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The Columbia College Athletic Department will host a Salute to Security Day on Saturday, Jan. 24. All fire, police and military members are invited to attend Cougar and City of Columbia Fire vs. Police Department basketball games and festivities for free.
The Salute to Security Day begins with a 12:30 p.m. basketball game between the Columbia Fire and Columbia Police departments; a year's worth of bragging rights are at stake. At 2 p.m., the Lady Cougars tip off, followed by a men's game at 4 p.m. For the general public, donations of household goods for the local Ronald McDonald House will be accepted in lieu of admission to the Fire vs. Police and Lady Cougars game. Items needed include paper towels, Ziploc sandwich bags, paper bowls, 4-gallon trash bags, 40-watt vanity bulbs, travel size toothpaste, single-wrapped toothbrushes, liquid laundry detergent and daily shower cleaner. Cash donations for the Ronald McDonald House also will be accepted during the first two games.
About 50 soldiers, sailors and airmen from Columbia College's Fort Leonard Wood campus will travel to Columbia via a limousine bus to enjoy the afternoon basketball games.
Ryan McDannold, assistant director of athletics in charge of operations and development, said he organized the event to show the college's appreciation for the community's security forces.
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Worth Worrying About?
The late-June release of the Supreme Court's more controversial or culturally salient decisions has become a major media event—like the Oscars, or the election-day tallying of the midnight ballots from Dixville Notch. Refreshing, if archaic, rules prohibiting cameras and live broadcasting from the Court cause tens of thousands to glue themselves to celebrity law-reporters' Twitter feeds and the SCOTUSBlog webcast.
That said, and the end-of-session drama notwithstanding, few Court-watchers or constitutional-law experts were actually surprised when, in United States v. Windsor, a narrow majority ruled that Section 3 of The Defense of Marriage Act, which comprehensively defined "marriage" and "spouse" in federal law to exclude same-sex partners, was unconstitutional. Although there were some puzzling and fuzzy "federalism" and "state sovereignty" aspects of Justice Anthony Kennedy's opinion for the majority, the bottom line of the Court's holding was fairly clear and widely expected: a narrow majority of justices agreed that the challenged section of DOMA unconstitutionally deprives some persons of the "equal liberty" protected by the Fifth Amendment. In Hollingsworth v. Perry, the Court let stand a trial-court ruling invalidating California's Proposition 8, which outlawed same-sex marriage.
As it happened, the Court's decisions in Windsor and Perry, were announced in the middle of the second annual "Fortnight for Freedom," during which the U.S. Catholic bishops have urged Catholics and their fellow citizens to focus on the importance of, and the threats to, the fundamental human right to religious freedom. Do the Court's Windsor and Perry decisions, and the recent moves in several state courts and legislatures to include same-sex unions in the legal definition of "marriage," constitute such a threat?
It might seem that they do not, because—as President Barack Obama observed in his statement responding to the rulings—"how religious institutions define and consecrate marriage has always been up to those institutions" and "nothing about [the Court's] decision—which applies only to civil marriages—changes that." It is true that core and unlikely-to-change First Amendment doctrines would almost certainly prevent any attempts by the states or the federal government to direct or limit "how religious institutions define and consecrate marriage" for their own internal, "religious" purposes. Indeed, some have argued—as Paul Griffiths did, for example, in Commonweal ("Legalize Same-Sex Marriage," June 28, 2004)—that both the church's freedom and "Catholic marriage practice" could be helped rather than hurt by the "disentanglement of sacramental marriage from state-sponsored contractual marriage" and, relatedly, by the legal recognition of same-sex marriage.
Griffiths is right to warn Christians against allowing debates about the government's treatment and definition of marriage to distract us from, or absolve us for, the troubling fact that we too often fail, in our "practice," to bear effective witness to what he calls the "seductive beauty" of the traditional understanding of marriage. I worry, though, that—as the editors of Commonweal have observed ("Protecting Religious Freedom," July 29, 2011)—the dangers to religious freedom posed by the legal redefinition of marriage are real and that "disentanglement" is not a stable or feasible response to these dangers.
In an important 2008 volume called Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Emerging Conflicts, an ideologically diverse collection of scholars identified carefully the many "potential church-state conflicts" that have been and will be "triggered by redefining legal marriage." Again, these conflicts need not involve direct regulation of sacraments or rituals in order to challenge, threaten, or undermine believers' and communities' religious liberty. Instead, what is likely to happen—what is already happening, in fact—is that these conflicts will erupt and play out not within religious communities themselves but in the sphere of civil society, where they will involve, for example, requirements for professional licensing and accreditation, limits on religiously inspired expression and advocacy regarding marriage in public education and employment, conditions on otherwise generally available public benefits or on cooperation between governments and religious social-welfare agencies, expansions of the wide range of antidiscrimination laws and conscientious objections to those laws' application, and attacks on the charitable and tax-exempt status of religious entities that adhere in their practices and teaching to the traditional view of marriage.
In recent years, a group of law professors (including me) with differing views on the policy merits of changing the legal definition of marriage has presented to legislators in various states a detailed analysis of these and other live and potential conflicts, and urged them to include in any new legislation not merely superfluous affirmations of churches' authority over their own sacraments but also "meaningful religious freedom protections," for both individuals and institutions, in both the private sphere of worship and belief and the public square of civil society. The group's letters, in other words, take seriously the acknowledgment by President Obama and other prominent same-sex-marriage supporters that there are fair-minded and decent people on both sides of the argument and remind lawmakers that both prudence and principle counsel protection and respect for the consciences of religious believers and the distinctiveness of religious institutions.
These interventions have had nontrivial but admittedly modest effect. They have been criticized by some same-sex marriage advocates for privileging the irrational and atavistic objections of some over the full equality of others and, at the same time, they have been given low marks by some proponents of traditional marriage for offering naïve and premature concessions to an aggressive and uncompromising political and cultural campaign. Nevertheless, I continue to believe that it is important and worthwhile for those who see and embrace the connection between human dignity and the human right to religious freedom to do what they can—even if it does not seem like very much—to protect that right in and through law. Such work is not inconsistent with, and need not be counter-productive to, equally important efforts to, charitably and prudently, align the positive law with the truth about the person and enlist it in the service of the common good.
Justice Kennedy's Windsor opinion and much of the commentary celebrating it provide good reasons to be wary and worried. The limited scope of the Court's decision should not obscure the sweeping nature of its reasoning. At the end of the day, Section 3 of DOMA was struck down not so much because it intruded upon the policymaking prerogatives of the sovereign states but because—in Kennedy's words—it "humiliates," "demeans," "disapprov[es]," and "seeks to injure." It reflects, he charged, a "bare congressional desire to harm" and "writes inequality into the entire United States Code." It is unconstitutional, really, not because it imposes a "one size fits all" definition and thereby hamstrings state-level experimentation, but because the Court majority thinks it reflects unsound, unreasonable, unenlightened, and unattractive opinions about marriage and family.
