Monday 5 August 2013

Outrage after Iranian President calls Israel a 'wound'

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Pro-Palestine: During Al-Quds Day in Tehran on Friday crowds burned effigies painted in US flags. Photo: AFP

Iran's newly elected president, Hassan Rouhani, has caused a stir after being quoted likening Israel to a ''wound'' inflicted on the Muslim world that ''should be removed''.

Iranian state media later said Dr Rouhani had been misquoted and a video released by Iran's Press TV seemed to support a more mild official translation of the comments he made during the annual Al-Quds Day ceremony to demonstrate solidarity with Palestinians.

But the clarification came too late for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who claimed it proved the new Iranian regime was not as moderate as some in the West may hope.

''Rouhani's true face has been revealed earlier than expected,'' Mr Netanyahu said. ''The president there has changed, but the goal of the regime has not.''

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Iranian state media maintained Dr Rouhani had called the occupation of Muslim lands, mainly Jerusalem, a ''wound'' and had said nothing about anything being ''removed''.

An Israeli spokesman said that Israel believed the original interpretation reflected Iran's true ''extremist agenda''.

Los Angeles Times

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Record parade of 1,208 Porsche 911s hits Silverstone

As part of the 50th anniversary of the 911, Porsche had hoped to assemble a convoy of 911 cars at Silverstone on July 28th. Well, there were 1,208 on the track, setting a new world record for the largest parade of 911s.

The event was kicked off by Mark Porsche, the great-grandson of company founder Ferdinand Porsche, who said: ?It?s been a family member over all the generations of the 911 series and I'm very proud to be here today to represent the Porsche family at this great event. I think that to have these 1,200 cars on track is the attention that the 911 deserves for its 50th birthday. I can?t thank the Porsche Club GB enough for making this event possible.?

The celebration also served to raise funds for the Hope for Tomorrow charity, which brings mobile chemotherapy units to cancer patients.

Source : worldcarfans.com

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Sunday 4 August 2013

The Best Internet Mistake, Hands On with the Awesome Moto X, And More

The Best Internet Mistake, Hands On with the Awesome Moto X, And More

This week, we grew by a phone. That's right, the long-rumored Moto X finally burst onto the scene and it is awesome. But that's not all. We saw the bestest Internet mistake, had a triumphant victory in iOS icon design, explored Henry Ford's lost utopia, and more. Check it out!

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Twitter hands down new rules to beat abusive talk

LONDON (AP) ? Twitter is handing down new rules to control abusive language, the company said Saturday, a move which follows a barrage of nasty, harassing, and threatening messages directed at high-profile female users of the microblogging site.

In a message posted to its website, Twitter says it is introducing a one-click button to report abuse and updating its rules to clarify that it will not tolerate abusive behavior.

The one-click button means that users will not have to navigate to Twitter's help center in order to fill out an abuse form ? a process some said was too cumbersome to deal with a mass of angry messages ? while the new rules includes a stricture against "targeted abuse," something which could include slamming a single user with messages from multiple accounts, creating an account purely to harass someone, or making threats.

The company also promised to devote more staff to weed out offending messages.

In a series of statements posted to Twitter, General Manager Tony Wang issued his own apology "to the women who have experienced abuse on Twitter and for what they have gone through."

"The abuse they've received is simply not acceptable," he said. "It's not acceptable in the real world, and it's not acceptable on Twitter. There is more we can and will be doing to protect our users against abuse. That is our commitment."

The relative anonymity of the Internet means it has long been hard to police abusive or threatening speech, but the issue recently received attention in Britain after several women went public about the sexually explicit and often luridly violent abuse they receive from online bullies, often called trolls.

Many argue that trolls are an annoyance which should just be ignored, but the catalogue of graphic threats made public by the women involved have ignited a national debate over the impunity of those spewing the hatred online.

Wang said in a tweet that the new anti-abuse policy will apply worldwide.

