Church’s bedroom billboard defaced after 5 hours

A paint-bomb attack on a controversial Christmas billboard will not stop the church from continuing its campaign, church leaders said yesterday.

A replacement has been ordered after the billboard was defaced about six hours after it was put up outside St Matthew-in-the-City in Auckland.

The image depicts the Virgin Mary and her betrothed, Joseph, in bed together.

A person was seen defacing the image just after 4pm yesterday, covering Mary’s face, Joseph’s face and the slogan that read: “Poor Joseph. God was a hard act to follow.”

Church leaders at St Matthew’s said the point of the image was to get people thinking about the Christmas story.

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Baylor University counselors, students cope with freshman’s apparent suicide attempt

Baylor University students were reeling Tuesday after learning that one of their classmates apparently tried to take her life Monday afternoon by kneeling down in traffic on Interstate 35.

“It was devastating,” said Baylor junior Samone White of her reaction to learning that McKenzie Fergus, a 20-year-old freshman studying film and media, walked into the northbound lanes of the interstate, knelt down and was struck by an oncoming Ford F-150 pickup.

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List of top U.S. places to work 2009

The following are the top 50 companies to work for, according to Glassdoor.com, an online jobs site which collected and compiled reviews from U.S.-based company employees throughout 2009.

1. Southwest Airlines Co

2. General Mills Inc

3. Slalom Consulting

4. Bain & Company

5. McKinsey & Company

6. MITRE

7. Boston Consulting

8. Continental Airlines Inc

9. Procter & Gamble Co

10. Juniper Networks Inc

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