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Like the time he went fishing and brought home a whale,
Now all us knew that this was lie,
Another fish story that we wouldn't buy.
But Ron could sell almost anything,
From pigs that could fly to cows that could sing.
He sold coal to the devil, and a sparrow a song,
He could sell you forgiveness when you had done no wrong.
Ron the Con was a master of words,
He once sold some maps to some migrating birds.
He could turn the day into night, and the night into day,
By using your words in some other way.
Ron, Ron, what can be said,
To keep you from selling new shoes to the dead.
My wallet is gone, my pockets are bare,
And left me here standing with but my underwear.
Ron, Ron, every promise you make,
Is just one more scheme for my money to take.
When will you learn that is best to be trusted,
Rather than sitting in jail because you were busted.
But Ron the Con could do no other,
He even sold plots to his grief-stricken mother.
So when it came time to meet his soul Maker,
He sold lots up in heaven to the undertaker.


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Ecosystem Carbon Storage Across the Grassland–Forest Transition in the High Andes of Manu National Park, Peru
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- Gibbon, A., Silman, M.R., Malhi, Y. et al. Ecosystems (2010) 13: 1097. doi:10.1007/s10021-010-9376-8
Improved management of carbon storage by terrestrial biomes has significant value for mitigating climate change. The carbon value of such management has the potential to provide additional income to rural communities and provide biodiversity and climate adaptation co-benefits. Here, we quantify the carbon stores in a 49,300-ha landscape centered on the cloud forest–grassland transition of the high Andes in Manu National Park, Peru. Aboveground carbon densities were measured across the landscape by field sampling of 70 sites above and below the treeline. The forest near the treeline contained 63.4 ± 5.2 Mg C ha−1 aboveground, with an additional 13.9 ± 2.8 Mg C ha−1 estimated to be stored in the coarse roots, using a root to shoot ratio of 0.26. Puna grasslands near the treeline were found to store 7.5 ± 0.7 Mg C ha−1 in aboveground biomass. Comparing our result to soil data gathered by Zimmermann and others (Ecosystems 13:62–74, 2010), we found the ratio of belowground:aboveground carbon decreased from 15.8 on the puna to 8.6 in the transition zone and 2.1 in the forest. No significant relationships were found between carbon densities and slope, altitude or fire disturbance history, though grazing (for puna) was found to reduce aboveground carbon densities significantly. We scaled our study sites to the study region with remote sensing observations from Landsat. The carbon sequestration potential of improved grazing management and assisted upslope treeline migration was also estimated. Afforestation of puna at the treeline could generate revenues of US $1,374 per ha over the project lifetime via commercialization of the carbon credits from gains in aboveground carbon stocks. Uncertainties in the fate of the large soil carbon stocks under an afforestation scenario exist.


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text: Maine lost a legend Tuesday when country musician Gene Hooper died in Machias after a long illness.Born and raised in Machias Gene Hooper got an early start on stage. He was 6-years-old when he began performing on the top of some old blueberry boxes in his hometown. "His sister used to hold a megaphone in front of him and that's how he got started," recalls his widow Florence Hooper. "He used to love to entertain even at that age."From there a career in music was born. One that lasted around 70 years. Hooper crossed paths with some legendary country stars like Johnny Cash, Ricky Scaggs, and Reba McEntire. His music took him all over New England and throughout Canada but his wife says there's no doubt what his favorite venue was. "Right here in Maine. He just loved to play grange halls. He loved his grange halls and he played every one here in Maine I think."Known as "Genial Gene" and the "Kennebec Cowboy Hooper always had a close connection to his audience. "This was my favorite part about my father, on stage, was his approach," says his daughter Joline Hooper-Sprague. "When he walked on stage to face his audience and the mic it was quite an awesome thing to see."He was able to combine his performances with his family bringing the Gene Hooper Family Show to life. His daughter Sharlene performed with her parents at the shows. "I had a heck of a good time from 9-years-old to 59 playing with my mom and dad on the road and I love him dearly. He's my daddy."Hooper's other passion was his family. "My finest memories of him aren't necessarily of him being on stage," says daughter Joline Hooper-Sprague. "It's how he cared for us and how he loved us." His son Wayne was never interested in performing on stage. While he attended many of his family's shows he and his father bonded on the golf course. "A lot of funny things happened during golf," says Wayne Hooper. "That was really my connection. And of course I would come down here and visit with him every morning before I go to work."Hooper loved his country music but he would be the first to tell you, there is a distinct difference between the country music he played, and what can be heard on the radio these days. "Well he didn't really like the new country music," says his youngest daughter Zita Wood. "Kind of rock. He used to complain about that. That's not country. That doesn't even tell a story." Fans all around New England and Canada will remember him as an entertainer but his impact is felt far beyond the stage. Hooper was a recovered alcoholic. He took his last drink in 1968 and through the years has sponsored more than 50 other recovering alcoholics. Known for his passion for country music around the Hooper home he'll be remembered as Dad. He leaves behind his wife of 61 years Florence, 4 children, 9 grandchildren and his 19th great grandchild, Scarlett, is expected any day now."We're sorry he's gone but he's on a different stage right now."


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Round 2: "Alliteration Assault"
I actually had some trouble this round. Going through several personal crises at once, I informed smac I would be stepping down from this round and would be more than willing to take the loss. Unfortunately, smac also had a personal crisis that forced him to push his deadline out. He asked if I would be willing to put something out by the extended deadline, which I did. The style and content of it, however, reflects a bit of what I was going through at the time.
The challenge was alliteration. I was assigned the letter "N":
The nexus of perfection, Nature's own narcotic: to need
To see, to envy the naked construct and naissance
Molded by her hands.
