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9th August 2007
LGBT rights activist claims Jesus was gay 20
1:12 PM — A leading campaigner for gay equality in Northern Ireland has hit back at criticism of a placard carried at last weekend's Belfast Pride by stating he is convinced Jesus was a gay man.Belfast City councillor Christopher Staltford led calls for restrictions on future gay parades, claiming he was offended by a placard reading "Jesus is a fag."In a discussion on BBC Radio Ulster P A MacLochlainn responded that in his view the details of Jesus' life as presented in the Bible led him to conclude that he was a homosexual.
8th August 2007
Dissident Anglicans want church property 1
4:07 PM — Three churches in Los Angeles that rejected the authority of their diocese over the ordination of a gay bishop are asking the California Supreme Court to give them control of parish properties.The parishes of All Saints in Long Beach, St. David's in North Hollywood and St. James' in Newport Beach placed themselves under the jurisdiction of the Ugandan Anglican Church when they split from the LA diocese. Lower courts had sided with the parishes, who argued they were being victimised for their views on gay clergy.
Lutheran priests come out in protest at sex ban
10:45 AM — In a co-ordinated campaign of opposition to a rule banning lesbian and gay ministers from having sexual relationships, 82 Evangelical Lutheran clergy came out of the closet yesterday.The Church's Assembly in Chicago is expected to vote on the issue tomorrow.Previous efforts to suspend the celibacy rule have failed, and the mass coming out is intended to show that there are a significant number of gay and lesbian ministers already in loving, monogamous relationships.
3rd August 2007
Akinola to ordain dissident English bishop 15
3:40 PM — The gay-hostile Archbishop of Nigeria is planning to ordain his own 'flying bishop' in England, in a direct challenge to the authority of Rowan Williams.Archbishop Peter Akinola has already appointed a bishop to minister to Anglicans in America who object to gay people in the church, despite a plea from the Archbishop of Canterbury not to split the worldwide Communion.A source describing himself as a 'worker in the Nigerian diocese' said Archbishop Akinola's plans were common knowledge.
1st August 2007
Gays keep the church open, says Bishop Robinson 2
5:23 PM — The openly gay Anglican bishop whose ordination sparked the crisis in the worldwide Communion has claimed that without gay members the Church of England, "would be close to shutting down."The Right Reverend Gene Robinson, Bishop of New Hampshire, who lives openly with his male partner, said the church's denial over the number of gay and lesbian Anglicans was 'terrible.'He added that he found it 'mystifying' that the Anglican Communion could not be honest about it.
31st July 2007
Trans prisoner must be given hormone treatment, court rules
4:45 PM — A prison inmate who performed a self-castration with a razor blade after being refused treatment for gender identity disorder should have female hormone therapy paid for by the state, a federal judge has said.Jenniffer Spencer, born Randall Gammett, sued the Department of Corrections in the US state of Idaho for violation of her constitutional rights and for the punishment she was subjected to when doctors failed to diagnose gender identity disorder and treat her with female hormones.
27th July 2007
Catholic adoption agency closes rather than accept gay couples 14
4:05 PM — A Roman Catholic adoption charity is to turn away children in care because it refuses to accept the government's gay rights laws.Catholic Care will end its 100-year-old adoption service, which places 20 children with new families every year, because it does not want to help same-sex couples adopt.The Sexual Orientation Regulations, passed earlier this year, protect gay, lesbian and bisexual people from discrimination when accessing goods and services.
26th July 2007
Anglican bishops will boycott conference over gay issues 4
5:27 PM — The Global South group of Anglican church leaders has decided that it will boycott next year's Lambeth conference.As many as 120 bishops will not attend unless the American part of the Anglican church repudiates its current accepting attitude towards gay clergy and relationships.Conservative and liberal branches of the worldwide Anglican communion have been at loggerheads over the issues of homosexuality.
25th July 2007
Malta teachers take on Roman Catholic homophobia 6
4:18 PM — Malta's Union of Teachers is threatening to publish the details of four attempts to oust gay and lesbian teachers from Roman Catholic school posts, unless the government launches an independent inquiry into sexual orientation discrimination.According to the union, Church schools were under pressure from parents to fire the teachers, leading to four interventions in the past five years.Students even scrawled insults on one teacher's chalkboard, according to John Bencini, President of the union.
20th July 2007
Scottish bishop's threat over gay adoptions 1
3:08 PM — The Roman Catholic Bishop of Motherwell said yesterday that the Church in Scotland would close its biggest adoption agency rather than help same-sex couples to adopt children.Bishop Joseph Devine said that St Margaret's Catholic Adoption Agency in Glasgow would close rather than abide by the Sexual Orientation Regulations.Catholic agencies place around 40 of the 200 children adopted in Scotland every year.
