Quaker Communities in Early Modern Wales: From Resistance to Respectability (Bangor History of Religion): From Resistance to Respectability (Bangor History of Religion)
Towleroad (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bangor High School student Antonio Carroll organized a marriage equality rally over the weekend to show that Mainers may be down, but they're not out. And that time is definitely on our side. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...
Aberystwyth Online Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Image via Wikipedia I found this fascinating article today: Students in Aberystwyth stripped down to their pants and knickers in an attempt to break a Guinness World Record on Monday 16 November. at Monday, November 23, 2009, World record attempt is all pants , Archives November 2009 You should read the whole article. Related Students Links: Internet Streaming Of Graduation Ceremonies Aberystwyth University...
atypicalife.net (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Before I forget it all and the family gets sick of hearing me re-tell it, I have to take the time to write down all the little tiny parts of my trip. Other than waiting in airports, it went fast. NYC is go go go all the time. So we sat in the Bangor airport for [...]
Imperfect and tense (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
This is my first "away" blog, tippy-tapped into the computer of our first born in her room at Bangor. We're having a weekend in North Wales with the wild Welsh weather. An early start from Tense Towers saw us pootle into dear old Bangy by noon, to be greeted by a downpour and a happy, bouncy Sally. This may have had more to do with the presence of boyfriend Dan than the arrival of the 'rents!...
Anglesey, my Anglesey (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
It was about seven years ago that we first began house hunting in Anglesey . We had been looking at properties all day and had just viewed the penultimate property. There I was, standing on Mynydd Bodafon , looking out across to the north coast when the rain came. It was not very heavy but the wind whipped it against me. I felt chilled to the bone. I asked the question, "Why do I want to come...
The Reverend Garibaldi McFlurry (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Perhaps I should have been a sub-editor. Spelling mistakes just leap out at me. They call out wherever I turn, and give me no piece peace. There's a couple on the same 'loyalist' mural down on the Newtownards Road - I always mean to stop and get a photo of it, but haven't bothered yet - the two words in question are 'repubiclan' and 'miltary'. Today I spotted an interesting one in a shop in Bangor....
bilerico.com (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
It's hard to think of what to say. My heart is broken. I am exhausted and sick (literally and figuratively). I kept checking the Bangor News site to see the last of the numbers trickle in, hoping it got closer. It didn't. I'm proud of being involved with the campaign in Maine. I still love Maine. As I sit here and type, I can hear the buoys clanging in Perkins Cove. The leaves are mostly gone, and...
Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Awful lot of green, isn't it? Here's a link to the actual breakdown photo - but let me explain quickly: Red- solid 'no' Pink- majority 'no' black- tie white- no data (yeah, we have alot of places with no folks whatsoever) Lt Green- majority 'yes' Green- solid yes So, pretty much everything north and east of the I-95 corridor went to the Schubert-Flint/NOM/Catholic Diocese side. Opinions may differ...
Zandar Versus The Stupid (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Matthew Gagnon at Pine Tree Politics goes over how Maine voted down gay marriage . The only counties that went for the No on 1 campaign were Hancock, Knox, Cumberland and York. In Hancock, No won by only a margin of 53%-47%, Knox and York were both basically 51%-49% and Cumberland represented the only decisive victory for the campaign at 60%-40%. So how did it happen? The short answer, is that No on...
Mizozo (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Maine voters have just repealed their previous law of gay marriage, sending shock waves through the gay community. The original law was approved in May, but a large number of people protested and gathered enough signatures to put the issue up to a people's veto. In the end, the Gay Marriage law was repealed by a slim margin. With 87 percent of precincts reporting, votes to reject the law were running...
Arkansas Watch (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
The people of Maine voted down the so-called "gay marriage" law passed by their legislature yesterday. The Bangor paper reports "In a defiant speech to several hundred lingering supporters, No on 1 campaign manager Jesse Connolly pledged that his side “will not quit until we know where every single one of these votes lives.”"They don't get to decide how I or anyone else...
Marry in Massachusetts (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
I felt like Bugs Bunny late last night — "A got a baaaaaaaaaaaaaaad feeling about this," he'd say. Sure enough I awoke to find that Maine's same-sex marriage law had been overturned before it could start in a people's veto . As reported in the Bangor and Portland papers, the count will end up being something like 53% to 47% for repeal. After clerking from before 6 a.m. until nearly...
Understanding Each Other, Diversity and Dissent (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Russia successfully launches two European satellites Floating car crosses Irish Sea Ireland – Mass vaccinations begin tomorrow British nuclear expert's 17th floor UN death plunge 'was not suicide' CIT Group files for bankruptcy Video footage which UFO experts say shows aliens beaming a BUFFALO into their spaceship Jewish settler arrested for murder and bombings One in five young Swedes doubt...
Stephen's Linlithgow Journal (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
It's the 9th February 2009, it's dark, it's late after 8pm at least. Having delivered the third or fourth leaflet of the day climbing numerous back stairs to flats in the dark, we return to car to find a postal ballot paper under the windscreen wiper. Certain we'd pass near a polling place on the way back to the committee room we head off with the sealed envelope, looking for somewhere to deposit...
The Bastardly (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Photo Credit: Splash News These were snapped last night at the II Bottaccio in London. Here’s more info about Zoe: Zöe Salmon (born 7 January 1980, Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland) is a television presenter who hosted the children’s television show Blue Peter from 23 December 2004 to 25 June 2008. She also appeared on Dancing on Ice in early 2009. [Source] read more
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