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Just to follow up USAA has made good on my deposit of $426. Even though the service time was not great, it was not a ripoff.
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...possesed you to insert 2 dollar bills into an ATM? I understand it is US currency but really I have not even seen a 2 dollar bill in circulation since the early 1980s way before ATMs were even a glee in your daddies eye. The bank will probably make good but you are going to have to be patient. You probably freaked the ATM out and now have to depend on some inept jackass to find those bills. For all they know you were inserting toilet paper into the machine.
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American troops have sealed off Saddam Hussein's home village amid reports that the ousted dictator may be leading attacks on coalition forces.
US soldiers moved in before dawn yesterday to seal off al-Ouja, outside Tikrit, with razor wire and setting up checkpoints on all roads into it.
All 3500 residents of the village, a cluster of homes among orchards of pears and pomegranates about 10 kilometres south of Tikrit, were ordered to register for identity cards.
The tactic, reminiscent of methods used by Israeli defence forces in the West Bank, is intended to impede the movement of insurgents.
A military spokesman said: "This is an effort to protect the majority of the population, the people who want to get on with their lives."
Many of the inhabitants are clansmen and distant relatives of Saddam Hussein but there was no visible resistance to the American operation and people lined up quietly to register for their ID cards.
"I chose right in coming here," said Ahmed al-Naseri, who said he was a cousin of the former Iraqi dictator. "We need the safety and we need freedom."
Ali Sherif al-Naseri, another self-described Saddam relative, said people had no choice but to comply with the American orders.
"It may not be totally fair but it's a good idea," he said.
The sealing of al-Ouja followed leaks by senior officials in Washington that Saddam Hussein may be playing a lead role in co-ordinating attacks against American forces.
The comments were in stark contrast to Washington's insistence since the end of the war that Saddam was an ineffective, spent force.
One of Saddam's leading aides in the former regime was linked with guerilla activity a day earlier and intelligence reports have indicated that the deposed dictator might be triggering attacks from secret headquarters close to al-Ouja.
"Saddam's clearly still at large and has an interest in seeing coalition targets attacked," a Coalition Provisional Authority official said.
The bloodshed continued on Friday and the State Department warned that more violence was expected.
Rioters waving pictures of Saddam clashed with US soldiers when Americans attempted a sweep through one of Baghdad's western suburbs.
Two people were killed and 17 wounded when soldiers opened fire after being attacked with grenades.
In the troubled town of Fallujah, Iraqis rioted after an explosion at the mayor's office.
An American soldier also was killed in a bomb attack near the town of Khaldiya, bringing to 118 the number of US soldiers killed in action since the end of major combat operations.
There has been an upsurge of violence over the past week, coinciding with the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Dozens of people were killed in a series of suicide bomb attacks in Baghdad on Monday.
The threat of further attacks prompted the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations to pull out much of their foreign staff from Iraq, fearing for their safety.
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Through her lawyer, Janet is calling an article about Randall Sullivan's book on her brother Michael's funeral 'false and defamatory'.
In a lengthy letter to Vanity Fair's editor-in-chief, Janet Jackson demands a retraction of an article that the magazine has published in its November 2012 issue. The singer believed the media is trying to defame her by posting false story about her delaying brother Michael Jackson's funeral three years ago.
The article contained an excerpt of Randall Sullivan's upcoming book, "Untouchable: The Strange Life and Tragic Death of Michael Jackson". The book's author claimed Janet was delaying the funeral until she was reimbursed the $40,000 deposit to secure his plot.
In a legal letter sent via her attorney Blair G. Brown, Janet said, "Ms. Jackson never delayed the funeral in anyway. In fact, she paid for the funeral and was reimbursed for some of those expenses by Michael Jackson's estate in the year after the services took place. In addition, there were other private costs associated with Michael Jackson's passing that Ms. Jackson incurred and for which she has never sought reimbursement."
Brown continued, "To falsely accuse Ms. Jackson of holding up her brother's funeral over money is outrageous. This story is particularly hurtful and distressing because of Ms. Jackson's strong desire to serve her brother, whom she loved dearly, and he wish to stand with and support her family."
"I demand that Vanity Fair retract its statement that Ms. Jackson 'refused' to let Michael Jackson's funeral take place until the money she put down as a deposition on his burial plot was repaid," Brown wrote further. "To the extend that this statement appears in excerpts of Untouchable published in Vanity Fair's November 2012 issue, I demand that Vanity Fair publish a retraction explaining that the statement is false."


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Tim O'Brien is from small town Minnesota. He was born in Austin on October 1, 1946, a birth date he shares with several of his characters, and grew up in Worthington, "Turkey Capital of the World."
He matriculated at Macalester College. Graduation in 1968 found him with a BA in political science and a draft notice.
O'Brien was against the war, but reported for service and was sent to Vietnam with what has been called the "unlucky" Americal division due to its involvement in the My Lai massacre in 1968, an event which figures prominently in In the Lake of the Woods. He was assigned to 3rd Platoon, A Co., 5th Batt. 46th Inf., as an infantry foot soldier. O'Brien's tour of duty was 1969-70.
After Vietnam he became a graduate student at Harvard. No doubt he was one of very few Vietnam veterans there at that time, much less Combat Infantry Badge (CIB) holders. Having the opportunity to do an internship at the Washington Post, he eventually left Harvard to become a newspaper reporter. O'Brien's career as a reporter gave way to his fiction writing after publication of his memoir If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Send Me Home. Perhaps his best known work is The Things They Carried, winner of France's Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Tim O'Brien is now a visiting professor and endowed chair at Southwest Texas State University where he teaches in the Creative Writing Program. He is on the advisory board for The Ridenhour Prizes. O'Brien's archive is held by the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas.
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Published: January 25, 2010 at 3:03 PMIs there also a factor in which the length of a waiting line serves as a deterrent to other guests choosing a certain attraction? If so, then any attempt to reduce wait times by packing the raft might be offset somewhat by additional guests entering the queue because it is no longer unattractive.
