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A mother advocates on behalf of Uganda's abducted children
August 7, 2008
AKRON, Pa. – Angelina Atyam speaks from experience when describing the human toll of the long-running conflict in northern Uganda: her daughter, Charlotte, was abducted at the age of 14 and held captive for nearly eight years by a rebel group called the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).
Atyam tells how LRA soldiers raided her daughter's Catholic boarding school at night and abducted 139 girls, most of whom were in their early teens. An Italian nun and a Ugandan teacher raced after the rebels and pleaded with an LRA commander to release the girls. He agreed to free 109 girls but kept 30 as captives, and Charlotte was among them.
Charlotte's abduction in 1996 transformed Atyam, a nurse-midwife and mother of six, into an international advocate for children in northern Uganda. Her family's experiences are part of a national tragedy – for more than a decade, the LRA abducted tens of thousands of northern Ugandan children to serve as soldiers, forced laborers and "wives" to LRA commanders.
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) supports an organization that Atyam helped found, the Concerned Parents Association, to assist families affected by child abductions and bring international attention to their plight. MCC provides the Concerned Parents Association with financial support, and two MCC workers, Ben and Holly Porter of Denver, Colo., have served as technical advisers to the organization over the past three years.
In April, May and June, MCC sponsored Atyam to speak in churches and other venues in Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia, attend the Summer Peacebuilding Institute at Eastern Mennonite University and meet with representatives of human rights organizations and aid agencies in Washington, D.C., and New York City.
Atyam spoke at the Central Africa Policy Forum in New York about the need for a peaceful resolution to Uganda's conflict with the LRA. While the LRA has withdrawn to remote areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo, hundreds of young people are believed to remain in captivity with the LRA, and it continues to be seen as a threat by Uganda and neighboring countries. According to a Ugandan newspaper, governments in the region are considering a military strike against the LRA.
However, Atyam opposes attacks on the LRA because the group includes many people who were abducted as children.
"Let us think about forgiving," Atyam says. "Because if we don't forgive these rebels, we are signing the death warrants of our own children."
Kirk Harris, a program associate for MCC's United Nations Office, says he thinks Atyam's message was well received by humanitarian organizations that lobby the U.N.
"There was a lot of interest in what Angelina had to say as someone who had lived the experience and could speak credibly and authentically about it," Harris says.
Atyam began her advocacy work by sharing her story with other parents in the villages and towns of northern Uganda. After Charlotte was abducted, she and other parents started the Concerned Parents Association to form a network of families of abducted children throughout northern Uganda.
At the time, families on the front lines of the conflict were afraid to speak out when their children were abducted for fear of reprisals from the LRA, Atyam says. Other families hid their children after they escaped from the LRA because their communities would view them as former combatants and blame them for the LRA's atrocities.
Atyam and three other parents from the Concerned Parents Association traveled throughout northern Uganda to share their stories and encourage others to do the same.
"We decided to be the voice for the voiceless, so we would go out on fact-finding missions," Atyam says. "So we could come back with very sad stories, bigger than our own."
Over time, the Concerned Parents Association worked with other organizations to document more than 24,000 abductions in northern Uganda and bring international attention to the crisis.
Because of Atyam's advocacy, she drew the attention of the LRA. Once, an LRA commander met with her and offered to release Charlotte if Atyam would cease her efforts on behalf of other abducted children. Atyam made the difficult decision to refuse.
"I told him one daughter is not enough because all the girls are my daughters," Atyam says.
Atyam continued to hope and pray for her daughter to escape, and her prayers were answered – in 2004, Charlotte sneaked away from her captors and came home. The girl who had been abducted at 14 years of age had become a young woman of 22 with two children of her own. Atyam took them into her home and began raising her grandchildren while her daughter returned to school to finish her education.
While Atyam has been reunited with her daughter, she continues her advocacy on behalf of all of northern Uganda's formerly abducted children.
"I saw the miracle of the living God and she escaped and came back," Atyam says. "But our slogan is that every child is my child. There are still a good number of children who have not come back, and their parents are still members of the Concerned Parents Association, and we would also love them to smile."