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Twitter's announcement:

http://blog.uk.twitter.com/2013/08/our-commitment.html

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Tax-free shopping weekend in Florida

PREGNANT THEY ARE BEING CARED FOR IN FOSTER HOMES. THE CLOCK IS TICKING YOU HAVE GOT JUST TONIGHT AND TOMORROW LEFT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF FLORIDA'S BACK-TO-SCHOOL SALES TAX HOLIDAY. TENS OF THOUSAND OF FAMILIES WERE OUT SHOPPING TODAY AND AT LEAST ONE LOCAL MAL WAS HANDING OUT DOOR TRY AND UNTIES SHOPPERS TO COME TO ITS STORES. BUSINESS WAS BRISK SATURDAY AT MANY CENTRAL FLORIDA MALLS AS FAMILY HIT THE STORES FOR THIS WEEKEND OPPORTUNITIES TO BUY TAX-FREE CLOTHES SHOES AND BACK TO SCHOOL SUPPLIES. AND ANGIE WOLFE OFMAN AND HER 7TH9TH GRADE SON WERE ON HUNTS FOR NEW SHOES AND BELTS FOR THE BOYS. EVERY LITTLE BIT HELPS. AND NO TAXES IS A GOOD THING. THROUGH MIDNIGHT SUNDAY NOW THROER SALES TAX BEING COLLECTED ON CLOSING COSTS $75 OR LESS AND SCHOOL SUPPLIES THAT COST UP TO $15. ALSO, NEW THIS YEAR IS A TAX BREAK ON COMPUTERS, AND OTHER ELECTRONICS ITEMS. THAT COST $750 OR LESS. RETAILERS HOPE THIS WEEKEND EVENT WILL LEAD BIG SALES. AT THE FASHION SQUARE MAL MANAGEMENT OFFERING AN EXTRA ENTICEMENT. FOREVER HUNDRED YOU SPEND ON TAX-FREE ITEMS WE WILL GIVE YOU BACK 20. WE WILL GIVE EACH SHOPPER BACK 20 UP TO $100 MAXIMUM. MALL PROMOTION WILL END WHEN THEY ARE SPWEUFEN ATOTAL $20,000 OR WHETHER MAL CLOSES AT 6:00 SUNDAY NIGHT. WHICHEVER COMES FIRST. ERIC HAS FOUR KIDS RANGING FROM PRESCHOOL TO 7TH GRADE THAT SHE NEED TO SHOP FOR. SHE WASH DETERMINED TO GET THE MAX $100 BACKS. I THINK IT IS REALLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE ANY PENNY WE CAN SAVE HELPS A LOT ESPECIALLY WITH A LARGE FAMILY. IT IS ESTIMATED AVERAGE FAMILY WILL SPEND OFFER $600 ON BACK TO SCHOOL SHOPPING THIS YEAR.

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Balancing Food Security and Environmental Quality in China

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In many ways, the evolution of Chinese agriculture over the past 40 years is a remarkable success story. Spurred by investments in research and government subsidies for fertilizers and other farm technologies, China now feeds 22 per cent of the world's population on just 9 per cent of its total arable land. ...

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Step into a town called Weathersby, where the people are just a little....Mad

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Just submitted a character to you there Twiz. I went for the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland as the town's therapist. Hopefully she is interesting enough! Can't wait to see the others. :)

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Hey I was wondering if I could reserve female book character 2 I will try to have it up by tomorrow.

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A Bad Economy and Few Jobs Leave Obama Blue

President Barack Obama has the summer blues. Obama is facing a sluggish economy, low job approval numbers and a combative opposition party focused on dismantling Obamacare. While rainy summer days in Washington and lengthy speeches by members of Congress and the president have become the norm, no real progress and no new proposals by the president have been made to help improve the state of the U.S. economy.?

The president gave a one-hour speech last week in Illinois talking about his plans to help boost the economy, and he stated that he would lay out more of his initiatives in the upcoming weeks. Americans have been waiting for too long to see what the president is planning to propose.

