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Comparison of Prilosec OTC® Versus Zegerid® for Gastric Acid Suppression
This study has been completed.
Procter and Gamble
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Procter and Gamble
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: December 15, 2008
Last updated: May 7, 2015
Last verified: May 2015
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The purpose of this study is to compare Prilosec OTC® and Zegerid® in their effects on gastric acid suppression.
|Normal Healthy Subject Population
|Drug: Zegerid® Drug: Prilosec OTC®
|Phase 4
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment
Masking: Single (Investigator)
|Official Title:
|Comparison of Prilosec OTC® Versus Zegerid® for Gastric Acid Suppression
Resource links provided by NLM:
Drug Information available for: Omeprazole Omeprazole magnesiumU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Procter and Gamble:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- The Mean Percent Time Gastric pH > 4.0 on Day 1 [ Time Frame: continuously over a 24 hour period ]In this study, there was evidence of gastric pH probe failure and a high incidence of biologically improbable pH measurements (sustained pH < 1.0) that bring the validity of the results into question. The results of this study are, therefore, inconclusive.
|Study Start Date:
|November 2008
|Study Completion Date:
|December 2008
|Primary Completion Date:
|December 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: 1
Drug: Zegerid®
capsule(20 mg omeprazole/sodium bicarbonate), single dose
Experimental: 2
Prilosec OTC®
Drug: Prilosec OTC®
Omeprazole-magnesium 20.6 mg, tablet, single dose
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 65 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Normal subjects who are 18-65 years of age;
- Non-childbearing potential females or those using birth control
Exclusion Criteria:
- History of significant GI disease
- Any significant medical illness
- History of hypersensitivity, allergy or intolerance to omeprazole or other proton pump inhibitors;
- Currently using GI medications
- GI disorder or surgery leading to impaired drug absorption
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00808769
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00808769
|United States, Oklahoma
|Research Site
|Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, 73104
Sponsors and Collaborators
Procter and Gamble
|Study Director:
|John McRorie, PhD, FACG, AGAF
|Procter and Gamble
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|Procter and Gamble
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|Study First Received:
|December 15, 2008
|Results First Received:
|May 19, 2010
|Last Updated:
|May 7, 2015
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Omeprazole, sodium bicarbonate drug combination
Anti-Ulcer Agents
Gastrointestinal Agents
Proton Pump Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
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This image of the loose star cluster NGC 2040 in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud was dug up by Eedresha Sturdivant, a contestant in NASA's ongoing competition for astronomy enthusiasts to ferret around the Hubble archive and find images never before promoted to the general public. The competition is open until May 31st.
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The Secretary of War submitted his annual report on the affairs of the Army. It was at once a report and a warning to Congress not to take another slice off the War Department's proposed allowance for next year—an allowance already pared by the Budget Bureau.
Mr. Weeks' chief recommendations:
1) Increase the maximum enlisted strength of the regular Army from 125,000 to 150,000.
2) Increase the commissioned strength of the regular Army from 12,000 to 13,000.
His reasons and justification:
¶Our foreign garrisons are cut to a "dangerously low limit." The regular Army...
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Alfred Hitchcock
- Birthday
- Aug 13, 1899
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Bio: Alfred Hitchcock was the most well-known director to the general public, by virtue of both his many thrillers and his appearances on television in his own series from the mid-'50s through the early '60s. Probably more than any other filmmaker, his name evokes instant expectations on the part of audiences: at least two or three great chills (and a few more good… More Bio: Alfred Hitchcock was the most well-known director to the general public, by virtue of both his many thrillers and his appearances on television in his own series from the mid-'50s through the early '60s. Probably more than any other filmmaker, his name evokes instant expectations on the part of audiences: at least two or three great chills (and a few more good ones), some striking black comedy, and an eccentric characterization or two in every one of the director's movies.Originally trained at a technical school, Hitchcock gravitated to movies through art courses and advertising, and by the mid-'20s he was making his first films. He had his first major success in 1926 with The Lodger, a thriller loosely based on Jack the Ripper. While he worked in a multitude of genres over the next six years, he found his greatest acceptance working with thrillers. His early work with these, including Blackmail (1929) and Murder (1930), seem primitive by modern standards, but have many of the essential elements of Hitchcock's subsequent successes, even if they are presented in technically rudimentary terms. Hitchcock came to international attention in the mid- to late '30s with The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), The 39 Steps (1935), and, most notably, The Lady Vanishes (1938). By the end of the 1930s, having gone as far as the British film industry could take him, he signed a contract with David O. Selznick and came to America.From the outset, with the multi-Oscar-winning psychological thriller Rebecca (1940) and the topical anti-Nazi thrillers Foreign Correspondent (1940) and Saboteur (1942), Hitchcock was one of Hollywood's "money" directors whose mere presence on a marquee attracted audiences. Although his relationship with Selznick was stormy, he created several fine and notable features while working for the producer, either directly for Selznick or on loan to RKO and Universal, including Spellbound (1945), probably the most romantic of Hitchcock's movies; Notorious (1946); and Shadow of a Doubt (1943), considered by many to be his most unsettling film.In 1948, after leaving Selznick, Hitchcock went through a fallow period, in which he experimented with new techniques and made his first independent production, Rope; but he found little success. In the early and mid-'50s, he returned to form with the thrillers Strangers on a Train (1951), which was remade in 1987 by Danny DeVito as Throw Momma From the Train; Dial M for Murder (1954), which was among the few successful 3-D movies; and Rear Window (1954). By the mid-'50s, Hitchcock's persona became the basis for the television anthology series Alfred Hitchcock Presents, which ran for eight seasons (although he only directed, or even participated as producer, in a mere handful of the shows). His films of the late '50s became more personal and daring, particularly The Trouble With Harry (1955) and Vertigo (1958), in which the dark side of romantic obsession was explored in startling detail. Psycho (1960) was Hitchcock's great shock masterpiece, mostly for its haunting performances by Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins and its shower scene, and The Birds (1963) became the unintended forerunner to an onslaught of films about nature-gone-mad, and all were phenomenally popular -- The Birds, in particular, managed to set a new record for its first network television showing in the mid-'60s.By then, however, Hitchcock's films had slipped seriously at the box office. Both Marnie (1964) and Torn Curtain (1966) suffered from major casting problems, and the script of Torn Curtain was terribly unfocused. The director was also hurt by the sudden departure of composer Bernard Herrmann (who had scored every Hitchcock's movie since 1957) during the making of Torn Curtain, as Herrmann's music had become a key element of the success of Hitchcock's films. Of his final three movies, only Frenzy (1972), which marked his return to British thrillers after 30 years, was successful, although his last film, Family Plot
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Real-Time Tracking of Packet-Pair Dispersion Nodes Using the Kernel-Density and Gaussian-Mixture Models
Computer Modeling and Simulation, International Conference on (2009)
Mar. 25, 2009 to Mar. 27, 2009
pp: 548-552
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/UKSIM.2009.74
A brief simulation study of real-time packetdispersionmode-tracking using the Gaussian-MixModel (originally devised for real-time backgroundclassification in moving pictures) and an adaptationof the Kernel-Density Estimator is presented. Thesimulated environment consisted of two FIFO storeand-forward nodes where the probe packets interactwith Poisson and Pareto-generated cross-trafficwith a range of packet sizes. The two modelsproduced broadly similar results, able to track nodeactivity under the dynamically changing conditionsassociated with the Pareto cross-traffic. TheGaussian model sometimes replaced the primarymode with a double peak, which disappeared whensome of the model's parameters were changed.
