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"Frankly, there's no way I'd be sharing so much of what I've learned in the last 12 months with so many people."
First and foremost you'll get to listen to the inspirational Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak.
You will gain an insight into the most cutting edge marketing techniques and business growth strategies. If you want to take your business to the next level, this really is the place to be.
We will help you build a concrete, step by step plan for your business. You will literally be walking away with a full, detailed business plan!
The National Entrepreneur's Convention
Sunday 21st September & Monday 22nd September
at the I.C.C in Birmingham
Firstly, the rules are the same as last year. No selling from the stage. You're not spending money here to sit in a room and be pitched at. Leave your chequebook at home, I'm not going to try and sell you anything.
I WILL have some of my Trusted Suppliers at the event. There WILL be a small exhibitor area. These guys are experts in their field, and they are taking time out of their businesses to man stands and talk to you over 2 days. That is a service my suppliers and I are providing free of charge. I will be talking about some stuff from stage that will make you think "how would I do that" and my Trusted Suppliers will often have the answer.
Secondly, I WILL be talking to you about what happened when I spent a weekend with Richard Branson at the end of last year. I've had a few people "join the dots" and ask the question.
It's no coincidence that I spent two days talking to Sir Richard in the Caribbean and 6 month's later my business has exploded. I'll share everything at the Convention. Worry not. It will be revolutionary for many.
Here's the full Event Schedule, it might change a bit as we get closer to the event. For instance, if we discover something that I know you'll find super valuable, I won't hesitate for a second to make space in the schedule to share it with you. However, here's the working plan – which has already evolved a bit in recent weeks:
With their permission, I'll be talking about how some of my most successful Mastermind members have smashed any 'reasonable' targets over the last 12 months.
I'll share with you…
Millionaires think differently. I'll tell you what I've learned from working closely with some of them. I'll give you a list of where millionaires spend their focus, time and energy. You can swipe and deploy it.
How much money you want to make really is down to you.
In this session I'll also give you the full skinny on what happened when Sir Richard Branson and I spent 2 days together last November. Is it coincidence that a matter of weeks later our business has DOUBLED, our offices are stuffed full of staff, we're renting a church (don't ask!), and still recruiting like crazy.
I'll tell you…
The secret formula that Branson uses to decide which business ideas have got legs, and which he shouldn't spend any time on.
Exactly what Branson told me he does when he finds a business that stacks up (I've just copied this, it seems to work!)
The man who invented the personal computer. The man who started what is now the biggest company in the world with his friend Steve Jobs.
A visionary and philanthropist with a passion for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship this is Wozniak's only scheduled European engagement this year.
I can't wait.
Most businesses don't have a single video that does a decent job of converting prospects into customers.
That's a VERY expensive mistake to make, and it's why 99% of businesses can't afford to miss this session.
I'll share my simple business blueprint with you:
It's rare that a single 'silver bullet' transforms the profits of a business. It's much more common (and easier!), to tweak each little part and when you do that properly the compound impact can be enormous.
This approach is a characteristic of many super-successful businesses and you'll get the full 'Instruction Manual' that you can take away and implement. We'll share with you the precise formulae and checklist to markedly improve every element in your sales process – and when you do this systematically the results can be staggering, as we've seen this year.
Truth is, nothing happens in business without implementation - but business gets in the way, customers demand attention, there's all that "day-to-day" to get done.
In this session I'll break down, step-by-step, the system that I use to get so much stuff done and implemented in my business. It isn't pretty – and some will squirm at what's required – but at least you'll know. Your eyes will be open.
The techniques I'll teach here will help many to maximize their benefit from the Convention but they'll also transform your productivity and pace of achievement every day of every month of every year of your life. This is B-I-G stuff – and 'time-management' won't get mentioned once!
Some of the most successful brands in the UK have been built from scratch over the last ten years using largely offline, traditional media.
Some of them set out to deliberately stay 'under-the-radar' but their secrets will be revealed during this session. They know that offline is just as important as online in 2014 and this in depth analysis will show you detailed case studies of what's working now with step-by-step examples that you can take and use in your business
It's overlooked and unknown by most UK business owners, but Native Advertising has huge potential in many sectors, both B2C and B2B and it's delivering stellar results right now.
We know because we've run extensive tests and trials and I'll reveal all in this Session.
If you don't know what Native Ads are and/or you're not yet tapping into this rich source of new leads and customers then you're definitely missing out, but worry not because everything you need to know will be outlined in this detailed, in-depth module.
Gold & VIP ticket holders will have their own Checklist and Ready Reference Guide in the substantial Event Workbook so they'll be all set to implement straight away.
Mrs X has an extraordinary story guaranteed to both inspire and inform in equal measure.
She's a woman in her thirties, who has won medals at World Championships, achieved entrepreneurial success and been awarded an MBE - but that's only the half of it. There are other, remarkable, facts which make her story even more incredible.
Her overwhelming positivity and 'go for it' attitude is contagious, and her modesty endearing. In this session she'll use her story to powerfully but subtly draw out key business and personal lessons for you that could have a profound, long-lasting impact on your life.
Potentially the highlight of the whole event…
Every market has them – the individuals or businesses that are thought of first, that are sought out, that are talked about; that are seemingly impervious to competition, especially price led competition – and in this Session you're going to learn the 14 Steps to becoming THE go-to-guy in your market, and all the benefits that brings.
Go-to-guys typically charge higher prices; they're more profitable, they wield power and influence. The world revolves around them AND they gain longevity, security and asset value.
Arguably the biggest, most strategic Session of the Convention this will get you thinking in ways that you've never done before and will open the door for many at the ICC to a positioning – and profits – that they had never dared contemplate.
Almost every business could experience much more rapid growth than they currently are. There's one thing that smart businesses do that most don't consider (or they think about it, and then write it off, saying "that won't work for me").
That's exactly what I did for years. It's only since the last Convention that I've deployed this tactic in my business and the results have been staggering.
If I'd embraced it earlier, I reckon it would have been worth over £20m to me over the last three years, maybe more.
I'll "bare all" and share my pain with you, so you don't make the same expensive mistake in your business.
It's the final session of the last Convention ever. Expect a spectacular finish to a remarkable couple of days.
In the middle of all that, of course, on the Sunday night, your event ticket will get you admission to the National Entrepreneur Awards, hosted, once again, by Alistair McGowan. You'll hear amazing stories of success and implementation from the Finalists and Alistair will bring his ready wit and humour to ensure a thoroughly entertaining – and educational – couple of hours.
By now you should be convinced that this event is unlike any event you've ever attended or even heard about.
