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Mexican Silver Libertads
Mexican Silver Libertads - Mexican Silver Libertads are .999-fine Silver and are some of the most beautiful Silver coins in the world. The obverse of the Silver Libertad coin features the Mexican National Seal with an eagle atop a cactus, clutching a serpent in its beak. Surrounding the eagle are a wreath and the official name of Mexico in Spanish: "Estados Unidos Mexicanos."
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Design of Silver Libertad CoinsThe reverse depicts two key symbols of the Mexican people: the Angel of Independence and the Mexican volcanoes Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl. Appearing in the forefront, the Winged Victory angel is a historic monument for the Mexican people and is considered the symbol of Mexico City. The Mexican volcanoes pictured in the background of the reverse memorialize the legend of the two lovers from whom they were named.
History of Mexican LibertadsAccording to a Pre-Columbian legend, a warrior named Popocatépetl fell in love with Iztaccíhuatl, a king's daughter, and earned a tentative marriage blessing from the king, on the condition that he win a battle against a rival tribe. While the battle delayed the warrior, a rival suitor started a rumor that Popocatépetl had been killed in the battle, and the fair maiden died of a broken heart. Upon finally returning as the victor from the battle, Popocatépetl discovered the fate of his lover and buried her on top of a mountain range that assumed the shape of a sleeping woman in honor of the dead maiden. Grief-stricken, Popocatépetl climbed an adjacent mountain in order to keep eternal watch over his beloved. Today, the depiction of the volcanoes on these Libertad Mexican coins still tells the lovers' story.
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I saw it last night here in Nashville.
As a longtime fan of the original series, I was REALLY worried about this being a Michael Bay film (as I have yet to like any of them that I have seen so far). So going into it, I had some severe reservations, however.....I spent most of the movie feeling like a grade-school kid again watching the original series.
*****BEGIN POSSIBLE SPOILERS***** -you have been warned-
There were a few nit-picky things wrong with it (aren't there always?) however, in light of everything that Michael and Co. got right, they are near-forgettable. Re-casting the original voice actor of Optimus Prime as Optimus in the movie was absolutely necessary, and thankfully Bay delivered...and then some. The first time I heard "the voice" in the movie, it literally sent chills down my spine....and then later on you hear one of the most famous lines to ANY Transformers fan.....
"Autobots, transform and roll out!"
The other Autobots (and Decepticons) are exceedingly well done, despite some of them being the wrong kinds of vehicles (very forgivable when seen in the context of the movie). ILM did a wonderful job on them and the way they transform and move when in robot form is just awesome.
Megatron. I would have liked him to be more like the original in looks, HOWEVER, I can understand why he was changed so much. After all, how does a 25-50+ foot tall robot transform into a pistol small enough in scale for one of said robots to use one-handed? This change is made-up for by the fact that he is voiced by Hugo Weaving.....and at one point in the movie (Megatron fans will love this) he berates Starscream.
Which brings us to another of the few nit-picking points I have. Starscream has only ONE OR TWO lines in the entire movie. I kinda missed the dynamic between he and Megatron that was ever-present in the animated series. However, the end of the movie is left wide open for a sequel, so we shall see.
To wrap this up...there is plenty of fan-service in the movie (a split second glimpse of Jazz break-dancing while transforming), and in-jokes that only fans of the animated series will catch, but I could see this being entertaining for anyone that likes action flicks. The origins of the robots is pretty well (if simply) explained so that the uninitiated viewers will not be left wondering what the hell is going on. To be certain, this is no Citizen Kane script, or story wise, but it is a fun ride.
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Campbell Brown: The President Gives Hollywood a Pass on Violence
By CAMPBELL BROWN
There was something missing from President Obama's Wednesday speech in Denver about gun violence. He focused almost exclusively on passing gun-control laws, and not at all on one of the nation's biggest promoters of violence: the entertainment industry.
The president's campaign against gun violence has produced a stale debate marked by lots of speeches with little achieved. A more creative chief executive would have used this moment to widen the discussion by drawing attention to the increasingly graphic violence so pervasive in television shows, movies and videogames. Mr. Obama is particularly well positioned to challenge Hollywood because of his special relationship with the media world's elites. They might be more likely to heed criticism coming from Mr. Obama than from any other president or member of Congress.
In January, when announcing his gun-violence task force, headed by Vice President Biden, Mr. Obama paid lip service to the subject of media violence. The president's gun-control plan, based on Mr. Biden's recommendations, addressed the matter only by asking the Centers for Disease Control to "conduct research on the causes and prevention of gun violence, including links between videogames, media images, and violence." He asked Congress to allocate $10 million for the research. In Washington terms, that's a pittance.
Dr. Victor Strasberger, the leading researcher on media violence for the American Academy of Pediatrics, could tell the CDC and the president what to expect: "All our studies show portraying violence is extremely dangerous," Dr. Strasberger recently told me. "Kids become desensitized, numb to suffering around them and aggressive." He also says that when you add in other factors like poverty, abuse or mental illness, "you have a perfect storm. This can and does lead to violence."
Dr. Strasberger says he was stunned that the White House seems to have little interest in the available evidence. On the subject of media violence, Mr. Biden met only with representatives of the entertainment and videogame industry and researchers who support the industry. Not a single doctor or researcher critical of media violence met with the vice president.
That's a shame, since there is a consensus among doctors and mental-health professionals about the danger to children from exposure to the violence depicted by movies, television and videogames.
The American Academy of Pediatrics' 2009 policy statement said: "The evidence is now clear and convincing: media violence is one of the causal factors of real-life violence and aggression. Therefore, pediatricians and parents need to take action." The American Medical Association's guide for physicians says studies show "a clear link between brief exposure to violence on TV or movies and increases in aggressive and even physically violent behavior in young persons."
In 2011, the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry concluded that "hundreds of studies of the effects of TV violence on children and teenagers have found that children may become 'immune' or numb to the horror of violence, gradually accept violence as a way to solve problems" and "imitate the violence they observe on television."