Bandwidth Measurement, Machine Learning
M.J. Tunnicliffe, M. Hosseinpour, "Real-Time Tracking of Packet-Pair Dispersion Nodes Using the Kernel-Density and Gaussian-Mixture Models", Computer Modeling and Simulation, International Conference on, vol. 00, no. , pp. 548-552, 2009, doi:10.1109/UKSIM.2009.74


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It is very unlikely that this work is public domain in the EU, or in any country where the copyright term is life-plus-70 years. However, it is in the public domain in Canada (where IMSLP is hosted) and other countries where the term is life-plus-50 years (such as China, Japan, Korea and many others worldwide). As this work was first published before 1923 or failed to meet notice or renewal requirements to secure statutory copyright with no "restoration" under the GATT amendments, it is very likely to be public domain in the USA as well.
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|3 flutes (3rd takes Piccolo), 2 oboes, English horn, clarinets in A, bass clarinet in B♭, bassoons, 4 horns in F, trumpets in C, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, triangle, strings


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The members of Callalily proved that they survived and remained standing tall in spite of it all! The band blew up in 2005 during the band explosion era. Who could forget singing their hearts out to "Stars" back then, right?
They have become one of the pillars of the local band scene for the past 10 years - with a number of hits topping the MYX charts! And last night at 12 Monkeys, Callalistas gathered as their idols celebrated a major milestone!
Aside from their die-hard fans, Kean, Aaron, Lem, and Tatsi were also joined by close friends (including original member Alden) during the very intimate 10th anniversary gig!
During their relaxed acoustic set, the band reminisced about their journey so far and thanked those who helped them along the way!
Callalily jammed with musician pals who were in attendance like Kleggy and Eunice of Gracenote. The boys enthusiastically played their greatest hits and the crowd obviously enjoyed the intimate vibe of their anniversary concert!
Aside from celebrating the band's 10th year, the concert is in support of Linggo ng Musikang Pilipino! Callalily has joined the advocacy to keep the local music scene strong! After all, it is their Sanctuary.
Speaking of remaining strong, the band is already working on their fifth album! Every single Callalista is definitely looking forward to new music from the boys! Happy 10th anniversary, Callalily!
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"There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do."
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"Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become a woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality...I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence."
"I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated. I don't mind being told to stand on my own feet, not to cling, be all that I am capable of doing, but I am going to be pursued, fucked, possessed by the will of a male at his time, his bidding."
"We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations."


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tag 251769 + moreinfo thanks On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 09:39:02PM +0200, Nathann Cohen wrote: > Package: xserver-xfree86 > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-2 > Severity: important > Tags: sid > > Hello ! > > I just installed the fglrx module in order to use an ATI Radeon 9200Se > video card. [...] > Section "Device" > Identifier "Generic Video Card" > Driver "fglrx" > EndSection Debian can't support the fglrx module, as we don't package it. Do you experience this problem without the fglrx module installed? > The problem is that horizontal bars appears on the whole screen. They > aren't so visible, but make the fonts become less readable ( on a LCD > Screen ). However, fonts can be easily read when the text is between > two horizontal bars. [...] > XFree86 X server log files on system: > -rw------- 1 root root 47976 2004-05-30 20:52 /var/log/XFree86.0.log > > Contents of most recent XFree86 X server log file > /var/log/XFree86.0.log: > > > -- System Information: You appear to have excised the contents of the XFree86 X server log file. That information is essential to our ability to assist you. Please mail the contents of the file to <firstname.lastname@example.com>. E.g.: # mailx -s "Re: Bug#251769: xserver-xfree86: [ati/radeon] dark horizontal bars with fglrx module" \ firstname.lastname@example.com </var/log/XFree86.0.log -- G. Branden Robinson | Human beings rarely imagine a god Debian GNU/Linux | that behaves any better than a email@example.com | spoiled child. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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By Jesse Demmel, vice president of engineering, MapMyFitness
Performing at the top of your game is key. That's true for everything: from running a marathon to running a business – performing your best drives success.
My name is Jesse Demmel, vice president of engineering at MapMyFitness. We're the world's leader in connected fitness. We're building the world's largest community by providing interactive tools to make fitness social, simple and rewarding. We've been around since 2007 and are growing like crazy – we currently have over 21 million registered users. Our members can connect to over 400 devices to instantly track their fitness results through GPS. We help them in their pursuit to perform their best and the enthusiasm generated by our rapidly expanding community has us growing each year at a rate of 2.5 times in terms of the data we have to support.
Many of our applications are predictable and steady while others can be more volatile and hard to predict. That's what attracted us to Rackspace Hybrid Cloud. The world we live in requires the ability to utilize both dedicated hardware and the cloud to maximize potential and efficiency. The public cloud alone isn't the best fit for all of our workloads.
We migrated from the previous generation of Rackspace Cloud Servers to Rackspace Performance Cloud Servers. Everything we've seen in the testing and production is phenomenal. We're getting 5 times better performance out of the Performance Cloud Servers that come with SSD storage, 40Gbps throughput to the host and flavors up to 120GB.
What really put us over the top and kick-started our performance was getting involved with ObjectRocket, Rackspace's team of MongoDB specialists. We were originally tuning MongoDB ourselves and getting the performance we needed, but the amount of effort it took from our MapMyFitness DevOps team was too high.
ObjectRocket, however, were able to set up our MongoDB environment and fine-tune it for efficiency. The performance jump surpassed our expectations, and the amount of money we'd save by not deploying the hardware made ObjectRocket a no-brainer.
These are great examples of the importance of having access to a supportive team of experts. We found that level of support from the specialists at Rackspace and ObjectRocket have helped MapMyFitness perform at our best.
This is a guest post written and submitted by Jesse Demmel, vice president of engineering at MapMyFitness, a Rackspace customer. MapMyFitness is a health and fitness technology company that powers the Internet's largest social network of fitness enthusiasts as well as a wide array of B2B enterprise solutions.


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The Hardsuit is the worlds most advanced Atmospheric Diving Suit (ADS). Manufactured by Ceanic Corporation, the Hardsuit is the product of improvements to existing ADS technology and an innovative breakthrough in rotary joint development that permits low friction movement under extreme pressures. This technology enables trained operators to work in water depths to 1,000 feet (305 meters) while remaining at a single atmosphere or surface pressure environment.
Underwater Atmospheric Systems, Inc. (UAS), uses the Hardsuit with its patented fluid filled rotary joint. The 20 strategically located patented joints mimic the bodys joint system allowing maximum dexterity. The joints allow effortless movement at depths below 33 feet.
