"My soul is starving," sighs solo performer Tina Milo. Drawing on personal heritage, she portrays a Serbian immigrant and former successful actor, who now finds herself a married young mother based in Canada. Stuck wistfully recalling the life, colours, and languages she left behind and struggling to make friends (a situation quite commonly known to many, particularly in Vancouver where Milo has lived since 2000), the rope circling the set is a simple but touching metaphor for the seemingly endless cycle of depression that she has fallen into.
Milo is a mesmerizing performer as she gently wanders around the sparsely-decorated stage. Whether she is toasting her far-away friends with wine glasses that shower glitter instead of liquid, demonstrating her beautiful voice via singing with piano accordion accompaniment, or literally dealing with her own sub-conscious (via video footage of herself), the mood is touchingly poignant.
Items of clothing from her suitcase are taken out, layered on and off, and discarded again, with a large red transparent shawl used very effectively to represent at different times her wedding veil, a bright "sash," or draping her from head to toe when her depression rears its ugly head.
Towards the end, Milo's character muses that actors have to be particularly resilient, given that they deal with more rejection in a year than most do in a lifetime. However, as she goes on to say, occasionally they do find themselves experiencing that one great moment, and that, "that moment is worth 1000 lifetimes".
As she leaves the stage, its once-pristine set now resembling a teenager's bedroom, she encourages us all to continue to find that moment and to "keep swinging" on that rope.
I want to reassure her that yes, I will, and that I really hope that she will too.
The Village is written and created by Tina Milo and directed by Dijana Milošević, and runs at Firehall Arts Centre until February 28, with performances at 8pm Friday and Saturday and also 3pm Saturday.


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State tort reforms have led to record profits for insurance companies while physician and patient premiums continue to go through the roof, according to a new report released by the American Association of Justice (AAJ).
AAJ researchers analyzed data from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), as well as insurance company annual statements, and determined that malpractice insurer profits are 24 percent higher in states with caps on medical malpractice awards. The data also shows that states with caps took in 3.5 times more in premiums that they paid out in 2008 as compared to just over two times in states without caps. West Virginia is a "capped" state, limiting noneconomic damages (such as pain and suffering) in medical malpractice cases to $250,000 in most instances and $500,000 in instances of death or seriously debilitating injuries.
The report shows that profitability for the medical malpractice insurance industry has increased 47 percent to the last 10 years. This came on the heels of an aggressive push by the insurance industry to enact tort reform because of "reported" losses.
With malpractice caps in over 30 states, insurance companies are realizing exceptionally high profits. For instance, the average profit of the 10 largest medical malpractice insurers was higher than 99 percent of Fortune 500 companies and 35 times higher than the Fortune 500 average.
The report's authors also believe the insurance industry leaders are already preparing to claim another "tort crisis" and lobby for even greater restrictions on patients' rights by 2012.
To view a copy of the report, please visit www.justice.org.