The naiveté of the Auto-Narcotic: to marvel at the naked bulb
And the nimbly-pricked naphthalene hairs, like neurons
Among the dirt, seaming together Terra's mind.
But man. Nixing himself, to be both Nature and Narcissus:
The noveler and her novelty, nonpareil paralleled
In one body and endlessly ravenous.
Narcissus kneels like the penitent. Gnawed
With the digestive slowness of carnivorous plants.
Like Dali's illusion: that nude chrysalis of the naked skull,
The bulb. And the newborn.
It will be that the novelty sprouts nettled limbs,
That keen Nature will conserve her favorite son.
The novelty having died, narcissism survives.


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reviews – Things in Heaven and Earth
Associated Press
Whether it was a revelation or a practical, political decision, his edit ending plural marriages in the Mormon Church a hundred years ago elevated Wilford Woodruff to a place in church annals not far below Joseph Smith and Brigham Young.
"On balance, he is arguably the third most important figure in all of Latter-day Saint history after Joseph Smith, who began Mormonism, and Brigham Young, who led the Saints to Utah and supervised the early colonization of the intermountain West," writes author-researcher Thomas Alexander in his newly published book Things in Heaven and Earth: The Life and Times of Wilford Woodruff, A Mormon Prophet.
Woodruff, fourth of 13 Mormon presidents, who served from 1889 to 1898, is credited with saving the church by formally ending plural marriages in church teachings and thus appeasing the United States government, which threatened to dissolve the Mormon Church and confiscate its far-flung property.
"What Wilford Woodruff did basically was to bring about this accommodation, which was necessary at the time with the rest of the United States," Alexander said, during a book tour stop in Mesa. "It allowed the church to continue to exist without being destroyed. It allowed the church to prosper."
Woodruff, who is believed to have had nine wives over the course of his 91-year-life, "was essentially the architect of the Mormons' accommodation with the rest of the nation," Alexander said.
Writing in his diary on Sept. 25, 1890, Woodruff said he had arrived "at a point in the history of my life as president of the church where I am under the necessity of acting for the temporal salvation of the church. The United States government has taken a stand and passed laws to destroy the Latter-day Saints upon the subject of polygamy or patriarchal order of marriage. And after praying to the Lord and feeling inspired by his spirit, I have issued (a) proclamation which is sustained by my councilors and 12 apostles."
Alexander, a professor of history at Brigham Young University, spent 3 1/2 years researching Woodruff. An author of 15 books, Alexander said he had written several articles about the Mormon president before Salt Lake City-based Signature Books approached him about doing a book. The 500-page book, published this month, sells for $28.95 and is available at Deseret Book and other Mormon bookstores.
Plural marriages, which grew out of the teachings and revelations of Smith, were initially open only to the Council of the Twelve Apostles and other high leaders, he said. "It really wasn't open to the church membership until after 1852," he said. "It was resisted by most of the members of the church. It was contrary to their perceptions of normal Christian morality, which had been monogamous."
For those who entered into plural marriages, the overwhelming arrangement was no more than two wives, Alexander said. Not more than 20 percent of Mormon men who married entered into polygamy, which hits its peak in the early 1880s.
One church leader bemoaned that men entering polygamy needed more spiritual power and patience "to preside over that household" than "to go to the nations and preach the gospel."
And, wrote Alexander, "Large families with multiple wives placed considerable strain on the marriage relationship because of demands for clothing and other goods and because of jealousy and family disputes.
In February 1857, Woodruff "offered" his daughter Phebe Amelia, soon to turn 15, to Brigham Young, but the president said he "did not wish to marry any more young women" but would find another man for the girl.
"On reflection, Woodruff saw some humor in old men chasing girls barely into puberty," Alexander writes. "Writing to George A. Smith, he said that nearly all are trying to get wives until there is hardly a girl 14 years old in Utah."
The Salt Lake Tribune, David L. Bigler
To Wilford Woodruff fell the bitter duty to disavow polygamy as the price of statehood and end more than 40 years of cold war with the American republic. In 1890, the fourth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued the historic "Manifesto" which put his church on the road to respectability and growth.
Only then did Utah, one of the first places settled west of the Missouri River, become one of the last to enter the Union as its 45th state. The 1996 centennial of Utah's acceptance will be followed only by Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, Alaska and Hawaii.
No ringing "Thus saith the Lord" was the document, directed "To whom it may concern," that made Woodruff one of Mormonism's most significant leaders. Instead, typical of the man himself, it was a simple affirmation of his own commitment to obey the law and influence others to do the same. Nor is it likely that he foresaw the revolutionary consequences of his action.
On the contrary, while hiding from federal marshals at a remote sheepherder's camp a few years before, he had received a revelation in which God vowed to pour out his judgement on "that Nation or House or people, who seek to hinder my People from obeying the Patriarchal Law of Abraham," referring to plural marriage. Unfortunately, gentile tormentors were not impressed.
Soon after, Congress passed the Edmunds Act, which outlawed unlawful cohabitation, disenfranchised polygamists and established a commission to dictate elections in the territory. This punitive measure was followed by the Edmunds-Tucker law of 1887, which included provisions to destroy the Mormon Church altogether, politically as well as economically.
After such laws were upheld, the man who replaced John Taylor in 1899 reluctantly issued the document for which he is best known. His decision not only opened the way for his church to become a major religion, but it also touched off far-reaching changes in Mormon beliefs and society.
In this important biography, Thomas G. Alexander, one of Utah's most recognized historians, weighs the innovations Woodruff made in separating "non-essential from essential Mormonism." Besides the end of polygamy, they include the demise of theocratic rule and acceptance of such economical and political freedoms as private ownership of property and the right to vote in secret.