TURING: Of homosexuality and the church 2
11:06 AM — Love or hate it, it's hard to ignore organised religion.While your columnist is of the opinion that religion should strictly (and I do mean strictly) restricted to consenting adults in private, and while some leading intellectuals want religion completely wiped off the map of the earth, it is hard to reconcile these opinions with the fact that more than 90% of the world's population subscribe to some form of organised religion.
19th July 2007
The tribunal bishop and his gay organist 8
1:09 PM — The news of yesterday's landmark employment tribunal ruling that the Bishop of Hereford discriminated against a man by refusing to employ him as a youth worker because he is gay overshadowed another eccentric decision by the church leader.The Rt Revd Anthony Priddis, who is facing calls that he resign his post, has found time to wish his organist and his gay partner congratulations on their civil partnership.The Bishop asked a gay job applicant a series of intrusive personal questions during an interview.
11th July 2007
Anglicans advertise for foster gay couples
5:32 PM — A branch of the urban mission and welfare service of the Anglican Church in Australia has inadvertently become involved in the political row about gay parenting by taking an advert in a gay publication.Teenshare, part of Anglicare, has taken the ad in monthly gay paper OUT in Perth to encourage gay and lesbian couples to foster children aged 12 to 17.Last month the news that a gay male couple had adopted a baby was welcomed by lawmakers in the state of Western Australia.
10th July 2007
Catholic hierarchy tussle with gay group over Mass rights 2
5:25 PM — Quest, the lesbian and gay group for Catholics, has accused the Catholic Church of un-Christian behaviour after the Archdiocese of Liverpool prevented them from using the University Catholic Chaplaincy for a Mass.The service was intended to help gay Catholics discuss their experiences and pray for understanding of issues of faith.Following the ban the meeting was held in a location not controlled by the church.
9th July 2007
Synod fails to heal Anglican divisions on gay issues
4:03 PM — This weekend's General Synod in York resolved to create a disciplinary covenant that might see some gay-friendly clergy and bishops thrown out of the Anglican church.There is no resolution in sight as the Church of England continues to equivocate on the issue of the ordination of gay clergy.The rows over the blessing of same-sex relationships and the ordination of gay clergy threatens to split the worldwide Church.
6th July 2007
Comment: Ex-gay journalist answers his critics 24
4:32 PM — Earlier this week PinkNews.co.uk reported on Michael Glatze, an award-winning gay journalist and activist who announced he is now an ex-gay.The founder of Young Gay America magazine and recipient of the National Role Model Award from leading gay rights organisation Equality Forum has contacted PinkNews.co.uk to put his side of the story. Here we reproduce his thoughts on the true nature of homosexuality.
Sacked gay Lutheran pastor refuses to budge
12:35 PM — The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America removed Atlanta Pastor Bradley Schmeling from the church's pastoral roles on Thursday because he is an out gay man.But according to the Associated Press, the Reverend Schmeling says he won't leave the pulpit of St. John's Lutheran Church.This decision that could open the 350-member congregation to disciplinary action from the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
5th July 2007
No breakaway church for opponents of gay acceptance
4:01 PM — Nigeria's Anglican Archbishop, Peter Akinola, has denied any ambition to lead a breakaway church, despite his strong opposition to his western colleagues in the Anglican dispute over gay priests.His conservative views towards gay marriage has made him a popular figure within the conservative wing of the church.He told the The Times: "That has never been on my mind. We are going nowhere."
4th July 2007
Baseball team's gay night annoys Christians
10:24 AM — For some reason whenever you get a group of gay people in a place outside of a club or a pride parade everyone seems to get up in arms.That is enhanced when the group is stepping on sacred ground where only "straight" people are allowed to go, and a sports arena is perceived to be as straight as you can get.This month Petco Park in San Diego is holding an event that has already gotten people riled up over what seemed like a simple idea.
1st July 2007
Chicago Anglican church branch nominates lesbian for bishop 26
5:10 PM — A branch of the Anglican church in Chicago has nominated an openly lesbian priest, Rev, Tracey Lind, as a candidate to replace current Chicago Bishop William Persell.The Episcopal Diocese of Chicago has included Rev. Lind as one of five nominees for bishop, as fellow Anglicans demand that the church bar gay bishops.

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13471 Raceway Dr. , Roanoke, TX, US, 76262
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|Texas Motor Speedway
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|Texas 500 Nascar
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|Bass Performance Hall/Opera
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|Intergrity Park Sports Cmplx
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|Trophy Club Golf
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|Texas Ili's Dude Ranch
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|Tour 18 Golf
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|Grapevine Heritage Center
|12.0mi/19.3km NW
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|Sundance Square Shops/Rest.
