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Predators in Plain Sight; The Mountaintop; Plastic Wars; Hunting Down Sharks
Aired November 5, 2011 - 20:00 ET
ANNOUNCER: Tonight on CNN PRESENTS, "Predators in Plain Sight." Priests accused of sex abuse kicked out of the church. GARY TUCHMAN, CNN PRESENTS CORRESPONDENT: That's his apartment right there. You can see the red light. We've seen his head bopping around. We'll try to see if he will come to the door. ANNOUNCER: An alarming investigation. How they could be living in your neighborhood. "The Mountaintop." An all-star cast. A controversial play. SAMUEL L. JACKSON, ACTOR, "DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.": God don't like to be laughed at. ANNOUNCER: How a 30-year-old playwright is challenging the way we remember the last day of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life. Plastic wars. Why is this man wearing 500 plastic bags and hanging off the side of a boat? And why is the plastic industry out to get him? Hunting down sharks. They're the most feared predators in the ocean. But we reveal how sharks have more to fear from us. Revealing investigations. Fascinating characters. Stories with impact. This is CNN PRESENTS, with your hosts tonight, Soledad O'Brien and Sanjay Gupta. SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN PRESENTS HOST: We begin this evening with a CNN PRESENTS special investigation. It's a story that sounds all too familiar. DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN PRESENTS HOST: Catholic priests accused of abusing children. Church leaders accused of covering it up. O'BRIEN: But this familiar story has a disturbing new chapter. Hundreds of these priests live unmonitored in unsuspecting communities. GUPTA: As we learned in some cases, they live next to schools and they live next to parks. Gary Tuchman tracks down some of the most notorious offenders. Predators in plain sight. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) TUCHMAN (on camera): Here we are on a block where a molester priest lives. RAY BOUCHER, LOS ANGELES ATTORNEY: Right. TUCHMAN: Do you think these neighbors know about it? BOUCHER: I'm certain that they do not. TUCHMAN (voice-over): Ray Boucher is a Los Angeles attorney who works with victims of sexual abuse. BOUCHER: Unfortunately in California and around the country there are hundreds of priests in our communities without anybody having any understanding that there's this danger sitting there in the middle of their communities. TUCHMAN: Boucher's firm tracked down accused pedophile priests living all over the country and compiled a list of their addresses. (On camera): How does it make you feel living across the street from a guy on a list like that? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I have to really think about this and be cautious, you know, with kids or something. I didn't know it. I'm just dumbfounded. TUCHMAN (voice-over): Nearly 6,000 priests have been accused of molesting children in the U.S. since 1950s, according to the U.S. Conference of Bishops. Very few of those accused ever make it to a criminal trial. Often because by the time victims come forward, the stature of limitations for the crime has passed. At that point even if a priest admits to the abuse, he cannot go to jail. BOUCHER: The only reason why they weren't really convicted is because the church gave them a safe harbor and hid them. I mean if the church had done what every school, you know, civic organization faced with sexual abuse would have, it should have done at the time, which namely alert the police. These priests would have been arrested. TUCHMAN: Boucher says former priest Carl Sutfin is one example. A report from the Los Angeles Archdiocese says Sutfin is accused of molesting 18 boys. Even though Sutfin admits he's guilty he's never been convicted. His victims came forward too late. (On camera): Mr. Sutfin? (Voice-over): Now 79 years old, we found him living in Ventura, California. About 90 miles north of Los Angeles. (On camera): You have admitted the child molestation from before. Do you think the public should know where you live? CARL SUTFIN, FORMER PRIEST: They know. TUCHMAN: No, the public doesn't know where you live. Do you think the public should know? Sir, I just wanted to get your comments so we can give you a chance to speak. (Voice-over): Next, we traveled to another town north of L.A. The upscale West Lake Village. A community filled with families. That's where we found 56-year-old former priest Kevin Barmacy. The Los Angeles Archdiocese says Barmacy is accused of molesting eight boys. Barmacy has never commented. But the church called the allegations credible and finally defrocked him in 2006. He's never had a criminal trial. (On camera): That's his apartment right there. You can see the red light. We've seen his head bopping around. We'll try to see if he will come to the door. Mr. Barmacy? Mr. Barmacy? (Voice-over): Barmacy would not answer the door. BOUCHER: I want the church to put out information about where these individuals live. I want the church to bring these priests back in to a place where they are safe. Safe for themselves and safe for the communities. TOD TAMBERG, SPOKESPERSON, ARCHDIOCESE OF LOS ANGELES: Unfortunately, they've never been convicted. They're private citizens. And so they're free to move about and live where they want to. TUCHMAN: Tod Tamberg is the spokesman for the Los Angeles Archdiocese. (On camera): Could the church have done more to get convictions now that you look back at it? TAMBERG: When we take priests out of ministry for allegations, we sent them to treatment. And in some cases they were reassigned to other duties. TUCHMAN: Let me stop you for a second. I'm wondering if the church as a whole here looks back at it, that wasn't a good way to deal with it. TAMBERG: Looking back now at what we did back then, I think it was -- it was the wrong thing to do. We relied too often on the stories of the priests themselves. We thought too much about their well-being than the victims'. And -- TUCHMAN: That's a startling admission you make. And it's honest. And -- TAMBERG: Well, it's true. TUCHMAN (voice-over): Tamberg says the church today notifies the police immediately if a child comes forward with an allegation of abuse. But it's too late for the people who say they were abused by this former priest. Nicolas Aguilar Rivera. Who is now an international fugitive wanted in the U.S. and in Mexico. FEDERICO SICARD, FORMER LAPD DETECTIVE: Back then, there were 26 victims. TUCHMAN: Former LAPD detective Federico Sicard worked on this case for more than 20 years. SICARD: Back in January 11, 1988, around 8:30 in the morning, we got a call via the police radio. And we were directed to go to this particular school in east L.A. in the Hollenbeck area. TUCHMAN: Sicard arrived at Our Lady of Guadalupe to find four children who said they were molested. SICARD: It was horrible. Because what the kids were telling us. TUCHMAN: But Sicard never had a chance to question Aguilar. SICARD: We went to interview the priest, and they told us, he's no longer here. He's gone. He was taken to Mexico. TUCHMAN: Church officials found out about the alleged abuse on a Friday. The officials met with Aguilar on Saturday. This police report indicates the priest told them he planned to return to Mexico at the beginning of the week. Police were notified Monday morning. But it was too late. TAMBERG: We made a call to -- I think Child Protective Services. Nobody was answering the phone. It was 5:00 on a Friday. So Monday morning the call was made. The notification was made. And Aguilar Rivera during the weekend fled without telling anybody to Mexico. SICARD: If we had been able to get our hands on him, yes, he would have been detained. TUCHMAN: After Aguilar fled, more reports of abuse surfaced. The district attorney later filed a warrant charging Aguilar with 19 counts of lewd acts against a child. When we come back, we travel to Mexico to look for accused child molester Nicolas Aguilar Rivera, the former priest who authorities say is impossible to find. (On camera): Yes, you do. You recognize him. (END VIDEOTAPE) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) GUPTA: We've been investigating hundreds of Catholic priests accused of abuse. And then allowed to blend back into society. Alarmingly, no one keeps track of where they live. One of the most notorious is a priest who fled to Mexico after being accused of molesting dozens of children. Authorities say they can't find him. But that doesn't stop our Gary Tuchman. