At a White House dinner, a churchman offered a benediction and closed with the pious affirmation: "The Lord is on our side."
When President Lincoln did not respond to this sentiment, someone asked him, "Don't you believe, Mr. President, that the Lord is always on the side of the right?"
"I am not concerned about that," was Lincoln's answer, "for we know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. My concern is that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side."
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A Website saved this baby!
Heidi found herself pregnant, scared and alone. An abortion seemed the only way out. Then she found the Option line Website. Heidi realized she wasn't alone, that she had life-saving options and that there was someone out there who cared. Heidi made an appointment and chose life for her baby!
We have learned that one of the most cost effective ways to reach pregnant women is through the Internet. And we can use the Internet to lead women to a secure place where they can learn their options, talk to loving counselors, and find a local Pregnancy Counseling Center in their area.
With the help of current donors to the LifeDonor Network, Care Net's website for women in crisis was able to directly communicate to over 80,000 women in the past few months because of internet advertising.
That's why AFA has joined hands with the pro-life ministry of Care Net in supporting the LifeDonor Network. Please consider joining the LifeDonor Network. You can help keep Option-line online in serving women and give them hope. Hope that can save lives.
It only takes a small monthly contribution and your support WILL save lives!
Care Net is a Christian ministry assisting and promoting the evangelical, pro-life work of pregnancy centers in North America. This story is a composite derived from real Option Line stories. The Option Line call center & website is jointly owned and operated by Heartbeat International and Care Net.
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Today's Illustration - "Clean Communication"
In a software design meeting, we were using typical technical jargon to discuss a data exchange interface with a vendor. One co-worker said the programming we had ordered was delayed because the vendor was suffering from a "severe nonlinear waterfowl issue."
Curious, the team leader raised his eyebrows and asked, "What exactly is that?"
The programmer replied, "They don't have all their ducks in a row."
THIS WEEKEND, INDULGE IN FAMILY FUN AT THE BOX OFFICE WITH THE ANTICS OF OVER THE HEDGE AND LEAVE THE DA VINCI CODE IN THE DARK!
MOVIEGUIDE REVIEW: OVER THE HEDGE
Quality: * * *
Acceptability: +1
OVER THE HEDGE is a new animated comedy about a shifty raccoon who cons a group of animals into stealing food from humans so he can repay an angry bear. The bear catches R.J. trying to steal all his stash of food, plus a red wagon and a blue cooler, but the bear’s stash is destroyed in the process. The bear gives R.J. only a week to replace his stash of food and stuff. R.J. encounters a group of animals, led by a cautious turtle named Verne, living next to a large housing subdivision full of food to steal. Despite Verne’s warnings, R.J. convinces the animals to start stealing food from the humans. Of course, Verne’s warnings come true.
For the complete review of OVER THE HEDGE, and other current movies, visit http://www.movieguide.org.
OVER THE HEDGE is often very funny and entertaining and has a positive heartwarming ending, but it has some moral problems and is slow in parts. The major moral problem is stealing and destroying property that doesn’t belong to you. This is partly rebuked in the end, with R.J. being shamed into taking responsibility for his actions. The colorful antics of these wild and crazy animals will tickle your funny-bone and delight the whole family.
RATING: PG
RELEASE: May 19, 2006
TIME: 80 minutes
STARRING: THE VOICES OF Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling, Steve Carrell, Wanda Sykes, William Shatner, Nick Nolte, Avril Lavigne, Thomas Haden Church, Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy, Allison Janey, and Omid Djalili
DISTRIBUTOR: DreamWorks
MOVIEGUIDE ABHORRENT MOVIE WARNING:
THE DA VINCI CODE
THE DA VINCI CODE movie promotes the unrelenting, anti-Christian attacks and virulent paganism, goddess worship and pagan sexuality of the novel. Although it has made some changes and additions to the story, it contains enough falsehoods and scurrilous conjecture to distort the truth about Jesus Christ, the Bible, Christianity, and God. That, coupled with the book’s popularity and some Christians’ ignorance about their faith, leads us to believe that the movie, and the attention it draws, will increase some people’s hatred and prejudice against Christians and Christianity.
