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Panelists Alexis Glynn Latner*, Samantha Henderson, Rachel Caine, R. Cat Conrad, Deborah Chester, James Stoddard, Mikal Trimm
Every ArmadilloCon has a world-building panel, where the panelists and the audience "create" a science-fictional or fantasy world by collective brainstorming. Artist R. Cat Conrad often participates by drawing scenes from this world on a whiteboard.
For starters, the panelists and the audience decide by voting: are they building a science fiction or a fantasy world? The audience is almost equally split between the two, but, but science fiction prevails by a small margin.
To keep the scope of the task manageable, we'll focus on one city in this world we are building. The city is half-submerged in water. Or it may be fully submerged and exist under a dome of a force field. What kind of inhabitants will it have? What kind of conflicts will arise in this society? They may arise from the different species' fight for dominance, or natural cataclysms. What kind of religion will they have, and what part will it play in the conflict? What myths will this society tell itself? And finally, some silly touches.
More pictures from ArmadilloCon 2007 can be found in my photo gallery.
Every ArmadilloCon has a world-building panel. It's one of those panels that can be done a million times and still remain fresh. With different panelists it can be very different each time. This time the panelists were James P. Hogan, Elizabeth Moon, Julie Czerneda, Paul Benjamin, and Mikal Trimm.
The world creation process was anything but logical. It was based on loose associations and wordplay. It was 10 pm, and anything more rigorous may not have been fun.
The writers' workshop started with advice panels on writing. Some of the advice the pros gave was debunking common writing myths, so in a way it was metaadvice. Sheila Williams, the editor guest of honor, shared some good, compelling pieces of wisdom. It's all the more valuable coming from the mouth of the Asimov's editor.
Then Don Webb conducts an audience participation game. He and the audience collaboratively construct outlines for two genre stories: an immuno-defficient woman in a bubble encounters a giant germ (horror) and a little slave boy in the 19th century American south meets aliens (science fiction). For this, the audience needs to decide: the story's genre (SF, F or H), who is the protagonist, where or when the story is taking place, and, most importantly, what is the driving force for the story. If it's horror, what is the protagonist afraid of? If they are aliens, what do they want?
After the critique sessions, ArmadilloCon guest of honor John Scalzi gave a closing speech for the workshop students on the power of suck.
The pictures from the writing workshop and the rest of ArmadilloCon 2008 can be found on my web site.
Participants: Carol Berg (Moderator), Deborah Chester, Jane Lindskold, Elizabeth Moon, Cary Osbourne, Vernor Vinge
Topic, according to the convention program: A major challenge to science fiction writers is creating believable aliens. Our panelists will give insight into their own creative processes in tackling this task.
Where do they start building an alien society? (Do they answer questionaires about alien societies? :-) What do SF writers fail to consider when they are creating alien societies? What are the ways writers can communicate their alien cultures to their readers, without doing an info dump?
Pictures from ArmadilloCon 2003 can be found in my photo gallery.
Participants: Kurt Baty, Tom Becker (Moderator), Alexis Glynn Latner, Bruce Sterling, Vernor Vinge
Topic, according to the convention program: We just thought it would be cool to have this group discuss future possibilities.
What was said on the panel: Vernor Vinge found irony in the panel's "weaselly" title; are there technical errors in Vernor Vinge's works? When fans find excuses for the writer's technical errors; what are some of the most interesting recent computer-themed SF books? theological value of ubiquitous computing.
Images from ArmadilloCon 2003 can be found in my photo gallery.
Participants: Daniel Abraham, Jess Nevins, Vernor Vinge, Sage Walker (Moderator), Don Webb
Topic, according to the convention program: Our panel looks for the coming breakthrough in technology that changes everything.
For another debate on Singularity, see my blog post from the SXSW 2011 Singularity panel with Doug Lenat, Michael Vassar, and Natasha Vita-More.


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MACON, Ga. – Freshman outfielder Gracey Aguirre has been named the Atlantic Sun softball Player of the Week, the conference office announced Monday.
Aguirre tore the cover off the ball at the plate last week, hitting a blistering .636 (7-for-11) with four doubles, four runs scored and four runs batted in.
"Since the beginning of the year, we've seen a lot in Gracey," said Lipscomb head coach Kristin Ryman. "She has one of the best pure swings on the team. For Gracey to be our first position player to be named Player of the Week this year speaks highly to what she's done recently. The way she's been hitting, it's hard not to have her in the line-up."
The freshman from Houston, Texas seemed to have a hand in the deciding run of all four Lady Bison victories last week. In midweek non-conference action against Austin Peay, she scored the winning run in game one of the doubleheader on a Rena' Cothron sacrifice and drove in the winning run in game two with a two-run single in the second inning.
Against Belmont, Aguirre scored the only run of the first game, doubling and coming around to score via an error. She went 3-for-3 with a double, two runs scored and two RBI in the second game, and was even the batter when a passed ball allowed teammate Mollie Mitchell to score what would be the game-winning run.
The weekly award is the first of Aguirre's career and the first for a Lady Bisons batter since Courtney Billington won the April 25, 2011 award. She's the first Lipscomb freshman honoree since Mollie Mitchell for the week of March 30, 2009.
"As a freshman, you have to earn respect," Aguirre said. "My mentality is to work hard every day and earn playing time."
USC Upstate's Hannah Alexander was named A-Sun Pitcher of the Week, with Lipscomb's Whitney Kiihnl earning an honorable mention.
Aguirre and the rest of the Lady Bisons will be back in action Friday when they begin a trip to Georgia to face A-Sun foes Kennesaw State and Mercer.
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Question about credit checks
I have credit freezes with the three bureaus in order to help protect me from identity theft. I get a copy of my credit report once every 4 months from one of the three bureaus. The last one I got from Equifax showed that a retail company I've never heard of did a credit check on me (as if I was applying for credit with them). My question is, if a company does a credit check on someone who has a credit freeze, wouldn't they be unsuccessful and the attempt would NOT show up on my report, or does it show up even if they just tried and were declined due to the freeze?
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Assuming you did not authorize the check, contact the credit bureau in question and dispute the check. If the company has nothing with your signature on it, then the bureau must remove all disputed claims within 30 days, or answer that it has been affirmed.
Mention in the registered letter, return receipt requested, that your credit if frozen, you did not authorize the check, and that you did not apply for any credit.
One warning about the above: There are many ways to have your credit checked without your approval. If you have a revolving account or periodic payments (existing loan), then the company supplying the service (cell phone or power company, for instance), or the company servicing the loan can do soft checks periodically to insure you still have the means and ability to pay. Make sure this is listed as a hard check before you attempt to dispute it.
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No, it's not a hard check, it is even listed under the column of things that don't affect my credit score. I'm just curious as to if it's an indication that my credit freeze is useless, or if a simple attempt to check my credit will still show up on my report even if a freeze prevented them from getting it. The company in question is an out-of-state women's clothing company called "Midnight Velvet". (I am a heterosexual male, unmarried, and have never heard of them.) Also, I am completely, 100% debt-free, so it can't be related to any outstanding debt I have.
