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The Book of Mormon teaches the following in Alma 5:27-28:
"Have ye walked, keeping yourselves blameless before God? Could ye say, if ye were called to die at this time, within yourselves, that ye have been sufficiently humble? That your garments have been cleansed and made white through the blood of Christ, who will come to redeem his people from their sins? Behold, are ye stripped of pride? I say unto you, if ye are not ye are not prepared to meet God. Behold ye must prepare quickly; for the kingdom of heaven is soon at hand, and such an one hath not eternal life."
Taking a look at Joseph Smith's life, was he humble, and did he really follow the words the book that came forth from his own hands?
Joseph Smith says the following about himself in 1844, very shortly before his death:
"I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam. A large majority of the whole have stood by me. Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such a work as I. The followers of Jesus ran away from Him; but the Latter-day Saints never ran away from me yet" (History of the Church, 6:408-409) "…how I do love to hear the wolves howl! When they can get rid of me, the Devil will go also." (History of Joseph Smith, 672)
Think about that. What does it say, Latter-day Saints, when your founding prophet says about himself, "When [Latter-day Saints] can get rid of me, the Devil will go also?" This is highly significant, ironic, and highly prophetic? After all, words have powerful meaning, especially when spoken forth from the mouth. If Joseph Smith was dropped by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, then the Devil would leave. This is why the foundation of the LDS Church is built upon Joseph Smith, a man who had such pride. It is not the fact that he had pride that matters, because after all, all of us have had issues with pride at some point or another.
Sometimes we may have gone out into the world to make a name for ourselves instead of giving glory to the Lord God–this is pride. Joseph Smith's unrepentant pride that boasted with such heresy is just like Herod in Acts 12:21-23 (NIV). In this story, it says the following:
On the appointed day Herod, wearing his royal robes, sat on his throne and delivered a public address to the people. They shouted, "This is the voice of a god, not of a man." Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
Joseph Smith gave a sermon in 1844, not long before his death, called the King Follett Discourse. This sermon is filled with blasphemy and heretical teachings about God in relation to man. Go online and read it sometime. After the sermon, a man named Joseph Fielding said this about Joseph Smith's sermon:
"I never felt more delighted with his discourse than at this time. They said at his oration, it is the voice of a god not of a man." (Journal of Joseph Fielding, quoted in "The King Follett Discourse: Joseph Smith's Greatest Sermon in Historical Perspective")
Notice how the people said of Joseph Smith the same way they spoke of Herod when they said that "it is the voice of a god and not of a man." Wow! Can you believe that? Herod died of worms because he accepted what the people said. Joseph Smith died a few months after this sermon that was apparently the best sermon he ever preached, in the eyes of the Mormon people.
Mormons, think about what this really means. Joseph Smith's blasphemy led to his death. Not a death of martyrdom as a hero of the faith, but as God's letting us know that He will not tolerate a man blaspheming His name and poising ourselves as gods.
The Jews spent 40 years in the wilderness so they could be humbled (Deuteronomy 8:2).We learn in the Bible that before honor comes humility (Proverbs 15:33). Also, Jesus teaches us that if we do not humble ourselves, we will not be exalted. (Matthew 23:12).
We need to watch our pride so that we can come as a child to Jesus Christ, lest we think we are better than our Creator, lest we think that we can become a God.
We must always keep ourselves a humble spirit and a repentant heart. Start and end your day with those two things, for it will take you far in life!


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I didn't watch last night's Emmy awards … never really done so in the past, and their ignorance regarding The Wire pretty much said it all as far as my current interest is concerned (I admit to being pissed about the absence of Katey Sagal from this year's nominees). Like most such shows, there was a brief package of clips of those who had passed away during the year. Apparently, David Mills, himself a winner of multiple Emmys, who had written for NYPD Blue and The Corner and The Wire and Treme and many other series, and who had died during the making of the first season of Treme, was not included in the clips. So here is a beautiful post about Mills from a friend:
And here's the video she included, which HBO showed at the end of the last episode of this season's Treme:
Mystic River. For me, the best movie Clint Eastwood has directed. I've never been a big fan of Eastwood's work as a director … I find him competent in that "always get the movie in on time and on budget" way, and I've often wondered why he is so honored. But Mystic River is a triumphant match for Eastwood's best qualities. He trusts actors … I'm not on the set, but my guess is he lets them work out their characters, and when the writing is as strong and subtle as it is here, and when the actors are people like Sean Penn and Tim Robbins and Marcia Gay Harden, it's a good idea to get out of their way. The three central male characters all work hard at suppressing outward emotions, but all do it in different ways … Penn is always about to explode, Robbins sinks within himself, and Kevin Bacon hides behind a sheen of professionalism. (Bacon is a pleasant surprise here, holding his own with the other actors.) #36 on the They Shoot Pictures, Don't They list of the best films of the 21st century. 9/10.
The Last House on the Left. Almost 40 years after I saw this at a drive-in during its initial release, I revisit this cult classic. I've told the story many times, about how the truck next to us was parked backwards so they could sit in the back and drink a thousand beers while they watched. When the guy in the movie got his dick bitten off, one of the guys in the truck leaned over the side and puked really loud. Ever since, I've thought of that guy as the perfect critic for what I found to be a worthless film. The difference between now and then is that I've had to address the movie as an academic might (one of the members of my dissertation committee was Carol J. Clover, whose landmark book Men, Women and Chainsaws turned the horror community on its head). So now I know that the movie was based on Bergman's Virgin Spring, that Wes Craven had a masters degree in philosophy which he has relied on throughout his career as a director, that while the film was a cheap exploitation feature, it was intended to be something more. Many intelligent people have dug deeply into the film, and come up with interesting, relevant analyses. Watching it again, I can see that Craven's direction was more effective than I realized at the time. And finally, I can see both why the movie is so bothersome (it's really good at expressing the powerlessness of the victim, as personified in the never-to-be-forgotten "piss your pants" scene) and cathartic (the revenge angle in the film's final scenes, which are too standard and not nearly transgressive enough, despite the painful fellatio). So I was wrong to consider The Last House on the Left a piece of junk. But I don't care if it's another 38 years before I see it again. 6/10.
