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Leading Dolly Parton tribute act heading to Thurrock
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She's dark, sarcastic, and bashes life in Nowheresville ... so...
The singer has two Grammys for her first album under her belt and her celebrity fans include Willie Nelson, Ryan Adams and Katy Perry Susie Mesure writes interviews, news and features for the Independent on Sunday, Independent and i, and has done for the last ten years or so give or take two lengthy maternity leaves.
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walls in this room were among the waviest I'd ever seen. Rather
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stiles and rails look good on an undulating surface, I decided
to make the "frames" by cutting out sheets of 3/4-inch MDF, and
use 1/4-inch MDF for the panels. Each panel would be trimmed
with a rabbeted panel molding to finish cut edges and hide any
small gaps.
I began by moving the wall-mounted registers to the floor. Once
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masking tape and a pencil; I had to balance aesthetics with the
need to accommodate existing electrical outlets. I would have
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outlets would be centered in the panels, but in the Chicago
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Next I ripped the 3/4-inch MDF panels to 36 inches and did my
layout on the front side with a drywall square. I made the cuts
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with a jigsaw. I attached the panels to the walls with 18-gauge
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It's a job where you do a lot of cleaning & tasting, work with various grains and can unexpectedly be dangerous. It's the job of the brewmaster at The Fargo Brewing Company and it was also our John Trierweiler's new job.
Working as a brewmaster isn't just sitting around and drinking beer, it's actually a lot of work to brew beer at the largest brewery in the state of North Dakota.
Brewmaster, Chris Anderson, starts with some base malt and then mixes in character grains. This will add flavor and color, among other things, to the beer. Those will be brewed together to make wort, the initial liquid that will eventually become beer.
"The simple sugars that I've converted from the grain I'm essentially rinsing this off right now and moving that to the kettle, so this will get boiled and have hops added to it and this will be what turns into beer," said Anderson.
The beer can take nearly six hours to brew, after that it'll move to the cellar stage where cellarmaster, John Anderson, takes over. The cellar process is where the beer is further defined, polished and fermented. A process that can take anywhere from 10-20 days, depending on the beer.
After the cellar stage, the beer will be put into cans and kegs and distributed. The Stones Throw, our John Trierweiler helped make, should be ready for packaging December 3rd. But would John really ever make it as a brewmaster?
"I think given enough time you could do it, if you needed to get hired tomorrow, probably not," said Anderson.
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Queen's experts are ready to comment on:
African Development
Environmental Policy
Foreign Policy
International Business
Organized Protest
Social Policy
Trade Policy
African Development
Robert Shenton
Queen's historian Robert Shenton says that imposing an embargo on Sudanese oil would be an effective way for the international community to respond to the crisis in the Sudan. He feels the UN has been wholly ineffective in dealing with the crises and says that the African Union forces are "laughably" equipped.
Shenton studies modern African history and the history of development. His research experience includes a five-year stay in Nigeria and the co-management of a four-year project in Uganda funded by the International Development Research Centre. He is the co-author of Doctrines of Development (Routledge [UK], 2000) and a frequent contributor to the Review of African Political Economy. He is currently at work on a study of communitarianism, civil society, and the state in Africa.
David Haglund
Political Studies professor David Haglund is an expert on transatlantic security, and on Canadian and American foreign and security policy.
Some of his recent publications include: Over Here and Over There: Canada-US Defence Cooperation in an Era of Interoperability (2001); The North Atlantic Triangle Revisited: Canadian Grand Strategy at Century's End (2000); and The France-US Leadership Race: Closely Watched Allies (2000); Will NATO Go East? The Debate Over Enlarging the Atlantic Alliance (1996); The "New Peacekeeping" and European Security: German and Canadian Interests and Issues (1995); The Canadian Defence Industry in the New Global Environment, (1995).
Douglas Bland
Douglas Bland, Chair Queen's Defence Management Studies Program is an expert in defense policy. He is available to discuss current missile defence issues, and Canadians going to Afghanistan again to support Bush's efforts there.