Such revolutionary changes were introduced at age 83 by the least radical of early Mormon leaders, a consistently faithful follower of such dynamic figures as Joseph Smith, Brigham Young and Taylor. The most human and likable of his peers, Woodruff was a man who bristled when pushed, but was easily melted by kindness or generosity.
He was also an ardent millennialist for whom the veil between this world and the next was thin, if there at all, which makes the title of this book especially appropriate. From his roots in the chiliastic spirit of New England to the reforms he introduced in 1890, his life is presented by the author, director of Brigham Young University's Charles Redd Center, with style and integrity.
Logan Herald Journal, Ronald K. Jenkins
One hundred years ago dramatic and long-reaching events were occurring in the territory of Utah. Several attempts at achieving statehood had been denied and the federal government was putting extreme pressure on the LDS Church. Wilford Woodruff was president of the LDS Church during this time of threatened disfranchisement and federal confiscation of all Mormon Temples and was faced with the consequences of whatever decision was to be made.
Things in Heaven and Earth, the Life and Times of Wilford Woodruff, a Mormon Prophet is a new biography of this pioneer prophet who held the future of his church and the Territory of Utah in his hands. It is a well-documented account of the major events surrounding this man's life. Beginning with his birth in 1807 the author details Woodruff's life and aspirations. He came in contact with the LDS Church in 1833 and committed his life to its cause, never wavering or looking back.
Thomas G. Alexander is the author of his new biography about Wilford Woodruff. Alexander received his undergraduate training at Utah State University and a doctoral degree in history from the University of California at Berkeley. He has written more than 50 articles and a dozen books in the field of Western history. He is a professor at Brigham Young University and directs the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies.
Using the journals of Woodruff as background plus a multitude of additional supplemental sources, Alexander has created an authoritative record of the life and times of Woodruff. He traces his background and the experiences to help us better understand why he followed the path he did and perhaps how he arrived at the momentous decisions that were required of him in later life.
The title for this book is excellent. It illustrates graphically what life was for Woodruff. Alexander's biography emphasizes the historical earthly side and reminds us of the real life situations Woodruff was faced with each day. Challenges such as constant missionary callings, providing for a polygamous family, meeting the challenges of a new territory, and complying with the requirements of God and man occupied his daily life. For those interested in the heavenly or spiritual side of Woodruff, Cowley's biography of Woodruff would be an excellent choice. And for those who like to read the original documents the Journals of Wilford Woodruff are also available.
Wilford Woodruff held the future in his hands and the decisions he made dramatically affected those who were contemporary with him, as well as all of us today. Understanding Woodruff means understanding Utah—our thinking, our habits, our traditions, our way of life. Things in Heaven and Earth is an excellent introduction to and study of this man. During 1992 perhaps you would like to discover the world of Wilford Woodruff. This book and the other titles mentioned are now available for your use at the Logan Library.
Sunstone, Kenneth L. Cannon II
Thomas Alexander's recent biography of Wilford Woodruff is an intriguing addition to the growing canon of important works on the history of the LDS church by its members. Utilizing his own painstaking and voluminous primary research conducted over decades, as well as recent historical scholarship of others, he provides both a perceptive and sympathetic portrait of Woodruff and one of the most comprehensive histories of nineteenth-century Mormonism. In short, this is the best kind of biography: it not only provides a compelling view of an important historical character, through his experience it also provides new insights into the history of the movement in which he played a significant role.
The title of the book is well chosen. Alexander presents Wilford Woodruff as a man who, although obsessed with "things in heaven," also had one foot firmly set on earthly soil. Woodruff's formal education was unusual for his time. His natural curiosity prompted him to pursue educational opportunities beyond his formal schooling, making him one of the most educated of early Church leaders. He forced himself to develop practical leadership skills that helped him lead the Church through one of its most difficult times. Alexander develops well the dual themes of the spiritual and the practical in Woodruff's life.
The first two chapters are devoted to the background and early life of Woodruff. Alexander introduces the reader to a relatively well-educated, hard-working Connecticut youth surrounded by religious revivals. Woodruff's own naturally spiritual nature led him "to become a Christian primitivist, a millennialist, and a seeker" not formally associated with a particular denomination. Alexander tells us of Robert Mason, a fascinating prophet with whom young Wilford became acquainted. This "Simsbury Prophet" told Woodruff about a revelation he had received that convinced him he would never find the true church. Mason prophesied, however, that Woodruff would find the truth. This experience helped young Wilford, who had a strong sense of his own mortality because he was unusually accident-prone, to focus on things spiritual. Woodruff recognized the profound influence Mason had on his life, and one of the first vicarious baptisms for the dead that he conducted in Nauvoo was for Mason. Later, shortly after the completion of the St. George Temple, Woodruff completed Mason's other temple work and "adopted" Mason.
Fully utilizing Woodruff's extensive dairies, Alexander sets forth in detail Woodruff's remarkably successful missions and chronicles the occasional disputes with other, less committed Church leaders. His success among the United Brethren in Great Britain is unique in Mormon history. Woodruff began preaching to members of this group at the Benbow farm in March 1840. Thirty-six days later he left the area after having baptized 158 people.
Through Alexander's narrative, the reader experiences the early ordinances, the "intensive charismatic experience," and the academic studies conducted in the Kirtland Temple, although Woodruff missed the initial dedication of the temple. The murders of Joseph and Hyrum Smith are seen through Woodruff's eyes as well as the difficult transition that soon followed. The inner workings of the Church hierarchy are followed first-hand throughout the administration of Brigham Young and John Taylor. Woodruff's further visions and revelations and his service in the St. George Temple are fully described.