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This coming week in Maine's bottom third, brooks with brook trout will start producing decent-to-darned-good fishing unless nature conspires against my prediction with unseasonably frigid weather for the next several days. Even if action remains slow, though, trout streams will surely pick up in late April or early May and continue into the first week or two of June.
Naturally, latitude and elevation dictate air and water temperatures, so in this vast region of the state's bottom third, angling action kicks off earlier in Kittery than in Carthage, north of Dixfield.
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• The first swarms of black flies coincide with brookies beginning the season's first feeding binges. These two events go together like hot biscuits and butter.
• When black flies start bugging us, the leaves on speckled alders lining waterways reach the size of a mouse's ear, another sure sign that brook fishing will start rocking.
In my humble opinion, Maine's trout streams go under-fished, a thought gleaned after fishing little brooks for dozens of hours every spring. Signs of intrusions are delightfully absent -- human tracks, cigarette butts, beverage containers, worm cups, leader packages and so forth.
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As I was making the quick crossing, splashing water erupted between my feet and startled me. The ruckus was shoulder-to-shoulder brook trout trying to escape the intruder invading their woodland hideaway.
My favorite fishing outfit for brooks begins with a 4-weight, 6-foot fly rod with a 4- to 6-foot leader and nymphs such as Hare's Ears, Soft Hackles or Wooly Worms. Pragmatic anglers, however, recommend a short, ultra-light spinning rod with 4-pound test and Trout Magnets, tiny Mooselook-like Wobblers or worms -- the latter really effective right now.
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In mid-July, Chinese television showed grateful Sichuan farmers and peasants pressing baskets of decorated, hard-boiled eggs into the hands of soldiers, as their convoys headed home.My husband and I fled the pre-Olympic crowds descending on Beijing for a week in the Sichuan countryside to see for ourselves what the news was no longer telling us: how are the earthquake survivors doing, what does the resettlement look like, and how does it feel.After two years of living and traveling in China, we have become accustomed to unusual situations. But we were unprepared to witness the massive scale of this disaster and to imagine the immense task ahead for the people of Sichuan, already poor, to recreate their lives. In every direction, as far as we could see, walls of once-lush mountainsides had simply fallen away, leaving barren, brown basins or gaping, raw topography. Roads heaved up, bridges fell into rivers, big buildings balanced in crazy impossible angles, dwellings became rubble. 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Then row upon row of portable housing trailers, made of white Styrofoam and covered with a thin metal skin.As we drove higher into the mountains, the housing trailers with 4 or 5 side-by-side rooms, showed signs of becoming villages: laundry lines, some playground toys, mops and brooms leaning against the doors, an occasional bicycle, and among the most resourceful, a few tables set up to sell drinks and soap. The public toilet I used in one such camp was familiar to China in every respect: a squatter, no cubicle doors, dim light, bad smell, evidence of occasional cleaning, unworking flush. The rumor is that people will be in these housing camps for three years.There were many inventive shacks, devised by people who refused to let go of their grip on the land to move to the portable housing. These were made from anything left standing. Sometimes they were fashioned around the single standing wall of a house, or a lone upright cupboard, or a wooden frame covered by a woven floormat. Even the most makeshift dwellings often had colorful doors. Many doors seemed to survive intact and some shacks I saw had entire walls made from a row of doors hinged together side by side.Everywhere along the roadside were neatly categorized bundles of debris: stacks of planks and boards; piles of rusty rebar; neat heaps of tangled metal wires; piles of mendable furniture; mountains of red bricks; scores of intact frames, windows mostly. Much of the human grief was stripped away, as all these remnants of personal lives became so much recycling or resale material.Communicating with the outside world.Chinese TV has filled the vacuum left by the end of riveting earthquake news with repetitive docu-dramas and plaintive reenactments, gala concerts, fund-raisers, and readings of personal stories to weeping studio audiences. All these productions are many steps removed from the plodding, dirty, smelly, real chores of putting lives together again in the villages. The world isn't watching any more.But devastated Sichuan is still looking out at the rest of China. The first order of recovery was to resurrect television and mobile phone networks, rural China's sources for information and communication. We saw satellite dishes everywhere, wired into tents and shacks; we saw a man on a bike, balancing a new-found TV in his basket. We saw many