Ironhold

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?

I myself am in a situation in which I attend a different congregation than the one my record is in. Generally speaking, thanks to my job with the newspaper I'm a night owl. I'm awake Monday night into Tuesday morning and Thursday night into Friday morning delivering newspapers. I'm also usually awake Friday night into Saturday morning writing that week's movie reviews. The other nights of the week usually see me up well into the wee hours doing research, writing columns, or working on side projects. Given this, the fact that the ward I'm supposed to be at starts at 9 AM is a big deal since I'm lucky to get up before 9 on a Sunday morning. Instead, the branch I attend starts at 1 PM and has Sunday school first, meaning that it's easier for me to attend and I don't miss sacrament if I do end up being late. I've worked this out with the respective bishoprics and branch presidencies, so everyone understands my situation. As such, I find myself wondering why no such arrangement has been worked out in a case like the one in the OP.

What help does she still need to figure these things out, then? And what decibel rating can the average faculty member on her campus tolerate before they go deaf from people screaming at them?

That... alarms me. I've got a master's degree, and so pumped out a lot of written assignments and reports. As part of it, we were put through the wringer when it came to what was and wasn't legitimate. Did your daughter receive any sort of education in this regards?

1983. I technically count as Y, but I have far more in common with X.

"Fantastic Beasts" The film had an alarming tendency to undercut itself thanks to its cliches and its tendency towards foreshadowing to the point of telegraphing. And yes, I agree with those individuals who have drawn comparisons between Scamander and The Doctor.