Alexander carefully chronicles Woodruff's temporal life. He describes in detail Woodruff's participation in the Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing Society, the Polysophical Society, and several other, less well known early Utah groups. He follows Woodruff through museums and libraries. He analyzes Woodruff's experiments with plants and the practical steps Woodruff took to further Utah's pioneer economy by introducing certain strains of plants and animals to the territory. Alexander describes Woodruff's business pursuits as a merchant and farmer, and discusses openly and sympathetically his family life, noting both his successes and failures.
Alexander closely examines Wilford Woodruff's tenure as Church president, one of the most difficult periods for the Church. Woodruff led the Church through radical changes that ushered the Church into the twentieth century. The Church's woes caused by the Edmunds-Tucker Act and the related official abandonment of polygamy, the major modifications in Church views and practices, and the accomplishment of statehood are treated as well or better than they are treated in other works.
Alexander's writing style is lucid and readable with little flourish. Some might find portions of the book too detailed, but the cumulative effect is one which makes the book hard to put down. There are several typographical errors and one or two misplaced endnotes, but these are so few and far between that only the most careful reader will ever find them.
Alexander's view of Woodruff is sympathetic but honest. Although his conclusion that Woodruff was the third most important nineteenth-century Latter-day Saint (behind only Joseph Smith and Brigham Young) is subject to dispute, there is little doubt that this work is one of the two or three best and most important biographies of nineteenth-century Church leaders both because of the breadth of Wilford Woodruff's role in Mormon history and because of the scholarly and careful manner in which Thomas Alexander researched and presented the work.
BYU Magazine, James P. Bell
On occasion, uninformed individuals will suggest that the work of historians is essentially completed, that everything we need to know about our past is pretty well in place, or that current historical research is not much more than a reshuffling of firmly established facts.
For Thomas G. Alexander, who holds the Lemuel Hardison Redd, Jr., Chair in Western History at BYU, understanding history is a never-ending endeavor that encompasses all aspects of the human condition. "I think everybody seeks for a usable past," he says. "By that I mean a past that helps them understand the condition in which they find themselves today. The problem with thinking that we have all the history we need is that the history one group of people finds satisfactory may not satisfy others because it doesn't answer the questions they want answers for."
Though he has been actively involved in a wide range of historical activities for over 35 years—having published widely in areas of western, Utah, and Mormon history; having sponsored and overseen countless research projects, seminars, and publications during his 20 years as associate director and then director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at BYU; and having taught history to thousands of students during 31 years at BYU—Tom Alexander is not letting up in the least in his efforts to understand the past and its relevance to the present.
In his book, Things in Heaven and Earth: The Life and Times of Wilford Woodruff (Signature Books, 1991), Alexander demonstrates both his interest in particular aspects of a subject's life as well as his concern for detail and openness. Noting that two previous biographies had been written about this early church leader (one by Mathias F. Cowley and one by Francis M. Gibbons), he explains that although each of the three biographies deals with his spiritual experiences and his involvement with the Church, the others don't deal as extensively with President Woodruff's relationships with his families, with his involvements with non-Mormons, with his cultural interests, or with his economic activities. Each is a topic that President Woodruff wrote about in his extensive journals, and each was of particular interest to Alexander as he selected what to include in his biography.
He also looked, in some detail, at issues surrounding President Woodruff's polygamous marriages—issues that others might choose to pass over.
"Of the marriages that he entered into," Alexander says, "not all of them lasted. And while that may be disturbing to some, if you look at what happened in his life, it is easy to see why those divorces took place. Also, if you look at his families, they all produced children who were pillars of the community, who contributed a great deal to Utah's development. To point out that there were problems does not mean that there weren't successes."
Alexander also deals with some of the changes that took place within President Woodruff and within the Church during his service as an apostle and then as president of the Church through some of its darkest days. Noting that by the standards of the 19th century President Woodruff was a very well-educated and well-travelled man, Alexander explains that "as people gather experience, as they read more widely, and as things happen to them, they begin to perceive things in different ways and they respond in different ways to conditions that exist in society. And I think that Wilford Woodruff changed over time to some degree, particularly as he guided the Church through the battles it fought with Washington over polygamy and issues of religious freedom. This is one of the things I try to deal with in the biography—to indicate the reasons for these changes.
"At the same time this is a man who was deeply spiritual and very much guided by the spirit. That never changed, and it was his underpinning of educated spirituality that allowed him to deal with many of the problems that perhaps might have stumped others. He was the right man at the right time for the problems the Church was having in the late 1800s. And he was well prepared, I feel, to receive and implement the revelation that brought about the Manifesto."
Writing about his upbringing in A Thoughtful Faith: Essays on Belief by Mormon Scholars (Centerville, Utah: Cannon Press, 1986), Alexander says, "Always one of the smallest boys in my class, I had endured a series of childhood diseases…that left me with inner ear damage and poor physical coordination. I was generally the last chosen when the boys picked the baseball teams—usually ending up in right field.
"Horatio Alger did not live in our neighborhood. Neither did Charles Atlas. The stories of little boys with pluck standing up to bullies and getting the best of them rang hollow to me…In real life, the little guy got beaten up by the bullies."
What Alexander did have was, in his words, "an above average mind," which he put to good use in junior high and high school and which eventually led him to the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a Ph.D. in 1965, and then to BYU as a member of the history faculty.
Although the campuses of Berkeley and BYU were worlds apart in the mid-1960s, Alexander found support—both moral and tangible—for his research at BYU and found himself among colleagues who encouraged him as well as intellectually active students.
His approach to his research and writing—whether the topic is the Interior Department's role in the development of the Intermountain West or the extensive journals of Wilford Woodruff— stems from a combination of his commitment to honesty and candor and his own interests and inclinations.
"I don't think that objectivity is possible," Alexander says. "It is impossible not to become emotionally involved with the topics you deal with. But I do think that historians ought to try to be honest, meaning that they must try to understand the past in the way participants understood it and then try to deal honestly with the evidence."
