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The effort necessary to excavate Henry Charles Bukowski from beneath the weight of his cult is significant; I've never been entirely convinced that it's worth the effort. At one time his might've been a rare voice that said exactly what a disgruntled few needed to hear -- reading a piece by Brendan Mullen addressing the countercultural vacuum of Los Angeles in the mid-'70s, in which he describes the only worthwhile weekly reading in town as Bukowski's "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" column for the L.A. Free Press, threw things into a much-needed context for me.
But this self-conscious art brut mouthpiece of the fringe has been anything but marginal for many years (a recent New Yorker consideration noted the irony that Bukowski was now published by Rupert Murdoch), and he doesn't weather the inflation to cultural avatar well -- a man who, by his admission, "wrote the same thing over and over again," he pounded out short, easily navigable sentences and outlined his dropout ethos in triplicate, a formula ensuring that copies of "Ham on Rye" could pass between generations of zitty 9th graders as readily as a well-thumbed copy of Oui, and be received as scripture. Better that Bukowski should break them in than Ayn Rand, but is this it..?
Bukowski the Man is dead; long live Bukowski the Lifestyle Brand. The past couple of years alone have seen a bumper crop of Buk ephemera -- he's already been the subject of a theatrically released biographical doc ("Bukowski: Born Into This"), Barbet Schroeder's much-bootlegged four-hour interview series with the author from 1982 has become domestically available on DVD ("The Charles Bukowski Tapes"), and he's even lent his name to a middling Modest Mouse song (the tune does contain as accurate a critique as the writer will ever get: "He's a pretty good read/ But God who'd wanna be such an asshole?"). And now yet another title now joins the list of celluloid Bukowski adaptations: "Factotum," a filming of his 1975 novel of dead-end odd-jobbing; like all noteworthy adaptations of the author to date, it's helmed by a European (even now Bukowski's domestic fame lags behind his reputation abroad), here relatively unknown Norwegian director Bent Hamer.
The go-to point of comparison for Hamer's film is Schroeder's 1987 "Barfly," from an original screenplay by Bukowski, which likewise attached a contemporary A-list name to the role of Henry Chinaski, alter-ego navigator of Buk's hiccupped autobiographical aggrandizements ("Barfly" starred Mickey Rourke; "Factotum," Matt Dillon). The films share overlapping incidents; the specifics of Rourke-Chinaski's barstool pick-up of Faye Dunaway repeat in Dillon-Chinaski's meeting Marisa Tomei -- he buys the lady a drink with his last buck, she decides to bring him home, they pick up liquor on the tab of her wealthy benefactor. But further comparison of these movies only serves to remind us how the expectations of what independent film culture can accomplish have diminished through the last 20 years, and highlight the banal superfluity of Hamer's movie. "Factotum" is a lugubrious morning-after picture of pasty flesh under fluorescent light, fussily dingy apartments with nice downtown views, scene transitions lubricated by Kristin Asbjornesen's blue-note caterwauling of Bukowski poetry on the soundtrack. Whatever you may make of Buk's Skid Row Romanticism, "Barfly" -- lushly lensed by Robby Mueller, sells it -- the film's as much jukebox Saturday night as beer-shit Sunday morning, a necessary contrast that "Factotum" suffers from the lack of.
"Factotum"'s dour deadpan may be a fairly faithful translation of the author's adjective-parched David Goodis prose, but it fails to pick up any of the brio that's behind his words. To give credit, Dillon's D.O.A. delivery puts over some very funny scenes, such as the exchange that comes when Chinaski informs a potential employer that he's working on a novel about "Everything": "You mean, for instance, it's about cancer?" "Yes." "How about my wife?" "She's in there too." But I infinitely prefer Rourke's shambolic, swaying black-and-blue bare-knuckler, whose W.C. Fields cadence evokes Bukowski's own lilt. The bravado of Rourke's paunchy gamecock strut, combined with his feminine delicacy, is enough to put flesh on Bukowski's folk hero seducer/ bar-clearing brawler myth-of-self. In "Factotum," one of Chinaski's girls, Jan (Lili Taylor), wants to berate him, so she shrieks: "When I first met you I liked the way you walked across a room... you walked like you were going to walk through a wall" -- it doesn't make a bit of sense with Dillon's stoic slob, but it's a compliment Rourke could carry. (If people are going to insist on continuing to make 'The Adventures of Hank Chinaski,' I'd like to nominate the comedian Rick Shapiro for the part.)
Probably the most suspect decision of Hamer's "Factotum" is to take Chinaski's receipt of an acceptance slip for the publication of one of his short stories, an incident that occurs about a quarter of the way through the novel, and transplant it to the film's finale, turning the whole thing into a lowlife lit "8 Mile," an inspirational speech to keep a thousand bad artists plugging away. If I wasn't put off enough by the PR geniuses who very obviously manufactured the film's positive pull-quote studded Wikipedia entry ("With exceptional performances that capture the intoxicated journey through life and art"), I'd have to despise "Factotum" for encouraging another J.T. LeRoy generation of bologna-on-rye.
[Nick Pinkerton is a Reverse Shot staff writer and editor and frequent contributor to Stop Smiling.]
Take 2
By Justin Stewart
Told on his premiere day at a job sorting bicycle parts that smoking in the building is strictly forbidden, the very first thing Hank Chinaski does once his supervisor leaves the room is light up. It's not that he's a particularly far-gone nicotine addict (booze is his lifeblood), it's just that these small fits of rebellion are, along with liquor and writing, the only moments that allow such a nuanced, feeling guy like Henry to endure the deadening 8-to-5 toil. The act might seem petty, impotent, infantile; but what better reaction to a job that is the same? If you're not on Henry's side, then whose side are you on?
"Factotum"'s primary flaw is not egregious, but it's all too common among adaptations -- it simply goes through the motions. Chinaski is given a few monologues taken from other Bukowski works, which is an inspired and welcome touch, but the wealth of Hamer's film adheres to dutiful (and too often flat) rehashings of the novel's farcical gags. Of course, there is no inherent violation in a strict adaptation, but this is Bukowski! You'd expect some riffing, some danger, but all you get is a respectful impersonation from Matt Dillon, whose viscous cadence makes waiting for the retorts (which you know are coming) something of a chore.
Still, if you can bypass why-does-this-exist reservations you'll discover a perfectly likeable "indie gem." (Produced by Jim Jarmusch associate Jim Stark and co-starring Lili Taylor, it's 1989 all over again.) Taylor's the best thing going here, vividly inhabiting the role of Chinaski's seedy, slutty, insecure girlfriend, Jan. You can feel her hangovers, especially during a funny long take that has Henry and Jan trading off trips (crawls, really) to the toilet to hurl. When Henry re-encounters Jan at the hotel where she works as a maid, the delighted innocence in her smile as she sees him vanquishes the image of her as a screaming horror--now there's just the patient loving from the kind of girl who would put up with a cad like Chinaski.
