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Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West
The Clarion Fund sent out copies of this movie shortly before the Republican National Convention, stating that it had been advertised on Fox News and CNN.
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New Forums for LDS Sexuality Discussion
The attitude of the Mormon church towards sexuality is complicated, but a one forum attempts to ease the problems that LDS couples sometimes have.
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Commodore's New Notebook
The rumors of the death of Commodore Computers have been greatly exaggerated. One New notebook will soon be on the market.
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History of Solar Sails
Sailing between the planets using the light provided from the sun may become a valid method of space craft propulsion in the near future
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Arizona's Temple Riders
Motorcycle groups are nothing new, but a group of LDS men and women who are mostly retirees has decided to ride their Harleys and Hondas to Mormon temples.
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Mormon Leadership Backs Proposition 8
The author of the Nine Moons Blog was called in by her stake president and asked to make a sizeable contribution to support Proposition 8.
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Controversy over the Book of Abraham
In 1966, the scrolls that Joseph Smith used to produce the Book of Abraham were uncovered in a New York museum. These scrolls contain the Breathing Permit of Hor.
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The Golden Plates
Central to the Restorationist movement is the Book of Mormon. The historicity of the book may be doubted, but the story of their discovery is a central to the faith.
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Star Wars Galaxies Muntions Trader Guide
Sony Online Entertainment's space fantasy mmorpg offers a rich trade skill system. Munitions traders can make most of the weapons and armor in the game.
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The Mountain Meadows Massacre
Tensions had been high between Mormons and the Federal Government in the late 1850s. One consequence of this was the death of 120 Arkansas emigrants.
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LDS History Articles Warned Against
More details of Mormon history have become freely available. LDS Leaders warn members to use caution when reading about the history of the church.
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Everquest II's Mentoring System
The sequel to Sony's premier mmorpg has a unique system that lets older players show newer players the ins and outs of the game world.
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Preston Temple Loses Property Tax Exempt Status
The British House of Lords decided to remove tax exempt status from a Mormon temple in Chorley in Lancashire County.
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The Hymn Come, Come Ye Saints
The song set to the tune of an English folk song has been adopted by Mormons as the way that they choose to sing about themselves.
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City of Heroes Trick Shot Defender Guide
The trick shot primary power set gives characters the opportunity to wield a bow to defeat the villains of paragon city.
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City of Heroes Enhancement Combining Tutorial
Enhancements are one of the few loot items available to players in City of Heroes. They can be bought and sold, with the exception of epics and can be combined.
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Child Protection Project
The Child Protection Project founded by Linda Walker aims to end instutionalized child abuse. Flora Jessop, who works with former FLDS members, is the executive director.
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Guide to Getting Runescape Gold
Many players worry about how to get money. Here are some ways to do it in Runescape without restorting to the services of gold sellers.
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Lilbrun Boggs' Extermination Order
When Mormons first entered Jackson County they were treated with suspicion. Pronouncement from Joseph Smith, commercial, and political factors led to this edict.
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Star Wars Galaxies Credit Guide
A useful tutorial on the most common ways to get money legally in Star Wars Galaxies. These methods will not get any account banned.
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World of Warcraft Gold Guide
Many such guides make extravagant promises, but acquiring money in World of Warcraft is a simple process that does not require the use of gold sellers.
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Star Wars Galaxies Engineering Tutorial
Engineering allows a player to make many ground based wonders in Sony's MMORPG based off of George Lucas's space fantasy universe.
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Runescape Crafter's Guide to Glassmaking
Crafting is a complex trade skill in Runescape, that allows a player to make many items. Members can make items out of glass.
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City of Heroes Aura and Effects Guide
At level 30, a City of Heroes and City of Villians character earns the right to complete a quest that adds graphical effects to his powers
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Stories of the Three Nephites
Catholics tell stories about their saints that mirror a similar pattern to the tales told about the Three Nephites and John the Revelator told by faithful Mormons.