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This Day in History – September 19<VIP Club + Contests
On September 19, 1973, this musician dies of "multiple drug use" (morphine and tequila) in a California motel room. His death inspired one of the more bizarre crimes on record: Two of his friends stashed his body in a borrowed hearse and drove it into the middle of the Joshua Tree National Park, where they doused it with gasoline and set it on fire. – This Day in History


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What's the Big Deal About Porsches
These are the videos we are watching, when we should be working.
By April 13, 2010
Are you one of those rare readers who just can't begin to understand why we hold the Stuttgart marque in such high regard? Watch this superb video. You'll understand. No posers allowed.
Ever wonder what might happen if you entered a hairpin corner with no lug nuts on your rear wheels? Can't say we ever did, either, but it sure makes for an interesting video. Watch what happens to the Citroën Saxo rally car in this clip!


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The secret is in the sauce[caption id="attachment_22352" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Chang, far right, and his research team. MIT Prof. Craig Carter 2nd from left"][/caption] The new design segregates two battery functions—storing energy, and discharging that energy when it needs to be used—into two structures. Separating these functions means that batteries can be designed more efficiently, Chiang says. Chiang's team has combined the basic structure of flow batteries with the chemistry of lithium-ion batteries by changing the batteries' solid materials into tiny particles that can be carried in a liquid suspension, using two proven technologies. The key difference is, according to MIT News:
The new battery relies on an innovative architecture called a semi-solid flow cell, in which solid particles are suspended in a carrier liquid and pumped through the system. In this design, the battery's active components—the positive and negative electrodes, or cathodes and anodes—are composed of particles suspended in a liquid electrolyte. These two different suspensions are pumped through systems separated by a filter, such as a thin porous membrane...
...Increasing energy storage is as simple as increasing the size of the storage tanks—the device that allows the electrodes to interact stays the same size.Flow batteries have existed for a long time, but were never considered practical for electric cars because of their low energy density. The new semi-solid flow batteries pioneered by Chiang overcome this limitation, providing a 10-fold improvement in energy density, and cascading lower-cost manufacturing than conventional lithium-ion batteries. Because the material has such a high energy density, it does not need to be pumped rapidly to deliver its power. "It kind of oozes," Chiang says. Because the suspensions look and flow like black goo and could end up used in place of petroleum for transportation. "We call it 'Cambridge crude.'" Another potential advantage: the system would permit simply "refueling" the battery by pumping out the liquid slurry and pumping in fully charged replacement, or swapping out the tanks, while still preserving the more traditional home-recharging.
The US needs an all-hands-on-deck...[caption id="attachment_22457" align="alignright" width="300" caption="24M Team: Chang, Carter and Pres. Throop Wilder"][/caption] Finding several financing sources helped the new 24M battery move quickly out of the lab. AtoZNano reported in 2010:
... ARPA-E awarded a total of $6M to a collaborative effort between 24M, MIT and Rutgers to further develop its technology, on top of previous funding to MIT from DARPA. 24M Technologies has also secured $10M in from Charles River Ventures and North Bridge Venture Partners.Throop Wilder, president of 24M, said at the time, "The U.S. needs an all-hands-on-deck approach to compete in global markets that are heavily subsidized by foreign governments."


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Abbreviation for "com'on man" (come on man). Used to express how ridiculous you think something is that was just said/just happened. Synonomous to "give me a break".
Sean: I don't think I'm going to make it down to the shore this weekend, I have a massive headache.
Trevor: CMM!!!!!!!!
Trevor: CMM!!!!!!!!
ayon kay Princess ika-27 ng Agosto, 2003
Certified Money Maker
That bama with the gold grill is no dout a CMM.
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Help where is the supply warehouse?
MapleStory Forums : General MapleStory : General MS questions and answers
Sep 05 12
Im on the end of chapter 3 and i need to find bastille at the supply warehouse.. wher is it?
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Edelstein. Far right in some empty building
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its in edelstein
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>city hall
>hidden portal at right side of map
Sep 05 12
How do i get to city hall?
Sep 05 12
There are only like 5 buildings you can enter in Edelstein, can you really not look yourself?
Sep 05 12
Problades: You obviously haven't been inside the Secret Tunnel
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nexon really went crazy with it
Sep 05 12
back and forth i go
Sep 05 12
MeMagicalPie: Not sure what you're talking about. There's the town hall, the empty house, the resistance HQ, the airport, the room for Surl's thing, and the hair salon in town.
