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Religious Right Targets Maine & Marriage Equality with Money, Anti-Gay Swat Teams and Reprise of Prop-8's False Fearmongering Strategies
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Who's Calling the Shots?
- The Marriage Machiavelli
- The Anti-Gay A-List Comes to Augusta
- Follow the money if you can
- We must defeat the Religious Right's attack on equality in Maine
National Religious Right organizations that bankrolled the effort to put Proposition 1 on the ballot in Maine descended on the state this past weekend with a SWAT team of anti-gay leaders and veterans of last year's Prop 8 battle in California . The Religious Right's collective targeting of Maine 's new marriage equality law demonstrates the huge importance right-wing leaders have placed on reversing gains by marriage equality advocates in the northeast. Religious Right activists must not be allowed to set back this achievement with another massively funded campaign of deception. People For the American Way urges its members and activists to lend support to the excellent Mainer-led campaign No on 1/Protect Maine Equality.
Who's Calling the Shots?
Marc Mutty, on loan from the Roman Catholic diocese of Portland, where he serves as director of public affairs, chairs Stand for Marriage Maine's executive committee, which also includes Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage and Bob Emrich, a pastor who heads the Maine Jeremiah Project, which actively opposes marriage equality while describing itself as a 501(c)(3) organization. In the summer, Mutty and Emrich pledged to run a "fact-filled" and "honest, civil and respectful campaign." But that's far from what they're doing.In a September 11 column the Portland Press Herald's Bill Nimitz offered a devastating critique of a recent fundraising pitch by Mark Mutty, declaring it evidence that "Mutty's new gig has a lot more to do with fear than facts." Nimitz notes the letter's repeated claims that the marriage equality law will lead to "mandatory gay sex education" in the state's public schools, and reports that Mutty's colleague Emrich supports those claims:
….the Rev. Bob Emrich of the Emmanuel Bible Baptist Church in Plymouth , a member of Stand for Marriage Maine's executive committee, said the group stands by Mutty's claim that the same-sex marriage statute will require "explicit homosexual instruction in the classroom."Nemitz thoroughly debunks Emrich's convoluted explanation of how a bill that has no language about schools could be interpreted this way, which rests on a claim that it would be required by a supposedly state-mandated family life curriculum. But Nemitz notes that there is no such thing in Maine , that any decisions about family life curricula are made by local elected school boards, and that state law requires an opportunity for parental opt-out of any such curricula, none of which include explicit sexual instruction. Nemitz summarized his seeming disbelief at the raw falsity of the fundraising letter this way:
All of which raises an intriguing question: Who really wrote this and what have they done with the old Marc Mutty?
That question, at least, isn't hard to answer.
The Marriage Machiavelli
The letter that so enraged columnist Nemitz, like other statements from Prop 1 spokesmen, reflects the political strategy put in place by Frank Schubert, the California-based political consultant who ran the Prop 8 campaign and was brought to Maine by Religious Right groups to try to replicate his success. California-based journalist Karen Ocamb recently wrote an article describing Schubert's tactics in Prop 8 and concluding, " Maine voters should be aware of these swiftboating political false prophets." No kidding. Schubert has promised a "pitched battle." And with the election less than two months away, Maine voters are already being told by campaign leader Marc Mutty that marriage equality will lead to schools where "children as young as 7 or 8 years old are being taught about gay sex in some detail."That has Schubert written all over it. He abandoned his promise to run a positive campaign in California once he decided that anti-equality forces could only win by taking the low road. So he concocted a campaign strategy based on scaring enough people into believing that marriage equality would somehow turn public schools into gay indoctrination centers. Don't take our word for it. Schubert himself has done plenty of bragging about how his firm shifted gears and won the campaign by creating fear and uncertainty about the effects of marriage equality on children. The claim that marriage equality will lead inevitably to schoolchildren getting taught about gay sex has been adopted by movement leaders nationwide. Here's an oft-repeated litany by Bishop Harry Jackson, for example. Jackson is the most prominent African American among Religious Right spokesmen and is leading anti-equality organizing in Washington, D.C. :
If you redefine marriage, you redefine the family. If you redefine the family, you redefine parenting. If you redefine parenting, you have to treat kids differently in school.
That's not the only lie Maine voters are hearing. Another favored strategy of Religious Right leaders has been to claim that gay-rights supporters are enemies of religious liberty and are in fact out to silence conservative Christians or even criminalize Christianity. This has become standard Religious Right rhetoric. Remember NOM's infamous "storm clouds" ad? False claims about threats to religious liberty were a major mobilizing tool among conservative Christians in California and the same is happening in Maine .
Back in July, columnist Nemitz wrote about Marc Mutty's claims to be part of a minority that is being discriminated against and treated as pariahs, noting that "victimization sells especially in politics."
State Sen. Deborah Plowman claimed this month that marriage equality would come "at the expense of people of faith," exhibiting anti-equality advocates' offensive dual habits of ignoring all the people of faith who support equality and smearing equality supporters as enemies of religious freedom.
The Anti-Gay A-List Comes to Augusta
Schubert is not the only major import for this campaign. The National Organization for Marriage, Family Research Council and Focus on the Family brought a national A-list of anti-gay activists to town for a no-press-allowed rally on Sunday and a closed-door "pastors briefing" on Monday. (NOM's Maggie Gallagher was in Maine earlier this month to speak privately to Catholic clergy.) Among the Religious Right celebrities were Harry Jackson and Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, as well as San Diego preacher Chris Clark. San Diego was the center of church-based anti-gay organizing in California. If the message delivered at those briefings was anything like the pastors' briefings that Perkins and Jackson hosted in California last fall, they would have included these themes: marriage is the Armageddon of the culture war; anti-equality activists are God's warriors engaged in spiritual warfare against marriage equality supporters, who are doing the work of Satan; and the effort to keep marriage restricted to one man and one woman is essential to religious freedom and civilization itself. In California , pastors were urged to provide volunteers and make church membership databases available to campaign organizers.Indeed, although Sunday's rally in August was closed to the press, one of the speakers, Rev. Chris Clark of San Diego , told Baptist Press:
"I told them God won the battle in California , and the same God that won the battle in California can and will win the battle in Maine ."