It is easier to respect religious freedom in law and policy when everyone agrees or when governments do not do very much. With disagreement and regulation, however, inevitably comes conflict between religious commitments and legal requirements and, when it comes, the majority tends to take care of itself. What about the rest? In a constitutional democracy like ours, we are generally willing to absorb some costs and suffer some inconveniences in order to accommodate the invocation of rights by dissenting or idiosyncratic minorities, especially when the majority thinks that it has a stake in those rights. For example, America still takes a robustly libertarian approach to the freedom of speech, and protects offensive and worthless expression to an anomalous extent, because most Americans still think that protecting misuses and abuses of the right is "worth it."
However, as religious liberty increasingly comes to be seen as something clung to by a few rather than cherished and exercised by many, as religious traditions and teachings start to strike many as the expensive and even dangerous concerns of quirky, alien margin-dwellers, and as the "benefits" of allowing religious believers' objections or religious institutions' independence to stand in the way of the majority's preferred policies begin to look more like extractions by small special-interest groups than broadly shared public goods, we should expect increasing doubts about whether religious liberty is really "worth it." We should be concerned that the characterization by the majority in Windsor of DOMA's purpose and of the motives of the overwhelming and bipartisan majority of legislators that supported it reflects a view that those states—and religious communities—that reject the redefinition of marriage are best regarded as backward and bigoted, unworthy of respect. Such a view is not likely to generate compromise or accommodation and so it poses a serious challenge to religious freedom.
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Richard W. Garnett is professor of law and associate dean of the University of Notre Dame Law School.
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If religious freedom encompasses dictating to those who don't hold your doctrines or beliefs what their beliefs and practices should be, then it should be curtailed.
Catholic Christianity has co-existed in many places in Europe and Latin America in which marriage is a civil action. Religious matrimonial ceremonies are strictly a voluntary matter and are not, in and of themselves, actions that determine whether people are married in the eyes of the state and, therefore, eligible for the rights, benefits and responsibilities associated therewith.
Cleary written by a fellow who knows a thing or two about choosing the most useful and subtle phrase to make a point. Until doom was dragged center stage in the last two paragraphs. Was that really necessary?
More to the point. It is unhelpful to toss around phrases such as "religious freedom" without defining terms. Start with "religion". If you mean Christianity, say so. If mean, fire worshipers, say so. As now, it has always been very popular to throw in the word "freedom" whenever the need to raise a bit of ire arose. The word itself in the real world is of no use whatever without its absolute connection to "responsiblity".
The decrease in devotion to religion can easily be attributed in large part to those individuals and groups who claimed devotion to a particular religion that best met their material needs while they utterly ignored the responsiblities that religion required of them. Is it really a surprise these same individuals now suggest there is some grand force beyond our control diminishing our ability to recognize and act upon useful truths? Really? Was it not their charade that helped us to delude ourselves in the first place?
We may demand as much religious freedom as our responsiblity to our religion grants us. Assuming, of course, God and Thor are not synonymous. Greatfully, the new Pope seems more than intelligent enough to have figured that one out. I'm guessing that's one of the reasons he smiles often.
Let me understand: it is only with the arrival of same sex marriage as an idea accepted by the mainstream that we have all of this discussion about religious liberty, that we have florists, photographers and others citing their religious liberty as a reason to not provide services to gay couples. Civil law has long protected people from discrimination based on marital status, which includes divorce and remarried states. No one argued religious liberty concerns, no secular business ever argued for a need to discriminate against "adulterous" (remarried) couples.
One can dress it up in the fine cloth of religious liberty, but the reality is that people don't want to have to civilly recognize same sex marriages specifically, and will use a general principal of religious liberty to justify that discrimination. They will wind up reaping the whirlwind by establishing the precedent that religious liberty means the ability to discriminate based on religion. It would be much better for people who don't want to recognize same sex marriages to simply state that they specifically want the right to exclude gays than to make general arguments based on religious liberty.
If religious freedom encompasses dictating to those who don't hold your doctrines or beliefs what their beliefs and practices should be, then it should be curtailed.
And how is this construction different?
If same-sex marriage encompasses dictating to those who don't hold your doctrines or beliefs what their beliefs and practices should be, then it should be curtailed.
The words "humiliates, demeans and seeks to injure" is taken out of context. These words were used to describe the "discrimination" involved in denying Federal benefits to U.S. citizens (same sex couples) who are civilly married in a state, while these same Federal benefits are provided to U.S. citizens (heterosexual couples) who are civilly married in a state. The same concept of discrimination applies to denying the right of same sex couples to adopt children from a religious organization who sponors adoptions. Both cases involve civil law, non-discrimination and other regulations.
The other question is "what religuous freedoms are we talking about" as Mightbe suggested. In other words, what religions are we talking about and what freedoms within such religions are we talking about? Some religions permit same sex marriages while other do not. Within the Catholic Church, the majority of Catholics don't have a problem with same sex civil marriages. The RCC hierarchy is against same sex civil marriages because they assert, unsubtantially, that such unions will undermine traditional marriages and the upbring of children as we know it, among other reasons.
The issue was never about the right of religuous institutions from exercising their religuous freedom. It was all about civil law in a pluralistic society.
Bruce: how exactly does someone entering into a CIVIL marriage that has nothing to do with your religious beliefs curtail those beliefs?
Do you believe the same for remarriage of those who have divorced? How about those who marry with absolutely not intention/capability of procreation?
There is nothing under the SC cases dealing with DOMA or Prop 8 that require you to give religious recognition or assent to same-sex marriage. But it does prevent you from preventing a CIVIL action .... just like a divorce .... from happening.
If a gay couple becoming legally married has no impact on a heterosexual married couple, why does a person who declines to participate in the gay couple's wedding harm them in any way? Why shouldn't a person who does not accept same sex marriage as good in the eyes of god be allowed to simply retire from the field, rather than being punished through criminal fines and imprisonment for the expressive action of sitting it out? Forcing someone to say something tehy disagree with violates freedom of speech, and forcing someone to do something they believe is sinful violates freedom of religion.
We are facing real criminal prosecutions of real people for simply declining to be involved in same sex marriage ceremonies. The gay couples are not being affected adversely. Every evidence is that they have been able to find substitute servicesa that were fully adequate from other persons who don't have the same religious convictions as the dissenters. So the government is imposing pain on people not to vindicate the right to same sex marriage, but to tell people they must forfeit their conscience if they are going to offer their services in the free market.
Would the Attorney General of Washington State prosecute someone who refused to supply services to abortion clinics, or to companies that employ child and slave labor in other countries? The AG has announced that he is now the Thought Police, the new Gestapo, and that anyone who fails to give the proper salute to same sex couples will be sent to jail.
Does the AG actually think this will end the problem if he intimidates people into providing services under protest? What if the services aren't as nice as the gay couple expected them to be? Is the AG going to be putting people in jail as a substitute for a bad review on Angie's List? The AG is undermining the rule of law by demonstrating he has no concern for individual rights or fairness. Furthermore, he is turning gay couples into tyrants in the eyes of the larger community, and promoting division. The more intolerant he is, the less accepting the rest of the community will be of the gay couples who threaten to coerce them against their will.