I've capitulated almost completely … Google, I am yours. My aborted attempt to switch away from Google products didn't last long, and by this point, the only remnant is that I'm still using Bing. Ironic that the one Google item I can live without is their search engine.
I wonder if the person who wrote Larry King's USA Today columns has a blog?
Way back in the Bad Subjects days, we used to toss around an idea that we might produce an issue where each person's article was actually written by the entire collective, minus the person whose name appeared on the piece. The assumption was that our styles were so recognizable by then that they could be easily reproduced. Nowadays, we'd have to hack each other's blogs and websites and sneak our parodies into the cloud. I imagine a parody of this blog would read "Me. Mememememe. ME! Did I mention me?"
As you can see from the above, thus far, unemployment isn't doing much for my creative writing.
I pay my bills online. I used Microsoft Money for many years, but they shut that service down, so now I just use my bank's website. Among the bills I pay are one to the Chronicle for our subscription (it comes to the door on Sundays, the other days Robin gets it on her Kindle), and one to a credit card I got long ago in a promotion the Giants were running. I use the latter for baseball-related purchases, and pay it off at the end of each month.
On the bill-pay listings at the bank website, the names of the above are shortened. The Chronicle bill is called "SAN FRANCISCO CH," and it sits directly above the one for the Giants, which I sensibly relabeled "SF GIANTS." When the July bill came for the Giants card, it included a past-due fee … they claimed I hadn't made my June payment. I was sure I had done it … as I say, I pay it off each month … but I am forgetful, so I figured they were right, and I paid off the full amount in July and quit thinking about it.
Today I got an email from the credit card company saying my payment was late for the second time in three months. I KNOW I paid this one … when you pay off a credit card in full, and you put baseball expenditures on it, and you're buying tickets during the summer, the bill can get rather large, so when I pay it, we're a bit short of funds until the next payday. So I went back to the bank's website …
And found that in June, and in August, I had sent my Giants' card payment to SAN FRANCISCO CH.
I called Chronicle account services, and found out my current subscription was due to expire sometime in 2015.
The semi-happy ending is that they will be sending me a check for the total amount of the most recent overpayment, so I can get things back to normal (although I hate that my credit rating looks worse after those two non-payments to the Giants card).
I shouldn't be allowed near a computer.
I will confess that I am cheating a bit this week. Shuffle play turned up Liz Phair, and I started thinking about her and what I might write about her, and PJ Harvey kept gnawing at my brain. Finally, I realized I really wanted to talk about Harvey. Well, that's not quite it … I want to talk about them both, but also want to give Harvey the "top of the post" honor.
Harvey's Rid of Me was her second album, which might suggest it was more polished than Phair's debut, Exile in Guyville. But Phair had been working on the songs that ended up on Exile for some time, recording demo after demo, so it's a mistake to think her album sprung out of thin air. (Phair was even a couple of years older than Harvey … not sure why I think that matters.)
Phair's full-of-swearing lyrics appealed to geek fanboys. My guess is those boys would have been scared shitless by Harvey. Exile was popular by indie standards, which pissed off the holier-than-thou types who equate popularity with junk. Rid of Me might have been even more popular, but Harvey, with her sheep-farm past, managed to maintain "authenticity" while Phair, the cute blonde who was adopted by rich parents, was somehow already a sell-out.
A battle ensued. Not between the two artists, ironically, but between two men who championed the women. Bill Wyman wrote a year-end wrap-up for the Chicago Reader in which he contrasted Phair's "desire to sell records" against "the insularity that increasingly characterizes underground music and the fringes of alternative music in America." Wyman meant this in a pro-Liz Phair way (he included Urge Overkill and Smashing Pumpkins in the let's sell records crowd), but others disagreed, among them, Steve Albini, who had produced Rid of Me. Albini wrote a letter to the editor, which was given the delightful title "Three Pandering Sluts and Their Music-Press Stooge," the sluts being Phair/Urge Overkill/Pumpkins, the stooge being Wyman. He called Phair "Rickie Lee Jones (more talked about than heard, a persona completely unrooted in substance, and a fucking chore to listen to)."
Phair was doomed to failure with the indie crowd after that. She really pissed them off when she released a self-titled album in 2003 that might be called "MILF Rock." She had transformed herself from Rickie Lee Jones to Avril Lavigne. Phair remains fascinating … it is unclear who is listening at this point. And she will always suffer for releasing a classic debut album against which she will always be compared.
I saw Phair live and solo on a 1995 tour. Here's "Fuck and Run" from some show on that tour:
Harvey, on the other hand, has never had to worry about being taken seriously. She didn't turn into Avril Lavigne … she added theatricality, but in the context of indie rock blues that kept her sound rooted in the "authentic." She followed up Rid of Me with arguably the best album of her career, To Bring You My Love. Her weirdness always seemed to call on primitive urges, where Phair wasn't really that weird at all, in the end. Harvey remains uncompromising, remarkably so, really. And I've come to realize over the years that yes, PJ Harvey is a "better" artist than Liz Phair. But it still feels like Phair loses because her idea of uncompromising is seen as mainstream, even as she releases new material on her website instead of through a label … if you think Liz Phair is mainstream, you haven't been listening to the stream for some time now.
Here's Harvey, singing "Rid of Me" in 2001:
Just for fun, here's a quick peek at the woman who was the opening act the night I saw Liz Phair:
I'm so easy. I can be bought for a stick of linguica and a lemon Fanta. After bitching and moaning about Google, and spending a day trying to wean myself from their now-evil clutches, I found myself a few minutes ago making a phone call from within Gmail. Yes, it's their latest incarnation of Gmail/Chat/Voice. Instead of typing-chatting, you click on a phone icon, choose which # of the recipient you want to call, and voila! You are making a phone call, without a phone. It was kinda silly, really … I called my sister because I saw she was online, and the call worked just fine, but we could have had a video chat just as easily, so the point of this new thingie is a bit hard to discern (just like what you already do, only less!).
Still, I had to try it. I'm just a fanboy.