And they no doubt included a briefing on Schubert's strategy of sowing fear about children.
Not appearing on Sunday's speaker list was Mike Heath of the Maine Family Policy Council, which is affiliated with Dobson's Focus on the Family. At one level, Heath's absence is surprising. As a longtime leader of anti-gay forces in Maine , Heath helped headline a similar event earlier in the year. It may be that some Prop 1 strategists were wary of Heath's recent claims that everything from bad weather to the financial crisis to trash in the streets of Portland could be blamed on gays. Heath's Maine Policy Council is still intimately involved in the campaign, even if Heath was kicked off the podium for Sunday's event.
Follow the money if you can
The anti-equality campaign in Maine has been initially funded almost entirely by the National Organization for Marriage, Focus on the Family, the conservative Catholic Knights of Columbus, and the Roman Catholic diocese of Portland. In fact, July's campaign finance reports showed those four organizations were responsible for more than 99 percent of the contributions to Stand for Maine Marriage:
Four groups account for $341,000 of the $343,000 antigay marriage funds: the New Jerseybased National Organization for Marriage contributed $160,000; the Catholic diocese of Portland anted up $100,000; the Knights of Columbus chipped in $50,000, and Focus on the Family Maine added $31,000.Contributions from Maine individuals amounted to $400, less than one percent of the amount raised.
Some donations from Maine were likely funneled through the National Organization for Marriage, which has this year been enthusiastically encouraging its supporters to launder their contributions to anti-gay initiatives through NOM in order to thwart state campaign finance laws designed to let the public know who is paying for campaigns:
That strategy has not been limited to
Brian Brown, president of NOM, emailed donors repeatedly in the spring that they would remain anonymous.
"And unlike in California, every dollar you give to NOM's Northeast Action Plan today is private, with no risk of harassment from gay marriage protesters," he wrote in one email. Another plea included, "Your gift is confidential: no public disclosure!"
Best of all, as a 501(c)(4), NOM has the ability to protect donor identities, ensuring that you, your family, and your business are not targeted by gay marriage advocates for harassment.
Maine election laws require donors of $50 or more to political campaigns be listed on campaign finance reports. In August, activist Fred Karger, founder of Californians Against Hate, complained about NOM's strategy of hiding campaign donors to the Maine Commission on Government Ethics and Election Practices. The Commission has since sent NOM a letter inviting it to respond to the allegations. Karger recently noted that in one recent email to activists, NOM's Brian Brown Brown did urge people to give directly to Stand for Marriage Maine, but that the link provided still directed people to a contribution page for NOM itself.
One local funding boost for anti-equality activists came this past Sunday, courtesy of Bishop Richard Malone, who asked Catholic churches across the state to pass the collection plate a second time to raise money for the campaign, another tactic Prop 8 organizers had urged ministers in California to employ.
We must defeat the Religious Right's attack on equality in Maine
Earlier this year, after hard work by local organizers, Maine legislators passed, and the governor signed, marriage equality legislation. Religious Right leaders responded by pouring money into the state to help gather signatures for a veto initiative, and they have imported the strategist and strategies that fueled the dishonorable Prop 8 campaign in California . It's urgently important to prevent the Religious Right from turning the milestone in Maine into yet another victory in a nationwide war against equality. Equality in Maine must stand. Non-Maine residents can support the No on 1/Protect Maine Equality campaign with donations, participation in phone banking, or even by spending a week in October volunteering for the campaign.


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Introducing Suzanna Lee
Happy Thursday! Are you having fun yet?
We sure are!
This we began a TWO THREE WEEK event introducing our BRAND NEW Design Team! Each member created a layout just for their day on the blog so from today, May 13th -May 31st we will introduce a team member to you. Isn't that fun??!?!?!
AND TO CELEBRATE THIS EVENT WE ARE GIVING AWAY A PACK OF CARDSTOCK EVERY DAY! Tomorrow morning I will announce today's random winner…just leave a comment on THIS POST. And then come back and comment the next day. We will be doing this every week day until the end of May so don't go far!!!
Today's winner will receive a pack of……
Please note we will only be posting Monday through Friday. We will pick a random winner the following morning (or Monday if it is the weekend) to win a pack of Core'dinations Cardstock. The cardstock pack may vary due to availability. Winners must email email@example.com by June 7 to claim their prizes with the cardstock they won in the subject line. Please include address and phone number in the email.
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Omgosh! That is the most amazing layout!!! I just love the colors and all of that texture!
Today we have new Design Team Member…… Suzanna Lee!
Check out more about Suzanna and her projects on her blog HERE. Here is a little bit about her:
What can I say? I'm just a woman who is obsessed with her husband, her 2 kids, her camera (a Nikon!), living life to the fullest and preserving our memories as we go! Michael and I have been happily married for 14 years. Together we are raising two amazing children—Nikolas, 10, and Mia,almost 7.
I am very diverse when it comes to styles and techniques. I can't claim any one as a main stay in my projects. I range from clean and simple to layered and packed with little details. The paper and photographs speak to me and I do what feels right. New styles, techniques, products, etc. are some of the major things that offer me inspiration. I am always excited to try new things and new opportunities, in life and with paper crafting.
When I'm not hiding behind my camera or cutting and creating both mess and beauty, I'm a physical therapist. I love what I do and love that it helps fund my hobby and collection! Who needs purses and shoes when you can have paper and embellishments?!
And how much do you loooooove the color combo of this layout??? I just love learning all these random bits about Suzanna.
And some close ups:
Ohhhhhh…embossing! 🙂 Our 6×6 pads are a great way to add small deatils to layouts….they aren't just for cards!
Now a little bit about Suzanna's layout:
Every now and again, I try to do a page about myself. My kids love pouring through the albums and love seeing themselves but I know there will come a time when they will wish there was more of Mum and Dad. I know I love learning the little details of my parents' lives. This layout served that purpose as well as sharing a little bit about myself with you. Random bits about Suzanna Lee. I literally wrote the first 5 thoughts that came to mind. I did say random! I also wanted to showcase how amazing core is! There is one piece of patterned paper on this page, the majority of the paper is Core of one type or another. All those different lines come together as a cohesive whole! Amazing!