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If it's a soft check, I'd forget about it. Someone entered a number wrong, but I'd probably sign up at creditkarma or creditsesame so I could keep a closer eye on my accounts. The 4 month check at annualcreditreport - I do it the same way - is good for "official" checks, but the two sites I mentioned let you check daily, if you like, to see what's going on with your account. The only bureau you won't be able to check this way is experian, but two out of three is better than none out of three.
If you're worried about it, Dave Ramsey touts Zander Insurance's ID theft insurance, which will assign a case worker to clear up the problems if you do fall victim to a thief. I don't know what it costs, and since I'm in mostly the same boat you are, I'll say that I don't personally have ID theft protection.
Have you done a web search for that firm? Perhaps you can find out why or how they did the check. If someone gave your name and SSN, then I'd probably opt for the insurance, even with the credit freeze.
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Yes, I searched them. It seems to be a legitimate clothing company, just nothing I'd have any reason to solicit. I'm really just wondering if a credit check on their part should show up on my report if I have a freeze in place. In other words, is my freeze actually working? Nothing was charged, it just sends up a red flag to me.
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Now I see what you're asking. A credit freeze ONLY prevents hard credit inquiries. Nothing else. If someone tries to open credit in your name, it should generate a hard inquiry, but it doesn't always do so. Sometimes, agencies issue credit without the check. This will probably lessen as computer do more of the checks, but it's possible for a credit card to send you - or anyone posing as you - a card even if they don't do the check.
Think about it. Credit cards make most of their money from folks who carry a balance. Therefore, the more people with cards, the better chance a credit card company has to make money. With people doing the checks. if they avoid checking folks who might not get credit, they'll lose potential customers. Therefore, it is in the best interest of the credit card company to issue a card, even if the recipient is NOT eligible for it. From this, it makes sense to randomly issue cards without due cause.
So, in your situation, you have a hard freeze. IF someone checks, they get nothing, but it's possible they DON'T check, so ANYone who applies with your information gets a card. Even if it is NOT you. They get a card in your name. This is how identity theft happens.
As long as Credit Card companies make more money from folks who "shouldn't" have a card, compared with money they have to pay out for folks with fraudulent cards, they'll keep issuing "bad" cards, which includes ID theft cards.
You've done about everything an individual can to do prevent random theft. Now, if you shred all personal docs, you have added another layer of protection.
Overall, though, there's nothing you can do to PREVENT ID theft. Keep your documents shredded and give our your SSN as few times as possible, and that's the best you can do. Nothing is 100%, espeically when it comes to thieves.
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There are several varieties of credit cards. General purpose cards can be used anywhere. Most general purpose cards are unsecured, meaning the issuer extends a credit line line based mainly on your credit history.
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Yes, if you have a credit freeze, you should def be alerted when someone pulls your credit. It depends on the bureaus though - some are more lax than others and you do have to renew every 90 days with Transunion.
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U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. – The United States Air Force Academy and the Association of Graduates are proud to announce the winners of the Academy's Distinguished Graduate Award for 2013. Each year, this award recognizes two graduates whose singular and distinctive contributions to our society and nation have set them apart from other alumni of the institution. The winners of the Distinguished Graduate Award for 2013 are Mr. A. Bart Holaday and General (Retired) William R. "Bill" Looney III. They will receive their awards at a formal presentation during the Air Force Academy Founders Day celebration on April 4, 2014.
Bart Holaday, Class of 1965, achieved a record of exceptional success as an Air Force officer, federal civil servant, venture capitalist and philanthropist. As a cadet, he was a varsity athlete, class president, Cadet Wing Commander and earned a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University.
On active duty, Bart served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis, making several trips to MACV Headquarters in Vietnam. His leadership and accomplishments earned him the Meritorious Service Medal and the Joint Service Commendation Medal. Upon leaving the Air Force, he was recruited to a senior leadership position in the Department of Defense, serving as Director of the Econometrics Division in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (Systems Analysis). In all, he completed eight years of federal government service in senior management leadership positions in the Department of Defense, the Department of the Interior and the Federal Energy Administration finishing as a GS-18 Deputy Assistant Administrator of the FEA. In more than 20 years as a venture capitalist, he was an industry leader ultimately serving as an officer and board member of the National Venture Capital Association. He co-chaired an industry task force that established the first portfolio valuation and performance measurements standards for private equity. In these positions he advanced his vision of building the American economy based on innovation, entrepreneurship, investment and hard work.
As a philanthropist, he founded the Dakota Foundation, a foundation dedicated to funding entrepreneurial, non-profit organizations that help people help themselves in achieving greater economic self-sufficiency. The Dakota Foundation utilizes innovative investment tools and holds to a core belief that non-profit organizations can benefit from the application of business principles. An enthusiastic and life-long supporter of USAFA, he is the Founding Chairman of the USAFA Endowment, the named benefactor of the Holaday Athletic Center and a Trustee of the Falcon Foundation. Additionally, Bart funds a post-graduate Fellowship at Exeter College, Oxford University that each year sends a top graduate of the Air Force Academy to Exeter. He was also instrumental in the production of "Return with Honor," a movie documentary tribute to the Vietnam POWs.
In recognition of his outstanding service and unfailing support of the Academy, he received the Academy's Distinguished Service Award in 2009. Bart Holaday is a man of humility, passion, selflessness, generosity and commitment. He lives the core values of Integrity First, Service Before Self, and Excellence in all that he does. His implicit and explicit life's legacy promotes the very best of the Air Force Academy and the Long Blue Line of graduates.
Also selected to receive the Distinguished Graduate Award is General William R. "Bill" Looney III, Class of 1972. General Looney embodies the core values of our Academy and the USAF—Integrity First, Service Before Self, and Excellence in all he does. As a cadet, his leadership abilities were recognized early as he was selected as Cadet Wing Sergeant Major, First Basic Cadet Training Commander, and Cadet Wing Commander, the first cadet to hold all three positions, during his junior and senior years at the Academy.
After graduation, General Looney began a career that would take him around the world and to the highest levels of command in the United States Air Force. Again his leadership abilities were recognized early with selection to the Air Staff Training Program (ASTRA). As a squadron commander, his squadron was recognized as the best squadron in USAFE and the top air-to-air squadron in the Air Force. During his career, General Looney commanded a flight, a fighter squadron, two fighter wings, a joint task force, an air expeditionary force, a military college, a warfare center, a numbered air force, two acquisition centers, and a major command.
At retirement, he had commanded more organizations than any other Air Force officer, past or present. During his 36-year career, he served on the Air Staff, the European Command Staff, and the Joint Staff and logged more than 4000 hours in a number of aircraft, with more than 2500 hours, including 62 combat hours, in the F-15 Eagle. General Looney received the AFA Man of the Year for California in 2001, the Congressional Citation of Merit in 2002, the Schriever Fellow Award in 2003, and the Hoyt S. Vandenberg Award for Aerospace Education in 2008.
After retirement from the Air Force, General Looney has been the President of Integration Innovation, Incorporated (i3), a highly successful defense services company with U.S. and international clients; he has also served on a number of corporate boards and is a national security consultant to many Fortune 500 companies. A published author and sought-after motivational speaker on the power of leadership, he has enabled the next generation of leaders to be better and do better than they ever thought possible. A strong advocate for the Academy, he has been a life member of the Association of Graduates since his graduation and has generously supported the Academy with his time, talent and treasure. He is a guest lecturer on leadership and serves as a Governing Trustee for the Falcon Foundation. He holds the distinction of being the first Academy Falcon Scholar to reach the four-star rank. General Looney's lifetime of service and accomplishments clearly warrants his selection as a 2013 Distinguished Graduate.