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Howdy readers, Lafe here. About once a month, my partner in crime, Rich Seeley, has been doing technical takeovers of this blog. Here's his latest post on Visual Studio debugging.
When it comes to Visual Studio debugging there's no sense sugar coating the chore.
"None of us gets paid to debug code," notes Kaycee Anderson, program manager for the Microsoft debugging team. "We get paid to write code. So the less time we spend debugging the better off we'll be."
This was her opening for her talk at Microsoft Build 2017 titled "Supercharge your debugging in Visual Studio 2017: Tips and Tricks." Anderson's presentation featuring 30+ tips and tricks is now available on YouTube. Better yet, you can also see her in person at VSLive! Redmond the week of Aug. 14 giving her presentation on Debugging Tips and Tricks for Visual Studio. This will be an opportunity for you to talk to her about your own debugging issues.
She starts out with a demo making use of the Visual Studio Watch window after noting that is where developers doing debugging can go to "party." For those who have not been partying in the Watch window, Microsoft explains how to get into it: "To open the Watch window, the debugger must be running or in break mode. From the Debug menu, choose Windows, then Watch, and click on Watch1, Watch2, Watch3, or Watch4. You can use the Watch window to evaluate variables and expressions and keep the results."
Even if you are not in a party mood while debugging, the Watch window appears to be a good place to hang out.
Among the new features in Visual Studio 2017, Anderson shows off the "point-and-click debugging" made possible by transforming the Run-to-Cursor feature into Run-to-Click and moved it from the context menu where it was fairly well-hidden to the editor where it is easily found as a green glyph alongside each line of code in the editor. Rather than having to jump through hoops to run the lines of your code that are having problems, Run-to-Click lets you immediately zero in on the trouble spot. So a tool that was once difficult to find and use is now readily available.
Demonstrating Run-to-Click, Anderson explained: "I always have one hand on the mouse anyway to inspect variables with data tips, so this is a good way to go 'I want to go here,' and hover over [the problem line of code]. There's no more step over, step over, step over and back and forth."
Saving all those steps will save you time in debugging.
Anderson's entire 54+ minute talk is well worth watching.
New Debugging Goodies
If you aren't ready to invest an hour into learning Visual Studio debugging tips, there is 3 New Debugging Goodies in Visual Studio 2017, which is only 12 minutes long. Here you can learn about not only Run-to-Click, but also the Reattach to Process and Exception Helper, all of which are new and improved in Visual Studio 2017.
Microsoft highlights the flexibility of Reattach to Process:
"You can use this capability to debug apps that are running on a local or remote computer, debug multiple processes simultaneously, or debug an application that was not created in Visual Studio. It is often useful when you want to debug an app, but (for whatever reason) you did not start the app from Visual Studio with the debugger attached. For example, if you are running the app without the debugger and hit an exception, you might then attach to the process running the app to begin debugging."
You can learn more about Reattach to Process from reading Attach to Running Processes with the Visual Studio Debugger from Microsoft.
As explained in a recent Code Project blog by Kamran Bilgrami, Exception Helper provides a dialog box that aids in dealing quickly with exceptions in code:
Exceptions is an ancient programming concept that every developer has to deal with in the programs they write during development, testing and production scenarios. Visual Studio has long provided facilities to inspect the exceptions but with Visual Studio 2017, its Exception Helper dialog makes that process even easier."
Emergency Debugging
Debugging isn't always a process that you work through while writing code. It can also be a problem solving tool when something goes wrong with existing software. It's the old game of find the bug, which can take on emergency status if that bug is bringing down an e-commerce app.
How To Do Production Debugging on the Fly by Bilrami is a case study in Production Debugging published on Visual Studio Magazine's website.
Bilrami defines production debugging as "solving customer-facing issues that aren't easily reproducible."
"Take, for example, a common problem of a fast-food restaurant kiosk that goes offline with a blue screen of death," he writes. "That restaurant loses its ability to accept orders from customers, of course, but it also can disrupt workflows and bring chaos to other parts of the business operations. If the problem can be traced to a hardware issue, hardware can be quickly replaced. But in the case of software issues, replacing hardware will be of no help. Software vendors have to fix the issue, and that, in turn, requires being able to reproduce the scenario first."
For those faced with this difficult situation, Bilrami not only recommends several free tools but shows how they can help to quickly work in production debugging to help get a mission critical app up and running again.
Debugger 101
If you aren't ready to save the fast food industry but just want an overview, Microsoft provides Learn Productivity Tips and Tricks for the Debugger in Visual Studio. It covers 10 key subjects:
Pin data tips
Edit your code and continue debugging (C#, VB, C++)
Debug issues that are hard to reproduce
Change the execution flow
Track an out-of-scope object (C#, Visual Basic)
View return values for functions
Inspect strings in a visualizer
Break into code on handled exceptions
Debug deadlocks and race conditions
Examine payloads for web services and network resources (UWP)
For How-To instructions that you can follow along at home with your own version of Visual Studio open, Microsoft offers Feature Tour of the Visual Studio Debugger. The tour covers features available in a variety of languages including C#, C++, Visual Basic, and JavaScript.
And as the Microsoft debuggers like to say: "Party on."
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The Government increases the level of legal protection of 27 species of threatened fauna and flora in Spain
The Official State Gazette (BOE) has published the Ministerial order which modifies the annex of Royal Decree 139/2011 that develops the List of Wild Species in Special Protection Regime and the Spanish Catalog of Endangered Species, to include in these records 27 species of threatened fauna and flora in Spain.
In this way, the Government increases the level of legal protection of these species, as reflected in the law of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity for those species of fauna and flora that, due to their ecological value, uniqueness, rarity, or degree of threat, or because they are included in international treaties or community norms, should be subject to special attention and require active conservation measures.
In this sense, it should be noted that the inclusion of a species in this list and catalog requires administrations to monitor their conservation status and the threats that affect them. For the species included in the catalog, in addition, concrete action plans must be executed for their conservation or recovery.
Among these new 27 species there are terrestrial and marine. In relation to marine species, the Mediterranean populations of the black sponge, of seven species of coral (black, branched black, black orange, Mediterranean black, hard and fragile white coral and weak coral), are included in the list. two of gorgonians (the fan and the candelabra) and the Mediterranean madrepora. These invertebrates have a high ecological interest because over the years their large colonies form complex habitats that are very important as a refuge for many other marine species.
Also included in the listing is the olive sea turtle, a species present in the Canary Islands and also cited in the Mediterranean; the Cinderella Atlantic Shearwater, now also in the Mediterranean, and the Mediterranean population of the Bengali Tern.
For its part and following with marine species, the catalog "endangered" is included, the common nacre, and in the category "Vulnerable", the Canarian populations of three species of marine algae (the yellow, red and yellow black), the latter endemic to these islands.
Three species of sharks
Three species of sharks are also included: the angelfish, the angelfish and the spiny angelfish, all of them "in danger of extinction". The angels are flat sharks of nocturnal habits that reproduce in the bays and shallow waters of our coasts and are buried in the sand. They have practically disappeared from our peninsular waters and are the second most threatened group of sharks in the world. The serious threats they suffer from climate change, the destruction of their habitat, pollution or illegal trawling justify their special protection.
Finally, the Catalog in the category "Vulnerable" is included, the Cuvier's beaked whale, a species of ballenate adapted to live in great depths that has undergone a significant population reduction in recent years, which is why it is necessary to increase its protection.
As regards terrestrial species, the Iberian sulfur butterfly, a rare butterfly exclusive to Spain located only in two small and isolated populations (Los Monegros, Aragón and La Hoya de Baza, Andalusia), is included in the catalog "endangered". ; and the batueca lizard, one of the rarest continental reptiles in Europe, of which it is estimated that no more than 1,500 individuals survive and only in Las Batuecas and La Peña de Francia (Salamanca-Cáceres). It is also included in the catalog, but in the "vulnerable" category, the lizard of Leon.
In the group of mammals, the catalog of the "vulnerable" category includes the Cabrera topillo, an exclusive rodent from the Iberian Peninsula, which lives in low meadows and reeds, a type of habitat that is strongly regressed by the increase in the intensification of agriculture and the frequent location of infrastructures.
Wolf south of the Duero, special protection
Finally, in order to comply with the provisions of the European Union's Habitats Directive, all Iberian wolf populations existing in Spain south of the Douro are included in the list.
In the Habitats Directive, Spanish wolf populations are included in two annexes, with two different protection regimes, due to their different state of conservation: those located north of the Duero in Annex V (species that can be managed) ; and those located south of the Duero (Extremadura, Andalusia, Madrid, Castilla y León and Castilla-La Mancha), in Annex IV (strictly protected).
To date only the wolf populations south of the Douro River of Extremadura, Andalusia and Castilla-La Mancha were included in the list. With the approval of this ministerial order, the range of distribution of the species south of the Douro River already enjoys special protection.
According to the last census of the wolf in Spain, carried out in 2014 by the Ministry for the Ecological Transition (MITECO) and the autonomous communities, there were around 300 wolf packs, representing between 2,000 and 2,500 wolves, distributed mainly in the north of the Duero, while to the south they were estimated in 30 herds.
The MITECO together with the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAPA) and the autonomous communities work actively to promote the coexistence of human activities and the conservation of the wolf and other carnivores. Among these state initiatives, the MITECO elaborates a catalog of preventive measures aimed at mitigating the conflict between the wolf and extensive livestock. For its part, the MAPA has an Agrarian Insurance Plan that covers compensation for damages caused to those farmers who have subscribed the corresponding policies.
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bridge aboute the. xxviii. day of this Month of August beinge not longe time after the sayde maister Denley had there also suffered.
The burning of Stephan Horwood and Thomas Fust, martired for the testimony of the Gospell.
There was a note in the Rerum stating that Harwood was burned at Stratford on 30 August 1555 while Thomas Fust was burned at Ware (Rerum, p. 523). Foxe's complete account of these martyrs was first printed in the 1563 edition and was drawn entirely from official records, now lost, of the diocese of London. This account was unchanged in subsequent editions.
MarginaliaSteuen Horwood. Thomas Fust.ABoute this tyme dyed also (by cruell fyre) these two martirs of God: that is to saye, Stephan Horwood, at Stratforde, and Thomas Fust at Ware. Which both two, as they were aboute one tyme burned, with the foremencioned Robert Smith, and George Tankerdfield, although in sundry places: so were they also examined and openly condemned to gethers with them. Their processe, be cause they are comenly in one maner and forme, I thinke superflious to make repetiociō of: they maye be vnderstanded by such ample histories as I haue before mencioned, to the which I referre the reder. In the laste appearing, which was the. xii. day of Iuly, þe said Thomas Fust (being by the Bishop moued to reuoake his opinion) said. No my Lord, for there is no truth commeth out of your mouthe, but all lyes. Ye condemne men, and will not heare the truth. Where can ye fynde any annointing or greasinge in Gods booke? I speake nothinge but the truth, and I am certaine that that is the truthe that I speake. This aunswere of him only I fynd noted by the register: who, howe slēderly they haue delte with vtteringe of suche matters, experience hath wel taught.
Foxe is articulating here one of the two reasons why he preferred to use a martyr's own account, or the testimony of sympathetic witnesses, to official records: official records were often terse, formulaic and those who wrote them often uninterested in recording details of considerable interest to Foxe. (The other reason was that they often contained statements by the martyrs that were embarrassing to Foxe). While historians such as A. G. Dickens or G. R. Elton praise Foxe for his pioneering research in archival sources, it should be remembered that for Foxe they were a poor second choice, to be used only, as in the case of Harwood and Fust, when there was nothing better available.
But to be shorte, after this aunswer they were bothe, for their faithfull perseueraunce adiudged (by the Byshop in his accustomed pitye) as heretickes to be burned, and so were, as ye haue hearde.
The constant martirdome of VVilliam Haile, burned at Barnet.
The Rerum contains a note that William Hale was burned at Barnet in late August 1555 (Rerum, p. 523). Foxe's entire account of William Hale was printed in the 1563 edition and was unchanged in subsequent editions. Foxe's information on Hale was drawn from official records, now lost, of the London diocese.
In the months following the burning of John Bradford and John Leaf at the beginning of July 1555, the London authorities had heretics who had been convicted in the capital burned in villages surrounding it, instead of in Smithfield. This was undoubtedly due to fears of tumultous behaviour from the crowds drawn to the Smithfield executions.
where, aboute the saide laste daye of Auguste, he moste constantly sealed vppe his fayth wt the consumption of his bodye by cruel fyre, yelding his soule vnto the Lorde Iesus, his onely, and moste sure redemer.
The martirdome of Iohn Newman at Saffronwalden.
MarginaliaAugust. 31.ABoute the last daye of Auguste was Iohn Newmanne of Maydestone in Kent Pewterer, burned at Saffron Walden, in the county of Essex, for the testimonye of Christes veritye. Whose examination and condemnation, because it was in one tyme and forme, with maister Iohn Dēley I doo here omitte, referring the reder, for the knowledge therof, vnto his history, Pag. 1244. Howe be it for the better vnderstanding of the cause of hys deathe, here foloweth the confession of his fayth & beliefe, for the which they did thus cruelly persecute and burn him.
¶ The faythe of Iohn Neweman, dwelling at maydston in Kent, who was by occupation a Peuterer.
This confession of faith was printed in 1563, dropped in the next two editions and re-inserted in the 1583 edition. Foxe apparently had a copy of this document in exile, as he stated that he would print it in the Rerum (p. 513), although he never did.ECL 261, fo. 61r-v is a copy of this confession.


