dahlia
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HE lives in Virginia but does work nationally for Google Books. It's Google after all, you don't have to live anywhere but in cyberspace.
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Vort - Obviously you've been around here a long time, and maybe you used another avatar when I first signed up and I just never noticed, but I swear on a stack of Bibles your picture looks like a chick. Is that you? If not, is there some reason you're using some poor woman's picture?
If that is you - are you in drag for some reason?
I can't believe a guy with 5 kids would look like that, but I've been wrong before.
I don't want to come off as rude, truly. If that is you, no matter what you look like, you're loved by Heavenly Father, I'm sure, but dude, I swore you were a girl!
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I have a former classmate who works for Google with their 'Google Books' project. There are lots of parts to Google - any one thing in particular in which you are interested?
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Some of us don't like pajamas (some of us foresee a big problem with garments...).
I have heavy nightgowns for the winter and some sleeveless ones for summer. Am I to understand that, if we are only talking about sleepwear and not visual enticements prior to sex, that women just wear their garments to bed? Where's the fun in that? Even if we are sleeping alone, some of us like to look cute for ourselves.
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Our pool of workers contains more language skills, more experience, greater amounts of education, and a stronger sense of nationalism and patriotism than most other places you can look
Yay! Go Mormons!
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I'd never provide a bank account number to a leasing agent. If I don't pay the rent, they can come and sue me and get a judgment. No way would I make it easy for someone to pull money from my account without my knowledge or permission. I consistently refuse to give account numbers and have never been refused any credit, lease, or whatever.
The bank account info is a rather poor indicator of your financial worthiness. 'Worthy' people have checking and savings accounts. People who may abscond without paying the rent use a check cashing service (big generality, but you get the picture). If they want to get your credit record, they can use your SSN and pull a credit history.
Also, there is this little thing called privacy - the leasing agent certainly does not have the right to get your bank balance. I'd even go out on a limb and say the bank can't confirm or deny that you have an account. Even the IRS has to give you a Notice to Levy before it takes money out of your account.
It's one thing to say 'yes, I have checking and savings accounts,' it's quite another to provide the number and routing info.
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Heck, if her son wasn't living with her she could just walk around in her garments.
Wait - I can't wear garments in front of my son? Is that because he's not a member?
These days I tend to put on an old pair of knit pants and a shirt when hanging around the house so I can get the mail, answer the door, etc. and looked dressed, if not cute. So, I don't see a big problem with the garments being covered in general, but, my son has certainly seen me in my bra and panties - am I supposed to tell him to avert his eyes if I'm sitting in my room in garments that cover more than conventional underwear cover?
And just because it's been on my mind - would an LDS guy wear boxers over his garments? They make some really cute boxers these days. On the other hand, no undies other than garments would save a lot on Christmas and birthday presents...
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It has been stated here by bytebear and myself that the temple recommend is NOT needed.
My temple recommend has expired, and because of moving and our records taking their sweet old time getting here, I can not get it renewed- yet I ordered garments for myself and my husband just last month. Didn't need the recommend- just my membership number and credit card!
Being curious about garments, I went to look at them online, but the lds site didn't recognize my number. I wonder if they've got it set up so that you have to be a member for a year (and therefore eligible for endowments and garments) before they let you look.
I understand wanting to restrict the info to members, but garments are so scary. The elders talked to me a bit about theirs, but hey, they're guys. I tried to find some info online (some of the anti sites will talk about anything), and got a 'missionaries in garments' lite porn site. Yeah, takes all kinds, doesn't it? There is a picture of female garments on Wikipedia, but I understand there are different fabrics, etc and want to see the variety.
Is it true there aren't tank top garments for women? I like to wear tanks with a shirt over. Once I wear garments, can I still do this - the shirt would cover the cap sleeves - or does the first piece of clothing over the garment have to cover all of it? The curiosity has gotten so bad that all I do in RS is look for the outline of people's garments. I have a limited temple recommend and would certainly like to demystify the garment issue before taking the plunge.
Also, what is the point of wearing cute nightgowns if you've got garments on? Once endowed, are you supposed to wear nightgowns with sleeves in them as well? Someone really needs to tell converts about this stuff.
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I took the sacrament before baptism and felt all the better for it. I was a little freaked that it was bread and not a wafer, but now I look forward to guessing what kind of bread it will be each week. : )
I had problems with mobility when I first started to attend church and it was easier to wear pants (it was also beau coup cold out here at the time), so I did. I still wear them sometimes.