Published: January 25, 2010 at 3:38 PMActually, to theme park attractions operators the number that's more important than wait time is the hourly count of guests who've gone through the attraction.
If an attraction is hitting close to the number of visitors that it is designed to put through in an hour, operations managers really don't care that much about the wait time - they're putting through everyone they can. If more people than that are showing up, well, there's nothing ops can do about that. (Except make a case for more building attractions, of course!)
The problem is when you're not doing hitting that number, and the number of visitors you're putting through every hour is far below your capacity. That was the problem we had on Tom Sawyer Island with the overloaded rafts - a really low percentage of "theoretical capacity."
So if we hit our highest possible capacity numbers, and that draws people from other attractions or off the street into our queue - fine. We'd rather have a 20-minute wait with us putting through 1,000 people per hour (for example) than a 15-minute wait when putting through only 500. Wait times are only held against operations managers if they're putting through a low percentage of their operating capacity.
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Clara goes hiking and other things.
That should make you feel special, because that is how I address people in real-life most of the time, especially my students or co-workers. Every year I try a social experiment where I say a specific thing a lot, and try and get my students to start saying it too. Nothing too radical, (although I did successfully get all my co-workers to start saying "douchebag") but just enough to indicate that I can warp tiny teenage heads into saying things like "Greetings." I also end class with "goodbye forever." One time, my sub from maternity leave tried to say that and the students got mad at her, because that was my thing. Sweet victory. Also? Much cooler than standing on your desk all "Oh Captain my Captain."
I freaking hate that movie.
This is not a big announcement or anything, but sometimes I think we are nearing the end here, with the old blog. I mean, probably not, because I like attention, but I realized something recently: this blog always maintained the primary function of getting me through something. I started it in college, I complained all through grad school, I kvetched about unemployment here, survived my first year of teaching, and then began the agonizing process of tearing my faith apart and building it into something new. I hate remodels. In future lives, if my reincarnated self picks a religion, I hope she doesn't pick such a fixer-upper, even if it has tons of potential.
Oh, and then there was that time I got pregnant...
Anyway, I'm looking out now and seeing no big storms ahead. Last night we had our National Honors Society Induction Ceremony, which used to really stress me out. Planning! Emailing! Musical Numbers! Now I've got that sucker down to a 35 minutes fine-tuned machine, with cookies after. (Side note: I think parents appreciate short events. As much as we all love your student, no one wants to spend hours in a school Auditorium. Ever.)
That is sort of what the rest of my life is like. It used to really stress me out, now it doesn't. I graduated. I've been teaching for three years, and while I'm always trying to do better, not a lot freaks me out anymore. Took a semi-permanent hiatus on the church thing. No more babies or wild hormones (for a while) to create blog fodder.
So while I will probably always stick around, these very occasional check-ins are probably the new normal around here. Until something else traumatic happens and I once again don't want to shell out money for a therapist. Tragedy bloggers really do have it made, right? Tragedy and fashion bloggers will outlive any zombie apocalypse. (Now take a minute to imagine all those hipsters in their maxi skirts and J.Crew bubble necklaces trying to fight off zombies. I'd read that blog, and so would you.)
In other news we took a trip up to Midway a few weekends ago. I like Midway/Heber, both towns are so unapologetic in their Utahness. Kitschy Relief Society crafts sold in every establishment ever! Even the bike rental place. Five thousand ice cream stores! Cheese! Oh, Utah.
We took Clara on a hike, and it was one of those happy moments when you find yourself living the life you imagined growing up. You went on hikes with your parents, with your baby sibling in the back pack, and you imagined what it would be like, to be the grown- up. Now I'm the grown- up watching Clara ride on my husband's back, and I know that life is still good. Life is still good post graduation and teaching, and even post faith-crisis. I thought my world would fall apart, and it didn't. It got better.
Dan says Clara spent most of the hike whispering conspiratorially in his ear.
Goodbye forever! (But you know, not really.)
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Three things
I saw this on Facebook (damn you Facebook, for combining the useful and the useless,) and I cried my way through the presentation.
This is the kind of mother I want to be.
This is the kind of teacher I want to be.
This is the kind of person I want to be.
Sarah Kay scares me because I realize there is more I could be doing, and should be doing, in my world.
Sarah talks about making lists of things she knows to be true, and having her students do the same. When we identify what we believe, we discover that some people have the exact same beliefs on their lists, and some people have things we don't even know about on theirs. When we share what we know to be true, we learn more about others, and more about ourselves.
In honor of Sarah Kay, here are three things I know to be true.
1. Clara looks beautiful when she sleeps in her crib.
2. The place between believing and non-believing is lonely, no matter how many kindred spirits you find.
3. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill taught me that.
What are three things you know to be true?
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In Defense of Your Believing Friend
This is a post written by my friend Sarah. I met Sarah on BYU London Study Abroad. (The Study Abroad that every famous blogger goes on, apparently. You hear that, Sarah? We are famous!) Anyway, Sarah is a Republican, an active Mormon, owner of a home in Utah County, and my friend.
Currently, Sarah lives in Thailand with her two daughters and her husband Rocky. When I wrote my last post, I knew I wanted her to write a response, and her post reminds me of a need to be kinder and more loving. Maybe even to swear less. Thanks for your post, Sarah, and thanks for being my friend.
In Defense of Your Believing Friend:
Mormons aren't perfect, far from it. We're just like everyone else, building our careers, raising our families, and living our lives. We're just doing it with different beliefs and rules. Sure, we screw up. Sometimes we are hypocritical or offensive—but the truth is, we're just trying to do our best. So next time you talk to your Mormon friend and they say something that you disagree with or find hurtful, cut them a little slack. They don't mean to upset you.
Steph asked me to make a list to correspond with her list, "What not to say to your faith crisis friend," and here is what I have. Really, it could be titled, "In defense of your believing friend" but to make it a response to hers I'll call it, "Things to keep in mind when talking with your Mormon friend."