Please send a message to Hollywood -- go see OVER THE HEDGE instead of THE DA VINCI CODE.
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A cheerful heart is good medicine... (Prov 17:22a)
Blue Security CEO Eran Reshef:
"We didn't think PharmaMaster would go to extreme of launching a denial of service attack against so many organisations. With 20-20 hindsight we wouldn't have made these configuration changes, but at the time we didn't think he'd go so far. My mistake was not anticipating he'd go berserk."
"It's clear to us that (giving up spam-fighting efforts) would be the only thing to prevent a full-scale cyber-war that we just don't have the authority to start. Our users never signed up for this kind of thing."
The Blue Frog software tool, produced by Blue Security Inc., operated as part of a community-based anti-spam system which tried to persuade spammers to remove community members' addresses from their mailing-lists by automating the complaint process for each user as they receive spam. Blue Security maintained these addresses in encrypted form in a Do Not Intrude Registry, and spammers could use free tools to clean their lists.
Blue Security ceased operations on May 16th 2006 due to fears the spammers would continue to mass DDOS sites in order to seek revenge.
Blue Security CEO Eran Reshef later identified the attacker as PharmaMaster.
Prime suspects for the Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack on Blue Security's servers have been identified in the ROKSO database as Christopher Brown AKA Swank AKA "Dollar", his partner Joshua Burch AKA "zMACk" and "killthem."
Spammers frequently engage in deliberate fraud to send out their messages. Spammers often use false names, addresses, phone numbers, and other contact information to set up "disposable" accounts at various Internet service providers. They also often use falsified or stolen credit card numbers to pay for these accounts. This allows them to move quickly from one account to the next as the host ISPs discover and shut down each one.
They go to great lengths to conceal the origin of their messages. They do this by spoofing e-mail addresses (much easier than Internet protocol spoofing). The e-mail protocol (SMTP) has no authentication by default, so the spammer can easily make a message appear to originate from any e-mail address. To prevent this, some ISPs and domains require the use of SMTP-AUTH, allowing positive identification of the specific account from which an e-mail originates.
Theoretically, spammers cannot completely spoof e-mail delivery chains (the 'Received' header), since the receiving mailserver records the actual connection from the last mailserver's IP address. To counter this, some spammers forge additional delivery headers to make it appear as if the e-mail had previously traversed many legitimate servers. But even when the fake headers are identified, tracing an e-mail message's route is usually fruitless. Many ISPs have thousands of customers, and identifying spammers is tedious and generally not considered worth the effort.
Spammers frequently seek out and make use of vulnerable third-party systems such as open mail relays and open proxy servers. The SMTP system, used to send e-mail across the Internet, forwards mail from one server to another; mail servers that ISPs run commonly require some form of authentication that the user is a customer of that ISP. Open relays, however, do not properly check who is using the mail server and pass all mail to the destination address, making it quite a bit harder to track down spammers.
Increasingly, networks of virus-infected Windows PCs (zombies, botnets) are used to send spam.
Spoofing can have serious consequences for legitimate e-mail users. Not only can their e-mail inboxes get clogged up with "undeliverable" e-mails in addition to volumes of spam, they can mistakenly be identified as a spammer. Not only may they receive irate e-mail from spam victims, but (if spam victims report the e-mail address owner to the ISP, for example) their ISP may terminate their service for spamming.
· http://www.monergismbooks.com/davincidvd.html
· http://www.cdu.edu/coursedescription.cfm?CourseID=302-2003
The Associated Press
Wednesday, May 17, 2006; 7:57 AM
NEW YORK -- Lew Anderson, who captivated young baby boomers as the Howdy Doody Show's final Clarabell the Clown, has died at the age of 84.
The musician and actor died Sunday in Hawthorne of complications of prostate cancer, said his son, Christopher Anderson.