You should also know whether this event is right for you, which is why…
You Now Have To Take Action
in Order To Get Results…
At this point there isn't really much more I can say.
Just below you'll see the registration box that will allow you to reserve your spot.
I want you to click on the 'Add to Cart' button and then fill out the form on the next page.
I'm serious. Do it now.
Yes Nigel, I want to be part of this.
Please book me a place at:
The National Entrepreneur's Convention
Sunday 21st September & Monday 22nd September
at the I.C.C in Birmingham
There is no reason to procrastinate or deliberate any longer. The time for action is now.
If you wait, there is a good chance that this event will sell out. So now is definitely the time to act.
You know, years from now, when we look back at our entrepreneurial lives what we'll really be looking at is a series of decisions that created our destiny. Some of them will (hopefully!) have been smart decisions, other may have been stupid ones but only a few vital decisions will really have shaped our future. Coming to the National Entrepreneurs Convention in September will surely be one of them.
I'll do my absolute best to make sure that's the case for you.
Register now while there are still spaces available.
See you in in September
Nigel Botterill
Paul Rhodes, Green Gorilla Apps - It was a truly amazing and inspirational couple of days and not only did it deliver, you changed people's lives - can't get better than that.
Jason Gill, Ocean Print – I laughed, I cried, I learnt. Cannot thank you enough. You are changing lives, doesn't get much bigger than that. Thank you.
Tom Perry, Sherpa - Without any exaggeration - simply the two most important days in my entire working life - thanks to the entire team.
Dylis Guyan, Increase Your Sales in 30 Days: You truly "Rocked My Socks Off" Congratulations to you all, it was inspirational, well organised and full of valuable content.
Sarah Bishop, Recruit Recruit Ltd - Great work guys & gals. It was brilliant! I've clarified all my goals before breakfast!
Beverley Densham, Lifestyle Pilates Hatfield - Thank you Nigel Botterill's Entrepreneur's Circle for a great conference, full of oomph
Vanessa Lanham-Day, CProject - Have really enjoyed it. Feel inspired to move forward like never before. Sometimes it's all about it being the 'right' time.
Dawn Fry, The Melting Pot - Thursday night networking at the EC Convention was so valuable to me. Then I got to hear all that fantastic content too - blown away by this one. Well done Team EC.
Julia Roberts, BGA Staffordshire and Leicestershire - There were goose bumps and the odd tear on our row...
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- 1 1.1 (Mythology) (before noun) the demon drinkel demonio de la bebidaExample sentences1.2 (naughty child) [colloquial]
demonio (masculine) [colloquial]diablo (masculine) [colloquial]he's a little demones un diablillo [colloquial]Example sentences
- But there is simply no credible evidence to suggest the boy was possessed by demons or evil spirits.
- Tibetans treat the blind as outcasts because they believe they are possessed by demons or have committed evil in a prior life.
- In Tartini's time, the Devil personified the spirit of evil, a demon, the ruler of Hell, and the chief adversary of God.
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- No, they are not animals, they are evil demons who hide under the cloak of kindness and normality while they hatch their plots.
- Why did he go from nearly human to cruel demon in a heartbeat?
- Three, I'm a sadistic demon that delights in your emotional pain.
- Our first tests of the company's new speed demon show some impressive performance gains.
- Remember those occasions when he would have made batting easy for his partners by taking on the demon bowlers all by himself.
- Cotton might not be the demon fabric that performance apparel manufacturers say it is, but I'm going to keep my Under Armour shirt.
- 2 2.1 [colloquial] (enthusiast)a demon
forsomethingshe's a demon for work/exercisees una bestia trabajando/haciendo ejercicio [colloquial]Example sentences2.2 (talented person)a demon
- So how odd that Howard should invest so much time and political capital in building a whole speech round this non-existent demon.
atsomethinghe's a demon at chess/golfes una fiera or un hacha jugando al ajedrez/golf [colloquial](before noun) (bowler/shot)
endiabladamente bueno [colloquial]
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The Secretary-General welcomes the timely holding of the parliamentary election in the Maldives, which international observers have assessed as peaceful, orderly, and well administered.
The Secretary-General encourages the governing coalition to reach out to the opposition and to lead the country in the interest of all its citizens. He underlines the need for political leaders to work together and reach agreement on strengthening democratic institutions and enhancing the rule of law.
The United Nations will continue its support to development and democratic progress in the Maldives.
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Someone please run against Sally Clark? Is it too late?
Someone please run against Sally Clark. Is it too late?
Remember when ECB named names?
Weren't these rules the end of civilization as we know it?
The complaining crowd is there, Erica, and you're not playing to it.
Something's rotten in Savageville.
efforts are on to get VENUS VELAZQUEZ to switch to run against Clark. Even some LGBT community leaders are supportive. Venus won't be the Mayor's lapdog on these issues like Clark is proving to be. Let's get rid of The Mayor's nanny and get someone on council with fresh solutions.
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I was there too and listened to many of the speakers. Not surprisingly most of those opposed to legislation had a personal financial reason. Somehow a $300 license would destroy all music in Seattle for ever and ever etc.
The smoking ban wasn't the end of the world as many claimed but rather a definite improvement.
Licensing would strengthen and protect Nightlife by getting rid of the Mr. Lucky's of Seattle. Well run clubs have nothing to worry about.
Sally Clark is proving to be among the most conservative members of the Council we've ever seen. Her cover as a member of the GLBT community gives the patina of a liberal Seattleite, but in reality, she seems to be a prude.
Strip clubs, night clubs, she's fighting them all.
OK, I was there. I have no idea what Sally Clark was thinking when this legislature was drafted, but she was patient enough to hear everybody out, and was the only one not navelgazing on the staff. She may just throw the transcripts in the garbage right after the meeting for all I know, but at least she seemed like she was paying attention.
The thing I'm surprised ECB did not note was the attorney who stood up and sited that the fifty foot rule is unconstitutional. Um, hello Slog people, why isn't that being talked about more? Or did you all leave before all the important points were made?
Liberal and prude are apples and oranges, but whatever. I don't buy that trying to find a way for downtown clubs and residents to live together in an urban space makes someone a "prude". (That's our environmental goal, right? eliminating sprawl?)
I've been reading and commenting on this here and the PI...
Why doesn't anyone look into why all of a sudden this is front page news when we all know rowdy bars in CH, Fremont and Wallingford have been around for years?
It's a practice run for the mixed-use development social experiment that we're in the middle of. I predict more condos with air-conditioning and thicker windows with hip "signature" bars that have "speakeasy" entrances.
The news is focusing on the sleepy everyman in the formerly affordable neighborhoods complaining about the disco's that are "sneaking" in. It's likely that every new bar was on the border of some neighborhood at one time or another.