1. Don't be offended if they try to talk about the gospel. The gospel is very important to us. It's like when you meet someone who's never read your favorite book. (Middlemarch by George Eliot and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, thanks for asking.) You love that book so much, it's so important to you, it may have changed your life or shaped your way of thought, when you recommend it to someone you do so hoping they have a similar experience. This is the way we feel about the gospel—the happiness and the peace it brings our lives.
This is why we talk about the church with our inactive and nonmember friends. We aren't trying to save your souls in an attempt to gain some kind of celestial advantage. We are only trying to help you find the happiness the gospel has brought us.
If you don't want to talk about it, just tell us, we'll stop. We can't read minds. We won't know it bothers you unless you tell us. Politely please, because it is very special to us. We're your friends, not the vacuum salesman at the door. We have other things in common, let's hold onto those things and stay friends.
2. Your believing friends are not naive, ignorant or brainwashed. My testimony is a personal thing. I don't have a testimony of the gospel because I don't know better or because "I didn't get out when I had the chance." I have a testimony because I prayed about the Book of Mormon and received confirmation that it is indeed another testament of Jesus Christ. I have a testimony because I see the change for good the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints brings to my life and to the lives of the people around me. My testimony is not based on lack of knowledge—it's based on faith and knowledge. Don't patronize me by acting as though you know more than me because you've left the church.
3. Don't trample the things they think are sacred. In Thailand, I am surrounded by tiny temples, raised on stilts, filled with daily offerings of food and juices. All part of living in a Buddhist country. I would never affront the people around me for worshiping idols. I would never insult Buddha, Confucius, Hindi gods or Muhammad (I know what a fatwa is). I don't agree with their teachings but I will not make crass comments about the things they believe are holy. Religion is sacred and personal. Lack of religion is sacred and personal.
If you've been a Mormon, or close to one, you're more familiar with the things we believe are sacred—temples, covenants, religious leaders—don't throw mud. I'm not saying you shouldn't disagree, you're welcome to, I'm just saying you can disagree without being offensive and tactless.
4. Don't think your friend sees only sunshine and happiness. I see the crap in the world today. I see the man sitting cross-legged at my train stop, holding a tin can with stubs that don't reach his elbows. I'm torn between giving him money and the knowledge that chances are, he was maimed as a child and placed there to collect money for the mafia. I studied Polish history, further evidence that I understand pain. We know life is awful for many people. We have seen sadness, death and lives lost for inexplicable reasons. But we still believe in God.
We keep smiling. That doesn't mean we don't mourn. I live by the Tolstoy quote, "God sees the truth but waits." God sees the baby stretched out on the beggar's legs. God saw the people pushed into the cattle cars in Poland. He will give them their reward. He sees me. Born to a stable family, in a developed country, at the top of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, and He expects more of me.
This is what keeps us happy. This is what strengthens our faith. We know in the end, all wrongs will be right and in exchange for our advantage in this life, we will be expected to have helped others in theirs. Don't assume our happiness is born from oblivion to the pain in the world. Some people's happiness does indeed stem from ignorance and oblivion but being Mormon does not make you unaware of hardship.
5. All Mormon women are not repressed. We aren't held captive by some evil, restrictive patriarchy. Sure, in our church the roles for men and women are different. WE'RE OKAY WITH THAT. If we weren't, we'd leave. It's that simple. You may have been repressed or offended with patriarchy—this does not mean we have. Accept that we are okay with the church as it stands today. This does not make us less of a person or a woman.
It's the twenty first century—roles between men and women are aligning and becoming more equal than ever. I applaud the advantages made for gender equality while accepting God has a different plan for women than he does for men. I don't know why women don't have the priesthood or the answers to any of those other hard questions. What I do know is the church is true—it is true as it stands today. For me that is enough.
Basically, this whole list could be summed up with—agree to disagree, respectfully.
And a quick note to Mormons who have friends struggling with the gospel:
If you have friend who going through a faith crisis, don't shut them out. You don't need to save them; you just need to be their friend. Your friendship probably has some rooting outside the chapel doors, find that and keep being their friend. (Steph and I share a love of celebrity biographies, all things British and Ronald Reagan.) And to be honest, I hate that Steph's going through this. I hate when the people in my life don't make the choices I want them to. Chances are very good I will die of a nervous breakdown when my kids are teenagers.
People are always going to like different things, act different ways and make different choices. Diversity makes things great. Diversity makes the church great. Accept that your friend is challenging something personal and sacred to you but they are still your friend. The last thing they need is for you to stop talking to them. Apostasy isn't a contagious disease. Your testimony should be founded in Jesus Christ, not in your peers. Besides, if anything, maintaining a friendship and talking about the gospel will only make your testimony stronger. Keep them in your prayers, love them. That is what Christ would do…is doing.
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Things Not To Tell Your Apostate/Heathen/Inactive/Questioning/ In- Faith- Crisis Friend
Back when I was a great Mormon but a mediocre human being (it happens, when you focus on the rules and not necessarily the pure love of Christ,) I tried to convince a male friend to go on a mission. Male friend, (alias Mike,) openly questioned his belief in the church, faced extreme pressure at home to conform to the "ideal Mormon male" prototype established by his very righteous siblings, and battled severe depression. While sympathetic, I insisted that the only way to fix his deep unhappiness involved spending two years preaching a party-line he didn't believe.
I did this because my belief in the Mormon Plan of Happiness hinged on the belief that traditional Mormonism offered a perfect blue-print for living. If you obeyed the Word of Wisdom, dressed modestly, went on a mission, got married in the temple, and produced at least three kids, you would be happy for the rest of your life. If you weren't happy, (because even then I recognized I was not,) you could at least achieve happiness in the next life. Just. Stick. With. It.
Fortunately, Mike disregarded my advice. He did not serve a mission, and later left the church. I sincerely hope he found happiness, but I don't know. I don't know what happened to Mike because our relationship evaporated shortly after my attempts to convince him to serve a mission. When my friend needed a confidant, unconditional love, and support, I only offered conformity, the appearance of happiness, and the satisfaction that comes with making sure everyone follows the rules, even if it kills them. I don't want to be friends with that person, and neither did Mike.