people chatting on mobile phones, from teen-age girls in jeans to peasants in traditional Tibetan garb. Over 500 million Chinese use mobile phones, and China Mobile had their towers up and running quickly after the earthquake.We saw no evidence of newspapers and no ad hoc internet cafes. The quasi official surveyors in China report that about 7% of rural Chinese use the internet.1 Behind this statistic are mostly young people seeking entertainment in internet cafes. Last week, I asked one 18-year-old in Baoshan village about the internet in his town. He said that the town's primary company, which is owned collectively by the village residents, got an ADSL line up and running just the day before, but that was all the connectivity they could expect for a while.Detritus.Much of the debris with no value is simply left where it landed. I saw two examples that were especially poignant. One was in a parking lot in a village just one ridge away from the epicenter in Wenchuan County. The road literally ended here now, where a resort had once flourished. The main building was still standing, but car-sized boulders had crashed down the mountainside and into its walls. Purple curtains hung out of the broken windows, faded and torn now by the rains since May. A peaked roof over the main entrance had collapsed. The statue of a dragon rested out front, virtually untouched. The resort parking lot, the local people told us, had been used as a temporary morgue for the hundred or so victims from the immediate area. The lot was cleaned out now, except for some small cast-off items including rubber gloves and face masks. One small pile had mostly burned, but a half-charred wooden chair, a remnant of a gas mask, and a pair of sneakers remained. Shreds of blue plastic were scattered around, along with some bits of blankets and fabric. I guessed that the workers had run out of stamina to finish the job, and these leftovers would be there for a long time.Our last stop was a village outside Dujiangyan, where a 2,000-year-old irrigation system still functions to siphon water out to Sichuan Province. In the village of Juyuan was a school where about 900 children died. There has been much chatter in the press, on the internet, and on the streets about the quality of school buildings like this one in Juyuan, where concrete floor slabs simply collapsed into a stack like pancakes.No school remains here now, barely even rubble. 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Compound interest is a type of interest in which the interest earned is added to the total amount, so that the interest itself then begins to gain interest. This contrasts to simple interest, where the amount used to calculate the interest will always stay at a fixed value. In economics classes, many teachers like to demonstrate extreme examples of compound interest, typically turning a thousand dollars into tens of thousands over several decades thanks to unrealistically high interest rates over several decades. But here, Ponytail discovers that a more realistic example is less than overwhelming.
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- Ponytail: Sure, 2% interest may not *seem* like a lot. But it's *compound*!
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- Ponytail: If you invest $1,000 now, in just ten short years you'll have.. ..let's see..
- Ponytail: ..$1,219.
- Ponytail: Ok, so compound interest isn't some magical force.
- Megan: Yeah, I'm just gonna try to make more money.
Accounting for inflation, you'll probably end up losing money if you're just relying on bank interest for income. Davidy22 (talk) 10:04, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
- Losing money compared to what? Even if inflation is 3%, getting 2% interest in a bank is better than getting 0% interest under your mattress... 220.127.116.11 14:09, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
- Actually, putting money in the bank, you lose more in inflation than you gain in interest. It's really a scam. However, by putting it under your mattress, you're taking it out of circulation and, in effect, increasing its value through deflation. It really IS a better alternative. At least until you put it back into circulation, then the deflation is undone but, by then, it's no longer in your hands so what the hell do you care?220.127.116.11 06:01, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
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- You don't really have to have the money. You just have to be buddy-buddy with the Fed. Banks are allowed to lend out ten times more money than they actually have.126.96.36.199 06:01, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
- I see! So in order to avoid having to use a bank, you should... become a bank! ...oh.--22.214.171.124 20:42, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
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After introducing the Marvel U to Nick Fury's son in "Battle Scars," CBR spoke to writer Chris Yost about another intro -- Agent Coulson from Marvel's Movie Universe -- and the series finale.
Full article here.
After introducing the Marvel U to Nick Fury's son in "Battle Scars," CBR spoke to writer Chris Yost about another intro -- Agent Coulson from Marvel's Movie Universe -- and the series finale.
Full article here.
