrs that should be included in this list, but these are the ones I found:
Antony (Blessed) of Saint Bonaventure, OFM -- Born in Tuy, Galicia, Spain, 1588. After studying in Salamanca, Blessed Antony joined the Franciscans. He was appointed to serve in the Manila mission, where he was ordained priest. Thereafter he migrated to Japan, where he is recorded to have reconciled 2,700 apostates before he was burned alive.
Antony (Blessed) of Saint Dominic, OP Tert. -- 20-year-old native of Japan, a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic, and a friend of Blessed Dominic Castellet, the vicar provincial; beheaded.
Dominic (Blessed) of Nagasaki, OFM -- Native catechist, who, while he was imprisoned at Omura, received the Franciscan habit from Blessed Antony of Saint Bonaventure; burned alive.
Dominic (Blessed) Nifaki -- Two-year-old son of Louis Nifaki, beheaded.
Francis (Blessed) Nifaki -- Five-year-old son of Louis Nifaki, beheaded.
James (Blessed) Fayaxida, OP Tert. -- Japanese layman who joined the Dominican tertiaries before his decapitation for the faith.
John (Blessed) Tomaki, OP Tert. -- Japanese layman, member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic, a very active Catholic and the proud father of four sons who were also martyred: Blessed Dominic (age 16), Michael (age 13), Paul (age 7)
John (Blessed) Inamura, OP Tert. -- Japanese layman, member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic, beheaded for assisting the missionaries.
Jordan (Blessed) of Saint Stephen, OP -- Born in Sicily, Jordan became a Dominican and read all he could about the Oriental missions. When someone from the Philippines requested help, he convinced his superiors to send him. So, he joined other missionaries sailing from Seville, Spain, for the New World. During the voyage, he translated a biography of Saint Dominic from Spanish into Latin.
In Manila he was appointed infirmarian to the Chinese hospital so that he could learn Chinese and Japanese. He also studied the religious customs and superstitions of the people he would be teaching. Eventually he went to Japan disguised as a Chinese layman--it is unknown how a Sicilian could possibly do that!
Few priests were still able to preach during the persecutions. Once Jordan was saved by Blessed Dominic of Eriquicia. He was not as lucky on the Feast of Saint Dominic, when Thomas of Saint Hyacinth and he decided to visit a group of Christians who had not had a priest for eight years. That night one of the Christians warned them that the emperor's soldiers were nearby hunting for an Augustinian. The two priests tried to escape to prevent endangering the Christians, but were caught.
They were imprisoned for three months, repeated interrogated. During this time a native who spoke Portuguese came to them, pretending to be a Christian who had apostatized. He trampled on the crucifix, and the priests, heavily chained, tried to rescue it. They were condemned to die in the pits by being burned alive after undergoing the water torture--it took seven days for them to die. Dorcy relates that Jordan and Thomas of Saint Hyacinth were martyred on November 11, 1634; the Benedictine do not list Jordan and set the date for Thomas on September 8, 1628.
Laurence (Blessed) Jamada -- member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic, son of Blessed Michael Jamada, beheaded.
Louis (Blessed) Nifaki, OP Tert. -- Like Blessed John Tomaki, Louis was a Japanese member of the Dominican tertiaries. He was beheaded with two of his sons, Blessed Francis (age 5) and Dominic (age 2), for sheltering missionaries.
Matthew (Blessed) Alvarez, OP Tert. -- Beheaded because he was a native catechist and a member of the Third Order of the Friar Preachers.
Michael (Blessed) Jamada, OP Tert. -- Another Japanese layman and Dominican tertiary who was beheaded.
Michael (Blessed) Tomaki -- 13-year-old son of John Tomaki, beheaded.
Paul (Blessed) Aybara, OP Tert. -- Japanese catechist beheaded for the faith.
Paul (Blessed) Tomaki -- seven-year-old son of John Tomaki, beheaded.
Thomas (Blessed) of Saint Hyacinth, OP -- Thomas was another native catechist, born in Nagasaki and trained by the Jesuits who had also trained his parents as catechists. Thomas joined the Dominicans in Manila, the Philippines, where he was ordained. His scholastic record at the University of Santo Thomas was good; he perfected his Spanish and studied everything that he thought would make him more useful as an evangelist. As an able theologian, Thomas was the model of all virtues. With three others dressed as laymen, he made his way back to Japan through Formosa. They worked in the Dominican mission in Japan until each was caught; Thomas lasted the longest--four years. He was burned alive with Blessed Dominic Castellet (Benedictines, Dorcy).
Kingsmark (Cynfarch Oer, Kinemark) of Wales (AC)
Died 5th century. Saint Kingsmark is said to have been a Scottish chieftain who lived in Wales, where some churches are dedicated to him. The book of Llan Dav relates that he was a disciple of Saint Dyfrig and lent his name to Llangynfarch near Chepstow. One church dedicated to a Cynfarch at Llanfair Dyffryn, Clwyd, used to have a sanctus Kynvarch represented in a stained-glass window (Benedictines, Farmer).