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City of Heroes Dark Miasma Defender Guide
The dark miasma type offers a balance between solo and group play in City of Heroes, but leveling one requires knowledge of the powers and effective use of Area Effects.
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City of Heroes Kinetics Defender Guide
City of Heroes Kinetics defender leveling in City of Heroes relies more heavily on grouping than it does for other classes.
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CoH Radiation Emissions Defender Guide
Radiation Emissions Defender can heal well and use their powers to defeat their foes. Leveling one often requires a player that knows how to do both.
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The Mormon Trail
After the death of Joseph Smith, many Mormons went westward on the advice of Brigham Young, the second Mormon prophet. They settled in what is now the state of Utah.
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City of Heroes Force Field Defender Guide
The different types of defenders in City of Heroes require different playstyles. The force fields defender's leveling style is the inverse of the storm summonin defender
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Star Wars Galaxies Domestics Trader Guide
Not everything a trader can make in the Star Wars universe requires high technology. Clothes and jewelry are as much in demand among players as they are in the real life
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Star Wars Galaxies Shipwright Tutorial
What space fantasy would be complete without the chance to defeat the bad guys of the galaxy while flying through the stars? The shipwright allows characters to do that.
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City of Heroes Cape Quest
No superhero is complete without a cape. The video game designers who programmer City of Heroes did not overlook this and included a quest to help player get one.
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Fast and Testimony Meeting
On the first Sunday of each month, Mormons gather for what is known as fast and testimony meeting. This service is more freeform than other LDS services.
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City of Heroes Storm Summoner Defender Guide
Storm summoning defenders are more offensive than their other counterparts, but they do have some healing ability.
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City of Heroes Empathy Defender Guide
Empathy Defenders bring grief upon the villains of Paragon City by keeping their superhero teammates alive. Leveling is a matter of getting groups and healing well.
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Star Wars Galaxies Structures Guide
Building structures in Star Wars Galaxies is simple, but getting to the height of the profession as a structures trader is not an easy task.
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City of Heroes Controller Leveling Guide
The controller keeps the foes from perorming their nefarious or heroic acts while the rest of the group hogs the glory. Still, for a true hero, the task is worth it.
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Bella Sara: Virtual Horses
Instead of buying a daughter or granddaughter a real pony, parents and grandparents can give their younger female relatives the same experience without the mess
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LDS Opposition to Same-Sex Marriage
A letter writeen by the First Presidency was read to California wards on June 29 asking members to support a measure defying marriage as between a man and woman.
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City of Heroes Blaster Guide
This archetype is the weakest physical achetype in City of Heroes and City of Villains, but itis capable of the high burst damage totals, if a player plays it correctly.
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Low LDS Convert Retention Rate
Although the number of baptisms reported has remained fairly steady, most people baptized into the Mormon faith become inactive shortly after joining the church.
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An Overview of Suppressive Persons
Suppressive Persons are to be avoided by Scientologists, but how does an indiviual identify one or how does a non-scientologist know if they fall into this category?
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City of Heroes Scrapper Leveling Guide
Scrappers give a player a chance to get into the fight in this mmorpg that gives the player a chance to play a superhero in a persistent online world.
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Disaffected Mormon Underground
New Order Mormons and the Disaffected Mormon Underground church members stay in the church, despite not believing in many of its key doctrines.
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City of Heroes Tanker Leveling Guide
The tanker fills the role of the warrior in high-heroic fantasy mmorpgs, but the world of CoH and CoV allows a player to create his own superhero.
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Thomas S. Monson: 16th LDS President
The Mormon church is always led by a president who is ordained as prophet, seer, and revelator. Monson is the latest in the line of 16 prophets since Joseph Smith.
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Star Wars Galaxies Macro Programming
Macros are a good way to save time in any program. Star Wars Galaxies players can save time and earn experience while away from the keyboard.