GORGEOUS Mother's Day Cardstock Bouquet

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Free Seminar: Affordable Care Act for Musicians, 10/1/13, 3-5pmPosted by s21concerts in Uncategorized, tags: Actor's Fund, Affordable Care Act, chamber music, Chamber Music America, classical, Free, Health Care, health insurance, jazz, Musicians, professional development, Renata Marinaro, Saint Peter's Church
Free Seminar: The Affordable Care Act Primer
With Renata Maninaro, Eastern Region Director of Health Services for the Actors Fund
Tuesday, October 1, 2013, 3:00-5:00 p.m. Eastern
- in person at Saint Peter's Church, 619 Lexington Avenue at 54th Street, Lower Level
- via live-stream @ www.chamber-music.org
Learn how the Affordable Care Act will affect musicians and small music companies. Health insurance options for people working in the performing arts should increase greatly in the coming year, as competitive insurance exchanges are implemented, along with subsidies for low- to middle-income subscribers, and small business tax credits.
Renata Marinaro, Eastern Region Director of Health Services for the Actors Fund, will be your guide to the new health-insurance opportunities, which become effective as of January 1, 2014.
First Tuesdays is a professional development workshop series that offers free monthly seminars for the small ensemble field from October through June. The program is presented by Chamber Music America in partnership with Saint Peter's Church and Midtown Arts Common.
Funding is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York State Council on the Arts and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Additional support for this seminar is provided by New York Community Trust, the Community Service Society and the Actors Fund.
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Northern Gateway Pipeline 2
VICTORIA - An aboriginal organization leading the fight to prevent oil tankers on the British Columbia coast once took money from Enbridge Inc., (TSX:ENB), the company planning to sail those same ships larger than the Empire State Building along the coast.
Coastal First Nations executive director Art Sterritt said Monday his organization received $100,000 from Enbridge, but that didn't translate into support for the company's proposed $5.5-billion pipeline project.
Sterritt estimates Enbridge has provided up to $1 million to B.C. First Nations to study the pipeline. Most First Nations contacted by The Canadian Press would only say they accepted money from the company, but wouldn't confirm amounts....
Feds Hid Names of Big Oil Companies At Lobby Retreat
"The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade has deliberately attempted to conceal key details about a taxpayer funded lobbying training retreat it organized last year in London Englad for its European diplomats to promote the oilsands, including names of major corporations involved and concerns raised at the meeting about whether its strategy was 'credible'..."
From the Nathan Cullen thread:
Nathan Cullen wrote:
Hello Boom Boom
Good and sadly relevant question
Mr. Harper would almost certainly try to "overrule" an NEB rejection of Gateway two things come to mind: the law may not allow him to. Second, the people I've met and the folks I represent won't let that kind of injustice take place
He's put the whole process in disrepute with his bullying and put Canadians into a real state of anger by his attempted bullying. Bad move
also from the Nathan Cullen thread:
Boom Boom wrote:
I really hate to beg while time flies by so quickly, but if Nathan could suggest a plan of action if Harper overrides a negative evaluation of the Northern Gateway Pipeline, I'll be really, really happy.
Civil disobedience!
TERRACE, B.C. - One of the largest cities in northwestern British Columbia has officially joined the opposition to the Enbridge Inc., (TSX:ENB) Northern Gateway project.
Councillors in Terrace have voted 5-2 to oppose plans for construction of the $5.5-billion pipeline from the Edmonton-area to Kitimat, 60 kilometres south of Terrace, where a tanker port would be built to ship oil sands crude to Asia.
The Monday night vote ends years of fence-sitting by Terrace councillors, with one noting the pipeline and port are good for Ottawa and Alberta, but leave Terrace, Kitimat and the surrounding communities with few benefits and most of the risk.....
Alberta's oil sands are expanding so fast that such pipeline proposals as Enbridge's Northern Gateway and TransCanada's Keystone XL are just the beginning, says Alberta finance minister Ron Liepert.
"Keystone is only one of them, Enbridge is only one of them, but the reality is by 2020 we are going to need two or three Enbridge-Keystones," Liepert recently told Bloomberg-Businessweek.
Oil sands production is expected to reach three million barrels per day over the next eight years, about double the current output, according to the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers....
Nathan Cullen wrote:
Mr. Harper would almost certainly try to "overrule" an NEB rejection of Gateway two things come to mind: the law may not allow him to. Second, the people I've met and the folks I represent won't let that kind of injustice take place.
Unfortunately Cullen is wrong on both counts.
The law only requires Harper to have the NEB look at the matter and make a recommendation. It does not require Harper to accept the recommendation of the NEB.
Politicians always talk about the views of the people they have spoken to, and invariably those people allegedly always support what the politician wants. The fact is that the people with economic and political power in this country want the Northern Gateway Pipeline, and those people always get their way. Nathan Cullen and the NDP aren't going to stop them.
Court challenges won't work because Harper has the law on his side.
Adrian Dix can't do anything. And anything he tried would have to have a mandate from the voters, coming foreseeably so soon after an election. He would have to campaign hard on an unequivocal anti-pipeline program.
As opposition mounts to Northern Gateway, backers will promise big bucks for BC.
Alberta Premier Alison Redford stated in a recent speech that her government is looking to "clear a path for the oil sands through British Columbia by upping the economic benefits for its western neighbour -- including the option of paying to modernize and expand West Coast ports."
Premiers don't just throw that sort of stuff around and I believe that this speech foretells an ever increasing policy of the federal government and Alberta to bribe First Nations and the rest of B.C. citizens alike.
Here is why we must not take the bribe....
'It's Going To Be War': First Nations Battle Canadian Tar Sands
All Fossil Fuels Must Be Cut to Avoid Global Warming Scientists Say
"Two Canadian climate scientists from the University of Victoria say the public reaction to their recently published has missed their key message: That all forms of fossil fuels, including the oilsands and coal, must be regulated for the world to avoid dangerous global warming..."
There are very good reasons for the public reaction missing their key message.
