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Hear that hush? Allen & Co. returns to Sun Valley

Money, moguls and #MeToo converge for investment bank’s annual conference

Mark Dee
Jul 6, 2018

Apple CEO Tim Cook, right, strolls through Sun Valley Village with Apple Security Executive Jim Neidig during last year’s Allen & Co. annual conference. This year’s event kicks off Wednesday, July 11. Express photo by Joshua Murdock

Private jets double-parked at Friedman Memorial Airport. Nondisclosure agreements, fresh off the press. You won’t see any formal signs for Allen & Co.’s annual media, business and technology conference, but entering its 36th iteration at Sun Valley Resort, locals know where to look.

Expect the telltale giveaways to continue through the weekend and into next week, as a select cadre of the world’s richest and most powerful converge on the Wood River Valley for the hush-hush affair, slated to start Wednesday.

Though guests rarely say what happens in the Limelight Room of the Sun Valley Inn, the Allen & Co. effect ripples countywide. For many residents, the week of work, ranging from babysitting to catering to guiding gigs, has become a welcome rite of July, complete with boosted wages and, often, a fat tip.

The conference, like the company itself, is secretive. Allen & Co., a private Fifth Avenue investment bank, doesn’t have a website. It counts George Tenet, the former head of the CIA, among its employees. Organizers and staff are contractually bound to silence. The schedule, as always, stays under lock and key. Presentations and panels cover a wide range of topics, but have focused on politics and on the technology, media and telecommunications sector—the bank’s specialty.

Still, much of the real business happens outside the classroom, yielding very big and eventually very public results. Time Warner’s doomed merger with AOL is rumored to have grown from the meeting. So was the $250 million purchase of The Washington Post by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world. Last year, Bezos’ top competition for that title shared the same room, as four of Money magazine’s five richest people on the planet came to the conference: Bezos, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Mark Zuckerberg.

For the love of lentils: The little pulse that packs a punch

By HEATHER LARSON POYNER hpoyner@kenoshanews.com

Heather Poyner

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This colorful assortment includes, clockwise from top center: French lentils, split red lentils, masoor red lentils, whole red lentils and green lentils.

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Mediterranean Lentil Soup

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Somewhere on the lower levels of the shelves in the dry bean aisle of the grocery story, lentils are lying in wait.

They are waiting to be discovered — or at least more widely recognized — as the flavorful, versatile and nutritious food they are.

Once known as “poor person’s food,” lentils are growing into an “it food” among foodies, vegetarians, vegans and flexitarians (those who are primarily vegetarian but choose to eat meat occasionally). One variety, the French Le Puy lentil, even comes with a “stamp of authenticity” on an artfully designed package.

In the past year, lentils have grown to become one of my personal favorite foods as an ingredient and as a stand-alone star.

I began by checking out recipes relying less on meat and more on plant proteins and was drawn to exotic-sounding dishes found in “Forks Over Knives” (Del Sroufe, 2012). These included Red Lentil Soup, Ethiopian Lentil Stew and Minty-Lemon Lentils with Spinach.

Exploring these recipes, I found that as well as offering flavor and texture, lentils are quite easy to work with.

I discovered that lentils are packed with protein as well as other nutrients, but I also discovered that some of my friends and colleagues were not in the know about their amazing qualities.

I took pity on the poor lentils and wanted to sing their praises.

Seeking experts on the matter, I found the USA Dry Pea & Lentil Council, based in Moscow, Idaho. Jeff Rumney, the council’s vice president of marketing, confirmed that lentil consumption and knowledge is much higher in other countries.

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Lentils are “a very old food” and one that can grow all over the world, Rumney said. Many cultures incorporate lentils into their diets, ground into flour or eaten whole. “In Sri Lanka they eat lentils 21 times a week — for breakfast, lunch and dinner,” Rumney said.

Lentils are part of the legume family but belong more specifically to the branch known as pulses, which also includes dry peas, beans and chickpeas. Low in fat and high in protein, lentils and other pulses have been an energy food for many cultures over time.

Plentiful, cheap and nutritious, lentils and their other legume cousins have been staple foods for people with limited food resources.

“In literature, proverbs and songs they are constantly referred to as ‘food of the poor’....They have even been included as such in the Kitab al Buhala (Book of Misers),” writes Claudia Roden in her 1968 work, “A Book of Middle Eastern Food.”