It might have been helpful to explain how U.S. law already accommodates religious objections to, say, divorce.
Oh, right. It doesn't.
The solution to the same-sex marriage dilemma in the United States is to treat all couples aspiring to a legal relationship the same way. Couples intending to wed go to the local authority and get a license to marry. This is not a marriage. The local magistrate can perform that service, but more commonly, the couple's clergy who are authorized by the state to sign the marriage certificate, attesting to the contract, performs the ceremony. The solution is for states to dispense with licenses, revoke clergy authorizations, and require all couples, gay and straight, who desire to wed to make application for and undertake a civil union witnessed by the local magistrate. In one stroke, this would remove the dispute over same-sex marriage from the political arena. If a religious wedding is desired, the couple will have to take it up with their pastor or, in the case of the gay couple, find clergy disposed to perform the ceremony. A civil union requirement for all couples is long overdue.
This is done in many other countries.
Raymond: any employee of an agency that grants marriage licenses is bound to treat all applicants who meet the posted requirements equally. Choosing not to do that is a violation of the conditions of their job. If they cannot do what they are paid to do, then they should find another job.
Any business owner who is open to the public is not free to discriminate just because they don't like a customer's looks, age, race, height or any other conditions that are not relevant to the services being provided.
As BobN stated about divorce .....
The difference is biology vs theology!
The author professes great concern that those states and institutions that reject the "redefinition of marriage"--that is, the expansion of the right to CIVIL marriage--may be seen as "backward and bigoted, unworthy of respect."
Compared with what gay couples have suffered through being refused civil marriage, I admit to being underwhemed by that danger to the opponents of civil marriage.
If a state refuses rights to its citizens that are given in other states, rights whose denial clearly produce harm (refusal of inheritance rights, as in Windsor, or refusal to let a spouse see his/her spouse in the hospital, share benefits with a sick spouse, or have access to any of the other thousand or so rights that come with civil marriage), on the basis of sexual orientation, that state may indeed be seen as backward. More to the point, if those who block those rights do so on religious grounds, they are violating, or attempting to violate, the separation of church and state.
If an institution such as a church insists on attempting to deny the civil rights of citizens, including citizens who do not belong to that church, it is violating, or attempting to violate, the separation of church and state. That way lies theocracy, and theocracy has a far worse record of offenses against human freedom (and against religious freedom, for anyone but those who are running the theocracy) than democracy; those who oppose changes in civil marriage on religious grounds would do well to remember that.
As an American citizen who upholds the separation of church and state, I find those actions, though not those people, unworthy of respect.
As a Christian, I find those actions lacking in compassion, generosity, and agape. I do not find them worthy of respect any more than I found opposition to Loving v. Virginia, another case regarding civil marriage, worthy of respect. I do not find the current formulation of "natural law" to be more important than the core Gospel principles of love, justice, and willingness to see all things made new. I hope that when my brothers and sisters in Christ see that civil marriage for gay people does not harm them in any real and significant way, they will start acting in ways I can respect.
No one has to support gay marriage. One only has to declare that he/she believes it is unConstitutional, just like Obama did with DOMA.
SCOTUS doesn't have the authority to make laws that are against the nature of the universe and no one has to adhere to it. No sane person will ever condone gay marriage just as no sane person ever condoned marriage.
LGBT rights are very different from the Civil Rights of the 1960's and of abolition--both were backed by the major religions of the world and were brought to the forefront by those outside the people being persecuted. --Rev. Martin Luther King, John Brown. Just read Uncle Tom's Cabin--largely responsible for a world-wide outcry against slavery.
Being gay--a sexual behavior, an act, a distorted affection and affectation is more like calling an abhorence of nose-pickers discrimination.
The gay couple who sued their "friend," the local baker, when she declined to bake a cake for their gay "marriage" are the nastiest people I have ever heard of. Who does that? Where's the tolerance and understanding of her beliefs? Don't they have any class? They knew the baker and bought her goods for a long time. they knew her beliefs--they picked on her to make a point. That's plain evil. No jury will ever find her guilty--no person in the country will ever forget the gay couple's treachery either. I'd be careful of the food you force people to make--they will get the last laugh.
There are a lot of problems in the gay community that are being swept under the rug. How about a little honesty? How about we start to discuss the rampant AIDS and HIV transmittal to children under the age of eighteen in the gay community? How about the insurance rate for gay people is increased just like the rate for smokers is--because of factual scientific data. Let's make things really equal and dispense with the pretense.
. . . just as no sane person ever condoned abortion.
. . . just as no sane person ever condoned abortion.
Separation of Church and State means keeping the government out of the Church's business. The Church's business is part of what happens in a civil society. Secularism is a "religious" belief system as well. No law has the right to shove any religion down anyone's throat against their conscience. Conscoence protections are meant to aide tghose who support self-evident truths. Natural laws are self-evident truths. Seems to me that you are a bit confused which would also explain your entire tirade.
Same sex marriage accepted by the mainstream? No one accepts it. Everyone thinks it's really, really weird.
well it won't be easy once we have all states and the federal governments legally upholding the right to two human beings of adult age "registering" as a married couple. But back in the 1950ies in Brown vs Brown, separate but equal was ruled unconstitutioal and it took decades to convince Christains, intergration in education, at lunch counters, private business, housing, health and all goverment agencies now recognize the equal dignity of all human beings. Isn't that what being a Christian is all about? This isn't about marriage--it is about human dignity "made in the image of God".
Calling people insane is extremely uncharitable.
Secularism isn't a religious belief system. It is a system of allowing people of different faiths to live together and govern themselves in a shared state. Neither the Catholics, nor the Lutherans, nor the Calvinists, nor the Jews, nor the Muslims, nor the Hindus, nor the atheists are allowed to dominate the others by forcing them to live by their religious practices. In order to impliment a policy, people are required to make a case that appeals to people who do not share their particular convictions. If the sole argument against gay marriage is "God created marriage as one man one woman," the rest of society who disagrees will rightfully see banning gay marriage as the imposition of the religious beliefs of others on them.
Separation of Church and State means keeping the government out of the Church's business. The Church's business is part of what happens in a civil society. Secularism is a "religious" belief system as well. No law has the right to shove any religion down anyone's throat against their conscience. Conscoence protections are meant to aide tghose who support self-evident truths. Natural laws are self-evident truths. Seems to me that you are a bit confused which would also explain your entire tirade.
Look up Secular Humanism--it is a be3lief system adhered to like religious fanaticism.
Uncharitable? The Truth does not discriminate. It's only Lies that discriminate.
Ryan says:
"If the sole argument against gay marriage is "God created marriage as one man one woman," the rest of society who disagrees will rightfully see banning gay marriage as the imposition of the religious beliefs of others on them."