The tremendous efforts and accomplishments of Mr. Holaday and General Looney have enhanced the U.S. Air Force Academy, furthered the mission of the Air Force at large, and positively impacted the communities in which they live. Their examples of service and excellence in every endeavor are worthy of emulation and have served to enhance the reputation of the Air Force Academy and its graduates. Both men are truly exceptional representative of the Academy and its vision of "developing leaders of character for the nation."
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The long-awaited mortgage settlement is here! And it looks like a good one. The biggest worry was that the attorneys general would give away the shop in return for big headlines. While in fact they seem to have been quite successful at limiting the immunity that the five banks (Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Ally Financial) are going to receive:
In the agreement's expected final form, the releases are mostly limited to the foreclosure process, like the eviction of homeowners after only a cursory examination of documents, a practice known as robo-signing.
The prosecutors and regulators still have the right to investigate other elements that contributed to the housing bubble, like the assembly of risky mortgages into securities that were sold to investors and later soured, as well as insurance and tax fraud.
Officials will also be able to pursue any allegations of criminal wrongdoing. In addition, a lawsuit Mr. Schneiderman filed Friday against MERS, an electronic mortgage registry responsible for much of the robo-signing that has marred the foreclosure process nationwide, and three banks, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo, will also go forward.
Along with how broad the releases would be, California's attorney general, Kamala Harris, also pushed for her state to be able to use the state's False Claims Act. That would enable state officials and huge pension funds like Calpers to collect sizable monetary damages from the banks if officials could prove mortgages were improperly packaged into securities that later dropped in value.
If you're a bank shareholder breathing a sigh of relief, then, don't. The only thing you're protected against, now, is lawsuits over robosigning. Were those likely to cost $25 billion if they had gone to court? It seems unlikely to me that they could have raised that much. Other big-money lawsuits over securitization can and almost certainly will still be brought — which means that the big banks all still have significant litigation risk hanging over their heads.
So why did they do this deal? Well, for one thing, it's not nearly as expensive as it might look at first glance. It's not like they're paying out $25 billion and getting nothing but a bit of immunity in return. A huge chunk of the money will go towards principal reductions on underwater mortgages — which means that it's not really a cash outlay at all.
Let's say I lent you $350,000 to buy a house, and that house is now worth only $250,000. I'm holding that mortgage on my books at par, but if I sold it there's no way I could get $350,000 for it, or even $250,000. I give you a principal reduction of $40,000, so that you now owe $310,000. That's good for you — which is why the settlement is a welcome development. And it means that I have to take a $40,000 write-down on my balance sheet. But the mortgage is still being held on my books at $310,000, which is still more than I could have sold it for before the write-down.
In other words, what's happening here is that the mortgage settlement is at heart largely just encouraging banks to bring their balance sheets closer to reality — which is something they'd have to do sooner or later in any case. Indeed, insofar as principal reductions can increase the value of a mortgage, this deal is actually making banks money, over the long term.
So think of this as that rarest of settlements, one which really is a win for all sides. The attorneys general get a big deal, homeowners who got foreclosed upon get $2,000 apiece, and the banks get to do the kind of principal reductions they probably have wanted to do for a while, but while getting significant immunity from prosecution at the same time.
Now, I guess, we just wait and see what happens with all the other possible prosecutions and lawsuits, especially in New York and California. And, of course, from the FHFA.


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With repeal last year of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell law, many military people, including senior leaders, assumed that married gay and lesbian couples had gained not only job security but also equality in allowances, benefits and access to family support programs. That assumption is wrong.
Since the law took effect 14 months ago, the Department of Defense has kept in place policies that bar spouses of same-gender couples from having military identification cards, shopping on base, living in base housing or participating in certain family support programs.
Repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, says Army Lt. Col. Heather Mack, 39, "simply just prevented me from losing my job. It didn't do anything else."
Mack's spouse, Ashley Broadway, also 39, can shop in stores on nearby Fort Bragg, N.C., only in the status of "caregiver" for their son, Carson. Lacking a military dependent ID card, Ashley has been challenged by checkout clerks when her shopping cart includes items such as deodorant that clearly aren't needed by their two-year old.
If Mack is reassigned, the couple will have to pay Ashley's travel and transportation costs out of pocket. Mack draws housing allowance at the higher "with dependents" rate only because of their child. Marriage alone for same-sex couples, though recognized as legal by 11 states and the District of Columbia, doesn't qualify a military sponsor for married allowances or civilian spouses for entry onto bases.
If Mack were killed during her next deployment, Ashley would not qualify for full "spousal" survivor benefits, even though, by paying higher premiums, she could be covered as an "insurable interest." And as a surviving widow, Ashley would not qualify for Dependency and Indemnity Compensation from the Department of Veterans or be eligible to receive the folded flag off the coffin in the graveside ceremony, Mack says, because to the military and the VA, Ashley would not be next of kin despite spending a career together.
A heterosexual soldier "who meets someone on a Friday night and Saturday gets married would have full benefits," Mack says. "But you have partners who have been together 15 years or more and they can't even go on base and shop…That's a quality of life issue."
Some disparities of treatment for same sex couples won't end unless Congress repeals the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defines marriage as solely between a man and woman, or unless the U.S. Supreme Court rules that DOMA is unconstitutional. The high court was expected to announce soon if it will review and rule on conflicting opinions on the constitutionality of DOMA by appellate courts in recent years.
The Obama administration views the law unconstitutional and won't allow Justice Department attorneys to defend it in court. By default, the government's defense of DOMA is being led by the general counsel for the Republican-led House of Representatives.
While the law remains in effect, it prohibits extension of many federal benefits, including military allowances, travel reimbursements and health coverage to same-sex spouses. But Stephen L. Peters II, president of the gay and lesbian advocacy group American Military Partner Association, says the Department of Defense has authority to do much more than it has to date to support service members and spouses of same-sex marriages.
It could give gay and lesbian spouses access to base housing, commissaries and exchanges, base recreation facilities and legal services. It could direct the services to open more family support programs to them and to offer relocation and sponsorship at many overseas duty stations. The services could also extend dual-service couple programs to same-sex marriages thus ensuring these couples too get co-located on reassignments.
No DoD official would be interviewed on this issue. The department instead issue a statement explaining that a work group continues to conduct "a deliberative and comprehensive review of the possibility of extending eligibility for benefits, when legally permitted, to same-sex domestic partners." Benefits are being examined "from a policy, fiscal, legal and feasibility perspective" and "laws and policies surrounding benefits are complex and interconnected." The work group, it says, has been striving "to fully understand the scope and interconnectivity."
Life in service is better for gays and lesbians since repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. But the department's unresponsiveness to qualify-of-life concerns raised by same-sex married members for the past year, unrelated to DOMA, continue to impact not only families but readiness, Peters argues.
"It's not like the Pentagon doesn't know which benefits it can extend…These have been repeatedly pointed out," he says. "Not only has the Pentagon failed to take action but its silence on the issue is deafening."