For one, the two scientists did not handle the media well. They should at the very least have put out a press release and published it on the web. Instead they gave interviews, full of nice soundbites that the right-wing media could take out of context to imply that the tar sands emissions are no big deal. The climate change denial industry and the ethical oil people are wetting themselves with delight.
For another thing, their article is not available for people to actually read without paying a whack of money to the publisher, so the MSM gets to twist and distort what it says with very few people being in a position to see for themselves.
Enbridge Gets Supertanker Nod for Northern Gateway Exports
"Supertankers can safely carry huge volumes of oil sands crude through the winding waterways that connect Kitimat BC to the open Pacific, a federal review has concluded, giving a boost to efforts to build a new pipeline to the West Coast. The review by Transport Canada examined the marine passages that would allow the proposed Enbridge Inc. Northern Gateway pipeline to export Alberta oil to buyers in China and California. That $6.6 billion project has become one of the country's most important industrial initiatives, backed by major energy producers and opposed by a raft of first nations and environmental groups.."
I'll have to read the actual report but this all seems very iffy. Yes, oil can be carried safely though those passages IF the weather isn't too bad, IF there isn't an earthquake or tsunami, IF the helmsman isn't wasted, etc. A problem only has to happen once for a serious disaster.
Found it! That took a while.
Our supply ship a few years ago breached its hull while navigating through the deep waters of Harrington Harbour - a journey its made thousands of times without incident. One time was all it took for the ship to be placed in an emergency position (no one was injured, the ship went into drydock and was repaired).
From Harper Brothers.
As for the current expansion underway at Ft. Mac, and the "two or three Keystone Enbridges" - it must be stopped somehow.
Play it their way - financial disobedience? Make the oil sands unprofitable... perhaps with "added expenses" that certain forms of disobedience can provide. Calling Weibo!!
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty plans to include new measures to expedite environmental approvals for energy projects in next week's budget, as part of efforts to build new pipelines that will help the country tap into growing Asian demand for oil, a person familiar with the document said.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government has vowed to speed the regulatory review process for projects such as pipelines, as the country seeks to build oil-exporting capacity after U.S. President Barack Obama in January denied TransCanada Corp. a permit for its Keystone XL pipeline to the U.S. New rules to quicken approvals will be part of the March 29 budget, the person said on condition they not be identified because the fiscal plan hasn't been made public....
Protesters marching through downtown Vancouver Monday promised to fight big oil and big government and put a stop to proposed pipeline expansions in B.C.
Chanting native elders wearing button blankets and pounding drums led more than 300 marchers to the Vancouver Art Gallery for a noon rally where they were joined by hundreds more.
Pipelines proposed by Kinder Morgan and Enbridge require First Nations support, and if Monday's rally is any indication there is plenty of opposition in that camp.
Grand Chief Stewart Phillip was one of many high-powered native leaders who said Prime Minister Stephen Harper has bitten off more than he can chew if he thinks more oil tankers will be allowed on B.C.'s west coast.
"We all know this government is a few clowns short of a circus, and that this fight will intensify," said
Phillip. "I will tell my grandchildren that you were here today, and we will win this, and we will make this a better world."....www.theprovince.com/news/Native+pipeline+protest+draws+hundreds+Vancouver+Gallery/6362144/story.html#ixzz1qSv5GSAG
Rally planned for Gateway Project hearings in Comox (tidechange.ca)
March 31, 2012 1:00 P.M. at Comox Rec. Centre 1855 Noel Ave.
BC Grand Chief Stewart Phillip was just on P&P to say that by fast-tracking envornmental reviews in the budget, that he has forced First Nations to the courts and barricades - I think he has Oka in mind.
ETA: Joe Oliver just said the aboriginals will see it is their interest not to block these projects - meaning a lot of money is going to be shovelled at them.
ETA: Greg Weston just said this could be the beginning of a really ugly confrontation because the government is determined to ram Northern Gateway through, come hell or high water.
..more on the van demoNo Tankers Rally – March 26
On Monday March 26—in part to mark the 23rd anniversary of the Exxon Valdez disaster—activists in Vancouver organized the "No Tankers" rally at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Almost 2000 people showed up on a rainy Monday at noon to hear speakers from indigenous and activist communities, as well as special guests like Bill McKibben of 350.org. Two Thousand. On a Monday. In the rain. As Ben West of the Wilderness Committee noted, "If I was a politician in the Conservative Party I'd be shaking in my boots." As we keep saying in this movement, this is only the beginning—but what a beginning we've been making!...
.............NO TANKERS March 26 VAG All Speeches
..just finished listening to the no tanker speeches. i recommend that people take the time to listen. very inspiring to say the very least. the youngest speaker was 11 yrs old. check ot the link to the declaration below.
Exploring the possibilities of a coalition, the groups assembled here agreed on a variety of basic points: following First Nations' lead in the struggle against the pipeline projects (most clearly and forcefully stated in the Fraser River Declaration); addressing the fact that all our crises —environmental, economic, and social—are part and parcel of one crisis leading back to the disenfranchisement of the 99%
The first day of a planned four-day hearing by the joint review panel examining the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline project was cancelled in Bella Bella, B.C.
A terse update posted on the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency web page dealing with the Northern Gateway review panel said the three members would not be sitting on Monday.
Ms. Slett said a notice from the joint panel was received shortly after members Sheila Leggett, Kenneth Bateman and Hans Matthews arrived at the Bella Bella airport to a rowdy welcome by demonstrators.
Opponents also lined the road from the airport to the village to demonstrate concerns about the plan to pipe Alberta oil across B.C. to port in Kitimat for shipment overseas.
Ms. Slett told the community meeting that the airport reception was emotional and powerful, but remained respectful and peaceful.
"We want to let them know that they are completely safe in our community. It is really offensive to have to go over to convey this to the Joint Review Panel. We are a peaceful people," she said....
Public hearings on the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline resume on Monday in the coastal community of Bella Bella, where the federal review panel was met by protesting students and teachers from the local first nations school.
Staff at the Bella Bella Community School organized the protest to greet the panel members as they arrived on Sunday. Some of the students have launched a hunger strike as well to protest against the plan by Enbridge to transport Alberta's oil-sands crude across B.C. to reach markets in Asia and California.