Professor Bland is co-author of a recent Queen's study entitled Canada without Armed Forces? The study highlights the national crisis of the "future force" caused by a cascading policy entanglement that was initiated by the rapid collapse of Canadian Forces core assets and core capabilities.
He has participated actively in public debates on defence policy, writing extensively in the national news media and making presentations in a variety of forums, including the Conference of Defence Associations, the graduating class at Trinity College, a DND issues conference, and the Federation of the United Services Institute in Kingston.
Other publications include:
A Sow's Ear from a Silk Purse, International Journal 54(1), (Winter 1998/99)
A Unified Theory of Civil-Military Relations,
Armed Forces and Society 26(1), (Autumn 1999).
Issues in Defence Management, volume 2. Published as part of the Queen?s Policy Studies series.
Kim Nossal
Also a Foreign Policy expert. See below.
Environmental Policy
Anita Krajnc,/I>
Anita Krajnc, expert in peace and conflict studies, can comment on the different approaches Canada and the U.S. are taking on the Kyoto Protocol on global climate change, and how environmentalgroups in Canada and the US view President Bush's environmental record.
Kranjnc is the first Policy Studies Skelton-Clark Postdoctoral Fellow. She is working on a book, Adapting Social Movement Strategies, which explains major changes in social movement strategies in response to changes in the domestic and international environments. It builds on her doctoral work on the Canadian environmental movement.
Her doctoral thesis was entitled "Green Learning: The Role of Scientists and the Environmental Movement."
Foreign Policy
Kim Nossal
Kim Nossal, head of Political Studies at Queen's, researches Canadian foreign and defence policy, and Canadian-American relations and can offer general commentary on these subjects. His other research interests include: humanitarian intervention in Canadian foreign policy; NGOs and the anti-globalization movement in Australia and Canada; and the effects of international sanctions on particular countries, economies, and groups.
Recent publications include: Diplomatic Departures: The Conservative Era in Canadian Foreign Policy, 1984-93 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2001); 'Life with uncle revisited: the United States and the issue of leadership,' in David G. Haglund, ed., The France-US Leadership Race: Closely Watched Allies (Kingston: Queen's Quarterly Press, 2000), 157-79; The Patterns of World Politics (Scarborough, Ont: Prentice Hall Canada, 1998); The Politics of Canadian Foreign Policy, 3rd ed. (Scarborough, Ont: Prentice Hall Canada, 1997).
International Business
Marc Busch
Marc Busch can speak to the importance of economic geography in U.S. trade politics, the workings of GATT/WTO dispute settlement, the patterns of non-tariff barrier protectionism across the advanced industrial states, and trends in regional economic integration. He is currently researching the relationship between the United States' Section 301 of GATT/WTO dispute settlement, and "forum-shopping" for dispute settlement in Canada-U.S. trade.
He is an associate professor at Queen's School of Business, a Queen's National Scholar and the author of Trade Warriors (Cambridge University Press, 1999), which explains the strategic-trade policies of governments in high technology industries.
David Detomasi,
David Detomasi can comment on expectations surrounding post-war contracts in Iraq. His research interests include international corporate/social responsibility, the international political economy, government-business relations, public-sector management, and corporate governance.
He has taught international business and country analysis at Queen's University. In the private sector, he has consulted with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and The World Economic Forum in examining the strategic and governance practices of the world's most influential companies.
Organized Protest
Richard Day
Richard Day, Queen's sociology professor is an expert in organized protest. Dr. Day is a radical who will be in Ottawa protesting President Bush's visit. Although he supports public protest since it is an active rather than a passive response to disempowerment, he is convinced that attempting to influence state power is the least effective method of achieving radical social change. One is much better off engaging in various sorts of direct action, ranging from creating alternatives to existing structures, to resisting and impeding their operation. This latter tactic is obvious in Europe right now, with people doing whatever they can to hinder the movement of troops and supplies to the Gulf region as a way of directly counteracting the US/British escalation of the war in Iraq.
