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A Thing of Beauty: The Art of Relationships from BYU Family-Life Professor Chelom Leavitt
A relationship is like a great piece of art, says BYU family-life professor Chelom Leavitt. In a painting—and in a relationship—both light and dark hues are necessary to create a rich, beautiful masterpiece. As we share both sorrows and joys in a relationship, we notice how each brings out different details of our partners. Little moments together create joy in the pain and comfort in the sorrow—they are the brushstrokes that create a beautiful portrait of love.
For more from Chelom Leavitt, who also researches healthy sexuality, read her tips in Y Magazine on healthy ways to talk to kids about sex: https://magazine.byu.edu/article/a-healthy-way-to-talk-to-kids-about-sex/
A Healthy Way to Talk to Kids About Sex
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“I’m thinking to myself, ‘How in the world am I going to do this?’” Leavitt described. “Finally, this strategy comes into my head, and if you’ve got five minutes, I’ll tell you the story.”
The “strategy,” as Leavitt described, involved boarding a plane to Montana in 2017. Upon arrival, Leavitt said he walked onto the reservation for an unscheduled meeting with the president of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe.
FOX 13 News has confirmed the tribal president at the time was Lawrence Jace Killsback.
“And I say to him, ‘I’m here for two reasons,’” Leavitt described. “I said, ‘I’m here to tell you the second reason first, but I’ll tell you the first reason second – but before I tell you the second reason, I’ll tell you a story.’”
Leavitt’s story touched on the importance of family. Then it highlighted his close friendship with former Ukranian president Victor Yuschenko.
“Victor and I have this goal of introducing buffalo into western Ukraine,” Leavitt recounted, “and you’re a sovereign nation, and you have a buffalo herd, and Ukraine is a sovereign nation, and it doesn’t have a buffalo herd, but it wants one, and so I’m here to see if we can form a bilateral agreement between the people of the Northern Cheyenne and the people of Ukraine to introduce buffalo to western Ukraine.”
“At that point, (Killsback) was all ears,” Leavitt continued. “And I said, ‘That’s the second reason why I’m here. The first reason why I’m here is this. We want to adopt one of your people.’”
Leavitt said Killsback gave his blessing, but Tribal Social Services did not.
“Tribal Social Services looked at us and said, ‘We’re not giving you this baby,’” Leavitt said. “I just said, ‘You know what? You are shameless.’ I just let her have it with both barrels… There’s such a prejudice in the Native community about a non-Native adopting a Native.”
As a last-ditch effort, Leavitt said he went back to the tribal president for help.
“(Killsback) said, ‘Listen, the Leavitts are friends of the tribe… They’re assets to the tribe for more than just this,’” Leavitt said. “I left, and five minutes later the phone rang and it was the social worker saying, ‘I think I’ve figured out a way to get this child to you.’”
Leavitt said he took home the child that same day in 2017.
Killsback declined to comment. At the time of the 2020 interview, he was in prison for fraud in an unrelated case.
>Victor and I have this goal of introducing buffalo into western Ukraine
Leavitt is the same county attorney who named himself as the subject of a ritualistic child sex abuse investigation. Last month, he held a press conference to announce he is not a murderer, a cannibal, or an abuser.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2022/01/26/utah-county-attorney/
Utah County Attorney David Leavitt makes quick exit out of Ukraine, but is now stuck in Amsterdam with COVID-19
David Leavitt, who taught law in Ukraine for more than a decade, went to Kyiv to collect documents from his apartment as news of a possible Russian invasion loomed.
When Utah County Attorney David Leavitt decided to go to Ukraine earlier this week to collect documents from his Kyiv apartment, he’d planned for several contingencies in case the city was invaded by the Russian military.
He had extra cash in case the internet went down and the ATMs didn’t work. He’d also rented a car, deciding it safest to not rely on public transportation in case the trains stopped running.
But something unexpected happened that halted what was supposed to be a quick trip to Ukraine to gather a few personal items: Leavitt is stuck in Amsterdam after he tested positive for COVID-19.
It’s the second time Leavitt has been ill with the coronavirus.
Leavitt, who taught in Ukraine with the American Bar Association for more than a decade, has owned an apartment in Kyiv for several years. With news of a threat of a Russian invasion, Leavitt said in an interview on Wednesday that he’d booked the hasty trip to Ukraine to get paperwork proving ownership of his apartment and to collect some personal effects.
“We flew from Salt Lake to Amsterdam and Amsterdam to Kiev,” he said Wednesday, “and spent 24 hours there and got things taken care of then visited with some close friends of ours.”