I hadn't read all the Scriptures, and still haven't, though I am working on it.
My missionaries were great guys, but between my natural inclinations and their teenage machinations, I cursed, a lot, in front of them (you have elders jump out of the bushes at you and see what you say). I still curse and have to remember to mind my tongue.
And yet, I was able to get baptized, have been to the temple, and have gone with missionaries on lessons. If they still let me show up at church, with all of the above issues and more, I am sure they will welcome you with open arms.
I haven't had any jello, but we did have a heck of a cupcake wars RS event!
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I realize you've been talking about anime, but on a related note, manga is fast becoming a standard in public libraries. Every year I have at least 2 students who write substantive papers on in it (and this is in a small program), and justifying its inclusion in library collections. Considering the budget crisis that exists for most libraries, justifying collecting manga is an interesting phenomenon.
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So there goes Vort, parading through the office building in the nude, with only a towel wrapped around his loins, to the receptionist at the front desk, who burst out laughing and said she'd call physical facilities. Back to the locker room, head down, towel firmly in place, while others in the building try hard not to be obvious in looking at the strange naked guy walking through the place.
Vort! You're a dude?!?
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but if you are comfortable living in a small town with small town type people and having to drive quite a distance to get to bigger towns and you don't mind living somewhere that rains almost non-stop all year long and only has a summer season for a few weeks a year, it's the place for you.
What the heck are small town type of people? You realize that this is a mobile society and people come from all over to all over, right?
distance from bigger towns Check
rains almost non-stop all year long Check
only has a summer season for a few weeks a year, Check
it's the place for you YUP! I've heard of Astoria and thought it would make a fine retirement location, but then I lived in Seattle for 5 years and loved the gray and the rain. Y'all can have my summer, I don't need it.
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I converted to Reform Judaism >20 years ago. My Jewish name is Rebecca (Rivka), though it is typical for female converts to have the name Sarah (Abraham's wife). I never had occasion to it.
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Yo yourself, chouchou! I did 10 years in Philly and don't hear 'yo' out here in the Midwest where I live now. Occasionally I forget where I am and say, 'Yo!' to get my class's attention. They look up, but I don't think they get it. : )
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I ran into the Meridian online. I see it is about LDS, but what I want to know is:
1) is it a 'good' periodical in terms of being pro-LDS or is some anti stuff going to sneak in there?
2) how does it compare to the Ensign?
3) does it come in print or is it only online? if there is a print version, do I miss anything by just reading the online version?
I don't recall anyone at church talking about it, so I don't know who is the intended audience.
Thanks
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If I'd heard 'competition is wicked' from my missionaries, this competitive capitalist would have shown them the door. Maybe I should stop giving grades? And is it the process (the grade giving) or the actor (the grade giver) that is wicked? You wanna call me wicked for giving grades? For telling myself, my students, my son that we can all do better? For telling students that they freakin' better be better than the competition or they might not get a job?
C'mon. There is nothing inherently wicked about competition. If one wants to be a wicked person while competing, that's another thing. And while I'm here, I'm going to take issue with the word 'wicked.' WTH? Unless you're from Boston, OP, and the phrase you meant to type was 'wicked good,' I'm going to say there are a lot of wicked things on earth, but competition ain't one of them. As far as whether it is celestial, I've got more important stuff to worry about here in this life.
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Welcome.
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I am a lapsed lawyer. Everyone is entitled to the representation of counsel. Can counsel choose his/her clients? In many cases, yes. If a public defender, obviously no. When I practiced, I did civil work, but occasionally someone would ask me to represent them on a DUI. Not happening. Nor would I represent a child abuser.
Sexual harassment is a tricky thing. There are people who live to make accusations and see court cases as a pay day. There are people with thin skin who feel 'harassed' by every off color joke or reference to their gender. I'd have to know what the other charges were, why the client was found guilty, but I could see myself representing such a client.
And while this may rub people the wrong way - while the office of the bishop is a serious one, so is being a lawyer and helping people maintain or regain their rights. Short of a child abuse case, if I were a bishop, the lawyer thing would have to come first. Perhaps someone who handles criminal cases should think twice before agreeing to be called as bishop. I think the possibility of it looking incongruous with our beliefs is quite real and should be considered, but I'm not going to make a blanket statement about who a lawyer should and should not represent.
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For the academics and students among us:
Q: With the rapture coming, should I bother working on my final paper?
A: Yes. The odds are you will not be judged worthy of ascent to heaven, in which case your grades will still be a basis of judgment for rewards in this earthly sphere.