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) TUCHMAN (voice-over): Mexico City. Population, 20 million. Not a bad place to hide if you're a fugitive. Except fugitive Nicolas Aguilar Rivera doesn't seem to have anyone looking for him. Aguilar fled Los Angeles in 1988, charged with molesting 10 children. Still a priest, he surfaced four years later. Assigned to this church in Mexico City. Joaquin Mendez remembers him vividly. JOAQUIN MENDEZ, FORMER CHURCH ALTAR BOY (Through Translator): I met him being an altar boy. He became a close friend of my family. Honestly, his presence made me feel uncomfortable. His breath smelled really bad. It was a disgusting smell. Even now, I feel the scars of those memories. TUCHMAN: Joaquin was 13 years old when he says Aguilar called him into his bedroom at the church. MENDEZ (Through Translator): So he said, come on in. Let me show you some music tapes I made. So I go in, and he forced me to pull down my pants. He raped me. I got away from him however I could. He threatened me not to say anything to my family because if I did, he was going to do the same thing to my brother. TUCHMAN: Joaquin found the courage to come forward. He told his parents, and they went to the police. MENDEZ (Through Translator): They never arrested him. But that's the law in Mexico. The investigation continued while he was free. TUCHMAN: Aguilar left Mexico City in 1995. Over the next 10 years, he continued working as a priest in small towns in the Mexican state of Puebla. Sanjuana Martinez is a Mexican journalist who's interviewed many who say they were abused by Aguilar. She's also interviewed Aguilar. (On camera): You talked to him on the telephone? SANJUANA MARTINEZ, JOURNALIST: Yes, I talked to him. TUCHMAN: How did you feel when you got off the phone with him. MARTINEZ: Both angry and excited, you know. I said, I can't believe it that he's talking with me. TUCHMAN (voice-over): Aguilar repeatedly denied the allegations, including the charges made by Joaquin Mendez. NICHOLAS AGUILAR RIVERA, FORMER PRIEST: All this has been a series of defamation, slanders. That is what all of this has been. TUCHMAN: We spoke to two men who are afraid to show their faces. They saw Aguilar molested them as young boys. UNIDENTIFIED MALE (Through Translator): He said if I told anyone, he will kill my parents, my brothers. UNIDENTIFIED MALE (Through Translator): He had me come into his room. He locked the door with the key. And then he started to touch my private parts. TUCHMAN: Five formal complaints have been filed against Aguilar since his return to Mexico in 1988. He's wanted in the state of Puebla for statutory rape. But authorities there tell us they've lost his trail. We decided to look for Aguilar ourselves. And got a lead that he was last seen in the town (INAUDIBLE), two hours south of Mexico City. (On camera): Yes, you do. You recognize him. UNIDENTIFIED MALE (Through Translator): Yes. I've seen him twice. TUCHMAN (voice-over): Emiliano, a local farmer, takes us to a local bus stop where he most recently saw Aguilar. We asked Emiliano if he recognized Aguilar from the news. (On camera): Yes. That's why I came with you. Because I've seen him. (Voice-over): At the bus stop we meet a woman who tells us she sees him regularly. She has no idea about his past. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (Through Translator): I saw him on the bus. And he said I should take care of my baby. That was all. TUCHMAN: She agrees to show us where she says Aguilar gets off the bus. Unfortunately, once in the neighborhood, the people we meet say they don't know him. And our trail runs cold. Back in Mexico City, a spokesman for the Archdiocese, Hugo Valdemar, says the church has no further responsibility for Aguilar. HUGO VALDEMAR, MEXICO CITY ARCHDIOCESE SPOKESMAN (Through Translator) : Here in Mexico City, we have no news of victims of Nicolas Aguilar. TUCHMAN: He says the church disputes the claim of rape by Joaquin Mendez. But he acknowledges Aguilar may be guilty of other abuse. VALDEMAR (Through Translator): I'm not saying he may not have done things because we have the impression that he did. The church has done what needed to be done. It suspended Nicolas Aguilar. He is no longer a priest. TUCHMAN: But church officials did not defrock Aguilar until 2009. Years after they knew about the alleged abuse. Valdemar told us it's not the church's job to hunt down suspects. VALDEMAR (Through Translator): This is a job for the police. TUCHMAN: But Sanjuana Martinez doesn't see any evidence the police are looking for him. (On camera): Do you think that one day he will be arrested here in Mexico? MARTINEZ: I don't think so. (END VIDEOTAPE) O'BRIEN: Gary Tuchman joins us now. So theoretically, could Aguilar face charges in the United States if he's arrested? TUCHMAN: Well, the charges still stand. And what prosecutors in Southern California are telling us is if Mexican authorities arrest him, if he were to be extradited, they would continue the prosecution. But police in Mexico are telling us they can't find him. And church officials in Mexico have indicated to us they have no interest in finding him. But what's interesting about what the police tell us is that when we were there, we almost immediately found people who just saw Aguilar. We were directed to a neighborhood where he either lives or visits frequently, and we're just reporters. We don't have search warrants. But if we were with police who had search warrants, I'm convinced they could have found him very quickly. GUPTA: Now it seems pretty notable that the Los Angeles Archdiocese essentially acknowledged that there was improper conduct, they'd handled it inappropriately. What does that mean? TUCHMAN: It was very notable to have the spokesman from the L.A. Archdiocese admit fault, admit that perhaps we should have called the police back then, years ago. Not perhaps, we definitely should have called the police back then. That was a mistake. That was a very important part of our story. What was also important is him telling us that the archdiocese is not doing this anymore. That it's doing it right. And we sure hope that's the case. O'BRIEN: Gary Tuchman, thanks. GUPTA: Thanks, Gary. O'BRIEN: Coming one a play that has Broadway buzzing with its irreverent look at one of America's most revered figures. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I'll introduce you to the young playwright behind it and tell you how growing up in Memphis helped inspire her. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) O'BRIEN: I've reported several documentaries about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. So I was intrigued by a new star-studded play that opened recently on Broadway. It's called "The Mountaintop." The way it portrays the last night of Dr. King's life has people talking. And the playwright, Katori Hall, wasn't even born when Dr. King was killed. But she says her play makes King look more real. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT LEADER: We've got some difficult days ahead, but it really doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. I don't mind. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Wednesday, April 3rd, 1968. KING: My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. O'BRIEN: The last speech Martin Luther King ever gave. Memphis's Mason Temple. He finished exhausted and returned to the nearby Lorraine Motel. His favorite room, 306. It was the last night of his life. (On camera): Have you ever had a chance to be inside Dr. King's actual room at the Lorraine Motel? KATORI HALL, PLAYWRIGHT: No. Only in my imagination. O'BRIEN: Really? (Voice-over): Playwright Katori Hall has imagined Dr. King's last night for almost 30 years of her life. (On camera): They never let anyone in this room. Almost never. HALL: Yes. O'BRIEN: This is all the way the room was when he died. HALL: Mm-hmm. It is so small. It's too small to contain his dreams. You know? Wow. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Now, Hall has vividly brought that last night to life in a controversial play that's electrifying theatergoers. It's an unusual and very human take on Dr. King. He drinks and smokes. He curses. He flirts. JACKSON: Do you think I should shave off my mustache? I like the fact that it was just about, you know, Dr. King being in a room and not being that iconic speech-making, marching, protesting man that we knew. Mustache? No mustache? O'BRIEN: Academy Award nominee Samuel L. Jackson plays Dr. King. JACKSON: It was an opportunity to create a Dr. King that we don't ordinarily associate with people who were that large. O'BRIEN (on camera): Is there a risk to that? JACKSON: It's not a risk to me. It's an opportunity. O'BRIEN (voice-over): An opportunity both Jackson and co-star Angela Bassett couldn't pass up. ANGELA BASSETT, ACTOR, "GAYLE KING": I love that he is seen as -- and my character says this a couple times -- sugar, shush. You're just a man. O'BRIEN: The idea was inspired by Katori's mother, Kerry May. HALL: She grew up around the corner from the Lorraine Motel. And when Dr. King came to speak in support of the sanitation workers strike at Mason Temple, she wanted to go. And she asked her mother can she go to Mason Temple to hear Dr. King speak. And big mama told her, no, you are not going to go. Somebody's going to bomb that church. You know they're out to kill that man. And my mother was like, that's one of my biggest regrets. I never got a chance to hear him speak. KERRY MAY, KATORI HALL'S MOTHER: I would tell Katori that story basically about every time black history came about. And it just kept going on. Martin Luther King became one of her favorite peoples. O'BRIEN: Hall grew up with that story walking her mother's childhood streets. HALL: This entire street was just, you know, full of people. Miss Ida. Miss Ruth. O'BRIEN: She calls Memphis her muse. Where she found inspiration. And her fighting spirit. HALL: I was, you know, the first black valedictorian. And I had heard a rumor at school that the powers that be were going to change the march into alphabetical order. We weren't going to walk in according to rank. I'll be with the H's. (LAUGHTER) HALL: So when Kerry May Hall heard about that. O'BRIEN (on camera): Your mama. HALL: My mama, said, you ain't going to do that to my child. And you know, I ended up walking in first. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Hall received a full scholarship to Columbia University. An actor, she found few roles written for women of color. HALL: I was taken an acting class, and a teacher, you know, told me and my acting partner to go to the library and get a play that had, you know, a scene between two young black women. We really struggled. That's when I was like, well, I must -- got to write some plays, then. O'BRIEN: Hall has written nearly a dozen plays since. She was only 26 when she finished "The Mountaintop." BASSETT: It's a gift. She was meant to do it. HALL: I did feel even at a young age that I had walked this earth before. O'BRIEN (on camera): You're an old soul. HALL: Yes. O'BRIEN (voice-over): In 2009 in London, it opened to rave reviews and top awards. (On camera): In retrospect, was it easier to go to London because people don't have that same ferocious love and respect for Dr. King? HALL: Absolutely. Absolutely. There's cultural distance. They were also very open to judging the play on its own merits and not, you know, being disturbed over the human portrayal of Dr. King. