(Prudent Press Agency) --- Built in 1869 by Canute Petersen, the home served as a meeting place for many local events during the past century and a half. "Travelers don't want to miss this opportunity to become a part of central Utah history," said Randall Labrum, owner and proprietor of the Ephraim House. "The guest house is a great hotel alternative, a great way to relax."

The home has been carefully restored with pioneer era furnishings. The mix of the pioneer decoration and the modern day conveniences make the home a great spot to enjoy the beauties of central Utah.

(Prudent Press Agency) --- The Nebraska Jurisdiction Church of God In Christ will celebrate 93 years of history in the state of Nebraska starting August 2-6, 2010. As they celebrate this great occasion, Nebraska Jurisdictional Presiding Bishop, Bishop J.O. Ford, Sr., welcomes the International Supervisor of Women of the Church of God In Christ, Mother Willie Mae Rivers as guest speaker at their 93rd Annual Holy Convocation. Mother Rivers oversees the 4th largest Protestant denomination Women’s Department with over 6.5 million members worldwide. cogic.org.

Mother Willie Mae Rivers was appointed International General Supervisor in April 1997. She continues to work in that office through effectively leading the women of the Church of God In Christ through programs, scholarships and training. Since her appointment as General Supervisor, Mother Rivers has been featured in the Charisma Magazine and on the 700 Club. She has also made a special guest appearance on TBN. Mother Rivers was recently honored by the National Organization for Marriage’s (NOM) with the 2010 Marriage Protector Award. This award was given to acknowledge “the steadfast witness of the Church of God in Christ in defending marriage as the union of husband and wife.”

(Prudent Press Agency) --- The National Trust has launched two new Top Trumps card games to help support the charitable work carried out by the Trust. Everything from tanks to Transformers have featured in the Top Trumps card game so far, but now some of the country's historic houses are set to battle it out in a new version of the game. The National Trust game is being made available in Trust shops and online and features thirty historic places to visit in the UK going head-to-head in battles over acreage, film and TV appearances, hauntings and cups of tea consumed.


The national heritage buildings include the 18th century hexadecagon house A La Ronde in Devon, Chedworth Roman villa (Gloucestershire) and Belfast's Crown bar, as well as the more stately Chirk Castle (Wrexham), Basildon Park (Berkshire) and Speke Hall (Merseyside). The game follows the successful National Trust Monopoly launched last year which gave people the chance to buy up their favourite places and develop visitor centres and holiday cottages.

(Prudent Press Agency) --- Travelers with an appetite for history will now find it easier to register for in-depth exposure to one of the Mediterranean’s best kept secrets: an English-speaking island museum boasting multiple UNESCO World Heritage Sites. With lectures by University experts, excursions and field trips, the program covers Malta’s pivotal role in 7,000 long years of human history in the Mediterranean including the Hospitaller Order of the Knights of St. John, the myth of Calypso and Ulysses, World War II, the shipwreck of St. Paul and the archaeological trail of a mysterious culture that created enigmatic curvilinear shrines to an Earth Mother. Accompanied by an archaeologist, participants are permitted to enter megalithic monuments that are the oldest buildings still standing in the world.

Age requirements are lifted for this Road Scholar program: a suitable new identity for participants in “MALTA – Keystone of Mediterranean History“, the ten-day course begun as a program for Elderhostel in 1996. Group members arrive, usually with extensive prior travel experience, eager minds and a wealth of world knowledge to share. The highly successful "easy learning" program hubs from a single hotel like a land cruise, includes most meals, museum and site admissions, a day on the smaller island of Gozo, and a full-time escort who resides at the hotel and dines with each group for the duration of the program. Operated by the Florida-based OTS Foundation, the program receives consistently high ratings for its seamless organization and highly qualified presenters. Site visits are greatly enhanced by a series of lectures by area experts.

(Prudent Press Agency) --- Rome is the only and true Eternal City with its 28 centuries of history still visible in the unique complex of masterpieces that have survived the passage of centuries. A place where each new civilization overlapped the old one, a multilayered open air museum where visitors can see a medieval church next to imperial roman ruins and with Renaissance and Baroque art masterpieces decorating its inside.

A city whose urban richness has been shaped by emperors and popes but where art experiments are still alive as shown by the architects Renzo Piano and Richard Meier, the contemporary heirs of artists such as Giotto, Raphael, Michelangelo, Bernini, Borromini and Caravaggio. To let students appreciate such complexity and beauty at its best while learning Italian language is the aim of the History of Art in Rome Course. The History of Art in Rome course consists of an introductory classroom session followed by three on-site guided tours. The syllabus is constructed as a series of interlocking journeys of discovery. During the first session a combination of texts, slides, illustrations and maps will introduce students to the art history of Rome and its development through time, from Republican Rome to the contemporary world.