ECB, I was there for most of it too. Were you able to determine what establishment those people were talking about in Squire Park (the ones who played the boombox monologue of the tortured woman, driven out of the neighborhood by the noise)?
I just kept wondering what place are we talking about here?
I have to say that I'm a little confused by Sally too. She does seem to be committed to hearing everyone on this. But to what end I'm not sure. I was at the last committee meeting as well, and I was surprised with what they came up with given the tenor of what transpired there.
If noise is such an issue, I also wonder why there isn't more effort being put into developing strategies for mitigation and helping people accomplish that. The $145,000 they want to budget for two staffers would pay for a lot of mitigation (or apparently 3 more cops). Either of these would probably do more to fix the problem than another city staffer.
Obviously, venues are constantly turning over, but in any given year, how many of them are really going to need noise mitigation assistance?
A big problem for existing business owners is when people change the rules midstream. In this instance, a business owner may not be able to adjust their business model, so they can survive.
Why not provide grants to help existing business owners mitigate noise? Then change the building code so that new businesses have to include noise mitigation plans as a part of the building review process. Perhaps some tax credits could also be provided for new business owners.
If you are opening a new venue, you may not be psyched about the added cost of paying for noise mitigation, but at least it's something you can budget for on the front end. It becomes a start-up cost that get amortized over the life of the business. It's also probably easier to minimize the cost of mitigation when you're doing a build-out of a new business.
Could mitigation requirement for new businesses keep certain folks out of the business? I suppose. But I suspect that skyrocketing rents are a bigger barrier to entry.
Interesting meeting. Here's hoping they do the right thing, when all is said and done.
It's a lot easier to tear something down with one or two well placed blows, than it is to build it brick by brick from the ground up.
I guess that's what's so dispiriting about this whole thing. It seems like the music scene contributes so much to the cultural life and national reputation of the city. But still, where the rubber meets the road, it gets no respect.
will experts post some facts about the business side of all the good music and entertainment - it brings many millions into the city
bars, clubs, fees, taxes, tourist dollars, cruise tourists that overnight,
somehow it sounds like the conversation is like this is all an option for a small group of music freaks, rowdy trouble makers - not so at all, in the aggregate there is a giant employment base, many jobs, hundreds of millions in revenue - all taxed to the max several times - and just tons of good business
far more than a reputation or pleasure system for a small group that go to ten clubs in Belltown and twenty on C. Hill
some business stats to lobby the council - and then, who supports the clubs to keep them on board and amend this thing to death at vote time - or study it for ten more years
need Meinert
"Were you able to determine what establishment those people were talking about in Squire Park (the ones who played the boombox monologue of the tortured woman, driven out of the neighborhood by the noise)?"
They're talking about Wade's on 12th and Jefferson. I drive by there all the time since it's near my house, and as far as nightclubs go, it's pretty damn mellow, so much so that I wonder how they stay in business (seriously, the place is usually dead).
Nothing about that situation justifies Clark's puritantical and draconian proposal. If Wade's get's shut down, the bustling bars in Cap Hill, Pioneer Square & Fremont don't have a prayer.
Venus, if you run against nanny Clark, you have my vote!
According to a fairly recent economic impact study, the music business in Seattle accounts for $11 million in taxes to the City, and $1.2 billion in economic activity, making it among the top 6 or 7 industries in the city. It employs 15,000 people. This includes nightclubs with music, but does not include bars and restaurants without music. So that number is much larger with those included. Not of all this economic impact comes from music venues, but music venues are arguably the backbone of the local music business.
About Clark's ordinance - some things to keep in mind that the Council seems to forget. First, many residents are complaining about noise. Current rules exist for DPD to deal with this, but they are being told by the Mayor not to until his legislation passes. Second, at least some of the noise complaints are coming from residents who live in condos facing streets like 1st avenue in Belltown who must keep their windows open at night because their units were not built with air conditioning.
From what I have seen, Sally first came out publicly against a license, but was then pressured hard by the Mayor and Seattle Police to push for one as both are committed to a licensing scheme. Sally Caved, and then released a press release with Drago's name on it while Drago was out of town. Drago does not necessarily support Clark's proposal, as she stated last night. I think Sally made a rookie mistake and has proposed something with no backing from other council members. She's a good person, I personally like her a lot, but her proposal is garbage.
What we need to do is identify the two issues being discussed because they demand different solutions. First there is the problem of violence outside of a few clubs. Then there are the general issues around density and noise, street crime, etc.
When violence happens inside a venue, the venue should be responsible. When it happens outside the venue off the venue's property, because the venue operator CANNOT legally control the actions of people not on their property, they cannot be held responsible. Any licensing scheme holding a business responsible for the actions of those on public property is unacceptable. However, we shouldn't discount that the venue operator should have some direct responsibility in helping with the solution of problems their customers may bring to an area. We all know this, and the obvious solution is that nightclubs be allowed to use the same tool other events and businesses like festivals, the Mariners and Seahawks use to deal with this situation - hiring on duty or off-duty Police to patrol the impacted area. But because the Mayor, Council and Police Chief refuse to allow this, we are left with impractical and potentially unconstitutional legislation. We must deal with this issue to find a solution to the problem of activity around bars at night.
There is also the issue of the 'push out' that happens at 2am every morning. This would be solved by allowing flexible closing times or even 2 hour liquor licenses. It make sense, and would be yet another step in solving this problem.
Other than that we need more police deployed on the street at night. The Mayor has already proposed this and it looks as if it will happen. It's not an immediate thing, and will take a few years to put into place but it is on it's way.
On the issue of noise. There are three sides to this. First is noise coming from inside a venue, heard outside. There must be strict standards on this that are objective. Drago's proposal seems to get at this but the fines are too high and it is very one sided. But the city does need to have a tougher noise ordinance for all commercial businesses, not just nightclubs. However, this sort of noise is only a small part of the problem, tough it is getting all the attention. Most of the noise complaints are coming from noise made by people on the street at night. Some of this noise is just the normal noise of a vibrant 24-hour city. Unfortunately many people moving into the city don't like it. They are either used to the quiet city they remember from decades ago, or the suburbs. Seattle has grown, and we intentionally have a thriving nightlife scene. This is a great thing, but it brings with it noise from people at night. There is also noise from the idiot loud mouthed drunks at night. They are a nuisance. And their behavior is already illegal. But the City won't enforce the public drunkeness laws, the nuisance laws, the public urination laws, the litter laws that are all on the books to deal with these folks. The city instead wants to blame business owners because it means they don't need the police to do their jobs. We need to elect politicians that will make the police enforce these laws. On the flip side, as much as venues need to make sure noise does not blast out of their business, condo owners and builders need to make sure normal noise of the city cannot be heard inside of their residence. This requires good building standards. The city and state must enact and enforce these. If your condo faces the street and you don't have air conditioning, get it. Having a fund to help mitigate the costs of improvements from both the condo side and the venue side would be a wise use of city money.