I forgot my dress shoes when we drove up for the wedding, and my son, who came up a day after us, was kind enough to stop by my house and grab them. While he was there, he saw a wild turkey. He knows his wild turkeys … there are plenty of them where he lives … and he took a couple of pix with his cell phone. I didn't believe him until I saw the pictures … I couldn't imagine a turkey living on our block. But seeing is believing:
That's right across the street from our house. Neal found the turkey at our house and ran it off.
I talked to some neighbors, and apparently, Robin and I were the only people on the block who were unaware of our feathered friend.
So, to summarize, a wild turkey has been loose in my neighborhood for some time now, and I had no idea.
I need to get out more.
They had a photo booth. First is me and Robin, second is me and all of my siblings who attended (David, you'll be glad to know Geoff shouted "Hi, Dave!" for every one of those pix).
My niece got married this weekend, so we traveled up to Tahoe for the ceremony. It was lovely, a perfect combination of the traditional and the quirky that exemplifies the couple quite nicely. Rain and wind threatened, and even made a bit of an appearance, but only so that the heavens could cast their approval:
The reception was as expected:
And I survived a weekend in nature:
It was weird … due probably to the altitude, I had some asthma while we were there. Nothing serious, but enough so that I finally realized I couldn't wait to get away from all that fresh mountain air and return to my smoggy Bay Area home.


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The issue of an applicant's nationality is integral to a claim for refugee status. In the great majority of asylum applications the nationality of the applicant is not in issue, but when it is put in doubt decision-makers must address it. Failure to do so would offend the nationality logic that underlies the refugee definition set out in Art 1A(2). The burden of proof in respect of nationality is on the applicant although the evidential burden may shift.
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Perhaps you've heard some of the discussion about the amount of calories in avocado and are wondering about how they are broken down by category or how avocados in general should be viewed from a health standpoint. The truth is that because avocados have a very different nutritional profile than most other fruits, it's sometimes difficult to determine just how good for you they are, and if they should be included in a healthy diet at all.
This question of whether calories in avocado come from healthy sources is due in large part to the high fat content in avocados. One cup of avocados (230g) can contain more than 300 calories from fat. This may seem very high, and it actually is compared to most other fruits. It can even seem high in comparison to what we would think of as junk foods. Avocados are surely high in fat, but it's important to understand just what sort of fats we are talking about here. It's true that avocados contain some saturated fats, but it's a relatively low percentage of the total calories in avocado snacks. This is less than 15% in fact. The rest of the fats are polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats, which are much more healthy. Mono-unsaturated fats for instance are important as they can help lower cholesterol levels. Given that avocados do not contain any cholesterol, this means that avocados can be a very heart healthy food. So just because a lot of calories in avocado are from fat doesn't mean they are unhealthy.
Far from it in fact, as avocados have a lot to offer in the way of nutrition, it's not all just fats. Avocados are low in sodium. They are also very low in sugar unlike many other fruits. Perhaps the most beneficial fact is there is a very high ratio of dietary fiber to calories in avocado. Dietary fiber is also a heart healthy compound that is an important inclusion in any diet. It helps to reduce cholesterol and aids in general digestion. Given it's ability to help cleanse the digestive tract, it also helps to reduce the risks of cancer in the lower abdominal tract.
That's not all either. Avocados are a great source of vitamin C, which is an important antioxidant. The calories in an avocado also come with good levels of iron and vitamin A (this is another antioxidant). These are important vitamins and minerals for a healthy diet. The antioxidants help to reduce the risk of cancer and fight off the effects of aging by tying up free radicals that could otherwise damage cells.
So when you are looking at the amount of calories in avocado just remember that it's not always what it would seem at first. While the fat content of avocados is quite high, it's mostly healthy fats. While it's still a good idea to limit the number of calories from these fats, it's not necessary to cut out avocados from our diets, though it may make sense to limit how much of it we do eat.
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From the nutrition information for avocado that can be found in various places, it may be somewhat difficult to discern whether avocados are a healthy choice that you can include in the diet of you and your family. There are a lot of good points to avocado nutrition, but also some possibly negative factors that you must consider as well.
First of all, let's look at some of the undisputed benefits of avocados. The nutrition information for avocado is pretty clear on some points, so we can get them out of the way. Avocados contain lots of fiber. This is dietary fiber, also known as water soluble fiber, which plays an important role in digestion and to help keep the digestive tract in good health. It has been shown to lower the risks of some cancers as well as to help keep the cardiovascular system in better shape. Including avocados in your diet will give these benefits, though you need to compare the total package against other potential sources of dietary fiber.
When it comes to nutrition information for avocado it contains a lot of vitamins and minerals that are deemed necessary for a healthy diet. These include vitamins C and A, as well as potassium. The effects of this reduces cancer risks due to the antioxidants removing free radicals from the system (vitamin A and C) as well as lower risks of high blood pressure from potassium.
The most contentious aspect of nutrition information for avocado is when it comes to the issue of fats though. Some diets try to eliminate all fats, and fats sometimes have a very bad reputation when it comes to health. That isn't entirely deserved though. Some fats are healthy in that they help to combat high cholesterol. These fats are called mono-unsaturated fats, and avocados are a good source of mono-unsaturated fats. On the other hand, that isn't the only type of fats that avocados contain. For those trying to cut out fats from their diets, it may make sense not to add avocados. Although it is generally better to get your fats from avocados than from most of the other fat sources in our diets, like fast food and junk food. An avocado is truly a healthy snack in comparison to those sorts of foods.
Perhaps you've heard some of the discussion about the amount of calories in avocado and are wondering about how they are broken down by category or how avocados in general should be viewed from a health standpoint. The truth is that because avocados have a very different nutritional profile than most other fruits, it's sometimes difficult to determine just how good for you they are, and if they should be included in a healthy diet at all.


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Occupy Sydney stand in solidarity with Occupy Frankfurt as their ten month long Occupation is removed by Police. Claims that "activists have left and homeless have taken over" are a standard Police ruse to disinform the public by portraying activists as something else. Perhaps their are among Police tiers of recognition of activists and levels of activism. Our information from Occupy Frankfurt by phone is that there is a notable homeless presence but the Occupation is by no means exclusively homeless people. There are also activists from Student , Trades and Workers movements onsite.