Long mute as Clarabell, Anderson broke the clown's silence in the show's final episode in 1960. With trembling lips and a visible tear in his eye, he spoke the show's final words: "Goodbye, kids."
Though Anderson was not the only man to play "Buffalo Bob" Smith's mute sidekick, he was the best, Smith said in his memoir.
With the Peanut Gallery looking on, Anderson used bicycle horns to give yes and no answers. For more expressive moments, he wielded a bottle of seltzer.
The show, which launched in 1947 when televisions were still a novelty, was the first network weekday children's show. Anderson joined "Doodyville," a circus town peopled with puppets and human actors and watched by a Peanut Gallery of kids, in the mid 1950's.
Though his fame as Clarabell followed him throughout his life, Anderson was also a success as a musician and bandleader. In recent years, his All-American Big Band appeared on Friday nights at New York's Birdland jazz club.
Anderson was born in 1922 in Kirkman, Iowa. He started a band while serving in the Navy during World War II and later toured the Midwest with bands before landing in New York.
It was when he joined the Honey Dreamers, a singing group that appeared on radio and early television shows, that he met Smith and became a clown.
Anderson followed Bobby Nicholson, who later played Doodyville's J. Cornelius Cobb, into the role. The first to play the mute clown was Bob Keeshan, who later became known as Captain Kangaroo.
Anderson, who lived in South Salem, is survived by his wife, Peggy, two sons and five grandchildren.
 Lew Anderson in costume with his stepdaughter Lorie George of Danbury. |
"That's how I remember him," said Ron Simon, the museum's curator. "Standing there, dressed as Clarabell, writing charts."
Anderson, a South Salem, N.Y., man who died Sunday at 84, lived two unique lives.
His first love was music, specifically big-band jazz.
In a time when almost no one manages to keep an 18-piece band together, Anderson – a saxophonist, composer and arranger – found ways. His All-American Big Band played every Friday night at Birdland in Manhattan for the past nine years. Before that, it had an eight-year gig at The Red Blazer in Manhattan.
Lew Anderson plays saxophone with his jazz band at Birdland in New York City.
"He'd be the first to tell you he was a musician first," said his son, Christopher Anderson of Ridgefield.
But for millions of baby boomers, Lew Anderson was Clarabell – the last and, by consensus, the best incarnation of happy, silent energy on "The Howdy Doody Show."
"Clarabell just fell into his lap," said his stepdaughter, Lorie George of Danbury. "Thank goodness."
People of a certain age remember it well. Buffalo Bob Smith would shout to the Peanut Gallery, "Say, kids, do you know what time it is?" ("It's Howdy Doody time!"), and Howdy, the freckled-faced marionette, would wave hello from the puppet stage.
Chief Thunderthud would say "Kowabunga!" Anderson would be on hand in his red wig, white-painted face and baggy white-and-green striped clown suit to be Clarabell Hornblow Clown, providing pantomime and pratfalls.
Lew Anderson of South Salem, N.Y., as Clarabell the Clown, with Buffalo Bob Smith on the Howdy Doody show.
The show ran for 13 years, from 1947 to 1960, and Anderson was Clarabell for the last six of those years. It was the first hugely popular children's show in television history, and in its own simple, goofy way, it changed American history.
"It was the first show to reach the generation after World War II," said Simon of the Museum of Television and Radio. "What 'Sesame Street' was to the 1970s, and 'SpongeBob SquarePants' is to today, 'Howdy Doody' was to the 1950s.
"It really showed how television was going to disrupt life as it was known up to then."
"Howdy Doody was one of the first TV superstars to appeal to children," said Walter Podrazik, author of 10 books on American popular culture who is working on the redesign of the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago. "That show was one of the first to assure people that TV was an OK force in everyday life."
Anderson got the job while performing at NBC – Howdy's home network – with the Honey Dreamers, a vocal group. After he apologetically admitted to the show's producers that he couldn't juggle, dance or perform magic, they immediately made him the clown.What he could do was talk in Clarabell's tongue – one horn honk for yes, two for no – as well as spray Buffalo Bob with seltzer, and continually delight his audience.