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Close to home, on Broadway, there's more at stake. Some are disturbed by the portrayal. HALL: I actually have lost 12 pounds in the past month due to stress. I have had a lot of sleepless nights. O'BRIEN: A lot of pressure for one of Broadway's youngest playwrights. HALL: I would feel really sad if people didn't understand that what I'm trying to do is to show that we all can be kings and all great people are human. It just shows that a human being was able to change the world. And you can change the world, too. JACKSON: Fear makes us human. (END VIDEOTAPE) GUPTA: So that moment, she's walking into the room for the first time. I mean, she's written about it obviously. What was the moment like for her? O'BRIEN: Hey, you know, she was so nervous going in I literally thought she might pass out. She was so anxious about it. But when we went in, she actually -- big talker -- she stopped talking. And she started focusing on every detail. The cigarettes in the ashtray. What was the look of the bedspread. What was in the bathroom. GUPTA: Wow. O'BRIEN: You know, as a playwright she honed in on the details. GUPTA: Right. O'BRIEN: She said to me, you know, I'm not sure I got his story exactly right. It's a story from my imagination. But, really, all these years later, we'll never really know what Dr. King's last night was like. GUPTA: It's fascinating. And for a writer, again, to be in there for the first time having written this whole thing, just absolutely remarkable. Thanks, Soledad. O'BRIEN: For me, too. GUPTA: Yes. For you as well. Thank you. Coming up, plastic bags. They're everywhere. And you won't believe where they end up. You're about to meet an activist who's out to get rid of them. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ANDY KELLER, CHICOBAG: You keep feeding the bag monster. I can reproduce. (END VIDEO CLIP) GUPTA: But as you might imagine, the companies that make plastic bags, well, they're not too happy. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) ANNOUNCER: We now return to CNN PRESENTS, with your hosts Soledad O'Brien and Sanjay Gupta. O'BRIEN: Plastic bags. There are trillions of them, literally trillions. It is the most abundant consumer product in the entire world, according to the "Guinness Book of World Records." GUPTA: We all use them. But after seeing this report, you may have some second thoughts. Amber Lyon introduces you to a man who's made getting rid of plastic bags his mission. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Will you feed me some plastic? AMBER LYON, CNN PRESENTS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Andy Keller is the bag monster. (On camera): Here you go. (Voice-over): The bag monster travels across the United States. KELLER: Behold the bag monster. LYON: Wearing costumes he creates from 500 plastic bags. KELLER: People can come, try on a bag monster. See what it feels like, you know, to wear what you use in a single year. LYON: His goal, eliminating single-used plastic and paper bags. And plastic bags do seem to be everywhere. Including everywhere they shouldn't be. In the street. Up a tree. In lakes and streams. KELLER: My whole mission is to help humanity kick their habit. LYON: Keller's mission to save the environment is all consuming. At ChicoBag, his company in northern California, even the chickens get in on the act. Recycling employee garbage. KELLER: They'll take care of this compost within a day. LYON: ChicoBag sells reusable bags that can fit in your pocket. It's Keller's brainchild. Inspired when he visited this. The local landfill. KELLER: Nice cushion here. Here's a bed frame. Or a sprinkler. Look at all the plastic bags. This is when it really got me. The bags were blowing around, caught on all these fences. LYON: Andy Keller is part of a growing movement of activists and politicians concerned about the environmental impact of plastic bags. Cities like Washington, D.C. and San Francisco are taxing and even banning them. And the concern goes well beyond land. (On camera): Whether plastic bags start out here on the coast or a couple thousand miles away in a river in the Midwest, many of them end up right here in the ocean. (Voice-over): So we went to see for ourselves. Dawn off the coast of California. (On camera): So normally when you're on boats like this, you're out looking for dolphin or fish. But today it's grocery bags. We're fishing for plastic bags. (Voice-over): My fishing partner is Dr. Marcus Ericson who has a PhD in science education. (On camera): Plastic and nature meet. Look. (Voice-over): Ericson studies the amount and impact of plastic debris in the ocean. After successfully fishing the surface, we wondered what might be below. (On camera): Out here the water looks very clear, but you never know what's lying underneath. (Voice-over): The bags we found do more than just litter the ocean floor. This is the Marine Mammal Center. Its staff and volunteers rescue and rehabilitate sick and injured animals. DR. BILL VAN BOND, MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: He's not very responsive. And he'll get an initial assessment. LYON: Dr. Bill Van Bond is director of Veterinary Science. BOND: Whales, sea lions, dolphins, in my personal experience, I've seen all three of those animals with bags in them. LYON (on camera): If a marine mammal swallows a plastic bag can it kill the animal? BOND: It could. It could. But I think the bigger concern is the unseen effects of these materials. ERICSON: But as those plastic bags migrate out the deep ocean, they fragment very quickly. So one plastic bag can turn into 10,000 particles the size of fish food. LYON (voice-over): Ericson has traveled to remote locations on rotating ocean currents known as gyres have trapped debris, sometimes creating what's described as an enormous plastic soup. Some claim the garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean is the size of Texas. But nobody really knows. ERICSON: We collected this debris. There are few recognizable items in here. There's a pen cap. There are two pen caps. Look carefully right there. It's a toy gorilla. As far from land as you can get on the planet, we found evidence of our trash. LYON: And they found the remnant of a plastic bag. ERICSON: Here is a plastic bag that's been knotted. Evidence of plastic bags in the gyres. We're going to open these fish up and just see if they are ingesting our trash. LYON: Ericson brought us three lantern fish from his 2008 trip to the great Pacific garbage patch. ERICSON: Right there, that's plastic. LYON: We searched their stomachs and found not plastic bags but bits of plastic garbage in two of the three fish. (On camera): This little yellow piece of plastic was inside the lantern fish's stomach. Why does it worry you if something this small is in a lantern fish? ERICSON: That small fish eats pollutant laden trash. The pollutants go in its body. A bigger fish eats a small fish. And then we eat that fish. It's on our dinner plates. So by a few steps, we are eating our trash and the pollutants that stick to it. LYON: Do you know of any cases of people getting sick from consuming fish that had eaten plastic? ERICSON: I don't. The science on this is so very, very new. LYON (voice-over): What's also new is a battle over what to do about all of this ubiquitous plastic. KELLER: Outlaw plastic bags here. LYON: Andy Keller is leading the charge. But now he's under attack. (On camera): Why are three of the nation's leading plastic bag manufacturing companies suing Andy Keller and ChicoBag, a company of 30 employees. KELLER: Yes, that's a good question. LYON (voice-over): When we come back, who is winning the plastic wars? (END VIDEOTAPE) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) GUPTA: You just met a man who's on a mission to eliminate plastic bags. Andy Keller. He's also known as the bag monster. He believes they're polluting our land and our water. Well, now he's under attack. Three plastic bag companies have taken him to court. Amber Lyon continues her investigation. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) LYON (voice-over): One landfill. Five minutes. Fifty-five bags. Most of them -- KELLER: Hilex Poly. Hilex Poly. LYON (on camera): Hilex Poly. (Voice-over): Hilex Poly. The largest plastic bag maker in the U.S. is one of three companies that have sued ChicoBag. Andy Keller's reusable bag company. MARK DANIELS, HILEX POLY VICE PRESIDENT: We're recycling somewhere close to 70,000 pounds of post consumer bags, wraps, in fact, every day. LYON: Hilex Poly vice president Mark Daniels gave us a tour of the company's plastic bag recycling plant in Indiana. Which it touts as the biggest in the world. Daniels says many bags not recycled benefit consumers who reuse them. DANIELS: They use it for a trashcan liner. You know, one of the biggest reuses, you know, cleaning up after a dog when you take it for a walk. LYON: Keller has been a thorn in the company's side. In a lawsuit Hilex Poly accused Keller posting unsubstantiated or misleading statistics about plastic bag its Web site. Statistics, it said, were causing it to lose business. DANIELS: We honestly thought that this kind of false and misleading information was not appropriate. Especially, you know, for their commercial gain at the expense of us. LYON (on camera): How much revenue did Hilex Poly lose as a result of ChicoBags advertising? DANIELS: I'm not going to share that confidential information. LYON (voice-over): What really bothers Hilex Poly is Keller's claim that most plastic bags aren't recycled. Ending up as trash or litter. Like what we found diving off the California coast. On his Web site, Keller says the recycling rate is less than 1 percent. A rate he got from an Environmental Protection Agency Web site. But Hilex Poly says the EPA stopped using that rate after 2005. On its Web site, Hilex Poly uses a higher rate of 12 percent of plastic bags recycled. But that rate combines bags with other plastics like shrink wrap. (On camera): So you think they were inflating the number with