Doesn't Marvel read its own books before they write their stuff? They already established in Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD that Nick no longer needs the Infinity Serum (he had ran out), as he had taken it so long that his body was generating it naturally.
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It's not like (the real) Fury couldn't use testosterone and human growth hormone injections instead. smh.
So what's all this? Sam Jackson Fury is now 616 Fury? You fucking kidding me?!? Don't get me wrong i don't mind Ultimate Fury, but he's nothing, nothing on 616 Fury.
Jean Grey, Gwen Stacy, Professor X, Mar-Vell, Richard Rider, Kid Loki- Bring Them Back!!!
In what dictionary does "Russian equivalent to SHIELD" equate to "terrorist conspiracy"?
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More story inbreeding and self-referential nonsense from Marvel. There was no need whatsoever to streamline the movie and "regular" Marvel universes. Everybody and their dog Toto knows that movie adaptations take liberties with the original material, and in this case, the movies are pretty darn close to the Ultimates line anyway. Why go through the awkward and silly conceit that "Nick Fury Jr." is Nick Fury?
Poor Marcus... he never had a chance to be a real character. Now he's doomed to be the watered down version of a copy of a classic character. They even took out one of his eyes to try to make it work!
As for Coulson, well, why not. There's always room for one more agent of SHIELD. I wouldn't make him look so much like Matt Murdock, though.
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I'm glad Yost kept referring to him as Marcus instead of Fury, Jr.
I'll always refer to him as Marcus.
I believe all that needs to be said has been. So heres my two cents.
-- ScottMC, inadvertently summing up the Internet.
Didn't Brevoort specifically say the whole thing was Quesada's idea?Was this your idea or did it come from Editorial?
I believe it was mine. It honestly feels like forever ago when Matt Fraction, Tom Brevoort, Cullen Bunn and I got on the phone and were hashing all this out. The point was always to introduce Marcus into the Marvel Universe and for fun I threw Coulson in there.
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I'm completely fine with them adding Coulson to the MU. He's somewhat of an original character. But, replacing the classic, original Nick Fury with Sam Jackson just to appease Marvel's imaginary new readers is ridiculous. If they wanted to make Marcus an original character, he could've been good. But making him 616's Sam Fury is an insult. If Marvel wants more black characters, create more black characers. Don't replace originals!!!!! (PS I know thety say the real Nick isn't going anywhere, but I'm still worried. It's only a matter of time untill a crappy writer comes along and says "wait a minute. we have two Nick Furys. Let's kill the white one off."
Sam Fury does NOT belong in 616!!!!
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OMAHA, Neb. — In a sport many think of as soap operatic through all four of its disciplines, there is little doubt the most continuously bizarre tales came from ice dance.
At the 1998 Olympics, for example, the ice dance plot included threats of lawsuits, conspiracy theories, aunts turned hecklers at news conferences, name changes, dogs on accreditation pictures and extramarital affairs between rival athletes.
And the usual brazen judging favoritism.
The ice dance scene has been oddly free of such farce since an Italian team nearly came to blows at the 2006 Olympics — with the possible exception of the tasteless use of putatively Australian aboriginal costumes by a Russian couple at the 2010 Winter Games.
So it was almost reassuring to see the drama that surrounded the top teams in the strong U.S. ice dance program — as well as reigning Olympic champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada — late last spring.
The coaching and business partnership of Russian emigres Marina Zoueva and Igor Shpilband, who had built U.S. ice dance into a medal-winning machine, suddenly came apart when the Canton, Mich., rink they worked at declared Shpilband persona non grata.
The rink manager told the Detroit Free Press that Shpilband's top skaters no longer wanted to work with him; Zoueva said Friday that Shpilband was trying to undercut her by keeping some teams for himself; and there was a lingering sense Zoueva felt she wasn't getting enough credit for the success of the teams they had worked with in tandem.
Caught in the middle was the most successful U.S. ice dance team in history, Meryl Davis and Charlie White, who had trained with Shpilband and Zoueva together since 2005. In that time, the University of Michigan juniors had become the first world champion U.S. dancers and had won an Olympic silver medal, two world silver medals and four straight national titles.