Recognizing that it would be impossible for a historian to include every last bit of information on a topic, Alexander notes that "there is a difference in being selective in the evidence you use and in suppressing evidence. The ancient Greek historian Thucydides said that the ideal a historian ought to strive for is accuracy and relevance. What that means, basically, is that you try to be accurate in the way you portray things, and you try to find evidence that is relevant. But there is a difference between selecting evidence and suppressing evidence. It is not the same thing.
"The things I write about are, on the whole, recorded events that can be verified. But we need to understand that when we write history, we embed the interpretation of past events in the narrative. Moreover, there are always things you cannot know, either because you don't have the documents or because evidence is contradictory. At the same time, everything you write is a selection from a large body of material that could be put in the narrative. But you select the things that seem relevant, and that selection is dictated, to a large extent, by the interests you have, by the questions you want to answer, and by what you understand from what happened in the past."
As Tom Alexander discusses the topics he has spent countless hours researching and interpreting, it is evident that this is a man not given to histrionics—that, while holding strong views, he is thoughtful, measured, and even humbled a bit by what he has observed of the human condition. In fact, when asked about lessons he has learned from history, he comments that although "lessons" are not something he thinks much about in his work, he does feel that "one of the things we ought to learn from history is that you have to learn to cooperate with people. If you can't do that, if the differences you have with others become so great that you can't see the similarities you have with them, then you're in for an enormous amount of trouble.
"When people perceive that a problem they have has become sufficiently serious, they can and will find ways to deal with it. The work I've done in environmental history seems to indicate that.
"But it can take people a long time to recognize the problems that they need to address because they tend to be too conservative; they tend to become situated and accept that certain discomforts are just part of the condition they live in, instead of recognizing that if they were to do something, they could deal with their problems.
"I think, overall, that while human beings have been extraordinarily cruel to one another and have often fouled up the environment, they are also often able to stand back from the problems they have created and begin to solve them. What we see in history is that although some people can be extraordinarily cruel and vicious, there are others who accept and live by higher ideals and, in turn, deal in extraordinarily complex humanitarian ways with people and the environment."
Asked about his overall view of the human condition, Alexander smiles and says, "I would probably say I am optimistically ambivalent, if you can accept that kind of oxymoron."
In writing about the compatibility of his professional pursuits with his religious conviction, Alexander has talked of various stages in his life when he has learned that it is not necessary to compartmentalize his historical views from his convictions concerning the Church, nor his admittedly liberal social views from the conservative views of others who share his faith.
Describing a conclusion he came to after many years of teaching and research, he writes in A Thoughtful Faith, "The attitudes that had coalesced in my mind by this time led me to believe that I could combine secular and religious knowledge. These did not have to occupy separate realms…[Regarding my political and social views,] I have the same right to the confirmation of the Spirit on such matters as any other Church member.
"I find absolutely no need to be disrespectful on those matters where there may be disagreements. A statement B. H. Roberts made…strikes me as relevant in this regard: 'In essentials let there be unity; in non-essentials, liberty; and in all things, charity.'"
One senses from Tom Alexander that his study of history—the highs and the lows, the good and the bad—has likewise contributed to his own charitable view.
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Alexander's comprehensive biography of Woodruff (1807-98, fourth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) focuses especially on the issue of polygamy, a practice officially acknowledged by Mormon leadership in 1852 and considered by most a divinely sanctioned responsibility, though contrary to U. S. law and a cause of persecution of Mormons. Woodruff, who had entered into nine marriages, divorced four wives, and had two others predecease him, issued a proclamation in 1890 discouraging polygamy among Mormons and encouraging submission to federal law. Alexander views this as separating the temporal from the spiritual domain and destroying the previously holistic kingdom. Despite this great revolution in Mormonism, Woodruff was "a transitional figure who rejected neither the basic concept of the holistic kingdom nor the divinity of plural marriages," maintains Alexander. Mormons and U. S. cultural and religious historians will find this book of interest. Recommended for large academic libraries and collection of Mormonism.
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Woodruff was the fourth president of the LDS Church and is regarded as a prophet and seer. In this biography we witness his unfolding as he embraces each of the Mormon tenets: doing missionary work, business enterprise, politics, even plural marriage. He gained importance, however, in the 1890s when he issued a Manifesto abolishing polygamy as well as the Mormon political party. A remarkable treatise on early Mormon development.
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The trials, successes and failures of a pivotal figure in Mormon history are explored in this detailed biography by the director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University. Like many 19th-century New Englanders influenced by America's tradition of religious dissent, Wilford Woodruff (1807-1898) moved through phases of spiritual questing until he found a church that matched his scriptural interpretations. Becoming a Latter-day Saint in 1833, he rose to prominence among a community of beleaguered believers in Kirtland, Ohio. During his tenure as church president, he led a reform movement that abolished polygamy (he participated in plural marriages but eventually became monogamous), opened the Mormon community to commerce and worldly business, prepared for the eventual statehood of Utah. An international traveler, tireless in church work, Woodruff emerges here as a complex, often ambitious leader. This biography of "the third most important figure in all of LDS church history" will enhance the Mormon archive, but its appeal to the general reader is less apparent.
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This is a fascinating, detailed, meticulously researched and comprehensive biography of a remarkable man, his life, work, and thought. Biographer Thomas G. Alexander (Lemuel Redd Professor of Western History, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah) has made an important and seminal contribution to the study of Wilford Woodruff's personal life and his role in the development and expansion of the Latter-day Saint church. Things in Heaven and Earth is important reading for those who are interested in Mormon history in general and in the lives of the influential men who led and shaped its activities, theology, expansion, and organization. Also very highly recommened is Alexander's Mormonism in Transition: A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930.