wrap? KELLER: Well, they were. DANIELS: According to the Environmental Protection Agency, 12 percent of bags, sacks and wraps are recycled. And -- LYON (on camera): But there's no bags, sacks and wraps mentioned in this. It just says, "Plastic bags are recycled." DANIELS: That is -- that would be an error on us because we want to be very clear with the American public that it's bags, sacks and wraps. LYON (voice-over): One percent or 12 percent. Either is a failing grade for us consumers. We do a very poor job of recycling our plastic bags. Even if you intend to recycle your plastic bags, often they end up in the trash. Because while Hilex Poly's recycling plant is state of the art, many plants look like this one in San Leandro, California. (On camera): When you put your recyclables in the curbside bin, this is where they end up to be sorted and then recycled. (Voice-over): Here they say plastic bags are a nightmare. Clogging machines. And few of the plastic bags ultimately get recycled. PETER HOLTZCLAW, DISTRICT MANAGER, WASTE MANAGEMENT: Very few. Probably 10 percent, 10, 20 percent. Because most of it is not recyclable because they're so dirty. LYON: China, Italy and Rwanda have banned or severely limited plastic bags. In the U.S., dozens of cities and some states have tried to curb their use. (On camera): You authored a bill that would have banned plastic bags across the state of California. JULIA BROWNLEY (D), CALIFORNIA STATE ASSEMBLY: Plastic bags and paper bags. LYON: Who was the biggest opponent of your bill? BROWNLEY: The American Chemistry Council, for sure. They came here to Sacramento and hired lobbyist after lobbyist after lobbyist. They had television ads. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A $19 billion deficit. What are some Sacramento politicians focused on? Grocery bags. (END VIDEO CLIP) STEVE RUSSELL, VICE PRESIDENT, AMERICAN CHEMISTRY COUNCIL: Plastic bags -- LYON (voice-over) : Steve Russell is a vice president of the American Chemistry Council. A lobbying firm representing makers of plastic bags. RUSSELL: We spent almost $1 million, most of that costs of television advertising, and that was necessary because citizens weren't being given access to complete information that was accurate and fair. LYON: Russell says plastic bags have gotten a bad rap. He told us a local study found that 3 percent of plastic bags in California are recycled. (On camera): And you look at that number, 3 percent, that's 97 percent of California's bags, sacks and wraps are ending up in a landfill or is litter. How can 3 percent be a good number? RUSSELL: Because it started at almost zero. And it's -- it's the trend and the progress that we want to focus on. LYON (voice-over): Russell's group won the fight in California. The ban on plastic bags failed. And that's not the only battleground where the plastics industry has won. Measures also were defeated in Oregon and Virginia. As for Andy Keller, he and Hilex Poly settled before going to trial. Both sides made concessions in their war of words, and Keller's insurance company ultimately made a payment to Hilex Poly. KELLER: And they could potentially have put me out of business. And that's the goal is under that threat, I would shut up and not say anything because I don't want to go out of business. LYON (on camera): But you didn't. KELLER: I didn't. Plastic bags have got to go, hey, hey, ho, ho. Plastic bag, they've got to go. (END VIDEOTAPE) O'BRIEN: Coming up, we go inside the controversial sport of shark fishing. Then we go face to face with sharks and show who the real predators are. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) O'BRIEN: Remember the movie "Jaws," how scary that was? GUPTA: Yes. O'BRIEN: I literally did not go back into the water for the rest of the summer. GUPTA: And you like scary movies. O'BRIEN: I do, yes. GUPTA: And I like them, too. But there's something about sharks, in particular, because I like being in the water, but there's something about them -- the shark attacks, really -- they make headlines. They obviously make great ratings. We're still talking about "Jaws. But in reality your chances of getting attacked by a shark are really, really slim. O'BRIEN: And actually, sharks have more to fear from man. GUPTA: Right. O'BRIEN: Than we have to fear from them. Sharks are in deep decline because of commercial fishing and they're also a big demand for their fins now. GUPTA: That's right. And Kaj Larsen, he investigates how the threat to them, the sharks, can also threaten our environment. O'BRIEN: Got to warn you, though, some of these images you're going to see are a little bit graphic. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) KAJ LARSEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Each summer, dozens of shark fishing tournaments are held up and down the East Coast. Big sharks draw big crowds and big prize money. But the tournaments have also sparked protests from the Humane Society of the United States. Shark populations are crashing around the world. Roughly a third of all shark and ray species face some threat of extinction. Without them, the marine food web could start to unravel. Native New Englander Captain Dave Johnson doesn't let the controversy stop him. CAPT. DAVE JOHNSON, NEW ENGLAND: You guys see those Sirjen jumping? LARSEN: A neuroscientist by day and big game fisherman on the weekends, he started a shark fishing tournament in Sakko, Maine, to raise money for a local charity. JOHNSON: We're measuring the fork length on this shark. There he goes. LARSEN (on camera): We got 20 boats cruising out shark fishing today. What happens next? JOHNSON: These guys are competitive fishermen. They want to win the tournament. They want to win it for bragging rights. They will win some money and some nice prizes. LARSEN (voice-over): All day long one shark after another takes the bait. JOHNSON: He doesn't know he's got a hook in him yet. That's for sure. LARSEN (on camera): Still in neutral. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Stay in neutral. LARSEN (voice-over): And one after another is released. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All right. Cut it. LARSEN: None big enough to be entered into the tournament. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank you, brother. Sorry, buddy. LARSEN: But these big sharks aren't so lucky. Back at the dock, they're being hauled in. Each shark is weighed, measured and sampled for research on shark populations. Some are also eaten. An estimated 73 million sharks are killed each year by commercial fisheries. Millions die by finning to feed the growing demand for shark fin soup in Asia. (On camera): If sharks are being depleted in the ocean, why do you still run a kill tournament as opposed to just a catch and release tournament? JOHNSON: The amount of sharks that we kill is way under the federal guidelines. Shark tournaments and recreational fishermen have extremely small effect on sharks in the ocean. Less than 1 percent. LARSEN (voice-over): While their overall take of sharks is small, there's growing pressure to stop the killing of sharks in these tournaments. LUKE TIPPLE, MARINE BIOLOGIST: What we can do is work to turn these tournaments into catch and release. At least then these animals have some ability to survive and continue. LARSEN: Marine biologist Luke Tipple is on a mission to protect sharks. What would terrify most people is just a day's work for the 32-year-old Australian native. We met up in the Bahamas. TIPPLE: Actually, the marina we're in right now was one of the first shark-free marinas in the Bahamas. LARSEN (on camera): We were recently at a shark fishing tournament in Maine. Their argument was that they barely make any dent in the shark populations. TIPPLE: They're right. You know in some respects if that was the only game in town, then realistically they wouldn't be having that much of a significant impact on the sharks. But the fact is they are targeting the larger breeding adults. So when you add that to the cumulative effect of the much larger scale finning that's going on around the world, it does actually have an impact. LARSEN (voice-over): Sharks are an apex predator, which means they're at the very top of the marine food chain. They grow slowly, mature late and produce few young. Making them vulnerable to overfishing. TIPPLE: We're supposed to have a certain number of sharks to be able to control all of these animals which are below them. So what we do is we take out that apex and we allow a lot of other fish to breed underneath them. They basically annihilate everything below them. And that leads to terrific collapse which means we don't have healthy ocean systems and we won't be able to pull food or product from there anymore. LARSEN: The Bahamas once had a large shark population. Now many of the species here are threatened so the Bahamas banned commercial shark fishing. And that's helped lure more diver and tourist dollars to the islands. (On camera): Coming back with both of these. All 10 of these. (Voice-over): Luke and I jump in to see some sharks up close. (On camera): Wow. They were right there. (Voice-over): But outside of sanctuaries like this one, sharks remain at risk. JOHNSON: This is going to be tricky as usual. LARSEN: Back at the shark tournament in Maine, no luck for Captain Dave Johnson. JOHNSON: OK? Jump off. LARSEN: The winners reeled in a 268-pound thresher shark and a big mako. TIPPLE: Removing these large animals and showing people that the only value these sharks have is when they're hung up and strung up for a trophy, and then they get thrown in the trash. That's not something that we can tell a first world progressive nation like the U.S., that that's OK, because we're talking about future generations not having the productive and live oceans that we are seeing declining right now. (END VIDEOTAPE)


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Facebook has been beaten up hard for the state of its mobile apps, but today the company wants the public to know that it thinks things are picking up.