"He ran with it," stepdaughter Lorie George said.
On the last "Howdy Doody Show" in 1960, Anderson provided TV with one of its great moments. Breaking Clarabell's silence, he simply turned to the cameras, a tear in his eye, and said "Goodbye, kids."
"People come to the museum and still ask to see it," Simon said.
Anderson kept the Clarabell costume. Starting in the 1970s, he toured college campuses with Buffalo Bob and Howdy; in the 1980s and 1990s, they opened malls.
When Smith died in 1998, those jobs mostly went away, although now and then Clarabell returned to accompany Anderson's old friend Soupy Sales on guest appearances.
"You can't be a silent clown without your talking partner," son Christopher Anderson said.
But by the 1970s, Anderson had renewed his ties with his true love, jazz. The band he put together, using freelance musicians from New York City's Broadway orchestras, was expert, polished and deeply swinging.
"He wrote and arranged all his own stuff, and it was the hottest band in town," Christopher Anderson said.
"People used to go into Birdland for a meal, hear the band and become regulars," Lorie George said.
Birdland owner John Valenti admits he had some trepidation about hiring a big band led by the guy who played Clarabell and whose best friend was Soupy Sales.
"But then, I looked at the guys he had playing for him and I knew three-quarters of them," Valenti said. "With those guys, I knew he couldn't be a slouch."
What started as an open-ended job at Birdland in 1997 never ended. Often, Anderson would come to the club early to set up the bandstand and arrange the lighting.
"He was phenomenal," Valenti said. "His charts were great and he played with all these pit band guys. Every Friday night, people would come to hear Lew."
"My God," Christopher Anderson said. "That Friday night band kept him alive."
Rob Zappulla of Hartford, a jazz trumpeter and vocalist of the still-touring Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, said he heard Anderson's band once and immediately hired him to write and arrange the charts for his 2000 CD, "Something Makes Me Want to Dance With You."
"I was blown away," Zappulla said. "I thought, 'There's no one else who can do this the right way.'Ÿ"
Everyone agreed Anderson was a wonderful human being – funny, kind-hearted and big-spirited, without a cross word for anyone.
"I never thought of my father as old," Lorie George said. "He was always young and hip."
"He was a mensch," Valenti said.
Like his last line on "Howdy Doody," Anderson closed his career at Birdland with great class. On April 28 – frail, in pain, dying of cancer – he led the All-American Band one last time.
"It took him five minutes just to cross the street to get here," Valenti said. "He wouldn't use a walker, but got up on the stand and he counted it off. His last number was 'Brazil.'
"When he left, we knew that was the last time we'd see him. But he didn't want to do things any other way."
Rules from God
1. Wake Up!!
Decide to have a good day.
"Today is the day the Lord hath made;
let us rejoice and be glad in it."
Psalms 118:24
2. Dress Up!!
The best way to dress up is to put on a smile.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
"The Lord does not look at the things man looks at.
Man looks at outward appearance;
but the Lord looks at the heart."
I Samuel 16:7
3. Shut Up!!
Say nice things and learn to listen.
God gave us two ears and one mouth, so He must have meant
for us to do twice as much listening as talking.
"He who guards his lips guards his soul."
Proverbs 13:3
4. Stand up!!
For what you believe in.
Stand for something or you will fall for anything..
"Let us not be weary in doing good; for at the proper time,
we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good..."
Galatians 6:9-10
5. Look Up!!
To the Lord.
"I can do everything through Christ who strengthens me."
Philippians 4:13
6. Reach Up!!
For something higher.
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
and lean not unto your own understanding.
In all your ways, acknowledge Him,
and He will direct your path."
Proverbs 3:5-6
7. Lift Up!!
Your Prayers.
"Do not worry about anything;
instead PRAY ABOUT EVERYTHING."
Philippians 4:6
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