He is against the continuation of the war in Iraq because he doesn't accept any of the arguments put forward by the Bush regime to justify its desire to violently replace a government it no longer likes with one it thinks it might like better. Even the quest for oil should be considered as secondary to the desire to consolidate America's position as a centre of power in the emerging global capitalist police-state. This is to say that, for him, war and globalization are intimately linked. Hence, anti-war and anti-globalization activism are, or should be, intimately linked as well.
Social Policy
Kathleen Lahey
Law professor Kathleen Lahey is an expert on the Charter of Rights (women, lesbians, gays and other minorities) and property-related issues related to marital status, gender, and sexuality.
She is shocked at what's happening to women in the U.S. including the widespread use of intrusive body checks and pat downs on women airline passengers in the name of national security and the attachment of a clause barring states from giving women abortion services, contraception, and contraception information to a spending bill that 'must' be passed in order to keep the government operating.
She is also concerned about civil rights infringements that include: the use of legal and informal channels to mute political critique and discussion of unpopular government policies and the use of anti-terrorist rules to give immigration laws more harsh enforcement, such as the right to immediate deportation of illegal immigrants who are forced to leave minor children behind; and the insistence that the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of prisoners of war are not binding on the federal government in the Iraq war.
Professor Lahey is an outspoken advocate for the legal recognition of same-sex partnerships. She appeared in the Supreme Court of Canada in the Same-Sex Marriage Reference argued on Oct. 6-7 2004, as counsel for the BC Couples who won the marriage case in the BCCA
Recent publications include: Same-Sex Marriage: The Personal and the Political, (Insomniac Press, 2004), with Dr. Kevin Alderson; Removing fiscal barriers to women's labour force participation (Status of Women Canada, in publication) and "Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Relationships in Canada" in Robert Wintermute, ed., Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Relationships in Domestic and International Law (Harper Press, 2001).
Keith Banting
Policy Studies Professor Keith Banting Is an expert in the differences in Canada and U.S. approaches to social policy and multiculturalism, particularly the value differences between the two countries. As one of Canada's leading scholars in the areas of federalism and social policy he is recognized internationally for his expertise on the politics of the welfare state and
His book The Welfare State and Canadian Federalism has influenced a generation of scholars in both Canada and abroad. Subsequently his books have examined whether globalization, especially in tandem with NAFTA, erodes Canada's policy sovereignty; the growing importance of the voluntary sector for its social policy and institutional overtones; and an examination of the relationships between ethnicity, multiculturalism and social policy.
Professor Banting has been recognized for his distinguished contributions with visiting appointments at Harvard University's Center for European Studies, the European University Institute (Florence), the London School of Economics and Oxford University.
He served as Director of Queen's School for Policy Studies from 1993 through 2003, where his astute leadership contributed to the development of Canada's pre-eminent network for policy-oriented teaching and research.
David Lyon
Sociologist David Lyon is head of the Queen's-based Surveillance Project and a world expert on technological surveillance. His recent publications include: 'ID Cards: Social Sorting by Database', an 'Issue Brief' available at the website of the Oxford Internet Institute, http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/resources/;"Technology vs. 'Terrorism': Circuits of City Surveillance Since September 11" in Cities, War and Terrorism, ed. Steve Graham, Blackwell, September 2004; and 'Globalizing Surveillance: Comparative and Sociological Perspectives' International Sociology, 19:2, 2004.
Elia Zureik
Sociology professor Elia Zureik can comment on the surveillance climate post-911. He researches the impact of information and communications technology on society. He is also part of the Surveillance Project for which he is examining workplace surveillance and the use of biometrics technology for surveillance purposes in society generally.
His publications include: Computers, Surveillance, and Privacy (University of Minnesota Press, 1996). The Social Context of Information and Communication Technology: A Bibliography, (Peter Lang Publishers, 1987).