In a press event at its headquarters today, the social network touted its improved ratings in the Apple app store following an upgrade of its iOS app.
"This is just the start for us," said Mick Johnson, Facebook's product manager for mobile. "We can now see a clear path forward to do all the things that we want to do."
The rampant shift by users to mobile devices has been a vexing problem for Facebook. The company's early mobile apps did not receive high ratings, and this is something the company said it is working to change. And it is well aware of the challenge ahead.
"What we are doing over time is making everyone a mobile engineer, and now every team is almost entirely mobile," Peter Deng, a product manager who works on messenger, said at today's event. Facebook is now running regular mobile and iOS training sessions, and aims to have 200 to 300 engineers trained up by the end of the year.
The company's executives also emphasized Facebook's continued dedication to HTML5 despite comments made by CEO Mark Zuckerberg earlier this week. Facebook wants to be on any and all types of mobile devices, they said, and that means sticking by HTML5 since apps built with HTML5 can be accessed by any device.
"We want every person on the planet to be using Facebook," Doug Purdy, director of product management, explaining why Facebook will continue to use HTML5 to develop mobile apps.
Earlier this week, in his first public interview since Facebook went public, Zuckerberg conceded that the company made a strategic mistake by building its apps as Web apps, using HTML 5, and stressed that Facebook can improve on both fronts. Now, however, Facebook is working hard at building better apps for both iOS and Android.
Deng emphasized that not everybody uses iOS or Android, so while the company wants to improve the experience of its apps on these platforms, Facebook has also put efforts into making sure they have the reach that can be achieved through HTML5.
Google Play: We've cracked down on bad apps: Google says it rejected at least 55 percent more app submissions in 2018.
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The average price of petrol has returned to being cheaper than diesel, says the RAC.
Two pence per litre was shaved off petrol prices at the pumps during last month, according to the RAC Fuel Watch report.
Filling up a 55-litre family car is now £1 cheaper than at the start of September.
Diesel remained around the 110p-a-litre mark, meaning it is more expensive than unleaded (109.63p-a-litre), having fallen below petrol in July for the first time since the summer of 2001.
RAC fuel spokesman Simon Williams said: "Petrol has now returned to its traditional position of being cheaper than diesel. This is primarily due to lower demand for unleaded as a result of the US summer holiday driving season finishing at the end of August.
"A secondary factor is that the diesel wholesale price has stayed stronger than petrol because, in the run-up to winter there is now less diesel in the marketplace. More oil from that part of the barrel is being used to produce more profitable domestic heating oil."
Since the start of July the average forecourt price of unleaded has dropped 7p-a-litre from 117p, making a tank £4 cheaper. Diesel, however, has plummeted 10p a litre from 120p to 110.36p, giving drivers a saving of around £5.65 every time they fill up from empty.
The cost of wholesale unleaded fell 2% in September, which the RAC predicts will lead to further reductions in pump prices of at least 2p-a-litre within the next fortnight.
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What is your cancellation policy?
Pinot's Palette cancellation policy is as follows: A full refund can occur if notification of cancellation occurs at least 48 hours before class start. You can also have the option to put the reservation on hold for a later date or transfer the reservation to another class. The reservation can be put on hold or transferred to another class if notification is received at least 24 hours before class start. Loss of payment will occur if no notification of cancellation occurs or if notification occurs less than 24 hours prior to class start. This cancellation policy applies to parties of 2 or less. For cancellation of a party of 3 or more, a minimum of one week's notice is required for a refund or to reschedule. Project Pet - A full refund can occur if notification is given 14 business days before the day of the class. The reason for this is because we have to photoshop each pet & have them individually printed onto each canvas. Project Pet - a class credit can be given to use on the next project pet class if notification is given at least 48 hours in advance.
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The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Amendment 15
In 1965, African Americans in the United States had possessed the theoretical right to vote for almost a hundred years. Under Reconstruction in the 1870s, many black men in the South did vote. Some who had been slaves only a few years before were elected to local and, in some cases, national office. By the turn of the 20th century, however, white "Redeemer" governments had reclaimed the legislatures in former Confederate states and adopted new constitutions disenfranchising African-American voters. Black citizens attempting to exercise their constitutional right to vote encountered barriers that they often found insurmountable. These included poll taxes, literacy tests, clauses that limited voting to people whose ancestors had voted in the past, and party primary elections that were limited to whites.
Men and women working for civil rights had long recognized that gaining the right to vote was central to achieving full citizenship for African Americans. The long-established National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) had successfully challenged the restrictive primary and other obstacles to black voter registration, but other, younger organizations had grown impatient with the slow rate of progress through the legal system. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE), the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) turned to mass demonstrations and nonviolent acts of civil disobedience. Martin Luther King, Jr., the charismatic leader of SCLC, became internationally known for promoting, supporting, and participating in nonviolent direct action seeking civil rights for African Americans. In December 1964, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming, at age 35, the youngest person ever to receive that honor.Peaceful demonstrations attracted media coverage, particularly when they were met with violent opposition. This helped generate the widespread support necessary for the passage of civil rights legislation. This legislation, particularly the Civil Rights Act of 1964, sought to achieve equal education, access to places of public accommodation and transportation, and equal employment. In 1965, however, most Southern blacks were still unable to overcome the obstacles set up to prevent them from voting.


text: EPA Slashes Cellulosic Ethanol Target December 2, 2010 07:07 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Jeanne Bernick Top Producer Editor Email The Environmental Protection Agency has lowered the amount of renewable fuels from cellulose in the new Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS2) requirement for 2011 by a whopping 97%. The RFS2 requirement will require 13.95 billion gallons total, with 6.6 million gallons to come from cellulosic biofuel; the EPA's original goal for cellulosic ethanol was 250 million gallons. While the overall renewable fuel requirement mandated by the RFS2 remains the same, the 240 million gallon shortfall of cellulosic biofuels was simply added onto the 1.15 billion gallons of advanced biofuels in 2011. This sends a strong signal to obligated parties that they need to start building plants now if they want to meet the 2015 mandate of 5.5 billion gallons of total advanced, and 21 billion gallons in 2022. Renewable Fuels Association President and CEO Bob Dinneen says EPA's decision to reduce the mandate on cellulosic ethanol is a good move, "accurately reflecting the difficulties cellulosic biofuel technologies have encountered in obtaining the capital needed to fully commercialize." However, he cautioned EPA must keep the cellulosic targets ambitious to stimulate advancement of the technology. The RFA urges EPA to keep the overall RFS target at 13.95 billion gallons and allow other renewable fuels to make up the cellulosic biofuel shortfall in 2011. Back to news


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Uplay Not Required for South Park: The Stick of Truth
According to Obsidian, Ubisoft's controversial Uplay service isn't going to be attached to South Park: The Stick of Truth.
An Obsidian representative has answered the question of a fan on Twitter pertaining to Ubisoft's Uplay service. The fan asked if he was required to have Uplay in order to purchase and play South Park: The Stick of Truth on Steam for PC. After a few other Uplay-related questions were asked, the rep confirmed that South Park: The Stick of Truth will not be utilizing Uplay at all.
For many of Ubisoft's titles, such as the Assassin's Creed series, Uplay acts as a form of digital rights management (DRM), and also provides supplementary content to its games, mainly in the form of downloadable content. Uplay caught a lot of heat a few years ago when it acted as a required form of DRM that required players to be continuously connected to the Uplay servers to play their titles.
Uplay's DRM functionality was overhauled after a debacle when the Uplay servers went down. Due to being unable to connect to Uplay's servers, all players were then completely blocked off from their games that had Uplay acting as DRM until the servers were restored. Since then, Ubisoft has removed Uplay's required connectivity. Now it is used to provide its own type of achievement system and multiplayer content for the more recent entries in Ubisoft's library.