[Justin Stewart is a Reverse Shot staff writer.]
Take 3
By Nicolas Rapold
One of the wage-slave gigs taken and abandoned by Hank Chinaski (Matt Dillon) in "Factotum" entails feather-dusting a gargantuan statue in the lobby of a newspaper building. The memorable image (which could have been lifted from some lost silent comedy) evokes what might have been the trap of Bent Hamer's film: idol-polishing -- burnishing the self-maintained, alcohol-preserved myth of one of America's most popular lifestyle poets. Casting Dillon seemed both inevitable (he's a former teen heartbreaker who always jumps at the chance to go "antihero"), and inadvisable (he recently put himself on the knife's edge of self-parody in the camp melodrama "Crash").
But, despite a title that suggests an arty Cannes head-scratcher (half-right), "Factotum" is clear-eyed and even modest about choosing and doing a couple of things well, and a shortcut to its simple pleasures is to forget all about Bukowski and watch Dillon. The actor brings a stone face (more immobilized than deadpan) to Hank's self-seriousness and macho wisdom, presenting a life of affable booze-hounding and writing, while smuggling Bukowski's own prose past the line of irony. Dillon's Hank always speaks as if writing (deliberately and precisely), and "Factotum" indulges the western-like fantasy of the truth-teller who sees and shoots right through you, as in Hank's laconic break-up with scrappy girlfriend Jan (Lili Taylor). Dillon and Taylor sneak a surprising tenderness by us, one grounded in small gestures amidst the big fuss-making of putting up with another person's shit. Hamer intrudes sometimes with his propensity for blackout-sketches and the well-lit, toned cinematography that for some reason has become the idiom for deadpan. But by knowing just how to pitch Bukowski's self-aggrandizing pseudo-stoicism, he and Dillon sustain a distinctly minor but diverting piece.
[Nicolas Rapold is a Reverse Shot staff writer, the assistant editor of Film Comment, the film editor of Stop Smiling, and a regular contributor to the New York Sun.]


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Very few apps available for Ubuntu? Seriously? I'd say "very few apps available to all competituors, iOS, Android or Windows Phones". If I can run any Ubuntu program on the phone, all other althernatives a long way to go to provide similar functionality. Apps available on other platforms are usually mostly toys, thousands of repetitions of a few limited functionality themes at best. I'd say Ubuntu has a richer ecosystem from the start.
Great news!
Just need to say that Mark Shuttleworth is no more the Canonical CEO. Since 2009 the Canonical CEO is Jane Silber
You have too much stature and too good a reputation, WSJ.
Best you should check out Mr Shuttleworth's and Canonical's less-than-sterling track record: long on puffery, short on delivery, and little credibility outside the Ubuntu "community". It's been a long time since there existed any serious interest by Linux users in Ubuntu due to two reasons: Canonical gives very little back to the Linux community, while taking its best, and Canonical tends to ride rough-shod over its own user base. Ubuntu has seen a serious decline in users over the past two years due to this last point. Perhaps this is why Mr. Shuttleworth is taking his show on the road to people who are not familiar with Canonical or Ubuntu.
@Jules ... what % of legacy Ubuntu apps will run "as is" on a 3-4 inch screen? And how many are optimized for a touch screen environment? And how many of these desktop-built apps even know of GPS and accelerometers? And how many are name-brand apps that people clamor for and how many are well-intentioned community knock-offs? Your "rich" Ubuntu ecosystem will, without massive effort and investment, be a desert for early adopters.
"... largely driven by the number of applications available to users, of which there are very few currently for Ubuntu."
It seems that this journalist doesn't know much, at all, about Linux, which has had a huge range of 'proper' applications, such as those which provide the infrastructure of most of the Internet. It's had these for years before Apple dropped the 'lications' to invent 'apps', just as they dropped 'ly' to invent the notion of 'thinking "different"'.
James appears not to understand 'legacy' as used in computer-marketing-speak.
The applications, systems and programs built on Linux and other flavours of Unix are the powerhouse behind most modern computing. They run everything from the tiniest devices to the largest supercomputers. Along the way they power the eBays, Amazons, Googles, nuclear power stations... and, as it happens, the vast majority of smartphones, specifically everything that runs Android or iOS.
Speaking of Apple, they haven't actually made their own operating system sure the 1990s. 'Next' was their last, abortive attempt (althought this was bought from someone else). After getting out of writing computer operating systems they switched to using Unix (see Mach / BSD), the part of iOS and OSX which entitled Apple to make some clains for a stable underlying platform, and settled for writing the shiny, pointy-clicky user interface that sits on top of it.
So, the most powerful to the tiniest computers, eBay, Amazon, the World Wide Web, the Internet, Android and Apple smartphones, tablets and desktops, IBM,. Oracle, etc., etc. - are all huge users of the most widely used and actively developed modern computing systems built on flavours of Unix. Or, as James calls them, 'legacy'.
This is exciting - truly looking forward to their launch and hoping I can get my hands on one! That said, they will have some huge challenges ahead. Besides being a new entrant into the smartphone market and lacking the scale of the huge companies powering the competition (Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc.), they'll need to work hard to attract the developers who are currently churning out apps for these other platforms. For Ubuntu to succeed, it will need "an app for that". It will also need a killer app, a reason for consumers to ditch their white and green phones for something completely new to them.
That said, the base technology of the Ubuntu Phone is certainly better - a pure Linux phone, a full operating system with a mobile-friendly interface, and all that docking magic sure sounds exciting. Compare that to Android, a Linux-based phone with a java Virtual Machine on top. It's that virtualizing that weighs the performance down on Android phones. I've owned a number of Android phones over the years and, while I prefer them to other devices, they've always been disappointingly slow. Ubuntu offers a robust, lightweight OS, capable of doing everything their server and desktop versions are, with a UI tuned for mobile devices. It's not "Ubuntu: Mobile Edition", it's literally Ubuntu.
The chameleonic approach Canonical has taken to device convergence is the most appealing to me. Why have three different devices running three different operating systems when you can have one device and one operating system adapt itself to the different form-factors? It's a huge undertaking on Canonical's part and I commend them for what appears to be a great job so far.