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How Bay Area Teens are Coping in the #MeToo Era
by Nicole Balin September 12, 2019
Illustration by Jon Krause.
FLIRTING CAN BE FUN, but for today's teens, it can get messy; it can even be illegal. One not-so-well-thought-out moment can have serious future impact on a young person's life. Television shows, like the popular HBO Series Euphoria, are chronicling the complexity of navigating teenage sexual dynamics. Gone are the days of a simple note passed in the classroom — kids are now in the world of the naked selfie. Even a decade ago, the effort involved in sharing such photos would have stopped most. Today, it's easy. And that's just one of the complicated new realities for teens in the era of #Metoo. Students and teachers alike are finding themselves in a quagmire of rules, assumptions and expectations.
It may be too soon to know the true impact of #MeToo over time, but one thing is for sure: it has pushed the conversation on sexual assault and harassment to the forefront. Started by Bronx civil rights activist Tarana Burke over a decade ago, the movement became an internet phenomenon in 2017, when actress Alyssa Milano invited women to share their stories of assault on Twitter by using the hashtag #metoo. Since then, #MeToo has become the battle cry for victims globally, making its way from Hollywood to the workplace, politics, religious institutions — and now schools.
One of the more public local examples of this inroad occurred at The Branson School in Ross, which ordered an independent investigation in May 2018 that ultimately found that four faculty members — three coaches and one college counselor — were guilty of sexual misconduct that dated as far back as the 1970s. Faced with these revelations, "we wanted to send a strong message to students that [people] must take responsibility for their actions," says Chris Mazzola, Branson's Head of School. Since the investigation, Branson has clarified its policies of reporting abuse, increased weekly student consent workshops on campus, and expanded elective courses, including "Body Positive," "Navigating Consent," "Social Media Literacy" — all aimed at preventing further abuse.
Additional reports of misconduct have surfaced in Marin in the past two years, including those against a former Tamalpais High tennis coach, who, last month, was sentenced to 255 years for the molestation of teenage boys. Students are not the only ones who have reported sexual harassment and assault; the #MeToo movement has emboldened teachers to speak up about harassment they've suffered. In February 2018, reports emerged of a female teacher at Tamalpais High School accusing male students of harassment. The same year, a teacher at Redwood High School came forward with similar accusations.
Sexual assault prevention on college campuses, including state-mandated education and support services, is standard today. High schools, however, have been slower to adopt policies, even though studies show that high school–age students are as much, if not more, at risk. The U.S. Department of Justice states that nearly 20 percent of girls ages 14 to 17 have been victims of sexual assault or attempted sexual assault. Harassment is an even bigger problem statistically: according to the latest tally from a 2011 study by the American Association of University Women, 48 percent of students in grades 7–12 reported experiencing some sort of sexual harassment during the school year.
Even with the #MeToo movement, sexual abuse continues to be the most underreported crime in the country, according to the Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network (RAINN). So how can faculty ensure that schools are safe and nurturing places for all students and staff? Better reporting policies is a start, but experts say a fundamental, full-scale change in sexual norms between girls and boys is necessary. Jessica Colvin, wellness director at Tamalpais Union High School District (which includes Tam, Redwood, Drake, San Andreas and Tamiscal), has been tasked with that very mission. She has created comprehensive harassment- and abuse-related instruction that's now a mandatory part of the curriculum in her district; it includes workshops, activities and youth radio on topics ranging from consent to domestic violence to refusal tactics. "Students tell me that they can relate more to the material when it's drawn from the #MeToo movement," says Colvin, who adds that as of 2019, on-site Wellness Centers (which offer coordinated substance abuse and sexual health services) opened at Redwood, Drake and Tamalpais high schools.
Two California affirmative consent education laws (SB 695 and SB 967) that went into effect in 2016 are at the centerpiece of Colvin's curriculum. But while affirmative consent is mandatory on California college campuses and includes the requirement that there be "affirmative, conscious, voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity at every stage," it currently remains only a recommendation at the high school level. Some of the laws' teaching points: "Consent is between two people." "Silence is not a yes." "What does an affirmative response look like on your face?" and "Can you consent when influenced by a partner with blame, pressure or guilt?"
While sexual assault is a clear felony offense, sexual harassment falls into more of a gray area, making it even more challenging to prevent. Colvin uses the legal definition of harassment in her classes: any unwelcome, unwanted pressure; verbal, visual or physical contact of a sexual nature; any repeated or deliberate action or behavior that is hostile, offensive or degrading to the recipient.
Are these efforts shifting teens' attitudes and behavior? For the most part it seems the answer is yes, although responses still vary across districts and schools. For her part, Colvin is encouraged by the changes she sees, though she says there's still a long way to go. "We see girls feeling more emboldened to tell a community member about misconduct," she says. Students at Drake called "Glow- Standards" wear glow sticks to indicate they can be flagged down for help if misconduct occurs at school dances.
One recent Drake graduate said consent education started for him in middle school (White Hill Elementary) and that he and his friends are pretty clear on how to navigate communication with girls. "On my first date (in sixth grade), I knew I had to ask permission first to kiss the girl — and get a 'yes' [before doing so]," he says. His mother added that she thinks that girls actually drive the physical relationships at this age.
Tara Taupier, superintendent of Tamalpais Union High School District, says she's observing a change in norms too. At both Redwood and Tamalpais high schools, she says, behavior in athletic programs is "culture-shifting," and the coaches set very strict rules about the type of language allowed on and off the field. She recalled a recent episode when an assistant coach used derogatory language during practice and a player told him to knock it off. "It's one thing when parents, teachers and law enforcement stigmatize behavior, but when it becomes uncool to talk disparagingly about girls amongst peers, it's much more effective."
Some teachers in the district are incorporating #MeToo themes into instruction on their own. This April, Andrew Simmons, a journalism and English teacher at San Rafael High School, invited Emma Brown, the Washington Post reporter who broke the story of Christine Blasey Ford accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, to speak to his class. Simmons, who is authoring a forthcoming book on lessons about relationships that literature can teach kids, also uses classics like The Odyssey and Of Mice and Men to lead in-class discussions on topics like consent, harassment, masculinity and friendship. "Odysseus was a hyper-violent man and a dedicated womanizer," Simmons says. "When students think about his behavior through that lens, the book becomes more than a lesson on Greek mythology."
Some instruction is happening earlier. David Finnane, principal at Bayside MLK (K-8) in Marin City and a father of two teenage boys, says his school starts teaching about general wellness, mindfulness and nutrition in kindergarten and sexual health education in the sixth grade.
Community support for #MeToo is grow- ing as well. Established in 2000, the Jeannette Prandi Children's Center in San Rafael aids children in the interview process when sexual abuse has occurred and also offers workshops and educational materials to Marin County schools. In 2011, the head of the center, Michael Grogan, produced a film called Irreversible Consequences, which depicts two high school students (a girl and a boy) who start texting in an encounter that leads to rape. The film, seen by over 12,000 students across Marin, is followed by an audience poll, and some of the findings are sobering: for instance, 48 percent of ninth-grade girls believe sexting is an expected part of dating. Grogan believes #MeToo has shined a spotlight on sexual assault, but also that the entertainment industry and social media haven't caught up with the culture and thus have slowed the pace of progress.
Not everyone sees #MeToo a s a social advancement. Marin Catholic teaches abstinence – only, although, according to one 16-year-old at the school, that doesn't prevent kids from engaging in sexual activity, and she would welcome discussions about consent. Asked for comment, the school administration responded by email that "considering our Catholic mission, [we] don't think it is appropriate for us to get involved [in this article]."
Some parents feel #MeToo has gone off the rails. According to a mother of two boys enrolled at a private high school in San Rafael, it's actually made gender relations more strained. One son, a lacrosse player, tells her that boys, in particular those who play team sports, walk around with targets on their backs. "There are assumptions that athletes are part of or leading rape culture," the mother says. A father in Mill Valley says he worries for his three boys, a fifth-grader and two high schoolers: "A girl can come back years after a consensual exchange and claim she was an unwilling participant," he reflects. "One easy mistake now can cost a kid his whole school career."
Another father, whose daughter just graduated from Redwood High School, points to a need for a careful balance. "I support wellness education," he says. "But the #MeToo movement is in its infancy, and the challenge is not only to support victims, but also to ensure that innocent kids are safeguarded. Consent is a complicated topic. It cannot be reduced to a 30-second sound bite debate topic."
Whether we're ready or not, the #MeToo movement is here and underway. It's part and parcel of a new era in relationships, with topics like sexual indiscretions and abuses of power now discussed on the nightly news. In Marin, one of the country 's most forward-looking regions, most schools are heeding the call, laying the groundwork for more equitable relationships with a proactive approach.
TAM WELLNESS CENTER
DRAKE WELLNESS CENTER
REDWOOD WELLNESS CENTER
THE CENTER FOR DOMESTIC PEACE
A Marin-based organization seeking to end domestic violence. CFDP offers services and programs that protect and enhance victim safety. 415.924.6616
COMMUNITY VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS
An umbrella organization for the Rape Crisis Center of Contra Costa and Marin counties, CVS provides support services to child and adult victims of sexual assault and their families. 800.670.7273
JANNETTE PRANDI CHILDREN'S CENTER
A child-friendly center with specially trained team members who conduct forensic interviews in a case where sexual violence has occurred. 415.499.3750
MARIN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
Report a crime. 415.473.7250
RAPE ABUSE & INCEST NATIONAL NETWORK
A national hotline operated by RAINN serves people affected by sexual violence. (Automatically routes the caller to the nearest service provider for victims of sexual assault.) 800.656.HOPE
This article originally appeared in Marin Magazine's September 2019 print edition under the headline: "#MeToo In Marin".
Nicole Balin is a Marin County resident. Her company PR firm serves musical talent, fashion designers, and interior designers develop their brands. She authored the critically acclaimed memoir, God Save the Queen Diva! (Simon & Schuster) with the music sensation Big Freedia and has appeared in episodes of the docu-series about the New Orleans rapper on Fuse TV. Nicole's writing has appeared in print and online, in the Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, Parenting, and The Source. In her spare time, Nicole is always decorating. Her home(s) have appeared in Real Simple Magazine and Apartment Therapy.