Mack, assistant chief of staff for the 1st Theater Sustainment Command at Bragg, is pregnant and due to deliver their second child in January. This time Ashley won't have to pose as her sister to be present at the birth in the post hospital. After maternity leave, Mack expects to deploy again.
She believes commanders would be pressuring policymakers on quality-of-life challenges for same-sex couples if they knew more about them. Mack own boss was surprised before Mack's promotion in October to be told the Army treats married lesbians like her as if they aren't married.
"He said, 'That's not true. With repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, you get all the benefits.' I said, 'No. Any gay or lesbian soldier, regardless of their marital status, is considered a single soldier.' He had no clue," Mack says.
As a lieutenant colonel, Mack knows she is better able to afford $500 a month in extra health insurance for Ashley, and to cover her travel costs when the family is reassigned. Enlisted members can't afford to handle these disparities, and that's something leaders can't ignore, she says.
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Dokkum (Friesland, Netherlands)
Dokkum is a town (2006 pop. 13,145) in the Dutch province of Friesland. An Anabaptist congregation must have originated here between 1551 and 1557. Leenaert Bouwens baptized at least 453 persons here, and in 1562 the Reformed congregation, which was also meeting secretly, requested the Reformed congregation at Emden to send them an ordained man, because the Mennonites were winning so many of the people that they comprised most of the inhabitants of Dokkum. In the early 17th century Dokkum had at least three Mennonite congregations, one of Waterlanders, one of High Germans, and one of Jan Jacobsgezinden. By 1695 the Waterlanders and High Germans had been united for some time and numbered about 180 members; the Jan Jacobsgezinden had disappeared by 1786.
The liberal spirit of the time was shown in a proposal by the Remonstrants in 1796 that all the Christian bodies in the Netherlands unite in a single Christian church. The proposal was rejected nearly everywhere. The Frisian Sociëteit also decided not to enter the proposed union, because adult baptism, the distinguishing mark of the Mennonites, would be dropped. But the Mennonite congregation of Dokkum thought otherwise about it. After the departure of Matthijs Siegenbeek they were without a minister, as was also the Remonstrant congregation, and consequently obeyed the summons. Although they numbered 70 or 80 members and the Remonstrants only 13, it was decided that the local united congregation should be attached to both creeds, but especially to that of the Remonstrants, since they had issued the invitation. The annual support of 550 florins that the Remonstrants received from their brotherhood was to accrue to the united congregation.
On 10 May 1798 the union was completed, confirmed by the signature of 30 to 34 members of the Mennonite congregation, and six of the Remonstrants. Article four stipulated that it would be the duty of the pastor to baptize adults as well as infants; this was an obstacle to the union with the Frisian Sociëteit. After tedious correspondence it was decided at the Sociëteit meeting of 6 June 1800 that the Mennonite congregation had ceased to exist. Members who were unable to make the concessions necessary to the union became members of the Dantumawoude congregation. The united congregation met in the old Mennonite church, which was completely renovated in 1852.
At first the congregation had difficulty in finding a preacher, although they asked many groups to help them. The Mennonite preachers refused because they objected to Article four. In 1799, however, Karel Ayelts, the Reformed preacher at Laren and Blaricum, accepted the call, and after that time three Reformed and ten Remonstrant preachers had served by the 1950s. In 1826-1827, during an illness of Ayelts, the Mennonite pastor at Dantumawoude occasionally preached for the group. Since 1827 the congregation had only non-Mennonite preachers. B. ten Bruggencate, the Mennonite minister at Baard, who received a call to this congregation in 1865, refused it. In that year there were some difficulties, resulting from the mixed character of the congregation. Since then its course has been smooth. In 1865 this United Christian Church of Dokkum was admitted to Ring Dantumawoude; sometime later it withdrew, but was reinstated in 1917. In 1810 the congregation had 69 members (193 souls), and in 1951, 122 members 200 souls). In the census of 1910, 88 persons at Dokkum said they were Remonstrants, and 75, Mennonites; in 1947 there were 53 Remonstrants and 187 Mennonites.
Cate, Steven Blaupot ten. Geschiedenis der Doopsgezinden in Friesland. Leeuwarden: W. Eekhoff, 1839: 88, 91, 157, 169, 224, 231, 367.
Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1865): 159-60; (1890): 16-17; (1893): 1 ff.; (1903): 81.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. I, 457.
Hoop Scheffer, Jacob Gijsbert de. Inventaris der Archiefstukken berustende bij de Vereenigde Doopsgezinde Gemeente to Amsterdam, 2 vols. Amsterdam: Uitgegeven en ten geschenke aangeboden door den Kerkeraad dier Gemeente, 1883-1884: I, 1, No. 607; II, Nos. 1692 f.
Scheltema en van Wijk, Een poging tot verbroedering der Protestantsche Christenen en haar verwezenlijking in de Vereenigde christelijke gemeente te Dokkum. Amsterdam, 1874.
Tideman, Joannes. De remonstrantsche broederschap : biographische naamlijst van hare professoren, predikanten en proponenten, met historische aanteekeningen omtrent hare kweekschool en gemeenten. Amsterdam: Y. Rogge, 1905: 368-372.
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Congregation: Verenigde Christelijke Gemeente Dokkum
Address: Legeweg 14, 9101 MC Dokkum, Netherlands
Telephone: 0519-294008
Church website: Verenigde Christelijke Gemeente Dokkum
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Map:Verenigde Christelijke Gemeente Dokkum, Dokkum, Friesland, Netherlands
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On March 9, 2013, more than 100,000 people across Taiwan took to the streets protesting against the government's plan to continue a controversial project to build the country's fourth nuclear power plant (Nuke 4) and prolong its reliance on nuclear power. Green Party Taiwan, one of the participating organizations, demanded the government terminate the Nuke 4 project, immediately decommission the existing three nuclear power plants, remove all low-level radioactive wastes from the remote Orchid Island, and work out an energy policy to achieve the target of "zero growth of energy demand."
Many of the protesters were young people and mothers with their children. Compared to many other protests that have taken place in Taiwan, this latest one was very different in that it was much less political. The government would usually label any protests as politically-motivated, but the anti-Nuke 4 protest was supported by groups of people much different from the ones in political demonstrations. A lot of young individuals made their own slogans and signs. Many celebrities also showed up to support the protest and to raise the awareness of how dangerous nuclear power plants can be. Some held signs with the Taiwanese slang "he-li-shi" - it means it will kill you, with the word "he" sounding like the Chinese character for nuclear. Some signs said "put nuclear waste in the president's residence."
According to polls done by various media establishments in Taiwan, more than 50% of people surveyed want to abolish the use of nuclear power. One of the polls done by Business Today showed that 50% of people surveyed support the abolishment of nuclear power even if it means increases in electricity prices.
March 11, 2013 marks the second anniversary of the earthquake-tsunami induced disaster at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan. The disaster shocked the world and especially Taiwan because Japan and Taiwan are geographically similar. According to US-based Fox News, the earthquake "blew out" the cooling systems of two nuclear reactors in Japan's Fukushima plant, meaning the two reactors did not have cooling mechanisms which were used to prevent radiation leaks. As one of the countries on the earthquake belt (also known as the Ring of Fire), Taiwan experiences earthquakes on a daily basis. With two nuclear power plants situated in the northern part of Taiwan and one in the southern county of Pingtung, it is amazing that Taiwan is still fully intact.