The president's ideas and speeches are a repeat of the 2010 "summer of recovery" where he gave campaign-style speeches around the country and yet nothing was accomplished in Washington. In his latest speech, President Obama's grand bargain is clearly a repackaging of two existing proposals that have been stalled in Congress: corporate tax reform and spending more money on infrastructure, education and training.

[Check out our editorial cartoons on President Obama.]

Obama must be depressed and frustrated that his economic proposals have not gained Republican support in Congress.? However, he has made little effort to find a bipartisan solution to jumpstarting the economy. The president is not running again and the likelihood of the Democrats taking over Congress in 2014 is dim, so why not build bipartisan support for economic proposals? Based on his history, compromise is not in the president's vocabulary.

The president's recent shift to the economy is long overdue, yet his long-winded speeches and proposals to nowhere will not help. The economy needs a shot in the arm. Friday's labor report showed disappointing numbers, which is another indication that the economy remains sluggish. The unemployment rate in July did fall from 7.6 percent to 7.4 percent, but that was partly because 37,000 people left the labor force.

Economic indicators are mixed and quite discouraging. Home ownership is at the lowest levels in 18 years. More Americans are working part-time for economic reasons, and 22.2 million Americans remain unemployed, underemployed or have given up looking for work. Hispanic unemployment also rose from 9.1 to 9.4. More young people cannot afford to live on their own and are living with their parents. With the latest job reports, economists have stated that the economy is just not gaining enough traction.

[See a collection of political cartoons on the economy.]

President Obama is faced with two challenges: building public approval and GOP support of his economic plans. He will spend the next few weeks giving speeches and talking about his old ideas. It will be a difficult sales pitch considering that millions of discouraged Americans have been waiting a long time to find full-time jobs, and American businesses are preparing themselves for the wrath of Obamacare.?

As in the case of immigration reform, the president may need to look to Congress to work on legislation that both parties can support. Congress is already taking the lead and crafting bipartisan comprehensive tax reform legislation for taxpayers and businesses. It would be wise for the president to jump on board and support their efforts. The president will then have something substantial to talk about during his summer of recovery tour (part two).

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Saturday 3 August 2013

The when and where of the Y: Research on Y chromosomes uncovers new clues about human ancestry

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Using advanced analysis of DNA from Y chromosomes from men all over the world, scientists have shed new light on the mystery of when and how a few early human ancestors started to give rise to the incredible diversity of today?s population.

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Friday 2 August 2013

95% Stories We Tell

All Critics (98) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (93) | Rotten (5)

Everyone has a different story. I found myself holding my breath listening to them talk. The story twists like a thriller.

Stories We Tell is not just very moving; it is an exploration of truth and fiction that will stay with you long after repeated viewings.

Part of the movie's pleasure is how comfortable the "storytellers" are with their director; you get a sense of a complicated but tight-knit family, going along with Sarah's project because they love her.

Never sentimental, never cold and never completely sure of anything, Polley comes across as a woman caught in wonder.

After you see it, you'll be practically exploding with questions - and with awe.

Fascinating personal documentary.

Slowly but surely Polley pieces together her own family's history to create a kind of cinematic narrative - complete with a twist straight from a soap opera.

An unconventional but wonderfully assembled exploration of how -- and why -- we tell stories, all wrapped in a closely guarded family secret.

Polley is savvy, using her talent as a director -- as a storyteller -- to give it universal appeal even though it's a very specific account.

Perhaps the most organic, transformative meeting of form and function I've seen this year.

Stories We Tell is cinema cutting to the profound truth of why we use narrative to make sense of the world.

For the most part, Polley's thoughts and feelings are pretty much absent, but the film makes some nice observations about memory and how it affects - yup - the stories we tell.

The movie isn't really about the Polley family: It's about memory, and loss, and forgiveness, and, through it all, hope. It'll knock you over.

What emerges is a fascinating and illuminating story, one that runs the gamut from intense joy to deep sadness and features a couple of surprising twists that take proceedings off in strange and unusual directions.

An honest and authentic documentary that powerfully explores the filmmaker's own family.