"Short term, it was stressful," White said after he and Davis reached part one of a foregone conclusion — title No. 5 — by running up an 8.22-point lead over Madison Chock and Evan Bates after Friday's short dance. "Dealing with everything that was not figure skating-related was strange for us."
Davis and White stuck with Zoueva, as did the Canadians and the brother-sister team of Maia and Alex Shibutani, surprising world bronze medalists in 2011. The Shibutanis are third after the short dance, 1.17 points from second place.
"We definitely felt most comfortable with Marina," White said.
Chock and Bates, fifth at last year's nationals, chose Shpilband, who moved to a rink in nearby Novi, Mich.
"It was a very difficult situation for us," Bates said. "We evaluated all the options and (decided) we would be more of a priority for Igor. Being his only American team has served us well."
White said he and Davis no longer have much of a relationship with Shpilband. Working only with Zoueva has served them well. They are unbeaten this season, having won two Grand Prix events and then defeating Virtue-Moir in both phases of the Grand Prix Final.
Shpilband told a Russian website, "I hold no grudge against the skaters. They are victims in this situation."
None of the skaters, alas, are adding to the soap opera with their words.
"It's unfortunate because it's the coaches, not the skaters," White said. "But we have to answer the questions about it. It is something we have to put up with, and we are glad there hasn't been more and hope there isn't any more."
It's not unfortunate. It's ice dance.
(For results of the men's short program Friday night, go to http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports)
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I'm not religious in terms of believing in organized religion. If you look at the genocide that happened in the witch hunts and the killing of women, it was about wiping out female power.
Actress Julia Ormond, who plays a witch in Lifetime's new series "The Witches of East End"
MCT News Service, 10-4-13
Secularism and excellence in moral reasoning are what's necessary for a high standard of human rights. So today at the dinner table, ask your kids where their rights come from. I have rights, you know. Really!? From where? Push them! Teach them a lesson! Because if you don't push them now, they'll be pushed, shoved and shot by religious fanatics later.
"Atheist in Wheaton" [Ill.] James Kirk Wall
ChicagoNow, 10-27-13
Ghana's economic productivity is under threat because workers are spending too much time at all-night church services, according to a senior cleric.
News story quoting Rev. Frimpong Manso, head of the Assemblies of God Church in Ghana, where two-thirds of the population is Christian
The Guardian, 10-28-13
If you believe that the world is only 6,000 years old, as some of these people do, given that the true age of the Earth is 4.6 billion years, it's equivalent to believing the width of North America is 8 yards.
Biologist Richard Dawkins
"Real Time With Bill Maher," 10-25-13
I was once Christian. But I sincerely considered the matter and found no evidence to support faith. I then decided to change for a more positive and healthy perspective on life, love and compassion. As I moved away from religion, I found both peace and a lot of good, similarly minded people. So if some think I'm going to hell, I'll probably be in better company than those who would condemn me for this.
Ricky D. Smith, Danville, Ky., letter to the editor
Advocate-Messenger, 9-16-13
[If] I were a coach, even a Christian one, I would not want team prayers at all. That's because it's no better for team-building than it is for nation-building, which our founders wisely recognized. And that's because, obviously, you exclude every player who doesn't believe in the prayer leader's god, or doesn't believe in any god, or is just smart enough to see the folly of praying to a peaceful god when playing a game as violent as football.
Columnist Dan DeWitt, an atheist, on a Florida school superintendent's memo asking coaches to not lead prayers
Tampa Bay Times, 10-8-13
Sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" or do something else to make it a grand occasion. Don't appropriate religion for that purpose. Keep religion separate and special and have the sphere of government be religion-free so that everyone feels equally included. I think that is the American tradition.
Ann Althouse, University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor, arguing against prayer at events such as graduations
Wisconsin State Journal, 10-6-13
I'm suggesting we take holy books out of the process. Instead, people will have to show they understand they could be sent to prison if they don't tell the truth.
Ian Abrahams, Bristol, UK, on a Magistrates' Association proposal to stop having witnesses swear on the bible in court
Charisma News, 10-14-13
She called me a filthy little liar and gave me a big dose of castor oil. I couldn't keep it down — threw up.