Oh, my dear man, that is so not the only argument against gay marriage. Here are some of the others:
Condoning infidelity
Disordered affectation psychosis
Incidences of child sexual abuse in gay community
Continuous outbursts and attacks against all religuious people
Grooming of children
Demanding that Moral Relativism and Secular Humanistic immorality be forced on every citizen
Exploitation of vulnerable children
The list is endless. Indulging in a homosexual lifestyle is a choice. It is also a symptom of a much deeper psychological problem that was never addressed. It is simply not dealing with reality and not dealing with reality and truth leads to insanity. I feel pity for those involved in the lifestyle and also know many gays whom I love dearly and know why they chose to find comfort in the arms of those of the same sex--abuse and neglect--mental and physical by the other sex. Their choice does not solve their problem, it only gives them an immediate physical comfort while the hatred of the other sex festers and while their own nature, spirit and self worth takes the form of lashing out and blaming othersw for a conscience fillede with guilt.
Mullins says the difference is biology v. theology.
Um, not quite.
The difference is, actually, Truth v. Fiction and Lies; or Reality v. Insanity.
No one in their right might could possibly believe that Sex is the greatest achievement of a human being and kneel down to worship it, protect it, and criminalize anyone who disagrees with any sexual perversion or deviation that enters man's mind.
To give abnormal behavior, especially abnormal sexual behavior a platform that is equal to the standard bearer of all human relationship behavior called Marriage is to not quite understand what human beings are or what constitutes matter.
The best part about the SCOTUS ruling on Prop 8 and DOMA is that it alerted the entire nation--many of whom had better things to do than think about gays and sex--to the treachery going on when most of us said go ahead have civil unions if that'll make you happy; we really don't care. But now, like an errant, undisciplined child--gays crossed the line and are seeking after our children. We're done. We're all done. And the attacks on people, the snide remarks, the set-ups for public media attention--it's over. Watch closely how discipline works.
Mary Margaret Flynn says--
"But back in the 1950ies in Brown vs Brown, separate but equal was ruled unconstitutioal and it took decades to convince Christains . . ." Christians? Really? The majority of Black people are Christians. Martin Luther King was a Christian Minister. I don't think that as the majority in the South, Black American Christiand needed any convincing. So, that brings us to why did Jim Crow laws exist after the Civil war and the reublicans freed the slaves? The answer is the Democrats were so racist--and still are--that they institutede racial segregation laws in the South. The Democrats are also largely responsible for the genocide of abortion being committed against Black America as we speak. It was the Democrats who were fully involved in the EUGENICS societies and Margaret sangar a lead spokeswoman. After Hitler and WW II, eugenics fell out of favor and evolved itself into UNESCO--of the United Nations. Go do some research before you start spouting the lies of others.
Your name--Mary Margaret--means you were named after the Blessed Mother. A woman so revered by God that she was made so pure and remained so by her own will her entire life that she was taken up body and soul to heaven. Now, that story and that image is the most beautiful and respectful rendition of the powerful nature of a single woman whether you believe in God or not. Your words--two adult humans getting married--are you insane? Have you any clue what you are speaking about? No you don't. You don't believe, you have no faith, you use religion as a tool for your own selfish sinister purposes. Made in the image and likeness of God does not mean you are to follow your own will--you are to choose to follow God's--without making that choice there is no human dignity as is apparent in the daily behavior of people like you and the activists in the gay community.
OK, editors: how long are you going to let this "Margaret" nonsense continue?
"The Jewish couple who sued their "friend," the local baker, when she declined to bake a cake for their Jewish "marriage" are the nastiest people I have ever heard of. Who does that? Where's the tolerance and "understanding of her beliefs? Don't they have any class? They knew the baker and bought her goods for a long time. they knew her beliefs--they picked on her to make a point. That's plain evil. No jury will ever find her guilty--no person in the country will ever forget the Jewish couple's treachery either. I'd be careful of the food you force people to make--they will get the last laugh." I altered one word in one of Margaret's screeds.
" Indulging in a Jewish lifestyle is a choice. It is also a symptom of a much deeper psychological problem that was never addressed. It is simply not dealing with reality and not dealing with reality and truth leads to insanity. I feel pity for those involved in the lifestyle and also know many Jews whom I love dearly and know why they chose to find comfort in the arms of those of the same religion-abuse and neglect--mental and physical by Christians. Their choice does not solve their problem, it only gives them an immediate physical comfort while the hatred of Christ festers and while their own nature, spirit and self worth takes the form of lashing out and blaming others for a conscience filled with guilt."
Sweet Cakes by Melissa,, the Oregon Bakery who REFUSED to abide by Oregon's Non Discrimination Law SHUT DOWN.
And good on that.
The day people who are gay have to worry if they can order a cake or not is long gone.
HERE is HOW FAKE they are about their religious beliefs. Don't believe it when oyu see "I can't serve gays, it's against my religion" All that is is simply Anti Gay people using Religion as an excuse for thier bigotry & predjudice.
This bakery and another who also refused a gay wedding cake were called and happily agreed to make DIVORCE Cakes, a New Single Mother Cake and all kinds of cakes that are supposedly against thier beliefs. They agreed to bake them no problem, of course but when it came to gay people THAT they wouldn't do. Here read this article
Is there a connection between beautiful New England and entire American cities turned into smoking rubble? There is.
Take same-sex marriage. I would have guessed that a "sin" city (San Francisco? Las Vegas?) would have been the first to legalize it.
Oddly it's been the place where America started that's wanted to be the first place to help bring about the end of America and its values! It's been a Nor'easter of Perversion (helping to fulfill the end time "days of Lot" predicted in Luke 17) that began in (you guessed it) Boston in 2004.
New England has gone from the Mayflower Compact to the Gay Power Impact, from Providence to decadence, from Bible thumpers to God dumpers, from university to diversity to perversity, and from the land of the Great Awakening to God's Future Shakening that will make the Boston bombings look like Walden Pond ripples by comparison!
The same Nor'easter has been spreading south and as far west as Washington State where, after swelling up with pride, Mt. Rainier may wish to celebrate shame-sex marriage by having a blast that Seaddlepated folks can share in lava-land!
The same Luke 17 prediction is tied to the Book of Revelation which speaks of the cities that God will flatten because of same-sexism - including American cities - a scenario I'll have to accept since I can't create my own universe and decree rules for it.
I've just been analyzing the world's terminal "religion" that has its "god," its accessories, its "rites," and even a flag. It's an obsession that the infected converts are willing to live for, fight for - and even die for!
Want more facts? Google "God to Same-Sexers: Hurry Up," "Universal GAYety is Coming," "FOR GAYS ONLY: Jesus predicted," " 'Jesus Never Mentioned Homosexuality' - When Gays Have Birthdays...," "Harvey Milk Stamped 'Out' Forever" and "The Background Obama Can't Cover Up."


