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If it's what I think it is? Someone over at 4-chan decided to generate a fake news story about Trump paying some "professional" women to trash a hotel room that the Obamas once stayed at, and that the Russian government had footage of everything because the hotel was in fact a front for a Russian intelligence operation and so the room was wired. Buzzfeed, by its own admission, chose to run the story despite not being able to confirm it. A few other news outlets - including CNN - have talked about matters as well, and so the story got some pretty good distance before it was finally exposed as fake.

The alterations are often done by either the company that owns the rights to the film, the distributor (with permission), or the network (with permission). Either way, it comes back down to the "with permission" angle.

Does your bishop understand the full extent of your situation?

Here in the US you can't discriminate against alcoholics if they are receiving treatment. Otherwise, it's basically "can you make the case that alcohol consumption will leave the person unable to do their job?". I'm an MBA, and as part of it I ended up sitting through employment law primers in about 20% of my classes.

There is, in fact, a thriving community of members over on Deviant Art - http://lds.deviantart.com/ . However, DA is pretty loose when it comes to overall content because it's an "art" site. For example, a search for "My Little Pony" could turn up everything from photos of someone's toy collection to "adult" parody comics. Minors are supposed to have content filters automatically in place, while adults can have the filters if they have their account set up just so. It's also loaded with all sorts of banner ads and pop-up ads, meaning that if you don't have a strong ad-blocker in place it's only a matter of time before your computer gets infected by something or other. ...And the message forums aren't moderated, so they're not for the faint of heart.

Orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.......... People could take advantage of the resources God's given us to collaborate and produce family-friendly fare on their own. It's my understanding that video cameras and editing software of the kind needed can be acquired off-the-shelf these days, and so it's just a matter of piecing together a script and finding acting talent. From there, it's a matter of getting it out to the world.

Saw "Fences". Would have been better served as a television mini-series, as it needed that extra run time to make everything work.

Sing. Well enough, but not perfect.

As an actual Texan, I'd suggest talking to the state bar association or another such entity to see if any such lawyers are recommended for or against.

I've heard about something called the "Hilton Report", which looked at the suicide rate. I've seen summations, but I can't find the actual report. http://www.adherents.com/largecom/lds_dem.html The report says that active Mormons are 200% less likely to commit suicide, due in large part to the church's strong social network and abstinence from addictive substances like alcohol and illegal drugs. Rather, the state's high rate is due in large part to a wildly disproportionate number of non-member and inactive-member suicides. Another study that came out a few years ago added to matters by noting that places with high elevations tended to have higher rates of suicide, suggesting that the elevation itself has some sort of blame. This seems to match the information provided by the Kaiser Family Foundation - http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/poor-mental-health-among-adults/?activeTab=map&currentTimeframe=0&selectedDistributions=poor-mental-health-among-adults - which has over the last several years noted a consistently high incidence rate in the Rocky Mountain region.

Not helping.

Yeah; Japan has some unique takes on foreign religious practices. Christianity and Judaism are to them what Shinto and Buddhism are to us.

Again - what these people are doing is "hostile work environment" under US law. Talk to HR, and see what they say about it. Otherwise, you may have to talk with these people directly.

Office Christmas Party. Again, feel free to save your money.

Just donated a large quantity of toys and puzzles to a collection drive.

You would think that lawyers (et al) would understand the concept of "hostile work environment"... No, seriously. You're a member of the church. They're talking smack *about* the church. That's a set-up for a hostile work environment lawsuit. Under the circumstances, speaking to them might be a good idea, if for no other reason than "you can then write down the time and date in which you did so in case something goes down".

For the past few years now, standard procedure is "I ferret out whatever grocery coupons I can find, then my mom clips them out and divvies up what we don't need for others within the local congregations." I'm online most days checking coupon sites, and mom gets them sorted weekly. If a person isn't picky about brands, I can get just about anything you can imagine. I've pulled coupons for everything from ham to motor oil to diapers. Given that a lot of people in this area are having financial issues, every little bit helps.

Example of what I mean by "going guerrilla" - Take a look at the book I have in the preview image... The video itself is an update to a challenge I did in my column: read two books at or above your current reading level over the course of a year. I just finished the book in the preview, and so...

As I've mentioned before, I first got on the internet back in 2000. Back then, *everything* was enemy territory. The minute you were identified as being LDS, people would come out of the woodwork to challenge you. You had to be on your toes and know your stuff in order to keep things going, especially when you could easily be dealing with as many as a dozen people at once. In that sense, I don't see "enemy territory" as most people here seem to be. There are no true front lines or safe "rear" areas, but full-on guerrilla combat everywhere you go.

"Incarnate". I'm pretty well sick of R-rated horror films at this point, as it seems like nobody can do one without botching it. This one had an interesting premise, but they kept throwing twist after twist at it until it dropped.

Moana keeps getting bogged down with her own indecision, and Maui is a bit of a blow-hard about his hook.

A good writer should be able to draw empathy for their characters when appropriate, not repel the audience needlessly.

Also saw Moana. Music and animation were good, but the writing was a bit rough in places; past a certain point, it was hard to feel sorry for some of the characters.

Believe me when I say that the Pokemon franchise, as a whole, is pretty scary if you dig too deeply into matters. Some of the actual entries for the mon, particularly the later ones, are nightmare fuel, something that's become a running gag among the fandom.

I've been talking to a few people about this IRL. The main entries in the Pokemon video game universe can all be mapped out to real-world locations, and in fact it appears that in some instances this is what the game designers were going for. Kanto, the Orange Islands, Johto, Hoehn, and Sinnoh all map out to portions of Japan. Unova roughly maps out to New York State. Kalos maps out to Northern France, with Lumiose City syncing perfectly to Paris and the Lumiose Tower being in the approximate spot of the Eiffel Tower. Alola maps out to the four main Hawaiian islands. Et cetra. Well, what I've been wondering about is this. Utah would be a near-perfect spot for a new Pokemon region. 1. It has all of the main terrain types - plains, mountains, snow, forest, city, salt water, fresh water, desert, badlands, et cetra - right there and naturally-occurring, meaning that there's no need to force the map in order to insert any of them. The developers could even declare that the area around Dugway Proving Grounds and/or the area around the nuclear weapons tests are natural hotbeds for Poison-type critters. The only big issue is that Utah is land-locked, meaning that certain Water-types (like the pokemon that are based on whales and dolphins) would be a tough fit. 2. Utah is a major site for excavating dinosaur fossils, such that there's even an entire park which is literally dinosaur fossils as embedded in the side of a cliff. This is a perfect excuse to have every last fossil-based critter in the franchise thrown in for good measure. 3. Utah's got plenty of natural and man-made landmarks to incorporate into the game design, meaning that there's a lot for the developers to work with. So - what do you think a Pokemon game would be like if it was set in a region corresponding to Utah?