His articles appear in the British Journal of Sociology, Sociological Review, Political Studies, the British Journal of Political Science, Telecommunications Policy, Journal of Industrial Relations, and Computers and Society.
Trade Policy
Robert Wolfe
Queen's School of Policy Studies professor Robert Wolfe says that "whether the President and the Prime Minister get along makes little difference in a Montana court [that issued the injunction against Canadian cattle imports]." Wolfe, an expert in WTO, trade policy, foreign affairs and Canada-U.S. relations, is the author of 'Where's the Beef? Law, Institutions and the Canada-U.S. Border,' (August 2004).
His current research projects include: The Doha Round in the WTO Democracy and the WTO Good governance at home and abroad; Institutions for North American Integration; Trade and regulation (food safety, telecoms); and Dynamic density and Canadian diplomacy. Queen's School of Policy Studies.
In Ottawa he worked in the National Security Section, the U.S. Trade and Economic Relations Division, as Executive Assistant to the Ambassador for Multilateral Trade Negotiations and Prime Minister's Personal Representative, Economic Summit, and in the International Economic Relations Division.
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We are fighting for a soda tax because public health leaders have sounded the alarm that sugary drinks are a serious threat to our public health. Now is the time to get the word out about the latest facts that tell the story.
Our work on the issue began when community leaders and medical experts started educating us on the impact of sugary drinks. The resulting legislation that we crafted along with four other members of the Board of Supervisors will not only slow soda consumption, but it will fund the anti-hunger and physical activity programs we dearly need.
Most folks know soda is bad for you, but not how bad. Many are also unaware that Big Soda is specifically targeting communities of color and children. Our task is to spread the word about the health disparities this creates.
The lack of healthy food choices is an injustice that is hitting communities of color the hardest. Fully three-fourths of adult Latinos and African Americans in San Francisco are obese or overweight and one in three Americans will soon be diabetic, including one in two Latinos and African Americans.
The disparities are geographic as well. The highest rates of diabetes hospitalizations and emergency room visits are among residents of the Bayview, Tenderloin, SoMa, and Treasure Island. Close behind are the Excelsior and Visitacion Valley. These are also the neighborhoods that lack access to healthy food and are among those consuming the most soda.
We are already paying the high price of soda consumption. San Franciscans spend at the very least $50-60 million a year in health care costs and sick days due to obesity and diabetes attributable to sugary drinks. The fact that sugary drinks are the biggest single source of added sugar in our diets sets it apart from other unhealthy foods.
The revenue generated has tight controls and must be used to mitigate the harm Big Soda causes. Steered by an independent committee and targeted to communities suffering the most from health inequities, the tax will bolster funding for everything from school meals, healthy food retailer incentives, physical education, and other deserving programs.
Big Soda has hired high-priced lobbying firms and public relations folks who are employing a small army of young people, deploying them into the Bayview, the Mission, and Chinatown — those communities most impacted by diabetes and soda consumption. They've set up a front group — San Franciscans for an Affordable City — to capitalize on the anger in SF about the cost of housing and living.
But think about it: Have Big Soda companies helped us in our fight for affordable housing? Are they fighting for a living wage for communities of color in San Francisco? They have never cared about an affordable city. They care about protecting their profits, period.
We need affordable housing, healthy foods, and physical activity — issues we are working on every single day. On the other hand, our communities need affordable soda as much as we need cheap cigarettes and booze. It only makes us sick.
There are things our communities are doing to promote good health, like transforming corner stores into healthy retailers, building community gardens, and expanding physical and nutrition education. The soda tax as it is written now can provide these programs and dramatically improve our communities' health.
This isn't a ban but a reasonable first step to decrease soda consumption. This is a research-proven way of getting people to use less of an unhealthy product — it worked with cigarettes and it worked with alcohol. Finally, the tax will fund a range of great programs that will actually provide healthy choices for everyone.
What next? A fine for not flossing regularly?