The capital city felt different than previous visits, Leavitt said of landing in Kyiv. He added that Ukrainian friends seemed nervous.
“It felt like there was a tension,” he said. “A feeling of foreboding. It’s right at the front of everyone’s minds. It’s a sad feeling.”
“There has been so much troop movement recently,” he said. “[Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s tanks have a far easier time going over frozen ground than muddy ground. That’s not something we think of as Americans.”
The county attorney said he decided to go to Ukraine after seeing news that the American Embassy was evacuating families and personnel and that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had moved its missionaries out of the country. He expedited a previously planned trip because he felt he had a window of time where he could go with his sons to collect what they needed from the Kyiv apartment.
The U.S. Embassy issued an alert on Wednesday urging Americans to leave Ukraine as soon as possible, saying “the security situation in Ukraine continues to be unpredictable due to the increased threat of Russian military action.” It further noted the situation could “deteriorate with little notice.”
Leavitt first left Utah on Sunday, flew back out of Ukraine on Tuesday and received a positive COVID-19 test result early Wednesday while in Amsterdam en route back to Salt Lake City. He’s now quarantining in a hotel room near the airport in Amsterdam, but says he’s not sure how long he will be required to stay there.
“Thankfully they have a bathrobe,” he said Wednesday. “Because I literally went with the clothes on my back. And so now my clothes are drip-drying from my hotel room sink.”
During his years teaching in Ukraine, Leavitt said he instructed law students about the principles of American jury trials. The county attorney said it was the Ukrainian law students’ confusion over how plea deals could work in the United States that made him realize the shortcomings of the criminal justice system. He is now outspoken about wanting reform.
“So much of what I do in the United States, as the Utah County Attorney, is directly tied to years in the Ukraine,” he said. “I’m sad about it, because I not only love the Ukranian people, I have worked hard to help the legal system.”
>It’s the second time Leavitt has been ill with the coronavirus.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/04/04/utah-county-attorney/
Utah County Attorney tests positive for the coronavirus
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah County Attorney David Leavitt in his Provo office on Thursday April 11, 2019. Leavitt is making some changes after winning his election. He plans to start a program to get low-level offenders into drug treatment or community service without ever filing criminal charges against them. And he'll start a conviction integrity unit — the second of its kind in Utah — that will look at the conduct of prosecutors and potential cases of wrongful conviction.
Utah County Attorney David Leavitt has tested positive for the coronavirus, his office spokeswoman said Friday evening.
Leavitt had been ill for about 10 days, spokeswoman Sherrie Hall Everett said, and his COVID-19 test came back positive on Friday.
“I think this has been the all-time sickest I have been in my life,” Leavitt said in a statement Friday evening. “I have a lot of sympathy for those who may be fighting this virus and their families. I also hope that we will remember our first responders, medical personnel, and those fighting this pandemic. They are the ones at risk. Let’s not overwhelm the system and follow the guidelines to flatten the curve.”
Leavitt is recovering at home, but Everett said he’s been “pretty sick,” — though has not been hospitalized as of Friday evening.
Leavitt is also running for attorney general. Everett said she’s not sure how his diagnosis will affect that campaign.
She said that most of the attorneys in Leavitt’s office have been working from home for the last several weeks, but they have been notified about his positive test.
As of Friday afternoon, Utah County reported 150 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 11 hospitalizations. There were 45 new cases reported on Friday — a 42% spike from the day prior.
>He plans to start a program to get low-level offenders into drug treatment or community service without ever filing criminal charges against them.
>Leavitt is also running for attorney general.
>The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had moved its missionaries out of the country. He expedited a previously planned trip because he felt he had a window of time where he could go with his sons to collect what they needed from the Kyiv apartment.
https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2022/01/24/rising-tensions-prompt/
Rising tensions prompt LDS Church to move its missionaries out of Ukraine
Many will move to Moldova or elsewhere in Europe.
Amid uncertainty in Ukraine, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is “temporarily reassigning [its] full-time missionaries” to locations outside the country.
The move was made “out of an abundance of caution, as some government embassies in Ukraine are preparing to move certain personnel and their family members,” church spokesman Sam Penrod said Monday in a news release. Many of these proselytizers in the Dnipro and Kyiv/Moldova missions “are being reassigned to missions in Europe, and a few missionaries who are approaching their planned release date will complete their missionary service and return home.”
Young Latter-day Saint proselytizers “who have recently been called to Ukraine will receive a temporary assignment elsewhere,” Penrod said. “Some missionaries will serve in Moldova, which is away from any potential conflict areas.”