Several policy changes could make significant strides toward reducing young people's exposure to violence. One obvious action would be to restrict violence on television that can be seen by young people. Right now the Federal Communications Commission has no rules regulating TV violence—the agency's content regulations apply only to language and sexual content. The FCC itself has recognized that its inability to oversee violent content is a problem and in a 2007 report to Congress called for changing the rules.
That same report, issued when the agency was headed by Kevin Martin, also called for an end to channel "bundling" by cable and satellite companies, the practice of forcing subscribers to pay for channels they don't watch. Parents should be allowed to choose which cable or satellite channels—sources of the most extreme content—come into their homes. Parents shouldn't be obliged to act as the sole filters for the torrent of material, as they are today, blocking channels and password-protecting against the ever-shifting programming.
Another helpful proposal would be to institute a real movie ratings system. As anyone who has recently seen PG-13 movies knows, the level of violence in them has increased to the point of making the Motion Picture Association of America's voluntary rating system meaningless. Like the FCC's rules for television, MPAA ratings emphasize sex and language over violence. The result? Feature films like Vin Diesel's "Fast Five"—which includes people being shot, blood spurting, necks being broken and horrific car crashes—receive a PG-13.
The ratings system must put equal emphasis on violence, with far tougher restrictions on what defines a PG-13 film. Perhaps Mr. Obama or Mr. Biden should have a word with their friend and former Senate pal Chris Dodd, now chairman of the MPAA.
The president has plenty of other influential friends in Hollywood. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Mr. Obama's presidential campaign raised millions of dollar in direct donations from the entertainment industry, and millions more for his Super PAC, Priorities USA Action. Almost a third of the $1 million-plus donors to the president's Super PAC were entertainment and media heavyweights including producers Jeffrey Katzenberg and Steven Spielberg. In one Obama fundraiser alone, held at the home of George Clooney, the campaign brought in an estimated $15 million.
The president has been more than willing to challenge the National Rifle Association, but that is like a Republican president standing up to labor unions—not a move that risks anything with his core supporters. Mr. Obama could show some real bravery by taking on Hollywood.
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The following post is by Kathleen O'Brien:
New is not always better.
I have to confess that I've been a little put off by local historic preservationists self-righteously declaring that "preservation" equals sustainability and leaving it at that. Yes, yes, I understand that recycling buildings intuitively makes sense, but since sustainability sometimes asks us to think counter-intuitively, I needed more. At a recent Sustainable Cities Roundtable conducted by King County's Green Tools Program, I got what I needed.
Robert Young, PE, LEED AP, is professor of architecture and director of the Historic Preservation Program at the University of Utah, and author of the new Island Press release, "Stewardship of the Built Environment." He was guest speaker at the Roundtable. Young provided some very satisfying arguments for promoting preservation and building reuse as a sustainability strategy. In making his arguments, he gives equal weight to what he terms SEE (or what some of us have called the "three E's"): social, economic, and environmental factors, and defines stewardship of the built environment as "balancing the needs of contemporary society and its impact on the built environment with the ultimate effects on the natural environment."
The Historic Preservationists have been at their best when justifying conservation due to social factors, and Young does speak to this. What I appreciated is that he also addresses environmental and economic factors in an analytical but highly accessible manner. One of the areas he touched on in his talk was the idea of calculating energy recovery as part of understanding the energy performance of preservation vs. new construction. As Young notes in his book, "the argument for measuring embodied energy to justify the retention of a building is (still) met with skepticism." He claims this is largely because embodied energy is considered a "sunk cost" and therefore not part of decisions about future expenses. I think he would also say it's because of our societal preference for the glitter of "new" vs. the practicality of "existing," which may not be part of the accounting equation, but certainly humming in the background.
In his talk, Young used his own home to compare the energy recovery periods required to simply perform an energy upgrade to his home, to abandon the home and build a new one in the suburbs, or to demolish and rebuild in place. When he accounted for the embodied energy in the new buildings (whether in place or in the suburbs), the energy to demolish the existing building, and operating energy required for the remodeled or new building, it became clear that the remodel was the best choice when considering true energy performance. In scenarios provided in his book, energy recovery calculations result in recovery periods that exceed "the expected useful lives of many buildings being constructed today." And this is without calculating in the transportation energy expenses that are likely to accrue when the new building is built in a greenfield out in the suburbs.
In the economic realm, Young compared the job creation resulting from highway, new, and rehab construction. In jobs per million dollars spent, rehab wins again. Although a small part of the construction activity (Young estimated 5%), rehab creates roughly 5 more jobs per million dollars spent than highway construction, and 2 more jobs per million dollars spent on new construction. If I am interpreting Young's figures correctly, just by turning our economic recovery lens on rehab and away from highways and new construction we could potentially create between 6-12% more jobs per million dollars spent on construction. (And we might actually reduce the environmental, social, and economic negative impacts of sprawl — even if it's "green")!
Young's talk introduced some great food for thought, but I'm so glad to be reading his book. In his concluding chapter, "Putting it All Together," he provides a list of "challenges" for stewards of the built environment, ranging from advocating outcome-based codes (since prescriptive codes are based primarily on new construction practices) to presenting project lessons learned (both positive and negative) to "decision makers and policy shapers who mediate building preservation and reuse policies." Lots to work on.
Kathleen O'Brien is a long time advocate for green building and sustainable development since before it was "cool." She lives in a green home, and drives a hybrid when she drives at all. She continues to provide consulting on special projects for O'Brien & Co., the firm she founded over 20 years ago, and provides leadership training and mentoring through her legacy project: The Emerge Leadership Project.