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In Incisa in Val d´Arno, among the businesses of the Focolare: a third of the profits given to those with less
By Paolo Bricco
Published in Sole 24 ore on April 3, 2010
A woman nervously continued to turn herself around and look behind her. One, two, three, ten times a day. The others did not understand what she had. They thought it was a nervous tick. She had worked in the factories of third-party textile goods and footwear manufacturers for a lifetime, here in Val d´Arno. "I couldn´t explain myself," Emanuela Camisciotto says today, "because in the new business where I had ended up, the department head wasn´t always at our backs with a stopwatch, calculating how much time it was taking us to finish sewing an item. And I almost, almost wasn´t even able to understand why they didn´t insult me. For me, that was normal. It had always been like that. Here, they asked me, 'Please, can you do this? Please, can you do that?'" Smiling, she concludes, "Now, I don´t look behind me anymore."
The Devil can be seen in details. Maybe, however, God can also comes to us and hides himself in an unexpected act of kindness. Emanuela is one of the twelve full-time employees of Fantasy, a small textile business specialized in comforters, cradles, bumpers and wall panels. Fantasy is one of twenty-five businesses housed at the Lionello Bonfante Industrial Park, founded by the Focolare in Incisa Val d´Arno (Florence). It is located just a few kilometers from Loppiano, the mainsmall town of the Catholic movement, created by Chiara Lubich during the Second World War to bring about the ideal of unity among people as well as ecumenism. It is a radical system of thought that generated the so-called "economy of communion." The stop-watch armed, foul-mouthed department head is the last relapse, in third-party production of today´s capitalism at large, of "time and methods" that have governed the 19th century Ford assemblyline-style world machine. Instead, the problem of who is the other, either a Chaplin style machine that sews and resews at a programmable speed or a human being to treat as a "neighboring brother", is the heart of the answer developed by these strange Christians, as much numerous as silent and willingly disinterested in the structure of contemporary ecclesial power. It is an answer that, in the microcosm of small business, undermines the standard organizational profile.
"Let´s be clear," said Luisa Colombo, who, in a business like Fantasy, where hierarchies are totally unstructured, has "responsibilities". "Not even I found it easy to change mentality," she said. Luiso Colombo is a "Brianzola" from Garbagnate Monestero (Lombardy) who, before becoming a Focolarina in 1987 and moving to Loppiano, the movement´s main center in Italy, was very familiar with the productivist and performance mentality of our North. Her parents had a software business, her aunt and uncle a precision parts production company. "For them," she underlined, "work is an essential dimension where gratification comes from reaching results. Here, the impact with work is the relationships with people, and then - in relationship with the other - you obtain results."
In addition to the twelve permanent employees, chosen on the market for their abilities, the women focolarine who pass through Loppiano also help support Fantasy´s demands from the market. "At the beginning, I went crazy," admits Colombo, "because it didn´t make sense to apply the pattern I knew since childhood, the role of processing work in a short amount of time, to the African and South American focolarine. Then, I understood that the Africans are more psychologically stable than me, and the South Americans were more playful than me, than us." Therefore, they were deprived of that anxiety that permeates our small businesses, vital but feverish, and at times so concentrated, heads down and motor on, that they are obsessive with results. These challenges also seem to exist for Fantasy, given that it invoices a few million Euro annually, selling its products to 500 stores and which still needs to make ends meet in a difficult crisis year. This business, part of the Pafom Association, has a precise method of dividing profits. For example, in 2007, when having closed it´s best year, with 100 thousand Euros earned after taxes, profits were evenly split between reinvestments in the business and Pafom, which finances the activities of Loppiano.
Beyond elements of relationship and good practice ("To be faithful to our principles, we don´t work illegally") - it must be said that all small entrepreneurs interested in respecting even just the civil code should follow these guidelines - a qualifying element of the economy of communion is the division of profits. One third is reinvested in the business, a third goes to the poor and a third goes towards the cultural formation of the community. This kind of profit allotment, when there are profits, deals with a reality in Italy that numbers 200 businesses and 3000 managers (with a total estimated sales of 400 million Euro). Throughout the world, the project includes 700 businesses located in six industrial parks and which give work to nearly twelve-thousand people.
"It´s not that we hurt ourselves," says Giuliano Bertagna, 66, who owns a textile company with her husband. "The businesses distribute profits when they are in the position to produce them. The idea of giving work is more important that generating profits. Naturally, this holds true as long as giving work does not risk the long-term well-being of the business, an essential goal." The Bertagnas have tried to follow this complex balance since 1991. Then, Giuliana´s husband, Giovanni, decided to leave the family business, Mondial di Brescia, and start Bertagna Filati in order to put the economy of communion principles into practice. "We earned well and were therefore able to give wealth, especially in the 1990s," said Giuliana. "Until 1996, we dedicated ourselves to production, selling mostly to Mondial. Then, for a series of reasons, we decided to commercialize our products, and we consequently become competitors with the business of my husband´s family members. It was not an easy decision, but we made it."
Beyond the problem of family relationships, this strategic choice resulted in a drastic fall in sales, which in 1996 had been equivalent to 5 billion Lire. In their best year, in 2001, their proceeds leveled off at 1.7 million Euro. In 2007, the Bertagnas sold the business and moved permanently from Brescia to the Lionello Bonfante Industrial Park in Incisa. There, they opened Filocaffé, inspired by Knit Cafés where, as in the United States and in Northern Europe, women knit while they eat cake and drink cappuccino. At Filocaffé, Giovanni and Giuliana also sell balls of yarn and sweaters.
The Bertagnas are experienced in manufacturing, and they make and package blankets, which are then sold under the Fantasy brand. It so happened that these blankets end up being sold on the cradles and beds made by Azur, who, with 8 million in annual sales and 62 full-time employees, is the most structured business of Loppiano.
Umberto Giannettoni heads Azur, which exports 12% of its earnings in the Ukraine, Great Britain, the United States and Dubai, and which must also come out even this year. Giannettoni, 74, is very familiar with the mechanisms of classic 19th century capitalism. Half of his family worked in the Bank of Italy. After his debut at the Business Credit Association of Milan, he worked in Brussels, where the Bank of Rome took care of the interest of large investors from both Italy and Belgium. He had a shining career. Then, at 30, he left it all to follow the Focolare Movement. "In 1965," he remembers, "by request of Chiara Lubich, I went to New York to begin a branch of the movement´s publishing house, New City Press. I lived in Queens. At that time, New York was marvelous and full of contradictions." It was during those five years in New York that the ex-banker-become-focolarino felt the crackle of vanity´s bonfire and observed the thousands of lights of a cultural and anthropological energy - not superior but different in respect to the European tradition. "I learned the simplicity of doing things, and that money is an ordinary good, useful for bringing about works."
This gives some idea about how an anti-consumerist but not obsessively paurperistic movement, like the Focolare, perceives money. A practical approach that permeates the management of these businesses: "our Azur," says Giannettoni, "has a net operative margin of 5 percent. A good result." But, beyond indicators of efficiency, at Loppiano they try to found their work on the practice of a kind of economic democracy. The EdC Spa whose acronym stands for Economy of Communion, has a share capital of 6 million Euro, with 5,671 shareholders and voting rights that can stop a proposal with only 5 percent. Among shareholders are the Banca Ethica, Msp, the Banca di Credito Cooperativa of Bascia and Reggello and that of Pontassieve. The widespread nature of the EoC universe, which in its anarchic and free vitality pretty well reproduces the essential character of the capitalism in our country, the EoC to some degree has the task of rationalization. "Beyond having built and managed the buildings of the industrial park," explains Eva Gullo, president of the EdC Spa, "we have a formation agency, and we organize conventions and cultural events on the economy of communion." Living together with others, producing, selling, distributing profits by reinvesting a part of them and giving the rest to the poor. This is a chain that firmly remains inserted in the providential framework.