As with other occupations, there are also numerous organisations which tried to co-opt Occupy Frankfurt whose high profile media spokespeople basked in the sunshine of Occupy publicity but had little to do with maintaining a physical occupation.
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"Krod Mandoon" Will Film On Location In Hungary And Is Scheduled To Premiere In Early 2009
NEW YORK, July 29, 2008 -- Sean Maguire ("Meet the Spartans," "The Class") has been tapped as the lead in COMEDY CENTRAL's new series "Krod Mandoon and The Flaming Sword of Fire," the all-comedy network's first foray into medieval comedy, which will be shot on location in Hungary and is scheduled to premiere in early 2009.
A fantasy-comedy, "Krod Mandoon and The Flaming Sword of Fire" is an outrageous, live-action, character-driven comedy that takes place in the "long ago past" and features Maguire as the reluctant hero Krod Mandoon, a sensitive, clueless freedom fighter, as the last great hope in a medieval struggle. The series is a co-production between COMEDY CENTRAL and MRC and is written by Peter Knight and executive produced by Knight, Brad Johnson, Jimmy Mulville and Mario Stylianides.
Maguire, who most recently starred in the spoof comedy "Meet the Spartans" and in the ensemble CBS comedy "The Class," began acting at the age of five in the award-winning television movie "A Voyage Round My Father" with Sir Lawrence Olivier. Maguire went on to television fame in the United Kingdom in the hit series "Grange Hill," followed by "Dangerfield" and the successful long-running series "EastEnders." With three albums to his credit, Maguire is also well known in the UK for his music career. Maguire recently wrapped production on "Mr. Eleven," a two-part original movie for ITV and has been cast in a guest-starring role in Rob Thomas' updated version of "Cupid" for ABC. He is also a member of the Los Angeles Shakespeare Company headed by Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson. McGuire is represented by the Kohner Agency and Paul Coates.
COMEDY CENTRAL, the only all-comedy network, currently is seen in more than 95 million homes nationwide. COMEDY CENTRAL is owned by, and is a registered trademark of, Comedy Partners, a wholly-owned division of VIACOM Inc.'s (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B) MTV Networks. COMEDY CENTRAL's Internet address is www.comedycentral.com.
MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), is one of the world's leading creators of programming and content across all media platforms. MTV Networks, with more than 150 channels worldwide, owns and operates the following television programming services - MTV: MUSIC TELEVISION, MTV2, VH1, mtvU, NICKELODEON, NICK at NITE, COMEDY CENTRAL, TV LAND, SPIKE TV, CMT, NOGGIN/THE N, VH1 CLASSIC, MTVN INTERNATIONAL and THE DIGITAL SUITE FROM MTV NETWORKS, a package of 13 digital services, all of these networks trademarks of MTV Networks. MTV Networks connects with its audiences through its robust consumer products businesses and its more than 300 interactive properties worldwide, including online, broadband, wireless and interactive television services and also has licensing agreements, joint ventures, and syndication deals whereby all of its programming services can be seen worldwide.


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The Real Housewives of Atlanta: Watch Season 6 Episode 11Christine Orlando at .
There was the "Crunk in the Trunk" as Cynthia Bailey threw a trunk party to showcase sister Mallory's jewelry on The Real Housewives of Atlanta Season 6 Episode 11 but things didn't go according to plan.
Even Kenya Moore was asking Mal what planet she was from, thinking she could show up on her sister's doorstep and announce she was staying for two months without any notice at all.
Of course Kenya had her own issues with her Daddy coming to visit.
Porsha Williams was driven to tears by her divorce procedings and by NeNe Leakes accusing her of being a bad friend.
Kandi Burress lamented over fiance Todd's career taking him out of town once again while Phaedra Parks put arrogant Chuck and his whiny wife in the rear view mirror.
In case you missed a minute or if you want to see it again, you can always watch The Real Housewives of Atlanta online right here at TV Fanatic.
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Last weekend, my wife, Amy, and I made the trip to Salt Lake City to see the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Utah Symphony team up with music icon James Taylor for a concert in the LDS Conference Center.
First, I must say thank you to our hosts, Tom and Patsy Lamb and the LDS Southern Utah Public Affairs folks. My wife and I had a great time spent with good friends enjoying some great music. The event was the 30th Anniversary Tanner Gift of Music concert series. This annual event is funded by an endowed trust created by O. C. Tanner and his wife, Grace.
I thought I'd share some of my thoughts about my trip and the concert.
Great mixture — I have to complement the organizers because the flow of this concert was well done. The Utah Symphony started off with "Liberty Fanfare" by John Williams. The choir performed two songs, and then James Taylor took the stage to sing some of his hits. The choir performed two more songs before intermission, after which Taylor and the choir performed a few songs together. We got to hear a great organ solo (more on that later) and then got to hear more of Taylor, including two encores.
James Taylor can still sing — Many of Taylor's contemporaries from the 1970s scene still tour and do their best, but they just don't sound like they used to because of the ravages of time and age. But Taylor sounded just as great in concert last weekend as he did on vinyl records. His folk-like style is soothing, like you can just close your eyes and be whisked away to the story being told through his music. He's still great at singing "Carolina in My Mind," "Fire and Rain" and "You've Got a Friend."
James Taylor can still play — Besides still being able to sing, Taylor also can still flat-out play a guitar. I don't remember exactly when or on what channel it was that I watched him play the guitar a few years ago, but I remember being impressed with the way he picked out each chord. He was even better in person.
Taylor played the guitar on most of the hits he shared Saturday night, and it was as fun to watch his fingers move as it was to hear his voice sharing the stories in his songs.
By the way, the choir's pretty darned good, too — I've seen the choir perform before, but never on this scale. To say the least, the choir didn't disappoint. I was thrilled when I saw the program and noted that it would sing "Down By the River to Pray." Goose bumps: I think that's all I have to say about that song performed by the choir.