Witness in the trial of Fr. Finian Egan, alleging a nun disciplined her for reporting Egan molested her when she was 10
Sydney Morning Herald, 10-14-13
I can stand at the beach's edge with the most devout Christian, Jew, Buddhist, go on down the line, and weep with the beauty of this universe and be moved by all of humanity, all the billions of people who lived before us, who have loved and hurt and suffered. To me, my definition of God is humanity and is the love of humanity.
Endurance swimmer Diana Nyad, 64, telling host Oprah Winfrey that she's an atheist
"Super Soul Sunday," 10-13-13
Doesn't it just plain suck that the Old Testament isn't cool anymore? The book's got everything: genocide, incest, and even talking donkeys! That's why David Tuchman has taken it upon himself to rehabilitate the text as OMGWTFBIBLE.
From comedian David Tuchman's "new take on the Old Testament," recorded live in New York City the third Monday of every month and available by podcast
Tablet Magazine, 10-14-13
I'm quite sure a Christian would not be happy if the town meeting began by everybody announcing how thankful they were we've finally learned there is no God. One could say it's just teaching Christians to be tolerant of atheists, but nobody would or should take that seriously.
Arnold Loewy, Texas Tech University law professor, arguing that government meetings shouldn't start with prayer
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Archbishop Michalik's words make us feel fear and revulsion.
Ewa Orlowska, victim of a Polish pedophile priest, on Archbishop Jozef Michalik's comment that a troubled child "seeks closeness with others and may get lost and may get the other person involved, too."
Associated Press, 10-22-13
We're pretty sure all babies are born atheists and, rather than commit them to some religion before they're old enough to have a say (let alone control their pooping functions), we'd rather celebrate their undoubted belief in Mummy and Daddy.
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It's time for the atheist movement to get off the political sidelines. It's time to truly help this country become a better place to live for all its citizens. The recent Values Voter Summit demonstrated that the likely 2016 GOP frontrunners and its base wish to transform America's secular state into a tyrannical theocracy — a nirvana absent gays, liberals, immigrants, Muslims and science books. If the atheist movement doesn't evolve into a politically agitated, unified and mobilized Secular Left, then the Christian Right might just get its way.
CJ Werleman, author of Crucifying America and God Hates You. Hate Him Back.
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Gay marriage, pot, religion's the next one to fall.
Entertainer Bill Maher
"Real Time With Bill Maher," 10-25-13
[A Catholic] professor once asked me, "When I talk about God, I mean love and justice and reconciliation, not a man in the sky. You talk about love and justice and reconciliation. Why can't you just call that God?" I replied, "Why must you call that God? Why not just call it what it is: love and justice and reconciliation?"
Chris Stedman, assistant humanist chaplain at Harvard University
Sky News reports today that in Britain, increasing numbers of prison inmates are being bullied into converting to Islam. The Prison Officers Association says this is a result of the growing influence of Muslim gangs in British prisons. Some victims have been terrorized by the gangs. But there is also concern that some of the converts could become radicalized. 13% of Britain's prison population is Muslim.
Blog synopsis of growing British prison problem
Religion Clause, 10-20-13
[Barack Obama] believes government is your God.
Rev. Rafael Cruz, Purifying Fire Ministries pastor and father of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, speaking at a National Federation Of Republican Assemblies prayer breakfast
youtube.com, 9-15-13
In your lifetime, much of your potential, or lack thereof, can be known simply by swabbing the inside of your cheek. Are we prepared to select out the imperfect among us?
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., warning a packed house at the late Rev. Jerry Falwell's Liberty University in Virginia that scientific advancements will lead to eugenics and more abortions
Associated Press, 10-28-13
FFRF, ACLU settle Jesus portrait case
The Freedom from Religion Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio have settled a lawsuit against the Jackson City School District in Jackson, Ohio, with the district agreeing not to continue to display a portrait of Jesus.
FFRF Senior Staff Attorney Rebecca Markert wrote a Jan. 2 letter of complaint on behalf of parents with students at the school, provoking Superintendent Phil Howard to publicly vow that the "Head of Christ" painting would only be removed by court order.