Regarding relationships with my own friends after my Faith Crisis, I've lived the other side of friendship with a questioning Mormon. People concerned for my salvation offer the same advice I once offered Mike: Just. Stick. With. It. Most of their advice comes from a place of love, some of frustration, and most all of it ineffective. "Endure to the end" quickly loses its appeal when it means a lifetime of cognitive dissonance and sadness.
For the betterment of both species, the believing friend and their questioning counterpart, I've developed a list of things you should never, ever say to a friend in Faith Crisis. If you are my believing friend, and said some of these things, don't feel bad. I've inevitably been a jackass in response, and I promise to follow up with a list of things not to tell your believing friend too. (As soon as I find a believing friend who is still speaking to me to guest post. Kidding.)
1. "Move out of Utah!" I hear this all the damn time. I hate it.
First, I cannot just "move out of Utah." Spouseman and I own a home and a business here. I am licensed to teach here. Moving out of Utah would mean subjecting ourselves to potential poverty and financial ruin, and I like eating, and Clara likes having a place to live.
Secondly, what exactly happens outside of Utah that makes it so much better? Is the church still a patriarchal institution in Minnesota? Do Mormons in Nebraska benefit from complete transparency fom the church regarding spending practices? Are women and members of the LGBT community allowed to progress spiritually in a manner equal to their straight male counterparts? No? Then moving to Maine won't solve my problems.
I find the suggestion to "Move out of Utah" offensive because it implies that I am just offended by Utah Culture, not dealing with serious issues of doctrinal discontent. Yes, I'm sure the Sunday School discussions are better in Tennessee. The Bishops more liberal, the Modesty Gestapo more like regular Police. It doesn't make how I feel in the temple go away, or how I feel about my Gay brothers and sisters. I'm not inactive because I hate shade shirts and bump-its. It took a lot to truly question the faith of my childhood, and I didn't deeply hurt my Spouse and make my mother cry because I didn't like the "culture" in Utah. Your friends who struggle with their faith crisis can't just move, and by offering a false solution, you aren't respecting the validity of their feelings.
2."The Church is perfect, the people are not." Blargh. Really? I reject the idea that the Church is somehow a mythical monolith that is self-run and therefore perfect. The church is made up of people, who are flawed, so mistakes will happen. Beyond that, a little thing called history proves that the Church, just like everything else, is a living social structure that changes over time. If the church was perfect, we wouldn't be lifting bans on priesthood, altering conference talks that are offensive, and revamping manuals to get rid of outdated ideas.
3. "The Gospel is perfect, the people are not." See previous mini-rant, but the gospel evolves. Claiming the gospel according to Mormonism is perfect denies the church and its members the ability to progress and grow. Don't be that guy.
4. "Do you think you are smarter than the prophet?" Well, do you really want me to answer that? Because rumors of President Monson's dementia are pretty well known. But no, I don't think I am smarter than the prophet, but I do think I am entitled to personal revelation. Answers to prayers can be different. Prayer is a constant companion for me, and has been for the duration of my faith crisis. But I got a very different answer than you regarding my relationship with the church. I will respect your faith journey if you respect mine.
5. "But if you don't stay and fight, how will things change? You just can't just leave and come back when things are good again!" Says who?
But seriously, the choice to stay in the church and hopefully make improvements is a noble decision, and I respect the people who choose this life path. That is still an option for me in many ways. But for some people, waiting and yearning for change when one (especially when one is a woman,) can do little to enact improvements on a permanent and broad scale represents a slow and painful death of the soul. The decision to stay, leave, leave and come back is personal, and there is not a right answer. I will quote my good friend e.e. cummings: "Unbeing dead isn't being alive." I spent years "Unbeing dead" in the church, and it didn't make me a better Mormon, a better Christian, or a happier person. For some, the need to be alive supersedes the desire to wait it out.
6. If you are dealing with a Feminist in faith crisis, female or male, do not assume that "You clearly had a bad experience with a Priesthood leader!" Or, more insidiously, that you experienced some form of abuse by a Church leader. For the most part, my Church leaders, past and present, are nice people. Assuming that you are simply "offended" by a person invalidates real and complex feelings stemming from what you believe as a person, and what you learn in church. I'm a petty person, but again, not petty enough to leave a church I spent the majority of my life devoted to because a Relief Society President was catty or a Bishop was insensitive. Alternately, assuming the only reason a person could leave is severe abuse makes us non-believers feel like freaks. We already feel bad about not loving church, no need to make us feel weirdly guilty about not being abused in order to justify our totally normal feelings.
7. Lastly, and this one slays me a thousand slays, "Well I never felt that way. I never felt inequity between men and women, I never felt unnecessarily confined by traditional gender roles, I never felt cognitive dissonance between the teachings of Christ and the teachings of the Church. I didn't feel that way about that talk/proclamation/policy, etc." I am so glad that your church experience is a positive one. Truly. Keep on keeping on. But just because you don't personally relate to a friend's struggles with the church doesn't mean their problems don't exist. I don't know the heartache of not being Latin-looking enough to get the Hispanic vote like Mitt Romney, but it doesn't mean Romney isn't an enormous dickalope who doesn't know how to run an election. Respect the struggles of your friends even if you cannot relate to them personally, they are real, and they are important, just like your friend.
8. Um, I had to add this after the initial posting because it also enrages me: "If God wanted XYZ to happen, it would happen."
Tell that to starving children, rape victims, and people with terminal diseases and see them laugh you off the planet. I'm a big believer in God wanting us to help each other, and to figure out our own shit. As Elie Wiesel once said, (incidentally, I bet Wiesel believes in a God who wept when things like, say, THE HOLOCAUST happened,) " Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other." If we want equality to happen, if we want the world to be a better place, we need to make it happen. Waiting around for God when you could have righted a wrong or eased a burden yourself seems irresponsible of a people allegedly devoted to the teachings of Christ. END ADDENDUM RANT.
So what can you do for your friend who suddenly goes heathen on you?