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Tan, Tai Hung (2006) Tides during Monsoon Season in Peninsular Malaysia. In: Hydrography Survey: Current Trends, Techniques and Applications. Penerbit UTM, Johor , 259 -270. ISBN 978-983-52-0581-1
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A monsoon is a (wind) pattern that reverses direction on a seasonal basis. The term was originally applied to monsoonal winds in the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean. The word is also used to label the season in which this wind blows from the southwest in India and adjacent areas that are characterized by very heavy rainfall, and specifically the rainfall that is associated with this wind. As monsoons have become better understood, the definition has been broadened to include almost all of the phenomena associated with the annual weather cycle within the tropical and subtropical continents of Asia, Australia, and Africa, and the adjacent seas and oceans. It is within these regions that the most vigorous and dramatic cycles of weather events on Earth take place.
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KCR meets Union Minister Uma Bharti - ABN
Mon, Dec 08, 2014, 04:26 PM
Telangana Chief Minister KCR has been making himself busy in Delhi. The Chief Minister met Union water resource minister Uma Bharathi on Monday. KCR's meeting with the union water resources minister has been aimed at sorting out the problems with AP on water distribution. It is reliably learnt that KCR has appealed to her to grant national status to Pranahita Chevella irrigation project and has also asked for funds for his pet program Kakatiya Mission aimed at restoration of tanks.


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Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)krosing(dot)net> writes: > On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 09:06 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: >> These are all excellent points but I think the real problem here is: >> There is nothing that requires pl/proxy to be in core. > AFAIK, there is nothing that requires pl/perl, pl/tcl or pl/python to be > in core either. True, but I think it's a good idea to have at least one such in core, as a prototype to help us track the issues associated with loading a large third-party library along with a PL. The fact that we have three is historical, but on the other hand I believe we've seen distinct issues crop up from each one, so maybe only one isn't enough either. > Actually, I think that being an independent language / postgresql > extension tool, pl/proxy is _more_ fit to be in core than external > language adapters. It teaches us nothing about connecting to outside code, though. > And it would be nice, if some well-maintained sample language (pl/sh or > even pl/dummy) which serves as a sample of latest ways to make use of > pl/function support in core pg code would be included in core as well. And why do you think the above three don't serve that purpose? Or even more to the point, how likely is it that an unused "dummy" language would be well-maintained? regards, tom lane
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Man who "had a bad day" pleads guilty to slashing 27 tires
LOCKPORT – A man who went on a car vandalism spree in Niagara Falls pleaded guilty Tuesday to first-degree auto stripping and was admitted to the judicial diversion program of court-supervised drug treatment by County Judge Matthew J. Murphy III.
Perry D. Shirback III, 25, of 18th Street, Niagara Falls, agreed to pay $7,016.92 in restitution to the owners of the 27 cars he vandalized Nov. 6 in the DeVeaux section of Niagara Falls.
"And why did this happen, so far as you know?" Murphy asked Assistant District Attorney Heather A. DeCastro. "He had a bad day," DeCastro replied.
Shirback, who was ordered to pay at least $250 a month toward restitution, risks a seven-year prison sentence if he fails in diversion. If he succeeds, his charge will be reduced to a misdemeanor with no jail time.


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STANFORD, Calif. -- The Saint Mary's women's tennis team saw its run at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Northwest Regional come to an end Sunday as all three of the Gaels doubles teams fell at Stanford.
One day after knocking off the No. 3 seeds, the team of Jade Frampton and Danielle Flores won its first match Sunday easily, beating Cal Poly's Sophia Bott and Louise Oxnevad 8-2.
Frampton and Flores couldn't make it past the semifinal though, as they were defeated 8-3 by Tayler S. Davis and Annie Goransson of California.
No. 5 seeds Jenny Jullien and Audrey Leitz also won their first match of the day, beating Santa Clara's Kelly Lamble and Maggie McGeorge 8-5 to advance to the quarters.
That was as far as the Gaels would get, as they lost an 8-2 decision to the No. 2 seeds, California's Anett Schutting and Zsofia Susanyi.
The team of Catherine Isip and Hannah Liljekvist also made it to Sunday's round of 32, but they dropped their first match 8-3 to the California duo of Cecilia Estlander and Laura Posylkin.
With action wrapped up at Stanford, Saint Mary's will now take a bit of a breather before continuing the fall season at the Bulldog Invitational in Fresno on Nov. 2. The Gaels will close the fall campaign in Moraga by hosting the USTA Campus Showdown on Nov. 10.


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Cumberland County District Attorney Dave Freed says the initial stages of an investigation into alleged child sexual abuse at Bible Baptist School in Shiremanstown should be complete within a week.
In a joint news release Friday from the district attorney and the Shiremanstown
Police Department, Freed said investigators
have searched certain portions of Bible Baptist School, seized at least six electronic devices, and have conducted
numerous personal interviews.
"I am pleased with the progress of the investigation," Freed said in the release. "The investigators are working diligently and covering a lot of ground. Based on the nature of this case, our investigators are working hard to identify and interview the universe of potential victims."
"I understand and appreciate the public's interest in this matter," he added. "I want to stress that it is our duty as law enforcement officials to ensure the integrity of the investigation and ensure that any criminal charges are supported by strong evidence."
Prosecutors have executed at least three search warrants as part of the ongoing
investigation into a former music
teacher, 57-year-old Bill Jackson.
Jackson was suspended after the allegations came to light, but he has not been charged with any crime. Search warrants filed this week indicate he is accused of fondling at least two boys at the school.
In one search warrant executed Saturday on Jackson's New Cumberland home, police said the parents of a 17-year-old boy showed investigators 19 pages of inappropriate emails, text messages and instant messages between Jackson and their son.
The boy also told police that two years ago, Jackson fondled him in a music room at the school, the documents state.
According to a second search warrant executed Tuesday on Jackson's former music room and office at Bible Baptist, police interviewed a second 17-year-old who told them he was fondled by Jackson "2-3 times beginning in February."
The teen also said Jackson once asked him to masturbate in front of his, but he refused.
A third search warrant was for three of Jackson's email accounts.
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Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
On Thursday, June 23, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, fifty-three, a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy, was called to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, filling a vacancy created by the reorganization of the First Presidency following the death of President Ezra Taft Benson on May 30. Also on June 23, Elder Holland was ordained an Apostle and set apart by President Hunter as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve. In a press conference held later that day, Elder Holland expressed his feelings regarding his new calling.
"I'm not sure that you can understand the overwhelming sense of responsibility this call brings," he said to members of the press and other observers. "I'm equally sure that you could not understand the unspeakable respect that I have for the office. My greatest wish, and hence my greatest anxiety, is that I will be adequate and appropriate and never in any way damage the dignity and respect that the Church and the world collectively hold for the office of Apostle.
"The last few hours have been nearly unbearable," he continued. "I received this call at 7:30 this morning. … President Hunter issued the call, he conducted the business at the temple, he gave me my instructions, and he gave me my blessing. He did it all. How deeply moving his counsel and guidance and blessing to me were. It amounted to considerable instruction and time this morning. I consider President Hunter's strength and sustaining power in his new calling to be one of the modern miracles of this church."
Elder Holland has been personally acquainted with President Hunter for many years. As president of Brigham Young University, he traveled with President Hunter, then president of the Quorum of the Twelve, as they worked toward the approval and completion of BYU's Jerusalem Center project. "When he issued the call, we had some tearful moments together," Elder Holland said. "It was a tender time.