Again, I reiterate, this battle won't be easily won - it will require extremely hard work to win over enough manufacturers, carriers, developers, and users for Ubuntu to be successful. That said, I'm optimistic, especially after seeing the response they got at CES. Also, there's a great amount of dissonance among Apple and Microsoft users which has lately been benefiting Android and desktop Linux. I really think that's where a good amount of Ubuntu's market will come from - former iPhone users who no longer see the magic and want something new, and Windows users who are looking for a secure and fast alternative for desktop. Canonical just needs to put every effort into marketing Ubuntu so when users are looking for something new, they're the ones they think of.
i think Ubnutu software going to rock in desktop and tablet market. I waiting for it. I wish October month will comes soon and i will see this software soon on internet.
If Canonical can somehow prevent the version-splitting seen by Android, I think this OS will have a great impact on the market.
They should learn from the 3 operating systems currently notable on the market:
IPhone: Great user experience due to a long product support (updates) and no "custom" apps from Samsung/ZTE/Nokia/...
Android: Users actually have control over theire smartphones (as long as Samsung/HTC/... don't decline their users their rights)
Windows Phone: A phone-interface which is like the desktop-version. A mixture of desktop and phone-interface is a interesting thing. Future has to tell if there is a market for this.
Ubuntu is the Awful OS in my opinion, because the Windows may lose their value in the market. So it may take 2-decade to develop their market and share.
Very much looking forward to this. Ubuntu has already done a great job at making desktop Linux accessible and usable outside the intelligentsia.
I guess the convergence part might be the "killer app" for business users, but I hope they've got something up their sleeves for the casual users too. In any case, I'll be downloading their SDK and get my own stuff ported
Finally, I have not heard this discussed or mentioned anywhere and I have no idea how technically possible it is but, what would make the high end Ubuntu phone compelling to a consumer such as myself, would be if the phone, when docked, could combine its processing power (GPU and/or Ram) with that of the desktop machine it is docked to. Thus enabling me to carry out more intensive productivity work (graphics, video editing, modelling) on a average desktop pc. In this way my existing hardware is not made redundant but enhanced. I think that might be a compelling proposition to some users/consumers such as my self.
@Ubuntu user perhaps, but the idea of the dock is that you don't need a pc to dock to. Just a monitor and keyboard, or an HD TV etc etc. But yours is a pretty shweet idea
@sagetarian or anybody else. Are you a techie?, I am keen but an absolute amature. Any pointers as to how and where I might begin to explore how to scratch my itch.
Oh I see now. It doesn't connect to a computer at all, just the screen as you said. Seems purely an enterprise solution. I wish them well but...
@Ubuntu user - from the Ubuntu website "Ubuntu uniquely enables a new category of convergence device – phones that dock to become full PCs and thin clients ". So, yes, your powerful smartphone can act as a PC when you hook it to a "big screen" and keyboard, regardless of "corporate setting" or home use. Its all the same OS; with a different "skin" for the different devices depending on their usage.
uinstall any software db215b834d47b47764f0469c4c2a9aa5
Sigh. It is extremely hard not to be condescending toward the general technical public when I read articles like these, but I will try. Look. The wool is being pulled over your collective eyes. Everyone sees "open source" and thinking, "Nice...I like open." Dumb. Dumb. Dumb. This platform is *NOT* open. You say the source code is open? So what? Ready to spend $25 million on roll-out of your own hardware? Oh, you're not? Then that means that open-source does not give you squat. The fact is...when the device arrives into the hands of the user, it is locked-down. Period. The user, without extraordinary technical effort, cannot modify the software on the device. The user cannot add "un-authorized" software to the device, which, in English, means that the user cannot add software that has not been sold through and "App Store" that is controlled the the publisher of the so-called "open" software. In other words, the user cannot anything more than could be done with a closed device, without some tech jock standing by.
Technical writers have a responsibility to point out this fact. Come on guys...that's your job as journalist, to tell the general public when they are being taken for a ride via the manipulation of words.
The biggest question for me, is whether Ubuntu will be shipped root-locked or not. If it is, there's no more chance of me purchasing it than of the sea turning pink. If not, it will be a hugely marketable feature. Buying phones and tablets made for iOS and Chrome is like buying a car which the manufacturer has half-filled with rubbish and not given a key for the rear door; then saying "If you force open the rear door or throw out our rubbish, we'll cancel your warranty and your service plan!"

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It's been quite a busy time on the MTM Translations' side of the street lately, but I couldn't miss the chance to wish you all the best for the holiday season ... and I couldn't miss the chance to create a very special Christmas playlist. You won't find most of those good ol' Christmas carols here, but hopefully this music compilation will bring a smile on your faces and help you through those big family gatherings we all love & hate at the same time ;-)
Also, thank you all for supporting this crazy little project.
The 10 tracks series will be back in January, stay tuned for more music playlists and fun together!
Merry Christmas and a rockin' new year!
01. August Burns Red - Carol of the bells
02. Jethro Tull - Another Christmas song
03. Eartha Kitt & Friends - Santa baby
04. The Smashing Pumpkins - Christmastime
05. Twisted Sisters - Oh come all ye faithful
06. The Ronettes - Frosty the snowman
07. The Beach Boys - Little Saint Nick
08. Billy Idol - White Christmas
09. Bobby Helms - Jingle bell rock
10. Bruce Springsteen - Santa Claus is coming to town


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Notably absent from last week's Seattle Times series on legendary local sports broadcasters was Rick Rizzs, the long-time Mariners' announcer. Of course, his partner, Dave Niehaus was on the list. Niehaus is the undisputed voice of the Mariners, a Hall of Famer who has called nearly every game the team has played. But Rizzs is in his 24th season with the M's (he began in 1983 and did a 3-year stint with the Tigers in the early 90s) and his calls, too, are a part of the Mariners lexicon--for example, "Goodbye, baseball!" And he's the only Mariners' announcer to have recorded a rap song.
A few weeks ago, during the All-Star break, Rizzs agreed to sit down with SW for an interview.We met at an Issaquah Plateau Starbucks, not far from his home nor that of his 29-year-old son and two grandsons (aged 2 and 4). Rizzs was relaxed and affable and, as in the broadcasts, unfailingly positive. (He was also interrupted at several points by fans who wanted to tell him how much they enjoy his work.) In fact, Rizzs is so consistently upbeat that the USS Mariner once created a fictional, opposite-day doppelganger for him: Evil Rick Rizzs, a nasty commentator who demands fresh souls as payment.
True to style, the real Rizzs says he's thrilled about this year's team, effusively praising Jack Zduriencik's personnel moves. "This guy's smart," he says. "He knows what he's doing." But Rizzs isn't afraid to talk about how frustrating last year was. He describes the '08 team as "a rudderless ship. No leadership, no direction. It was one of the worst situations I've seen in my 35 years in baseball."