Also please keep in mind that EHB 2113 just passed the Washington State House. In its determination as to whether to grant or renew a liquor license, EHB 2113 clarifies that the WSLCB should give substantial weight to any evidence local governments offer of chronic illegal activity associated with the applicant or current licensee. This is the exact tool the Mayor claims he didn't have so he had to create the nightlife premises license. Now that the City has this tool the nightlife license is redundant. Every business being discussed by the council has one thing in common, they all are already licensed by the State Liquor Control Board, and the LCB now has to take into consideration the request of the a city to pull that license from a venue. Mayor Nickels was rightly frustrated by this not being the case when he attempted to get the LCB to deal with Larry's and Mr. Lucky's. Both had many, many violations and the LCB would not pull their licenses. After a lot of work, arguably too much work on the part of the City of Seattle, the licenses were finally suspended. As a result the Mayor wanted a special license so this wouldn't have to happen again. But now that is not needed. The Council should recognize this and stop trying to make a redundant license.
Sally is not the problem. These issues have been around before her and will be after her unless the music/nightlife community broadens and deepens its advocacy beyond venue/bar owners, industry types, and the occasional employee. The people at last night's meeting did an outstanding job. They just need more of them and a wider variety of them. For example, there was one person of color at the meeting last night, the owner of Waid's.
Focus on solutions, not the satisfaction of ganging up on someone. That's not going to solve this. The nightlife community has to become such a force that no one would dare regulate them like this. Without that advocacy, we're nowhere.
venus is not running against clark, she is in a tight race against bruce for steinbruck's seat. she has pete's endorsement and she is not switching. dont waste your email. sally cant lose this time around, its too late for that, and remember all those goofy-its too noisy anti club people vote and clark knows it so she is kissing their butts. the only vulnerable candidate is david. judy nicastro's mom should run against her next time.
What we dont have is the policing model we need in this town to deal with large crowds of people late at night.
Whatever happened to the 24 hour alcohol proposal? Or was I just dreaming that? Gah! Maybe one day Seattle will be a big city. Until then, I'll just keep on dreaming...
I would have been there, but some fat woman broke the chair-lift on our bus. She tumbled out of her wheelchair and hit her head on the curb. Actually, I think my time was better well spent last night as another guy and I went with her to the emergency room
If a club attracts violent people, then YES, of course they are responsible. If the noise and violence WOULD NOT BE THERE if the club was not there, then the club IS responsible.
And the dollars you quote are grossly inflated -- that's not all from nightclubs, or even primarily from nightclubs. And the argument that goes "look how many dollars they bring in, oh my gosh, give them everything" doesn't fly when its sports teams, so why should it when it's nightclubs? Cruise passengers? Are you nuts?
A lot of businesses don't attract violence and noise, including a lot of bars. What is it about these relatively few clubs that needs protecting?
I dearly hope that the City Council doesn't make any decisions based on the freak show that is a public hearing. The vast majority of the people in this city are not represented by ANYONE who speaks at those things. The garbage is exactly where this transcript belongs.
Fnarf - I specifically said those numbers are more than just nightclubs.
No one wants to protect the nightclubs that attract a violent crowd, we want solutions that deal with the violence and noise but don't punish all the other venues. This takes vision, hard work and some thinking. That's not happening.
The reason the economic numbers are important is that they help us understand what making laws that could lead to a collapse of this industry would mean to the city economically. Not to mention culturally.
fnarf, if the club or bar wasnt there, there wouldnt be drunk drivers coming away from the bar? should they be held responsible?
fnarf @ 18:
One of Meinert's question stands: How is it sound public policy, or even legal, to require a club owner, on pain of loss of license, to police a city street, public property, outside that club?
I intend to ask Sally Clark that question in front of a whole bunch of people, so I'd really like to know how you answer it.
Excellent comment, Meinert.
Fnarf @18:
If someone leaves a club, goes down the street and starts making noise and punching people, the club is not responsible. The police are. The majority understands this.
Bars are held accountable for drunk drivers who were served on their premises.
hell why stop there. lets hold qwest accountable and safeco field and key arena for all its drunk patrons. certainly more drunks are produced after a seahawks game than all the bars in belltown combined. i dont remember the council in 95 saying we should tax baseball after armies of drunks were unleashed on pioneer square after our Mariners beat the yankees.
Well, if a patron has a few beers at a Mariners game, then weaves his way down to a Pioneer Square bar but before makes it inside, gets into a fight, who is responsible? The stadium serves beer during the proposed hours (nigth game), will they be part of the regulation?
Fnarf, I used to like your enlightened commentary, but I don't think you are looking at this the correct way. This is bad legislation that does nothing to solve the problems outlined.
fnarf - your age is showing, bad day?
of course the money thing is important -- business is business is business -- and these are legal
many jobs, much tax revenue
oh, why does that matter - come on fnarf, America is ABOUT business
hint - some gay bar owners were at the hearing and getting a bit concerned - I think Sally may get a few calls in the next day or so
and, all you nitwits who think this issue will sink her political career are simply stupid
to further clarify, under these proposed rules, the bar that is within 50ft of the fight would be responsible. Even though they did not serve the guy.
Well, I'm an enemy of these nightclubs, full stop. The places I go don't have bouncers and don't have people screaming and vomiting and fighting and shooting each other and falling over each other in the street. As far as I'm concerned, every club in Pioneer Square, for starters, should be shut permanently this afternoon; that whole milieu is just repulsive and always has been. It contributes nothing to the city except street cleaning costs. If the clubs were gone tomorrow the economic vitality of the area would greatly increase, not decrease.
If a club doesn't want to incur the wrath of the law, they need to seriously examine the kind of atmosphere they provide and the kind of patron they wish to attract. They are a public nuisance. the question of how much money their grubbing owners collect is immaterial.
Fnarf - I started to write an impassioned response to your bullheaded comments, but it is clear that A: you wouldn't listen because you haven't so far, and B: what was left of your credibility just went down the toilet.
I think maybe one of those quarters has permanently lodged itself in your frontal lobe in an unintended lobotomy. I don't blame you, I blame the quarters.
Who cares about losing one's credibilty? The Stranger writers don't seem to mind.
and they call you "burnout" why exactly?