That order came in October in the form of a consent decree mandating that the portrait be permanently removed from school property. Parties agreed to a financial settlement requiring the school to pay the plaintiffs a combination of damages and legal fees totaling $95,000. FFRF's share of the legal fees was $7,500.
"We're pleased that the plaintiffs — parents and students — whose identities will be protected, will each receive $3,000 in claims and damages," said FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor. "It's just and appropriate that students and parents who risk public exposure amid threats of retaliation for speaking up for the First Amendment should receive damages and that public school officials who violate the First Amendment be held accountable."
The portrait was posted prominently in Jackson Middle School but was later moved to the high school after the ACLU and FFRF filed the lawsuit. The school tried to argue that the portrait was part of a "limited public forum," but eventually agreed in court to remove it from the school, reportedly to avoid "risking taxpayer money."
The school district worked with an upstart Texas Religious Right group, the Liberty Institute, that proclaims at its website: "We have never lost a case to the ACLU, [or] Freedom From Religion Foundation." (This was FFRF's first case in which the Liberty Institute had interceded.)
Negotiations were stalled when it was discovered that the portrait had never actually been removed from the school. It had been moved to an art closet and was "resurrected" for a prayer meeting on the school lawn, which was attended by school faculty and administrators on the National Day of Prayer last May.
This violation of the court agreement prompted another round of legal filings by both sides, delaying the settlement and increasing legal fees, all of which, as the ACLU of Ohio pointed out, was unnecessary. FFRF received a small portion of the legal fees payment.
The case was before Judge Algenon L. Marbley, U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Ohio.
FFRF sues Calif. city for pervasive Christian prayers
The Freedom From Religion Foundation filed a lawsuit Nov. 1 in California state court against the city of Pismo Beach, challenging prayers at city council meetings and the city chaplaincy post.
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Nov. 6 in a related and closely watched case involving a challenge by two plaintiffs to Christian prayer by the town of Greece, N.Y. The plaintiffs are women, one atheist and one Jewish, who are seeking to invoke protections under the U.S. Constitution.
FFRF's new lawsuit invokes only the California Constitution's No Preference and Establishment Clauses, as well as a civil rights provision. Regardless of how the Supreme Court decides the Greece case, FFRF's case can proceed, and could carve out protections against government prayer for all citizens in the country's most populated state.
Plaintiffs are FFRF, which has about 2,800 California members, and local FFRF member, Dr. Sari Dworkin, who is also a member of Atheists United of San Luis Obispo, which brought the First Amendment violation to FFRF's attention. AUSLO and FFRF have been preparing the suit for more than a year.
Dworkin, who identifies as "an atheist Jew," was surprised to encounter the council's Christian prayers, which "cause her to feel offended, disenfranchised, and intimidated about participating in her own government."
Pismo Beach established an official city chaplaincy in 2005, appointing a Pentecostal preacher, Rev. Paul Jones. He's affiliated with the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, which emphasizes "speaking in tongues" (although he has refrained from doing that during city council prayers). Jones delivered 112 of the 126 prayers scheduled by the council between Jan. 1, 2008, and Oct. 15, 2013. All but one of the 126 prayers were addressed to the Christian god.
In virtually every city prayer, Jones pressured citizens and the council to live a Christian lifestyle, to vote for "righteous" leaders and to make decisions that honor Jones' particular god. The board meets twice a month.
At least 54 of the prayers contained a "Christianized" view of history. FFRF's legal complaint documents several egregious examples, including Jones' claim that:
• The Constitutional Convention approved a prayer motion (there was no such prayer).
• James Madison said our government was based on the Ten Commandments (he did not).
• George Washington claimed it was impossible to govern without the bible (fabricated quote).
• James Madison read from the bible at the Constitutional Convention (untrue).
FFRF seeks a declaration that the prayers violate the California Constitution. The complaint also alleges that the prayers violate California civil rights laws by coercing and forcing citizens to undergo Christian worship if they wish to participate in their government. FFRF is also challenging the establishment of a city chaplaincy.
FFRF thanks Dworkin, attorney Pamela Koslyn for taking the case pro bono, FFRF Staff Attorney Andrew Seidel, AUSLO for its support and AUSLO members for prayer transcription.


