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Now, only about one-quarter of the estimated 325 members live in celibacy in the convent and friary. The rest of the group, including secular families with a range of jobs, live in nearby households in Orleans.The Community of Jesus, a small, communal Christian sect in Orleans Massachusetts that stresses discipline and rejects homosexuality has made an effort in recent years to leave behind its shadowy past and accusations of psychological abuse.The group was founded 1958 by two Episcopal women, Cay Andersen and Judy Sorensen, or "Mother Cay" and "Mother Judy." They professed to represent God and called for absolute submission from their devotees, who lived communally in Cape Cod, said David Reed, a University of Toronto professor with expertise in cults and new religious movements.By the early 1970s, the Community of Jesus was gaining favour as a counterculture alternative to the rampant individual freedoms and sexual liberation of the previous decade, Mr.
Gangland Web Attacks
The increasingly frequent attacks in cyberspace make the Web look a lot like the mob-infested cities of the 1920s. Through spam, phishing attacks, and merchant fraud, online criminals are making a lot of money on the Internet, and they don't take kindly to anyone messing with their businesses. A particularly potent example of this came in May, when spammers targeted the Israeli antispam firm Blue Security for retaliation. Blue Security had created a small program called Blue Frog to turn a spam flood back on the advertiser, thus raising the cost of sending spam. The program would send a single opt-out request to the advertisers' Web sites for every registered user who received a spam message. Blue Security had about 500,000 subscribers to its service, so if a spam flood hit 20 percent of those users, then 100,000 opt-out requests would hit the advertisers who requested that the spam be sent.
ProPay Offers to Repurchase Up to 2,350,000 Shares, at $1.70 Per Share ...
OREM, Utah, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- ProPay, Inc. today announced that it intends to repurchase up to 2,350,000 of its shares at a price of $1.70 per share, representing a premium of approximately 65.7% based on the fair market value of unmarketable minority shares as determined by Houlihan Valuation Advisors as of March 31, 2007. If the offer is fully subscribed, the Company's outstanding shares would be reduced by approximately 15% at an aggregate cost of approximately $4,000,000. The tender offer will commence on or about November 5, 2007 and expire December 7, 2007, unless extended. The tender offer will be financed from the Company's existing cash and short term investments. .
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