Cartman the Grand Wizard, Butters the Paladin, Princess Kenny and the rest of the boys will rage war once South Park: The Stick of Truth is released on March 4 for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC. Oh, hamburgers!


text: Johannesburg - It is never nice to lose but sometimes it is necessary to take a few steps backwards, in order to move forwards, said South Africa's cricket coach Gary Kirsten. "We're not proud of our performances especially as we were in winning situations in both games," Kirsten said on Thursday. "But we've taken a lot out of it and sometimes, to fulfil a longer-term vision, you need to take a few steps back. It gives us clarity where we're going as a team and what our combinations will look like going forward."VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS: SA v NZ The Proteas take on New Zealand in the last of three one-day internationals (ODI) in Potchefstroom on Friday having already lost the series 2-0 to the visitors. In both of the previous games, the home side were unable to capitalise on their favourable situations. Chasing 209 for victory, New Zealand were in trouble at 141 for eight and yet went on to win the first game in Paarl, with 26-balls to spare. In the second ODI in Kimberley, the Proteas were cruising at 167 for one after 30 overs - needing another 113 runs - but lost their last five wickets for 41. Although their turnover in staff was not planned, Kirsten said the absence of some of the more senior players in the squad had afforded chances to the less experienced players which, in turn, helped to strengthen their reserves. "Our middle order has taken a serious blow, but in that lie opportunities for us to look at younger players," he said. "Colin Ingram played outstandingly the other night for his 79 which we may not have seen had we had our full complement of players." Kirsten said he was not only looking ahead to the 50-over Champions Trophy in England in June but needed to clarify his resources for the next ICC Cricket World Cup in 2015. "Life without Jacques Kallis is a big factor for us. He's been two players in one and we've had that luxury for 18 years," Kirsten said of the world's top all-rounder. "We need to understand what has to be done when he's not around, so we're contemplating all those things and it's very much a phase of mix and match to see where we can plug those gaps." The decision to broaden their base of players was always going to be a risk but it was a necessity for their overall plans. "We didn't take New Zealand for granted but we also needed to find a series where we could explore new talent and look to find the right balance. "Our long term vision kicks in where we can explore depth and give others opportunities." Kirsten had great faith in Faf du Plessis' captaincy skills and said he had a lot to offer and possessed great leadership potential. "It's important to keep building our leadership skills and find guys that can lead teams. "AB is only a young captain and in both AB and Faf, we have two individuals who are fantastic players for this country and have leadership capabilities. It's early days and we need to see how it unfolds over a period of time."


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These old objects look interesting, but do you know what they are? The items we consider normal or everyday have changed so much over the years. Some of these would have been ordinary 100 or even 50 years ago! Tasks that take only a moment today would have required specialized tools and some major elbow grease back in the day! From clean clothes to small home improvement jobs to old-fashioned manufacturing processes, there are so many cool old objects that you just don't that often anymore. That's one reason why we love going to antique malls and flea markets: we get to see so many cool things that we grew up with. Take a step back in time for a moment and test your knowledge of all things old. See if you can answer the burning question: What is it?
1) This wooden box has a compartment with a hole in the lid aside a zinc tray. Underneath are two tiny drawers.
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Recent events surrounding the Dubai World debt standstill raise broader questions about the political risks of investing in the Arab World. The good news is that growth and FDI have risen markedly in recent years; yet, risks undoubtedly remain. I researched the issue in depth for a new Perspectives from the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) that highlights the diversity of risks within the Arab World.
The Arab World, like other developing regions, provides both potential risks and rewards for international investors. The most important message from the Perspectives piece, though, is that risks vary significantly by country, by sector, and by project. As a result, it's crucial not to take a one-size-fits-all approach to investing in the region.
Case in point: The Arab World is perceived as being prone to war and civil disturbance. Yet available data from the Berne Union shows no claims for war and civil disturbance in Arab countries. Here we see a considerable gap between perceptions and reality.
Moreover, while most Arab nations hold substantial reserves, lowering the risks associated with the transfer and convertibility of domestic currency, this masks some significant variability. Foreign exchange reserve levels among countries in the region vary from four to 12 months of import cover.
Expropriation events have been rare but high-profile in the Arab World. Notably, since 2005, Berne Union data show eight cases of expropriation—none in the Arab World.
Many investors enter into contracts with host governments, and in these cases breach of contract risks are paramount. The World Bank's governance indicators reveal a gradation in the quality of governance and access to legal redress in the region; nine Arab countries are above the global mean, 13 are below.
National laws and practices over arbitration also vary considerably. Important regional arbitration centers are in Cairo, Dubai, and Bahrain. New centers are in the process of being established in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and in the Dubai International Financial Centre. Many, but not all, Arab states subscribe to the key international arbitration agreements, conventions, and organizations.
These are some examples of the Arab World's great diversity with respect to issues that impact political risk. Again, it's important to stress that investors should understand the specific political risks they are facing. From there, investors can work to protect against and manage these risks effectively, including through the use of political risk insurance, where appropriate.


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Emi Jade Lee – Babe of the Day
What do you get when you combine cute with a hefty dose of sexy? Our Babe of the Day, Emi Jade Lee.
Miss Lee is from the Atlanta area, where she works as a model. At only 20 years old, she's constantly looking work for car shows, ads, magazines and photo shoots. Honestly, the more we see of this girl, the better.
As far as hot import models go, this one is one of the hottest we've seen, but with a cute, girl-next-door quality that we find irresistible.
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During the Reformation, leaders such as Luther, Zwingli, and Calvin entered into political arrangements which gave them legitimacy and a measure of protection. However, the Anabaptists (who called themselves Brethren), taught that church and state should be separate. Membership in church, and the baptism that went with it, must be preceded by a confession of faith and a changed life. The New Testament should be the primary guide to life and should interpret the Old, not the other way around. Shortly after Luther's stand led to the Reformation, there had arisen a bizarre cult, often also called Anabaptist, which took the Old Testament as their rule, engaged in revolution and seizing the German city of Munster. This action brought fury on the pacifist Anabaptists.
The Roman Church and Protestants alike killed and harassed the harmless Brethren. So severely did the established churches persecute the Anabaptists that their leadership had to be constantly replaced as one after another was martyred. In 1527, the Swiss Brethren met under the leadership of Michael Sattler. He drafted them a confession of faith now known as the Schleitheim Confession (At the time, it was called the Brotherly Agreement of Some Children of God). The Brethren accepted it without a dissenting vote on this day, February 24, 1527. A few months later, Sattler, too, was martyred.
The confession fell under seven points. The first declared that Baptism should be given only to those who had learned repentance and amendment of life, and truly believed that their sins were taken away by Christ. The second point instituted the "ban." If a member persisted in sin after two private warnings, the congregation would exclude and shun that person. The third point said communion would be in memory of Christ not as a sacrament. The fourth separated the church from state. The fifth gave congregations the selection of their own pastors.
The sixth and seventh points were derived from Christ's teaching and example. These were a prohibition on taking up arms and a repudiation of oaths. "...The weapons of their conflict and war are carnal and against the flesh only, but the Christian's weapons are spiritual, against the fortification of the devil. The worldlings are armed with steel and iron, but the Christians are armed with the armor of God, with truth, righteousness, peace, faith, salvation and the Word of God." And "Christ, who teaches the perfection of the Law, prohibits all swearing to His (followers), whether true or false -- neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by Jerusalem, nor by our head."
Surprisingly, traditional churches viewed these teachings as threatening. Zwingli and Calvin both denounced them. Today, however, one point or another is accepted by almost every Protestant church or denomination.
- "Anabaptists." The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. Edited by F. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone. Oxford, 1997.
- Bender, Harold S. Conrad Grebel. Scottsdale, Pennsylvania: 1971.
- Dyck, Cornelius J., ed. An introduction to Mennonite history; a popular history of the Anabaptists and the Mennonites. Scottdale, Pennsylvania: Herald Press, 1967.
- Littell, Franklin H. The Origins of Sectarian Protestantism. New York: Macmillan, 1972.
- "Schleitheim Confession." (www.anabaptists.org/history/schleith.html)
- Tumbült, Georg. Wiedertäufer. Delhagen and Klafing, 1899.
- Weber, N. A. "Anabaptists." The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton, 1914.
- Yoder , John Howard. The Legacy of Michael Sattler. Translated and edited by John H. Yoder. Scottdale, Pennsylvania: Herald Press, 1973.