We have that already. :D
aspect of your life regardless of any outdated notion you might have about personal freedom and liberty.
Consumer choice? Nah.
adding a quarter on to the price of sugary drinks in no way halts a person's "freedom and liberty".
Did you even read the article?
This tax on Big Soda is government doing what it is supposed to do - protect its citizens from harm.
The facts are now clear - multiple teaspoons of added sugar in drinks are literally killing us. We need to act now.
SF residents will only get upset if we tax $8 shots of fresh-squeezed wheatgrass juice,
non sense means you have nothing to post worth reading.
You disagree with how others are exercising their free will. YOU think people shouldn't drink sodas, so YOU want to control their behavior.
You're sickening. A fascist. Take those added teaspoons of sugar and shove them up your ass. People like you want to control how people speak, how people act, WHO PEOPLE MARRY. Fuck you.
people telling another group if people what they can and cannot say or do.
It is the very antithesis of what the founding fathers envisaged.
Come on, you don't expect us to believe there are actually libertarians in SF?! You are either commenting from afar, or working for the soda industry.
No one's taking your freedom to buy all the soda you want. Go for it. Please, drink up! And I hope that tax passes so you will be helping pay for PE in our schools when you do it.
And so do you, evidently.
that is being a San Francisco progressive.
The revealed truth is the only truth say our self appointed betters. San Francisco progressives and 700 club viewers.
We've already got a huge city budget--if this is such a pressing problem just pay for it.
But then, how could we add more city employees and pay off political debts?
San Francisco--giving Christie a run for his money when it comes to political chicanery.
This proposal will not add any more city employees. The money is clearly spoken for - it is mandated to go to schools, Rec & Park, Dept. of Public Health and some grants to non-profits.
Stop the lies, and do your research.
And what happens if people do happen to get "educated" and stop drinking sodas? Where will the money come from to continue funding those programs? This is a "sin tax". Nothing more. And who pays the majority of the amount of the money collected from sin taxes? Poor people.
If people drink less sugary drinks as a result of this tax, then it'll be a success! That's the point. If there's less money available over time for PE and parks, we will have to figure out how to address that. But, kids will be healthier by that point, if they are consuming less of this corn syrup poison.
It kills me to see you people pretending you care about poor people by trying to keep the price of soda down. Are you also spending time making sure our schools have adequate funding? Are you also fighting for affordable housing? I know you're not, because the only people I see fighting to keep soda cheap are those paid by the industry, and you folks have never been in the fight for poor people's issues in SF.
I want to live in a place where stupid people are free to make dumb decisions.
But you don't want to pay the taxes for programs to ameliorate the consequences.
Everyone has insurance now so you don't need to pay for someone else's care. If their health outcomes are crap, their premium goes up and your does not.
I'm not "paid by the industry". I have MAYBE a glass of soda a day. I'm not pretending to care about poor people to keep the price of soda down. I'm being honest about who the tax is going to affect the most. I'm also being honest in that progressives think people are too stupid/ignorant/uneducated to make good decisions for themselves.
And if you think this tax is going to stop people from drinking soda, you're even more oblivious to reality than I thought. They will continue to buy soda, it's just that it's going to cost more money (or they'll do their shopping in Colma).
companies aren't doing a thing to protect peoples' health - they are trying to protect their profits and that is all - they're not trying to help ANY of us. It's not about people being smart or dumb... people are price sensitive and if it costs too much they'll drink less or better yet none at all. And that's the point. IT worked with tobacco. And like tobacco people don't NEED sugary drinks which generally have no nutritive value and will harm your health.
but we are smarter than them so we will make choices for them"
The tax is stupid and obviously aimed at low-income people of color.
We all want people to have better eating and drinking habits, but the middle-class and higher income folks won't be affected by this law since they'll just drive to Colma and South City to do their soda shopping, while filling their bulging shopping carts with their weekly groceries and sundries at the same time. A case of soda with a tax of 25 cents a can is about $6 - far more than the gas to drive a few extra miles.