"When we get down to it," concluded Lecchese Luisa Colombo with pragmatism, "we do all of this always keeping in mind and heart that passage of the Gospel of Matthew that says 'seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides'. I know that for some people we seem on the borderline to absurd, but this is how we live."
"Unrealistic? There are also two Nobel laureates on our side."
"We´re not stuck in our ideas, neither are we unrealistic. Our project has theoretical backing." Luigino Bruni, associate professor of political economy at the university of Milano-Bicocca, explains how the economy of communion, originating from an intuition of Chiara Lubich in 1991, is not "something else" with respect to the prevalent economic culture. "Neoclassical theory," he says, "is wanting anthropologically speaking, but it is elastic. Therefore, it is possible to expand its basic elements, for example, the function of utility can be enriched with the specifications of public utility and private utility."
Therefore, Bruni, stefano Zamagni and Benedetto Gui, to site the three most notable economists among the 30 Italians committed to these topics, write papers using categories like reciprocity, relational goods and happiness. And, Bruni claims, they do not move in a strictly provincial environment. There are many foreigners dialoguing with them, including two Nobel laureates: Indian Amartya Sen, theorist of the poverty index and the inspirer of microcredito, and Israeli Daniel Kahneman, who has integrated economic science and psychology together into one body. Therefore, almost twenty years of study and systemization have passes since Chiara´s intuition. On her way to Brazil, observing the contradiction of skyscrapers surrounded by favelas, she felt deeply that businesses would have to try to do business differently. A different way that sociologist Tommaso Sorgi, also focolarino, formalized with the definition of "economy of communion."
Today, besides in Italy and in Brazil, there are industrial parks in Croatia, Argentina and Belgium, while others are in development in the Philippines and in Germany. These phenomenon align themselves to a thought that, beyond economic theory, also has a direction relationship with the theological-philosophical tradition. It is not by chance that Pope Benedict XVI cited the economy of communion in his encyclical Caritas in Veritate, writing about the necessity to arrive at a "progressive openness, in a global context, to types of economic activity characterized by quotas of gratuitousness and of communion" and citing "the variegated world of subjects of the so-called civil economy and economy of communion." "Chiara Lubich was a third-order Franciscan," said theologian Piero Coda, president of Sophia University Institute, founded at Loppiano two years ago. "Therefore, she was a carrier of the specific identity that re-enters into the tradition of prophetic Christianity - a tradition with a strong utopian dimension that has made a mark in the history of Western economics. It is enough to remember the Franciscans who founded the Monti di Pietá in 1400 A.D., giving loans to small entities in exchange for a deposit." Coda, who in his youth was student to the master of existentialism, Luigi Pareyson, highlights the profound epistemological crisis which economics is heading towards. In many cases this crisis has alluded to, if not even defined, that its laws are natural.
The roots of the current crisis are also planted in the historical reality that used economics as ideological structures: Marxist materialism in the case of real socialism and free trade for the upset of financial capitalism. In front of these failures, what emerges is the urgency to take a road that rebuilds itself according to the universal origins of Christianity. "In the end," concludes Coda, "in the Acts of the Apostles, Luke tells us that fraternal union among the first Christians could be seen through their communion of goods."
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299: Haley Lemmon – The Joseph Smith Translation – Revelation or Plagiarism
Haley Wilson Lemmon sits down with us today to discuss the Joseph Smith translation of the Bible. Haley worked with BYU Professor Thomas A Wayment in looking into what possible sources Joseph Smith used in his Bible translation. The major discovery here was that Joseph Smith "direct borrowed" or plagiarized heavily from Adam Clarke's Commentary in order to carry out his Bible translation. There is a multiple of tangents we take this conversation
– What led to this research?
– How pervasive this plagiarism was.
– Was there any pushback from BYU or the Church leadership?
– Was there any pressure to edit certain ideas out?
– Joseph use of other sources in his work such as Buck's Dictionary
– How this demonstrates once again how problematic the Church's narrative is
– The imposed need to redefine what it meant for Joseph to translate
– How understanding Joseph Smith on this issue sheds light on his other "translations".
– How this either speaks to Joseph Smith being a genius or it imposes that Joseph had other sources by his side in his translation work and what that means for other works including the book of abraham but namely the book of Mormon
– Does the Book of Mormon utilize Clarke's Commentary?
– What can we infer about Sidney Rigdon's involvement
– How her and Wayments write-up is in their mind the most faithful way to interpret the data.
– The difficult position the Church is in with its narrative falling apart
– How BYU censured her regarding her blog about her faith crisis
– Where Haley is at today in her faith journey
BYU's Synopsis of Lemmon's and Wayment's Research
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Radio Free Mormon: 195: Book of Abraham Fireside
Radio Free Mormon: 190: The Adam Clarke Connection
Radio Free Mormon: 187: "Borrowed Robes"–The JST's Reliance on the Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Radio Free Mormon: 163: Magic and the Book of Mormon Part 2
Radio Free Mormon: 161: Magic and the Book of Mormon
31 thoughts on "299: Haley Lemmon – The Joseph Smith Translation – Revelation or Plagiarism"
I think we need another Gospel topic essay on this subject.
At this point, Gospel Topic essays are part of the problem not the solution.
https://www.amazon.com/Spalding-Enigma-Investigating-Mysterious-Origin/dp/1947707183
Many new historical,discoveries.
Now having heard the entirety of this podcast episode. I wonder how we can see this from the faithful angle and how God is deciding to move it's church forward.
It almost seems from Progressive Podcasts that we ought to be going in the same direction that community of Christ has gone which I'm not sure if we should yet.
The future of Mormonism in an information era is an interesting one for sure. The Church needs to play it cards right, and its all about critical mass awareness of issues. Which I'm not sure we have reach that point yet, I would think within the next two decades we will be there. Till then, we will be lonely with our progressive perspectives… but at least Haley has her companion with her on the same page and how wonderful that is.
I hope that Mormon agnostics find a way to still enjoy church for what is was, is, and will become.
As for how we can see this from a faithful angle, one that my parents give a lot is, "Well, isn't it possible that Heavenly Father could have inspired both men to write the same thing down?" As in Joseph didn't actually plagiarize or use another's work but rather God told two men on two different occasions the same thing. When they go there I know it's time to throw in the towel on that particular topic.
xavier says:
The problem is when you begin to find that God revealed to other people the same things he revealed to JS, before he made them known to him. It's quite unsettling.
That wily God…don't you guys see? Not only did god reveal his plain and precious truths to other "normies" before he finally revealed them to his chosen loin, he also revealed complicated and unprecious untruths to these people so that his mouthpiece could revelatify the same untruths to us, thereby making it clear who was in charge all along (god). See, this is the way the god mind works. It defies all logic, therefore it is infinite in its wisdom. 😳🤯🤥
DoctorSubtilis says:
When I get it right, there have been hints to plagiarism in the JS translation from Clarke's Commentaries some years ago. Ronald V. Huggins has written about it in his article "Without a Cause" and "Ships of Tarshish", in: Dialogue 36, no. 1 (2003), pp. 157-179. It's the same passage Haley mentions as her first discovery.
Just one interesting quote from the article (p. 173): "It was just this "veriagation" that provided Emma's uncle, the Rev. Nathaniel Lewis, with a way to test the powers of Joseph Smith's mysterious Urim and Thummim. One day he asked Joseph "if any one but himself could translate other languages into English by the aid of his miraculous spectacles?" When Joseph said yes, Lewis lifted down a large volume from its place on the shelf and opened it. He then "proposed to Joe to let him make the experiment upon some of the strange languages he found in Clarke's Commentary, and stated to him if it was even so, and the experiment proved successful, he would then believe the story about the gold plates. But at this proposition Joe was much offended, and never undertook to convert 'uncle Lewis' afterward." This anecdote reveals that Clarke's commentary was near at hand while the Book of Mormon was being translated and that Nathaniel Lewis had at least made Joseph Smith aware of its existence. There is also the possibility that Joseph himself consulted Clarke's Commentary, or had it quoted to (or at) him on other occasions by Uncle Lewis."