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We ran, together, out of the alley. I didn't bother to fly, nor did I bother to run faster than her. She knew I could, and she'd have ordered me to if necessary. But we weren't in costume, we were in uniform.
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Stochastic Dominance: Convexity And Some Efficiency Tests
This paper points out the importance of Stochastic Dominance (SD) efficient sets being convex. We review classic convexity and efficient set characterization results on SD efficiency of a given portfolio relative to a diversified set of assets and generalize them in the following aspects. First, we propose a linear programming SSD test that is more efficient than that of Post (2003). Secondly, we expand the SSD efficiency criteria developed by Dybvig and Ross (1982) onto the Third Order Stochastic Dominance and further to Decreasing Absolute and Increasing Relative Risk Aversion Stochastic Dominance. The efficient sets for those are finite unions of convex sets.
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The Crime Prevention Action Fund (CPAF) provides time-limited funding to communities and organizations to develop and implement crime prevention initiatives. The 2012 CPAF funding call supported the development and implementation of evidence-based interventions across the country designed to prevent offending among at-risk groups. The focus of the Call was on the priority issues of violence among youth aged 12 – 17, Aboriginal youth delinquency in urban centres, and school-based bullying.
For this current Measures to Support Exiting Prostitution solicitation, Public Safety Canada (PS) will support a range of tailored and comprehensive approaches to assist individuals who want to exit prostitution. A number of funded projects will also undergo a rigorous evaluation, the results of which will contribute to the Canadian knowledge-base of what is effective in facilitating an exit from prostitution.
Main Objectives
- To support tailored and comprehensive projects which address known risk and protective factors associated with crime and respond to the priority issue of providing support to exit prostitution; and
- To support the dissemination of knowledge and the development of tools and resources related to best practices for exiting prostitution.
Eligible Organizations
Funding recipients will include organizations that have strong partnerships and networks within their communities, have experience working with persons involved in prostitution, including conducting outreach activities, and have experience supporting and managing complex program implementation and evaluation. Eligible organizations include: not-for-profit community or professional organizations; provincial, territorial, regional, municipal and local governments/agencies; Aboriginal governments; and police services, universities and educational institutions/boards of education.
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Research has demonstrated that a comprehensive approach offering a continuum of service delivery and tailored interventions/activities represents a best practice in the development and implementation of an exit strategy. Public Safety Canada will provide funding for eligible activities and expenses that include the following elements:
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Mako; Ork Adept and hitman.
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Hawke; Decker/Rigger and smuggler.
Sam B; Street Samurai, mercenary and bounty hunter.
November 11th, 2075, 1:06Am, Seattle.
Now, minus fifty minutes; I come home from a run, tiny bits of Jarred and Lyla still painting the sides of my coat. Nobody shot me a glance as I passed through the worse tunnels the ork underground has to offer, better stay away from the tourist section.
My guns, my coat, my mask, my smartlink goggles all fall down upon the plascrete floor of the apartment. A milk run they said... It's never a milk run. We should've turned it down, but we were short on cash. All goes well until a fragging chrome out troll with a pack of hellhounds pop out, the former brandishing a Krime Cannon at us.
It wasn't pretty...
Mr. Johnson hadn't seem surprised when only two of us came back, missing a halfer and a pixie. With twice the expected amount of jing and his unders full of drek, Kal wants out. Now it's only me...
He's scared. But I know a good way to chill down, a shower, a cup of soykaf and a load of Zen. I take the inhalator with both hands and breathe it in, letting it fill my lungs and cloud my brain. It's been almost an hour, yet it feels like it's still going on... Am I still home or down in the market? I plug my ears full of hundred years old rock and walk out, letting the rush of the drug carry me like wind in my sails.
The last hour all feels like it's happening simultaneously, the goblin market like usual is bursting full of activity, the dead of the night doesn't seem to hold it back. It's probably helped by the downpour outside, say what you want about the ventilation at least it's dry down here...
I walk for a while, guided by the beat of long dead musicians, the groove of their guitar rippling the world that I perceive. I let it guide my feet until the cold rain hits me like a sledge hammer to the torso. I pull up my hood and continue walking, without a destination, I'm going to come back down in a few, better not worry about it yet...
It doesn't take long before my meditative walk gets interrupted by the reality of life; a pained squeal reach my ears as the music takes a break between tracks, then another, almost drowned out by the rain. Coming from an alley a few steps away from me, which I stumble into.
Contrasting against the dark and muddy masonry of the buildings are five breeders with weapon, the youngest of which holding a knife dripping with blood and standing over a troll teenager, with another, a younger girl standing back, paralyzed by fear.
"Shit! We've got a new piece of drek for the show." One of them said, pointing a roomsweeper at me. "Hurry the fuck up with that one, Jim."
The one with the knife took another panicked stab at the troll, while the others stared me down. "Why don't you go on your way, chummer, you don't want to be full of holes for some troll trash right?"
"Any other night, I would've just wrung your necks, but I'm not in that kind of mood. Why don't you leave with your limbs intact?" I asked, unplugging the buds from my ears.
"Bold talk for someone without a gun, don't say we didn't warn--"
He didn't finish his sentence as with one rapid movement I broke his arm holding the gun, the elbow bending at a sick angle, the bone poking out. His hand dropped the shotgun-pistol and I grabbed it, using the gun as a meat shield as he shrieked in pain. The others hadn't yet gotten over the initial surprise that one of them ate a buckshot point blank in the face, his brains splattering all over the adjacent building.
Surprised turned to shock and horror rather quickly they hadn't expected to be fighting someone with speed faster than (meta)humanly possible. To their credit, people didn't exactly but into adepts often...