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Philly's anarcho-punk troupe Mischief Brew have spent the last 7 years, give or take, touring the US and Europe, appearing on several different independent record label comps, and writing and recording songs for a handful of splits and full-length releases. Now, as a follow-up to their collaborative release, "Fight Dirty," with Brooklyn's instrumental gypsy jazz quartet Guignol, Mischief Brew are preparing to unleash their latest effort titled "The Stone Operation."
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Indians rally in ninth before falling to White Sox
Kluber submits gutsy outing between rain delays; Axford blows save
CHICAGO -- Corey Kluber pitched efficiently and deep into the game despite two hours of rain delays. The Indians engineered a two-run comeback off White Sox closer Matt Lindstrom. John Axford entered the ninth with a one-run lead having gone 4-for-4 in save opportunities this season.
In other words, thing were looking bright for the Tribe at grey and soggy U.S. Cellular Field on Sunday afternoon until Axford had an off day for the first time with his new team.
Alexei Ramirez blasted a first-pitch fastball from Axford into the left-field seats for a walk-off two-run homer that spoiled Cleveland's late rally, prevented the Indians from gaining a split in the four-game series and gave Chicago a 4-3 win.
"We should have had that win," Axford said. "Kluber pitched an amazing game, especially for the rest that he took midway through [because of the rain]. Bullpen guys coming in, doing their job and then guys coming through in the ninth once again. We keep scoring runs like that in the ninth, we should win those games. Obviously, I just didn't do my job today."
The winning rally started when Jordan Danks drew a six-pitch walk. Axford said he tried to get Danks to swing and miss on some pitches just out of the strike zone and didn't want to "groove one in there," but he gave Danks credit for laying off the borderline balls. After Alejandro De Aza fouled out, Ramirez came through.
Axford said Ramirez, who extended his hitting streak to 13 games with a third-inning single, took advantage of a fastball that was supposed to be further in.
"He's a very aggressive hitter, and [Axford] threw it probably middle-middle," Indians manager Terry Francona said of Ramirez. "And he's a hot hitter right now."
The Indians took a 3-2 lead in the top of the ninth with an impressive rally off Lindstrom. It started when first baseman Jose Abreu botched a routine grounder from Michael Brantley. Yan Gomes followed with a single, stroking a slider below the knees to left, and David Murphy singled to bring home Brantley. Mike Aviles then moved Gomes to third and Murphy to second with a sacrifice bunt. After Asdrubal Cabrera grounded out to Abreu, Gomes hustled home when Lindstrom's 2-1 breaking ball got away from catcher Tyler Flowers.
"He went down and got a breaking ball. It was a good piece of hitting," said Francona of Gomes' single. "And then Murph lines one to center, Gomer with good baserunning on a ball in the dirt. We put ourselves in a position to win, which is great. We just lost a tough one in the ninth."
The start of the game was delayed for one hour and 15 minutes, but it didn't seem to faze Kluber, who pitched out of jams in the second, fourth and sixth. He lasted 7 1/3 innings, allowing two runs on eight hits with six strikeouts and no walks while becoming the only Tribe starter in the series to make it past the fifth.
Kluber has unfortunately been the summoner of bad weather so far this season. His first start on April 1 was washed out, so he had to make it up the following day in a doubleheader against the A's.
The rain was on and off through the first three innings before it started to come down hard following the top of the fourth inning, when Brantley gave the Tribe a 1-0 lead with his first homer of the season.
After a 45-minute delay, Kluber came back out to start the fourth. Conor Gillaspie promptly singled to right and later scored on Dayan Viciedo's infield single to shortstop, tying the game at 1.
"I mean, I should be used to it by now," Kluber said of the delays. "I think when you have a little bit of a delay like that, just try to do your best to stay loose through it, and hopefully I'm fortunate enough where … it wasn't too long and I was able to go back out there."
Kluber said he felt good about his stuff and came in with a mindset to attack the Chicago hitters. Having already surrendered a run in the fourth, he got out of a two-on, one-out situation by inducing De Aza to ground into an inning-ending double play. He stranded a pair of runners in scoring position in the sixth and started to cruise from there, until Marcus Semien blasted a 3-2 sinker into the seats in left that gave the Sox a short-lived 2-1 lead in the eighth.
"Oh, man, he was so good, even with the delay," Francona said of Kluber. "He used all his pitches, worked ahead. He just basically really pitched a really good ballgame."
The silver lining for the Tribe is how Kluber's start saved the bullpen -- which had tossed 12 innings in the previous three games -- ahead of an off-day that will be followed by a three-game set at Detroit.
"It was awesome. Everybody knows what he's capable of," said Murphy of Kluber. "His first few starts weren't the quality [outings] he'd want them to be. But what a great job he did today. [It's] unfortunate we couldn't pull that one out for him."


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This week I have had the great pleasure of meeting up again, for the first time since March 2006, with Jim Loney from Canada and Harmeeet Singh Sooden from New Zealand. One year ago this weekend we were companions in kidnap and held in close confinement in Baghdad where we had gone as members of a Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) delegation.
Two weeks into that captivity, that is at this time last year, and in spite of repeated promises of release, it was becoming evident that we were likely to be held until after Christmas and this was a source of extreme sadness – no, rather deep depression. I was painfully reminded of those days as we sang our Advent hymns in church last Sunday.
Advent is the time when we re-encounter Mary's song (the Magnificat) and we are made to recall the radical nature of the Christian faith: "[God] has brought down rulers from their thrones but has lifted up the humble, He has filled the hungry with good things – and sent the rich away empty".
Impossibly idealistic? Certainly not realised in our everyday experience as the powerful continue to oppress the powerless and the wealth gap between the rich and poor across the world, gets ever wider. The vision of the Magnificat is hardly that of the world of business, commerce and party politics.
Now I confess to conforming to the accepted British way of life for most of the time and live comfortably on my university pension with my wife in Pinner – the quintessential middle class suburb. I also use my car regularly to drive to church and cheerfully go abroad on holidays by plane in spite of the effects on global warming. But I do get twinges of conscience. It was such a twinge that took me to Iraq.
Part of my understanding of the radical nature of Christianity affects another aspect of our common life. I see in Jesus' teaching and example a revolutionary approach to the manner of dealing with conflict and wrong-doing. I believe with Gandhi that Jesus' way is that of non-violent resistance to evil. Many others have followed in that way, for example Martin Luther King and the little known Muslim Badshah Khan (1890-1988).
I have always been an admirer of the German theologian and pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer who was executed in 1945 for his opposition to the Nazi regime. He wrote: "There is no way to peace along the path of safety, for peace must be dared, it is in itself a great venture, and can never be safe. Peace is the opposite of security. To demand guarantees is to mistrust, and this mistrust in turn brings forth war. To look for guarantees is to want to protect oneself. Peace means giving yourself completely to God's commandment."
This is hardly the view of the establishment – even the church establishment – and certainly not since the time of Emperor Constantine who in 312 AD brought about the marriage between church and state. In following this radical view of the teaching of Jesus I have been opposed to war as a method of bringing lasting peace and have celebrated the many victories of non violence.