In the U.S., lentil production began in Idaho by early settlers of the Seventh Day Adventist church. As vegetarians, they cultivated lentils as a nutrient-dense food source. Today, Montana and North Dakota are the largest lentil-cultivating states.

Retired Idaho priest charged with sex exploitation of child, child porn

Feb 8, 2018
by Catholic News Service

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Students walk into St. Mary's Catholic School in Boise, Idaho, Nov. 2, 2015. Retired priest Fr. W. Thomas Faucher, who was recently charged with sexual exploitation of a child, distributing sexually exploitative material involving children and drug possession, had served as pastor of St. Mary's Parish in Boise. (CNS photo/Chaz Muth)


BOISE, IDAHO — The arrest of a retired Boise Catholic priest on multiple charges of sexual exploitation of a child, distribution of child pornography and drug possession has shocked Catholics in the statewide Diocese of Boise.

"When I first heard of these allegations, I was absolutely stunned," Boise Bishop Peter Christensen said in a statement Feb. 6. He said that "there are no excuses" for the behavior described in the charges.

Fr. Thomas Faucher, 72, was arrested Feb. 2 and charged with 10 counts of sexual exploitation of a child, two counts of distributing sexually exploitative material involving children and two counts of drug possession. "All of the charges, except one of the drug counts, are felonies. If convicted, he faces a lifetime in prison," reported the Idaho Statesman daily newspaper.

Huckleberries: Coeur d’Alene Carousel faces Sunday Rest Law – or not

SUNDAY, OCT. 2, 2016

By D.F. Oliveria daveo@spokesman.com(208) 765-7125

Dave Oliveria (Colin Mulvany / The Spokesman-Review)


With the back-to-the-future Coeur d’Alene Carousel taking shape near Memorial Field, the question had to be asked: What are you going to do about the Idaho law that prevents people from riding merry-go-rounds on Sunday? So Huckleberries asked Cari Fraser of the Carousel Foundation about the “Sunday Rest Law.” Her response was a resounding: “Hunh?” According to several websites, Idaho has a law that prevents the hoi polloi from riding a merry-go-round on Sundays. You can Google it. Originally, the law also banned other entertainment venues, too: theaters, playhouses, dance houses, racetracks, circuses or shows, concert saloons, billiard or pool rooms, bowling alleys, variety halls. Et cetera. When Huckleberries called Kootenai County Prosecutor Barry McHugh to ask about the law, he reacted as Cari did: “Hunh?” Later, Barry found a 1910 court case that was based on the Sunday Rest Law. But he found no evidence that the law was in effect today. The silly law was no laughing matter back in the day. A violator faced a $50 fine and 10 days in jail. In the early 20th century, Idahoans knew that merry-go-rounds were entry-level entertainment for more degenerate rides, like roller coasters and Ferris wheels.

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Idaho city’s ordinance tells pastors to marry gays or go to jail

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times - Monday, October 20, 2014


Coeur d‘Alene, Idaho, city officials have laid down the law to Christian pastors within their community, telling them bluntly via an ordinance that if they refuse to marry homosexuals, they will face jail time and fines.

The dictate comes on the heels of a legal battle with Donald and Evelyn Knapp, ordained ministers who own the Hitching Post wedding chapel in the city, but who oppose gay marriage, The Daily Caller reported.

A federal judge recently ruled that the state’s ban on gay marriage was unconstitutional, while the city of Coeur d‘Alene has an ordinance that prevents discrimination based on sexual preference.

The Supreme Court’s recent refusal to take on gay rights’ appeals from five states has opened the doors for same-sex marriages to go forth.

The Knapps were just asked by a gay couple to perform their wedding ceremony, The Daily Caller reported.

 “On Friday, a same-sex couple asked to be married by the Knapps, and the Knapps politely declined,” The Daily Signal reported. “The Knapps now face a 180-day jail term and a $1,000 fine for each day they decline to celebrate the same-sex wedding.”

The Alliance Defending Freedom has filed a suit in federal court to stop the city from enforcing the fine and jail sentence, saying in a statement from senior legal counsel Jeremy Tedesco that the government has overstepped its bounds, The Daily Caller reported.

“Many have denied that pastors would ever be forced to perform ceremonies that are completely at odds with their faith, but that’s what is happening here — and it’s happened this quickly,” Mr. Tedersco said, The Daily Caller reported.