The remaining two nervously aimed their pistols at me, as the one in my arms tried to break free, kicking and screaming. I aimed at the next one and an uneasy tension passed between all of us. The one with the knife was down on his knee, too frightened to act.
"Please... Let me go... I'll never do this again... I swear..." The one with the broken arm whines, making his comrades react, they flashed an expression of disgust, not just at me but also at him. Their arms tensed and I could see in slow motion the movements of muscles against the trigger.
The one on the left was hit by my own fire, the spasm from the hit making his arm twitch and his revolver empty it's cannon at the ground next to me. Thee other however still managed to spread burst fire with his beretta and me. Mr. Broken arm caught most of the bullets, but one of them grazed my chin, leaving a burning and bleeding cut.
The pain and the smell of blood rose the power from within me and I gave in, the totemic force of shark overcame my senses, I dropped the shield and gun and leaped at the man, with one swing of qi infused hands, I ripped a large chuck of flesh from him and then another and another...
I started calming down only when little was left of him, and I was drenched in blood from head to toe. I slowly stood back up and approached the last human still alive. A closer look at him told me all I needed to know, he was just some teenager, probably sixteen years of age and he was scarred to death. He begged me for a moment and I turned toward the injured troll.
"He's still alive." I noted before turning toward the kid, taking the knife he'd dropped from the ground. "But he's not going to make it if he doesn't reach a hospital..." I pushed the tip of the knife against his cheek, making a tiny cut upon it, letting a stream of blood flow down. "I could kill you in retribution... Or I could help the kid." I declared, grabbing his hand, I slipped a credstick in it. "There's a clinic three streets away up the hill, you'll see the neon sign easily. If you can drag him there, you can keep on living, I on the other hand, need to get off the streets..."
I grabbed his commlink from his jacket and gave him one last warning. "Better not try to just run away, I'll know how to find you..."
I walked back out the the alley, as the teen grabbed the troll, helping him stand up with the aid of the girl and started walking toward the clinic. I let the cold shower pour down on me for a moment before starting my search for a clothing distributing machine...
I took a deep breath, as polluted as the air was, I still felt like the most refreshing thing in the world after the frenzy of an adrenaline rush.
I love seattle... No matter how dark it gets, it's always interesting.


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ROGERS, ARKANSAS -- You will see that they will tell you anything you want to hear to get you to sign up for their multi-year contracts, while they have no intentions whatsoever in honoring what they told you on the phone. You will notice that they will NOT discuss anything over on-line chat, that you could hold them accountable for in the future. You will see you will be forced to call and at that point you will have no way to prove they said what they said because only them have the ability to "record this conversation for quality purposes".
AT&T Uverse, internet, phone, all service are SCAM ORGANIZATION designed and engineered to deceit and fool you into signing the contract. You may choose to ignore this warning. Go ahead if you must see for yourself (at your own expense). There is a reason why thousands of customers here have given them 1 star. Good luck.
OMAHA, NEBRASKA -- I called 1 month ago and made changes to my account, 1) cancelling a line, 2) made my account unlimited. Well I went online and paid the bill in full. Then over the weekend I kept getting text messages from AT&T saying I went over on my data. Well I was at a funeral and couldn't look into it.
After getting another text this morning I decided I'd better call. I find out they didn't make any of the changes I was guaranteed had been made. I argued with the lady I'm not gonna keep paying for a service that I'm not paying for. I'm not gonna pay for something I have called and cancelled already. All their calls are recorded yet they refuse to pull a call when it's not beneficial to them. Terrible service that overcharges you even when you cancel or make changes.
DENVER, COLORADO -- Don't ever sign for anything with AT&T. The worst customer service, they will always trick you into paying more. The bill is always more than it should be. The retail store don't know nothing about bills, they are only trained to sale devices. They don't care if you go or stay, they will always charge you for something you did not sign up for. They gave me a deal to buy one phone and get the 2nd one for free, then I paid more than $1500. The phone is S7 and they said all I need to do is pay down payment for each phone $300 and they said I will get the down payment back as soon as I get the phone.
I got the phone. I went to the retail store to get it activated, then they told me they will apply $300 to my phone bill and the other $300 I will get at as a credit in 30 month. They told me I can pay off the phone whenever I want to but the store told me I have to wait 3 month before I pay off the phone. I waited then I paid off the phone, now it's been 8 month. They are working on making me pay for 2nd phone which was buy 1 get 2nd one free. It's too much. They have been charging me too much monthly. They will trick you into things and it's never true. Please stay away from AT&T. THE WORST PHONE PROVIDER EVER.
ELMHURST, NEW YORK -- What a disappointment! AT&T was always known for their outstanding customer service which is why I have been a loyal customer for about 20 years. But lately I have been extremely dissatisfied! About 2 months ago, I decided that I was done paying so much for their services and walked into the store ready to disconnect my account, the AT&T representative gave me a different plan in order to save money. He guaranteed that I will not pay more than $131 a month (taxes and fees included)!
Well, I get my first bill and, to my surprise, it was over $200, unacceptable! I called and complained, and got my bill to what it was supposed to be, and the woman I spoke with told me that this should not happen again, my bill should not exceed $131. GREAT, so I thought, until I just saw my bill this month... Granted, it was $148 this time (not quite as much), but that's not the point.
So when I called, yet again, Alicia was not helpful at all… I know that $18 is not a big deal, and yes, I can just pay it, but that's not the point. I refuse to pay an extra $18. Alicia refused to make the adjustments, so I told her that I no longer want AT&T's services. It's so sad that a multi-billion dollar company is so hard up on $18, that they rather lose a long term customer… Needless to say, I am done with AT&T!!! That being said, what do you guys recommend? Sprint or T-Mobile?