(Prudent Press Agency)--- Back in 2005, Road America began surveying the commercial real estate landscape across the country to identify the ideal location for its second 24-hour International Call Center, its first call center outside their corporate headquarters in Miami, Florida. Starting with the recommendations of their consultant CB Richard Ellis, the list of desirable cities was narrowed from 3000 possibilities to fifty and then to ten…and finally to two. Road America executives credit the aggressive and creative work of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce with the Company’s decision to select the City for the 25,000 square foot facility employing up to 200 people during the busiest seasons.

While the new state-of-the-art facility was under construction, the Company operated out of a temporary headquarters at the Cross Country Plaza. That’s where Rebecca Harpe answered the first service phone call in Columbus, on May 15, 2006. By September the Company had moved into its new home on Victory Drive where its certified personnel, in cooperation with their colleagues in Miami, now field more than 105,000 service calls per month. The Center’s opening was heralded by a Key to the City from then-Mayor Robert Poydasheff and a ribbon cutting by Governor Sonny Perdue.

“Locating in Columbus was a great decision,” says Response Center Manager Bonnie Verhulst. “We have been thrilled with this city’s support, the environment, and the quality of employees we are able to recruit here.” It was a good move for Columbus too; experiencing economic challenges and the closure of some other call centers in the area, the boost from Road America’s commitment to build in Columbus was a healthy step towards revitalizing the region.

(Prudent Press Agency)--- At one point today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 998 points, the most that the Dow has ever fallen within a single trading day.


Due to the unrest, both economically and politically, in Greece, the American markets got the jitters during the middle of the session.


Just as the Dow was about to break the 1,000 point threshold (to the bad), it took a dramatic upturn, regaining about half of its losses.

(Prudent Press Agency)--- The Battle of Puebla took place on May 5, 1862 near the city of Puebla during the French interference in Mexico. The battle finished in a victory for the Mexican Army against the occupying French forces. The victory is celebrated today, 5th May during the festivities of Cinco de Mayo. It is celebrated mainly in the state of Puebla and in the United States. While Cinco de Mayo has partial significance nationwide in Mexico, the date is observed in the United States and other locations around the world as a carnival of Mexican heritage and pride.

In 1862, the United States was in the middle of a civil war of which the battle of Puebla is one part. The Battle of Puebla, May 5, 1862, was a single, important triumph for the Mexican people over the occupying French Army.

The French Army at the time was led by General Charles de Lorencez. The battle occurred because of a misunderstanding of the French forces’ concurrence to withdraw to the coast. When the Mexican people saw these French soldiers wandering about with rifles, they took it that warfare had recommenced and felt threatened. The concerns were mounted when the political negotiations had broken down for withdrawal.

(Prudent Press Agency)--- The real reason for the celebration of Cinco De Mayo, is not Mexican Independence as opposed to contrary belief, rather it is the Battle of Puebla.

Americans celebrate the Cinco De Mayo, with much fervor, eating and drinking Mexican food thinking that it is the Mexican Independence day, in fact they are mistaken, since it is actually the victory at the battle of Puebla which is celebrated.

At the Battle of Puebla, which occurred in 1862, the Mexicans were outnumbered by the French, and did not even have enough ammunition, but they somehow managed to beat the French Army which was sent by NapoleonNapoleon III. Cico De Mayo actually means May 5th, and this is when the battle of Puebla took place.

(Prudent Press Agency)--- MOSCOW (Reuters Life!) - A World War Two epic by Oscar-winning Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov opened on Thursday, wading into an intra-government fight over some efforts to rehabilitate Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.

With a budget of $55 million, "Burnt by the Sun 2" is Russia's most expensive film ever and was made to form part of the elaborate World War Two celebrations Moscow is preparing for the 65th anniversary of May 9, known as Victory Day in Russia. A sequel to Mikhalkov's 1994 film by the same name, which deeply impressed Western audiences and won the 1995 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the action moves forward from 1936 to 1941-1943, and resurrects the original's main characters.

A deeply foreboding, pockmarked Stalin, surrounded by nervous secret police officers and framed in hazy sunlight, begins the three-hour film and is part of a nightmare fantasy of Colonel Kotov, played by Mikhalkov. Horrified of upsetting Stalin, the NKVD secret police officers sweat over what to do about a menacing wasp hovering over the dictator's jam on toast. Kotov, filled with rage, suddenly smashes Stalin's face into a large cake bearing the Soviet leader's pipe-smoking profile in thick chocolate.