Nestor of Gaza M (RM)
Died 362. Saint Nestor was a mere youth who was martyred Anthedon (Gaza), Palestine, during the persecutions of Julian the Apostate. He was among the group of Christians, including Saint Eusebius, who were brutally tortured. Half-dead they were dragged to the place of execution, but some in the crowd were moved by pity for the handsome youngster and insisted that he be left on the road to die. A Christian named Zeno, a cousin of the three other martyrs, returned to take Nestor to his home, where he died the following day. Zeno was later captured and whipped for this kindness (Benedictines, Encyclopedia, Husenbeth).
Sergius I, Pope (RM)
Born at Palermo, Italy; died in Rome, September 7, 701. Saint Sergius, the son of a Syrian merchant, was raised in Palermo and educated at Rome, where he became a priest. He succeeded Pope Conon on December 15, 687, despite the claims of Pascal and Theodosius, when he was supported by the exarch John of Ravenna. However, Sergius was forced to pay John the amount of the bribe promised by Pascal to the exarch to support his (Pascal's) nomination.
In 689, Sergius baptized Saint Caedwalla, king of the West Saxons. He consecrated Saint Willibrord bishop in 695 and encouraged the English missionaries in Germany and Friesland. He also defended Saint Wilfrid.
A storm was raised in 693 when Sergius refused to sign the decrees of the Council of Trullanum, which had been convened the previous year by Emperor Justinian II. Although there was only one Western bishop in attendance, the council had passed canons applicable to the whole Church. If Sergius accepted these decrees, it would have meant that Constantinople was on an ecclesiastical level with Rome. Hoping to force Sergius to sign, the emperor sent Zachary, the commander of his bodyguard, to Rome to bring Sergius to Constantinople. The people of Rome and Ravenna resisted Zachary, and forced him to seek the protection of the pope. Eventually he was forced from the city. The issue was settled when Justinian was deposed in 695.
Pope Saint Sergius, who had attended the schola cantorum in Rome, is also remembered for encouraging liturgical music and decreeing that the Agnus Dei be sung at Mass (Benedictines, Delaney).
In art, Saint Sergius is shown sleeping as an angel brings him the episcopal insignia for Bishop Saint Hubert of Ličge (Roeder).
Timothy and Faustus MM (RM)
Date unknown. Martyrs at Antioch, Syria (Benedictines).
About Saints of the Day
These summaries were prepared in 1998 by St. Patrick's parishioner Katherine I. Rabenstein and are reproduced on www.saintpatrickdc.org with the permission of the author. Note that the content has not been updated since that time and represents the research of the author. An alphabetical index of all saints on our site is available. Source references are also available. HTML formatting © 2007-2008 by St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Washington, D.C.


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Originally published on Thu January 29, 2015 7:46 am
The ouster of Bryan Stockton from his perch as CEO at Mattel this week came as the toymaker's best-known brands like Barbie stagnate and it loses business to Web-based games.
Stockton himself said last year that Mattel lacked an innovative culture and blamed it in part on something specific: bad meetings. That's a common and persistent corporate ailment.
Scott Ryan-Hart is a cartographer for the Ohio Department of Transportation, where a typical meeting can last more than two hours.
Originally published on Thu January 29, 2015 9:32 am
After the insurance exchanges set up under the Affordable Care Act first went live in late 2013, Lori Lomas started combing the website of Covered California on a hunt for good deals for her clients. Lomas is an agent at Feather Financial, in the Sierra Nevada town of Quincy, Calif.; she's been selling health policies in rural communities for more than 20 years.
Originally published on Thu January 29, 2015 7:20 am
The FDA is considering whether to approve the experimental use of genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys to help stop the spread of dengue fever and other diseases. Mosquito control officials in the region say they hope to get approval to begin releasing the insects in the Keys as soon as this spring.
There are few places in the United States where mosquito control is as critical as the Florida Keys. In this southernmost county of the continental U.S., mosquitoes are a year-round public health problem and controlling them is a top priority.
Originally published on Wed January 28, 2015 8:01 pm
As war rages in eastern Ukraine, European Union foreign ministers are preparing to meet Thursday to consider drastic new sanctions against Russia.
The EU and the United States say Moscow's troops and weapons are directly involved in an offensive by anti-government militias in Ukraine's eastern provinces.
The offensive is the latest phase in a war that has racked the region since last April — and it's grinding hard on the civilians who are caught in the middle.
McDonald's President and CEO Don Thompson is retiring and will be replaced by Steve Easterbrook, the fast-food giant said in a statement.
Originally published on Thu January 29, 2015 9:14 am
We wrote about dogs today and so, in the interest of bipartisanship, this story is about cats – one cat in particular: Bart.
Bart's owner, Ellis Hutson, 52, of Tampa, Fla., said he found the 1 1/2-year-old feline last week in the middle of the street. The cat was lifeless and lying in a pool of blood after apparently being struck by a car.
Originally published on Wed January 28, 2015 5:20 pm


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JUNEAU - Sealaska Heritage Institute is accepting applications for Celebration 2008 events.
The deadline for dance group applications is March 22. Applications for the Juried Art Show and Competition are due March 31. The deadline for Native Artist Market applications has been extended to April 15. And applications for the Toddler Regalia Review are due May 2.
For more information, see www.sealaskaheritage.org or call 463-4844.
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