Maybe one day Seattle will be a big city. Until then, I'll just keep on dreaming...
Dude, you do realize that Seattle's actual in-city population is only now struggling up to 600,000, right? That's a neighborhood in Los Angeles. There's a two-square mile area in Manhattan that has more than 1/3 the population of our 83 square mile city. So yeah, obviously Seattle isn't a real city. You can shut the fuck up about it now.
And, speaking of not being a real city:
Well, I'm an enemy of these nightclubs, full stop.
Fnarf, a certain amount of drinking, fighting and puking is just a fact of life in human society-- particularly a society with as much institutionalized inequity as ours has. My main problem with the Pioneer Square scene is that most of the people down there are rowdy fuckheads from the suburbs who treat my city like a fucking Mexican border town. But if it wasnt frat boys from Auburn itd be gangs from West Seattle or wherever. The kind of places you say you go to are fine for a very narrow cross-section of society. But most of the rest of the city likes to, at least, be loud, drunk and obnoxious. Look at the Pike/Pine strip: much less fighting, but plenty of drinking, puking and fucking. Thats just some peoples idea of a good time, and a city-- which is what I hope Seattle will become --has to make room for all sorts.
The 50 foot rule is insane. The Walgreens by my house has more violence and illegal activity happening within 50 feet of it than any of the few remaining clubs that feature live music in my neighborhood. Should they train Walgreens employees as peace keepers?
Of course there are exceptional, really problematic clubs that do need dealing with - but Seattle already has a ton of (some say unfair) leverage to deal with these clubs. Punishing the city's entire live music scene at the request of a few annoyed neighbors just doesn't make sense.
Also, under this proposal, are DJ's considered live music?
Fnarf - you are seriously unhinged. Do some reading about the history of the recently FBI-investigated-for-corruption Seattle Police Department and their history of targetting minority and culturally on the fringe music venues. Empowering the Police with a sludgehammer to use with their full bias is a huge mistake. They need the right tools for sure, but those tools need to be limited to businesses that create real problems and refuse to change their policies. Nickel's and now Clark's proposals will be used the same way the Added Activities Ordinance was used. Ever since that ordinance was thrown out by the courts and the City lost cases over their use of drug abatement laws, the SPD has been on a mission to replace it with something as 'useful'. Clark is caving to their pressure. For a refresher, here's how that ordinance was used:
In the 90's Seattle passed a drug loitering law. The law gave broad powers to the police to pick up and arrest someone who is standing on a sidewalk even when there is no observable crime, based merely on "suspicion" that he/she has committed a drug-related crime. A year after the law goes into affect, ACLU data shows that 77 percent of those arrested were people of color and that few arrested were ever charged.
July 2nd, 1999, in a strongly worded opinion, a U.S. District Court Judge strikes down the State's "Added Activities Law" which forced businesses to obtain city permission before including dancing or live music at their establishments. Calling the law a blatant restriction on free speech and "prior restraint", the Judge harshly criticized the way in which this law was used to yank liquor licenses and deny licenses to others. (For several years, the majority of those affected by discriminatory enforcement were black owned businesses serving a black clientele). Two years later, the City pays $106,000 to settle a civil rights law suit brought by a former owner of a club that catered to young African-Americans. The suit said the City used the added activities law to shut her business down based solely on the fact that it catered to African-Americans.
In the late 90's data showed that 10 of 15 clubs shut down by the city over the last seven years under the drug abatement law were black owned or run. The McCoy's, owners of Oscar's restaurant, also gave examples of cases where police used paid informers to lure drug dealers into their establishments, then rewarding the informers with drugs after the police stormed the establishments. Police also worked with owners to encourage 911 calls, then used these calls to justify shutting them down. In the wake of these revelations, the U.S. Justice Department agrees to investigate these complaints. That same year, in a deposition brought against the City by an aggrieved owner, the Seattle City Attorney gave his justification for singling out black owned clubs. Quoting from his deposition, he said the relationship between "hip-hop, the clientele, and the violence is irrefutable" and went on to acknowledge that clientele in these establishments are primarily black. He goes on to say that arresting individual lawbreakers is not always effective, and says "You begin to think about draining the swamp instead of constantly chasing the alligators one by one".
In April 2000, the Washington State Court of Appeals struck down the city's drug abatement law. The three-judge panel used strong words in declaring that the city's application of the law to shut down Oscars - a black owned establishment - was unconstitutional. The ACLU hails the decision saying "Oscar (McCoy) was not dealing drugs. Someone on his property was dealing drugs He was cooperating with police. We thought it was unfair that he should lose his business when he was cooperating with police." Dave Osgood, attorney for the McCoys, says the city's closure of Oscar's II was "shocking abuse of the statute by the Seattle Police Department and Seattle City Attorney. " The court says that the City's closure and confiscation of Oscar's "was an unconstitutional taking of the McCoy's property and a violation of their due process rights . The record does not support a finding that the McCoys acquiesced in any illegal drug activity or turned a blind eye to it."
These are but a few of the tons of examples of the SPD abusing laws that are not narrowly focused. It's why we need to fight what Sally is proposing and why we feel the law will be used improperly. I experienced this first hand when I was told by the Lt of the East Precinct that if I wanted the Police to stop harassing the all ages shows we were putting on at the Odd Fellows Hall, we had to stop doing "Black" shows. Straight up.
The problem DougSF is that the council has yet to release what the definition of a nightlife premise is under their revised proposal (clever, eh?). Under the Mayor's proposal, it was any place that served alcohol from 6pm-2am, was at least 500 sq and had capacity for 1 person per 7 square feet. That encompasses more than places with live music or DJs, that covers pubs, wine bars, restaurants, hell, it encompasses stadiums.
"a city-- which is what I hope Seattle will become"
That's a FOUL dream in my book- btw, how do you get those blocks around your quote?
I call myself burnout because that's what Cobain wrote before signing off-
so seattle is only for backwards cobain worshipping townies?
More of a Canadian comfortable living Neil Young admirer, but Cobain gets props for going out with class.
#35 - thanks. Sounds like the city and SPD are tired of getting their draconian authority yanked by the courts and are going to keep introducing rearranged language until something that gives them carte blanche control over nightlife sticks.
And people, stop with the "real city" BS, it makes you sound even more backwater. Seattle is great for so many reasons, but there's no reason it needs to compare to NYC. Then again, if I had to choose sides, I'd rather Seattle stuggle with it's small city complex then let the powers that be turn it into fucking Bellevue.
i agree with fnarf mostly. my problem is that the law doesn't seem to target the problems fnarf cites. it seems vague enough to target almost any club. so while a "bad" venue could be dealt with, one neighbor could complain to SPD about one of your "good" bars a few times to get them in trouble over their heads.
and that loitering law meinert references -- while it might not apply exactly -- was a ridiculous law. it upsets me just to think about it. an arrest? that was just wrong.
most people dont want seattle to be like bellevue. some people want it to be more like SF, and thats not even within stones throw of NYC in terms of nightlife.