Someone should check the number of cases of soda sold at the Costcos in SF and Colma in the months previous to the vote and then three months after, assuming it's enacted. I'll guarantee that case sales will be way down in the SF store and much higher at the Colma and South City stores. Of course, SF will lose all of the sales tax on the $250 Costco shopping trips as well.
The supervisors and activists pushing this proposal targeted at low-income San Franciscans and unwitting tourists are moronic, racist and anti-tourist.
By the way, some of the Costco stores are currently carrying Coke and Fanta imported from Mexico, made with real sugar. Umm-umm. Since the sugar may be imported from Cuba, not only do you get a superior Coke product, but you may be indirectly supporting the Cuban economy. Win-win.
Less sales tax.
other and there are some hikes coming along unless the voters do the right thing.
The best ways to avoid sales tax are to shop online, take the odd trip to the malls in Medford, Oregon or buy on the black market, which people have been doing with cigarettes for years now.
I expect we will see a 10% sales tax before too long. Outrageous.
People don't NEED a lot of things. People do WANT a lot of things. Guess what? People who want things will go and get them.
Do you think the taxes on cigarettes is what caused the majority of people to quit? No. It was mainly because of health reasons or better education. You can ask any ex-smoker why they quit. I bet you most of them will not say it was because of the taxes. People who quit do so because they WANT to. People still smoke. The tax doesn't stop them. All it means is more money for the government.
guns, drugs and anything else that is difficult to come by.
It might be worth taking a truck up to Medford, OR once tortwice a year, where there is no sales tax, and loading up either for personal consumption or for re-sale on the black market.
Any money from this tax going to Park and Rec will only replace discretionary funds that will be taken from Park and Rec by the same guys who sponsored this tax!
so-called "social justice" - usually a code phrase for excessive political correctness and bureaucratic intervention.
In case you hadn't noticed, we care about Social Justice in San Francisco, and always have. It's the reason why queer folk come here to get married or be free from fear of hate; the reason we have a Sanctuary City ordinance for immigrants, the reason why voters have opted to invest more local funds to public schools. And yes, we don't mind paying a little extra for those products we know we don't necessarily NEED. That's why we voted to raise the tobacco tax last fall when it failed elsewhere in California.
Too bad for you that the loser mentality and Peter Pan syndrome in SF is gradually being eradicated.
I hear Oakland is much better at all that social justice mumbo jumbo these days.
Is that they like supervisors who govern like John Birchers in Texas circa 1965.
We have a culture that is fine with gays, we have a government fine with telling you what to think and is crazy.
Texans probably were fine with anti-communism, but many didn't like the uni-mind of the Birchers.
A modern equal would be anti- evolutionist school board members of today to our Ammiano's.
is endless.
The key one is the self righteousness mixed with entitlement to have your way, after things pass through those two filters everything they do is OK.
I'm always amazed at his sense of entitlement and self-righteousness -only the Great Matlock possesses knowledge of The Truth. LOL. No one else can understand his "wisdom," but that's because no one else knows The Truth.
To the extent that "the truth" is that others are clueless, the outcomes speak for themselves.
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It just means the user is going to follow their buzz word with utter non sense.
Why stop at soda? Shouldn't all sugary products be taxed?
Jesus the man is an idiot - so far we've been treated to Happy Meal bans because his daughter wanted toys, e-cigarette bans because his daughter told him someone was smoking one on the playground and a soda tax because she was getting a little piggy after too many Cokes. It's like the entire city is a progressive parental experiment courtesy of Eric Mar and his fucking daughter.
Not soon enough.
He doesn't have a kid. And yet he wants to legislate a dress code, a proper time to come home from walking in the park, and now what we should or shouldn't drink. Can't wait till that busybody is termed out!
It's not a dress code, it's a requirement to wear clothes, lol.