Love them. It seems so simple, and so saccharine, but your friend's world is falling apart at the seams, and they need you to love them. They need love if they stay, if they leave, if they are only sometimes active and wear pants to Relief Society. They do not need preachy email forwards, accusations, or threats. I wish deeply that I had been a better friend for Mike during a difficult time in his life. I am grateful for the friends, both believing and hell-bound, that supported and loved me in the years post faith crisis. I don't know what I believe sometimes, but I hope there is one thing believers and questioners can agree on: Love conquers all.
*Corrections: I changed the line about using tithing dollars and malls to a question about financial transparency from the church. We don't know how the church uses all of its funds.
**I also changed the line about President Monson from reports to rumors. There are not official reports, just rumors.
I should have been more precise in my writing, and I apologize.
**I also changed the line about President Monson from reports to rumors. There are not official reports, just rumors.
I should have been more precise in my writing, and I apologize.
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16m. Climb across the right wall of The Corner to ledges around the arete (possible stance) then step back left and cross to the arete, finish left or right (better) of the final prow.
I am guessing this route doesn't get climbed much and the grade is therefore somewhat "historical". In my view, it is definitely E1 5B. I have climbed many easier routes at E1 5B. The crux is protected by only an old peg which looks dubious to me (most of my experience is on sea cliffs in the S West, so am used to looking closely at pegs). If the peg rips, you would deck out from 25 foot.


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The mall landlord is also focused on refinancing its debt in the lower interest rate environment and is working on the sale of its US, Polish and German properties, while assessing four mid-sized shopping centres on Australia's east coast to buy once its US assets have been sold.
"We have been very successful in the past few years at selling offshore assets and lining up the repatriation of that equity with an acquisition in this country so we're reinvesting in one action and not having the money sitting around earning very low rates of interest," trust fund manager Scott Dundas said.
Seven of the nine shopping centres that the trust owns in the US are under contract. One of the sales will settle this month, with three others to follow within 60 days.
The trust extended an €81 million ($100.8 million) debt facility on its German assets out to 2014. General manager of finance Philip Schretzmeyer expects the cost to fall substantially, by as much as 1 percentage point, although the exact rate is yet to be locked in.
It aims to sell the European properties within the next 2½ years and is already preparing them for market.
Mr Dundas said the trust would initiate the process of having a credit rating assigned to its portfolio of subregional and neighbourhood shopping malls after the funds from all sales had been repatriated. "That type of strategy will be wrapped up with the strategy to bring money back to Australia," he said.
It would be a lengthy process, but Mr Dundas was confident that the portfolio's low occupancy costs of about 8.4 per cent for specialty tenants and income streams supported by supermarket tenants with long leases would put it in a good position for a strong rating.
That would give the trust another avenue for raising funds.
The trust has started a share buyback but Mr Dundas said it now had better uses for its funds, in centre redevelopments and acquisitions.
It has earmarked about $76 million for centre redevelopments, including $55 million allocated to redevelop its Gowrie Street Mall at Singleton in NSW.
The trust invests in centres worth between $20 million to $80 million. In the current market, there's little competition from other buyers as private investors and private syndicates tend to look for lower cost properties, while the bigger groups look for larger centres.
"It's part of our investment rationale to buy the No. 1 supermarket asset in a catchment," Mr Dundas said.
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The state's plan to clean up Lake Champlain is inadequate, environmental groups say, and some doubt the governor's commitment to the task.
The problem, they say, is the plan lacks funding and regulatory commitment.
"There's a really solid house built on a really shaky foundation," said Kim Greenwood, a staff scientist with the Vermont Natural Resources Defense Council. "No matter how good our plan is, if we can't get the funding for it, nothing is going to happen."
The administration's proposal, which it sent to the Environmental Protection Agency, this week, includes new standards to limit phosphorus runoff into the lake. Phosphorus pollution is linked to toxic algae blooms considered harmful to health, the environment and the state's tourism economy.
The EPA rejected the state's previous plan after the Conservation Law Foundation challenged it in court. The federal agency has been working with the state to draft a new plan by the end of the summer; it is awaiting a commitment letter from Gov. Peter Shumlin before it hands down a final water quality plan.
"This letter will decide the fate of the lake. If we can't get the governor to commit, it doesn't matter if we had the perfect solution," Greenwood said.
The EPA has said the state must provide "reasonable assurances" to clean up the lake, including financial and regulatory commitments. Shumlin says the state needs a solid plan before he spends any more "loot" on the cleanup. Shumlin is working with the EPA to draw all available federal funds.
Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner David Mears, who has been working closely on the plan, said the department will ask lawmakers for money next session.
"The funding is not likely to come all at once, anyways. This will require a sustained, continued effort," he said. "I think this will be a forever conversation at some level."
Former Lessons Learned
Former Gov. Jim Douglas' 2003 Clean and Clear Action Plan was similar to the state's current proposal. It focused on runoff from farms, forests and roads, and river management.
The state spent more than $57 million on (and leveraged $68 million in federal funding). In 2008, a performance audit by a Vermont consulting group concluded the program had done little to reduce phosphorus in the lake (though it pointed out there is a lag time between "action and outcomes").
Pollution from wastewater treatment facilities was reduced under the plan, but there was criticism for not cutting pollution from other nonpoint sources.
The Conservation Law Foundation is concerned that the current plan will be more of the same.
"We suffered through a decade of delay in the lake cleanup during the Douglas years that was justified through a catchy name for a program that didn't exist, Clean and Clear. And I'm concerned the governor's comments are heading in a similar direction," said Chris Kilian, vice president and director of environmental advocacy for the organization.
Kilian said the current proposal changes little.
"Basically to correct the problem, the Department of Environmental Conservation is putting forward business as usual, and maybe a little more of it, on the same programs that have put us in the predicament in the first place," he said.
He said the state should enforce new standards rather than create voluntary incentives; ask private developers to share the cost of building out new stormwater infrastructure through retrofits and building standards; and give state agencies more resources to enforce existing and new standards.
Kilian would not say whether the group will challenge the final plan under the Clean Water Act in court.