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5 Reasons Why Anticonformity Is Worse Than Conformity
Some people are so desperate to be nonconformists that they devote a great deal of their time to doing exactly the opposite of whatever "the masses" are doing. This form of "nonconformity" is more like what I would call "anticonformity," because you're not really doing your own thing, you're just doing the opposite of someone else's thing. Not only is it at least as stupid as being a conformist sheep or whatever, it's actually worse in a lot of ways.
I'm going to illustrate this with a series of comics. You might be wondering why all the comics are about goths, and the answer is because they're easy to draw. I'm certainly not saying that goths are the worst anticonformists. That would be hipsters. But nobody wants to draw hipsters, they'd have to be wearing something different in every panel and then there goes your whole day.
So let these goths show you how anticonformity sucks.
#5. You're Letting The People You Hate Control What You Do
Whoever you're rebelling against -- The Man, your parents, corporate America -- if they change their habits, you have to change yours. What you wear, what kind of music you listen to, has to change every time their tastes and ideas change. Everyone has a PC? You have to get a Mac. Macs becoming the hot new thing? Time to go Linux. Every time something turns "mainstream," you have to change your lifestyle. You're on their schedule, not yours.
As the brilliant lyricists Green Day once said:
The minority, regardless off what the minority (or majority) stand for. So taken to its logical extreme, if your goal is just to be a rebel, instead of an actual belief of some kind, you'd actually have to switch sides once your side wins. For instance, once upon a time, you were in the minority if you considered all races to be equal. Nowadays, that's a majority point of view in America. If you want to be a rebel and buck the majority, you are going to have to start being a racist.
#4. Sometimes Everyone Is Doing It One Way For A Reason
The problem with doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing is that quite often everyone does something one way because it's a good idea, and sticking to your principles and doing the opposite means you are stuck with something stupid.
Some anticonformists, notably hipsters, insist on fixed-gear bicycles ("fixies") precisely because they're not used by "normal" people.
So they're stuck with a less practical and more dangerous bike that can rip their fingers off even while they're fixing it. Some of them even insist on removing the brakes from their fixies. And then adding a bunch of stuff that's about as effective as a giant spoiler is on a car.
Now, fixie fans insist that if you know what you're doing, a fixie is perfectly safe, but the person that is buying a fixie just to be different is the kind of person who looks down on people who know what they're doing on a bike.
Who admittedly can be a little hard to take seriously.
It's tough, I know, but sometimes uncool people happen to be right and there are just some times when you really should do what everyone else is doing. Like breathing.
#3. You're Going To Conform To All The Other Anticonformists
If a bunch of you strive to be 180 degrees from something, you're all going to end up in the same spot. This wouldn't be a problem if you all just picked things you liked instead of trying to all be as different as possible from a specific target.
Take the Twilight craze for example. Now, Twilight is pretty awful. But even worse than Twilight fans were anti-Twilight obsessives. This is a group of people that would take any pretext to hold forth on why Twilight is awful, as if they were breaking the news to people who had been trapped in a cave for 20 years. Not just because they didn't like Twilight, but because they were attempting a saucy in-your-eye rebellion against some kind of monolithic Twilight-loving establishment they thought was dominating society because two or three women in their life wouldn't shut up about the series.
I admit it's grating, but they're not the whole world.
And the fascinating thing was that there were a ton of people like this, and you couldn't tell them apart, because their rants were almost identical. Here they were thinking that they were rare rebels brave enough to tell it like it is, in a way that would upset the mouth-breathing Twilight lovers they assume populate any place they go to, when they're actually part of a lockstep army of people not only stating the same opinion but even making the same jokes and fixating on the same points (Taylor Lautner sure does go shirtless a lot! Edward is actually more like a stalker! The vampires SPARKLE!).
So, again, they wind up forming a group just as monolithic as the one they hate. And that makes perfect sense as a behavior; people want to belong to groups. It's human nature, we're social animals. Blindly rejecting it just automatically enrolls you in group of other people also blindly rejecting it. The difference is they don't know they're in a group, so wind up having less self-awareness than the people in the mindless horde.


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I heard somewhere that quarks have a property called 'colour' - what does this mean?
You heard well. But note that this doesn't have anything to do with real color. The reason that property was so named is because of accidental similarities to how color mix and because certain physicist have a weird sense of humor.
Quantum electrodynamics
Note that the thing they are talking about is color charge. So it seems useful to first review properties of normal (electric) charges. Let's talk about electrons for instance. We know from classical physics that charged objects produce electromagnetic field around them and this field in turn affects charged particles. In quantum theory one has to quantize this field. The quantum of electromagnetic field is photon and so quantum theory tells us that charged objects interact electromagnetically by exchanging photons
Read the image from left to right. Electron radiates photon, this makes it change direction and the other electron absorbs it changing direction too. This is the way quantum theory explain electromagnetic interaction.
Quantum chromodynamics
Note: the discussion below will not be technically precise because of inherent complexity of quantum theory. I'll elaborate on certain points in a separate paragraph after this.
With the above knowledge under our belts, it's not that hard to describe Quantum chromodynamics (from greek Χρώμα, chroma meaning color) anymore. Instead of electric charge, objects can carry so called color charge. But there is not just one of them, but three: red, green, blue (yes, this is one of the superficial similarities to usual color).
Okay, we need one more ingredient in our theory -- something that would replace photons. Such a particle exists and it is called gluon. But note that while it was enough to have only one kind of photon (because there was only one electric charge), we need more gluons to mediate various types of interactions (e.g. interaction between red quark and blue quark, which would be mediated by red-antiblue gluon, and so on). So we have nine type of gluons in total, right? Well, there are actually only eight of them and this is one of the technicalities that I'll address later.
Note that quantum chromodynamics predicts that bound states of colored particles have to be "white" meaning that it should e.g. contain three particles, one red, one blue and one green (this is another similarity with the real color mixing). "White" particles containing three quarks are called baryons and you should know at least two of them: protons and neutrons. Actually, it turns out that there is more than one quark type (six actually) and you get various particles by mixing different kinds of them. Two lights quarks are called up and down. Proton contains two ups and one down while neutron contains one up and two downs. Okay, let's see how this works:
This is pretty complicated diagram because I wasn't able to find anything simpler, but let me try to explain what's going on. The incoming proton's blue quark emits blue-antired gluon and by doing that changes to red and also change direction a little. This gluon is then caught by its red down quark and this changes it to blue and throws it out of the proton. Similar thing happens with the green up quark, the only difference being that in the end antiblue up is thrown out of the proton. So we have blue-antiblue up/down pair. This is a color neutral particle and it is called pion.
From the point of view of the neutron, exactly the same discussion applies, so I hope this is at least a little clear by now. What that picture actually explained is how proton - neutron strong interactions in nucleus are explained from the point of view of quantum chromodynamics.
All of the above discussion is subsumed in so called gauge theories. These are theories that contain certain number of charges, $N$ (e.g. $N = 1$ for electromagnetism) and certain number of interaction particles. But to specify their number, we have to first talk about the group of symmetries of the said theory.