I believe that Christians should abandon the outdated Just War theory and advocate the discovery of new ways of bringing about reconciliation without resort to armed violence.
Now I have long held these views as an armchair theorist but have been a 'cheap' peacemaker in practice. For most us it is easy in Britain to be a conscientious objector, to demonstrate and write letters to government. It was when I heard about the work of the Christian Peacemaker Teams – seeking to bring reconciliation in conflict situations, that is, in risky conflict situations, that I felt that twinge of conscience.
I therefore signed up for a modest trip to Iraq – just 10 days - with modest aims – to meet Iraqi people, to learn how Christian Peacemaker Teams worked in practice and to show that at 74 I was not 'past it' in adventures in Christian peacemaking.
The rest is history. The story of our capture, the tedium of confinement and the joy of release will be detailed in my forthcoming book.
I was asked recently in a radio interview if I considered myself lucky to be alive. No, I am not lucky – my release was not due to luck but to the painstaking investigative work done by police and Foreign Office staff in Iraq and the UK and to the bravery of the SAS group who acting on that intelligence came and released us. I am constantly thankful to all those people.
The great tragedy for us was the death of our fellow captive, the American Quaker Tom Fox. Tom was the most compassionate peacemaker of the four of us, praying for the victims of each bomb explosion that we could hear from our 'cell'. Tom was separated from us, murdered and his body dumped by the roadside. But the great tragedy for the people of Iraq is that such kidnapping and deaths are common daily occurrences.
The violence of the war against Saddam has released such a tide of violence in its wake that, at present, no-one seems to know how to stop it. The heavy-handed pursuit of peace by the coalition forces after the invasion has proved a disaster. It has been costly in the waste of resources for reconstruction and much more tragically in the lives of young soldiers and Iraqi citizens. In this I was surprised to find common ground in a recent statement by General Dannerts and, this week from the American 'Iraq Study Group'.
Returning to my experience: whatever the rights and wrongs of my original decision to go to Iraq, the misadventure has had some remarkable and unsuspected results. The worldwide fellowship of the church was clearly demonstrated by the support given to my wife, both locally in practical ways and around the nations through prayers, vigils and messages of solidarity. It has not been possible to thank all those people, many unknown to us.
The Muslim community gave remarkable testimony to our witness for peace and our desire to bring reconciliation to Iraq and to oppose any human rights violations by whichever side in the conflict. The Muslim leaders made clear that the kidnapping of those who work for peace is against the true spirit of Islam. They also took part in many of the vigils that were arranged in cities across the country so that bridges were built between Christian and Muslim communities. Long may they continue to be strengthened. in mutual respect and understanding.
Then my notoriety has given me and other members of the peace movement the chance to share and explain our views to some new audiences – even to the extent of a woolly liberal being invited to write for the clear-minded readers of the Daily Telegraph!
I am expected to say something abut my attitude towards those who captured us. Within the strict limits of our confinement we were, in general, treated with humanity and the occasional act of compassion. All 3 of us are united in our offer of forgiveness to these men. We do not condone what they did to us but believe that forgiveness is in short supply in Iraq and there is no hope for that country until the communities seek mutual reconciliation rather than endless cycles of revenge.
We believe in restorative, not punitive, justice. If these men are brought to trial we would ask, if convicted, that they be treated with clemency. We do not wish for retribution but ask that they accept our forgiveness by changing their lives from violence to nonviolence. Although we are all absolutely opposed to the death penalty we do not have, at present, enough information about the working of the Iraqi court system to discover if we can best help these men by refusing to testify and asking for clemency outside the court system or by agreeing to take part in the trials and ask for clemency within the court process. Christian Peacemaker Teams are seeking to retain an Iraqi lawyer to act in court on behalf of these men.
Our experience has not brought about a change in our belief in the need for and efficacy of non-violent solutions to conflicts. The best way to peace is not to prepare for war – as the old saw has it - but to work for justice. A world war against structural and economic injustice is not the quick fix that the politicians seek but it is our most certain long term defence against terrorism.
© Norman Kember, 2006. This is the original version of an article adapted and published by the Daily Telegraph newspaper as 'Confessions of a peacemaker'. Norman Kember's book, 'A hostage in Iraq' will be published by Darton Longman and Todd on 23 March 2007 – the first anniversary of the men's release from captivity.


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What's the most meaningful gift your mother gave you? That's the question novelist and editor Elizabeth Benedict asked 30 women writers. Their responses, collected in What My Mother Gave Me, provide a beeline into the heart of mother-daughter relationships.
The prized gifts range from the material to the ethereal, the straightforward to the symbolic. Almost all are ultimately instructive, conveying the sort of life lessons rarely delivered in fancy wrapping. They include a salvaged front door that provides a perfect portal to a warm homelife; a sickly plant that delivers lessons about parenting and patience; a life-changing first trip abroad; and money for an interfaith wedding the mother wouldn't live to see, carrying with it her implied blessing.
Not all of the mother-daughter relationships in "What My Mother Gave Me" are close ones, and dismayingly few of the contributors' parents had happy marriages. Many were marred by alcoholism. But the stories these daughters tell about how a scarf, a Buddha, a jade necklace, or a tourist cruise led to deeper understanding and appreciation even for deficient mothers are mostly heartwarming, rather like more polished versions of Dave Isay's Story Corps narratives.
Benedict opens her anthology on an upbeat note, with novelist and biographer Roxana Robinson's tribute to her generous, trusting mom. A polio survivor with an indomitable spirit, Robinson's mother "believed that children were driven by deep yearnings, and that those should, if possible, be satisfied." She indulged her daughter's "heart's desire" for a horse, buying her a red chestnut mare when she was 12 and trusting her to take care of it.
Ann Hood, whose most recent novel is "The Obituary Writer," recalls a gift she detested: an all-white pantsuit. It was an abomination for a girl who cringed at her mother's predilection for matching outfits and elaborate decorations for every holiday. Yet when Hood finally screwed up her nerve to say thanks but no thanks, her gratitude for her mother's gracious reaction is palpable. By acknowledging their differences, Hood comments, "she gave me permission to go into my own mismatched future. What a gift."
Not surprisingly, several essays focus on clothes. Cultural historian Margo Jefferson is grateful for her stylish mother's example in navigating fashion and teaching her to use it as "armor" to help shield herself from a sense of exclusion and inferiority as a black woman.
Charlotte Silver's mother, a famous restaurateur whom she profiled in her memoir, "Charlotte au Chocolat," dresses in a distinctive, flamboyant mix of tulle skirts, high heels, violet lipstick, and enormous Chanel sunglasses, "her badges of feminine armor against the world." Silver says that hand-me-downs – including lots of leopard prints, her mother's "favorite neutral" – make her feel empowered, protected, and close, "as though I were wearing my mother's skin."
Coming at maternally provided security from another angle, Joyce Carol Oates declares, "There is nothing so comforting as wearing clothes your mother has sewn or knitted for you." She notes that many of her book jacket photos were taken in blouses, dresses, and jackets made by her mother. Poet laureate Rita Dove recalls how, in letting her paint her nails "my own way" – in the stripes and polka dots she still favors – her mother helped her become her own person.