Still, while Rizzs says the organization places no restrictions on him as far as criticizing the team, he stops short of calling players out for anything but lack of hustle. "It's very difficult getting to the big leagues. They're not out there trying to screw up, trying to make mistakes. They're out there trying their best, so unless they're not hustling, that's good enough for me."
And he refuses to question the manager's and general manager's moves, even when he disagrees with them, as he says he did with the team's choice of using Jose Vidro as a DH, or keeping Brandon Morrow in the majors. "My job is to report what [management] is saying. Then the fans can decide whether that's the way to go."
Still, even though Rizzs thought last year was such a disaster, you'd never have known it, listening to his broadcasts, wherein he sounded, as my friend Paul--a devoted fan--put it, "positively tickled" about the team. Rizzs says that's because he loves his job. "I'm living my dream," he says. "I don't know how many people can say that. I've wanted to do this ever since I was a 12 year old kid."
His childhood, as you may know from listening to the broadcasts, was spent in the South side of Chicago, where he listened to White Sox and Cubs games on the radio and played baseball all day with his friends. "Ever see the movie The Sandlot?" he asks, referring to the nostalgic 1960s period comedy about a set of boys playing pickup baseball in their neighborhood. One of whom grows up to become an announcer (as has Rizzs), and another, because he's the fastest, has to recover their baseball from a yard with a scary dog (as did Rizzs). "That's the story of my life."
Indeed, Rizzs' approach to and love for the game comes off as old school. He glows as he recalls his favorite players from his childhood and praises the accuracy of the movie Bull Durham's portrayal of 1980s minor league ball. (Rizzs called minor league games for seven years before joining the Mariners in 1983.) And he says he prefers working radio, the old school medium, which is what the M's have had him doing since 2007.
"Radio is much more powerful. I get to take the listener wherever I want to go, to paint the picture. Your imagination is better than any camera ever invented. That's how I grew up, listening to games on radio."
Finally, Rizzs isn't terribly enamored of basball's statistical revolution, the new emphasis on quantification that began with Bill James' Baseball Prospectus and really caught on with the public with the success of Billy Beane in Oakland, as chronicled in Michael Lewis' Moneyball.
"I think you incorporate the stats, but you can overdo the stats," he explains. "I try to use the numbers that tell the story. The basic stats--average, home runs, RBI--give you an idea. What I like to use is, 'What's this guy hitting with runners in scoring position?' It tells you what that guy can do with a runner on 2nd base, 3rd base, his approach to the game. Does he have the ability to come through with the clutch hit? It's really easy to overuse the numbers."
Meanwhile, many statheads doubt whether such a thing as a clutch hitter even exists--statistics show that with a large enough sample size, what you find is not that the perceived clutch hitters are consistently excellent in the clutch, but that their performance during those times varies as much as if the numbers had been drawn at random. I mention this to Rizzs, but he is undeterred.
"The numbers tell certain story if there's enough of them. Certain guys handle pressure differently than others." Players, he says, want to be in their comfort zone, and for many of them, pressure takes them out of it. "The great ones," he cites Ken Griffey, Jr. and Edgar Martinez, "are not ever outside that comfort zone. They take the comfort zone and move it."
He shifts gears, saying the same holds true in broadcasting. "The goal of any announcer, any great announcer like Dave, is that you've got to be there for the moment. There's only a handful of moments during the course of your career--you've got to be there for that moment and get it right. And everybody remembers those great moments."
As an example, he points to Niehaus' call of Edgar Martinez's game-winning double against the Yankees in the 1995 playoffs, and says that his moment, thus far, was Luis Sojo's double-turned-home-run that same year. (For footage of both calls, as well as comedian Bob Nelson's "low key" narration of the same plays, check out this Almost Live sketch.)
"You want to set the stage and rise to the moment--but not beyond it. You don't want to be a part of the action. The main goal of broadcaster is, you want to put the fan listening to the game on the radio in the front row."
Yet perhaps Niehaus' most memorable call followed a grand slam by Tino Martinez. Niehaus shouted, "Get out the mustard and the rye bread, grandma--it's grand salami time!" I asked Rizzs whether such a far-fetched and digressive bit of wordplay--however fun--might not be making the broadcaster part of the action. He insisted not.
That Rizzs is so quick to praise and defend Niehaus is no surprise. Niehaus was a mentor to Rizzs, and Rizzs' reverence for his booth-mate is well-documented. "I'm Ed McMahon to Johnny Carson," he says. "I understand what it means to be the #2 guy. He's one of the greatest announcers of all time. My job is to complement Dave."
Rizzs did have one shot as the #1 guy, when he replaced Detroit broadcasting legend Ernie Harwell as the Tigers' play-by-play broadcaster. Harwell was being forced out of the job, and Rizzs says he told Harwell, "I feel sorry for the guy who has to replace you." Harwell then told Rizzs he should apply for the job. Rizzs got it, of course, but he and his partner, Bob Rathbun, weren't well received by Tigers fans, who were mad about losing their legend.
On opening day in 1992, Rizzs recalls, "There was a plane circling the ballpark, trailing a banner that said, "Where's Ernie?" They'd set up bleachers outside for the fans who were protesting wouldn't go inside ballpark. A local radio station passed out 10,000 Ernie Harwell faces on a stick. There was a big sign in centerfield, we want Ernie." After three years, Rizzs' contract wasn't renewed and the Tigers, under a new ownership that was determined to be more responsive to fans' wishes, brought back Harwell.
Thus, he returned to the Mariners just in time for their '95 playoff run, the first time the city had really been energized by the team. (He references the experience throughout the interview.) And, no surprise, he says he wants to stay.
"I love it here," he declares. "I love this city, the fans. The organization has been great to me. I raised my son here. I'm gonna raise my two grandkids here. I'm gonna die here."
It's a little weird to hear the glass-is-half-full Rizzs even mention death. But, like the rest of us, he's human. It's just that his outlook's a little brighter.


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Presbyterians support marriage equality
Timothy Kincaid
March 17th, 2015
Congratulations to the members of the Presbyterian Church (USA). (NYTimes)
After three decades of debate over its stance on homosexuality, members of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted on Tuesday to change the definition of marriage in the church's constitution to include same-sex marriage.
The final approval by a majority of the church's 171 regional bodies, known as presbyteries, enshrines a change recommended last year by the church's General Assembly. The vote amends the church's constitution to broaden marriage from being between "a man and a woman" to "two people, traditionally a man and a woman."
Although not all presbyteries have voted, the lopsided two-thirds results to date are sufficient to ensure the endorsement of the change.