But the city sees it differently. As far back as May, city officials were insisting that their ordinance is indeed in line with law.

“If you turn away a gay couple, refuse to provide services for them, then in theory you violated our code, and you’re looking at a potential misdemeanor citation,” said Coeur d‘Alene City Attorney Warren Wilson, to KXLY months ago.

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Idaho Pastors Face Jail Time, Thousands in Fines for Not Performing Gay Weddings

BY ANUGRAH KUMAR , CHRISTIAN POST CONTRIBUTOR
October 20, 2014|8:37 am

(PHOTO: REUTERS/ADREES LATIF)

A same-sex couple marries in New York, June 20, 2012.


Two ordained Christian pastors in Idaho have filed a federal lawsuit and a motion for temporarily restraining Coeur d'Alene city officials from forcing them to perform same-sex wedding ceremonies or face prosecution for violating "non-discrimination" laws.

Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed the lawsuit and the motion on behalf of Donald Knapp and his wife, Evelyn, who run Hitching Post Wedding Chapel and have been required by city officials to perform gay ceremonies or face months in jail and/or thousands of dollars in fines.

The city says its non-discrimination ordinance requires them to perform same-sex wedding ceremonies because the courts have overridden Idaho's voter-approved constitutional amendment that affirmed marriage as the union of a man and a woman.

"The government should not force ordained ministers to act contrary to their faith under threat of jail time and criminal fines," ADF Senior Legal Counsel Jeremy Tedesco said in a statement.

"Many have denied that pastors would ever be forced to perform ceremonies that are completely at odds with their faith, but that's what is happening here — and it's happened this quickly," Tedesco added. "The city is on seriously flawed legal ground, and our lawsuit intends to ensure that this couple's freedom to adhere to their own faith as pastors is protected just as the First Amendment intended."

The city is "unconstitutionally coercing" the Knapps to perform same-sex wedding ceremonies "in violation of their religious beliefs, their ordination vows, and their consciences," the lawsuit states.

The couple, both in their 60s, can either violate their religious convictions and ministerial vows by performing gay wedding ceremonies or follow their religious convictions and vows by declining to perform such ceremonies and face up to 180 days in jail and up to $1,000 in fines, it adds.

"Worse, each day the Knapps decline to perform a requested same-sex wedding ceremony, they commit a separate and distinct misdemeanor, subject to the same penalties. Thus, if the Knapps decline a same-sex wedding ceremony for just one week, they risk going to jail for over three years and being fined $7,000," the lawsuit explains.

"The government exists to protect and respect our freedoms, not attack them," Tedesco underlined. "The city cannot erase these fundamental freedoms and replace them with government coercion and intolerance."

It seems the city expects ordained pastors to "flip a switch and turn off all faithfulness to their God and their vows," ADF Legal Counsel Jonathan Scruggs said. "The U.S. Constitution as well as federal and state law clearly stand against that. The city cannot mandate across-the-board conformity to its interpretation of a city ordinance in utter disregard for the guaranteed freedoms Americans treasure in our society."

Compelling the couple to "speak words in ceremonies that they think are immoral is an unconstitutional speech compulsion," Eugene Volokh, the Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, wrote in an op-ed piece on the case for The Washington Post.

"Given that the Free Speech Clause bars the government from requiring public school students to say the pledge of allegiance, or even from requiring drivers to display a slogan on their license plates, the government can't require ministers — or other private citizens — to speak the words in a ceremony, on pain of either having to close their business or face fines and jail time."

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Did Bowe Bergdahl go AWOL in Afghanistan?

After five years as a POW, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is headed home. But the circumstances of his capture by the Taliban in Afghanistan remain unclear, indicating he may have walked away from his base.

By Brad Knickerbocker, Staff writer / June 1, 2014





Jani and Bob Bergdahl speak during a news conference at the White House Saturday about the release of their son, U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, held prisoner by the Taliban since 2009. He was handed over to U.S. special forces by the Taliban in exchange for the release of five Afghan detainees held by the United States.

Carolyn Kaster/AP

For now, the story for US Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is one of physical and mental recovery and reunion with his family.

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But very soon it will involve debriefings about the nearly five years of his captivity by Taliban fighters, who apparently held him in Pakistan as well as Afghanistan, where his infantry unit had been engaged in combat.