"As to my own sense of respect and responsibility, … I pledge to you, as I did to my Brethren this morning, everything I have and everything I know how to give."
During the press conference, Elder Holland responded to questions about President Hunter's first official statement as president of the Church and about the Church's plans to commemorate the sesquicentennial anniversary of the Prophet Joseph Smith's martyrdom.
Speaking of President Hunter's invitation to less-active members to come back, Elder Holland said, "I know him and the other Brethren well enough to know that they want everyone back, all the time, in every way, in every place. That would be as basic to the apostolic mission of this church as anything else—to invite people to stay with us. … It seems to me that is basically the message of the Church from its beginning."
Responding to a question about activities marking the anniversary of the martyrdom, Elder Holland commented, "I would say that one of the greatest things that has happened in my life in the last five years is the expanding and greater magnificence that the life of the Prophet Joseph Smith has taken on. I have been raised a member of the Church; I served a mission in England as a young man. … I've always had a testimony.
"But something has happened during these last few years that is essentially ineffable. … It is real, and it is about the role and the life of the Prophet Joseph Smith. … It has taken on new meaning and sacredness that will be very central in this calling."
Jeffrey R. Holland was born in St. George, Utah, on 3 December 1940 to Frank D. and Alice Bentley Holland. "I grew up with more security and unrestrained love than I can imagine a child having," he has remarked.
He met Patricia Terry at Dixie High School, and the two married in 1963, shortly after he returned from a full-time mission to England. The Hollands have three children: sons Matthew and David and a daughter, Mary Alice, who is married to Lee McCann. The McCanns have one child, Madeleine, and are expecting a second child.
"I am grateful for my husband's spiritual qualifications for this calling," said Sister Holland at the press conference. "Nobody but myself knows the kind of faith that this man has. It is pure," she said. "He is a humble servant of the Lord Jesus Christ."
Prior to his calling as a General Authority, Elder Holland served as a regional representative, as a counselor in three stake presidencies, as a bishop, as director of the Melchizedek Priesthood MIA, and as chairman of the Church's Young Adult Committee.
As a General Authority, Elder Holland has served in the area presidencies of the North America West, Europe North, and North America Southeast areas and has been serving as assistant executive director of the Correlation Department of the Church.
Much of Elder Holland's life has been devoted to education. After receiving a bachelor's degree in English and a master's degree in religious education from Brigham Young University, he attended Yale University and received a master's degree and Ph.D. in American studies. He taught at several institutes of religion before becoming dean of religious education at BYU. Two years later, he was appointed the Church commissioner of education, a position he held until being called to serve as the ninth president of Brigham Young University. He was called to the First Quorum of the Seventy in April 1989.
Elder Holland served as president of the American Association of Presidents of Independent Colleges and Universities and as a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Presidents Commission and a number of other educational associations. For his work in improving understanding between Christians and Jews, he was awarded the Torch of Liberty award by the Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai B'rith. He also served on several national educational organizations, as well as on the governing boards of a number of civic and business-related corporations.
"My chief responsibility now, and my primary responsibility—in a sense, my total responsibility—is to bear witness of the Lord Jesus Christ," Elder Holland observed. "As inadequate as I feel, it is the most pleasant and most rewarding and most thrilling assignment a man can have in this world. I pledge my life to this effort."
President Hinckley Dedicates Restored Cove Fort
With its four-foot-thick walls of volcanic rock standing as firmly today as they did 127 years ago, Cove Fort—located in southern Utah between Fillmore and Beaver—was dedicated 21 May 1994 by President Gordon B. Hinckley, grandson of the fort's builder.
Standing in front of an estimated two thousand people, President Hinckley, First Counselor in the First Presidency, gave remarks and a dedicatory prayer, calling the fort and surrounding area a sacred site that serves as a reminder of the faith and fortitude of the early Latter-day Saints. One of those early pioneers was Ira Hinckley, President Hinckley's grandfather and the man Brigham Young commissioned to build and care for the fort.
The fort served as protection against Indian attacks on the telegraph offices and mail stations and as a refuge for weary travelers during the mid-1800s. It is the only pioneer fort in Utah still standing.
"This place was constructed to provide safety and rest, nourishment and comfort. … Those who built and lived here believed in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. More solid than the foundation upon which these rock walls stand was their quiet faith," declared President Hinckley.
During his remarks, President Hinckley made mention of his grandfather's and father's involvement in the fort's early years.
"One hundred and twenty-seven years ago today, [Ira Hinckley] had arrived at this place, which was totally strange to him. He had come with Brigham Young, and President Young had left. Ira must have felt extremely lonely. He was thirty-eight years of age and had left his family behind him in Coalville, at least a ten-day journey away. He wasted no time in sympathizing with himself, however. He had been called to build a fort, and he began," said President Hinckley. It took Ira and the other builders a mere seven months to finish the fort, which still stands today because of its fine craftsmanship.
Switching his thoughts to his father, President Hinckley continued, "My father was brought here when he was three months old and spent the first ten years of his life here. He told us [children] that these were exciting days for a little boy.
"Father told us of the time when Brigham Young held him on his knee. On one such occasion the President gave him a coin, which Father later spent. When he grew older, he regretted he ever spent that coin," recalled President Hinckley.
However, President Hinckley's praise for the founders of Cove Fort was not limited to his ancestors nor to the men who were involved. He also lauded, with emotion, the brave women who served at the fort.
"It was a frontier and lonely outpost, but they brought beauty to this desolate place," he said. "They brought gladness when their voices were lifted in laughter. Their prayers reached to heaven not only in behalf of their families but also for the many who came this way who were impoverished, hungry, and sick unto death. I bow my head in solemn and sacred gratitude," he concluded.
Others who spoke at the service were President Howard W. Hunter, then President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles; Elder Stephen D. Nadauld of the Seventy, executive director of the Church Historical Department; and Sister Colleen Hinckley Maxwell, wife of Elder Neal A. Maxwell of the Quorum of the Twelve and great-granddaughter of Ira Hinckley. Music was provided by the combined choirs of the Fillmore and Beaver stakes.
President Hunter expressed his gratitude to the Historic Cove Fort Acquisition and Restoration Foundation, an organization directed by descendants of Ira Hinckley, which deeded Cove Fort to the Church in 1988.
"May the Lord bless us, and may we catch the vision of what has been done in years gone by to establish what has become a far-flung empire around the world, the kingdom of God here upon the earth. May the Lord bless us as those who preceded us have been blessed," said President Hunter.
Included in the restoration project is an authentic barn, a blacksmith shop, a smokehouse, gardens, and orchards. Located just off the junction of highways I-70 and I-15 between Fillmore and Beaver, Cove Fort is open to the public from 10:00 A.M. until dusk. Admission is free. Missionaries are on hand to welcome visitors and answer their questions.
French Polynesians Celebrate Sesquicentennial of Church's Presence
For twelve busy days, Church members in French Polynesia celebrated the 150th anniversary of the Church there. They were joined by Elder Russell M. Nelson of the Quorum of the Twelve, who presided over the event; Elder Rulon G. Craven of the Seventy, president of the Pacific Area; and many other Church, community, and government leaders.