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We did not create the heavens and the earth and everything between them as a game. We did not create them except with truth but most of them do not know it. (Surat ad-Dukhan, 38-39)
Did you suppose that We created you for amusement and that you would not return to Us? (Surat al-Muminun, 115)
That day Hell is produced, that day man will remember; but how will the remembrance help him? He will say, "Oh! If only I had prepared in advance for this life of mine!" (Surat al-Fajr, 23-24)
Have they not reflected within themselves? God did not create the heavens and the earth and everything between them except with truth and for a fixed term. Yet many people reject the meeting with their Lord. (Surat ar-Rum, 8)
Hollywood scores top marks in its faith report
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He is Allah—there is no deity but Him. He is the Knower of the Unseen and the Visible. He is the All-Merciful, the Most Merciful. ( Surat al-Hashr, 22)
It is a most exciting and pleasurable thing for a person to have and live by a great ideal. I may say that living for Allah, living for His approval, is the most important of those characteristics that make human beings human. It makes one better able to enjoy beauty. Beauty comes to have a meaning, life has a meaning, everything has a meaning. Nothing has any significance in the absence of Allah's approval. That makes everything cold and repellent.


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California judge sentences killer, then performs his wedding
EL CAJON, Calif. – The family of a murder victim has demanded an apology from a San Diego Superior Court judge who performed a wedding for the killer minutes after sentencing him to a lifetime in prison.
In a letter to Judge Patricia Cookson, the family of Kevin Santos asked her to explain her action and warned they will file a complaint with the California Commission on Judicial Performance, which investigates judicial misconduct, U-T San Diego reported Monday.
Performing the ceremony showed partiality to the killer's interests and "displayed insensitivity to the victim's family," the letter said.
Cookson did not respond to the newspaper's request for comment.
The judge performed the wedding for Danne Desbrow and the mother of his son on Sept. 17 shortly after sentencing him to a maximum term for killing Santos in 2003. The bride said she and Desbrow rekindled their romance while he was in jail, and that during trial she asked Cookson if she could marry the couple at sentencing.
Destiny Desbrow said Cookson agreed, and even gave the newlyweds two slices of cake that the judge had baked after vows were exchanged.
Santos' relatives said they were rushed out of the courtroom after the sentencing, and were insulted when they later learned about the ceremony.
"It was just wrong," Santos' younger sister, April Santos, said. "That day was not for him. That was our day, that was Kevin's day."


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Yuma Mayor Declares Emergency Over Migrant Crisis – City Overrun
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Sounds like a humanitarian and a national security crisis to me and I'm not the only one who sees it that way. Yuma Mayor Douglas Nicholls just declared an emergency in his city due to what he said was the strain caused by the incoming flow of migrants. The agents and authorities are simply being overwhelmed and swarmed by these invaders.
1,800 came over the border in one day… one day! Half of those detained on Tuesday crossing over from Mexico were found in the El Paso, Texas area, according to officials. Border patrol said more than 980 were apprehended before 5 am after crossing in three large groups. Yuma is having just as rough a time of it.
Mayor Nicholls went public with this on Facebook. He explained that he "proclaimed a local emergency" in the city "due to the migrant family releases overwhelming the local shelter system." And it's not just the sheer numbers of illegal immigrants… it's the economic burden, the crime, the drugs, the danger to children and disease that is playing into this massive emergency state.
Nicholls is begging the government to step in and do something here. I don't blame him in the least. They need help and fast. "I am calling upon the federal government to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Yuma, as our NGO's are overcapacity and cannot sustain providing this aid," the post said. Here's a thought – ship all of them to sanctuary cities just as Trump proposed. Works for me. Better yet, don't let them in at all unless they come here legally.
From Fox News:
"Nicholls, in a video, laid out his reasoning behind the declaration, saying that he ultimately feels that its what's best for both Yuma and the incoming migrants.
"So it's with a heavy heart that I declare that we're at this point but it is something that I believe we need to do to make sure that our community is maintained and that the human rights of all the migrants are also maintained and that we have a path forward that respects both," he said.
"The city of Yuma, Ariz., also tweeted about the proclamation, citing Nicholls, claiming that released migrants were coming into the area faster than they were leaving.
"The move by the local official comes after President Trump declared a national emergency at the nation's southern border earlier this year."
Mayor: Migrants being released into the community faster than they are departing, and shelters and the staff to run them are at max capacity. A state of emergency is declared.
— City of Yuma (@cityofyuma) April 16, 2019
"The transportation network is just insufficient to keep up with demand," Nicholls said. "And the backlog of people staying at the shelter has created this capacity issue." The media and the left are playing it up that the poor illegal immigrants don't have money for bus fare to go to relatives while they await their court date. But the issue here is that they should not be here in the first place.
Now, the city is hoping for a FEMA response. In signing the declaration, Nicholls said he hopes to draw national attention to the plight of local communities struggling with a federal issue, adding that he's talking to officials in other border cities and calling on them to issue similar emergency declarations. The mayor stated that he had spoken to Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, who signaled his support for the declaration.
Today I proclaimed a local emergency in Yuma, due to the migrant family releases overwhelming the local shelter system. I am calling upon the federal government to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Yuma, as our NGO's are overcapacity and cannot sustain providing this aid. I signed the proclamation of emergency and soon after spoke with media at approximately 3:15 pm (MST). You can view via the video below:
Posted by Douglas Nicholls, Yuma Mayor on Tuesday, April 16, 2019
"We will review any declaration once we receive it," according to a statement Tuesday night from Patrick Ptak, a Ducey spokesman. "Ultimately, this humanitarian crisis is the result of Congress' failure to act. It will only be solved by Congress actually doing something, and the governor has vocally urged Congress to quit playing politics and take action. If only they would.
"In the wake of their inaction, our office is working with local governments, non-profits and our federal partners to maximize available resources and ensure proper coordination between ICE officials and groups providing temporary services to migrants."
I rolled into Mexico illegally, and came back into the USA… upon entering I got free healthcare, dental, welfare and cash in my pocket. It was that easy. @DonaldJTrumpJr @realDonaldTrump @RealJamesWoods @Education4Libs @IngrahamAngle @gehrig38 @SheriffClarke @NeilWMcCabe2 pic.twitter.com/8BHuqGbaZA
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Nicholls fears hungry migrants roaming the streets. He should fear much worse than that. "This isn't a natural disaster," Nicholls said. "But it is a disaster."
"… the local emergency exceeds control of the services, personnel, equipment and facilities of the City of Yuma and requires the combined efforts, cooperation, and resources of the Yuma community including local and non-profit agencies such as the Red Cross, Catholic Community Services, The Salvation Army, Yuma Community Food Bank, churches, the County of Yuma, the State of Arizona, and the United States of America," the statement said.