They join Metropolitan Community Church (MCC), the United Church of Christ (UCC), the Episcopal Church, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America as major denominations that now support marriage equality.
There are also a number of independent or smaller churches that value equality. The United Methodist Church does not allow for marriage equality primarily due to Asian and African voters in the international denomination, but the church body in the US is in open revolt and has mostly ceased trying to punish the growing number of ministers who flout the policy.
Alabama Presbyterians vote for marriage equality
Timothy Kincaid
February 12th, 2015
In a rather timely decision, the central Alabama presbytery of the Presbyterian Church (USA) has voted to endorse changes in the church rules that would allow them to conduct same-sex marriages. (AL.com)
The Presbytery of Sheppards and Lapsley, a central Alabama group of churches affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA), voted 75-39 Thursday in favor of approving gay marriages.
They became one of about 38 presbyteries nationwide that have voted in favor of gay marriage, with 14 voting against. The change to the 1.8-million-member denomination's official stance will become official if 86 of the 171 presbyteries vote in favor.
Now the Presbyterian Church is nowhere as dominant in Alabama as the Southern Baptists. But news like this does go a long way to dilute the But God Says! and Attack on Christianity! messages upon which anti-gay Christian rely so heavily.
Ironically, some of the supportive Presbyterians looked a bit askance at the impromptu ceremonies conducted this week.
Webster said he prefers that gay marriage in the church follow a protocol of the couple being members in a church and seeking pre-marital counseling before being married in a sacred ceremony in a church.
"It seemed frivolous and impetuous," Webster said. "We would have dealt with it more seriously, with church members in the context of a church community. For us, it's a worship service."
And perhaps that's one of the ways in which we know that society is on the road to full acceptance, when levels of establishment feel that you should follow the prescribed order, just like everyone else!
Presbyterian Church (USA) votes to allow marriages
Timothy Kincaid
June 19th, 2014
With 2.8 million members, the Presbyterian Church (USA) is the eighth largest Protestant denomination in the United States. And as we reported yesterday, the denomination is meeting this week in Detroit, where its Marriage Committee passed recommendations that the denomination clarify their support for marriage equality. They have now done so.
The U.S. Presbyterian Church's highest council Thursday voted to sanction same-sex marriage.
The assembly approved an amendment to the church constitution that would redefine marriage as between "two people" instead of "a man and a woman." It also approved allowing its ministers to perform marriage ceremonies for same-sex couples in states where same-sex marriages are legal.
The amendment to the Book of Order will require ratification by the presbyteries. But, for all practical effect, same-sex marriages may now be officiated and blessed within Presbyterian churches.
A liveblog of the proceedings is provided by More Light Presbyterians.
Presbyterian committee approves change to specifically allow marriage
Timothy Kincaid
June 18th, 2014
The Presbyterian Church (USA) is meeting this week in Detroit for its biennial assembly. One of the items up for consideration is whether the church will change language so at to clarify that Presbyterian ministers are free to conduct same-sex marriages.
One method by which pro-gay Presbyterians are requesting this clarification is by means of Authoritative Interpretation, a way not of changing the Book of Order, but of interpreting what its language means. At present, the Book of Order does not specifically prohibit same-sex marriages, though a 1991 Authoritative Interpretation finds within the existing language a disallowance. A new Authoritative Interpretation could find otherwise. Specifically, 10-03 would allow individual pastors to follow their conscience when deciding whether to officiate at same-sex weddings.
The supporters also are seeking to amend the Book of Order to change language that describes (though not necessarily defines) marriage as between "a man and a woman" to be "two people". This is 10-02.
Yesterday the marriage committee met and supported both positions. (More Light Presbyterians)
AI 10-03 passed with 51 in favor and 18 opposed. If approved at plenary, this AI would give teaching elders (pastors) immediate relief and authority of conscience in states with civil marriage equality.
The other AIs were considered and voted as being answered by the committee's response to the first AI, thus making 10-03 the piece of business the committee recommends to the larger assembly.
Next under consideration came 10-02, which would be an Amendment to the Book of Order changing the description of marriage. As the afternoon hours progressed at a good clip, movement was swift to get a motion on the floor and seconded to approve 10-02. Next came the amendments to protect conservative PCUSA pastors who may choose not to perform same-gender ceremonies.
The committee voted with 49 in favor and18 opposed to amend the Book of Order of PCUSA to change marriage language allowing inclusion and equality for same-gender covenants and a freedom of conscience amendment, allowing pastors who oppose same-gender marriage as a matter of faith, the discretion to not preside at said marriages.
Both positions will be brought up before the General Assembly later in the week. Should the Amendment to the Book of Order pass the General Assembly, it will need ratification by a majority of presbyteries (regional bodies).
Presbyterians may marry but not conduct same-sex marriages
Timothy Kincaid
November 2nd, 2012
The Presbyterian Church (USA) is likely the next to allow their ministers to conduct same-sex weddings. A proposal to make the change lost narrowly in April (338-308) and most observers anticipate that a similar proposal will pass in 2014. But for now, Presbyterian ministers may not officiate.
However, in a sign that the denomination is most definitely moving in that direction, the church's highest court just ruled that while ministers cannot participate as an officiant at a wedding, they can participate as spouse. (Christian Post)
The highest judicial commission of the Louisville-based Presbyterian Church (USA) cleared last week a New Jersey pastor who married her same-sex partner in Massachusetts, stating that she was allowed to get married, but not to officiate a same-sex wedding.
The Rev. Laurie McNeill married her partner, Lisa Lynn Golligue in 2009 at an Episcopal Church on Cape Cod, which was presided over by ministers from the Episcopal Church and the United Church of Christ. Although from New Jersey, the couple had to travel to Massachusetts for the ceremony, where same-sex marriage is legal.
Minnesota church ladies get active about the marriage ban amendment
Timothy Kincaid
July 11th, 2012
The nice polite church ladies in well manicured and politically conservative suburban Minnesota neighborhood have become inspired by the proposed amendment to prohibit gay marriage. So fired up, in fact, that they've decided to see if they can make the difference in the election.
They want it to fail. (Atlantic)
It started with Gwin Pratt, a senior pastor at St. Luke Presbyterian Church, which has a long history of advocating for gay rights. After the Minnesota State Legislature voted to include the amendment on the ballot, the congregation began an outreach plan to to oppose it. Cindy Eyden, a member of St. Luke, suggested buying rainbow flags in bulk and distributing them to anyone in the community who was interested. What she didn't know was that her idea would go viral.
Maureen Henderson, a fellow St. Luke congregant, was quick to follow Eyden's lead. "They were selling these rainbow flags, only $2.50 for this full size, beautiful flag, and I looked at it, and bought a whole bunch of flags." Henderson told herself "I'm going to go home to my neighborhood, and see, in our community, if one by one we can hand them out and then together start to address this issue."