"We're not standing down in any way," he said. "We have a legal settlement with EPA that we intend to hold them accountable to."
Mears said the plan increases the reach of existing programs and sets new standards, including a new program to retrofit certain state and municipal roads. And these new programs will come with a price tag the state is committing to cover if necessary.
"We have to be able to provide them some support and funding and assistance," he said, referencing the farmers, foresters, developers, towns and others to be affected by the new program standards.
Even if the plan were fully enforced, further action is needed to address the underlying problem of water quality issues in the state, according to James Ehlers, director of Lake Champlain International, a group formed to improve the lake's water quality.
"I know that these plans are not going to work. These are the same kinds of plans that have been tried elsewhere and have failed," Ehlers said.
He pointed to a 2013 report by the Government Accountability Office that concluded the EPA needs to do more to ensure that states meet water quality pollution targets, known as total maximum daily loads (TMDL).
"Is the plan going to work? No," he said. "There's not a fundamental change."
This change, Ehlers said, could include a plan that creates a market for capturing waste and stormwater onsite.
"We need to create a sustainable economy built upon jobs that protect our water supply, not poison it," he said. "Passing these products downstream creates problems for somebody else."


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Walk - Portreath to Hayle
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After leaving Portreath the Coast Path follows the cliffs with some beautiful views of rocky coves, such as the wonderfully named Ralph's Cupboard, apparently a favoured smugglers spot for stashing loot. After just a couple of steep climbs the Path soon levels and walking becomes fairly straightforward. As you follow the sheer cliffs, surrounded by brightly coloured spring and summertime flowers, such as blue sheep's bit, primroses and yellow rattle, look down to the contrastingly raw, jagged reefs below.
Seals are a common sight around the waters of Godrevy and Gwithian and sunfish and basking sharks have been spotted from the North Cliffs. The dunes behind the spectacular beach which stretches from Godrevy Point to the entrance of the Hayle estuary are also rich with wildlife.


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This homophone worksheet encourages your child to learn through a story about a boy and a monster! In this homophone worksheet, students will choose from words that sound alike but have different meanings, such as "know" and "no." Increasing your knowledge of homophones helps strengthen spelling and vocabulary usage. Print this homophone worksheet for your child to help him improve his writing and learn the difference between "their," "they're," and "there!"


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Terry Meeuwsen talks with Karen Kingsbury about her New York Times bestselling career.
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Pat Robertson interviews Paul Kengor, author of The Judge, about the man behind the Cold War's end.
She's an amputee, Olympic skier and silver medalist. Bonnie St. John discusses how to overcome any obstacle.
Rick Warren's wife has come face to face with the hurting world and witnessed a startling wake-up call that...
Best-selling author and pastor Max Lucado examines the most famous verse in the Bible.
Gordon Robertson interviews David Brody who is in Iowa after the caucus that made history.
America's Family Financial Expert wants to teach you how to find surprise money and pay off your debt.
Celebrated musician Paul Wilbur returns to The 700 Club to discuss his ministry and what God is doing today.
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Dickens's Desk Is the People's Desk, and Other NewsBy Dan Piepenbring
- What accounts for Jane Austen's unprecedented posthumous success? "Tolstoy, Dickens and Proust are all remembered, and still read, but they do not have countless fans throughout the world who reread their books each year, who eagerly await the latest television or movie adaptation, who attend conventions in period costume, and who no doubt dream about the heroes and heroines of their novels."
- Today, in the furniture of the greats: Charles Dickens's desk (and chair) have been preserved for posterity. Having been "hidden away" for a hundred and fifty years, during which many people who were not Charles Dickens had the audacity to use them, they'll soon assume their rightful place at London's Dickens Museum, where they've been "secured for the benefit of all our visitors."
- The many faces of Terrance Hayes: "When college students read Hayes, they talk about the underlying seriousness of poems about lynchings, fistfights or rape. But when poets talk about Hayes, they tend to address his invented forms: poems based on anagrams, on the Japanese slide shows called pechakucha and on puzzles."
- Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time, a 1951 mystery novel, renewed interest in Richard III, that most maligned of monarchs: "The novel was immediately popular when it first appeared … Tey's dissection of received history prompted readers to question … everything they had been taught. This could feel like an awakening."
- Robert Moses is the subject of a new graphic biography—from France. "No New Yorker would mistake the book for a native product. There are editing glitches. Randalls Island becomes 'Randall Island,' Staten Island is rendered 'State Island' … Lines of dialogue like 'You'll stay for the dinner I've organized with some people from the municipality' were probably not uttered quite like that."


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Growing movement to stop Monsanto's cozy relationship with FDA
(NEW YORK) MintPress — At least one member of the Obama team did not have such a super Tuesday. There are increasing calls for the ouster of the Deputy Commission for Foods at the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Michael R. Taylor.
President Obama appointed him to the newly created post on January 13, 2010; Taylor's job is to ensure that food labels contain clear and accurate information, oversee strategy for food safety and plan new food safety legislation.
It would seem like a role that would garner a great deal of public support, but instead Taylor's appointment was criticized by consumer advocates across the country. The reason: His strong ties to highly controversial agricultural biotechnology giant Monsanto, which is at the forefront of genetically modified food.
Taylor is featured in the documentaries The Future of Food and The World According to Monsanto.
Revolving door career raises eyebrows
Taylor started his professional life in 1976 as an FDA staff lawyer before moving into private practice at King & Spalding, a law firm representing Monsanto. After returning to the FDA and then moving to the United States Department of Agriculture, (USDA), Taylor went back to Monsanto as the Vice President for Public Policy from 1998-2001. After some time in academia, he returned to the government in 2009 as "senior advisor" to the FDA Commissioner.
At that time, consumer activist Jeffrey Smith, who campaigns against genetically modified foods, wrote on his blog:
"The person who may be responsible for more food-related illness and death than anyone in history has just been made the US food safety czar. This is no joke."