Military and intelligence experts will want to know how he was treated, anything he can tell them about his captors, and what he learned about insurgent capabilities.

But for the young soldier – 23 when he became a prisoner of war, now 28 – those debriefings also will include difficult questions about how and why he happened to be in a position where he fell into the hands of Taliban fighters.

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There have been no reports that he was captured during direct combat, that the “fog of war” had put him involuntarily in a vulnerable location.

At this point in the developing narrative, Sgt. Bergdahl seems to have grown disillusioned with the mission, bitter about the Army and especially higher ranking enlisted men and officers, and simply walked off – gone “outside the wire” or protective base limits – and disappeared.

That could indicate that he had gone AWOL (Absence Without Leave), also referred to as “Unauthorized Absence” (UA), which could bring charges under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).

This scenario – it’s important to note that it has not been confirmed – is based on detailed reporting in 2012 by Rolling Stone magazine, which included interviews with Bergdahl’s fellow soldiers as well as apparently lengthy conversations with his parents in Idaho, who shared e-mails they had exchanged with him up until his disappearance.

“The US army is the biggest joke the world has to laugh at,” he wrote from Afghanistan. “It is the army of liars, backstabbers, fools, and bullies. The few good SGTs are getting out as soon as they can, and they are telling us privates to do the same."

"I am sorry for everything here," Bergdahl wrote at another point "These people need help, yet what they get is the most conceited country in the world telling them that they are nothing and that they are stupid, that they have no idea how to live."

In his final message, Bergdahl refers to having mailed home boxes with his uniforms and books.

“Feel free to open them, and use them,” he wrote.

Later that night, Bowe Bergdahl’s father Bob Bergdahl, a UPS truck driver, sent his son an email from their home in Hailey, Idaho, with the subject line: OBEY YOUR CONSCIENCE!

"Dear Bowe," he wrote. "In matters of life and death, and especially at war, it is never safe to ignore ones' conscience. Ethics demands obedience to our conscience. It is best to also have a systematic oral defense of what our conscience demands. Stand with like minded men when possible. dad."

“Ordinary soldiers, especially raw recruits facing combat for the first time, respond to the horror of war in all sorts of ways,” Rolling Stone observed. Bowe Bergdahl “decided to walk away.”

“In the early-morning hours of June 30th, according to soldiers in the unit, Bowe approached his team leader not long after he got off guard duty and asked his superior a simple question: If I were to leave the base, would it cause problems if I took my sensitive equipment?

“Yes, his team leader responded – if you took your rifle and night-vision goggles, that would cause problems.

“Bowe returned to his barracks, a roughly built bunker of plywood and sandbags. He gathered up water, a knife, his digital camera and his diary. Then he slipped off the outpost.”

When his absence was discovered, Bergdahl was listed as “DUSTWUN” – Duty Status: Whereabouts Unknown.

Search parties were sent out. The search included drone aircraft as well as F-18 and F-15 fighter jets.

Reports from Afghan intelligence sources indicated that Bergdahl had been captured by the Taliban, later confirmed by intercepted radio conversations and the first videos of him being held.

Speaking at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan Sunday, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said the US had to move quickly to rescue Bergdahl as part of a prisoner transfer involving five mid- to high- level Taliban being sent to Qatar from the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Bergdahl's "safety and health were both in jeopardy, and in particular his health was deteriorating,” Secretary Hagel said.

"Our first priority is assuring his well-being and his health and getting him reunited with his family," Hagel said. "Other circumstances that may develop and questions — those will be dealt with later."

Those “other circumstances” and “questions” involve how the young and apparently disillusioned soldier came to be taken a prisoner of war.

Not surprisingly, the issue has stirred considerable discussion and debate.

“Though Americans may be celebrating the release of the only American soldier held prisoner in Afghanistan by the Taliban, the reaction of the military community has been mixed at best,” Army Times reports.

“Within an hour of the announcement that Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was handed over to U.S. special forces by the Taliban Saturday evening, Army Times’ Facebook page lit up with hundreds of comments reacting to the news,” the publication reported. “Most centered on the circumstances surrounding Bergdahl's capture, which remain something of a mystery. There has been some speculation that he willingly walked away from his unit, raising the question of whether he could be charged with being absent without leave (AWOL) or desertion.”