Q: What if my instructor is raptured?
A: None of our instructors bear much chance of being judged worthy. However, on the off chance your instructor is chosen, an army of unemployed secular Marxists is waiting to take his/her place.
Q: If my mother/father/grandfather/grandmother/favorite aunt/etc. is chosen, will I be excused from the final so that I may mourn his/her loss?
A: No. They have not died, but been granted eternal life, thus this does not count as a case of a death in the family.
Q: If my instructor is not raptured, is he really fit to judge me?
A: Yes, seeing as you were not raptured, you are still subject to the earthly judgment of the unsaved. If/when you are redeemed, a change of grade form will be automatically processed by heavenly authorities if they decide your grade was unfairly given by one of the damned.
Q: If my computer crashes and my printer breaks and there is no email on account of the rapture, will I be able to get an extension on the paper?
A: Everyone in tech and IT departments is of Satan’s party, so the internet, your computer, and your printer should continue to work the way they always have: sporadically.
Q: How will the rapture affect your curving, particularly if raptured students are exempt from final tests/papers?
A: Final grades are not curved, but students who are taken up in the rapture will be given incompletes, just in case.
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After reading these posts, I'm curious - do LDS parents talk to their children about sex or do they let them wait until they get married (or are in the backseat of a car) to figure things out? I realize there is sex ed in schools these days, but do LDS parents make their kids opt out? Personally, I would and I'm pretty sure I'm more up front about this stuff than most born Mormons, but then my late husband and I weren't shy and we wanted our son to know the truth and not hear garbage from people on the street. If you don't talk to your kids you run the risk of all kinds of experimentation in the name of satisfying curiosity.
Also, I understand that Mormon divorce rates are similar to the rest of the population, except for those married in the temple, in which case the rate is very low. Considering that RMs can't wait to get married (and I'm going to be blunt here, I think it's mostly to have a 'legal' outlet for the sex that their hormones want at that age), and are so young, could the youth and inexperience of the parties be a big part of a later divorce? It's not youth in and of itself (I was pretty young, compared to today's girls), but that people grow up in different ways and not always on the same path. A guy at 21 is very different from a guy at 35, even a nice guy. Sometimes people just grow apart.
Before someone calls my bishop, I'm not advocating going against the Law of Chastity. I'm just thinking of the President's message to the priesthood this past Conference and the admonition to young men to get married early and I wonder if it's the best thing. There is waiting too long; I understand that. But waiting until 27 or so makes sense to me.
Send your cards and letters to: Dahlia, Outer Darkness.
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I studied at the University of London. I think you need to think more about your program - you can't just go off and 'study' and not be connected with a program or arrange for getting credits. What do you want to do while you are overseas? I was quite the Anglophile. I studied Early English lit and wanted to read Beowulf in the original (I know, dork city), so I took Old English (which is actually more like German or the Nordic languages) and literature. I knew what I was doing and my university in the States approved my program.
If you want to study a particular political system, history, language, art, or whatever, you need to plan that out and make sure what you do will be covered by your home school. You don't want to spend 2 years overseas (that's a little long; most programs are 1 semester or 1 year) and not get credit for it when you return. Don't confuse getting it paid for (the scholarship), with getting credit and satisfying your home school's administrative requirements for study abroad. Why don't you contact the Study Abroad Office at your school and talk to someone there. They will be more help than we will be because they'll know the requirements you'll need to meet to get credit.
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I just got a reproduction of the 1830 edition, replica binding method and everything. I wonder how many original copies are known to exist worldwide.
About 500 as of 2007. I actually looked around the net on this topic a few days ago and that's what I saw then. The NYT article is just the first one that popped up on Google today.
See: Copy of Book of Mormon Is Auctioned for $105,000 - NYTimes.com
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Cool. Which university library?
University of Iowa, Special Collections.
Anyone work for Google?
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He's not a tech guy - he's an MBA with an MS in Information. He works with librarians re copyright, the Google Books Project business plan, etc. That's why I wanted to know the specifics. Not everyone at Google does tech and I don't think he works close enough to the tech guys to help you.
That said, are you a tech guy? Another classmate works, I believe, for Motorola or Sony and does tech, but along the lines of 'what's new and what does it do' as opposed to writing code. Does that help? He just moved to California, I think to San Diego, but I'm not sure. I FB him fairly frequently and he'd probably be willing to talk if you think this is along the line of your interests.
There are a lot of us (MS Information, Michigan) who have some tech background, but who don't program and are more business or policy types.