Awesome organist — One thing I think most concert-goers want out of their experience is to see something that they don't normally have a chance to experience. Maybe it's a newly recorded — or even yet-to-be-recorded — song performed or some bit of choreography. At Saturday's concert, it was an organ solo by Richard Elliott. He performed "I Got Rythym."
Yes, indeed, he does.
Elliott used all of the organ's keyboards and flew his feet along the pedals as though he were banging the keys with his fingers. Add in the acoustics of the Conference Center with that huge organ, and you get a truly impressive performance. My wife's a pretty good organist, so when I hear her say "Wow!" I know it's something special.
Conference Center is beyond impressive — The exterior of this building simply doesn't do it justice. Sure, I've seen it on television a few times, but until you're in the center, you can't fully appreciate the size. I was curious, so I called the church's PR office to find out that it seats 21,000 people. That many seats — and with legroom! I've been in a few stadiums and arenas that could take a lesson or two.
It's at this point that I have to brag just a bit. We ended up with better seats than two elected officials. We were 15 rows back, smack in the middle of the stage. Sen. Orrin Hatch was two rows closer but slightly right of the stage. Rep. Jim Matheson was in the middle, but four rows behind us.
Just had to share.
President Henry B. Eyring — I had the opportunity for a second time to meet and speak briefly with President Eyring. The first was at Dixie State's convocation a few years ago. This time, it was at a reception prior to the concert (he's the chairman of the event committee). As with the first meeting, he proved himself to be a personable, humble man who makes his guest feel right at home.
He's witty and doesn't hesitate to join a conversation. He spoke with my wife briefly about her duties at Shepherd of the Hills United Methodist Church in St. George and talked with me about The Spectrum.
He's a tall presence both literally and figuratively.
Army of volunteers — One final thought focuses on the volunteers who serve at the Conference Center. This can't be an easy gig. Security people have to take an approach similar to TSA agents at airports (a sad testament to our times), and then there are people at every step of the seating process helping direct people to their proper row and seat number. All of them had smiles on their faces and worked as quickly as possible to help out.
Again, very impressive.


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TRACES offers a 13 acre research site of rough grassland surrounded by a native woodland border. In conjunction with Lancashire County Council and Global Renewables, further landscaping took place in 2010 which increased the diverse nature of the site.
Upland oak, Alder abundant wet woodland and Alder abundant wet woodland with Ash were planted along with an additional 6000 trees, which covered 6.4 acres. This brought the total woodland on site to 10 acres.
This woodland, with graded planting densities to the open areas of three acres and access tracks around the site, provides a unique and diverse area in which to carry out taphonomic research.
TRACES has a large indoor storage area and work space, ideal for experimental set-up, or to escape from the rain for a hot drink!
This area is also used for the storage of an extensive range of experimental equipment as well as machinery to help us in the field, such as a tractor, trailer and excavator. The area has changing and hand wash facilities and adjacent to this is an outdoor wash and disinfection facility to enable us to comply with robust bio-security arrangements.
Our teaching and seminar room is a short walk away from the field site. This is use for both our MSc courses and for delegates attending short courses. In an adjacent building is an office for TRACES staff and researchers, which includes toilet and kitchen facilities.
The School of Forensic and Investigative Sciences has extensive facilities at the Preston Campus including fully equipped anthropology and entomology laboratories. The School has recently invested in new temperature measuring, thermal imaging and endoscopic equipment for TRACES research into maggot mass thermodynamics.
Staff will normally transport students and visitors from the University's Preston Campus to the TRACES facility in our own 12 seated Land Rover. This is also equipped with a large box van trailer for carrying equipment and resources. A minibus can also be used for larger parties.


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Under Swinley's Head Professional Stuart Hill and Assistant Professional Alex Buckner, Swinley offers a fully stocked Professional's Shop, with a wide range of leading brand clothing, shoes, clubs and golfing gifts.
Coaching is available to players of all standards seven days a week, covering all aspects of the game. Tuition is offered to both members and non-members. Swinley has a driving range, bunkered practice green and a large putting green.
As Callaway Ambassadors, the professional team offer a full custom fit club service utilising SkyTrak for swing analysis technology.
By prior arrangement, the professionals are happy to help with the organisation of Society and Corporate Golf days.
Experienced caddies, rental clubs, buggies (subject to conditions) and electric trolleys are available with advance booking.


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Empower 365 Centre - Auditorium
Here at Empower 365 Centre we are a multi use, charity run events centre with over 11 spaces with a capacity ranging from 20 to 2000 depending on your chosen space and event type. Our Auditorium is a unique space with the flexibility to hold a wide range of creative events.
We are fully equipped with a full stage, production and lighting suite including professional multi-room & online broadcasting, full production facilities. Our stage also includes a 13m LED backdrop with 2x 5m side LED screens and full production lighting, sound, hazers and cameras.
We would love to hear about your next event, why not get in touch!
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text: Daniel Hubschman writes: Later this year, you will likely flock to your local movie theater to watch a young man become a super soldier at the height of WWII. This month, you can see a somewhat less stylized but no less sensational story about a young girl who was born into a similar life of action and international adventure. Her name is Hanna, and she can kill you with your own knife while it's still in your hand.


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By Alicia Dziak
Syrup! Sugar! Suckers! Fluff! If you like maple in any of its many sweet forms, Maple Weekends are for you!
Maple Weekends have become a March tradition in WNY since their inception in 1995. This state-wide event features members of the New York State Maple Producers Association inviting families and friends into their sugarhouses to experience the world of pure NY maple syrup. Located at approximately 160 farms and museums across New York State, Maple Weekend offers a delicious, fun-filled outing that has a little something for all maple-lovers to taste and experience.
Join area maple farms March 18-19 and 25-26 for sugarhouse tours, samples, activities and much more.
Maple Weekends are a chance for the public to come to the farm to learn about New York's maple sugarmaking processes and traditions and to provide a chance to taste pure maple syrup in its many forms.
Visitors to Maple Weekend can taste a pure and natural food product at its freshest and in its many forms.