For electromagnetism this group is $U(1)$ which is one-dimensional and so there is only one photon. For weak interactions there are two charges, so called flavors and the group that corresponds to that is $SU(2)$; this one is three-dimensional, so we obtain three mediating particles: $Z, W^{\pm}$. For strong interactions, there are three colors and the group that describes their mixing is $SU(3)$. This one is eight-dimensional, giving us eight gluons. One could also try to use $U(3)$ group, which is nine-dimensional. But this is ruled out by experiment (!). To understand why, let me make precise other statements I greatly simplified.
In quantum theory, states are often by superposition of other, more elementary states. It turns out, that when one talks about blue-antired gluon, what is actually meant is the superposition
$${1 \over \sqrt 2} \big( \big|b\big>\big|\bar r\big> + \big|\bar b\big>\big| r\big> \big)$$
and similarly in other cases. This is because there are certain symmetry conditions imposed on the theory and this state is invariant if we swap $b$ and $r$ (it wouldn't be if it contained only one part); but of course it would be painful to explicitly read out that formula all the time one wants to talk about gluons; therefore the simplifictation.
Now, as we mentioned, the actual bound states or particles have to be color neutral. It turns out gluons themselves could create a scalar state
$${1 \over \sqrt 3} \big( \big|b\big>\big|\bar b\big> + \big|r\big>\big|\bar r\big> + \big|g\big>\big|\bar g\big> \big)$$
If this state existed in nature then there would exist long-range gluon interaction. But we know it doesn't. So the actual group is smaller, just $SU(3)$ and we are left with eight gluons.
Let me give a straightforward and basic answer here; perhaps someone else can elaborate.
The best way to think of colour is something analogous to charge in electromagnetism. (Indeed, colour is often called colour charge). It is the fundamental property of particles relating to the strong force, and like electric charge, comes in discrete values (termed red, green, and blue - don't take them literally though). Note however that strong integration works in a far more complex way than electromagnetism (Maxwellian, or even quantum electrodynamics).
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I thought you might want you see a little of the back story for the pullover mobius from the objet d'art story of norah gaughan vol 2.
My original sketch:
My first idea for this story was "twisted twins", with pairs of sweaters or sweaters paired with other pieces. In this case my expanded definition for a twin set was going to be pullover and necklace. I thought I'd knit or crochet a necklace in Seduce, incorporating lace stretched onto thin metal bracelets. As the knitting progressed, the story changed and the necklace never got made. The concept for the necklace later became part of our free pattern aurum:
You may recognize the circles, I lifted them from astrid, the red shawl in norah gaughan vol 1.
Ok, back to mobius. The perfect shot came early in photography, but I insisted on torturing everyone by shooting this set up:
I really like this photo, but I had to agree that the photo we used in the book was just "it".
samm #
What a gorgeous design! I like your first photo too. But the sweater shows better in the one chosen for the book. :O) Beautiful beautiful sweater. I must be becoming a "real" knitter, as I can immediately see how that sweater fits together, the process of knitting it. This makes me appreciate your design even more.March 3, 2008
portlandia #
That's not 'torturing everyone'….that's 'exploring your creative options'…March 4, 2008
mae #
I just have to say I love the way your new booklet "Norah Gaughan Vol 2" was announced on the website. I enjoyed hearing what went into the designs and the excitement in your voice while talking about them. Now it is just a matter of which one to start with!March 4, 2008
Lori #
Great sweater, appears to be a great guy as well. Well done.March 11, 2008
JanetD #
I love the idea of reversible patterns, especially when the sweater bridges the gap between pullover and cardigan.March 14, 2008
KellyD #
Awesome sweater! er… does John have an unmarried brother?March 17, 2008
He looks fantastic, and genuinely happy, if not a bit embarrassed, to be photographed in it! Excellent job.March 26, 2008


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3 Jan 2012 12:52 PM #1
NumberField setting min and max values
In 2.2.5, I see there are methods to get/set the min and max values for NumberField. I do not see this in 3.0-beta1. Is there a different want to do do this (and I'm not seeing it), is it missing functionality, or something else?
3 Jan 2012 5:25 PM #2
Take a look at the MaxNumberValidator and MinNumberValidator. Validation that doesn't otherwise affect the behavior of the field has been removed from the fields, and Field changed so that any number of validators can be added to it.


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I have straight development tasks, non-development/business tasks, and some tasks that kind of sit in the middle to do most days, and I was wondering what would be the most efficient way to structure my days to be the most productive.
Obviously everyone is different but have people on here in a similar situation found out what works for them. Do you put the headphones on and do three hours of development first thing in the morning, for example? Or do you just do bits and pieces of tasks, whether development or non-development as and when it suits you? Do you follow the same routine everyday or break up, for example, and concentrate on development at the beginning of the week?


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July 5, 2005, The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF) and the Free Speech Coalition (FSC) are pleased to announce their official partnership! As of July 1, 2005, two of the nation's leading organizations dedicated to the rights of consenting adults and free speech will team up to network, educate the public on overlapping issues, raise funding, and reach out to new members.
This announcement is being made on the heels of the Free Speech Coalition's filing a constitutional challenge to injunction against U.S.C. 18, Section 2257, a record-keeping and labeling law which is being expanded to include the Internet and has had a direct effect on leather, fetish, and swingers groups, their publications and outreach efforts, as well web sites and the wide variety of businesses that serve these communities.
Now, more than ever, it is critical for like-minded people to unify in the struggle for sexual freedom and expression!
Join FSC and NCSF and help us celebrate this new partnership with a toast and a much needed donation by going to www.ncsfreedom.org and www.freespeechcoalition.com
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I am very interested in the evolution of the evolution process itself. There are of course a lot of things that influence how evolution will work, but for this question, I am interested in things that are only related to the evolution process. Examples could be increase chance of mutations in newborns, change in reproduction age, and similar. I am specifically interested in observation where the evolution process itself has adapted to a change in the environment.
Bacteria such as E. coli are known to increase their mutation rate (by switching to a more error prone polymerase among other things) when under stress. This can mean being placed in a medium where it's not adapted to grow (http://www.micab.umn.edu/courses/8002/Rosenberg.pdf) or when treated with antibiotics (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1088971/?tool=pmcentrez).
I think this falls into your criteria but correct me if i'm wrong :).
The HIV reverse transcriptase protein has evolved to have relatively low fidelity (leading to a high mutation rate in replicated virus particles). Reverse transcriptase is also recombinogenic, ie. it can switch templates during replication leading to even more variability. Combined, these two properties lead to each individual having a large number of variant viral genomes, which leads to increased resistance to antiretroviral drugs etc.
I thought of influenza as a second example. The viral genome has evolved to be fragmented into 7-8 pieces of RNA, which can be swapped with other strains during co-infection of a single cell. This can lead to more virulent or transmissible strains of influenza; these can also be helpful to create new strains that influenza vaccines are no longer useful against.