Once the hearings resume, it's another day to chip away at a list of some 4,300 members of the public who want to make oral submissions. B.C. first nations have been among the leading opponents of the pipeline, but the people who want to address the panel span the globe, according to the project proponent.
Changes announced last week to the environmental assessment process could trim that list, however.
The streamlined review process announced in the federal budget last Thursday, which will be retroactive, is supposed to ensure that major projects such as Enbridge's $6.6-billion pipeline will be reviewed in a two-year timeframe.
A spokesman for Enbridge said Sunday it's not clear just how that will apply to this application, which is coming up on the second anniversary this spring.
"The minister has spoken about shortening the process, it will be interesting to see how that will be accomplished," said Paul Stanway, Enbridge's spokesman.
"One of the issues that has bothered us is the number of people who have registered to make oral statements," he said. "We need to set some guidelines for this, about who should be heard by the joint review panel. It surprised everybody, it's the first time we've seen an organized attempt to overwhelm the process. We need to make these decisions in a timely manner."....
Analysis: Stephen Harper Faces Tricky Terrain During 'Three Amigos' Summit
"The White House meeting will focus on the themes of 'North American competitiveness, CITIZEN SECURITY, and the Americas, Andrew MacDougall, a spokesman for the PMO said in a statement...
It's what happens after, when Harper shifts to the Woodrow Wilson Center for what is billed as a world-wide open conversation on the US-Canada relationship, where the going could get interesting - an ostensibly unfiltered hour of questioning that will dangle, among other things, the political pinata of Keystone XL..."
Director's Forum With the Right Honorable Stephen Harper


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Confirmed sighting of fisher in Lower Peninsula
NORTH ALLIS TOWNSHIP – After spotting a fisher while on a walk with her husband, Onaway area resident Melissa Sayers helped biologists verify the species' return to Michigan's Lower Peninsula.
Earlier in May, Sayers and her husband Nate were walking on Bonz Beach Highway near Onaway State Park. They noticed a neighbor's dog was barking at something in a tree by the road, and when the two of them went to investigate, they saw a black, furry critter they initially mistook for a bear cub.
"It kind of scurried up the tree a little further, and we saw the long tail on it," she said. "We knew it wasn't a bear, but we weren't sure what it was."
A crowd eventually gathered around the tree, including Sayers' 16-year-old son, DJ, she said. He told Melissa he thought the animal was a fisher, and a quick check online verified his theory. Someone took photos and a video, and Sayers posted them to a social networking site. One of her friends, who works as a biologist, told her to contact the Department of Natural Resources.
"I did that, and within a day I had a bunch of people calling me," she said.
Sayers and her family haven't seen the fisher since, but the photographs she and others sent to the DNR gave biologists the proof they needed to verify reports they've heard over the years.
Jennifer Kleitch, a DNR biologist based in Atlanta, said the species was believed to have disappeared from the Lower Peninsula at the start of the 1900s. Trappers had no regulations then, and loggers had clear-cut most of the peninsula, destroying habitat for many animals.
"We've had several species that disappeared from lower Michigan in the early 1900s and late 1800s, and a lot of it was due to over-harvest," she said.
When Kleitch and others with the department got calls from people with photographs of the fisher Sayers spotted, department staff decided to check it out, she said. Biologists do the same with any report of a rare species. While trappers and conservation officers have reported fishers in the Lower Peninsula before, biologists haven't had the confirmation until now.
"It's definitely possible that we have others in the Lower Peninsula," she said.
Fishers are related to badgers, and are one of the few species to successfully hunt porcupines, Kleitch said. They go after the quill-covered animals by attacking their faces and flipping them over. Their diets mainly consist of other smaller mammals, like mice and rabbits. They'll also eat dead animals, fruits and nuts.
Male fishers range in length from 35 to 47 inches, and can weigh as much as 13 pounds, according to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Females are a little smaller. Adults are light brown to darkish-brown, and they have long, slender bodies, short legs and a long tail. Fishers are related to martens, which are smaller and can be found in the Lower Peninsula.
Sayers typically sees wildlife on her walks, and initially didn't think seeing the fisher was a big deal, she said. Since then, the DNR has issued a press release announcing the encounter, and she's been interviewed by several news outlets. Now, she's hoping for a bigger find.
"I just hope I'm the one that gets photographic proof of a cougar," she said.
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without grossing anyone out, I do want to say that I have been very constipated since I'm pregnant and my bowel movements have been very small, frequent and greasy/sticky. This stuff quickly got me cleaned out and now I'm having nice clean, regular bowel movements that pass through me effortlessly. I'm sorry to be descriptive about it, but I figure I'm not the only one who buys fiber to clean out their digestive track, and that it would be helpful for others to know how this stuff works works. I feel much better. The only slightly weird thing is that my stool seems almost fluffy in the toilet now. Not that there's anything wrong with that. It comes out very clean, but I'm just used to having heavy/dense stools. Anyway, I will keep using this stuff forever.
I won't do without it!
Posted by Reviewer1507844 on Feb 19, 2008
Psyllium husks are a very effective way to achieve proper fiber levels. Be sure to drink plenty of water and try it for two weeks - start small and work your way up (I use two heaping tbs per day mixed with a bit of o.j. This company has been great and orders are promptly shipped.
This is great!
Posted by Reviewer3018106 on Jun 20, 2011
I use it in the morning smoothie. Works great for my stomack, and at a very reasonable price. I have used this for many years, but bought other places.
Just great
Posted by stelimeli on May 29, 2011
I use it since years and it really works
from Russia
Posted by Olga76 on Jun 15, 2012
works good
highly recommended
Posted by 4938671698218522236 on Jul 13, 2013
Keeps me feeling light and regular!
Great item!!!
Posted by 5699686664682053935 on Sep 30, 2014
It works and is easy to swallow!!!
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Nice and work
Posted by Reviewer2934620 on Mar 28, 2007
Keeps me regular, along with Oxy-Cleanse. I have been using this method for years & would not stop and it's surag-free.
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I'm no fan really, and only a hater b/c it's the Chowds but you have to appreciate and respect the minds on that staff right now. Bill is being Bill, they have the offensive "guru" guy and Brady is peaking in his mental approach to the game.