Guests will also learn how maple syrup and other maple confections are made, experience the unique family traditions of making maple syrup in New York State, celebrate New York's first agricultural harvest of the season in a family-friendly environment, meet the producers who annually make New York the second largest maple producing state in the U.S., share in the many ways to cook and bake with maple syrup, maple sap and other maple drinks and products and witness sustainable agriculture at its best.
Many maple producers in Cattaraugus and southern Erie counties will be participating in this year's Maple Weekends, happening both this weekend and next. For a complete listing of participating farms, and additional details of what each farm will be offering, visit www.nysmaple.com.


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Would you like a call when things are happening in the night sky? Sign up for backyard astronomy alerts from spaceweather.com: voice or text.
THANKSGIVING SKIES: In the USA, Thanksgiving is the bigggest travel holiday of the year. That's good news for sky watchers, because there are some things you can see only from the window of an airplane. Find out what from Science@NASA.
AURORA OUTBURST: On Sunday night, a bright display of auroras erupted around the Arctic Circle. Ole Salomonsen photographed the outburst behind EISCAT's ionospheric radar in Tromsø, Norway:
"After a long day of photographing whales at sea, I was looking forward to relaxing in the evening, but Lady aurora invited me out, and I could not resist," says Salomonsen. "After quickly getting new batteries and memory cards for my camera, I went out hunting, this time for the magic emerald light. The entire sky was filled with majestic moving green auroras. At times there were 4 to 5 arcs stretching from east to west next to each other in the sky. This was really amazing to watch!"
Bright auroras are often caused by CME impacts, but there was no CME on Sunday. Instead, the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) near Earth tilted south. This opened a crack in Earth's magnetosphere. Solar wind poured in to fuel the display. Aurora alerts: text, voice
Realtime Aurora Photo Gallery
LUNAR TRANSIT OF THE SUN: On Saturday, Nov. 22nd, the Moon passed in front of the sun, producing a partial solar eclipse. No one on Earth saw it; the lunar transit was visible only from Earth orbit. More than 22,000 miles above our planet's surface, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) snapped this picture:
Using a bank of 16-megapixel cameras, SDO observed the event at multiple extreme ultraviolet wavelengths. Scan the edge of the Moon in the 171 Å high-resolution image, shown below. The little bumps and irregularities you see are lunar mountains backlit by solar plasma:
Beyond the novelty of observing an eclipse from space, these images have practical value to the SDO science team. The sharp edge of the lunar limb helps researchers measure the in-orbit characteristics of the telescope--e.g., how light diffracts around the telescope's optics and filter support grids. Once these are calibrated, it is possible to correct SDO data for instrumental effects and sharpen the images even more than before.
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Realtime Comet Photo Gallery
Every night, a network of NASA all-sky cameras scans the skies above the United States for meteoritic fireballs. Automated software maintained by NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office calculates their orbits, velocity, penetration depth in Earth's atmosphere and many other characteristics. Daily results are presented here on Spaceweather.com.
On Nov. 25, 2014, the network reported 55 fireballs. (44 sporadics, 4 alpha Monocerotids, 4 Leonids, 2 November omega Orionids, 1 Northern Taurid)
In this diagram of the inner solar system, all of the fireball orbits intersect at a single point--Earth. The orbits are color-coded by velocity, from slow (red) to fast (blue). [Larger image] [movies]


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Black Berry OG (Emerald Triangle) :: StrainReview :: Indoor
Plant-Profile about Black Berry OG (by Emerald Triangle)
This Plant-Profile is a individual expression by vlc82, uploaded at the 17.04.2015.
Information about the growth of the plants:
- Flowering Time Indoor
- Between 65 an 75 days (Average: 70 days.)
- Stretch after the initiation of flowering
- ±233 Percent
- Initiation of flowering onto around 30 cm. - Final Height onto around 100 cm.
- Growth Behavior
- Bushy
- Strong
- Sturdy
- Fast
- Side Branches
- a great many; medium length to long as well as strong and vigorous.
- The plants of this Cannabis-Strain...
- ...can be placed close together.
- ...do not need much care.
- ...are tolerant to over- or under-fertilization.
- ...do not need much fertilizer.
- ...are not vulnerable to fungal diseases.
- ...are not susceptible to mold.
- ...are tolerant of temperature fluctuations.
- ...have no problems with low temperatures.
- ...looks and grow more like a Sativa.
- ...are well suited for very low growrooms.
- ...are well suited for a SoG (See of Green).
- ...are well suited for a ScroG (Screen of Green).
- ...are a good choice for beginners.
- ...are a good choice for commercial cultivation.
- ...build many, thick buds on the side branches.
- ...should be supported into the flowering period. (Nets, JoJos, Bamboo-Sticks).
- ...respond well to the pruning of the main stem.
Harvest, Yield, Taste, Aroma, strength and effectiveness
- Yield / Quantity
- The crop of this strain is high.
- Buds / Leaves
- The ratio of buds to leaves is very good.
- Bud Structure
- The dried buds are hard and compact.
General Impression
Black Berry OG (Emerald Triangle)
is all together extremely good and very recommendable
(On average 9 Points onto a scale between 0 and 10 !)
Additional Information
vlc82 says
I really enjoyed growing this strain. Had 2 seeds and got 2 distinct phenos. 1. Short/Squat and finished 7 days before the other (63 days). Very Fruity/Candy smell. Darker but still nice green. 2. Taller and light buds. Can see the Black Domina influence in this. Not as fruity smell, but much better producer. Both done in DWC buckets finished around 90cm - pulled about 150 grams total. Had issues with height, so make sure you flip them early if growing in hydro. Will grow again for sure. (17.04.2015, 19:00)


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Here is a list of the online geospatial education offerings at Penn State. This comprehensive list includes geography and geodesign offerings.
GIS and GIS systems are used in our everyday lives. Here at Penn State we have several academic programs that utilize GIS.
Environmental Resource Management: https://agsci.psu.edu/erm
Geography: https://www.geog.psu.edu/
Landscape Architecture: https://stuckeman.psu.edu/larch
Each year, Penn State participates in GIS day. We host speakers and activities on campus every November. Click on this GIS Day link to learn more or find out how you can participate.