It's long past time for the wall to be built and We Build The Wall should start their project this month. Meanwhile, President Trump is still scratching and fighting for every mile of barrier put up. Put the blame of all this where it belongs… squarely on the left. #WeBuildTheWall
VIDEO: Illegals Cross Border & Walk Past 5 Members Of Congress Unnoticed
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Unbelievable. A group of five congressmen touring the Arizona-Mexico border to see smuggling activity completely missed the four illegal immigrants nearby who were able to cross the border undetected right behind them. They were very lucky these weren't violent criminals or cartel foot soldiers. This happened near Yuma, Arizona on the US border with Mexico.
Three women and one child went undetected as they illegally crossed from Mexico to Arizona through the Colorado River and walked right past a group of five congressmen. A Washington Examiner reporter was reporting at the border when this happened and got the scoop. Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) was leading a tour for four Republican congressmen — Matt Gaetz of Florida, John Joyce of Pennsylvania, Pete Stauber of Minnesota, and Dusty Johnson of South Dakota — who were seeing the southern border for the first time.
How embarrassing. Didn't they hear them? They were just a few hundred feet behind them crossing the river. Evidently, the group of women waded across the water and were able to stay out of sight of lawmakers due to the overgrown water plants and brush on the edge of the water. Still… they had to make quite a bit of noise.
A couple who retired to the area said they were the ones who flagged down a nearby Border Patrol agent. "I didn't call anybody. I was sitting in there watching TV — knocking on the door. There's four of them here. They wanted aqua so I went and got 'em a bottle of water," said Dennis, who did not share his last name.
"I walked 'em out here — said they need to go up there," Dennis said, as he pointed to the dirt road agents use to drive up and down the border. "Said they don't want to go up there. Then Border Patrol came." His wife, Barbara, had been out walking their three dogs on the dirt road when the group of four approached their home.
"I'm trying to motion them, 'No, they gotta go up here to be picked up,' because that's where they usually get picked up. They usually turn themselves in," said Barbara. "They were nice and smiling and all that, but they were bound to walk to Yuma." None of them spoke English or at least played dumb on that count. Barbara could not tell where they were originally from. She said maybe El Salvador since one was wearing a hat with the country's name on it. Gee… a clue.
From the Washington Examiner:
"A Border Patrol agent pulled up right in front of the Washington Examiner reporter and spoke with the group for a few minutes before asking them to get in the back of his pickup truck.
"So my husband walked up there — normally law enforcement's up there. The guy happened to be right where Dennis could motion him to come here and point down the road, they were right here heading down the [other] road," she said.
"Barbara said she and her husband have lived on the border in their current house for 5 1/2 years. They said incidents like the one on Tuesday evening were normal, but that most individuals or groups who come over the river illegally just stand on the dirt road and wait for agents to find them instead of knocking on their door.
"We had four of them that went down there the other day. We had one that was higher than a kite was out here yelling at things," Dennis said.
"In the past several months, it's getting to be more and more," said Barbara. "It's pretty much like a sieve right here because all we have are vehicle barriers and the river is very shallow right here. You can just wade across."
"Dennis estimated 50 to 500 people are coming across "right there" daily."'
That's a lot of illegal aliens and it makes that area very, very dangerous. Hope that couple is armed. They don't feel safe and I don't blame them in the least.
This happened on the same day the mayor of Yuma, Arizona declared an emergency there over illegal immigration. This is just getting worse and worse. Instead of taking tours, these politicians should be backing Trump and getting funding for the wall in place. #WeBuildTheWall


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"She Needed Our Help," New Era, June 2012, 16–18
She Needed Our Help
It seemed nobody wanted our help, but we were led to somebody who did.
Carrying our brooms, buckets, rakes, and gloves, and sporting bright yellow "Helping Hands" T-shirts to identify us as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we walked through the neighborhoods of my hometown as part of youth conference. Two by two, we went to assigned homes, knocked on doors, introduced ourselves as members of the Church, and asked if there was any service we could perform.
It was scary at first to simply walk up to a house and knock on a door, not knowing whether we would be greeted with an invitation to rake the yard or a door slammed in our faces. With nervous anticipation, I approached the first house and knocked on the front door, only to find no one home. Persevering, my companion and I canvassed the neighborhood in search of a service opportunity. Knock, knock. No answer. Try again. Knock, knock. "No thanks." Try again. I was beginning to feel discouraged as knock after knock, door after door, our offers to provide service were met with surprise, dismay, and ultimately, rejection.
As my companion and I made our way down the quiet street, we noticed a home in need of some attention. The grass had been mowed, but piles of trimmings and yard waste were everywhere. The flower beds were overgrown with weeds, moss had crept up the sidewalk and front steps, and the porch was thickly covered with dust. If there were ever a house in need of "helping hands," this was it. With a silent prayer in my heart that we could be of service, I summoned courage and headed toward the house with my companion.
An older woman in a wheelchair was wheeling up the porch and into the home, but seeing us come closer, she turned and came toward us. As we approached her, I could sense her apprehension and reluctance to allow us to speak with her. My companion and I both smiled, introduced ourselves, and explained to her that we were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and were looking for opportunities to serve in the neighborhood. We asked her if there was anything we could do to help her. Instantly, the woman's face lit up, and she began listing things we could do to help: weeding, raking grass, sweeping the porch, stacking wood, scraping moss, and washing the driveway. As her list of tasks grew longer and longer, I flagged the other members of our youth group to come join. Members from our group arrived, assignments were made, and we quickly set to work.
Performing this service put a smile on my face and made me want to do my very best. While we worked, we enjoyed getting to know this woman and listening to her stories. We learned that our offer to help came as a timely answer to prayer. She explained that she was not the homeowner but was caring for the house for her brother, who was scheduled to have open-heart surgery the next day. The woman knew how much her brother cared for his yard and enjoyed working in his garden, but because he was ill and she was unable to bend down and work, the yard was neglected and had become overgrown. Together, the brother and sister had prayed for someone to help with the upkeep of the yard. I felt the warmth of the Spirit fill my heart as I realized that through our service we were able to be the answer to another's prayer.