What is scary now is that they have a legit running attack and their D is back.
Hard to see anyone in the AFC keeping them out of the AFCCG or SB.


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Bowflex are possible one of the best designs in the whole home gym market. And the Bowflex PR3000 is one of their best products yet. One of the best things about this home gym is the large weight stack that comes as standard. Many home gyms only provide you with 150 or 160 lbs of weight to push – but this monster gives a superior 210lbs as standard to test your strength against and build muscle. Plus it gives you over 50 different exercises to choose from, ensuring that every major muscle group of your body is given a full and thorough workout.
One complaint about many home gyms is that they just don't feel sturdy enough. But with the PR3000 Home Gym this will never be a worry. It's tough, rugged and is more than capable of standing up to the toughest of workouts – day in day out, year after year. And thankfully Bowflex have managed to produce this baby at a price that won't put your credit card into meltdown. In fact, at less than the cost of a year's health club membership, you can have your own top quality home gym right where you want to use it – at home!
- Fully adjustable, meaning it is perfect for all members of the family.
- The no-change pulley system means a slick and non-tricky workout
- The ability to upgrade to 310lbs if necessary
- Of a reasonable size, so it's not too difficult to find a place in the house where it can go.
- Solid, rugged and very quiet when in use.
- There is no separate lat pulldown bar – so you have to use the handgrips
- Only allows you to do weight bearing exercises. So for CV work you'll need to workout in a different manner
- Short included warranty on the extended parts – however this can be extended at the time of purchase if you so require.
- Although it does have a small footprint for a machine of this size, it does still take up some room in your house.
Product Features
- 210lb weight stack – with the option to upgrade to a massive 310 lbs if required
- Over 50 different exercises designed to target every major muscle group in the body
- Comfortable seat pads and roller cushions
- No-change cable pulley weight system.
- Small footprint for a gym of this calibre and exercise range.
- Easy to use no-change cable pulley system
- Bowflex patented Power Rods
- 1 year frame warranty, 7 year Power Rod warranty, 60 day part warranty
Who is this for?
The Bowflex 3000 Home Gym is possible one of the best on the market today – especially if you are looking for a gym to suit all members of the family. With enough weight to cope with whatever the man of the house wants to push, but easily adjustable and smooth to use for the ladies, it's a perfect gym for everyone. And Bowflex have managed to produce a machine such as this at a price that will literally do away with expensive gym memberships – for ever. Meaning that everyone in your family has the opportunity to keep fit and toned – so looking great and keeping healthy at the same time.
Why is this worth buying?
You can't put a price on health and fitness – and having the Bowflex PR3000 Gym in your home does away with all the excuses for not bothering to workout. The last thing you want to do is to splash your money out on a home gym that hasn't got the staying power, and with the Bowflex PR3000 there's no danger of that. Strong and rugged, yet quiet, smooth and simple to use, once you get into your exercise routine you'll wonder how you ever coped without it.


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Ruth Ida (Waite) Sylvester
Ruth Ida (Waite) Sylvester, of 373 Cole Ave., Jamestown, N.Y., formerly of 5900 Sylvester Road, Sinclairville, N.Y., passed away on Saturday, July 13, 2013, in her home.
A lifelong Chautauqua County, N.Y., resident, Ruth was born Aug. 24, 1912, to George and Clara Norton Wait, on the Wait family farm in the Town of Charlotte, N.Y. Ruth received her primary education at the one-room school at Pickett's Corners (near the farm), graduated from Cassadaga, N.Y., High School and received her teaching degree from the Fredonia Normal School in Fredonia, N.Y.
She began her teaching career teaching in the one room school at Towerville, N.Y., (Gerry, NY 7), from 1932-35 and at Bemus Point, N.Y., (Bemus-Ellery #4) from 1935-1940. From 1941 to 1969, except for a short pause to raise her children, she taught fourth grade in the Cassadaga Valley Central School system at the Sinclairville Elementary School, Sinclair-ville, N.Y. She was also the System Administrator for the Sinclairville Element-ry School for one year, at the time of her retirement.
Ruth was married to the late James "Lee" Sylvester on March 27, 1937. They resided at 16 Maple St., Sinclairville, for 27 years before moving to the on the Sylvester family farm on Sylvester Road in 1964. Shortly after the death of her husband, she moved to the Jamestown, residing there until her death.
Ruth is survived by her four children: James Lee Sylvester of Fairfield, Vt., Charles William Sylvester of Sinclairville, N.Y., Julia S. (Nathan) Wilson of Sin-clairville, N.Y., and Sally L. (Thomas) Bartsch of New River, Ariz.; and nine grandchildren: David Ray, Amon Sylvester, Brian Steele, David Bartsch, Rudy Haskell, Duncan Wil-son, Mitzi Kendrick, Tris-tan Sylvester and Jazymn Sylvester-Cross; 18 great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.
Ruth was preceded in death by her husband, J. "Lee" Sylvester Feb. 12, 1991; a sister, Gladys Gens; two brothers, Howard Wait and Gerald Waite.
On the Wait side of her family she had two brothers and one sister, Howard Wait (deceased) four nieces, five nieces and nephews of Gerald Waite (deceased), and the grandchildren of her sister, Gladys (Carl) Gens (deceased), one nephew Richard (deceased).
Ruth attended her 100th birthday celebrations on Aug. 24 and 25, 2012, at which time she was honored by the many students, teaching aides, col-leagues and other members of the education community. Her concern for her students and the teaching community was mentioned many times during these celebrations.
At Ruth's celebrations she was also honored by both sides of her family for her longtime dedication to both family and friends. Whether as a mother helping her husband to raise four children (including helping them to get higher education) or helping her friends and neighbors she was the "glue" that held the joint family together. Her energy, friendship and contributions will be missed by all.
There will be no viewing or funeral service. She will be given an American burial with a memorial service held in the near future. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials be sent to the Sinclairville Free Library in Sinclairville, NY 14782 or the Valley Historical Society, Sinclairville, NY 14782.