So off Henderson went to her home in Eden Prairie, a suburb of 60,000 filled with white-collar professionals, 94 percent of whom are Caucasian. That afternoon, she started going door to door with flags in hand. She was quickly joined by her neighbor Wendy Ivins. They took the picture-perfect neighborhood by storm, engaging their neighbors in respectful conversations. Soon, more and more rainbow flags began to appear in the sleepy cul de sacs, planted on large lots and hanging from wood porches.
Yep, I teared up.
You know that you've lost the "protect marriage" battle, when…
Timothy Kincaid
July 6th, 2012
… the Presbyterian Church (USA) comes just narrowly votes down allowing same-sex marriages (338 to 308) and everyone knows that it will pass in two years. (HuffPo)
After more than three hours of debate at the Presbyterian Church (USA)'s biennial General Assembly in Pittsburgh, voters struck down a proposal to legalize same-sex marriage, 338-308; no voters abstained.
The decision at the General Assembly, which is made up of pastors and lay people, means that pro-same sex marriage activists must wait two years until the church's next national meeting to make marriage-related proposals.
But the climate for a same-sex marriage vote could be on the activists' side in the future. During deliberations and several votes on different versions of marriage proposals on Thursday, younger members of the church expressed support for same-sex marriage much more strongly than the church's older members. Church surveys also show an increasingly pro-same-sex marriage stance as the younger Presbyterians gain more leadership positions.
Californian Presbyterians defy the church
Timothy Kincaid
May 16th, 2012
The Northern California branch of the Presbyterian Church (USA) has basically told the church's court that it can go pound sand. And in mostly united voice. (LA Times)
The Presbytery of the Redwoods, which governs churches from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Oregon border, voted 74 to 18 Tuesday to reject the church's official denunciation and instead support the Rev. Jane Adams Spahr, who had been found guilty by an ecclesiastical court of violating the Presbyterian Constitution and her ordination vows for marrying 16 same-sex couples.
Church officials said they believe that never before in the history of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has a presbytery defied the wishes of its highest court in this fashion.
Get that? That's 80% of delegates who said no.
They didn't just "defy the wishes", they defied the church and in language that is impossible to ignore. It wasn't just that times have changed or that we must be inclusive or some mushy-gushy love everyone response. Rather, they said that to rebuke Spahr would be "inconsistent with the Gospel of Jesus Christ." In other words, equality isn't despite the gospel message, it IS the gospel message.
It will be fascinating – truly fascinating – to see the consequence. This is the first time that I can recall that a region has said, in essence, "Scism? What schism? We're proud Presbyterians standing for justice and just what are you going to do about it? Ya gunna kick us out?" Come July, they will get their answer.
I think it likely that the General Presbytery will vote for equality. But it certainly is going to be pins and needles. And Presbyterian theologian Robert Gagnon is going to be pissed!
The Daily Agenda for Saturday, October 8
Jim Burroway
October 8th, 2011
First Openly Gay Ordination for the Presbyterian Church, USA: Madison, WI. Last May, the Presbyterian Church USA became the fourth mainline Protestant Church to allow the ordination of openly gay clergy. Today, that promise becomes a reality as Scott Anderson is ordained at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Madison, Wisconsin. The Princeton Theological Seminary graduate had served as Co-Moderator of More Light Presbyterians before moving to Madison to become the Executive Director of the Wisconsin Council of Churches.
Anderson's ordination will mark his return to a ministry he was forced to abandon twenty-one years ago. In 1990, while working as a parish minister in Sacramento, he was threatened with exposure by a couple who wanted him to help raise money for a cause they were advancing that he disagreed with. Rather than submit to the couple's threats, he outed himself instead, and in keeping with the church's rules he stepped down as minister and embarked on the long process of working to change the church's stance toward ordination of openly gay people. Anderson will be supported by his partner of twenty-one years at today's ordination. Anderson is being ordained by the John Knox Presbytery, which consists of 60 congregations in Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.
AIDS Walks This Weekend: Columbus, OH; Indianapolis, IN and Kent/Sussex, DE.
Pride Celebrations This Weekend: Atlanta, GA; Orlando, FL; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Tucson, AZ.
Also This Weekend: Iris Prize Film Festival, Cardiff, UK.
Values Voter Summit: Washington, D.C. Whenever the Family "Research" Council and the American Family Association team up to put on their annual Values Voter Summit, you can pretty much guarantee that they will more than live up to their reputation for being on the Southern Poverty Law Center's list of anti-gay hate groups. Yesterday, we saw GOP presidential candidate Sen. Rick Santorum give his most bizarre qualification yet for the presidency, when he told the conference that voters should "look at who they lay down with at night and what they believe." That will be hard to top, although Liberty Counsel's Mat Staver gave it his best shot by saying that gay equality will lead to the destruction of Western Civilization.
Today's lineup will be about as crazy as yesterday's. The AFA's Bryan Fischer, whose sheer lunacy knows no bounds, will be a featured speaker, along with FRC's Tom McClusky and Tony Perkins, National Organization for Marriage's Brian Brown, American Values' Gary Bauer, AFA's Ed Vitagliano, Alliance Defense Fund's Alan Sears, Eagle Forum's Phyllis Schlafly, Glenn Beck and Bishop Harry Jackson, among many others. GOP Presidential candidates speaking today will be Texas Rep. Ron Paul and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
If you know of something that belongs on the agenda, please send it here. Don't forget to include the basics: who, what, when, where, and URL (if available).
And feel free to consider this your open thread for the day. What's happening in your world?
Church of Scotland lifts moratorium
Timothy Kincaid
May 23rd, 2011
Four hundred fifty years ago, the Scottish Parliament adopted the Protestant Confession of Faith and established the Church of Scotland influenced by the theology of John Calvin and based on the teachings and administrative structure of John Knox. Immigrants to the Americas from Scotland brought this faith with them and it became known as Presbyterianism.
So it is fitting that this month has a parallel movement between the Presbyterian Church (USA) and the Church of Scotland. (Guardian)
Scotland's largest protestant church has voted to allow gay men and lesbians to become ministers.
The Church of Scotland imposed a temporary ban after the appointment of Scott Rennie, a gay minister, to a church in Aberdeen in 2009.
The general assembly, the church's law-making body, voted on Monday morning to lift that moratorium, officially allowing gay ministers to take on parishes for the first time since it was founded in 1560-1 by John Knox, a leading figure in the Scottish reformation.
The Church of Scotland hold religious prominence in the country with about 40% of Scots identifying with the denomination (a plurality) though only about 9% of Scottish residents are active members of the Kirk.