Several women appreciate their mother's example in accepting imperfection. Elissa Schappell, author of "Blueprints for Building Better Girls," finds in a scratched cake pan a reminder of her mother's insouciant attitude toward culinary disasters: "That's how they do it in France," she advised her daughter to blithely tell guests. Reverend Lillian Daniel treasures a broken vase her mother valued, which taught her "to learn to see the beauty, the image of God, in broken things, and to call them precious."
Some essays read like eulogies, others like apologies. There's more nostalgia than bitterness on display, for as Marge Piercy comments, "I don't think missing a mother ever stops." Among the more compelling stories, Caroline Leavitt, Karen Karbo, and Sheila Kohler each write of the gift of empathy that follows the belated discovery of heartbreaks from their mothers' pasts.
Martha McPhee, whose latest novel is "Dear Money," again captures the rush of high-stakes risk in a lovely tale about a New York real estate gamble facilitated by her plucky mother's can-do attitude – a woman who "remade herself" after a divorce and taught the fourth of her five daughters "to take the impossible in stride."
In case you're wondering, "What My Mother Gave Me" would make an excellent Mother's Day present, which, one suspects, is what it was conceived to be. What mother wouldn't appreciate the underlying message that one of the greatest gifts she can bestow on a daughter is encouragement to follow her own stars?
Heller McAlpin, a frequent contributor to the Monitor, reviews books regularly for NPR.org, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Barnes & Noble Review.


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Glenn Reynolds Shocked - Shocked! - to Find Homophobia in the GOP
Apparently, "Instapundit" Glenn Reynolds never got the memo about Republicans and gay rights; he seems totally gobsmacked that he was disinvited to speak at a Utah Republican Party dinner because he doesn't hate gay people enough.
Just disinvited from speaking by @utahgop because my support for gay rights makes me "too controversial."Er, okay.#BigTentorTeepee?
And on top of that, he was doing it for nothing.
@rogerlsimon @paulzummo @cajunkate @utahgop The sad thing is, I agreed to speak as a favor, unpaid.
I love how Reynolds and Roger L. Simon pretend they're shocked — shocked — to find homophobia in the Republican Party. Who knew?
Meanwhile, over at Michelle Malkin's fake news site Twitchy, the article seems sympathetic to Reynolds, but most of the commenters are assuredly not, oddly enough. Some examples of the "conservative values" on display:
So let's abandon our values and make ourselves barely different than the Democrats. Sorry we don't pull the "Personally opposed to x, but" BS. Yes we should reach out to minorities more, but changing our values? No. That's what the socialists want us to do, but we have to stay strong.
A person suffering from homosexuality has the same hurdles as anyone else who wishes to marry. They must find a willing member of the opposite sex. Should lonely computer geeks demand that masturbation be redefined as marriage so they, too can derive the legal benefits of marriage?
What's your position on narcissists marrying themselves?
If you oppose it, you're a hypocrite. If you support it, you are supporting the devaluation and dissolution of the concept of marriage until it can mean anything, and therefore means nothing, which is the "gay agenda".
You cannot explain the biological purpose of homosexual attraction.
You cannot explain away the simple fact that sexual and romantic attraction exist for the purpose of procreation, just as hunger exists for the purpose of nourishment.
A sane, rational, thinking brain cannot possibly consider homosexuality as anything other than a mental/emotional disorder.
We have to stand up for traditional marriage guys. I agree with the move.
Seriously Correct! one of the reasons the GOP is so fscked up is because they let sexual deviants (ie homosexuals) in to start with. You want to clean up the party, make that damn tent smaller and the righteous will come back.
The DemocRATS won with removing God from their platform…I don't think that staying true to our conservative position against "gay" marriage and abortion is a bad thing. Its what conservatives hold as a convictions. Something Democrats know nothing of. I would rather be firm in my convictions and lose every election, than to compromise my values to win. I think that is called prostitution, is it not??
letting filth in to the party just to garner more votes is just as bad as prostitution no matter how you try to excuse it.
that & they're abnormal as well.
The reason the GOP is sinking is because they are wallowing in the filth of the unrighteous. Maybe if they would clean themselves back up the righteous might be willing to return to their party.
I'm not saying sexual deviants should be legislated to convert to Christianity. I'm saying their deviant lifestyle choices shouldn't earn them any extra rights. If I decide to drive a nail throuh my hand every saturday, should I get extra priviledged status in legislation? No, because it is a STUPID thing to do. If I decided to dress like a baby as a lifestyle should I get a disablity check? NO, because it is a stupid lifestyle choice!! people who chose sexually deviant lifestyles do not deserve ANY extra legislative consideration EVER!!
So very typical of you lefturd scumbags, you decide since I think sexual deviancy is wrong so I must be a hater. My disgust at a depraved lifestyle choices must have nothing to do with how filthy and perverted they are, I'm just a bigot, right? you must be a member of the demoncrapic party, abort any babies recently, collect your gub'mint stipend last week?
Of course it is deviant. Anyone with two eyes and common sense can see that. If not just check the CDC stats of all the illness homo-sex will give a person.
As soon as you or Glenn can explain to me what gay rights are, you might make me give a damn.
Exactly, sexual deviants have the same rights as everyone else. What they want now is justification for their perversions.
People of the same sex can't be married it is an absurdity. Its like cats campaigning for the right to be dogs
"Homosexual rights" leads to indoctrination of children. That is a fact. We don't need to teach small children that disease inducing perversion is normal. It's a lie. Utah GOP group was right
The Utah Republican Party says they never invited Glenn Reynolds to speak in the first place:
The #UTGOP has never even extended an invitation to @instapundit (Glenn Reynolds) to speak. #utpol
— UtahGOP (@UtahGOP) January 7, 2013


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The Crimson coeds look to qualify for its 32nd national championship this weekend (photo courtesy Athletic Communications).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – With a berth to the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association Team Race National Championship on the line, the 17th-seeded Harvard coed sailing team will race at the 65th Fowle Trophy, New England Team Race Championship this weekend. The Crimson will also compete at the 4th Mystic Lake Team Race, while the women take the water at the Emily Wick Trophy. Sailing at each event is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m.
Fans can follow live stats from the races, here.
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About the 65th Fowle Trophy
New England's top coed teams will meet on the Thames River this weekend, racing in Connecticut College's FJs. The event is the most crucial of the spring season for the coeds, as the field of 12 will be tapered down to four that will qualify for the Walter C. Wood Trophy, ICSA National Team Race Championship, to be held at St. Mary's College in St. Mary's City, Md., May 26 – June 6. The race also serves as the spring district team race championship for the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEISA).
The Crimson looks to snap a two-year draught of qualifying for nationals this weekend as the last Harvard team to earn a berth was the 2010-11 squad that won the Fowle Trophy. Last season, the Crimson claimed ninth at the New England Championships.
Related Link: Sailing Takes Ninth at New England Championship
About the 4th Mystic Lake Team Race
The 4th Mystic Lake Team Race is set to be sailed on Mystic Lake in Medford, Mass., in Tufts' fleet of Larks. The Jumbos are the only collegiate team that sails Larks in order to hold an upper hand on the elite field of competition. Harvard has competed in the Mystic Lake Team Race since the inception of the event in 2009. Last year, the Crimson posted a 4-17 record to take seventh place.