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPvMUpcxPSA] (Video Link)Joe Hanson is a biologist and the host of the PBS online series It's Okay to Be Smart. In this video, he explains why it's odd that there so few left-h...http://www.neatorama.com/2014/11/06/Why-Are-So-Few-People-Left-Handed-A-Biologist-Explains/
(Image: NASA)Assuming that faster-than-light travel is physically impossible, humanity's options for colonizing other star systems are limited. A multi-generation starship or one in which the settlers are traveling in so...http://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/04/How-Many-People-Would-It-Take-to-Colonize-Another-Star-System/
Photo: McMaster University Isn't this a plot in many an apocalypse Hollywood movie? Scientists have succeeded in reconstructing the genetic code of a deadly strain of bacteria that killed nearly a qua...http://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/29/Scientists-Reconstructed-the-Justinian-Plague-DNA-What-Could-Possibly-Go-Wrong/
Yeah, we meant you. (Though to be honest, I've long suspected that some people are actually fully Neanderthals from the way they act.) DNA analysis studies published in Nature and Science showed that humans are pa...http://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/29/Youre-Part-Neanderthal/
I Heart Yeti from the NeatoShop D... ...g the yeti. According to Oxford University genetics professor Bryan Sykes, hair samples discovered in...http://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/18/Yeti-is-Polar-Bear-Hybrid-According-to-Genetics-Study/
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[http://youtu.be/ki2U8nXTXYU] (YouTube link)Genticists have made a fascinating discovery that points to a genetic mutation responsible for the behavior of certain people you know. They were born that way. Which, of cours...http://www.neatorama.com/2013/09/04/The-Arsehole-Gene/
Ed Yong has a fascinating article on the behavior of a gene called SRY. It is located on the Y chromosome, and is pivotal in making an embryo develop into a male. But what about studies of Swyer syndrome, in which a chil...http://www.neatorama.com/2013/09/04/Some-Genes-are-More-Analog-than-Digital/
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Thanks for the video. The Cerium SL looks like a nice jacket. I do wish they'd go another route than their selective use of synthetic insulation, as its likely to bve shorter lived and frankly ...
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I'm pretty sure they're 3oz. So 42% down by weight which is awesome. That's similar to Borah's 30D pants (43%) but not as good as Borah's 10D pants. In my view, down pants ar...
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My wife and I both have Goosefeet Down pants. I think they were the first two pairs Ben made. They are good highly functional pieces. The sewing wasn't quite at mainstream standards, but they...
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Sounds great. All we're missing here is a picture.
"I wonder why no one goes with 1.43oz cuben for the floor? I would think this would still be lighter than the silnylon floor including seam sealent?" At last check, HMG was using 1.43o...
I agree that cuben has the advantages of (1) not being annoyingly slippery like silnylon (2) being somewhat lighter and (3) being more waterproof initially. Ideally I'd like a 30D PU coated flo...
I would go silnylon and no ground sheet. Cuben is sketchy as a floor material. It's okay for a while, but once it starts to fray the end isn't far off. Opting for silnylon with no ground...
Ibex has their Hooded Indie (195g/m2) on sale right now ($79 @ Ibex.com vs. $115). They also have the Woolies line at 150g/m2 but I'm not sure if there's a hooded option.
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I have this kit and the FireLite Mini kit. This sparker is a bit lighter than the FireLite Mini but I don't trust this sparker 100% like I do the FireLite. This sparker doesn't work well wh...
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I've got the original Reed pants (4oz in a size medium) and they are prefect rain pants for UL hiking. They've been adequately durable, totally waterproof and light. I don't want ankle zip...
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I'll be the first one to give this jacket 5 stars. Marmot has made a number of changes to this jacket over the years so criticisms of the earlier models are no longer relevant. My Essence is t...
Baladeo 22 Grams Knife
This knife is a brilliant design. Every part of it is functional and the result is a lot of knife for just 22g (or 24.3g as mine as actually weighs). When I opened the (very nice) box and first played...
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Waiting for Hatchlings, Part 1
Greetings from Bald Head Island, North Carolina! I'm sitting on the porch of my parents' beach house watching the waves break just over the dune ridge. It's sunny, there's a pleasant but insistent breeze, and a cicada chirps in a nearby tree.
Cory Wilson, expedition photographer, and I have been here for barely a day-and-a-half, and already there's much to report. I'll start from the beginning.
Day 1
We arrive on the island at sunset after seven hours driving from DC. We are tired but relieved to find ourselves in a place where the only modes of transport are golf carts and one-speed bicycles and the main activities of the island include climbing the stone lighthouse known as "Old Baldy."
After a brief stop at my favorite turtle pond to look for one of the island's gators, there's no more dallying. We're on a mission – take us to the sea turtles, we tell our host, the Bald Head Island Conservancy's (BHIC) head naturalist, Maureen Dewire. She directs us to loggerhead nest #89, which she thinks is "gonna go" tonight. "What time?" I ask. "Any time between sunset and sunrise," she says. Oh. Why was I thinking there was a convenient window between 8 and 10 pm when they always come out? Wishful thinking.
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