Species have been observed in controlled experiments to use different sources of energy, for instance axenic E. coli cultures picking up citrate metabolism in Lenski's Lab at MSU. They have also shown that mutations to the mutator gene mutT can accelerate the process of evolution, though it's evolution directed by fitness in a very specific setting.
How about species actively changing the factors that play a role in the selection process?
Humans are a species that have heavily modified this process. In the western world, we have gone away from selection by survival skills and genetic fitness to move to a social selection, where genome is secondary to social skills and adaptation to fashion, which are acquired skills.
Pigliucci gives a good review of some aspects of this topic in "Is evolvability evolvable?" (2008). He sees what you're asking about, which he calls "evolvability", as one of the key topics for the future of the study of evolution.
It's very conceptually dense evo-devo-theory, so I'll probably do a poor job trying to explain it, but he tries to set up a framework that deals not just with things like life-history (per kmm's answer) and mutation/recombination rate (low fidelity in HIV per GWW's answer, and, I suppose, the evolution of sex itself), but also with constraints that evolve at various levels to "positively channel" mutation (that is, the understanding that while mutations are effectively random, the phenotypes that emerge, and are acted upon by natural selection, are not random, but are channelled by the developmental system of the organism).
He also includes the role of development in opening up "phenotypic space" into which a lineage may evolve. For instance, single-celled organisms have a limit on size and complexity, the evolution of multicellularity opens up this huge zone of evolvability. In a sense, this is also the "evolution of evolution".
If you look at the adaptive immune system, the process of B-cell recombination, clonal expansion and somatic hypermuation is, in essence, induced evolution.
The following paper published on August 25, 2015 claims that there are indeed directed mutations. Evidence for Retromutagenesis as a Mechanism for Adaptive Mutation in Escherichia coli http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1005477


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My company deals with a specific technology and we're looking to submit a limited functionality proof-of-concept app to the App Store as a sort of advertisement of our experience and capabilities. Is an app like this likely to be rejected?
Edit: my original question above sounds a little subjective and opinion based, so to clarify: I'm looking for case history or documentation from apple that clarifies this scenario.


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Our eyes are spherical, our retina is circular, but still our eyes can see more in the horizontal direction than in vertical direction. Why is it so, why is the preferred aspect ratio not square?
I found the explanation given below here (my emphasis). It may not be authoritative, but it makes sense to me.
Another way to see this effect is to look at someone's head in profile and from directly above. In the former case you have a clear view of their eyes, in the latter you don't. (Tested on a small sample - one 3 year old male, playing with an iPad).
The reasons your field of view is not circular are:
The field of view is measured by a method called perimetry, and looks approximately as depicted in this graphic. The guide here provides further comments on the graphic.
As you can see in the image I linked to, the field of view (were it to be approximated with a rectangle) spans 180° horizontally and 130° vertically. Yielding a width-to-height ratio of 0.72. Which is better approximated by the traditional 4:3 screen size and NOT by modern 16:9 displays. Having said that, 16:9 may not necessarily be a worse format, as researchers found that horizontal saccades are faster than vertical ones.


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Taking place sometime between March 2553 and July 2557, Halo: Spartan Assault puts you in the role of a Spartan-IV on the first mission of the Spartan Ops programme during the Battle of Draetheus V, the start of the second war between the United Nations Space Command (UNSC) and the alien Covenant.
What You Need to Know
As a top-down shooter, Halo: Spartan Assault is a different take on the iconic Halo series and features a story that takes place between the events of Halo 3 and Halo 4 starring two protagonists, namely Spartans Sarah Palmer and Edward Davis.
What's New?
The biggest addition to the game over the original Windows 8 and Windows 8 Mobile versions of Halo: Spartan Assault is the co-operative campaign, which tells a different story to the main campaign, where you and a buddy will face off against a returning enemy, the dreaded 'Flood.'
What's the Same?
Spartan Assault on Xbox 360 features all the same story missions as the Windows 8 and Windows 8 Mobile versions, and also includes the Operation Hydra missions, which boosts the campaign missions to a total of thirty. The game also uses terminals to display story cut-scenes, similar to Halo 4 and Halo: Anniversary Edition, and instead of using in-game visuals the cinematics use a more motion comic style, which works well.
You'll Enjoy Halo: Spartan Assault If You Like…
… the Halo universe.
… top-down shooters like Shadowgrounds.
What I Liked
– 5.) The game features some very detailed visuals, which I think are on par with the other games in the series.
– 4.) The Halo series is well known for its music and Halo: Spartan Assault is no different. Tom Salta, the composer, has done an amazing job.
– 3.) The unique way of telling the Halo story with the motion comic cut-scenes and how it ties in with the other Halo games.
– 2.) The addition of the co-operative campaign is a great bonus – the game has the perfect design for co-op.
– 1.) The fact that the game takes on a different style of gameplay to traditional Halo games, which shows the story of Halo can be told using different methods.
Favourite Moment
The best moments were when I completed a mission to the best of my ability and saw the results screen with a gold star rating.
What I Didn't Like
– 4.) The game was designed for mobile with quick jump in and play levels, so certain levels feel a little too short.
– 3.) The co-op campaign is only over Xbox LIVE and not available for couch co-op. Maybe in a future patch they can add local co-op to the game.
– 2.) The game isn't as stable as the Windows version. Every now and then after a couple of missions, the game would just freeze up and the controller would vibrate like crazy.
– 1.) Spartan Assault doesn't have a difficulty setting, unlike other Halo games where you can choose between 'Easy,' 'Normal,' 'Heroic' and 'Legendary.' You can make it more difficult by adding Skull modifiers, but I would still like a Legendary option.
Least Favourite Moment
In my third attempt to get a gold star rating on a challenging level, all was going well with me racking up the score like crazy before the game decided to crash on me and I lost all the score and stats I was so working hard to get.
What's Extra?
The game also features some mission specific challenges. By completing these challenges you unlock XP which you can use to help you setup for a mission, like choose a different gun, perks and Armour abilities. If you played the game on Windows 8 and Windows 8 Mobile, your stats will carry over to this version but you will have to replay if you want to unlock the achievements.
The Bottom Line
Halo: Spartan Assault is a great addition to the Halo series. If you're looking for a game where you can just quickly jump in and play a few levels, then this is the game for you – the missions might be short, but they are still lots of fun.
Halo: Spartan Assault was reviewed on Xbox 360
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I find Se7en an amazingly good movie, but among its weaknesses is the Envy killing.
I found the justification for it very unconvincing, as if forced into the story, just so we can have the (iconic) something-in-box scene. Not being a psychologist, John Doe doesn't strike me as a guy who would get jealous, especially for something so petty.
Is there something I'm missing?


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GENESEO, N.Y. -- Ed Rivenburgh, information delivery services (IDS) project director at the State University of New York at Geneseo's Milne Library, is the winner of the 2011 Virginia Boucher/OCLC Distinguished ILL Librarian Award.