From April 30 to May 11, conferences, cultural events, firesides, and programs were held on the four major island groups that make up French Polynesia: Tahiti, Tubuai, Takaroa, and Taiatea.
Addison Pratt, Benjamin Grouard, and Noah Rogers were the first missionaries in French Polynesia; they arrived on the island of Tubuai in April 1844. Elder Rogers returned to the United States after a few months, but Elders Pratt and Grouard stayed, creating a wave of missionary work that has now reached its seventh generation.
Today, French Polynesia has nearly fourteen thousand members in four stakes and three districts; a temple; area offices; and a strong culture that blends Polynesian, French, Chinese, and other nationalities in a united gospel effort.
Those cultural influences were strongly felt during the nearly two weeks of celebration. Bright, colorful costumes, music, dancing, and tasty food were in abundance as Church members expressed their joy and gratitude for the gospel in their lives. Elder Nelson and other leaders spoke at numerous celebratory activities, often heavily bedecked with flower leis and shell necklaces.
In events on Tubuai, the first island where missionaries preached, Church members performed ancient musical numbers and shared stories of the early missionaries.
The largest conference was held in the Papeete stake center on May 8. (Earlier in the day, Elder Nelson dedicated the islands for the preaching of the gospel; see accompanying story.) Two sessions, one conducted in French and one in Tahitian, were held. Elder Nelson spoke for nearly an hour, challenging members to increase their numbers and righteousness. He told the members that "the most important pages of history are being written right now." He also challenged them to provide missionaries for their own islands as well as for other French-speaking countries.
The sesquicentennial activities were covered extensively by television, radio, and newspapers. The biggest event connected with the Church in French Polynesia, the sesquicentennial generated much favorable coverage, report local public affairs personnel.
In addition, many former missionaries and mission presidents returned to the islands for the celebration and to reflect on the growth of the Church in their former field of service.
Government leaders were heavily involved in the sesquicentennial celebration, attending meetings and participating in many activities. One of the greatest government recognitions came in the form of a postage stamp bearing a picture of the Papeete Tahiti Temple. The stamp sold out soon after it was issued. However, additional copies were soon available.
Islands Dedicated During French Polynesia Celebration
As part of the sesquicentennial celebration of the Church's arrival in French Polynesia, Elder Russell M. Nelson of the Quorum of the Twelve offered a dedicatory prayer and blessing on the land.
The May 8 ceremony was held in the quiet morning air on the west lawn behind the Papeete Tahiti Temple with only Elder Nelson and thirty-four other Church members in attendance.
"The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a rich and remarkable history among these islands of the south Pacific Ocean," Elder Nelson noted in his prayer. "Its missionaries served here even before its leaders reached Utah's valleys of the Great Salt Lake where its world headquarters was to be established. Missionaries sent by the Prophet Joseph Smith in 1843 from Nauvoo, Illinois, to these islands were the Church's first to be called to a language and culture foreign to them. Here they served for many years while separated from families, colleagues, and modes of transportation and communication. Their initial success on Tubuai and in the Tuamotus set the pattern for other missionaries to emulate. …
"Wilt thou bless these islands with a rich portion of thy holy Spirit, that its citizens and their visitors may learn thy commandments and be obedient to them, that they may prosper in love. Let there be a resurgence of missionary zeal, that thine elect may be gathered prior to the second coming of thy Son, which is nigh. These islands are rich with the blood of Israel. Bless thine elect to find thee and enter the waters of baptism."
Although the gospel has been preached in French Polynesia for the last 150 years, Elder Nelson noted that Church history had been searched in vain for any record of a formal dedication. "The First Presidency and Council of the Twelve made the decision, in conjunction with the sesquicentennial, … that an apostolic prayer of dedication should be given."
The islands specifically mentioned in the prayer were the Society Islands, the Tuamotu Islands, the Marquesas Islands, the Gambier Islands, and the Austral Islands.
Church Now Recognized in 150 Lands
The Church is becoming increasingly well established internationally, and an indication of that growth is the number of organized wards and branches in the world's countries, territories, and possessions (as defined by the United Nations).
According to the Church Finance and Records Department, the Church has arrived at a new milestone: There are now organized wards and branches in 150 countries, territories, and possessions. Several months ago, the Church organized the 150th unit in Ethiopia.
International growth has been especially significant in the last four decades. Prior to that, the vast majority of the Church population lived in the United States and Canada. Since that time, however, international membership has sharply increased.
An increase in the number of units in countries, territories, and possessions comes in two ways—through the creation of new Church units or the creation of new countries. Both have increased since 1980. (It has only been since 1982 that the distinction between countries, territories, and possessions was made.)
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The above chart indicates growth of the Church in countries, territories, and possessions around the world. The significant jump from 1980 to 1985 is due in part to the fact that starting in 1982, territories and possessions with organized Church units were added to the total number of nations.
Below: Charts indicate Church membership growth in the United States and internationally since 1960.
Open House and Dedication Announced for Orlando Temple
Dates for the open house and dedication of the Orlando Florida Temple have been announced.
Open house tours will be conducted from Saturday, September 10, through Friday, September 30. Hours are 9:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M. on Tuesday through Saturday and 9:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. on Monday. There will be no tours of the temple on Sunday.
Following the open house, the temple will be prepared for eleven separate dedicatory services, scheduled for October 9, 10, and 11. Members of the Church who live in Florida and Georgia will attend those meetings. A traditional cornerstone ceremony will precede the first dedicatory service.
The temple will serve Church members in twenty-two Florida stakes and one stake in southern Georgia. It will also serve members in the Caribbean until the completion of the recently announced temple to be built in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
The Orlando Florida Temple, built on a thirteen-acre site in Windemere, a suburb of Orlando, is the forty-sixth operating temple of the Church. In addition, the Church has announced plans to build eleven more temples throughout the world.
Church Open Houses Result in Baptisms
During the past four years the Missionary Department of the Church has reported great success with the satellite missionary open houses, often aired in the fall of each year.
Last October's initial presentation of The True and Living God was seen by an estimated three hundred thousand people in nearly three thousand different locations in the United States, Canada, and parts of the Caribbean. The program was also recorded and sent to all the missions worldwide.
Loved by Church members and members of other faiths as well, the open-house video presentations, such as The Prodigal Son and On the Way Home, have been some of the Missionary Department's finest video productions.
The first open-house broadcast on 28 October 1990 was a premiere showing of the production The Prodigal Son. Positive response from those who saw the program was so great that two years later another missionary satellite video production, On the Way Home, was released. The next two broadcasts in the series were The True and Living God and a special program about families featuring Elder Russell M. Nelson of the Quorum of the Twelve and incorporating the best of the Homefront Series public service announcements.
According to the Missionary Department, the underlying purpose of the satellite series is to introduce members of other faiths to spiritual feelings that will lead them to accepting the opportunity to hear the missionary discussions.
In many missions this purpose was realized through the combined efforts of full-time missionaries and members. For example, in the California Ventura Mission, fifty-nine people accepted an invitation to hear the discussions after seeing the 1993 production The True and Living God. Of those fifty-nine people, twenty-eight became members of the Church.