Polley's portrait of modern family life is a playfully profound discussion of narrative forms - the way in which we each construct our own reality through stories, part truth, part invention.

A decent piece of work, but too fussy for its own good.

Polley approaches every character with compassion, intent upon blessing them, and serving the audience with useful questions about how we seek the truth.

Polley is working in the tradition of Orson Welles, but her trickery can be exasperating; it also neutralises many of the emotional revelations.

With Away From Her and Take This Waltz, actress-turned-filmmaker Polley has proved herself as an unusually gifted director, but this inventive, moving documentary reveals even more artistic ambition.

What saves it is our realisation that it isn't just a documentary.

A bittersweet and compelling autobiographical family portrait.

Kane-like in its mirrored complexity, flashing in its mischievous irony, the story is a shiny maze which Polley enters knowing exactly where and what her Minotaur is - the secret of her paternal parentage - while spinning for us a thread to follow.

Polley ... smilingly tells us that a story like hers can never truly be tied down, even as she screws every last piece into place.

Polley's cine-tribute is a gripping and absorbing meditation on the unknowability of other lives.

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OUTDOORS: Angler hooked on assisting VMRC | The Sports Desk

VIRGINIA?S saltwater recreational anglers just had a friend?or, more aptly, a kindred soul?appointed to the Virginia Marine Resources Commission.

Yortown dentist Dr. Ken Neill III seems to fish at least as often as he spends time at his practice. His ?Healthy Grin? fishing boat is usually crewed by friends and associates and has housed numerous world- and state-record catches and countless trophy fish citations.

Neill, 50, joked that he isn?t sure if he should be offered congratulations or condolences for his recent appoint by Gov. Bob McDonnell, but a look at his other contributions illustrate a man fully engaged in policies related to his fishing passions.

He serves on a variety of boards and fishery management advisory groups. He is a board member and past president of the Peninsula Salt Water Sport Fisherman?s Association, serves on VMRC?s Finfish Management Advisory Committee, and is a member of the Virginia Saltwater Fishing Tournament Committee.

Neill is also a member of the Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Advisory Panel for the National Marine Fisheries Service. His boat probably has seen more fish tagged in the name of research and science than most of us have ever caught.

Neill, also a ?Master Angler,? said he?s not bringing any specific issues to the commission yet, but topics related to conservation, fisheries science and recreational fishing are in his wheelhouse.

McDonnell appointed both Neill and A.J. Erskine of Kilmarnock, a past-president of the Virginia Seafood Council and a scientist involved in the oyster aquaculture industry, to replace associate commissioners Carter Fox and Rick Robins, whose two four-year terms expired. Robins is a well-known recreational fisherman and businessman.

?I?m really mostly a recreational angler and that?s something that has at times been missing,? Neill said. ?By regulation, a commercial waterman must be on the board. Later, they had to have a recreational fisherman on the board. It?s easy to define what a commercial fisherman is, but a recreational fisherman could pretty much be anybody, because anybody has likely been to a pond.?

The commission meets for one full day each month, plus there are numerous night meetings?sometimes for individual commissioners or the full group.

Neill appreciates that regulatory committee work can be challenging, noting he believes the commission and staff members of the VMRC ?really do care. It?s a tough job. You have recreational interests wanting something, commercial interests wanting something, environmental interests wanting something. You?ll never make everyone happy.?

Overall, it was a good week for dentists to get appointed to policy boards and commissions. The governor also appointed Dr. Mark A. Winkler of Fairfax Station, owner of Northern Virginia Dental Associates, to the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries.

To learn more about Neill, check out vbsf-hookedup .net/healthygrin.

VIRGINIA-BRANDED OUTDOOR GEAR

You can let others know you support The Old Dominion?s fish and wildlife conservation and management programs by wearing or using some of the products available at the recently redesigned Virginia Wildlife eStore (shopDGIF.com).

The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries launched the outdoor gear marketplace as part of a public/private partnership between DGIF, The Wildlife Foundation of Virginia and Target Marketing.

Online ordering of goods from gear, apparel, gifts, books and collectables, such as limited edition knives is easy using a secure log-in process.