The national award, administered by the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), recognizes an individual for outstanding professional achievement, leadership and significant contributions to the fields of interlibrary loan and document delivery and is generously supported by OCLC, the world's largest library cooperative.
Rivenburgh was selected for his excellent leadership of the IDS Project, a resource sharing cooperative he founded along with 11 other library directors. According to his nominators, this cooperative is fundamentally changing how ILL processing and resource sharing is done both among its more than 65 New York library members and across the state and the nation. Rivenburgh's leadership is providing out-of-the-box thinking, streamlines the ILL process and fosters a unique community partnership of mutually supportive libraries.
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The award, a citation and $2,000 cash prize, will be presented to Rivenburgh at the RUSA Awards Reception June 26 as a part of RUSA's events at the American Library Association's Annual Conference in New Orleans.
Rivenburgh was director of libraries at SUNY Geneseo for 15 years before retiring from that position recently to work part time as IDS project director. He holds a master's degree in library science from Simmons College, a master's in education from Michigan State University and a certificate of advanced graduate studies in education from Boston University. He has received numerous professional achievement awards, most recently the Friend of State University of New York Librarians Association Award, and the Nylink Achievement Award. He also received the Ray Murray Award from the New York State Library Assistants' Association.
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The purpose of TEACH is to provide Christian home schooling families in our area with christian support and fellowship, group activities, field trips, curricula information, political and legal action updates and opportunities for parental interaction.
TEACH parent meetings are on the first Thursday of each month, August thru May. We meet at Westside Church of Christ, 524 Sowell Lane, Texarkana, TX. Meetings begin at 6:30 pm and end at 8:30 pm. You are welcome to visit a meeting to meet other home schoolers and perhaps receive some encouragement in your home schooling journey.
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Nice work!
How much does this weigh?
What are the advantages of having an elevated horizontal rail? (Rather than a single rail from the top of the rotator?)
Any option for more detents or an Arca style clamp?
time to create a seperate sub forum for this too! heheh
Hi Aussie Ninja,
it is kind of strange. The rotation axis should pass through to the quadrant of the bubble that is cloest to the rail. The two M6 tightening screws should bisect the circle too.
My understanding is there should be 3 circles thouching each other in the nadir image. what do you think?
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Thanks for the tip about NPP. Sorry for my misleading words. I actually meant the quadrant of the spirit level outer casing (not the black circle). When making dual shot pano, the rotation axis should be at the NPP where angle of view is 180 deg. At this setting, you should see a circular (yes, circle) footprint of the rotator.Originally Posted by Aussie Ninja
The rail marking is at one side of the rail. So it is at the side that is not shown in the photo.
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Hi guys,
Just got one delivered yesterday. Awesome piece of work, Nick and Bill.
If it came with rubber/plastic plugs to close off unused detent holes then it would be PERFECT.
Did you say I must upgrade to 5D MKII with my Sigma 8mm?
Hello all,
I just purchased the NN180 and this is my first post so go easy
Does anybody know if/when there will be settings available for the 180? Mine arrived yesterday and there is an element of guesswork involved in setting it up. This is probably a stupid question but where do you align the NP with? My guess is the just behind the bubble but it is not clear?
I will be using a number of cameras with it but mostly a 5D and Sigma DP1. Any feedback from other owners will be much appreciated.
The center of rotation is in line with the 2 screws on the rotator. To get best and reproducible result, you need to use a quick release system. Try to push the the camera mounting plate against one side of the rail. This will eliminate any twisting due to tolerance between the rail and the plate.Mine arrived yesterday and there is an element of guesswork involved in setting it up. This is probably a stupid question but where do you align the NP with? My guess is the just behind the bubble but it is not clear?
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Tom Meade, professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University, will present the 2012 Richard F. Smith Lecture, entitled "Seeing is Believing! Diagnostics in the 21st Century." The event will be held on Thursday, April 19 at 7:30pm in Newton 202, and is free and open to the public.
When a doctor is needed to diagnose and treat a patient for a possible disease, accuracy is essential. Diagnostic techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and genetic probes offer the promise of informative test results. Meade will discuss how scientists are using chemicals to create the next generation of even more sensitive and more discriminating diagnostic tools, including new ways to test food and water for contamination, test patients for viruses, and identify genetic predispositions to certain diseases.
Meade's research focuses on bioinorganic coordination chemistry and its application in research that include biological molecular imaging, electron transfer processes and the development of electronic biosensors for the detection of DNA and proteins. He has received numerous awards and founded three biotech companies, Clinical Micro Sensors, PreDx and Ohmx which are developing hand-held devices for protein and DNA detection and bioactivated MR contrast agents for in vivo imaging of cancer.
For more information, contact the chemistry department at 585-245-5314.


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2016 Light-Sport Aircraft: LSA Choices Galore
A decade after light-sport aircraft burst on the aviation scene, the array of brands, models and configurations is simply amazing.
There are tons of light-sport aircraft for sale on the market. Read about the best buys in general aviation planes as well as the most undervalued aircraft.
A decade after light-sport aircraft burst on the aviation scene, the array of brands, models and configurations is simply amazing.
Interest in bush flying and STOL aircraft is trending.
For the three-dimensional adventure seeker in need of a shiny new machine to take him where he has never gone, there are plenty of options available.
Multi-engine, piston aircraft were very much in style back in the 1970s and 1980s.
For 2015, the aircraft diesel revolution has lost some of its momentum, at least temporarily, but most of the airplanes we grew up with are still with us.
Tecnam has seen the future of general aviation, and it's the automobile.
Proving that good things come to those who wait, ICON Aircraft just announced that they've completed their first production aircraft for a customer, with regular aircraft deliveries starting this summer after FAA acceptance.
The single-engine warbird inventory that's available to us civilians is so deep that it's hard to cover it all.
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Our category of adventure aircraft consists primarily of models not always confined to flights from Denver to Dallas or Atlanta to Wichita.
Piston twins have gradually dwindled down to a precious few.
With an improving economy and fuel prices headed down, the turbine market is heating up.
Nobody would argue that the introduction of light-sport aircraft (LSA) changed general aviation in ways unseen since the golden era of Cubs and Luscombes.
Since our last buyer's guide, we've weathered a government shutdown and an LSA market still coping with a modestly recovering economy.
There are a few new models such as the Cessna M2, the Eclipse 550, and the HondaJet coming on line this year and a lot of incremental improvements being introduced.
The prognosis for single-engine sales in 2014 remains mixed, but there are signs of improving times.
Many adventure aircraft are among the most docile machines in the sky.
The market for piston twins will probably never die as long as the airlines continue to need pilots, and that need is predicted to become even more prevalent in the near future.


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Zilnicki Named ABCA/Rawlings Third Team All-American
The ABCA/Rawlings All-American teams have been announced. The teams are selected by a committee of eight coaches throughout the country, who are responsible for naming All-Region teams, All-Americans, Coaches of the Year and Gold Glove recipients.