The change is “not surprising,” said independent demographer Matt Martinich, a Latter-day Saint living in Colorado Springs who tracks church growth. “Once you see the American Embassy moving its staff out, the church usually follows suit.”
Ever since 2014, Martinich said, when the Utah-based faith moved or released nearly two dozen of its missionaries there — for similar reasons — Ukraine hasn’t been “good for the church.”
There are about 48 congregations and 11,000 Latter-day Saints across the vast country, with the majority living in the capital of Kyiv, the researcher said, “with a smattering of members in other cities.”
There is a temple in Kyiv, which was dedicated in 2010 by then-church President Thomas S. Monson, who called it a “landmark in the maturation of Eastern Europe.” Hundreds of Latter-day Saints attended one of three dedication sessions of the building, which members view as the House of the Lord.
“There is a nice spirit here among you,” Monson said as he ceremoniously put the cornerstone in place in Kyiv. “I’m sensitive to the Spirit. I feel it today. There is no place else I would rather be.”
At the end of Monday’s release, Penrod said, “We pray for a peaceful resolution to the tensions in Ukraine and look forward to when the missionaries may return.”
>LDS Church to move its missionaries out of Ukraine
https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/missionaries-ukraine
The Church of Jesus Christ Is Temporarily Moving Missionaries Out of Ukraine
Many are being reassigned to missions in Europe
Sam Penrod, a spokesman with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, released the following statement to media on Monday, January 24, 2022:
Due to ongoing uncertainty in Ukraine, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is temporarily reassigning full-time missionaries assigned to both the Ukraine Dnipro and Ukraine Kyiv/Moldova missions to locations outside of Ukraine. The decision is made out of an abundance of caution, as some government embassies in Ukraine are preparing to move certain personnel and their family members.
Many of these missionaries are being reassigned to missions in Europe, and a few missionaries who are approaching their planned release date will complete their missionary service and return home. Missionaries who have recently been called to Ukraine will receive a temporary assignment elsewhere. Some missionaries will serve in Moldova, which is away from any potential conflict areas.
We pray for a peaceful resolution to the tensions in Ukraine and look forward to when the missionaries may return.
President Volodymyr Zelensky and Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, greeting each other during the E.U.-Ukraine summit in Kyiv on Thursday.
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FBI profiler believes Unabomber was actually an incel
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2023-01-23/covid-19-cut-known-human-trafficking-but-ukraine-war-a-risk-u-n
COVID-19 Cut Known Human Trafficking, but Ukraine War a Risk: U.N
The COVID-19 pandemic led to the first drop in the known number of human-trafficking victims in 20 years as trafficking opportunities and policing were reduced, but the Ukraine war has probably now caused a new surge, a U.N. report said on Tuesday.
The number of detected trafficking victims fell 11% in 2020, the most recent year for which data is available in most countries, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said in its seventh Global Report on Trafficking in Persons.
"In 2020, for the first time, the number of victims detected globally decreased," the UNODC said in a summary of the report, adding that the biggest drops were reported in low- and middle-income countries, particularly in south and central America but also sub-Saharan Africa, east Asia and the Pacific region.
"This change in trends could be the result of three different factors affecting especially low- and medium- income countries during the pandemic: lower institutional capacity to detect victims, fewer opportunities for traffickers to operate due to COVID-19 preventive restrictions, and some trafficking forms moving to more hidden and less likely to be detected locations," it said.
Initial data for 2021 from just 20 countries suggests a further fall in 2021 in parts of southeast Asia, central America and the Caribbean, it said.
https://www.abc4.com/news/local-news/utah-county-attorney-quarantining-in-netherlands-after-contracting-covid-for-the-second-time/
Utah County Attorney quarantining in the Netherlands after contracting COVID for second time
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) – Utah County Attorney David Leavitt has announced that contracted COVID-19 for the second time on Wednesday.
Leavitt was on his way to Ukraine to attend to a family matter and learned that he was positive for COVID-19 while the trip stalled in Amsterdam, a press release states.
Leavitt will be remaining in the Netherlands for the remainder of his quarantine and will be able to return back to Utah once that period is over.
“We had urgent family matters there and in light of the threat of invasion of Russia, I jumped on a plane with my sons. Our original plan was to take care of the matter over the weekend,” said Leavitt.
The state attorney spent many years living in Ukraine for a program that trained attorneys in the criminal justice system.
Leavitt says he will isolate until he tests negative.
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