It is yet to be determined whether gay ministers will be required to live in celibacy or whether those in committed relationship may serve. And only time will tell whether threats of schism will materialize.
Presbyterian Church Approves Gay Ordination
Jim Burroway
May 11th, 2011
Earlier this month, Timothy Kincaid wrote that the Presbyterian Church was on the cusp of allowing gay non-celibate ministers in committed relationships to be ordained. At the time, 80 regional presbyteries had ratified the change of 87 needed, with 33 left to vote. Last week, the Presbyterian Church (USA) reached that milestone:
With the vote of its regional organization in Minnesota, the Presbyterian Church USA became the fourth mainline Protestant church to allow gay ordination, following the Episcopal and Evangelical Lutheran churches and the United Church of Christ. The Minnesota vote was closely followed by one in Los Angeles.
This is the fourth time the Presbyterian Church has voted on gay ordination, with each vote becoming more progressively pro-gay. One elder and deacon explained why she was among those who had changed her mind with this vote.
"I finally decided at the age of 63 that it is inevitable," she said. "I think it's like letting black people come to white churches, or letting women become ministers. It's inevitable."
Still, she couldn't help but express surprise. "For the Presbyterian Church, which is a mainline church, a graying church, it's something."
The Presbyterian Church currently does not sanction same-sex marriage. In 2010, the church narrowly defeated a proposal to change the qualifications for marriage from "man and woman" to "two persons." This vote may well be a harbinger for a change to the church's stand on marriage in the near future.
Presbyterian Church (USA) Amendment 10-A
Timothy Kincaid
May 6th, 2011
People of faith tend to take their faith seriously. They are not casual or whimsical, they do not respond to readily trends or opinion polls. In their efforts to know truth, they are careful and cautious. And those who join together in denomination genuinely strive to coalesce around a shared agreement over God's divine will and how Man should respond.
Those of us who see institutionalized rejection and mistreatment of gay people coming from denominations can be impatient. We marvel how people who see themselves as the hands of Christ can be so very unlike the Christ they serve. While a good many Mainline Christian denominations are in the process of debate over gay Christians and gay citizens, we wonder what is taking so long, what could possibly be the holdup?
But we should be mindful that among Protestant faiths, the development of church policy is very different from civil politics.
Change comes slowly in a community that is unwilling to demonize brothers and sisters who disagree. Those who have come into a more contextualized understanding of where gay people fit in the fabric of life, of community, of the church approach things differently than do activists.
While we seek to win, to get votes, to defeat those who would hurt us, communities of faith are as concerned about those who will be hurt by the change as they are about those who are hurt now. It grieves gay Christians when anti-gay Christians feel that denominational change contradicts their convictions. So much more emphasis is give to persuasion, to prayer, to contemplation.
But when change occurs, it is real and permanent.
Because they are aware that change leads to hurt feelings and division, many church leaders will only adopt change when they are convinced that it is absolutely necessary. Often those who are personally committed to equality will vote against change because they believe that dissent and division is more disruptive to the Body of Christ than are indignities experienced by those whom they support. So when they vote for change, it is not just out of political expediency, but because they believe that they are called to do so by God.
Perhaps the most important thing that we must recognize about supportive churches and religious organizations is this:
Those communities of faith which support us do not do so despite their beliefs; they do so because of their beliefs.
And change is occurring. Significant, major change – the sort that defines "the Christian perspective" and which informs culture. The kind of change that moves the paradigm from "Christians v. gays" to "Conservative Christians v. Mainline Christianity." The change that says that voting for gay rights is not "against God" but just against tradition.
One such change is within the Presbyterian Church (USA).
Currently gay ministers are allowed to be ordained by the church and to serve as pastors to those congregations that select them. However, as Christian theology has traditionally considered sexual expression outside of marriage to be sinful and has only recognized marriage to be a union of a man and a woman, this resulted in policy that excluded gay men and women who were in relationships.
Those who are called to office in the church are to lead a life in obedience to Scripture and in conformity to the historic confessional standards of the church. Among these standards is the requirement to live either in fidelity within the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman (W-4.9001), or chastity in singleness. Persons refusing to repent of any self-acknowledged practice which the confessions call sin shall not be ordained and/or installed as deacons, elders, or ministers of the Word and Sacrament.
But within the Presbyterian Church there became a growing awareness that such rules – while supportable by traditional interpretation of specific scriptures – were inconsistent with the way in which the church understood Scripture and how it instructed believers to interact with each other. It placed dogmatic interpretations of prohibitions above viewing God's servants as people, making the following of rules more important than justice and mercy.
And so, in July of 2010, the General Convention of the PC(USA) voted to change the language to
Standards for ordained service reflect the church's desire to submit joyfully to the Lordship of Jesus Christ in all aspects of life (G-1.0000). The governing body responsible for ordination and/or installation (G.14.0240; G-14.0450) shall examine each candidate's calling, gifts, preparation, and suitability for the responsibilities of office. The examination shall include, but not be limited to, a determination of the candidate's ability and commitment to fulfill all requirements as expressed in the constitutional questions for ordination and installation (W-4.4003). Governing bodies shall be guided by Scripture and the confessions in applying standards to individual candidates.
This change would allow local bodies to be "guided by Scripture and the confessions" in applying standards. But it is universally understood that the purpose for this change was to allow for the ordination and service of gay Presbyterians in positions of leadership within the church.
However, as the Presbyterian Church is designed to be democratic, a majority of the regional affiliations are required to approve such a change. And it finally appears that such approval is now likely. Before it can become effective, the change must be ratified by 87 regional presbyteries. So far, 80 have already done so and 33 are yet to vote.
The Presbyterian Church narrowly opted not to change its definition of marriage in 2010 from "man and woman" to "two persons". But the significant support for gay ministers in committed relationships bodes well for such a future change.
Yes, you violated our stupid anti-gospel rulebook
Timothy Kincaid
August 27th, 2010
Jane Spahr is in trouble again. A lesbian Presbyterian Church (USA) minister in Northern California, she has for years been dancing on the very edge of the church's policy towards gay couples.
In 2006 she was convicted in church court for celebrating gay unions, but in April of 2008 the church's highest court decided that as she had not actually quite broken church rules because the ceremonies she celebrated were not marriages.
But then along came the California Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage. And what do you suppose Jane went and did?
Yep, you guessed it. She conducted legal same-sex marriages.
So now again the regional court has found Spahr guilty of breaking the rules. (AP)
A regional commission of the Presbyterian Church (USA) ruled 4-2 that the Rev. Jane Spahr of San Francisco "persisted in a pattern or practice of disobedience" by performing the weddings in 2008 before Proposition 8 banned the unions in the state.