Smith's condemnation apparently fell on deaf ears, but now the President is facing renewed pressure. A petition on Signon.org begins "President Obama, I oppose your appointment of Michael Taylor" and continues, "Taylor is the same person who was Food Safety Czar at the FDA when genetically modified organisms were allowed into the U.S. food supply without undergoing a single test to determine their safety or risks. This is a travesty."
Signees of the petition point to scientific research that has found genetically modified foods could be a cause of cancer and chronic illnesses.
Taylor's tenure at Monsanto
During Taylor's employment with the company, he oversaw the development and marketing of Monsanto's genetically engineered bovine growth hormone. (rbGH/rbST), which has been discredited by many medical organizations and hospitals warning of the potential health risks of milk from injected cows.
Bovine growth hormone was in fact banned from use in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and all European Union countries (currently numbering 27), by 2000 or earlier. In the United States, public opinion has also turned against it, causing a number of products and retailers to become rBST-free.
"Worst company"
Public opinion was largely responsible as well for Monsanto receiving the Worst Company of 2011 Award from natural health information website NaturalSociety.com for threatening both human health and the environment.
According to an anonymous 2001 document obtained by the Center for Public Integrity, Monsanto was identified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as being a "potentially responsible party" for 56 contaminated Superfund sites in the United States. The company has been sued, and has settled, multiple times for damaging the health of its employees or residents near its Superfund sites through pollution and poisoning.
Monsanto is also the largest producer of genetically engineered seed and glyphosate herbicides. A report released in June 2011 linked glyphosate to birth defects in frog and chicken embryos.
In 1998, Monsanto's director of corporate communications explained the company's regulatory philosophy to activist and journalist Michael Pollan, saying "Monsanto should not have to vouch for the safety of biotech food. Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible. Its safety is the FDA's job."
Backlash overseas
Last month, Monsanto announced that it was abandoning its plans to sell its insect-resistant maize in France. Six European countries have banned the cultivation of genetically modified maize. "Until France has a stable business and regulatory environment based on sound science, commercialising GM technology is not practical for Monsanto," said a spokesman for Monsanto UK.
The statement followed protests outside a shareholders meeting at one of Monsanto's plants in southern France. The activists later said they were pleased with the decision.
As for the anti-Monsanto petition in the U.S., in the past week alone it has gained roughly 425,000 signatures, just shy of its ultimate goal of 450,000.
President Obama, take note.
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It is a tondo in the Uffizi, showing the figures in half length.
Ascribed to him is also the tondo of the Madonna and Child with two Saints.
Calao, chief of tondo, was sentenced to exile from this jurisdiction for four years.
I am known as Capitan Tinong and live in tondo, where you will always be welcome.
Following the fashion made popular by the Della Robbias, the artist chose for his composition the round picture, or tondo.
In proof of this, I send a mandate issued by a deputy of tondo.
In tondo, Nabotas, and Tambobo are collected one thousand five hundred whole tributes, which represent six thousand souls.
What disaster might have followed the capture of the tondo road and the attack upon the bridge is only conjecture.
This work occurred in tondo District in connection with extensive cleaning and moving operations.
They also attacked the church and town of tondo, which belongs to the religious of our father St. Augustine.


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Clive Crook believes that Globalization is a miracle not an ill and the West and the United States have made tremendous gains because of it. He argues that the Globalization of labor hasn't harm Americans workers because although the average wage of unskilled workers has fallen, the wages of other members of the workforce has risen:
True, labor's share of national income has fallen in the United States and in other rich countries. In industries using mostly unskilled workers, labor's share of income has fallen significantly; in industries using mostly skilled labor, its share has tended to rise. But, thanks to trade, which has made prices lower than they otherwise would be, pay in real terms has kept on rising regardless -- albeit more slowly in some places than in others. In America, real compensation per worker has risen by about 20 percent since 1980. In Europe, it has risen by more than 30 percent. (Note, though, that America has added new jobs at roughly twice Europe's rate -- hence its consistently lower unemployment rate.)
Yes, growth in American wages and benefits was lower at that rate than the country had grown accustomed to. But see this in the global context: Despite the staggering increase in the effective global labor supply during the past two and a half decades -- a phenomenon that is off all the charts and that, to repeat, heralds unprecedented inroads against global poverty -- wages and benefits in the United States managed to keep on rising. This seems little short of miraculous.
The problem however is that American workers will not be persuaded by such type of arguments because they perceive globalization not as a phenomenon, which is leveling the playing field, but as one which distorts it by making them disposable since they can be replaced whether they are skilled or not by people in other countries, who will be cheap and less demanding. The real question is really about whether Globalization is a miracle or an ill, but about whether it will continue to happen in a vacuum of any kind of governance to control its shortcomings and to ensure that common rules exist so the globalized world has some values, such as equality and equity, which still have some meaning.


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VATICAN CITY, FEB. 5, 2007 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI urged that violence not be allowed to stain the sports world, in the wake of rioting at a soccer game that left a police officer dead.
The Pope's appeal was expressed in a telegram of sympathy sent by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican secretary of state, to Archbishop Salvatore Gristina of Catania, Sicily, after the death of Filippo Raciti, 38.
The police officer, who was a husband and a father of two, died amid rioting by fans at the end of the Italian A-Series Catania-Palermo soccer match last Friday.
The Holy Father's message was read at the police inspector's funeral service today, which was presided over by Archbishop Gristina.
The Pontiff expressed "his spiritual closeness to the wife and children of the victim, as well as to the injured and the police who, with other law enforcement forces, work to safeguard the security of citizens."
Benedict XVI reiterated "his firm condemnation of all forms of violence that disfigure the world of soccer," and exhorted "its protagonists to promote respect for legality with greater determination, favoring loyalty, solidarity and healthy competitiveness."
"In this hope," the telegram stated, "His Holiness raises fervent prayers for the soul of the faithful servant of the state while invoking heavenly consolation upon the relatives and colleagues and all those stricken by such a dramatic loss."
The telegram also mentioned that the Pope "sends a comforting apostolic blessing, which may also be extended to those present at the funeral rites."


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Guam may be too overpopulated and could tip over.
Guam may be too overpopulated and could tip over.