Arrangements are by Hubert Funeral Home and Cremation Services. You may send a condolence to the family by visiting www.hubertfuneralhome.com.


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Earlier this year, Rush Soccer launched the most ambitious, informative and useful web site in youth soccer history. We've pulled from literally hundreds of years of experience from Rush clubs around the world to create a single location where players, parents, coaches and staff can find and share information to make this season the most successful season ever. You can also connect with other members of the Rush family through exclusive message boards and social media feeds.
Here's a small sampling of the type of stories and tips you'll find on the exclusive, Rush-only site:
Inside the "Players" section:
Inside the "Parents" section:
Inside the "Coaches" section:
We're very excited about the potential for this web site and we want to make sure you have the tools to access all of its benefits. We have created an illustrated, step-by-step tutorial that will help you get registered for the site. Follow this link to view the tutorial, and get registered in less than five minutes. Once a Rush staffer approves your registration (we want to verify that you're currently a part of the Rush family), you'll have access to the site plus all of the new information we will continue to add.


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21 Dec 2012
2012 – Year of Opportunity
The end is near, so this is my last post…either end of the world or end of the year. But regardless of whichever comes first, it's a good time for reflection on the past year. My past year can be characterized by one word – opportunity. First and foremost, I


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Titles won, reps made during March Madness
It's that special time of year for athletes and their fans: March Madness.
Tonight, district champions will be crowned in high school girls basketball.
Thursday night, Escanaba won the pre-regional finals, in high school ice hockey, topping the Marquette Redmen.
The Munising Mustang, Manistique Emerald and Iron Mountain Mountaineer competitive cheerleading squads will be going for a state title in Grand Rapids Saturday in Division 4 in the Michigan High School Athletic Association finals, competing against each other and five downstate schools.
This weekend, Ishpeming-Negaunee will send at least a dozen bowlers while Westwood has one female bowler going to the MHSAA state bowling finals to be held downstate. These bowlers advanced after qualifying at the regional tournaments in the Lower Peninsula sites over the past weekend.
Also on Saturday, the girls gymnastics teams from Marquette and Negaunee will be participating in regionals, with hopes of making the state finals, which are March 8-9.
In wrestling, Westwood's David Lancour, Ishpeming's Johnathan Willey and Marquette's Curt Calovecchi will compete for individual state titles this weekend at the Palace of Auburn Hills.
Then, starting Monday, high school boys will take to the basketball court to crown district champions by the end of next week.
And don't forget, the Marquette Senior High School boys ski team won the state Division 1 title this past Monday, while the MSHS girls took third.
Meanwhile, at Northern Michigan University, there are strong hopes for the women's basketball team to make the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference tournament. The hockey team will be in the Central Collegiate Athletic Association Hockey Tournament, but heading into the weekend, it is not certain if they will be hosting or hitting the road.
Also, NMU has six skiers competing in the NCAA championship starting Wednesday in Vermont.
As you can see, this is an exciting time of year for young athletes. We hope as many fans as possible get out to support these students as the winter sports season reaches its conclusion over the next few weeks.
March Madness is a great time to beat the winter blues with a dose of sports at its best.


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Mermaids can have a spot on your bookshelf
By BARBARA FREDRICKSEN
Published May 19, 2007
The first time I visited the Weeki Wachee "Spring of the Mermaids" was in 1964, just four years after the big, 500-seat underwater theater had opened, replacing a small one that had been in place since Oct. 12, 1947.
The attraction sat along a sandy, two-lane road lined with scrub oaks, sandy hills and dense woods on its way down Florida's west coast.
This was a decade before Spring Hill, of course. Going south, the next wide spot in the road that I recall was Tarpon Springs, where our family boarded the St. Nicholas Boat Line for a 30-minute cruise down the Anclote River to watch the sponge divers, jaunts that had started all the way back in 1924.
Weeki Wachee's fame spread when a Hollywood movie company arrived in 1948 to film the fantasy film, Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid, with Ann Blyth and William Powell. The movie showed up on Turner Classic Movies a while back and was as delightful as the first time I saw it.
The quirky roadside attraction's colorful history includes visits by Elvis Presley, Arthur Godfrey, Esther Williams and a host of other notables.
Now, just in time for the 60th anniversary celebration July 27-29, writer Lu Vickers and photo editor Sara Dionne have come out with a gorgeous and fascinating 295-page history of the unusual tourist spot, Weeki Wachee City of Mermaids, a History of One of Florida's Oldest Roadside Attractions. It's put out by University Press of Florida, the same folks who published Gary Monroe's excellent The Highwaymen: Florida's African-American Landscape Painters in 2001.
It's $34.95 through University Press, but Amazon.com has it on sale for $23.07, with free shipping if your order is more than $25.
Check out Page 272, a full- page color photo of Crystal Barlow Robson, the owner of B. Risque Swimwear in Holiday, who started her mermaid career in the 1970s, still practices at the spring every Wednesday and performs one weekend a month with other mermaids of a certain age. (That's her grandson Hunter looking through the window at her.)
In fact, since many mermaids and mermen are recruited locally and those who aren't move here, the book is filled with faces we see at local grocery stores, restaurants or movies.
The book starts when Florida was the bottom of the gulf, goes through the era when mastodons roamed the area, and brings the story right up to the present, with side trips to Silver Springs and Wakulla Springs.
Ms. Vickers' writing is lively and easy to read. She interviewed former and current mermaids, employees and residents, and did tons of research. The more than 200 photographs are totally fascinating.
In early years, young women and men in swimsuits did beautiful ballets, Broadway-type shows, drank little 6-ounce Grapette sodas and ate bananas under water. The fishtails came along later, but the graceful choreography remained until recently, when nonballet skits replaced it.
But the story of Weeki Wachee isn't all happiness and fun. Ms. Vickers tells about the time some Spring Hill developers fiddled around with a couple of ponds, and a boxcar-sized chunk of white clay fell into the water and turned it a turbid, milky white that temporarily stopped the show.
The worst years started in 1989, when a group of investors bought it, fired key longtime employees and, perhaps as damaging and outrageous, burned boxes full of irreplaceable photos and memorabilia and bulldozed the old Star Garden, where the unused props were set up so visitors could have their pictures made on them.