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Fan outrage over the ending of Mass Effect 3's been boiling over since the week that BioWare's hotly anticipated threequel came out, with charity protests, complaints being made to the US Federal Trade Commission and noises about closure from BioWare. People want to something else for their Shepards, even if they don't know what it is.
Apparently, all that collective disgruntlement has become sentient and signed up for Twitter, where an account named BetterME3Ending's been spooling out funny and faintly absurd denouements to the video game space opera trilogy. Tweeting in both BroShep and FemShep personas, BetterME3Ending's riffed on various pop culture phenomena like Harry Potter, Parks & Rec and Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Below you'll find a few standouts from the stream of imaginary conclusions. Hey, if BioWare says they're listening to feedback, there may be hope yet that Commander Shepard and Master Chief may get into a spaghetti-eating contest.


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Warman's World War II Collectibles: Identification and Price Guide This is a comprehensive full-color resource on World War II militaria. Illustrated with 1,800 all-new color images, the book is loaded with information and current values for uniforms, footwear, headgear, medals, firearms, bayonets, knives, personal items, accoutrements, and groupings.
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|Barbie and Ken as Arwen and Aragorn
Lord of the Rings dolls by Mattel
There's something to be said about 'firsts'. They always have a special place in your memories, and in this case, a special place in my doll collection. Though I wasn't a huge fan of the Lord of the Rings books, I loved the movies. So when I saw one lonely box of the Mattel set version of Arwen and Aragorn dolls on a top shelf of the toy section at Walmart, one fateful day, over a decade ago, I reached for it and decided the doll set was there waiting just for me to purchase. I wasn't a doll collector then. I just thought it was cool to have a Lord of the Rings doll set. Obviously, the dolls impressed me enough that I ended up being a Barbie collector not long after.
|Barbie as Galadriel
I'm not normally a completist. This is one exception. Because the Arwen and Aragorn dolls hold a special place in my collection, I simply had to have the Galadriel and Legolas doll too.
Looking at the others I've got by Mattel from around the same timeline, these are not really of the greatest quality. The fact that they are Lord of the Rings dolls just upped their coolness factor. The pink label Princesses of the World seem nicer overall, in my eyes.
Still, they look nice displayed all together. So even though Arwen's legs are now totally yellowed...And I had just discovered in this photo shoot that Aragorn is growing a weird blackish spot on his left cheek, I love them to pieces for introducing me into the colorful world of serious doll collecting.
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For years, opponents of arts education have used the argument that such programs are costly and weigh heavily on school budgets. But a recent survey has found quite the contrary and shows that art teachers are quite resourceful in using the materials they have on hand.
In fact, 67 percent of the 153 New Hampshire public schools to respond to a recent survey spend $20 or less per student per year on materials and resources for all arts education combined not including capital expenditures and teacher salaries. Even more, 15 percent spend $1 or less per student per year.
Such data-driven statistics are new for arts educators and arts organizations who, for years, have relied on anecdotal evidence to show why the arts are valuable in school. As school boards and politicians look to quantify education through statistics, the New Hampshire State Department of Education teamed up with the State Council on the Arts and the Arts Alliance of Northern New Hampshire in a project known as Measuring Up: NH Arts Education Data Project. In this first-ever statewide assessment of school art programs, 153 public schools representing 84,840 students or roughly 43 percent of the entire student population participated in a free online survey that asked about curriculum, funding, classroom space, use of artists in residence programs, and related matters.
"People are really surprised by the amount of information we collected," said Marcia McCaffrey of the Department of Education. "We can now show the information in a unique way and tell a story we've never been able to before."
McCaffrey said the report eliminates false misconceptions about the arts. The first McCaffrey pointed to was that art programs are so costly. She said there is a great deal of student art work at the Department of Education office in Concord. She said the quality of the work is impressive and upon closer inspection you'll find the works are made of simple materials like construction paper, markers and scissors.
"Teachers are very resourceful," McCaffrey said.
The report found that a good deal of students are being exposed to the arts in school. Eighty-eight percent of elementary students participate in both music and visual arts classes for about 50 minutes per week in each art form, while 73 percent of high schools have policies that exceed the state graduation requirement of one-half credit in the arts.
Such exposure to the arts is important for students in an ever-changing world, according to McCaffrey.
"The arts work through a variety of mediums that support all disciplines," McCaffrey said. "They are part of the learning process in school."
Despite their importance and prevalence, the report found that 50 percent of schools that weigh grades did not include the arts when calculating students' grade point averages. Yet 100 percent of schools received outside dollars to support arts education. Fifty-four percent of those funds came from parent-teacher organizations, while only 2 percent came from local businesses.
The report was released within days of Division 1 of the House Finance Committee announcing its intention to cut a large portion of the State Council on the Arts' budget. This reduction of an estimated $400,000 would all but eliminate the organization, according to several arts patrons. Such a loss would be felt in the schools, as 30 percent of schools that responded had worked with at least one artist in residence, which is a program run by the State Council on the Arts. And 44 percent of those schools found the program provided knowledge about other cultures.
"I believe the arts are an important component of education for the whole child, preparing students more completely for success in college, career and life," Dr. Virginia Barry, Commissioner of Education, said in the report.
The report's authors came up with several recommendations, which McCaffrey hoped would be read by a wide cross-section of the community including teachers, parents and policy-makers. These recommendations aren't just about pouring more money into the arts, but about incorporating arts, and the way they engage students' thoughts, more fully into the curriculum. Such recommendations include using arts-based strategies to support student learning, increasing technology opportunities in the arts for students and building on this newly collected database.
The complete report is posted at www.aannh.org/measuringup.


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When you think of jobs that pay six figures, you think doctor, lawyer -- and anything with the word "chief," "director," "engineer" or "petroleum" in it.
But there are some jobs that pay six figures that you might not expect. People you may encounter on a daily basis, or some who you may not, but never suspect they make that much.
Take, for example the recent story about the lifeguards in Newport Beach, Calif., who make more than $120,000, and some of them, over $200,000!
"Generally, high-paid jobs require one or more of the following: extensive formal education, high level of responsibility or performance, unique skill or talent, and extensive on the job experience," said Al Lee, director of quantitative analysis at PayScale.com. And most involve the employee earning "substantial income and profits for the employer," Lee added.
The average salary in America is about $40,000, according to the Social Security Administration, and just about five percent of the American population makes $100,000 or more.
Here are more than a dozen six-figure jobs that you probably didn't expect would pay that much.
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A rising sun burned through the mist as I paddled on glass-smooth Rangeley Lake in western Maine the other morning, slipping silently past a pair of loons that dived below the surface in a flash.
About 4 miles ahead Doctors Island emerged from the fog, along with a more distant ridge dominated by 4,121-foot Saddleback Mountain and its lesser neighbors, Saddleback Junior, The Horn and Potato Nubble.
With both the Appalachian Trail and the Northern Forest Canoe Trail passing through, Rangeley is an outdoor Mecca, and thanks to a family cabin I've been kayaking and hiking there for years.
Mountain winds can kick up chop and 3-foot seas on the lake in mid-afternoon, but most mornings are calm enough that I feel comfortable paddling alone in my sleek, fast but slightly tippy 19-foot Kevlar boat. The biggest risk would be the wake from a powerboat, but this early in the season – the last vestige of ice melted only a couple weeks ago – I had the lake to myself.
The warm sun was ample reward for having endured such a harsh winter and relentlessly frigid spring. As much as I enjoy winter camping, snowshoeing and cross-country skiing, I also savor getting out in a kayak wearing shorts, a T-shirt and sandals.
Of course, spring in Maine also is black fly season, and a biblical plague of the wretched insects, along with mosquitoes and no-see-ums – a trifecta of biting bugs –
swarmed the shoreline and followed me for several hundred yards before I finally outsprinted them. Once safe on the open water I settled into a comfortable pace and glided past Hunter Cove and the north shore.
Solo kayaking on such a delightful morning is the best way to clear your mind of all petty aggravations.
But no trip to Rangeley would be complete without sharing an adventure or two with longtime friends Mary Lou Lowrie and Nat Steele, who divide their time between a home in New Gloucester, Maine near Portland and a cabin on Cupsuptic Lake just north of Rangeley, so the next day I made plans for a rendezvous.