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Star Wars Galaxies Droid Engineering Guide
Trade skills in Star Wars Galaxies are fairly straight foward, but this skill more than the others defines the Star Wars Galaxies universe.
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Everquest Warrior Leveling Guide
Warriors are one of the big three group-dependent classes of Sony's first mmorpg. Levling a warrior quickly takes knowledge of aggro control
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EQ Shadow Knight Leveling Guide
Shadow knights use a combination of spells and weaponry to keep aggro in a group. When groups are hard to find, they have powerful soloing capabilities.
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Everquest Paladin Leveling Guide
Paladins are one of four tank classes in the game. Leveling this class quickly relies on grouping and using stuns to keep a monster's attention on the player.
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Everquest Ranger Leveling Guide
Rangers can track, hunt, and use their swords well in this Sony MMORPG. Raising this class from level 1 is not easy, however.
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Patriarchal Blessings
When the spirit prompts a faithful Mormon that it is time to get a patriarchal blessing, he must be interviewed by a bishop and get an appointment with a stake patriarch.
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Do 144,000 People Go to Heaven?
There are more than 144,000 Jehovah's Witnesses in the world; does this mean that only small portion of them will achieve eternal life?
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Smiles for Diversity
Members of the FLDS church who choose to leave the group face many challenges because of poor schooling and their religious upbringing.
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LDS Baptism for the Dead
Mormon theology gives people the chance to accept the gospel even after they die. Many critics see the practice as changing the deceased's faith.
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LDS Temple Weddings
Most religions give a couple an automatic divorce at death, but church members who go through a sealing ceremony can be together for all eternity.
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SWG Player City Tutorial
Not only can players create their houses in this Sony MMORPG, they can create their own communities in Star Wars Galaxies space fantasy mmorpg.
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Beginner's SWG Politician Guide
Running for political office in the real world is hard and costs a lot of money. Becoming a politician in Sony's interpretation of the Star War's city is easier.
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Everquest Berserker Leveling Guide
Everquest offers four options for melee classes to deal out high damage, the berserker class relies on its controlled rage to help his group and guild take down foes.
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Runescape Staff Crafting Guide
A proper staff is necessary for a spell caster to complete his arcane image in any mmorpg. This is as true in Runescape as it is in other fantasy settings.
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Community of Christ Overview
When most people hear the term Mormon, they think of Utah and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints but Joseph Smith Jr started a religious movement.
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Everquest Monk Leveling Guide
Monks are the second highest damage per second melee class in Everquest, but their feign death abilitiy makes them group friendly when leveling.
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North Central PA Covered Bridges
Covered Bridges are a unique and dying part of American history, but the bridges are located in scenic spots that give a traveler something pleasant to look at.
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Everquest Rogue Leveling Guide
The theives of Everquest can do more damage than any class, with the applications of a little skill. Getting to raid level takes patience.
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Runescape Spinning Crafting Guide
At a loom, a Runescape character can prepare the base material needed to make more complicated items with the crafting skill.
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Ndiswrapper Wireless Card Install
Linux users can setup their wireless networking card to use the Windows driver if they know how to use a program called ndiswrapper.
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Everquest Cleric Leveling Guide
The pure priest class, whose abilities are granted by their god, have the most powerful buffs and heals that they can use to their advantage.
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LDS Singles Wards
The church wants people to be married as quickly as possible. Singles Wards allow members to meet people who, in theory, share the same values and religion
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Everquest Shaman Leveling Guide
This spirit-based priest class can buff, heal, do damage and do limited crowd control as he adventures in Norrath.
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Becoming a Video Game Designer
People with good problem-solving skills, math ability, an eye for art, imagination, and with good problem solving and programming skills are on the right track
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RS Leatherworking Crafting Guide
Crafters in Jagex's popular mmorpg can start out with leatherworking or use it to make useful leather armor for their characters.
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Everquest Druid Leveling Guide
The swiss army knife nature of this class means that a druid can vary his play style as he gains levels.