Proceeds from the eStore are used to support hunting, fishing, boating and wildlife watching programs in Virginia. Future plans are to expand the eStore by developing new products, promoting Virginia-made items, and opening sales to wholesale markets.

NATIONAL PARK RESCUE COSTS

My pal J.R. Absher down in the wilds of southern New Mexico shared some interesting statistics via his Outdoor Pressroom recently. The National Parks Traveler web site (nationalparkstraveler.com) shared data from the National Park Service?s 2012 Search and Rescue Report that showed $5.2 million was spent that year on search and rescue missions in the parks.

As you may have guessed, the biggest reasons people needed this kind of help was because they were either out of shape or otherwise ill-prepared, as in having insufficient equipment, clothing or experience. Poor judgment is another factor.

One-third of the 2,876 search-and-rescue missions arose on weekends. One hundred forty-eight fatalities were reported. Twenty-people attempted suicide in a National Park in 2012; 16 succeeded.

Other interesting SAR factoids:

  • The report stated more men needed rescue than women (2,240 to 1,329).
  • There were 401 boating incidents and 385 swimming incidents.
  • Searchers invested 92,732 man-hours in 2012.
  • Most missions occurred in lace at National Parks located in the Intermountain Region, which includes Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Glacier, Grand Canyon, Big Bend and Rocky Mountain National Parks. The Pacific West Region had the second-most incidents.

Ken Perrotte can be reached at The Free Lance?Star, 616 Amelia Street, Fredericksburg, Va. 22401, by fax at 373-8455 or e?mail at outdoors@freelancestar.com.

For more on outdoors things to do around Fredericksburg and the region, sign up for The Free Lance-Star?s newest e-newsletter, Mighty Outdoors, at http://fredericksburg.com/topics/mightyoutdoors/about.html

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Los Angeles Catholic church sex abuse files released

LOS ANGELES ? Hundreds of pages of secret church files released Wednesday shed light on the troublesome careers of a dozen religious order priests, brothers and nuns accused of sexually abusing children while working in the nation's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese.

The files include one case of a priest who later admitted to having sexual contact with more than 100 boys while serving in several Southern California parishes for years.

The papers, which were released under the terms of a $660 million settlement agreement reached in 2007, are the first glimpse at what religious orders knew about the envoys they posted in Roman Catholic schools and parishes around the Los Angeles area. The archdiocese itself released thousands of pages under court order this year for its own priests who were accused of sexual abuse, but the full picture of sex abuse in Los Angeles remained elusive without the religious orders' records.

Several dozen more files are expected to be released by the fall.

The files cover five different religious orders that employed 10 priests or religious brothers and two nuns who were all accused in civil lawsuits of molesting children while working within the Los Angeles archdiocese. Among them, the accused had 21 alleged victims who alleged abuse between the 1950s and the 1980s.

The files include more than 500 pages on a priest named Ruben Martinez who belonged to a religious order called the U.S. Province of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, a nearly 200-year-old Catholic organization with roots in France. The Los Angeles archdiocese settled eight lawsuits over Martinez's actions in 2007, but had little documentation on him in its own files even though the priest worked in its parishes for years in the 1970s and 1980s.

For those who allege abuse by Martinez, the documents provide validation and reveal the years of effort his order spent trying to cure him of his pedophilia as it shuttled him between programs, including inpatient treatment, and paid for decades of therapy. Martinez also marched in a gay pride parade while serving as a priest and enrolled in a counseling program for people with sexual compulsions.

Some of the other files unsealed Wednesday, including those of the nuns, don't mention sexual abuse at all and others appear to have large gaps in time and missing documents. The release included files from the Oblates, the Marianists, the Benedictines and two orders for religious sisters.

One nun, Sister Mary Joseph, belonged to a small Catholic order called the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. Joseph was accused after her death and the order found nothing to substantiate the claims, said Sister Barbara Anne Stowasser, a spokesperson for the order.