^ Shits not a good news for me. My cousin lives in Guam
russia will fly off to the moon. they are secretly building rockets underground that will fly all of russia's land
it looks like this
This guy sounds drunk as fuck, and islands don't tip over like boats, they get submerged by water over time. And 150,000 people that are an average 175 pounds is only 262,500 tons.
nah, guam is different I heard, its shaped like a mushroom so its like a slim pedestal holding the majority of the mass, I believe it has been of concern for awhile actually


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Narayan, S and Prasad, K and Nair, RU and Jha, RM (2012) A Novel Em Analysis of Double layered thick FSS based on MM-GSM Technique for Radome Applications. pp. 53-62.Full text available as:
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The EM analysis of double-layered thick FSS structure with low-loss dielectric medium between the FSS layers has been carried out using MM-GSM technique. In this analysis, both evanescent and propagating modes are included that enhances the accuracy of the computation. This method provides less computational complexity in the formulation of FSS structures as compared to other numerical techniques. The cascaded FSS structure shows bandpass response (> 95% transmission) over a frequency range from 8.84 GHz to 10.74 GHz. It is found that this FSS structure shows very good in-band transmission characteristics and excellent roll characteristics outside the band. Further, the dependence of transmission characteristics on the spacing between the FSS layers is also investigated. The optimum bandpass response is achieved for 0.3
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Key refuses to meet Kaikoura stop deep sea oil community
John Key refuses to meet Kaikoura stop deep sea oil community
This Saturday and Sunday, the Blue Greens (the National Party's advisory group on environmental issues) are having their annual conference in Kaikoura.
Spokesperson for Te Runanga o Kaikoura, Gina Solomon said, "Members of Te Korowai o Te Tai o Marokura were invited to attend a hui at Takahanga Marae by the Minister of Conservation, Hon Nick Smith, for the announcement of the (government) response to our Kaikoura Marine Strategy."
It is understood that Hon Amy Adams, the Minister for the Environment and, Hon Prime Minister, John Key will be in attendance at the 9:30 hui on Sunday morning. The Prime Minister, his cabinet, and other attendees plan to go whale watching directly after the hui.
Last week No Drill Kaikoura, a local organisation concerned about the risks of deep sea oil exploration, requested John Key attend a public forum while he was in town to discuss the issue of deep sea oil, but he declined. No Drill now invites the community to bring their banners and placards to Churchill park at 10:30am on Sunday the 16th to message the Prime Minister and his cabinet directly as they leave the hui. Further actions for the day will be announced at Churchill Park.
Lynda Kitchingham, a spokesperson for No Drill Kaikoura who was a member of Te Korowai for five years said, "representatives from the Kaikoura Community have put ten or so years of hard work into a conservation strategy for the region to which the government will be presenting its response next weekend. The Vision of Te Korowai is, 'By perpetuating the mauri and wairua of Te Tai O Marokura, the community act as kaitiaki of Tangaroa's taonga to achieve a flourishing, rich and healthy environment, where opportunities abound to sustain the needs of present and future generations...' I will be very interested to see how this government manages to 'spin' compatibility of this Vision with deep sea oil drilling and seismic testing on the doorstep."
Maurice Manawatu, first chairperson of Te Korowai said, "It just seems so incompatible to be promoting oil exploration in the very canyon that feeds directly into the proposed, marine reserve, marine mammal sanctuary and World Heritage site."


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Is Little Inferno a game or a very interesting joke? It might be both, but it also depends on how open you are to things that aren't the normal every day experience in the world of games. Little Inferno is such an odd piece of software. Essentially, the entire game you play as a child burning toys in a fireplace, then you get money that you receive for burning said toys to buy more toys. It's a never ending cycle, and you'll either love the creepy animations of toys burning or you'll ask yourself what in the world is going on. So what keeps the monotonous gameplay a little interesting? The ability to do combos where you burn certain toys together. If you can get into this, it can get a little addicting.
For myself? I caught the magic of the "game" for about an hour. That was it. The rest of the game was more of trying to get through the vague yet interesting story. And I will say, the story and message of the game did make me feel like it was worth a go. Plus, getting to show friends, who have a dark sense of humor the crazy ways the toys react to burning was entertaining. Part of me was happy with this purchase, while other parts of me wished there was more. The world is interesting enough that I would've loved to see more of it in different ways. Especially how the end of the game really opened fun possibilities. It's a shame then, that this never happens. What we are left with is a novelty that you'd find in a free to play mobile game. But that's the joke of the game, the developers clearly wanted to poke fun at this culture who buys into time wasters and in a way burns through more money/time then they ever intended. Still a joke, an idea to point at something and scream "HEY" look at this, doesn't appear to give this game enough depth.
Is atmosphere enough? Is a message enough? For me, the answer is in the middle. I liked the idea of what they were trying to do, that said, it doesn't lend itself well for replays at all. If you can get through the game, you will likely not go back. You may bring it up in a discussion about wacky games you have played but I doubt you'll want to sit down and play this game through all the way to completion ever again.World Of Goo quality, this is not...
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Those looking for something completely out of left field.
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For $5? Sure. I'd say that you won't feel too burned (haha) if you don't end up clicking with the game.
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This investigation was conducted under HSI's Operation Predator, an international initiative to protect children from sexual predators. Since the launch of Operation Predator in 2003, HSI has arrested more than 10,000 individuals for crimes against children, including the production and distribution of online child pornography, traveling overseas for sex with minors, and sex trafficking of children. In fiscal year 2013, more than 2,000 individuals were arrested by HSI special agents under this initiative.
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 9.0688 Friday, 24 July 1998.
Date: Thursday, 23 Jul 1998 22:26:35 +0000
Subject: Patrick Stewart does Shakespeare
Does anyone know of any Patrick Stewart (of Star Trek fame) Shakespeare
videos out there? I know he did "Merchant of Venice" and a recent
racially reversed production of "Othello" (He played a white Othello).
He's probably done more.
I work with freshmen & sophomore level college students and certainly
want to get them "hooked" on Shakespeare.