Related Link: Harvard Sailing Wins Ted Ferrarone Team Race
About the Emily Wick Trophy
The Emily Wick Trophy is a two-division, intersectional regatta hosted by Coast Guard on the Thames River. Eighteen tames will clash on the water in New London, Conn., with each group racing in 420s. In 2013, the Crimson totaled 320 points for 15th place.
Related Link: Sailing Teaks 10th at Northeast Dinghy Championship, Completes Four Regattas
Connecticut waters will see southwest winds of 10 to 15 knots early Saturday before shifting to western winds of 15 to 20 knots in the afternoon. Sunday will see steady northwest breezes of 10 to 15 knots that become western squalls of 5 to 10 knots in the afternoon. In the Bay State, sailors will face southeast whiffs of 5 to 10 knots blowing to the southwest in the afternoon. A western blast of 10 to 15 knots with potential gusts of 25 knots is in store of the second day of racing.
For up-to-date forecasts, click here.
Coming Up
The busiest weekend of sailing is in store for the Crimson coed and women next weekend as Harvard splits up for five events including the 74th Owen, Mosbacher and Knapp Trophies at Yale which serves as the equivalent of the Ivy League Championships. The coeds will also race at the 27th Thompson Trophy (Coast Guard), the 70th Oberg Trophy (MIT/Northeastern) and the Savin Hill Invitational (Boston College). The women will take the water at Tufts' 35th Duplin Trophy.
Last Time on the Water
In its first weekend of racing this spring, the Harvard women's sailing team turned in an eighth-place performance at the Dellenbaugh Trophy. The 17th-seeded Crimson coeds also competed over the weekend at the 33rd Lynn Marchiando Regatta, the BU Trophy and hosted the Central Series Three.
Related Link: Women Take Eighth at Dellenbaugh Trophy; No. 17 Coeds Race at Three Events
Rank and File
After opening its spring slate with a seventh-place performance at the St. Mary's Team Race, Harvard's coed sailing team has moved up to No. 17 in Sailing World's college rankings, presented by Gill and Sailors of the Sea. The Crimson was initially ranked 19th in the national preseason poll.
Harvard is one-of-nine NEISA schools to make the coed national list as Yale (1), Boston College (6), Roger Williams (8), Dartmouth (9), and Brown (10) sit in the top 10, while Tufts (11), MIT (12), and Connecticut College (16) round out the conference's ranked schools.
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Related Link: Sailing World's College Rankings
Charles Chargin'
The Crimson has competed on the Charles River 15 times throughout the 2013-14 campaign and finished in the top-10 in every outing except two. Harvard's two victories came on the local water.
Olympic Model Athlete
The International Sailing Federation Association named Harvard freshman Juan Carlos Perdomo as one-of-28 experienced sailors to serve as an Athlete Role Model for the 2nd Summer Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China August 16-28. The Miami, Fla., native looks to transfer his knowledge and experience to the next wave of youth champions and Olympic heroes as a key role in supporting, mentoring and offering advice to the 100 young sailors racing across four events on Jinniu Lake.
Related Link: Perdomo Named Youth Olympic Games Sailing Athlete Role Model
Sailor of the Week
For his second-place finish at the ICSA Singlehanded Championships, Juan Carlos Perdomo was named the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association Coed Sailor of the Week Nov. 12. The weekly accolade was the first of the freshman's career and first weekly award presented to a Crimson sailor this season.
Related Link: Perdomo Named NEISA Sailor of the Week
Leading the Fleet
Michael O'Connor is entering his 17th season at the helm of the Harvard sailing teams. With O'Connor at the helm, Harvard won the national team race championships in 2002 and 2003, as well as the 2003 national coed championship and the women's national title in 2005.
Captains of the Ships
Senior Isabel Ruane has returned to her duties as the women's captain for the third consecutive season, while classmate Ames Lyman will lead the coeds.
Ruane's third consecutive reign as captain marks the first time in Harvard sailing history that the Crimson are led by the same sailor for three-straight seasons. The senior's tenure displaces Clay Johnson '07's and Ben Lamont '14's two-season captaincy term record.


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Gothenburg, Sweden, 29 October, 2013: SKF's new issue of EUR 750 million senior unsecured notes with a seven year maturity and 2.375% coupon rate, closed today. The notes have been listed on the Official List of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and admitted to trading on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange's regulated market.
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Kelsi Culpepper and Taylor Campione, a same-sex couple from Minneapolis, are filing a complaint with the Minnesota Department of Human Rights after a Target Field security guard rebuked them for kissing at a Twins-Angels game last month. City Pages reported:
Culpepper stopped to use the restroom, giving Campione a quick kiss on the lips as she departed.
Immediately after, a middle-aged, mustached security guard in a Twins hat walked toward her, shaking his head.
"I saw you kissing that girl, you can't do that," the security guard said.
"I can kiss whoever I want to," Campione replied.
"Well, we don't play grab ass here," the guard answered.
By the women's account, the guard then told them, "Here in the stadium, we adhere to the Ten Commandments."
Lesbianism is not mentioned in Exodus 20. The game was, however, played on a Friday and lasted until 11:31 p.m., more than two and a half hours after sunset, in violation of the Fourth Commandment. (For people with alternative Sabbaths, the series also included a game that began by daylight on Saturday and another one played on Sunday.) Leading off for the Twins was Denard Span, who once hit his own mother with a foul ball (Fifth Commandment) and who earlier this year said, "Thank God we didn't get no-hit today" (Third).
Among the decorations at Target Field is a 750-pound bronze statue (Second Commandment) of adulterer (Seventh) Kirby Puckett.


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Ohio EPA is soliciting proposals for subgrants awarded under the provisions of §319 of the Clean Water Act. These funds will be awarded to projects designed to restore and protect Ohio's surface waters through the reduction of nonpoint source pollutant load to surface waters; and through stream and riparian habitat improvement efforts.
Applications are due March 16th, 2020.
Click here for the RFP, Subaward application, and additional information.
The division's mission is to protect, enhance and restore all waters of the state for the health, safety and welfare of present and future generations. We accomplish this mission by monitoring the aquatic environment, permitting, enforcing environmental laws, using and refining scientifically sound methods and regulations, planning, coordinating, educating, providing technical assistance and encouraging pollution prevention practices.
Ohio is a water-rich state with more than 25,000 miles of streams and rivers, a 451-mile border on the Ohio River, more than 5,000 lakes, ponds, and reservoirs (>1 acre), and 236 miles of Lake Erie shoreline. Ohio has 10 scenic rivers comprising more than 629 river miles, the fourth largest total of any state in the nation.
The Division of Surface Water is responsible for restoring and maintaining the quality of Ohio's rivers and streams. The goal of Ohio's surface water program -- restoration and maintenance of Ohio's water resources -- reflects the national water quality objective in the Federal Clean Water Act (CWA), which is "to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Nation's waters. The CWA objective is often referred to as the "fishable/swimmable goal."
The fishable/swimmable goal is different from the popular idea of clean water as being water that is chemically pure. Instead, fishable/swimmable waters are resources that support stable, balanced populations of aquatic organisms which are ecologically "healthy," and provide safe water to the people of Ohio for public and industrial water supplies and recreation.
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