Mary Lou, Nat and I all share a too-much-is-never-enough approach to outdoor recreation and often plan a daylong schedule that depending on the season includes running, kayaking, hiking, bicycling and swimming. Nat is an accomplished triathlete and cross-country ski racer; I have dabbled in a variety of outdoor activities, but Mary Lou is the one with serious credentials, including a world championship in her age group for the Ironman 70.3 competition, also known as a Half Ironman, which consists of a 1.2-mile swim, 56-mile bike ride, and 13.1-mile run. In addition she twice has been the top overall woman in the grueling distance Sea to Summit Triathlon; has been a bronze medalist at the Masters World Cup Nordic Ski Championships in Rovaniemi, Finland and has been the Maine Bicycle Time Trial Series overall female winner.
We began our day with a 9-plus-mile run around Bald Mountain, followed by a brisk plunge into the lake, where the water temperature barely topped 50 degrees. That felt particularly refreshing considering a sweltering heat wave had driven the air temperature to 90.
Next would be the kayak leg and after a quick snack we carried our boats down to the water.
As if on cue, though, the skies darkened and thunder rumbled.
We looked at each other and simultaneously mouthed, "Uh-oh."
"Maybe we should give it a few minutes to pass," I suggested.
So we retreated indoors just as rain began falling.
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After a few hours passed clouds lifted, the rain stopped and the sun emerged.
"Looking pretty good," I said over the phone.
"We'll be right over," Mary Lou said.
As soon as I hung up, though, the storm blew back with a vengeance.
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The lights went off in the cabin.
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Off we went, on a glorious paddle of nearly 10 miles, including a 2-mile detour to the village of Oquossoc so they could retrieve their kayaks without having to drive past the fallen tree.
"Worth waiting for," I said.
I'm hoping to return to western Maine a few times this summer, and am sure Mary Lou, Nat and I will have more fun times on the water and in the mountains, but to tell you the truth I could do without the meteorological drama.
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Hillsboro, Ore., April 21, 2011 -- SolarWorld's high- performance solar panels are powering an advance in sustainable home development in the heart of Hawaii: They are generating electric power atop 19 homes and a community center for low-income residents of indigenous backgrounds in a nationally trailblazing pilot community development realized by the state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands in Kaupuni Village on Oahu's western edge. The state of Hawaii hopes to spread the project concept, considered the nation's first LEED Platinum single-family subdivision, in developing 1,000 home statewide.
SolarWorld, the largest and most experienced U.S. manufacturer of solar technology, has provided its solar technology to the Hawaii market for 30 years, beginning with a state-federal demonstration project of grid-connected residential systems in 1980. In that project, a total of 10 kilowatts of panels were installed atop homes in three settings: urban (Honolulu), suburban (Pearl City, Oahu) and rural (Molokai). Since then, SolarWorld's solar panels have demonstrated extraordinary reliability in the tropical climes of the Pacific island state. Moreover, the company offers an industry-leading 25-year linear performance guarantee.
The three- and four-bedroom homes in the Kaupuni project, commissioned today in an event attended by Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie, were designed to provide housing without power costs. SolarWorld panels generate electricity; other solar gear heats water. The development includes many other eco-elements, including farming options. Eligible homeowners buy the homes at below-market rates ranging from $260,000 to $320,000, because they pay virtually no costs for leasing land set aside for Hawaiians of indigenous descent. Eligible homeowners may earn no more than 80 percent of Honolulu's median household income.
"The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands is excited that homesteaders who are moving into Kaupuni Village will reap the benefits of a neighborhood designed with the Native Hawaiian culture, the environment and sustainability at its heart," Hawaiian Homes Commission Chairman Alapaki Nahale-a said. "By furnishing this project with high-quality solar panels and valuable expertise, partners like SolarWorld have made this net-zero community truly an environmental success story."
A typical home comes with 26 245-watt SolarWorld Sunmodules, for a total system size of 6.37 kilowatts. Honolulu-based Bonterra Solar undertook the solar-electric installations throughout the project, partnering with Inter-Island Solar Supply, a SolarWorld distributor since the early 1980s.
"We at SolarWorld are grateful to the state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands for demonstrating for the rest of the country that it makes good sense to harness the sun's ample energy to serve the combined sustainability goals of providing housing for low-income residents and switching to a nature-friendly energy source," said Kevin Kilkelly, President of SolarWorld Americas. "It's only fitting that a state known for its abundant sun and natural beauty would demonstrate its solar-energy ingenuity for the other 49 states."
For images and a blog of the dedication to be posted later today, go to SolarWorld's blog.
SolarWorld manufactures and sells solar power solutions and in doing so contributes to a cleaner energy supply worldwide. As the largest solar producer in the United States and Europe, SolarWorld employs about 3,200 people and carries out production in Hillsboro, Ore., and Freiberg and Arnstadt, Germany. From the raw material silicon to solar wafers, cells and panels, SolarWorld manages all stages of production ‒ including its own research and development. The company maintains high social standards at all locations across the globe and is committed to resource- and energy-efficient production. Headquartered in Bonn, Germany, SolarWorld was founded in 1998 and has been publicly traded on the stock market since 1999. For more information, visit www.solarworld-usa.com.
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The folks over at Evernote seem to think that version 5 is so nice that they had to announce that its coming. From the looks of it, there seems to be pretty big changes happening that may very well need a "warning" announcement to get users ready for the new app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch devices.
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In the meeting captain Vijayakanth announced that DMDK party will contest alone for tamil nadu assembly election 2016, i.e no alliance with any other political party in tamilnadu. This vijayakanth speech in the DMDK Meeting Manadu 2016 made disappointment for all political parties Kalaingar M. Karunanidi's Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), Indian National Congress (INC) already in alliance, BJP Leader Tamil Isai Soundarrajan.
Later after few days captain Vijayakanth declared, DMDK joins "Makkal Nala Koottani" for 2016 Tamil Nadu Assembly Election and MDMK leader Vaiko alleged that the DMK and BJP had made offering money to DMDK leader Vijayakanth, for the People's Welfare Vijayakanth rejected it and to fight the coming Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu.
Later V C Chandrakumar and some of his supporters , questioned Vijayakanth's logic behind aligning with PWF on the same day Vijayakanth expels 10 DMDK members for opposing PWF alliance from his party and said "Since they violated party discipline".
Tamil Nadu(TN) assembly election predictions about DMDK party:
1. This only shows that all of you are corrupt, earlier you were been offered money and seat, this time probably your demand was more or thought you can form a government with this alliance and loot more than what was offered or can even get more if its a hung assembly. India will never change nor most of the indians who vote (non-voter are even worst than the corrupt voters).
2. I beg everyone of my TN friends let us get someone new, we don't want Amma, Thatha, Vaiko, ramadoss or BJP. Let us make a change in our state. I am sick and tired of all these traditional parties. Please we can make a difference. We have enough good young people who can do wonders.
3. Will any Lawyer file a petition or approach the election commission to hold the political parties to their promises made in the manifesto? Parties should be asked to declare the time frame and priorities as well sothat the voters do not feel cheated, or taken for a ride.
4. Captain by nature he is aggressive. He can switch alliances even in last minute and VaiKo can not question it since he himself on 11th hour deserted DMK front to join ADMK front. To preempt any such possibility he is making wild charges so that captain can not switch sides at least till this election. But captain is a different kettle of fish. This wild allegation itself is a good reason for him desert this Front and possibly join BJP / NDA front considering the nature of allegations.
5. Everyone knows how Vaiko built a house for his daughter in USA just after the election alliance with DMK in the 2000s. His cadre will never forgive him for the betrayal.
6. At last, Vai ko can give 500 Crores 124 seats to vijayakanth to join in his alliance to lose its alliance deposits in max seats, to ensure amma victory in 2016 assembly Polls.
7. Vijaykanth was lucky last time having alliance with ADMK and secured good number of seats. This 24 hours drunken Vijaykanth is good for nothing. Karunanidhi and Stalin will make sure DMDK is destroyed before the election for sure. On behalf of Tamils, TN plan to give him also a wheel chair as a gift to keep company with Karunanidhi.
Captain Vijayakanth Welcomed Makkal Nala Kootani leaders and named it as Captain Vijayakant Kootani, Earlier there was a buzz that DMDK might join with DMK and face this TN Election 2016 but captain announced that he will face this election alone later makkal nala kootani leaders vaiko, thiruma met Captain and suddenly they have announced their alliance and named it as Captain Vijayakanth Kootani. Here are the Captain Vijayakanth Kootani Trolls and Memes.
Let's wait till 19th March 2016, then we will come to know who is the chief minister of Tamil Nadu.


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