See also: http://www.formerlymormon.com/p/plagiarism-from-adam-clarkes-commentary.html
Like JS, Adam Clarke was very critical of the Song of Solomon and told young ministers to avoid preaching on it.
It is also known that Clarke is among those contemporaries of JS that have speculated on Jewish origins of the American Indians. In his commentary on Is 49:12 he writes: " סין sin signifies a bush, and סינים sinim, bushes, woods, etc. Probably this means that the land where several of the lost Jews dwell is a woodland. The ten tribes are gone, no one knows whither. On the slave coast in Africa, some Jewish rites appear among the people, and all the males are circumcised. The whole of this land, as it appears from the coast, may be emphatically called שינים ארץ erets sinim, the land of bushes, as it is all covered with woods as far as the eye can reach. Many of the Indians in North America, which is also a woodland, have a great profusion of rites, apparently in their basis Jewish. Is it not possible that the descendants of the ten lost tribes are among those in America, or among those in Africa, whom European nations think they have a right to enslave? It is of those lost tribes that the twenty-first verse speaks: "And these, where had they been?""
https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/acc/isaiah-49.html#12
See David J. Richards, The Book of Mormon and it relationship with the Bible (2017), 142.
Dan Vogel has mentioned parallels between JS's cosmological views and Adam Clarke:
http://signaturebookslibrary.org/the-word-of-god-12-2/
George Williams says:
Has anyone looked at possible plagiarism from the Book of Enoch in the Book of Mormon? The first English translation of Enoch came out in 1823.
The only thing I'be found is a quote similar to what was said about Judas in the New Testament — it would be better for that man if he had never been born– but it is in the plural, like a similar passage in Enoch.
The culture of silence in the church is going to backfire horribly on them, if it isn't already
Taymacc says:
And the walls come tumbling down.
Wow, great research, story and ending! Churches tend to corrupt and fall every couple hundred years. The same with govts, for the same reasons, rooted in Authority-worship and not questioning and correcting errors resulting from this, piling up line upon line. Reformations either happen or the whole thing crumbles.
The mentioned Community of Christ is a good example of a modern day reformation, restoring truth and honesty, restoring the "rudder" to stay on course, correct course, to follow Jesus. They restored the real Law of Common Consent, constant reformation or course corrections. This has sadly become anti-christ "coerced consent" in the LDS church not allowing for correction. Too proud and mighty to be wrong, correct, repent? The BoM does tell that story too.
Punishment for seeking truth to follow Christ first – eternal truths? Moroni 10: 5,6,18,19?
Punishment for being honest in dealings with fellowmen?
Punishment for sustaining leaders in following Christ/Truth first and leading us to follow Christ/Truth first? Where did the real Jesus go; the trunk of our shiney new Only True Jesus Mobile?
Shocking? Christ's Bullies? By their fruits… gone bad?
Matt 7: 15-20? Ravening Proud Leaders in fine wool suits?
Thought police?
Matt 23? Corruption/Bullying/Abuse in it's finest hour?
1 Nephi 8: 5-9 Warning of the result of following leaders to God?
2 Nephi 28: 14-23 Our day? LDS in our day?
Mormon 8: 32-41 Our day? But not US in our day?
Ether 8: 24,25 It applied to every society, govt and church in the Bible and BoM, but not US??? They all fell from this, but not us?
Who is most subject to falling to the agenda of corrupt men/the adversary? Those humbly on the lookout making course changes (repentance), or those who are proudly "impervious to error," immune to the influence of "Saint'n" can lead us astray and "…does not apologize?" That's part of repentance and course correction, but, for peasants, peons and pawns only?
Further on the Community of Christ church (was RLDS) which Haley mentioned near the end. They lost many staunch members when they reformed and thus changed names too. They let Jesus "out of the trunk" and made appropriate changes and restorations to the narrative, rules and doctrines. They did this Christlike, with member input and real approval (not coerced) to unite members in Christ. They laid out their beliefs but did not force you to believe those standard defined beliefs which became much less rigid (of Christ).
Love, acceptance and forgiveness first. No force, threats or punishment to make you believe in their particular version of Jesus in any particular forced way. Of Christ. No coercion to adopt and uphold only their less rigid (Christlike – Matt 7: 15-20 & Matt 23: 10-29) set out beliefs/doctrines.
You will not be punished for questioning (Christlike – Matt 7: 15-20 & Matt 23: 10-29), not agreeing, having different views or for seeking further truth and light. Members have input and are not punished for a dissenting vote when they question if something IS of Christ.
They are no longer the thought police nor the bedroom police… Hey, like Christ! Members and leaders who wanted mega-strong leaders or wanted proud high positions and forced salvation (the other brother's plan) generally dropped out. The real Jesus didn't really interest them. It was about leaders and endless rules to them (Matt 23: 10-29)
I have to differ on this. The amount of outright lying that thethe "reformers" did to help avoid dissent from the membership eas horrible. I left that church because of it. The goals were worthy, but the way they were pursued was potty dirty.
I won't start on a tirade about it, but I can never trust the leadership ever again. That was one time that not having a state church was demonstrated as a necessity.
jpv says:
They let Jesus "out of the trunk"
Right, by no longer accepting His Divinity.
I REALLY appreciate Haley's humility and vulnerability. Thank you, Haley (and Bill) for this very useful and interesting episode. Haley was very careful about how she discussed the research and showed respect for people who may have otherwise been hurt, outed, or embarrassed. You don't need a seer stone to recognize that jobs, careers and diplomas can be lost if the church leaders or BYU officials did not like the outcome. Or to recognize what this says about those leaders and officials, and what they fear (truth?). I also admire how honest she was about how learning what she did during this project impacted her "testimony" – or perspectives on certain truth claims of the church. I hope she succeeds and is joyful in all her endeavors.
If only the community of Christ was growing strong!! It would be a signal that honesty and transparency work.
However, if you look at the movie Come Sunday, you see how an inclusive and loving type of church doesn't really gain much traction.
There must be some level of forcefulness and coercion to hold it together else it apart. Unfortunately all love and acceptance doesn't really work that well either.
D. Michael Martindale says:
So you're actually saying the church cannot be honest and transparent? Well, if that isn't revealing!
John Herbst says:
These was an amazing discussion. I guess my decision to not be involved in the church was a good one. How I ever believed it was true is beyond me. It is has been tough to leave it behind, but I'm glad to learn the truth.
She references papers articles and an upcoming book? Where can I find that. I also can't seem to find anything on byu orca website. Is anyone able to link those items to me please?
I came here for the exact same purpose. I would love to know where these additional studies, books, and resources can be found.
Interesting information, but I feel compelled to comment on the astounding mushy thinking from you two in trying to "soften" the data to preserve some wiggle room for faith.
Joseph Smith called the JST an inspired translation of the Bible. Demonstrating he plagiarized Adam Clark to produce it conclusively refutes that claim. Your effort to equate creative infusions Joseph put into the plagiarized material to divine inspiration is absurd. It's called creativity, and as a storyteller, I do that all the time, so I know whereof I speak.
Joseph Smith was adamant throughout his life that he was translating ancient writings by the power of God. This has been the "narrative," as you call it, of the church for its entire existence until modern scholarship and the Internet blew that approach out of the water.
To say the church's lifelong narrative has to be "softened" and updated to a new narrative is nothing but postmodern gobbledygook. It's an admission that the original narrative was a lie, and if you revise a lie to keep it viable, you end up with a revised lie, not a revitalized faith.
Added to that is your blatant admission that the whole project was conducted with the intent of interpreting it and reporting it in as faithful a manner as possible. This is an admission that the study is heavily biased.
And yet your conclusion was still that Joseph Smith plagiarized the JST. To come up with that conclusion even with and in spite of the heavily pro-faith bias of the methodology is damning evidence that there is no wiggle room for faith.
Prominent church members in the past often admitted that there is no (postmodern) wiggle room between the acceptance or repudiation of Joseph's claims to divine inspiraiton. "It's either of God or the devil" was uttered on more than one occasion by more than one prominent member.