“I'm happy for the Bergdahl family and friends to have their loved one home, but I am angered deeply at Bowe…. It disgusts me greatly that a man that turned his back on his brothers, unit, and country is going to be hailed as a hero/saint,” wrote one Army Times Facebook visitor.

But another post summed up the situation this way:

“This guy may have made a tremendously bad decision, but I'm willing to bet that what he's endured since then has been far worse than anything the US or military judicial system would have imposed. Have some heart.”


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Easter Presentations Touch Thousands

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SPOKANE, Wash., - Four UCC churches participated in Easter outreach events that shared the good news of our risen Savior. Nearly 4,000 visitors attended three events in Spokane, Cheney, and Coeur D'Alene.

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Idahoans to face Haiti judge today: Group's intentions questioned; pastor speaks up in defense

By Nate Poppino - Times-News writer Posted: Monday, February 1, 2010 2:00 am (0)

Renea Kelley wipes her eye while praying during a Magic Valley Baptist Association 5th Sunday Sing held at Eastside Baptist Church in Twin Falls. Members of Eastside and Central Valley Baptist Church in Meridian are being held in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after attempting to take children outside the country without proper papers. (Drew Godleski/ For the Times-News)

Members of two southern Idaho churches on Sunday bowed their heads in prayer for their friends and fellow believers, imprisoned in Haiti after trying to take a group of Haitian children outside the country.

Meanwhile, the jailed Americans prepared to face a Haitian judge today, while the orphanage that took in the 33 children reported some still had living parents.

The 10 U.S. Baptists, including people from Eastside Baptist Church in Twin Falls and Central Valley Baptist Church in Meridian and residents of Texas and Kansas, were arrested by Haitian officials on Friday while trying to take the children across the border to the Dominican Republic without proper paperwork. The group said it simply was trying to rescue them from the earthquake-ravaged country, but Haitian Prime Minister Max Bellerive and other officials said they believe the Americans were part of an illegal adoption ring.

Detained members of Eastside’s congregation include Pastor Paul Thompson, 43, his son Silas Thompson, 19, and Steve McMullen, 56.

Associate Pastor John Martinez urged his congregation Sunday morning to focus their “minds’ attention and hearts’ affection on God,” because “God already knew what was going to happen. Nothing has surprised him or caught him off guard.”

“He is the one who can make a difference, and he will,” Martinez said.

Concerned for their missing pastor and peers, church members prayed over a variety of Bible passages such as Romans 8:35 — “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?” Later in the day, they found support from other Baptist churches in the Magic Valley during a previously scheduled evening fellowship session.

Three Eastside members and others from Twin Falls had stayed in the Dominican Republic and were not arrested, including Helen Requa’s husband John.

“He’s 80 years old” and still worked to get the new site ready for the children, she said.

Church members told the Times-News they were surprised by the weekend’s developments, but believe their missing members will be all right in the end.

“It was such a shock, because I thought things were going so well,” church member Audrey Kinch said.

“I’m just excited to see them have the chance to share God’s glory with people,” said member Blake Burton.

The nonprofit New Life Children’s Refuge was formed just last November, according to the Idaho Secretary of State’s records. The churches became involved because the founders of the proposed orphanage are members of Central Valley.

New Life’s plan, as posted online, involved gathering “100 orphans from the streets and collapsed orphanages” of Haiti and then driving them to a leased hotel in the Dominican Republic until the actual orphanage was built.

Speaking to reporters Sunday afternoon, Central Valley Senior Pastor Clint Henry defended the Americans’ actions and said the church hopes the “false charges” are resolved during the group’s court appearance today.

“My concern is: How long is this going to take?” he said of the process the detained face in Haiti.

While the earthquake has brought a tide of support to Haiti, New Life’s plans had been in the works for months prior to the disaster. After the earthquake happened, the church responded to the need by sending a team, Henry said.

“The entire reason for going down at this time is to try to rescue children in their suffering,” he said.

Some believe otherwise, and since the arrests, Henry has had to field phone calls to the church with obscenities and false accusations, he said.

On top of the Haitian government’s belief that the Americans were illegally trafficking children, other aid groups in the country criticized New Life’s plan as foolhardy, especially with recent restrictions aimed at restoring Haitian families after the quake. Bellerive’s personal authorization is now required for the departure of any child, but the Baptists hadn’t been following news reports and didn’t think they needed Haitian permission to move the children.