(Prudent Press Agency)--- The late American essayist, Henry David Thoreau once said that life in a city was nothing more than millions of people being lonesome together. A bleak and pessimistic view of cities in the least, the idea of the city was not initially to alienate one person from the next, but rather the opposite--to bring people with the similar goals of progress, communication and mutual exchange in one area wherein all could prosper.

Historians speculate that the first cities were brought together from the development of irrigation and advanced agricultural machines that enable surplus grains to be harvested with fewer peoples. These extra persons could now devote their mental talents to arts, writing, and other industries aside from harvesting and gathering food. As these systems became increasingly complex, so did the cities. heir population also thrived due to the efficiency inherent in the city structure and the subsequent defense they were able to offer other tribes who wanted to benefit and contribute to the city. Cities also economize on protection and the ability to defend their populations, a reason that further attracts outsiders to dwell in cities as opposed to more spread out and rural areas.

Other historians and social scientists also argue that it is the proximity that attracts people to cities. The closeness of buildings reduces the distances traveled and transportation costs, while the structure of a compact city makes for the easy

(Prudent Press Agency)--- Within the scope of this research, we will assess the change in lives of ordinary people that occurred when the Soviet Union dissolved and Russia set up as an independent country. The Soviet Union was created in October 1917 by a small but devoted band of revolutionaries whose beliefs and goals were shaped by the writings of Karl Marx. Marx (1818-1883) considered the Industrial Revolution to be an era of increasing social and economic injustice, and he was opposed to the accumulation of wealth by capitalist means. For more than seventy years, Soviet Union was expanding its influence on the neighboring regions, simultaneously establishing totalitarian regime on its own territory.

After careful examination of different changes that took place after fall of the Soviet Union, it is apparent that while new Russian reality has many unpleasant issues, it is still more preferable to the ordinary people than living in the environment of total oppression and no freedom. (Brown 114)

A broad-based anti-Soviet movement began in all the Warsaw Pact countries in October 1989, and Gorbachev (then president of the Soviet Union) allowed it to grow. Perhaps he underestimated the force of nationalism and the popular disregard for Soviet authority in these countries, but he was determined that Warsaw Pact Communists had to win the support of their own people to maintain power, without Soviet assistance.

(Prudent Press Agency)--- CHARLIE CHAPLIN once said, "I remain just one thing, and one thing only — and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.” Today it is the birth anniversary of comedy legend Charlie Chaplin.

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, KBE (1889–1977) was a great comedic actor and director of great eminence. Charles Spencer Chaplin was born on 16 April 1889 at Walworth in London, England and died on 25 December 1977 at the age of 88, in Vevey, Switzerland.

Besides acting, he had been a successful film director, film producer and screenwriter, composer, and mime artist.

(Prudent Press Agency)--- Ninety-three years ago today, on a drizzly Easter Monday the young men of the Canadian Corps supported by the most tightly organized bombardment in history left dugouts, trenches and tunnels and charged up the slopes of Vimy Ridge.
Ottawa, Canada - Only days later and with less than 10,000 casualties the Canadians stood atop Vimy Ridge and stared down onto pastoral fields and villages of the Douai Plain, untouched by the gas, guns and devastation of World War I. They had succeeded where the French and the British had failed at the cost of hundreds of thousands of casualties. Vimy Ridge was a stunning display of Canadian technical skill and innovations in artillery spotting and infantry/artillery co-operation and, in terms of First World War trench warfare, extremely light in numbers of casualties. The Canadian Corps shone at Vimy Ridge.
However, it was also the fruit of three years of costly evolution in the Canadian Expeditionary Force’s manner of making war. In terms of valour, it stands on a par with, but not above, the heroic resistance Canadians offered at Ypres, to the first gas attack, two years earlier. It set the stage for, but does not supersede the performance of the Canadians at Ypres, again, in the autumn of 1917 or during the “Hundred Days” when the Canadian Corps was recognized as the “Shock Troop” of the Allied armies and the most potent weapon on the Western Front — a reputation that saw it spearhead the majority of the Allied offensives in 1918 and also pay the inevitable price for its role and reputation.

(Prudent Press Agency)--- The discovery of a new hominid species has been officially announced at the Cradle of Humankind site near Johannesburg by South African Vice President Kgalema Motlanthe.

Krugersdorp, South Africa - Speaking on South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC)’s channel 3, he said:

We will be able to add yet another fascinating layer in the answer to the question, ”Where do I come from.”

The full results are to be published in the journal Science. According to The Times the researchers felt it fills an important gap between older hominids and the species Homo, which includes modern humans.