When the claim has been to be an authorized and inspired speaker for God in a manner where the representatives of God cannot lead their followers astray, there is no room for a softened middle ground. Either they speak for God or they don't. Either they can't lead us astray or they can.
In spite of your effort to categorize the two sides of the dichotomy as extremes and we need to find some squishy, feel-good middle ground that allows us to preserve our faith in the face of compelling evidence that the whole thing is a fraud, the fact is there is no middle ground. Either Joseph was an authentic prophet or a fraud, whether deliberately or self-deceived. This is not extremism. This is called logic.
The increasingly silly apologetics that defenders of the faith have to resort to as more and more facts come out challenging Joseph and his claims is a testament to the fact that his claims are indeed indefensible.
If you have to revise the claims of generations of those who are ostensibly divinely inspired spokesmen for God to preserve your faith, the game has already been lost. If you have to keep apologizing for your prophets and massaging the messages they preach just to preserve your faith in them as prophets, of what use is such a prophet anyway? We can never trust what he says, because we may have to soften it in the future.
ahh D Michael – I feel what you are saying. I get it. I have those frustrated moments that feel like your comments really hit home for me. I suppose it might be like my old dog that is sick and I just don't yet want to call the vet to schedule anything just yet.
David Macfarlane says:
You've incorrectly characterized what Bill is trying to achieve. The false narrative the church has promoted for so long will not be undone in one fell swoop. It will be gradually, even glacially, dismantled. With this interview, I think Bill very effectively establishes the idea that, first, JS was no ignoramus from the sticks, and second, the available evidence demonstrates that JS could have regularly pilfered from other sources even if no contemporaneous accounts mention those sources. If those ideas gain traction, walls will tumble.
Put another way [and correct me if I am wrong] because no record states what other books or items were in the translating rooms during the work the church has either created or allowed the idea that JS did the transation in a vacuum so-to-speak.
Linda Gale says:
God works in mysterious ways……
To those of us who believe in God, how do we continue to believe in the LDS fallible, puny god?
God the Father was not mentioned in the early version of Joseph's experience in the grove. And was not even included in his family's reminiscences of his Joseph's youth. Yet Joseph Smith has the Father strolling casually through the school of prophets in a business suit?????????? The same God the Father who couldn't be bothered to show up in person to His Only Begotten Son's baptism in the New Testament?? So is JS more important to God than Jesus? It appears to be so.
Joseph Smith was a wonderful storyteller, with a fertile mind — who used whatever material available which pleased him. His mom recalls how he could tell of ancient people, even describing their manner of dress, etc, long before the "gold plates" were 'discovered'.
The many stories about his persecution from other religions is mostly bogus. He was rejected by those religions for his less than stellar character, so he created his own religion to promote what he thought was good at the time.
For someone who had seen and conversed with gods and angels, he sure changed his theology a lot. That should be a glaring reason to question his facts. If God is real, He (God) would not have to keep reinventing the truth. One and done. Why worship a god who doesn't know the outcome from the beginning? Black & priesthood? Polygamy and polyandry? Adam-God Theory?
There are just too many questions without reasonable answers within the LDS church.
This podcast helps to highlight up some of those unanswered questions. Great job Bill and Haley Lemmon. I very much appreciate your posting this podcast.
Well-stated, Linda. Good comments.
McKay Platt says:
There is ample evidence that Joseph Smith didn't excercise tight control over material that WAS published with his name on it. Just look at all the edits by Rigdon and Cowdery in Revelation Book 1. And the JST WASN'T even published (in Joseph's lifetime). To assume that a change here and there with Clark's footprint on it couldn't be the contribution of Rigdon just isn't warranted. Why do you even imagine that every change was from Joseph? From my perspective Rigdon adding Clarke's ideas in a dozen places seems much more consistent with what we know both about Rigdon and about Joseph's egalitarian views of translation than the rather silly idea that he was memorizing Clark's commentary in private and then quoting those ideas with precision during his translation. You imagine Joseph Smith as a genius. Emma, who knew him far better than you or I said, "Joseph Smith … could neither write nor dictate a coherent and well-worded letter…" "The truth's out there" but Joseph as a genius scholar ain't it. Keep digging. You'll find the truth and when you do it won't feel like you're guessing.
McKay Platt
The ignostic atheist says:
My institute director once said that to read the Bible without taking into account the JST was the equivalent of learning (or teaching) false doctrine. This podcast set that bologna straight.
Thank you for sharing your research and story Haley. Both were fascinating.
George jennings Jr. says:
Hello, Bill 21 February 2019
A few thoughts on Clarke's Commentary and the Joseph Smith Translation
First on prophecy.
The idea that prophecy and inspiration flow whole and untouched from the learning, language, culture and customs of a prophet's time is not always the case. For example, Bible prophets. What comes is crystal clear at times, and more like a noisy phone line at other times, for example some of what Paul has to say, or even Moses. That prophecy is not easily obtained is shown in 1 Nephi 5:21, for one "And we had obtained the records which the Lord had commanded us, and searched them and found that they were desirable; yea, even of great worth unto us, insomuch that we could preserve the commandments of the Lord unto our children." This means God's effort of sending it all again is not trivial, and it is apparent when God uses power Satan can use equal and opposite power. God is economical in sending inspiration to prophets – and to people, for that and other reasons. We make our beds, and He will let us lay in them because that's what we thought we wanted.
Second on use of the terms plagiarism, borrowing and lifting.
Let's transport to the first half of 19th century frontier America, to a prophet who is correcting the King James Version of the Bible, and to his scribes. You said in the podcast, "I want to ask … if you can give us a feel for just how much Joseph is directly borrowing, and for the sake of this conversation I think it is fair to say "plagiarized" and I think plagiarism in the 1840's or 1835 would have been much different understanding than today's scholarly way of seeing plagiarism. Can you give us a feel for just how much plagiarism Joseph is doing…?"
Wikipedia on plagiarism says "the modern concept of plagiarism as immoral and originality as an ideal emerged in Europe in the 18 century, particularly with the Romantic Movement."
Bill the use of the word plagiarism is inappropriate. Joseph indeed may have used Clarke's Commentary and other sources to help as he worked, and when in agreement incorporated them. Why not? Our modern day concept of plagiarism, borrowing and lifting were probably not even a part of his culture. How about using the word "used" instead? That does not preclude prophetic vision, but "plagiarized" "borrowed" and "lifted" do.
Third, on upending the Church's narrative.
The problem begins with perspective. It appears there is an unstated underlying conceptualization in the podcast and some of the "Thoughts" following it that if the narrative of the Church can be upended, the game is over, the Church (and Joseph Smith) will be proven to be a hoax. However the problem with that perspective is that although it may dissuade some, many including myself are not associated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints because of "the narrative of the Church" which definitely has and will continue to change as a function of the needs of the Saints and the times and the inspiration or lack thereof of those in charge and/or those who are members of it. We agree that they can err, as does "the narrative of the Church" from time to time, fallen prey to the desires for power so common to organized religions historically. So why are many if not most not dissuaded? Why has and is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints growing by leaps and bounds? Here's why, Bill: Because knowing they have receive inspiration and revelation from God by the Holy Ghost, they are trying to live loyal to it, even though weak. It's not about the narrative of the Church, it's about hearing God's voice.
We agree that Joseph Smith the Prophet was neither perfect nor infallible. We know he committed sin, and was rebuked by the Lord from time to time. If he used Clarke's Commentary – so what, Bill? No big deal. Where ever revelation comes from, it is still revelation. Through a seer stone, through study of the Scriptures, through a near death experience, through watching a spider or the sky, or through Clarke's Commentary, the source does not matter, if God is speaking, then He is speaking and the only question is can we hear what He has to say. Even in mid-19th century, even when not attributing the source.
Penni D Eads says:
Wow! Thanks, Haley! And thanks, Bill!