Penn State offers many opportunities for undergraduate students to participate in research and creative endeavors. Working with faculty mentors, undergraduates engage in active learning in the laboratory, library, studio, and field. Through these experiences, students share in the excitement of discovery, develop important skills, and explore career choices. They get to know faculty members and connect with a disciplinary community. Many publish, perform, exhibit, or present their work, sharing it with audiences beyond Penn State.
Penn State's Higher Education Site License for Esri GIS software products includes an Esri Training Subscription. This subscription entitles Penn State faculty members, staff members, and students free access to some online courses on the Esri Training site.
- Visit the Penn State ArcGIS Online Organization, click "Penn State Webaccess", and log in using your PSU username and password.
- Visit https://www.esri.com/training/.
- Click Sign In. (You may need to sign out of a previous account in order to log in with your PSU account.)
- Choose Enterprise Login (DO NOT enter a Username and Password).
- Type "pennstate" in the box to complete the organization's URL (pennstate.maps.arcgis.com).
- Click Continue.
- Click "Penn State Web Access".
- Log in using your PSU username and password.


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Names of players being revealed to the public in e-Sport's biggest scandal, a follow up from our previous report.
In total, 16 people have been implicated in the match fixing scandal. 11 of these are current and former progamers of StarCraft, and their names are now being revealed.
Korean laws protects the privacy of those involved, but a few details including last names are revealed and some players are easy to spot. Other players have openly admitted their crimes and ask their fans for forgiveness.
This comes as massive shocks to many fans, who long thought this implication of their favourite players would be false or in error. The image associated with this news item is a fan reaction to the situation, showing the player named Saviour as the Lich King.
Three brokers were indicted, gaming academy owner Mr Park, K3 (3rd division) soccer pro Mr Jung, and the gangster Mr Kim, who is currently wanted.
Mr Ma, which fans generally believe is the famous player known as Saviour, helped the brokers to offer the deals to intentionally lose matches to other players, paying between 2 million to 6.6 million South Korean won (£1200 GBP – £3900 GBP) each. Twelve games are alleged to have been tampered with in this manner. Out of the seven currently processed progamers, six of them have been paid this amount for matches they have forfeited.
Park and Kim has supposedly earned a total of 140 million won (£8340 GBP) in bet winnings from e-Sport betting sites, and Jung a total of 12 million won (£7150 GBP) in bet earnings.
It was also revealed that Mr Ma pocketed 2 million won (£1200 GBP), that was meant to pay the progamers involved in the match-fixing bets.
They will all face further investigation without facing arrest at the moment.
Coaches, the teams as a whole and managers were found to be not involved at all, after further investigation.
Known mostly by their screen names, YellOw[ArnC], Luxury, Yarnc, UpMaGiC, go.go, and type-b have all admitted their crimes and apologised to fans. With the few details released about players, the following are essentially confirmed by name deduction: sAviOr (the main contact for gamers), Justin, Hwasin or Movie (Hwasin more likely) and DarkElf.
On top of these, netizens of South Korea also suspects Sangho, but Artosis, another prominent player, has stepped forward to confirm that he is not involved.
Further detail and speculation can be found at the e-Sport site TeamLiquid's reports.


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RUSSIALINK RBTH: "Do Russians really drink as much as people think they do?"
"How is vodka…" "Why did Putin…" RBTH has chosen some of the most popular search queries related to Russia and will answer each question in detail in a series of articles titled "Why Russia." Today, we examine how Russia has earned its reputation as a country that loves to drink.
(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – OLEG YEGOROV, RBTH – April 19, 2017)
In 2011, a post featuring funny facts (in Russian) about Russia written by a Canadian English teacher who was living in Moscow began to circulate on the internet. Some of these "facts" were questioned by Russians, such as the statement that they do not say "please" or "thank you," but entry number 17 was not contested by anyone: "Russians drink a lot of vodka. It's not a myth."
The Russian love of alcohol has been discussed since before the country of Russia even existed. According to the 12th-century chronicle "The Tale of Bygone Years," when Prince Vladimir, the ruler of Ancient Rus, was choosing a faith for the pagan Slavs he discovered that Muslims were forbidden from drinking alcohol and immediately gave up any thought of converting his people to Islam. "Drinking is the joy of all Rus. We cannot exist without it," the prince said (in Russian).
At that time, Russians did not yet have vodka, but instead drank wine and mead – a strong drink made from honey. According to historians, vodka first appeared (in Russian) in Russia in the 16th century and quickly became one of the country's symbols, along with bears and matryoshkas. In his novel "Moscow to the End of the Line," Soviet writer Venedikt Yerofeyev went so far as to jokingly propose drawing a border between Russia and Europe on the basis of alcohol consumption: "On one side of the border people speak Russian and drink more, while on the other side, they drink less and speak a language that is not Russian."
Genetics and history
So why do Russians drink so much? One of the answers, according to (in Russian) Svetlana Borinskaya, PhD in Biology, lies in genetics. Russians, like Europeans, slowly metabolize alcohol into the toxic chemical acetaldehyde, which causes hangovers and other unpleasant effects. In Asians, however, this process happens much more quickly and is one reason why these populations tend to have a lower tolerance for alcohol. "You could say that genes do not make Russians drink, but they allow them to do so," Borinskaya explains.
Another factor that contributed to high levels of alcohol consumption in Russia had to do with the way alcohol was regulated by the state. Historian Alexander Pidzhakov says (in Russian) that in the 16th and 17th centuries the tsars introduced a system of state taverns. Tavern owners were required to send a certain amount of money to the treasury, regardless of how much vodka or wine was actually sold or consumed, which incentivized the sale of as much alcohol as possible. The government received large profits from the sale of alcohol, and Russians gradually got used to drinking it. "The authorities systematically accustomed people to the taverns," Pidzhakov concludes.
As time passed, Russian authorities began to understand the dangers of alcohol abuse for the country. In the 19th and early 20th century the prohibitionist movement gained momentum, and following the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Nicholas II introduced a complete ban on alcohol. When the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917 they kept the ban, but only until 1923. Later, the Soviet state carried out several anti-alcohol campaigns, the largest of which took place under Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985-1990. During this time, shops were allowed to sell alcohol for only five hours a day, prices were raised and vineyards were destroyed.