Her brother called on the phone and, with tender emotion in his voice, thanked us for our labors. I was overcome with love for the man whom we had served and also for my Heavenly Father, who is ever mindful of the needs and prayers of His children.
When I set out that morning to perform service, I expected to use my rake, broom, and shovel to serve others, but I had no idea that the Lord would use me as His instrument to fill the needs of another. I am grateful for this experience that taught me the truth of the scripture, "When ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God" (Mosiah 2:17).
I have a testimony of the power of service and how it not only changes our lives but the lives of those around us. Each day I strive to provide service for at least one person; whether I'm offering a simple smile or a good deed, my Heavenly Father knows what I can do to help other people. I have a testimony of the power of service and the strength it can bring as we put forth our best effort and ask for no reward in return.


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To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea, Naval History shares unpublished primary accounts that shed new light on the final moments of two U.S. ships sunk in the early hours of the battle.
As the first epic aircraft carrier battle in history, the Battle of the Coral Sea forever changed the face of naval warfare. In nearly every major work on World War II in the Pacific, historians have drawn the same conclusion about the main battle that took place on 7 and 8 May 1942: although a tactical Japanese success, the battle is remembered as a strategic U.S. victory.
The majority of accounts of this great naval engagement have glossed over the opening salvo that took place on 7 May between the destroyer Sims (DD-409), the oiler she was escorting, the Neosho (AO-23), and the bulk of the air group from the Japanese strike force. The plight of these two overmatched ships has tended to be a mere footnote to the main battle between the U.S. carriers Lexington (CV-2) and Yorktown (CV-5), and the Japanese carriers Shoho, Shokaku, and Zuikaku. For the men of the Sims and Neosho, 7 May and the four days that followed were struggle between the will to live and the forces of certain death.
Historians have offered a variety of efforts to honor the memory of the 235 men lost on board the Sims and the 179 men who died on board the Neosho. Many of these accounts, however, contradict each other. Although 13 men, including my father, ultimately survived the sinking of the Sims, the testimony of Chief Signalman Robert James Dicken has been the primary account used by historians. Dicken provided an after-action report shortly after being rescued, as did several others from the Sims. There were at least two other survivors whose individual sagas cast significant doubt on the historical record and also raise serious questions about the state of mind of the Sims's captain, Lieutenant Commander Willford M. Hyman.
One of the survivors, Seaman First Class John C. Verton, was an antiaircraft gunner and the last man to enter the damaged whaleboat after the Sims slid beneath the waves. Severely wounded from the explosion of the Sims's depth charges, Verton was rushed to a naval hospital in Australia. The Navy never asked him for his after-action report. Another survivor, Fireman Second Class Vito J. Vessia, who conned the whaleboat that plucked Verton out of the ocean, provided a report to senior commanders, but in his words, "none were pleased with the so-called lack of reasoning." Vessia's vehement dissent from the record never was recorded officially.
Fate and the Fat Lady
Riding high on what they believed had been a devastating blow against the Japanese fleet in Tulagi Harbor on 4 May, U.S. Task Force 17 spent 6 May fueling from the Neosho, known affectionately as the "Fat Lady." By late afternoon, she had pumped virtually all of her tanks dry and was ordered by Admiral Frank J. Fletcher to proceed on a southwesterly course for waypoint "Rye."
To most of the crew in the Sims, the order to escort the oiler and miss any potential action against the enemy seemed like a slap in the face for the senior destroyer in the task force. Verton and the rest of the deck force concluded that the captain "must be in the dog house with the admiral." For reasons that likely never will be known, Hyman did not enjoy the same level of respect from the crew as did the ship's former skipper, Lieutenant Commander W. A. Griswold, according to both Verton and Vessia. But there was a more practical aspect to Fletcher's decision that had sealed the ship's fate before the war even started.
Commissioned in August 1939, the Sims began her career making lengthy North Atlantic neutrality patrols. During these difficult journeys, the Sims experienced the first of a series of boiler tube failures that would test her engineering crew's ingenuity almost until the time she was sunk. The first failure occurred off the coast of Iceland in late 1941. The number one boiler ruptured several water tubes, forcing the crew to shut it down. Tapered plugs were fashioned and forced into the tube openings, and the destroyer went back into action. Two additional boiler tube failures would occur after the attack on Pearl Harbor when the Sims was transferred to the Pacific Fleet. The same homemade remedy by the crew kept the ship powered each time, though shakily.
When it came time for action against the Japanese, Fletcher dispatched the Sims with her tenuous boiler situation to guard the Neosho instead of the destroyer Walke (DD-416), as originally planned.
Calm before the Storm
The Sims and her charge detached from the task force in the early evening on 6 May. "It was a real frisky night," recalled Machinist's Mate Second Class Vincent Canole. "The Japs were so close we knew something was up."
The two ships reached waypoint "Rye" at 0730 the following morning. The weather was unusually calm and offered a stark contrast to the rain squalls and rough seas the task force had gone through a few days earlier.
At 0859, a single 500-pound bomb crashed into the ocean less than 100 yards off the Sims's port side and shocked her crew into general quarters. Her 5-inch guns began pointing skyward. The blasts of the guns rattled and shook the ship to her keel. A single Japanese plane appeared in the sky at 15,000 feet. As Vessia recalls, the order was given for Flank Ahead and both the Neosho and Sims built up speed to 18 knots.
"It was very strange," said Vessia. "We were going in a straight line. No zig, no zag to dodge whatever was being thrown at us. Ordinary precautions during an attack were to have the two screws going in different directions. Port Full Ahead and Starboard Emergency Astern—the reversing of Emergency Full Astern—on both engines to put the brakes on. This was not to be."
Although most accounts have registered the near miss on the front starboard quarter, both Verton and Vessia recall it falling on the port side close enough to wreck the captain's gig and send Hyman crashing to the deck. "The bridge talker relayed the message. 'Near miss forward, Captain down!'" said Vessia. "'Port side whaleboat damaged.'"