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Q: Using Bitwise in C, I have a problem that says return 1 if any bit of x = 0, else return 0 The questions says:

The expression evaluates to 1 when the following conditions are true and to 0 when they are false. Assume x if of type int.
The expression is: Any bit of x equals 0

One answer I found is
return !!~x;

I don't understand why you need the ~. I know the ~ flips all of the bits.  What is the point of flipping all of the bits?

A: lets see an example, assume size of int is 32-bit
case 1:
x is all ones (no zero bit)
x    =  FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF (in hex)
~x   =  0000 0000 0000 0000 (in hex)
!~x  =  0000 0000 0000 0001 (in hex) // as !(0) = 1 and !(any other value) = 0
!!~x =  0000 0000 0000 0000 (in hex)

and so !!~x will be evaluated to false as there are no zero bits
case 2:
x contains combinations of 1 and 0 (at least one zero bit)
x    =  F0EF F31F 4F5F A0D1 (in hex)
~x   =  0F10 0CE0 B0A0 5F2E (in hex)
!~x  =  0000 0000 0000 0000 (in hex) // as !(0) = 1 and !(any other value) = 0
!!~x =  0000 0000 0000 0001 (in hex)

and so !!~x will be evaluated to true as there are some zero bits
case 3:
x is off all zero bits (no one bit)
x    =  0000 0000 0000 0000 (in hex)
~x   =  FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF (in hex)
!~x  =  0000 0000 0000 0000 (in hex) // as !(0) = 1 and !(any other value) = 0
!!~x =  0000 0000 0000 0001 (in hex)

and so !!~x will be evaluated to true as there are some zero bits

also, you can try
return !!(x ^ ~0);

it works the same principle.

A: When you convert an integer to boolean, a value of zero becomes false and any other value becomes true.  So, it can only tell zero from non-zero.
You want your program to do the opposite:  return 1 if any bit is zero, and 0 if no bits are zero, i.e. all bits are one. If all bits of x are 1, then ~x will be 0.  If you convert that to boolean you get false.  Any other x has to have at least one zero, and so at least one bit of ~x is a 1 and converting to boolean yields true.  That's what you want.
But now you have to convert ~x to boolean.  You can use an if statement, but to get as concise an expression as possible, you can use the negation operator ! to reverse true and false.  But that's the opposite of what you want~ Of course, you can just apply another ! operator to reverse it again. i.e. !!~x gets you what you want.

A: The values of x that satisfy "any bit of x equals 0" are all values except the one where all bits are set.
The only value that evaluates to false is 0, that is the one where none of the bits are set.
If you flip all the bits of x and evaluate it as a boolean, all values that satisfy the expression will evaluate to true. So if ~x != 0, there is a bit of x that is not set and x satisfies the expression.
!!x is just a shorthand for x ? 1 : 0 or x != 0.

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