But while they found her "guilty", they made it perfectly clear that they supported her guilt.
At the same time, however, the tribunal devoted most of its 2 1/2-page ruling to praising the 68-year-old pastor, a lesbian who founded a church group in the early 1990s for gay Presbyterians.
Spahr was acknowledged "for her prophetic ministry" and "faithful compassion. The commissioners called on the broader church to use her example "to re-examine our own fear and ignorance."
"In the reality in which we live today, marriage can be between same gender as well as opposite gender persons, and we, as a church, need to be able to respond to this reality as Dr. Jane Spahr has done with faithfulness and compassion," the ruling stated.
The tribunal gave her a "reprimand", the church equivalent of "Naughty girl, Jane, shame on you. Would you like a lollipop?" Because while they condemned her breaking of the policy, their real criticism was toward the policy itself. (LA Times)
"In addition, we call upon the church to reexamine our own fear and ignorance that continues to reject the inclusiveness of the gospel of Jesus Christ," the decision said. "We say this believing that we have in our own Book of Order conflicting and even contradictory rules and regulations that are against the gospel."
Spahr will appeal the verdict. The PC(USA) may well be next in the line of mainline churches who are finding ways for their congregations to honor the same-sex couples in their midst. And until they are fully inclusive, Jane will be there prodding them on.
Presbyterian Church does not amend their definition of marriage
Timothy Kincaid
July 9th, 2010
By narrow margins and by use of some strategic procedural methods, the committee recommendation to change the Presbyterian Church (USA)'s definition of marriage from "one man and one woman" to "two people" were not adopted by the general convention.
The committee report, which recommended the change, was instead sent to the larger church for continued study (along with a minority report calling for keeping the exclusive language). Then a procedural move allowed conservatives to block the convention from considering whether individual churches or ministers could have discretion in their own blessing of marriages.
Just prior to the Assembly's action, the body accepted the recommendation of the General Assembly Civil Union and Marriage Issues Committee to approve the report of the Special Committee to Study Issues of Civil Union and Christian Marriage by a vote of 439-208. The Assembly decided to send both the special committee report and the minority report generated by three members of the special committee to the larger church for study after a motion to replace the final report with the minority report was defeated, 358-311.
Following that action was a parliamentary maneuver that resulted in the Assembly voting to let the approval of the special committee report "answer all pending items" on the remaining Assembly committee's list of overtures that included changing the definition of marriage to "two people," giving pastors and sessions discretion in deciding who may marry and whether they may use church property for the ceremony.
The vote was 348-324, with six commissioners abstaining.
So marriage will stay status quo for another two years in the PC(USA).
However, this convention did advance equality for gay Presbyterians. Provided that the presbyteries sanction the decision, the church will now let gay men and women who are in relationships serve in the church.
Presbyterian update
Timothy Kincaid
July 8th, 2010
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) voted 373 to 323 on the following wording change:
Those who are called to office in the church are to lead a life in obedience to Scripture and in conformity to the historic confessional standards of the church. Among these standards is the requirement to live either in fidelity within the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman (W-4.9001), or chastity in singleness. Persons refusing to repent of any self-acknowledged practice which the confessions call sin shall not be ordained and/or installed as deacons, elders, or ministers of the Word and Sacrament. Standards for ordained service reflect the church's desire to submit joyfully to the Lordship of Jesus Christ in all aspects of life (G-1.0000). The governing body responsible for ordination and/or installation (G.14.0240; G-14.0450) shall examine each candidate's calling, gifts, preparation, and suitability for the responsibilities of office. The examination shall include, but not be limited to, a determination of the candidate's ability and commitment to fulfill all requirements as expressed in the constitutional questions for ordination and installation (W-4.4003). Governing bodies shall be guided by Scripture and the confessions in applying standards to individual candidates."
This means that, if this change is approved by the various presbyteries, the Presbyterian Church (USA) will allow the ordination of gay and lesbian ministers who are in relationships (celibate singles are already allowed).
Tomorrow the convention will probably vote tomorrow on whether to change their definition of marriage to include same-sex couples.


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It started during the final conference weekend of last season. The Gators and Gamecocks went into the final weekend at 20-7 in conference play, set to decide the champion on the field in Columbia. Florida won the first two games to clinch the conference championship, and the South Carolina players were forced to sit in their dugout and watch an opponent dogpile on their field.
It didn't sit well.
"Last year, it was tough to see their team dogpile on our field when they won the championship," South Carolina ace left-hander Michael Roth said. "That was tough to see."
The Florida players gladly would've traded that dogpile for the way South Carolina ended its season, with a dogpile on the mound at Rosenblatt Stadium to celebrate a national championship. The Gators watched on television after getting bounced from the College World Series in two games last season.
"Last year, we were able to take two-of-three from them, but they got the last laugh," Florida catcher Mike Zunino said. "They got to hold the national championship trophy up."
The two met during the second weekend of conference play this year. The Gamecocks came into the weekend ranked No. 4 in the country, while the No. 1 ranked Gators played host.
South Carolina pounded Florida starter Brian Johnson to earn a 9-2 win in the series opener before the teams split two one-run games on Saturday and Sunday. The Gamecocks left Gainesville with a series win.
"They got the best of us there," Florida outfielder/first baseman Preston Tucker said. "But then again, it's a new series. It starts 0-0 here. And whoever takes two out of three here is going to be the best team in the nation."
HANDLING THE OFF DAYS: The benefit of being 3-0 is that Florida has plenty of time to rest, never having to fight their way out of the loser's bracket. When they eliminated Vanderbilt on Saturday, it meant the Gators didn't need to waste any more pitching.
The only possible negative is that it keeps them from establishing a rhythm. Usually when Florida is on the road, they stay in a hotel for three nights and play games every day. In Omaha, they have to stay mentally into the tournament despite sometimes have three days off.
"When we go to practice for a few hours a day, we want to stay focused," Tucker said. "We all share a common goal, which is to win the College World Series. You're not going to be able to accomplish that unless you stay focused at all times."
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"We're trying to rest up," Zunino said. "(We) enjoy our off days, but we have to rest because we have a bigger goal in mind."
ZUNINO GETS A NEW BAT: Zunino made national headlines during Friday's win over Vanderbilt when he broke a metal bat. Vanderbilt reliever Mark Lamm got a mid-90s fastball in on Zunino's hands, and the bat snapped into two pieces, with the barrel flying into the stands.
"It was a little depressing," Zunino said. "I had that bat almost the whole year."
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The bat shattering could help turn his Omaha performance around.
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