LOGANVILLE, GEORGIA -- The person in IL should be careful where he/she wants to move to. I am also in a cornfield state where AT&T delivers HORRIBLE service for prices that keep going up and up and up. They offer great deals that never remain the same for even 2 billing cycles. You may have the "norm". God forbid!!!
WICHITA, KANSAS -- I tried checking my balance on the app. It wouldn't take my password so I changed it. It wouldn't take that password. An error message with the customer service number pops up so I call it. It sends me to the wrong place. I end up getting transferred 5 times because no one can send me to the right place. It took 40 minutes just to get my balance. Just awful customer service.
DETROIT, MICHIGAN -- They need to hire more English speaking individuals. Always issues with the cable, like daily. I absolutely cannot stand dealing with this company. On hold forever. Person cannot understand English. Issue unresolved. Ugh. Should never have gotten AT&T! Everyone has the same complaints. Why doesn't this billion dollar company fix their issues? Can I give a zero star rating?
OVIEDO, FLORIDA -- I am writing regarding the above number associated with the "free" hot spot I was practically forced to take home with me when I upgraded from my trustworthy flip phone to the Samsung Galaxy S4 last summer.
When I bought the upgrade I was told the phone "came with a free hot spot." I told the salesperson I did not even know what a hot spot was and did not want it. The salesperson, eventually aided by a second, insisted that I could not possibly turn down such a wonderful device, especially when I got it for free. They asked me if I had children and I said yes. They made it sound like I would be nominated for parent of the year if I had no use for it and passed it down to them. I kept declining and they kept insisting. It was basically implied (using all that good salesmanship training from AT&T) that I would be a fool not to take it. Who turns down a free gift like that?
And a fool I was. My bills kept getting higher and I kept getting tagged $15 every time the hot spot's usage went over the GBs included in my plan. At first I did not pay much attention (even after I realized there was a $20 monthly fee associated with the device which I also had not been made aware of). But then it really started to get out of control. In order to keep up with the little monster (the hot spot) I had to upgrade my plan 1, 2 maybe 3 times with more GBs until I finally could not pay my bill. I told my daughter I was sorry, I was canceling it, and assumed it was a matter of disabling the thing and changing to a cheaper plan just for my phone.
You are very, very smart. That is why you are making millions and I had to file for bankruptcy last week, not that you would care. I stuck my neck out to defend you whenever friends and acquaintances mentioned in passing you were the worst, most corrupt wireless company (or should I say spineless).
Two weeks ago I called AT&T to ask that they suspend immediately any services associated with the little monster, only to be told that I had signed a 2-year contract for my "free gift," (you know, the small print). Nobody told me during all that haggling that I was signing a 2-year contract for the hot spot. What was really important for them was that I, your customer of 10+ years, walked out of that store with the little monster. "For free."
I escalated my phone call three times until I reached a manager called **. All he did for me, in order to not incur a $99 penalty for breaking the contract, was to adjust my bill so I would only have to pay $10 instead of $20 for being the proud owner of the little monster (without using it).
Again, I am sure you do not care about the amount of financial stress I have been under lately but I conceded, lowered my plan to 2 GBs and left it at that. I had bigger problems. Now that my bigger problems are behind me, I decided to contact you to inform you of the following: I will not pay $10 a month for the deactivated hot spot. I will subtract $10 from every bill you send me from now on.
Let me know how you will punish me, harass me, sue me or otherwise try to make my life difficult. Bring it on. I know people with the same plan I have (different providers) who pay $30 a month. I hope you will extend me the courtesy of a reply, preferably in writing.
METRO ATLANTA, GEORGIA -- Like most people, I've dealt with AT&T on and off for over forty years as a residential customer. After numerous complaints about my internet service, and time consumed with tech, unplugging and re-plugging the modem to correct interruptions in service, I contacted another provider. I arranged for new service with another provider and then contacted AT&T and arranged for my service with them to be disconnected in a seamless operation to maintain my telephone number while receiving alternate internet service.
At that time a representative did her best to keep me as a customer, but I was fed up with AT&T's tactics and requested a final bill be sent out as well as a return label for the dysfunctional modem. I was told it would be done.
Within a week I received a final bill that included the next month and was disturbed because I should have only been charged for seven days of the previous month, and had still not received a return label for the equipment.
When I contacted AT&T I was immediately put on hold and passed to one representative after another. This went on for fifteen minutes or longer like I was a 'hot potato' until I finally hung up in frustration. When I called back then it was a game of telephone duck, duck, goose! Days later when someone would finally give me some customer service I was told the return label was on its way. This game went on because after five to seven business days I would call back and say I had not yet received the return label and since the reliability of the U.S. Postal Service was dependable and I had a locked mailbox, I didn't understand why I had not yet received the label.
Finally, I just asked for an address to make the return and was told that I could just take it to any UPS where AT&T had an account. When I did, UPS told me that because I did not have an AT&T label, I would have to pay to return the equipment, and as I live on a fixed income, did not have enough funds to do so. When I contacted AT&T again and finally got a representative who would talk to me, I was told that the time had expired for me to return their equipment and the account had been sent to a collection agency. AGH!!
Needless to say, after being an excellent customer (paying bills on time) my credit score took a BIG hit and what should have been a final bill of $25 or less became $172 (rounded up) for equipment they knew was no longer useful to them. Like what good would it be to me either.
AT&T's deceitful practices is why they have to pay $M to mobile customers for padding bills, but I believe they have historically padded land line and internet service bills over the years as well. I'm interested in hearing about anyone else who has had similar problems with AT&T in order to determine if another class action suit against them is possible.


text: Stop at the TeePee. Yes it is a very random road trip stop but that is why you have to go there. Pete is a real character and is very into his food. He made me sign a waiver before trying some of his super hot chili. His chili is excellent. Don't miss his tortilla chips either. My son had... More