Unknown to the crew of either ship, before leaving the area the pilot had radioed back to the Japanese carrier force and reported the presence of a U.S. carrier and cruiser. It was a classic case of the kind of misidentifications that plagued both sides during the early stages of the war. The pilot's error would prove to be fateful for the Sims and Neosho; they soon would face nearly every available aircraft the Japanese carriers could muster.
By 0900, the Sims spotted at least 15 aircraft bearing 25¾ true from the Neosho at high altitude. It soon became apparent to the group of torpedo bombers that the ships identified earlier as a carrier and a cruiser were, in fact, a tanker and a destroyer. They chose wisely not to drop their torpedoes and disappeared to the northeast without attacking. For a brief time, the two crews breathed sighs of relief.
A few minutes after 1000, ten aircraft were spotted approaching at 140¾ true. This time they came in for the kill. The enemy planes disintegrated into an uncoordinated attack formation of several small groups. Both ships put up a barrage of fire, covering their position with a blanket of steel, but scored no hits.
The Sims continued to cut through the waves in a large circle around the Neosho, attempting to defend the slower tanker. On board the destroyer, however, the crew began to yell in protest of the ship's failure to take defensive action, recalls Verton. "Even the older, experienced sailors began to yell above the fire of the guns that 'this damn ship better start turning,'" said Verton.
The Japanese appeared in force at noon. Although previously classified reports place the number of dive-bombers at approximately 24, in the heat of battle the bridge talker on board the Sims announced the presence of at least 50 planes, according to Vessia. The attack broke apart into a horde of smaller, sometimes individual runs on the ships. The Neosho suffered seven hits, some of which passed right through the near-empty tanker without exploding.
On the Sims, the first direct hit pierced the deck amidships, exploding through the torpedo tubes and opening up a massive gash above the forward engine room. The explosion killed all power and lighting below deck, creating an eerie dark silence amidst the billow of death and confusion. Before the crew could recover from the first hit, the still-moving destroyer absorbed a second hit. Although according to Verton it appeared to enter through the stack, the second hit had, in fact, delivered another blow to the forward engine room.
Vessia, who was stationed in the after fire room, rushed topside to secure the fuel oil stop on the port side, as ordered earlier by Chief Water Tender Edwin Barnett. "What a mess. I could look into the forward engine room from the top deck," Vessia said. "There was nothing but split apart machinery and partially dismembered men I had talked to a few hours before." According to Navy reports, the Japanese pilots dived on the two ships so low that some of the planes exploded from the blasts of their own bombs.
Engineering officer Lieutenant M. Silverstein then ordered Vessia to make his way back below deck to the port side to secure the fuel oil stop. Vessia jumped below deck just as the Japanese commenced strafing the now helpless ship. Canole, who also was below deck during the attacks, could hear the bullets hitting topside and pelting the side of the ship's hull.
Within minutes, the third and final 500-pounder crashed through the upper decks into the after engine room. A large fuel oil heater in the forward fire room shielded Vessia from the blast, which knocked him through the gratings and into the bilges. The blast blew Canole from the ship and into the ocean. He would emerge from the water and find himself staring back at the Sims.
When Vessia finally made his way topside, the result of the Japanese strafing runs lay before him. "What greeted me topside was gruesome," said Vessia. "Silverstein, Barnett, and all the fire room gang were dead. They looked like limp rags on the deck."
Satisfied with their work, the Japanese force broke contact, leaving the two ships sinking in the middle of the Coral Sea. Verton somehow managed to escape death at his gun. The attack left the destroyer broken in two and going down fast, the forward 5-inch gun still firing. "The ship was totally submerged within a matter of minutes after being hit," wrote Radioman's Mate Third Class Kenneth Tevebaugh in a letter to the Navy Department in 1949.
Gunners from the two ships managed to down a total of six enemy aircraft. A look at the Neosho revealed a severe starboard list, violent fires, and the burning hulk of a Japanese attacker sticking out of her stern.
Captain Hyman then appeared on the bridge of the Sims, shouting orders to jettison all heavy ordnance and manually fire off all torpedoes in a vain effort to keep the ship afloat. His orders included a command to remove the 5-inch gun mounts, which, according to Vessia, was extremely irrational given the fact that the mounts weighed thousands of pounds. A junior officer ordered the starboard side whaleboat lowered. The crew dropped it, however, and it floated away with nobody in it. Vessia then requested permission to go after it and the officer grudgingly approved. Swimming through the oil-stained sea, he reached the whaleboat and found its control panel had been damaged and there was a hole on its starboard side.
On the way back toward the now-sinking Sims, Vessia picked up Seaman Second Class Arthur Gober, who had been thrown into the water during the battle. Canole, Fireman Third Class Jones Savage, Machinist's Mate Second Class Edward Munch, and Seaman Second Class Edward LeBlanc managed to climb into the whaleboat, forcing the hole in the hull closer to the water line. Hyman then spotted Vessia and ordered him to proceed to the fantail and assist in putting out the fires that were raging in the after magazine. Arriving at the stern, Vessia and the whaleboat crew watched a group of approximately 25 sailors climb aboard one of the remaining undamaged rafts. This small group drifted away, never to be seen again.
The Sims began to shudder, her mid section beginning to buckle. Crewmen then began lowering the wounded and exhausted down to the whaleboat Vessia had retrieved. Water Tender First Class William Yanny was first to be passed down, bleeding heavily from a large gash in his back. Next came Chief Dicken, long credited with a single-handed rescue of all the Sims survivors. He immediately passed out from exhaustion, according to Vessia. Before they were through, a total of 14 men had reached the safety of the whaleboat.
At the bow, the Sims's gunnery officer ordered Verton to climb down into one of the other rafts and join him and a group of about 20 sailors. As he pulled himself over the railings, with the bow beginning to point skyward, Captain Hyman began barking orders, recalls Verton. "He yelled down to me from the bridge, 'Hey sailor, I never gave the order to abandon ship,'" said Verton. Hyman then ordered him back on board to free several men who were pinned beneath a mangled mass of steel wires and cables. The raft Verton had planned to board drifted away.