Ventura's mission president, Roger C. Butterfield, told one story of elders who invited a couple they had just met to an open house. The family went to the open house and were so touched by the message of the film as well as by the one-on-one presentations given afterward that they asked to be taught the discussions. The couple and their granddaughter were baptized two months later on Christmas Day.
In another area of the same mission, a bishop invited an entire family to the open house. The whole family listened to the discussions, and a few months later a daughter in the family was baptized.
"If you can get people to come to these open houses," said President Gerald G. Smith, Jr., of the Arizona Phoenix Mission, "the Spirit often really touches their hearts and some take the discussions." Eleven people in the mission were baptized as a result of the broadcast, he said.
President Robert E. Floto from the Indiana Indianapolis Mission told the story of a Taiwanese youth, Lilian Lin, who saw her parents stripped of all their belongings and jailed for being Christians. At about this same time, Lilian met a Latter-day Saint exchange student in Taiwan who told Lilian that if she ever went to the United States she should look up The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Lilian did come to the United States many years later and was invited by a missionary to the open house presentation The True and Living God. Lilian and her husband, Pei Ping, felt the Spirit while there and later joined the Church.
President Sheldon F. Child reported that from the three open houses held in the New York New York South Mission, nine people were introduced to the Church and later baptized. President Child summed up the satellite open-house success in three words—"It just works."
Elder Haight Honored as City's Oldest Living Ex-Mayor
Elder David B. Haight of the Quorum of the Twelve recently visited Palo Alto, California, for the city's centennial celebration. As the city's oldest living ex-mayor, he, along his wife, Ruby, was welcomed by the town crier and greeted with red-carpet treatment.
Elder Haight served as mayor of Palo Alto from 1961 to 1963 and also served a two-year term on the city council prior to that. At his last council meeting as mayor, he announced that he had been called by the Church to serve as president of a mission in Scotland. Council members wanted to send a delegation to Salt Lake City to persuade Church leaders to let their mayor remain, but Brother Haight was committed to his new assignment.
The Haights had moved to Palo Alto in 1941 and quickly became active members of the community and ward. During the centennial celebration, Elder Haight was recognized for his work in the Church as well as honored for his service to the community.
Conversation: Learning and Singing Hymns
The First Presidency has emphasized the importance of learning and singing hymns—at church and at home. To learn how hymn singing can become a larger part of our public and personal worship, the Ensign talked with , chairman of the Church General Music Committee.
Question: Why is inspirational music such an important part of worship services?
Answer: Music is one of the most effective ways to teach the gospel and to inspire members. Hymns deliver a powerful message, and they invite the Spirit. Hymns also stir feelings and evoke memories of past experience. Elder Boyd K. Packer of the Quorum of the Twelve has said, "Music is of enormous importance in our worship services. I believe that those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence in our meetings more than a speaker does" (Ensign, Nov. 1991, p. 22). That may be why, when you look at the outline of a normal sacrament meeting, so many of the items involve music: the prelude, the opening hymn, the sacrament hymn, special musical selections, the closing hymn, and the postlude.
When the new hymnbook was issued in 1985, the First Presidency suggested that members and families might be invited to perform their favorite hymns as musical numbers during sacrament meeting. The First Presidency also encouraged ward and branch leaders to assign speakers to talk about the importance of worthy music and the value of singing hymns (see Ensign, Nov. 1985, pp. 108–9).
Q: Is hymn singing equally important in other Church meetings?
A: Yes. In addition, when appropriate, lessons may include singing or quoting from the hymns. It is also valuable to play recorded presentations of the hymns in priesthood groups and quorums, in Relief Society, and in Young Women, Sunday School, and Primary classes.
If we could train ourselves to realize that hymns are gospel sermons, if we could assimilate their messages and let the music speak to our spirits, we would be edified.
Q: In light of the recent elimination of hymn practice before Sunday School, are there other ways we can continue to learn and practice hymns?
A: The elimination of hymn practice does not lessen the value of the hymns or the importance of inspirational music in our lives. Church members are still encouraged to learn and sing the hymns, but now they must be more personally responsible—both in church and at home.
We suggest that priesthood and music leaders encourage members to join in congregational singing, and that these leaders also foster the singing of both familiar and less-known hymns. And we encourage increased participation in choirs. As stated in the preface to the hymnbook, "Latter-day Saints have a long tradition of choir singing. Every ward and branch in the Church should have a choir that performs regularly."
We recommend that ward choirs sing in at least two sacrament meetings each month throughout the year. Sacrament meetings give ward choirs a great opportunity to inspire the congregation. These minutes of music are moments well spent, because music teaches the gospel with extra power.
We encourage choirs to use the hymnbook as their basic resource. Other music in keeping with the spirit of the hymns of the Church may be used, but I've become convinced that a hymn is often the most inspiring and appropriate musical selection a vocalist or instrumentalist could perform. Familiarity strikes a responsive chord. Even if the lyrics are not presented, their message is still there during instrumental presentations of the hymns. In sacrament meetings, choir music may be supplemented occasionally by appropriate music performed by vocal or instrumental soloists or small groups.
Q: What can Church members do at home to better learn and appreciate the hymns?
A: In the preface to the hymnbook, families are encouraged to have and use the hymnbook in the home. Parents are encouraged to teach the hymns to their children and to sing hymns as lullabies. The First Presidency also encourages members to sing hymns as they work, play, and travel together. Hymn singing is a great enhancement to family life. A hymn is a prayer (see D&C 25:12), and as such, it provides a wonderful preparation to scripture reading and family prayer. Singing is a wonderful way to teach children the gospel and to bring the Spirit into a home.
Q: Has the Church Music Department produced resources to help families learn the hymns?
A: We have a lot of materials to help families bring the music of the Church into their homes. We have the basic hymnbook and an abridged version called Selected Hymns, which features sixty of our most beloved hymns. We have an audio version of Selected Hymns on six cassette tapes, as well as an audio version of Hymns, which presents all the hymns in the hymnbook performed on piano and on string and woodwind instruments.
We have Hymns and Children's Songs, a set of six audiocassettes of instrumental music that includes all the hymns and songs in the Gospel Principles manual. The music is designed for use during worship services. Each cassette side includes prelude music, an opening hymn, a sacrament hymn, a closing hymn, and postlude music. Parents can create an appreciation of the hymns by using these materials at home. The recordings are a valuable tool for bringing the Spirit into the home.
We also have a new Church Music Handbook. In addition to the music handbook published in 1975, we have periodically published a series of guidebooks on music skills for organists and conductors, and guidelines for choral music, children's music, and youth music. There was a lot of material there. The Brethren wanted to put all the basic policies, procedures, and guidelines into one book—the new Church Music Handbook. We also have new Basic Music Course kits for developing keyboard and conducting skills.
Q: What can wards and stakes do to enhance music education?
A: Stake music chairmen and ward music chairmen should evaluate the training needs of their own units and find ways to provide for those needs. Training programs could be held in a ward or branch or on a stake basis. The ward music chairman, for example, could arrange to have someone teach conducting skills or keyboard skills during a weekday evening. Most wards need to develop a broader base of talent in organ and piano playing skills and in music conducting skills. A stake music chairman also might consider getting ward choir directors together for a seminar to strengthen them in their skills and knowledge.