The children, ages 2 months to 12 years old, were taken to an orphanage run by Austrian-based SOS Children’s Villages, where spokesman George Willeit said they arrived “very hungry, very thirsty, some dehydrated.” The orphanage worked Sunday with the Haitian government, the United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross and others to reunite them with their families.

“One (8-year-old) girl was crying, and saying, ‘I am not an orphan. I still have my parents.’ And she thought she was going on a summer camp or a boarding school or something like that,” Willeit said.

U.S. officials and members of Congress are reportedly working to sort out the situation. Mike Mathews, a staffer for U.S. Sen. Jim Risch and an Eastside member, said Risch, fellow Sen. Mike Crapo and Rep. Mike Simpson are all following the issue.

Complicating the matter is the religious nerve the New Life proposal touched in a country that has received much of its aid in ways that challenge its own rich religious traditions.

Many at Eastside expressed their hope Sunday that the imprisoned group would spread Christianity among the Haitians. And Thompson clearly viewed proselytizing as an important aspect of the trip, according to posts on a church-linked blog and Facebook in the days after the quake.

“My prayer: ‘The Haitians shall know that He is the Lord,’” he posted on Facebook on Jan. 21.

At least one Voodoo leader found the orphanage plan — to give each child “new life in Christ” while facilitating their adoptions by “loving Christian families” in the United States — deeply offensive.

“These types of people believe they need to save our souls and our bodies from ourselves,” said Max Beauvoir, head of Haiti’s Voodoo Priest’s Association, which represents thousands of priests and priestesses. “We need compassion, not proselytizing now, and we need aid — not just aid going to people of the Christian faith.”

Staff writer Ben Botkin contributed to this report.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Posted in News, Local on Monday, February 1, 2010 2:00 am Updated: 10:20 pm.

Source:http://www.magicvalley.com/news/article_56f3102e-ef8e-5b59-846f-971e13b1e4c0.html

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Haitian officials and U.S. diplomats are now weighing sending 10 American Baptists, mostly Idaho residents, to the U.S. to be prosecuted, the Associated Press reports.

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The 10, including members of Eastside Baptist Church in Twin Falls and Central Valley Baptist Church in Meridian, were arrested while trying to take children out of Haiti without proper paperwork. The Americans have said they simply wanted to rescue orphans from the earthquake-ravaged country and take them to a planned orphanage in the Dominican Republic.
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Haiti's communications minister told the AP the group might have to be sent to the U.S. because his country's court system has been crippled by the Jan. 12 earthquake.

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Meanwhile, Jorge Puello, a lawyer in the Dominican Republic representing the group, says one is a diabetic who fainted and has been hospitalized. Puello also alleged the group has been treated poorly, kept in a small room at Haiti's judicial police headquarters without adequate medical care or food.

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Posted in Local on Monday, February 1, 2010 10:35 am Updated: 10:40 am.

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901 earthquakes shake up Yellowstone National Park

written by: Jeffrey Wolf written by: Chris Vanderveen 9 hrs ago

DENVER - Nine hundred plus earthquakes and counting: that's the word from the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory.

Since Sunday, there have been 901 measured earthquakes underneath Yellowstone National Park. The largest has been of magnitude 3.8. The swarm is now comparable to an earthquake swarm located in the Yellowstone Lake area a year ago.
"The swarm earthquakes are likely the result of slip on pre-existing faults rather than underground movement of magma," reported the United States Geological Survey on Thursday. "Currently there is no indication of premonitory volcanic or hydrothermal activity."

Two of the strongest earthquakes were measured on Wednesday night. Eight of the earthquakes have measured a magnitude of 3.0 or more.

While the vast majority of the earthquakes have been too small to feel, people in and around the park have reported feeling a few of them. The earthquakes have centered near the northwest edge of the Yellowstone Caldera.

The USGS believes there is nothing to indicate any serious cause for concern. Earthquake swarms have been quite common in the area since the time of the last major eruption 640,000 years ago.

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Source:http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=131231&catid=188

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P.S. I accept the article as a fact; However, 640,000 years?

How do they know such preposterous claims? How can they measure that?

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The Earth is not that old. It is approximately 6, 800 years old, according to Jewish scholars.

I would rather believe the Bible account of Earth's age, than believe a deluded college trained new age-humanist Darwinist expert.

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