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He was born when his father, James Lott, was playing safety at Clemson. He has pictures as a toddler being in the Chicago Bears' locker room. His earliest football memory is as a 5-year-old playing Boys & Girls Club football for the Little Bears team coached by his grandfather.
"I knew football was probably going to be my sport because I was brought up around it," he said.
Now, he's in the Jacksonville State secondary, getting a second chance to play the game he was born to play, hoping to follow his father into the NFL.
The newest JSU player arrived in coach Bill Clark's first preseason camp Saturday and has made a quick and easy transition, although the faster tempo of practice and Alabama heat are a lot different than he was used to at Appalachian State.
The 6-foot-1, 195-pound Lott in the three-man rotation with Junior Hough and
Rashod Byers where he could play either cornerback spot or nickel. He has one year of eligibility remaining.
"First day was kind of rough, but it's been pretty good the last few days,"
Lott said. "It's a new team so there are going to be different things you have to deal with, but as far as the surroundings and everything it's kind of much like App.
"App's built to win. Jacksonville State's built to win. Coaches want to win.
Players want to win. It's the same in both."
Lott probably would still be at App State if he didn't get sideways with the coaching staff over what he called "some poor decisions" on his part and was ultimately bounced from the team in the spring.
To his credit, with football off the table, he didn't let his studies slip and graduated last month with a 3.0-plus GPA in architecture.
He found his way to JSU because of another Clemson connection. The
Mountaineers receivers coach was a graduate assistant there with current Gamecocks linebackers coach and special teams coordinator Daric Riley.
"I look at it as a blessing," Lott said. "Most guys don't get a second chance. I made some poor decisions at App, but as long as I could get out with my degree that was the main thing.
"One thing (my father) tells me is always stay focused. He always told me to get my degree ... because if the League thing doesn't work out because so many things can happen you need to have a solid base to fall back on. I'm very proud that when things got a little shaky I kept my goals straight-forward and was able to refocus and get back to doing what I needed to do and make a positive out of that negative."
His mere presence at JSU provides some insight into Clark's philosophy on taking Division I transfers.
Not one easily given to handing out second chances, Clark got a lot of assurances from the Appalachian State coaches about Lott, but still did his own due diligence before bringing the player into his first JSU team.
"I'm not telling you I will never take a guy who's had an issue," Clark said. "I'm saying I'll ... know who this is before I go put him with 94 other guys. It's definitely worth getting this guy in here."
There's no disputing Lott's ability as a player. He played 10 games as a full-time defensive back last year for the Mountaineers and recorded 39 tackles and two interceptions.
He can play all four secondary positions and, under the watchful eye of his dad, who is now defensive coordinator at Johnson C. Smith, has developed the skill set and body type to be appealing to the next level.
"He's come in and looks good," Clark said. "I like his demeanor. He's not a big talker -- he just gets out there and gets the job done. Getting him is a huge plus for us."
Lott knows he has one last shot to make an impression. He wants to make it a good one.
"I feel like I had a pretty good season last year to get my name out there," he said. "If I build on that this season and work to perfect my craft I can be an asset to Jacksonville State and get a lot of exposure here. I feel like they will push me and steer me in the direction I need to go.
"I have aspirations to go to the NFL. I feel like if I do everything I need to do here and stay focused, then everything else will take care of itself."
Al Muskewitz covers Jacksonville State sports for The Star. He can be reached at 256-235-3577.


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Tanja Hrovatic
Tanja Hrovatic enters her second year as a graduate assistant with the Illinois State women's tennis program. Hrovatic assisted the Redbirds to their second-straight runner-up finish at the State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Tournament in 2011.
Prior to joining the Redbird coaching staff, Hrovatic played tennis for the Illinois State after transferring from New Orleans. Although she suffered some injuries during her Redbird career, Hrovatic played at the No. 5 position in singles in 2006-07 and No. 2 doubles with Julia Zubkova. In 2007-08, she won the No. 3 doubles title with the help of Carolyne Parent at the StateFarm MVC Championships and was the No. 6 singles title at the State Farm MVC Individual Championships.