He tried in vain to cut the men free with whatever was available, but the twisted steel was too strong. Within minutes, the Sims gave a huge groan and began to buckle amidships. Verton dove into the water off the port side and swam as fast as he could away from the sinking vessel. The wind blew the bow toward him as he swam for his life. When he stopped, he looked back as the ocean pulled the stern and bow under at the same time. He watched as Captain Hyman stood on the bridge, "riding her down like one of the captains of old."
The forward gun mount, jammed shut from strafing damage, still held its crew captive but continued to fire sporadically. To Verton's horror, the gun slid under and one final round crashed through the surface. The destroyer's depth charges then exploded, sending a powerful shock wave through the water. Verton, who had managed to swim a good distance from the ship, absorbed the massive blast, which forced the contents of his bowels through his mouth, almost killing him.
"An explosion took place immediately after the ship went down by the stern," wrote Tevebaugh. "Even the clothing was torn from the bodies of the men who were still in the water."
Verton lay in the water, praying to die before the sharks began to circle. "I thought I was the only survivor," said Verton. "Everybody I swam up to was dead. Some were decapitated and bobbed up and down in the water when I approached them." As the sea convulsed, Verton spotted a boat riding the crest of a wave and began yelling with all his might. He spotted Vessia, whom he had known since his first day on board the Sims in 1940.
"We pulled him into the boat and almost immediately we wanted to throw him back over the side," Vessia recalls jokingly. The concussion from the explosion had ripped through Verton's intestines, causing him and the rest of the whaleboat crew great distress.
Water Tender Yanny died from his wounds during the first night, leaving 14 men in the whaleboat when they finally reached the badly damaged and sinking Neosho on the 8th. For three more days, the remaining crew of the Neosho and the survivors from the Sims prepared for the possibility of having to sail to Australia. Verton and Vessia scavenged through the Neosho for supplies while the others repaired the hull in the Sims's whaleboat and rigged a mast with a sail.
On 11 May, the destroyer Henley (DD-391) located the hapless ship and ended the battered sailors' ordeal. On the trip back to civilization, one more Sims sailor, Seaman Second Class Ed Pieles, succumbed to his wounds and passed away in the Henley. Verton had become the 13th and final survivor of the Sims.
The Aftermath
Verton and the other wounded survivors were rushed away for immediate medical care, while others, including Vessia and Dicken, were interviewed for information on the battle. "They interviewed us in singles. None of them were pleased at the lack of reasoning as to why none of the ship's officers survived," said Vessia. "I began to blast the captain's behavior after the near miss forward that wrecked the captains gig. I began to shout at the utter crime committed by him, in not allowing an orderly abandon ship. The order was never given. Hundreds would have survived instead of the paltry few."
"If those Japanese pilots had been any good, they would have sunk us on the first attack," said Vessia. "But the credit should go to our gunnery department. They put up a zinger of a fight. And they all died. Needlessly."
"There is little I can say, or that anyone can say, the loss is too great," wrote Sims Fireman Third Class George Ernst in 1943. "In fact, as war trades go we drove a hard bargain and stopped the Japs' southward gains to Australia."
The Sims and Neosho played a critical tactical role, if only by accident. The Japanese pilots' inability to identify the two ships correctly led Japanese commanders to deploy the bulk of their aircraft against the two ships, drawing them away from the main U.S. force of the Yorktown and Lexington. When the Japanese air armada finally broke contact with the Sims, they did so with six fewer aircraft.
Verton spent the next month in a hospital in Australia and never was approached by the Navy for his account of the battle or the failure of Captain Hyman either to order an abandon ship or take the proper defensive action during the attack. Word of Verton's survival would not reach his family until June. Until the day he died from cancer in 1994, Verton credited Vessia—and not Chief Dicken—with conning the whaleboat and saving his life in the Coral Sea.
In 1944, the Navy commissioned the Hyman (DD-732) in honor of Lieutenant Commander Willford M. Hyman. In 1970, she was struck from the Navy list and sold for scrap.
Mr. Verton is a senior writer with Computerworld magazine in Washington, D.C., and is a former U.S. Marine officer.
The following primary sources from the National Archives were used:
1. Fire Controlman Third Class George Ernst, letter to Max Tachna, 9 June 1943.
2. Allen Jones, assistant head, Chief of Naval Personnel's Casualty Assistance Branch, letter to Sneed family, 22 February 1974.
3. Fireman Second Class Vito J. Vessia, letter to Tachna family, 8 July 1943.
4. Radioman's Mate Third Class Kenneth W. Tevebaugh, letter to Navy Department, 1 July 1949.
The author also conducted interviews with both his father, John Verton, and Vito Vessia.


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It probably doesn't come as news that most organizations today have staff assigned in some way to manage their social media. While many have formally assigned part-time resources or existing employees that do the work unofficially, the situation they face is the same: A growing percentage of total corporate communications is steadily shifting to social channels. As it reaches critical mass, as it has for marketing and customer care, this has been forcing organizations to go beyond makeshift staffing for their various social media efforts.
For its part, this global communications shift is briskly picking up pace. For example, recent data published by eMarketer shows that 72% of all firms globally now engage in some form of customer service over social media. On the leading edge, about a fifth of them handle a quarter or more of all their customer inquiries this way. This year's new Nielsen report on social media shows that 47% of all social media users have engaged in such customer service, and that a third of them prefer it. Despite seeming saturation, social media usage itself has increased a whopping 24% over the last year, and it is now the top online activity, period. These are high-water marks that will only climb higher, and soon.
Urged on by the behavior shifts indicated by this data and their own research into their customers' behavior, which shows broad changes in how people prefer to engage in the customer journey, we see that businesses are actively in the midst of scrambling to acquire skilled staff and create social media teams that can operate effectively in these channels.
The sheer scale of social media is different now, as well, and the writing is on the wall: The part-time and volunteer efforts of years past have surely morphed into the continuously staffed NASA-style command centers and full-time social media departments we find in large organizations today.