Fnarf @28:
Wow. I'm surprised you would post something so stupid. By your logic, Seattle would consist entirely of quaint neighborhood pubs serving microbrews to fat middle-aged white guys.
but there's no reason it needs to compare to NYC
There are millions of reasons Seattle needs to compare to NYC. Most of them are technical. The low density of the Seattle metro area negatively impacts transportation planning, utility delivery, tax revenues, social services, environmental mitigation, and so on. If Seattle wasnt located in the Pacific Northwest it wouldnt even qualify as a city. There are scores of towns youve never heard of on the East Coast with populations much larger than ours. Its not a question of whether were backwater. Its a question of whether or not we can function, technically and socially, as anything other than a glorified suburb. So yeah, if you dont want us to turn into Bellevue, then maybe you do need to start comparing us to NYC, at least when it comes to numbers.
Fnarf, weren't you performing at a loud, rowdy, drunken nightclub recently?
Here's the problem: the "cool" places that you (and probably I) frequent are getting lumped into the B&T pick-up, "meat market" joints. Unless the legislation applies only to people with "ladies nights", then it's too broad. That is the problem. "Your" clubs will be swept up in this, too.
Yeah, meat markets are stupid, but they have a right to exist.
Judah @ 43:
What the fuck are you talking about? Could you be any more fucking incoherent if you tried?
This is where we live, asshole. It's not some laboratory for your theories of public administration.
Who gives a shit if we compare to New York in *anything?*
Sorry Ivan. I'll try not to use so many big words next time.
Go on back to your tire swing. I'll see if I can get Suzie to bring you some bananas.
Another smug little fucking poseur.
Judah, people know about Seattle because its metropolitan population is fairly large--there aren't "scores of towns" in the country with metropolitan areas that are bigger. While I agree with you that Seattle would be wise to increase its density, part of the reason for its relatively low population is its small physical size--83 square miles of land vs., e.g., around 483 for Los Angeles. City boundaries can be somewhat artificial, and city populations aren't the best indicator of their area's relative importance as an economic, cultural center, etc.
ivan, this is where we all live which means we should try to make it into what we want it to be. new york!
Im sorry Ivan, what am I supposed to be posing as? Someone who can read? Whatever, maynard. Eat your bananas.
And dude: yeah, okay, Ill give you that there arent scores of cities bigger than Seattle. But the City of Seattle (not the metro area thats a whole other mess) has a comparatively small and diffuse population as in-city populations go. I mean, to contrast your point about LA, Union City NJ, with a population of about 65,000, has some of the highest population density in the country. I focus on this point because the in-city population in Seattle does illustrate how incredibly non-urban the so-called city of Seattle is. There are huge tracts of Seattle, inside the city limits, between 85th and 145th that dont have sidewalks and use open ditches for drainage. There are roads in Crown Hill that are just tar covered in gravel; theyre not even asphalt. These aren't particularly poor neighborhoods, but they are rural as fuck and they present a lot of the same difficulties as rural areas when it comes to transit planning and utilities and such, which is what I was talking about earlier. And a lot of the city government's handling of things like clubs is informed by the basically rural/suburban outlook of those low-density fringe areas.
its even more awesome when you consider some parts of beacon hill still have dirt roads and it's not possibly more than 2 and a half miles from downtown.
we live in a suburban town and we are a joke to the rest of cities in the united states.
OK, a stab at an explanation. Now I understand what you're saying. It's still bullshit.
First, "Rural as fuck" is total bullshit. You don't know what rural is, if you can say something like that. Suburban-like, yes. Small-town-like, yes, in some ways. But it's not rural, or anything close. Lots of cities have areas like North Seattle.
Second, I don't see what makes transit planning or utility coverage any valid criteria for comparison between Seattle and any other city when the subject is regulation of clubs.
Third, what "things like clubs" do you mean? We're talking about clubs, not "things like clubs." What are you trying to say, that many people in the residential neighborhoods don't like noisy clubs anywhere? That's hardly a ground-breaking discovery around here.
You haven't demonstrated that you know what you're talking about. I give you props for trying.
People value their quiet. They like to hear themselves think. That's why there's sprawl. You want density, you want "vibrant," you get noisy clubs.
I'm the opposite of Fnarf, and I'm probably a lot older than he is. I'm for the clubs. I believe in whoopee. People don't like it, they should get the hell out of Dodge, or STFU. They can't have it both ways.
First, "rural as fuck" isn't bullshit. My wife's from rural Appalachia and I hate to break it to you but most of those little settlements up in there look pretty much exactly like north Greenwood. They're not suburbs because there's no fucking URB for them to be SUB of. They're in the middle of nowhere, they're not incorporated towns, they're rural. 'Kay? Thank you.
Second, the transit planning and utility coverage thing was a digression viz someone's comment that Seattle isn't a "big city" yet, crossed over someone else's comment about how Seattle doesn't need to compare itself to New York. My point was simply that New York does a lot of things we'd like to do: mass transit, services, etc, by virtue of being denser (more "big city") than we are and that if we want to do those things (as many Stranger readers do) then yeah, we do need to look to New York and other megacities for answers. We don't have to copy everything they do, but there are lots of things they do better. My point around all that didn't have much to do with clubs, but I was responding to something someone else brougt up.
Third, the fact that people in residential neighborhoods don't like clubs-- and the fact so much of Seattle is given over to low-density residential neighborhoods --means that the fuck-ups who move to Seattle's mixed-use neighborhoods and start flipping out about the noise are taken seriously by politicians and cops because those politicians can expect support from the low-density semi-rural parts of the city where people barely even know we have clubs, much less understand why anyone would want to go to one.
And by "things like clubs" I mean things like dogs: the way people on Capitol Hill own these huge fucking dogs that they let shit all over every fucking square inch of one of Seattle's only completely urbanized neighborhoods. I mean police responses and their arrest and ticketing priorities. I mean the endless conflicts between people who live in the center of the city and act like they live in a city and the people who live on the friges and the center who think they live in fucking Yelm. The club situation is just one part of a larger problem with how Seattle is perceived and how it's marketed and developed.
None of which should've been that hard to follow, Captain Fucking Attention Span, but whatever.
"I dearly hope that the City Council doesn't make any decisions based on the freak show that is a public hearing."