Russians are drinking less, but they still drink a lot
Moving from history to the present, Russians continue to drink a lot, though over the past five years the amount has declined. According to a 2010 report by the World Health Organization (WHO), the average per capita consumption of alcohol in Russia was the fourth highest globally, at 15.1 liters per year – after Belarus (17.5), Moldova (16.8) and Lithuania (15.4). However, by 2016, data (in Russian) from Rospotrebnadzor listed that per capita consumption of alcohol in Russia was "more than 10 liters." While no exact figure was given, the implication is that the number has dropped below 15 liters per year.
"Judging by the numbers, Russians are drinking less," Afisha wine critic Anton Obrezchikov wrote (in Russian) in late 2016. Rospotrebnadzor agrees, stating that "consumption of alcohol, in comparison with 2009 levels, has decreased." At the same time, they cite WHO findings that "if per capita consumption of alcohol is greater than 8 liters a year, it is harmful to the health of the population." Accordingly, officials have concluded that the fight against excess alcohol consumption should continue.
[Article also appeared at rbth.com/why_russia/2017/04/19/do-russians-really-drink-as-much-as-people-think-they-do_746405]
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by George Santayana ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 15, 1951
A magnificent summation and restatement of his life philosophy, this work — presumably the last by the aging Santayana — is must reading for philosophers, scholars, poets and Santayana devoters. As the last work of a great creative master it is comparable to Beethoven's The purpose of this work is to deal mostly with politics — for Santayana an all-inclusive field. Through the last war the "actual import of Dominions and Powers in the political world" was forced on him, and random notes gathered over a period of thirty years were unified by a guiding intui The work is ranged under three the Rational Order, corresponding within this framework are chapters and poetic and transce memorial to the distinguished philosophy poet.
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More life reflections from the bestselling author on themes of societal captivity and the catharsis of personal freedom.
In her third book, Doyle (Love Warrior, 2016, etc.) begins with a life-changing event. "Four years ago," she writes, "married to the father of my three children, I fell in love with a woman." That woman, Abby Wambach, would become her wife. Emblematically arranged into three sections—"Caged," "Keys," "Freedom"—the narrative offers, among other elements, vignettes about the soulful author's girlhood, when she was bulimic and felt like a zoo animal, a "caged girl made for wide-open skies." She followed the path that seemed right and appropriate based on her Catholic upbringing and adolescent conditioning. After a downward spiral into "drinking, drugging, and purging," Doyle found sobriety and the authentic self she'd been suppressing. Still, there was trouble: Straining an already troubled marriage was her husband's infidelity, which eventually led to life-altering choices and the discovery of a love she'd never experienced before. Throughout the book, Doyle remains open and candid, whether she's admitting to rigging a high school homecoming court election or denouncing the doting perfectionism of "cream cheese parenting," which is about "giving your children the best of everything." The author's fears and concerns are often mirrored by real-world issues: gender roles and bias, white privilege, racism, and religion-fueled homophobia and hypocrisy. Some stories merely skim the surface of larger issues, but Doyle revisits them in later sections and digs deeper, using friends and familial references to personify their impact on her life, both past and present. Shorter pieces, some only a page in length, manage to effectively translate an emotional gut punch, as when Doyle's therapist called her blooming extramarital lesbian love a "dangerous distraction." Ultimately, the narrative is an in-depth look at a courageous woman eager to share the wealth of her experiences by embracing vulnerability and reclaiming her inner strength and resiliency.Doyle offers another lucid, inspiring chronicle of female empowerment and the rewards of self-awareness and renewal.
Pub Date: March 10, 2020
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by Ibram X. Kendi ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 13, 2019
Title notwithstanding, this latest from the National Book Award–winning author is no guidebook to getting woke.
In fact, the word "woke" appears nowhere within its pages. Rather, it is a combination memoir and extension of Atlantic columnist Kendi's towering Stamped From the Beginning (2016) that leads readers through a taxonomy of racist thought to anti-racist action. Never wavering from the thesis introduced in his previous book, that "racism is a powerful collection of racist policies that lead to racial inequity and are substantiated by racist ideas," the author posits a seemingly simple binary: "Antiracism is a powerful collection of antiracist policies that lead to racial equity and are substantiated by antiracist ideas." The author, founding director of American University's Antiracist Research and Policy Center, chronicles how he grew from a childhood steeped in black liberation Christianity to his doctoral studies, identifying and dispelling the layers of racist thought under which he had operated. "Internalized racism," he writes, "is the real Black on Black Crime." Kendi methodically examines racism through numerous lenses: power, biology, ethnicity, body, culture, and so forth, all the way to the intersectional constructs of gender racism and queer racism (the only section of the book that feels rushed). Each chapter examines one facet of racism, the authorial camera alternately zooming in on an episode from Kendi's life that exemplifies it—e.g., as a teen, he wore light-colored contact lenses, wanting "to be Black but…not…to look Black"—and then panning to the history that informs it (the antebellum hierarchy that valued light skin over dark). The author then reframes those received ideas with inexorable logic: "Either racist policy or Black inferiority explains why White people are wealthier, healthier, and more powerful than Black people today." If Kendi is justifiably hard on America, he's just as hard on himself. When he began college, "anti-Black racist ideas covered my freshman eyes like my orange contacts." This unsparing honesty helps readers, both white and people of color, navigate this difficult intellectual territory.Not an easy read but an essential one.
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North Carolina legislators filed a bill Tuesday calling on the state to reject the U.S. Supreme Court's 2015 legalization of same-sex marriage.
The Uphold Historical Marriage Act, or House Bill 780, was proposed by three Republicans in the N.C. House of Representatives. It declares the Supreme Court's Obergefell v. Hodges decision was a Constitutional overreach.
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"(The decision) also exceeds the authority of the Court relative to the decree of Almighty God that 'a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh' (Genesis 2:24, ESV)," the bill said.
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