But as we've seen in recent data, the social teams of marketing, customer care and workforce are often fragmented, unconnected and hampered by inconsistent policies, processes, tools and ecosystems. The same data also shows that the value (and the ROI, for those who need that acronym) of social business is often diluted by this parochial and narrow focus. A coherent social team can help with this.
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Given the degree to which social media is exerting pressure to ramp up and scale today, there's not been time for industries to assess how to best organize their staff for current realities. It could even be said it's not entirely clear what a properly staffed social team should look like, and what sort of activities it should own. Or even how it should achieve its objectives. Fortunately, we do have baseline data to start from: A few months back, well-known social media analyst Jeremiah Owyang pegged the size of the average social team at 11 people, while citing a provisional organization structure containing community managers, analysts and management staff. This gives us a picture of what organizations are doing, if not where they are headed.
Deriving a near-future vision for social teams is still a bit tricky, but perhaps possible. First, we can look at the function itself. It could be said that the ultimate purpose of social media staff is to provide those capabilities across the organization for its various functions. If we then examine the detailed operations of a more fully realized social business, it can help us see how all the moving parts fit together. From there, it's certainly possible to look at what organizations are doing today and plot a trajectory where social media will be more at the core of how we do business.
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From my research, I've seen time and again how two groups tend to form around social media. One is the group that's charged with enabling social media internally to the organization, for collaboration, communication and other workforce purposes. The other, which focuses on external social media, is composed of at least one major group, although there are often other people responsible for external engagement in the social world. Typically, there is also an often fuzzy and poorly defined set of shared resources for these groups. While this includes HR and legal for periodic oversight, it also includes social architects, data analysts, project managers, line-of-business liaisons and others who are closely involved, yet often not officially part of the two social media groups in most organizations.
As I explored in a previous column, this bifurcation actively hampers social media ROI in the vast majority of organizations. But I'm also not naive enough to believe that by simply recognizing the problem, it will be easily solved. While it's true that social business initiatives now need a unified effort that can create a seamless social ecosystem across and beyond the company, the deeply ingrained political, structural and organizational boundaries that are likely to resist this will pose a rather significant headwind. As has been famously said about large-scale change, "culture eats strategy for lunch."


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Supporters of a discharge petition came up about 20 signatures short of the number needed to force House leaders to bring long-awaited disaster assistance legislation up for debate and a floor vote.
A total of 198 House members signed the petition in the hours before the House recessed to return to the campaign trail on Sept. 29. Supporters needed 218 votes — a majority — to bring the measure sponsored by Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., to the floor.
"I am disappointed that House Republican leaders failed to stand up for our farmers and ranchers who are suffering and struggling to cope with the impact of disaster on their operations," said Peterson, ranking Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee.
"Now these farm communities will have to wait at least until mid-November before Congress could bring up disaster assistance."
Congress is expected to return to Washington for a lame duck session after the Nov. 7 mid-term elections because of the fiscal 2007 appropriations bills and other legislative issues that have not been resolved.
The discharge petition, which was introduced by Rep. John Barrow, D-Ga., will remain available during the session for members to sign. Peterson said supporters of agriculture disaster assistance are optimistic that relief legislation will be considered after the elections.
"We are disappointed that it wasn't addressed this week, but we certainly will not give up on the fight to get disaster assistance out to our farmers and ranchers," Peterson said.
"We are going to keep reaching out to Republicans and Democrats from across the country to be sure that we get a deal that will keep our rural communities afloat as they recover from disaster."
The Congress had been dealing with the agriculture disaster assistance issue since last year when the House Agriculture Committee and the House Appropriations Committee voted down amendments that would have provided payments to farmers who lost at least 35 percent of their crop to weather disasters in 2005 or 2006.
Earlier this year, the House Democratic leadership sent a letter to the speaker of the House and House majority leader, asking them to allow debate and a vote on agriculture disaster assistance legislation before Congress recessed. When they did not respond, Barrow introduced a discharge petition.
A coalition of more than 30 farm and allied organizations, including the National Farmers Union, American Farm Bureau Federation, Independent Community Bankers of America and others have written to members of Congress several times urging them to support agriculture disaster assistance and to sign the discharge petition.
The Senate has passed similar legislation, but the language was removed from an emergency supplemental appropriations bill by a House-Senate conference committee after President Bush threatened to veto the measure.
Farm-state senators tried to force a vote on a stripped version of their disaster assistance legislation just before the Sept. 29 recess but were also unsuccessful.
Peterson said the need for disaster assistance is clear. Natural disasters including hurricanes, floods, droughts, wildfires, heat waves and other weather-related events caused serious damage to crops and livestock in 2005 and 2006.
USDA has declared more than 71 percent of all U.S. counties primary or contiguous disaster areas this year. In 2005, 78 percent of counties were primary or contiguous disaster areas due to floods, droughts or the after-affects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
"Farmers and ranchers in these communities are struggling and may not be able to stay in business without disaster assistance," said Peterson.
Members of Congress began to sign the discharge petition on the night of Sept. 25. Before Congress recessed, 195 Democrats, two Republicans and one Independent had signed the petition.
"It has won the support of members of Congress from across the country, many who come from districts that have not experienced agriculture disaster but who believe that Congress should have an open and fair debate about what we should do to help farmers and ranchers dealing with the aftermath of disasters," he said.
Reps. Barrow and Peterson, along with Rural Working Group co-chairs Rep. Bob Etheridge of North Carolina and Rep. Stephanie Herseth of South Dakota have resolved not to give up on agriculture disaster assistance this year.
"During the farm crisis of the 1980s, I cut a record called, 'Just Don't Do Nuthin'.' I think we're going to have to dust off that old LP and play it for the Republican leadership when we get back to Washington in November because we've got work to do on this disaster issue," said Peterson.


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The university has been working with Desire2Learn (D2L) "for several years," according to a news release, and "has reduced its assessment turnaround times from 24 to 21 days on average, with support from the D2L platform's tools for submission, feedback and assignment management, while significantly increasing the volume of assessments and feedback in the system."
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