The fact that the files don't reflect the abuse reported in civil lawsuits doesn't mean it didn't happen, said Ray Boucher, the lead plaintiff attorney coordinating the release.

"Much of this went unreported. You're talking about kids that were terrorized and frightened in so many different ways, with no place and no one to turn to," he said.

Martinez's file is among the most complete and paints a devastating picture of a troubled and repressed child who later joined the priesthood to satisfy a domineering and devout father. Martinez, a twin and one of nine children, grew up in the same working-class city south of Los Angeles where he is accused of later molesting children when he was posted there as a priest. Martinez also admitted in therapy to molesting his younger brother as a child, the documents show.

When he arrived in his hometown parish in 1972, he immediately began molesting children, recalled one man who sued over Martinez's abuse. The man, now 50, requested anonymity because he is well-known in his professional life and has not spoken publicly about his case before. The AP does not publish the names of victims of sexual abuse without their consent.

"We were into wrestling characters on television and what he would do is he would have us wrestle each other and then wrestle with him, which means we'd get down into our skivvies and he'd take pictures of us. He was always taking pictures," the man said. "I just remember the smell of the old Polaroid flash cubes. He would go through them like crazy."

The man received a settlement in 2007, and Martinez was never charged criminally, in part because his alleged abuses weren't reported until years later.

The man said Martinez always had a group of young boys around him and would take them to see R-rated movies and on group trips. One summer day, he recalled, the priest took six boys to a local amusement park, but stopped on the way at an apartment where another man lived. Martinez and the man went inside with one of the boys and left the other five in a hot car for several hours. When the trio came back, the boy was sobbing and didn't stop for hours.

"A lot of us kind of knew what had happened to him," he recalled.

Martinez, now 72, was removed from active parish ministry in 1993 and has a most recent address at the Oblate Mission House in Oakland. No one answered the door there and a call was not returned. His file, however, shows he was sent to a Missouri retreat home for priests in 2005. A receptionist there said Wednesday she could not confirm or deny his presence there and he did not return a message left with her.

Calls to the U.S. Province of the Oblates and emails to two attorneys representing Martinez and the three other Oblate priests whose files were released were also not returned.

Attorneys for the Benedictines and Marianists and a representative from the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus also did not return calls.

Carolina Guevara, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles archdiocese, did not address the current file release specifically but said religious orders are expected to make sure the priests they present for ministry in the archdiocese don't have any history of sex abuse.

In a 2005 psychiatric assessment, done after Martinez was caught looking at suggestive photos of boys on the Internet, the priest said he hadn't had sexual contact with a child in 23 years and had learned to control his impulses.

"It has not been easy to face what I did, to admit it and to talk about it with others," he wrote to his superior the following year. "I have had to deal with depression, self-hatred, the inability and unwillingness to forgive myself, and the desire and tendency to isolate."

But Martinez's file reveals that church authorities had cause to doubt the priest's self-control.

In psychological reports, the priest admits to molesting children beginning almost with his first assignment in 1970, when he began playing "giddy up" games with young boys on his lap. He stopped "direct sexual contact" with boys after a mother complained to his pastor in 1982 and stopped touching boys altogether after another complaint in 1986.

It's unclear whether his religious order or the archdiocese was aware of those complaints, but around that time Martinez began weekly therapy sessions. He entered a counseling program for people with sexual compulsions in 1986 and joined a gay pride group.

He later received inpatient treatment and was enrolled in a sex offender program after another complaint surfaced from his past. In 2003, he was moved to the Oblates' offices in Washington, D.C. where he worked at the switchboard answering phones and in the archives.

Yet even there, Martinez ran into trouble: Within months, he was reprimanded for making off-color, sexual jokes that offended several women and, later, for looking at sexually suggestive pictures of young boys on the Internet and downloading a disk filled with "references to topics dealing with the gay lifestyle," according to the file.

"I don't know who else has time to monitor him, or to what `safe' place we could assign him," the Rev. Charles Banks, the vicar provincial and director of personnel for the Oblates wrote in an exasperated memo.

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