FNARF: Just to clarify for the record: are you saying that the City Council shouldn't have public hearings anymore, or just that they should pay no attention to them?
First, I know bad writing when I see it. I edit bad writing into good for a living, and I am well paid for it. I have been doing it for longer than you have been alive.
Second, I agree about the people who move into mixed-use neighborhoods and complain about the noise. I hope I made that clear in my previous post, but given who I was responding to, who knows?
Third, as for the people who think they "live in fucking Yelm," tough shit. Too bad. They live here too. They're not like you, and they don't have to be. They don't have to tolerate what you tolerate. That's what "vibrant" means, punk. It means diverse. It doesn't mean just noisy and frenetic.
Fourth, as to "how Seattle is perceived, and how it's marketed and developed," just fucking bite me. I couldn't care less "how Seattle is perceived." I don't sell advertising, and I'm not here to support those who do with an enabling public policy.
Personally, I don't mind the clubs, and never have. I live where it's quiet, but if I want to go and boogie, I want a lot of clubs to do it in. I'm not into forcing other people to like them, if they're not inclined to, but I'll certainly call bullshit on this "50-foot rule.".
For anyone who missed the meeting and wants to watch, seattlechannel.org is streaming the entire thing. Watch it to learn about how these issues will affect seattle's culture, nightlife, and music scene. Watch it to spot your friends so you can give them encouragement [or endless ribbing]. Then add your voice to local democracy by emailing your view to our elected officials.
First, I know bad writing when I see it. I edit bad writing into good for a living, and I am well paid for it. I have been doing it for longer than you have been alive.
This is slog, fucko. You want my a-list material, you'd have to pay me-- and yes, I've made some good money off my writing. The stuff that shows up here is what I hammer out between doing other things at work.
That's what "vibrant" means, punk. It means diverse. It doesn't mean just noisy and frenetic.
That's cute.
It's not a question of what I like or don't like, it's a question of what will or won't work in the city. It's not any safer for a dog to take a shit on the sidewalk in a densely populated city urban area than it is for a person to do it. We have laws against both people and dogs shitting on the sidewalk, but dog owners seem to think their dogs get some kind of pass. Likewise, when the population gets to a certain density, it's just impossible for everyone to own and operate a car. It's not a question of whether I like cars or not. They just don't work. And so on. These are people who think they want "city" but insist on bringing all their stupid suburban bullshit onto Capitol Hill with them and it doesn't fucking work.
Fourth, as to "how Seattle is perceived, and how it's marketed and developed," just fucking bite me.
Whatever, slick. When you actually catch up with my argument, drop me an e-mail.
And Ivan, I get that you're old and I understand that you have to believe that counts for something but-- and I'm sure you hear this all the time --it doesn't. Sorry.
Well, one thing I know for sure. One day I'll be dead and you'll be old, and stupid children will trash you.
If you have learned anything at all by then, they will be as inconsequential to you as you are to me.
Rural is when you can open your car door, step out and take a piss and no one would care for miles. I did that last week when I was home about 30 miles outside of Durango, CO. Anyone that thinks that any part within the City of Seattle has any rural identity to it whatsoever needs a CAT Scan.
Rural is when you can open your car door, step out and take a piss and no one would care for miles.
Yeah, well, people do that in Wedgwood and Lake City.
Anyone that thinks that any part within the City of Seattle has any rural identity to it whatsoever needs a CAT Scan.
Anyone who doesn't think parts of North Seattle have a rural identity needs to go to North Seattle. Trust me-- there are people up there who wear trucker caps with zero irony.
its good to know that rural means being able to piss on things.
Been there Judah. If trucker caps make a place rural, then the Port must be the middle of nowhere.
Yeah well, if pissing outside makes a place rural then Pioneer Square is the most rural part of the state.
Hey, this is fun.
You forget the no one would care for miles factor. Any place you're in the city, they would care. So yeah, this is fun.
You've obviously never spent any serious time in Pioneer Square. Trust me: nobody cares.
You've obviously never spent any serious time in Pioneer Square. Trust me: nobody cares.
with this new ordinace law, anyone who doesnt want a bar or club in their neighborhood has the power to shut it down. all they have to do is to call a few times for noise complaints. what is scary is that they dont even have to give their names, "no-contact calls". this is what ive been going through since ive opened waids. though there's absolutely no noise coming out of my establishment, a handfull of individuals are determined to see it closed by anymeans. the same thing that's happening to me can and will happen to someone else
with this new ordinace law, anyone who doesnt want a bar or club in their neighborhood has the power to shut it down. all they have to do is to call a few times for noise complaints. what is scary is that they dont even have to give their names, "no-contact calls". this is what ive been going through since ive opened waids. though there's absolutely no noise coming out of my establishment, a handfull of individuals are determined to see it closed by anymeans. the same thing that's happening to me can and will happen to someone else
with this new ordinace law, anyone who doesnt want a bar or club in their neighborhood has the power to shut it down. all they have to do is to call a few times for noise complaints. what is scary is that they dont even have to give their names, "no-contact calls". this is what ive been going through since ive opened waids. though there's absolutely no noise coming out of my establishment, a handfull of individuals are determined to see it closed by anymeans. the same thing that's happening to me can and will happen to someone else
with this new ordinace law, anyone who doesnt want a bar or club in their neighborhood has the power to shut it down. all they have to do is to call a few times for noise complaints. what is scary is that they dont even have to give their names, "no-contact calls". this is what ive been going through since ive opened waids. though there's absolutely no noise coming out of my establishment, a handfull of individuals are determined to see it closed by anymeans. the same thing that's happening to me can and will happen to someone else
Here here Waid!
In the few years I've lived in Seattle, I've never seen a city that is so full of seemingly progressive-minded people and a truly amazing music scene paired with a local government that seems hell-bent on dismanteling it every chance they get.
Here's the problem as I see it (and this ought to illicit some good responses) A major problem is that we have a mayor that just can't suck enough developers dicks. How the hell did we end up with this monster in office? (That's right, the stranger endorsed him way back, although if I remember correctly, the alternative was worse) Nickels should not be running a city, because he's running it like a suburb.
Another major problem, and this is propably closer to the real root of the problem, is that we have an extremly racist police force (for the record, I'm caucasian) that has consistantly pushed for legislation that would empower tham further to target specific groups or cultures they don't like. In fact I've noticed in my time living here that Seattle is a very segregated city in no small part due to the efforts of our police force and city government.