Rumors flew that the money boys wanted to bulldoze the attraction and build a raft of -what else? - condos around the headwaters and along the river.
Since then, Southwest Florida Water Management District has bought the park and the land around it, and the condo plans are dead. But there is ongoing litigation between Swiftmud and the city about who is responsible for what and what to do about it.
Even so, the community has rallied around the beloved tourist attraction. Volunteers and employees are working to restore the place to its former glory, removing ugly "improvements" and polishing up the old stuff.
Hopes are high that the mermaids will be around for a long time to come.


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The Delaware State University Drop-In Writing Studio is located in Room 205 of the William C. Jason Library.
Students may drop in for assistance with any writing assignment across the curriculum. Professional staff and Writing Studio tutors will offer suggestions, tutor in grammar, and assist in formulating ideas. They will not correct or edit papers. Students should allow adequate time for proper tutoring. Therefore, students must request services at least 24 hours prior to the assignment due date. Individualized study skills training is available. All Writing Studio tutors have faculty recommendations, meet strict grade standards, and are trained by the Writing Studio Coordinator.
The Writing Studio employs the "drop-in" system, so no appointment or pre-registration is necessary. Many faculty members recommend that students consult a writing tutor before submitting their final papers.


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Did you know that Californians consume more than five times their state's available ecological resources? Since the population's resource demands have brought California into ecological deficit, we might have to re-consider California as the Land of Plenty.
In March 2013, Global Footprint Network and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Pacific Southwest Region published the Ecological Footprint for California (an interactive presentation is also online). It was not only the first major Ecological Footprint report at the U.S. state level, but also the first published in collaboration with a U.S. government agency. As part of EPA's Framework for Sustainability Indicators project, the report aimed to quantify California's resource demand against its supply. Such actionable information helps decision makers recognize resource dynamics as a significant driver of economic performance.
If California were a country, it would have the world's 15th largest per capita Ecological Footprint (the United States is ranked fifth). California's per capita Ecological Footprint is less than the nation's as a whole mostly because of its lower per capita CO2 emissions. In California, the Global Warming Solutions Act (AB-32) encourages energy efficiency, mild weather reduces energy demand, and renewable energy sources such as hydropower exist. Yet CO2 emissions still account for 73 percent of California's Ecological Footprint. Personal transportation contributes to a fourth of these emissions.
Yet California's low per capita biocapacity is just one surprise the report discovered. Another is that its population consumes 35 percent less agricultural and fishery products than the national average.
The Ecological Footprint for California report also served as a technical exercise for Global Footprint Network to employ both bottom-up and top-down analyses in the same report—the first major test of both methodologies together. The bottom-up Ecological Footprint calculation combined the Ecological Footprint of all products consumed by California's population, while the top-down Ecological Footprint calculation adjusted for relative differences between national and California consumption. Since the Ecological Footprints derived from each method matched so closely, Global Footprint Network's upcoming "State of the States" project exploring New England's Ecological Footprint will also incorporate both analyses.
Of course, the Ecological Footprint for California report highlights broader implications for the state. Because Californians consume more than five times their state's available ecological resources, California depends on external biocapacity (an ecosystem's ability to regenerate resources and absorb carbon dioxide emissions) to make up for its ecological deficit. As trading ecological resources becomes more expensive, managing state ecological resources will be crucial for mitigating risk.
But there is still opportunity to reverse trends and set the state's course for a sustainable future. "As a global center of innovation," the report says, "California has the ability to address this challenge."


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Laura Sanders
Neuroscience Writer, Growth Curve Blog Writer
Neuroscience writer Laura Sanders reports on the latest mysteries of the mind and blogs about the science of raising kids. She earned her Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she studied the nerve cells that compel a fruit fly to perform a dazzling mating ritual full of singing and dancing. Convinced that she was missing some exciting science development somewhere, Laura turned her eye toward writing about brains in all shapes and forms. ...
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Improving economy helps convenience store visits
The Columbus Dispatch - February 19, 2013 05:14 PM
Consumers visited convenience stores 4.6 percent more times in the fourth quarter than in the same quarter a year ago as the economy improved and gasoline prices fell, according to global information company NPD Group.
Small and independent convenience stores benefited the most from the brightening economy, with fourth-quarter traffic growth of 11.5 percent from the same quarter in 2011, according to NPD's Convenience Store Monitor.
More customers visit convenience stores from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. than any other period of the day, NPD said. And shoppers spent an average 31 cents more per visit in the fourth quarter than a year ago.
Sales of alcoholic beverages, cigarettes/tobacco and fresh food sales grew the most from the year-ago quarter, while lottery ticket, newspaper, magazine and book sales fell the most in that time.
"Although the c-store channel outlook is positive for 2013, it remains to be seen if this continues and carries on through the coming year," said David Portalatin, NPD c-store industry analyst, in a statement.
This year "is starting out a bit challenging for consumers with the realization of the imposed payroll tax increase, severe weather and rising gasoline prices all providing added stress, but we'l l see how the remainder of the year shakes out," Portalatin said.
Kroger, which operates the Turkey Hill Minit Market chain of convenience stores, expects to report its fourth-quarter earnings on March 7. Turkey Hill opened its first large-format Turkey Hill Market store in Marysville in September.
"The market features fresh food, produce, meat, floral, an expanded grocery selection and a made-to-order food service offering, in addition to the traditional convenience store offerings," Brad Chivington, marketing vice president for the Lancaster, Penn.-based convenience store chain, said in a September email.


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The USA Softball Legacy Club provides financial support to USA Softball National Team programs and athletes through annual membership giving. These contributions assist in supporting costs associated with training teams for international play and travel for competition. Legacy Club members are friends, alumni and advocates of USA Softball who recognize the value of continuing the Legacy established by those in the past who have worn the Red, White and Blue.
USA Softball Legacy Club membership is easy and grants you access into a fraternity along with World Champions and Olympic Gold Medalists. Every dollar donated makes a difference and goes directly towards supporting our international teams.
New members can join anytime throughout the year and start taking advantage of the many benefits available for Legacy Club members.