Music can really make a difference in strengthening members and in increasing the spirituality of our meetings. I'm hoping that members of the Church will follow the counsel of our leaders by making better use of music and by taking advantage of the resources the Church has provided.
Suggestions for Learning and Singing Hymns
Encourage all members to join in congregational singing.
Sing both familiar and lesser-known hymns.
Have the choir sing hymns to help the congregation become more familiar with them, especially hymns that are not well known.
Encourage vocal and instrumental soloists and small groups to perform hymns as special musical selections.
Encourage speakers and instructors to reinforce gospel messages by quoting or referring to the hymns.
Reinforce a pattern of singing hymns during all regular Church meetings, including opening exercises in priesthood meeting Relief Society, Young Women, and Mutual, and during Primary.
Renew a pattern of singing hymns in leadership, training, and other special Church meetings, whether large or small.
Encourage the use of hymns for funeral services.
Encourage individuals and families to learn and sing the hymns in their homes. Possibilities include singing on the Sabbath, in family home evening, during scripture study, at prayer time, and at other times. Suggest that they consider using recordings of hymns available through Church distribution centers.
Encourage members to read and become familiar with the "First Presidency Preface" and "Using the Hymnbook" sections of the hymnbook (see Hymns, 1985, pp. ix–x, 379–86).
A Difficult Challenge for Us
You can't imagine how pleased my husband and I were to read "Lead Me, Guide Me" (Mar. 1994). We have a child with a mental disorder who is also diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder.
I empathized with the parents mentioned in the article. I have often felt guilty, wondering if somehow I caused my child's problem. I wrestle with the way others react to our problem, understanding their discomfort but wishing they knew how much their awareness of these circumstances would mean to me. It is especially hard at church, a place where I seek peace but sometimes find judgment and confrontation. It is so easy to judge, so difficult to love.
This has been a difficult challenge for us, but I take great comfort in knowing that our son is a child of God and that the Lord cares about him and us.
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Church Magazines Are Missionary Tools
I wanted to write and let you know of the importance of your work. The Ensign had a big influence in my decision to become a member of the Church. And the magazine continues to help me now as a full-time missionary.
My first contact with the Church was in 1988 when a friend gave me a copy of the book Gospel Principles. He knew I liked to read English and he said I could borrow it. I read it in two days! I wanted to know more and went to a chapel near my home, where two full-time missionaries taught me the first discussion.
At the time, I had a hard time with the idea of baptism. However, something in my heart told me I had to find something to save me from the temptations of Satan. I returned to the same chapel; this time a sister missionary gave me a copy of the Ensign. It was a conference report, and I read the whole issue in one night. It changed my life.
I have been baptized and am now serving a mission. I always read the Ensign and the Aliahona (Portuguese international magazine). As soon as I read them, I pass them on to investigators—I know the importance of the magazines as missionary tools.
Elder Mauricio Franco Brazil Riberiao Preto Mission
Illuminating Article on Atonement
"The Restored Doctrine of the Atonement" (Dec. 1993) is so illuminating. In two days I have already read it twice and am completing my third reading. More than that, it supplies what looks like an irrefutable answer to a question I was asked this past summer by a theological student: What is the Mormon view of salvation and grace?
I have sent the article to this student, along with some comments of my own, pointing out our teaching of the basic goodness of man as opposed to the strangling idea of man's nature being evil from the beginning.
Jane B. Hildebrand San Jacinto, California
Despite Blisters and Cuts, They Finished the Job
Last month, when our township issued a deadline for our neighborhood's sewer installation, we panicked. We knew nothing about sewers and couldn't have done anything if we did. We were out digging on November 27 when two missionaries, Elders Welling and Halterman, came to our home.
Immediately, they offered to help. We refused and they left. But fifteen minutes later they returned with borrowed tools and work clothes. Over the next four hours, despite blisters, cuts, and sewer sludge, they finished the job beautifully. They left us with their telephone number, your magazine, and the location of their next Church meeting.
Elder Halterman has been transferred, but Elder Welling and his new companion visit us often and we have attended church. Each visit brings us closer to the Church and the glory of Christ. Never before has this been demonstrated to us more clearly than by these three missionaries. Their simple actions have left us inspired beyond words.
Anne, Lisa, and Amy Fusick Manahawkin, New Jersey


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Wednesday, Mar 5, 2014
* Newspaper endorsements aren't truly effective until a candidate uses them in a mailer or TV ad. And since Rep. Ron Sandack is fighting for his political life against a hardcore, well-funded conservative, and Rep. Ed Sullivan is having more trouble than expected with his conservative primary opponent, this Tribune nod is probably not something they'll be touting to GOP primary voters in its entirety…
Um, OK.
* But there are some things the two incumbents can use. For instance…
* Meanwhile, this is how the Trib described freshman Rep. Kathleen Willis' Democratic primary opponent Tony Favela…
Who spun them on that?
Favela has raised almost no money and he's just barely on the HDem radar screen.
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IF you think the polls are narrowing in the Scottish independence referendum, take a look at those for Afghanistan's presidential election.
As the country prepares for its crucial ballot tomorrow there are indicators that the number of undecided voters may be as high as 30% to 40%.
At face value this might not seem like a lot, but in an election that is being fiercely contested and where the electorate are clearly keen to make their vote count, this could be a significant figure. The simple fact is that there is a lot at stake here.
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The election will mark the first democratic transfer of power from one president to another since Afghanistan was tipped into chaos by the fall of the Taliban regime following the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.
After 13 years of struggle to quell an insurgency that has claimed the lives of nearly 3500 members of a US-led coalition of troops and many thousands more Afghans, it is a pivotal moment - and how the Taliban know it. Just look at the way the insurgents have strategically shifted tack of late.
Rather than engage the Afghan Army in battle, the Taliban have instead targeted the very political mechanisms that enable the security forces to function.
In other words, Taliban thinking goes something like this - undermine the ballot, drive out international monitors, erode voter confidence. End result, they hope, is that foreign governments and international public opinion will see Afghanistan as so failed and congenitally incapable of making political progress that it no longer warrants any further assistance.
By doing this, the Taliban are aiming to compensate for their limited public support by getting large groups of the public to lose faith in the current political system and align with the Taliban for pragmatic reasons, or at least not oppose them.
Tactically, this is hardly rocket science, but then the Taliban's tried and tested methods while seemingly primitive are in fact often very sophisticated and produce the insurgents' desired results.
Already at least 10% of polling stations are expected to be shut due to security threats and many foreign observers have pulled out of Afghanistan in the wake of a deadly attack on the large Serena Hotel in Kabul last month.
As if this threat of violence was not enough, there is still the other pressing problem of fraud, ballot rigging and ghost polling stations for election organisers to contend with in this fledgling democracy.
For a start, it is said that estimates of the number of voters range from 10 to 12 million, but some 21 million voter cards have been issued.
According to former Foreign Minister Dr Abdullah Abdullah, one of three main front-runners and President Hamid Karzai's main challenger last time round, there is the serious possibility of fraud on a "massive industrial scale."
Along with Dr Abdullah the other two key challengers are former Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai and another ex-Foreign Minister and national security adviser, Zalmay Rassoul.