Solution: Vote! We have local elections coming up that you barely even hear about while we're inundated with endless coverage of Obama, or Clinton, or whatever other puppet they put up on stage (do the research, social issues aside, dems & repubs aren't very different when it comes down to real business)
There you are, I'm out of time. Have fun with that
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Aker Solutions Falls After Reversing Longview Profits
Aker Solutions ASA, Norway's biggest maker of oil platforms and equipment, fell in Oslo trading after saying it will reverse booked profits from its Longview coal-fired power plant project in the U.S. in the third quarter.
Aker Solutions dropped 6.15 kroner, or 6.9 percent, to 82.40 kroner at 5:30 p.m. local time. The stock has gained 9.2 percent this year, after surging 67.7 percent last year.
The process and construction business area "will report slightly negative earnings before interests, tax, depreciation and amortization," the company said yesterday in a statement. The $654 million contract was awarded to the company in 2007 as part of a $1.1 billion project with a unit of Siemens AG.
"Yet another skeleton," analysts including Fiona Maclean at BofA Merrill Lynch said in a note, cutting their recommendation to "underperform" from "neutral." The "release once again highlights what we regard as the perennial problems Aker Solutions has faced across the business over the last few years."
SEB Enskilda analyst Terje Fatnes downgraded the stock to "sell" from "hold" while Carnegie ASA cut its 2010 earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization estimate by 4 percent "on the back of the Longview profit warning," according to an e-mailed note.
Delays, Costs
The project is scheduled to be completed in the middle of next year, Lysaker-based Aker Solutions said. The development is delayed and costs have risen partly because of force majeure events, project changes, and third-party actions in furnishing engineering services, equipment and materials, the company said.
"There is uncertainty with regard to remaining work and the financial outcome of the project," Oeyvind Eriksen, the company's executive chairman said in the statement. "In light of this we will reverse profits that have been booked."
Geir Arne Drangeid, a company spokesman, declined to be specific about the numbers, citing considerations to clients and partners in the project.
"If you go back and look at quarterly reports you will see that the P&C business area would typically produce a profit, Ebitda, of 110 to 140 million kroner," he said. "What we now say is that the third quarter number will be a small minus. The difference between the small minus that we are now informing about and the typical results would then be the number for the reverse profit."
In August, the company agreed to separate the process & construction unit, which accounted for 11 percent of Ebitda in 2009, from the rest of the company. This could be done through a stock listing or a sale by the end of the year, Eriksen said at the time, declining to give an estimated value for the unit.
Yesterday's announcement "makes a potential divestment/sale more difficult," analysts including Truls Olsen at Fearnley Fonds said in a note.
Chief Executive Officer Simen Lieungh left the company in June in agreement with the board. Aker Solutions in August reported second-quarter net income fell to 445 million kroner from 772 million kroner a year ago.
"If the Longview profit warning is the only skeleton in the closet and profitability stabilizes at current levels, Aker Solutions stands out as a bargain," Carnegie analyst Frederik Lunde said in a note yesterday. "Given the depressed valuation, we believe that neither earnings growth nor strong order intake is needed to support Aker Solutions' share price."
Lunde has an "outperform" rating on the stock.


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Well, here's an announcement! My first-ever original article for Salon has just been published, "Rise of the new atheists: Should non-believers make an alliance with religious progressives?" In it, I discuss the meteoric growth of nonbelief in America, why the so-called New Atheists think it's a legitimate and useful tactic to criticize all religion equally, and whether and how we should make alliances with religious progressives to advance political goals we have in common. If you're a regular … [Read more...]
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Objecting to Big Think's Dawkins Test
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Shocking Newsflash: Infamous Atheist Wears Mismatched Socks!
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Another Day, Another Dragon
Some days, I hate writing about atheism. I want to tell you why. Two weeks ago, I was watching a PBS show called Inside Nature's Giants, about a team of biologists dissecting a sperm whale that died after beaching itself on a British coast (this involved heavy machinery and a chain saw, if you were curious). Richard Dawkins took part in the program, although he wasn't among the scientists wading in whale viscera on the shore. In cutaway shots, he explained the evolutionary significance of the … [Read more...]
New on AlterNet: Teaming Up with Liberal Theists
My latest article has just been published on AlterNet, Why Is America's Most Progressive Voting Block Often Overlooked? In it, I discuss the strong progressive leanings of American nonbelievers, what we could accomplish if we worked together with liberal religious believers on causes we held in common, and what the obstacles to that alliance are. (It's also been reprinted on Salon, if you'd rather comment there.) Read the excerpt below, then click through to see the rest:In America, … [Read more...]
Storming the Ivory Tower
Since moving to Big Think, there's a viewpoint I'm encountering more and more often. This belief holds that the New Atheism is tilting at windmills, because most religion is moderate and harmless, and destructive fundamentalist beliefs are held only by an inconsequential minority. One commenter even absurdly accused me of "confusing fundamentalism with religion", as if those two things were completely unrelated phenomena with nothing in common. This ivory-tower view, if it was ever true, has … [Read more...]


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Wyoming Senator, John Barrasso, spoke out this week to question the Bureau of Land Management about their reasons for introducing extensive new laws regarding hydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas.
The Northern Cheyenne Tribal Transportation Department has started a new campaign this month, as pow wow season begins, hoping to increase seat belt use across all American Indian reservations in the region.
Just before their meeting Monday night, the Sheridan City Planning Commission met with the Orion Planning Group's Joanne Garnett as she presented a potential draft version of a revised planned unit development ordinance. Garnett explains.
Following comments from neighbors opposed to the motion, the Sheridan City Planning Commission on Monday recommended approval of a rezone at Cloud Peak Ranch 16 from an R-1 residential district to an R-3 residential district. Sheridan Media's Chris Foy was there and has the story.
Runners from all over the globe will be converging on the Bighorn Mountains later this week, as the Bighorn Mountain Wild and Scenic Trail Run will begin Friday.
Officials with the Tongue River Valley Community Center are busy getting ready for the Battle Under the Big Horns, which is a 3-on-3 outdoor basketball tournament.
The latest Sheridan Media online auction will get underway this Wednesday, June 12th. Along with some of the usual items, Auction Administrator Julie Chadwick says that there will be some new things for people to bid on.
At their last meeting the Johnson County Commissioners discussed and approved a number of smaller items; accepting a grant, discussing and approving an easement, and setting the final day they will accept bills to be paid from the FY 2013 budget.
Buffalo Police Chief Jason Carder gave his monthly report to the city council at their last meeting, saying there were 1,346 incidents handled by his officers during the month of May.
It looks like summer weather is finally here to stay, and while outdoor enthusiasts in the Tongue River Basin are glad to get out and about, the threat of rattlesnakes is in the back of any recreator's mind.


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