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CYBERSPACE -- Trying to coordinate schedules for an event or committee meeting, but struggling to make sense of the endless email strands and unreturned phone calls?

Libertarian meeting planners -- OK, about any meeting planner -- can take advantage of an excellent online service at WhenIsGood.net.

The site provides an easy to use format for finding out when everyone is free for the next meeting or event.

Photos provided by Deb Seksay.

Some successful shots; some not as successful shots.

Jaenelle Antas

Sean Shepard, John Meuser & Jennifer Harmless

Bob Kirkpatrick instructing.

Duncan Adams and his wife.

Barry Schatz

Tim Maguire

BLOOMINGTON, IN -- Knowing gun safety was lesson number one at the target shoot practice at the LPIN gathering in rural Monroe County this past weekend.

Marion County activist and long-time member Bob Kirkpatrick lectured on the four rules of firearms handling prior to target practice:

• Treat firearms as if they are loaded, no exceptions.
• Never point a firearm at anything you're not willing to kill, destroy or buy.
• Keep your finger off the trigger and outside the trigger guard until your sights are on target and you're ready to shoot.
• Know your target, what's between and beyond, and what your ammunition can do.

View some pictures from the event: (View more photos.)

Jaenelle Antas

INDIANAPOLIS, IN -- Celebrating a birthday? Want to announce a new job? Tell the world you've retired!

Help your libertarian friends from across the state keep up with what's happening in your life. The LPIN Society News feature of this site announces important changes, moves and celebrations among our membership and greater libertarian community.

To report news for the site, simply email news@lpin.org. Remember, people love photos. If you have one, attach it to your email.

INDIANAPOLIS, IN -- County 4-H Fairs have hit high season this week, with events throughout the state hitting all corners. A staple of community events for decades, the county fairs offer the LP an opportunity to grow the party and promote candidates.

Monroe County

BLOOMINGTON, IN -- Despite temperatures in the mid-90's, the LPIN BBQ and pitch-in at the farm of Mark Burris and Rebecca Sink-Burris was a great success.

The pitch-in drew people from all across the state as well as other states. Visiting Nevada State Chairman Jim Duensing attended with family members from Lake County, including brother Jeff, the LP candidate for the 1st District U.S. Congressional seat currently held by Democrat Pete Visclosky. Indiana Libertarians attending included Andy Horning, candidate for governor.

Participants took part in the practice shooting range organized by LPMC volunteer Bob Kirkpatrick, cooled off in the swimming pool and played in the creek.

INDIANAPOLIS, IN -- It was clear in 2004. Then-Governor Joseph Kernan and his GOP challenger Mitch Daniels did not want to see LPIN candidate Kenn Gividen in the gubernatorial debates. Their efforts to exclude Gividen from the second debate backfired, not only stamping Gividen's ticket to the Franklin College event, but sending Kernan and Daniels' camps scrambling to point fingers at each other for the oversight.

A cornerstone of Gividen's campaign was putting a stop to the New Terrain route for the I-69 corridor, dubbed the NAFTA Superhighway. Gividen's property rights and tax message was bookended by environmental foes to make one of the strangest coalitions in Indiana politics in years. Gividen was the lone opponent to the new terrain route.