Whatever the prevailing degree of election gerrymandering, it is almost certain that whoever loses will cry foul and reject the results. If no candidate wins over 50%, the constitution requires a runoff between the two top vote-getters.
Herein probably lies the most dangerous outcome of the ballot. Such claims will only lead to acrimony.
For these reasons Afghanistan's elections are often not won or lost on election day, but in the subsequent audit and disqualification process by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) and Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC). To say this is a messy, confusing and frequently contentious process that takes a long time to sort out is an understatement.
While preliminary results are expected April 24, final results are not due to be announced until May 14 provided there is no need for a runoff. Even if all goes smoothly, the next president will most likely not take office until sometime after June. In Afghan politics that is a long time, especially if a final outcome has to be reached by deal-making and negotiation, not solely by ballot counting.
Torturous as that process might be it is of course preferable to bloodshed and would still constitute progress. The real problem though is that it gives disgruntled political mischief makers and the Taliban plenty of time to make trouble.
A falling out between frustrated losing candidates and parties aside, the Taliban are sure to be waiting in the wings to mix things up.
The insurgents have undoubtedly calculated the weaknesses of each candidate and the likelihood of an indecisive vote. Given the chance they will use the political uncertainty to their advantage by escalating attacks and trying to drive Afghanistan toward another civil war.
This of course is a worst case scenario and does not take into account the fact that despite the fragility of the election process and meagre political progress made, many Afghans are doing all they can to ensure a better future can be grasped.
This is evident by the long queues and efforts made by many ordinary Afghan citizens keen to register, vote and have their voice heard. Such people want the days of guns behind them. Whether this weekend's presidential elections can be the start of that process only time will tell. Afghanistan and its people are long overdue a break.


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Ex-policeman Paul Harrington, 53, was arrested in Detroit in October for killing his wife and son, having reportedly confessed that he was having trouble providing for them and wanted them never to be homeless. In 1975 Harrington killed his first wife and their two kids but was found not guilty by reason of insanity and sentenced to a mental institution, but within two months, he was ruled no longer a danger and was released.
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Mark Salling won't just be singing on Glee.
The actor, 27, who plays jock Puck on the Fox show, will release his first solo album, "Pipe Dreams" this fall, it was announced Tuesday. It will be distributed through his own label, Pipe Dreams Records.
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"Pipe Dreams" will feature classic rock 'n' roll, alternative music and a '60s folk-beat era sound. Salling will write, perform and produce each track.
The first single, "Lone Ranger," "serves as a musical anthem to the disenfranchised soul in all of us," according to the release.
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Twittered Salling, "Wanted to tell u all myself, my solo record PIPE DREAMS drops 10/12! So grateful for all your support."
The next season of Glee premieres Sept. 21.


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Alun Jones told judges at London's High Court on Wednesday that extremist cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri is suffering from depression, inability to concentrate and short-term memory loss. Jones says he needs a brain scan and should not be extradited to America.
Abu Hamza, according to his infidel lawyer, has got the blues and can you blame him? His easy life in the UK is about to be a faint memory as he's being extradited to the US. His kids are all criminals and his beard won't stop itching.
Alun Jones told judges at London's High Court on Wednesday that extremist cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri is suffering from depression, inability to concentrate and short-term memory loss. Jones says he needs a brain scan and should not be extradited to America.
Luckily he can get a brain scan here. And if Abu Hamza is truly depressed, one treatment for severe depression is electroshock therapy. ECT or Electroconvulsive Therapy is still in use for really tough cases of depression and the United States has some top notch ECT specialists in a little facility positioned near Cuba to take maximum advantage of the advanced Cuban health care system. Those specialists, I know, will be pleased to help Abu Hamza beat the blues. And if ECT doesn't work, there's always Hydro-Immersive Therapy, which former patients like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed absolutely swear by.
Not that Obama would allow Abu Hamza access to this kind of advanced mental health therapy. That must be why the American health care system is so hopelessly backward.
Still one of those UN special rapporteur fellows is warning that Abu Hamza's loneliness in prison will be akin to torture.
Juan Mendez, a UN special rapporteur, last night wrote to the Government warning that pushing ahead with plans to deport Hamza, 54, along with four fellow suspects including Babar Ahmad, would breach the UN Convention Against Torture. He claims the solitary confinement they would endure in US "supermax" prisons amounts to torture.
"As we speak my office is sending a communication, dealing with the possible extradition to the US of five people who will be subjected to solitary confinement," said Mr Mendez, who is UN special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. "The UN Convention Against Torture states you cannot extradite or deport someone to any place if he or she could be tortured," he added.
In his report to the General Assembly last year, Mr Mendez stated that solitary confinement beyond 15 days could lead to irreversible psychological damage. If extradited, the five suspects are expected to be detained at ADX Florence prison in Colorado, where they face indefinite solitary confinement.
Mr Mendez added: "For 22 to 23 hours a day they are left to look at a wall with no meaningful social contact with anybody, maybe one hour a day exercising by themselves.
Juan Mendez clearly has a point. It would be inhuman to deny Captain Hook the company of his fellow American prisoners. There's no need whatsoever for keeping him in solitary confinement. He should be encouraged to mingle with other prisoners and they should be encouraged to mingle with him. It should also be explained to the other prisoners that in Mr. Hamza's religion, having sex with small children is okay and that they should not hold this against him.
If the resulting socialization doesn't cure his depression, then I don't know what will.


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Howard Stern sidekick Artie Lange banned from HBO, the network of The Sopranos and Cathouse
How does a guy get banned from a cable channel that has aired video of guys having sex with hookers and a drama where a character was beheaded?
Howard Stern sidekick Artie Lange somehow managed the impossible earlier this week, earning a lifetime ban from HBO Sports after unleashing a barrage of explicit jokes during the first episode of the premium cable channel's new show, Joe Buck Live.
Yes, even the channel of Cathouse, The Sopranos and Pimps up, Hos Down couldn't handle Lange unleashed.
But here's the problem: Lange's unscripted mayhem was easily the most entertaining part of Buck's bland debut, where the first big gag of the night featured a fake look into sportscaster Bob Costas' apartment, where he was seen reading a book next to a cat in a matching outfit. Hilarious.
Buck, whose dad was a legendary play-by-play announcer, isn't smart enough to replace Costas, though his new show Joe Buck Live is ostensibly the replacement. And he isn't brash enough to be entertaining in the way politically incorrect sports analysts such as Charles Barkley can be.
So you're left with a blandly polite host who offered a no-news interview with Brett Favre and brings on guest Paul Rudd because he went to school with him before either was famous. Unfortunately, Lange chose some seriously off-color jibes at Buck mostly centered on implying that he was gay or that Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo's name rhymed with "homo."
HBO has ensured all the video clips of this debacle were yanked from YouTube, but the Huffington Post has a transcript (and at the moment, at least, the clip) here.
As homophobic as Lange's humor was, I think his real crime in HBO's eyes was making it painfully obvious how much worse the rest of Joe Buck Live was on its opening night. And for that crime, he will never be invited back.
Given how lame the rest of the show was, I'm not sure that's much of a punishment.


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