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MMORPG Addiction: Fact or Myth?
Although some people do have an unhealthy relationship with mmorpgs, scientists are still weighing the evidence that some people are addicts.
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Smithsonian Book of Mormon Usage
Tales about Mormon scripture being used in arhaeological research surface from time to time. These rumors may promote faith, but they are often just folk tales.
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Runescape Jewelry Crafting
These expensive baubles can be enchanted or given to that special someone. If you cannot afford to buy shiny things form another player, here is how to make them.
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Everquest Enchanter Leveling Guide
Enchanters are the most group friendly pure caster in Everquest. They should exploit this to work their way up to 70.
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Mormon Boy Scouting Program
The only organizational difference is that the leaders, even the patrol leaders, are selected by the Bishop of the Ward.
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RS Dragonhide Crafting Guide
Player can make powerful pieces of amor if they reach the highest levels of the broadest crafting trade skill. All they have to do is collect the required gear.
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Mark Hoffman's Salamander Letters
One of the strangest parts of modern Mormon history are the two 1985 car bombings that led to the discovery of what may be one of the greatest forgeries of all time.
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Everquest Mage Leveling Guide
Magicians have powerful solo abilities and decent group abilities that lets them choose how they want to reach raiding levels.
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The Efuel100 Microfueler
One California based company hopes to let homeowners make fuel grade ethanol in the privacy of their own home.
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Runescape Cape Crafting Guide
A good sens of style is important to any mmorpg character. This trade skill option allows a player to choose the colors that his character wears
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FLDS Children's Scriptures Taken
The reasons for taking these copies may have been valid, but why have the texts not been replaced with clean copies?
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Everquest Wizard Leveling Guide
Casting fireballs and lightning bolts is fun, but this character class should make full use of its area of effect spells when soloing
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LDS Senior Missionary Program
Church members who have reached retirement age can keep busy by serving their fellow man in a spiritual capacity.
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Runescape Pottery Crafting Guide
Pots, pans, bowls, and pie plates are useful items that characters can make for use in another trade skill.
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The South Park Mormon Episode
The creators of Kenny, Stan, Kyle and Cartman got most things right when they did a show on early Mormon history, but a few details presented in the show were incorrect.
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EQ Necromancer Solo Guide
These characters can solo well, provided they know the basic tactics invovled in taking down a mob without any help from other players.
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Prank Call Initiated FLDS Raid
Had a Colorado woman not made an anonymous tip, the abuse of women and children at the YFZ ranch might never have been found.
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LDS Wikimedia Copyright Complaint
When Wikinews posted a link to the Mormon Church's Handbook of Instructions, the foundation received a letter asking the free online news service to remove the link.
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Everquest Jewelcrafting Guide
This trade skill allows a character to make useful jewelry items, but can be expensive to raise unless you know a player knows what he is doing.
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FLDS Children's Schedule Released
The people in charge of the YFZ Ranch have tried to show concern for the boys and girls in custody by releasing schedules for Texas authorities.
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Book of Mormon Translation Process
South Park's depiction of the process is not far from the truth of how the early LDS leaders produced this sacred text.
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Wii Peekaboo Pole Dancing
The company responsible for the Electra Pole is releasing this title that is more suited to adults than younger gamers.
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FLDS Letter to President Bush
Willie Jessop addressed a letter to the executive branch accusing the agencies who conducted the raid on the Yearning for Zion ranch of exceeding boundaries
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Everquest Pottery Guide
A few tricks and tips to get to a skill level in 100 in this trade skill for Sony Online Entertainment's original mmorpg.
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Working Linux MMORPGs
Finding massively multi-player online games that do not require expertise with the Penguin is possible. A computer users just has to look around a little
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Proof of Mormon Scripture in Egypt
The Book of Abraham has never been used in research on Ancient Egypt, so why does the claim exist among the faithful that it has?
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