Again. You keep trying to bring up the nudity ban and compare it to the soda tax and Happy Meals. Again. Apples and oranges. He's not "legislating a dress code". Wiener was responding to his constituents, many of whom do have children, who did not appreciate their neighborhood to become a haven for exhibitionists who get their jollies by getting people to look at their junk. Mar came up with this stuff because he likes being at "the forefront" and is an ivory tower egghead who thinks he is smarter than everyone else and can dictate choices for everyone else. And you make it sound as if a ban on nudity in a city is groundbreaking. Most major cities across the country have bans on nudity. Even that bastion of liberality Berkeley and the home of that idiot Gypsy Taub has had a ban on nudity for years with no problems whatsoever.
The park one is to give the police a tool to help deal with the criminality that goes on in the parks after hours. Try parking your car on Fulton by Golden Gate Park at night. Try taking your kids into the park and seeing used needles in the sand box. The only outcry against these two things is only in your head.
A non sequitur distraction comment by the usual right-wing, prudish "Guest" who has a very distinction tone to all of his/her troll posts.
"Wiener was responding to his constituents, many of whom do have children, who did not appreciate their neighborhood to become a haven for exhibitionists who get their jollies by getting people to look at their junk."
Absolute Bull Shit. Nudity has been in the Castro for decades, since at least the 1970s. It's nothing new to the area. And if these conservative, right-wing prudes didn't like that, they shouldn't have moved there to begin with!
2-3 nudists can hardly be called "a haven for exhibitionists." Get a fucking grip, idiot!
You're just another one of these useless conservative prudes repeating the right-wing propaganda, newspeak and lies about this. You're fooling no one. Are you on Wiener's staff?
"Wiener was responding to his constituents..."
LIE. LIE. LIE. LIE. That's all they do is LIE.
The Wienerbots are still putting out that LIE. Can't they tell the truth about anything? EVER?
Reality: He was responding to his *CONSERVATIVE* constituents and only them. Because I'm one of his "constituents" and he constantly ignores me and others. He doesn't work for me and others. He works for his conservative base and his corporate owners, which include the Real Estate Industrial Complex and their Corrupt Liars/Ellis Act et al.
From what I've observed, the Leebots and the Wienerbots (I'm responding to one of those bots now) are one in the same cult-like mentality pathetic people. They both see these corporatist politicians as some sort of "savior" who can do no wrong, who they think know best, who they think are omnipotent, who they think are above reproach no matter what they do it's perfectly acceptable because their name is Lee and Wiener and they are both our conservative "savior." Pathetic. In fact, this Lee has congratulated his Wiener on the job he's doing. Well of course he would say that because they are both conservatives working for the same conservative agenda. They don't call it that---in order to deceive the sheeple---but that's what it is and it's time that people tell it like it is.
He ignores you because you are a whiny little shit. Lee and Wiener are popular and both will be reelected. You and your whiny (but vocal) friends don't matter as much because for each one of you, there are five like me.
I don't like some of what Wiener does (soda tax). I also don't like some of what Lee does (8 Washington). But the people who vote for them don't need to agree with everything they do. They do need to think that they are the best people to lead the city. And the reason they win is because the alternative is a Progressive mayor. People can imagine what a mayor Chris Daly or David Campos would be and shudder. This is why Progressives rarely win citywide. And is why they pushed through district elections, so they would have a modicum of a voice in city government.
Maybe if you quit bitching and calling anyone who thinks Lee or Wiener are doing an okay job a "Lee bot" or "Wiener bot" and actually ASK them why they think that, instead of insulting them, you'd actually learn something. But you'd never do that because it would require you to actually LISTEN instead of giving you an opportunity to whine.
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The family will receive friends today, May 16, 2014, from 6 until 9 p.m. at Collins-Burke Funeral Home.
Funeral services will be Saturday, May 17, 2014, at 2 p.m. in the Collins-Burke Chapel with Junior Mote officiating.
Burial will be at New Oak Grove Cemetery.
Terresa was a strong person and did things on her own and never asked for help. She always thought of others before herself. Momma loved her family and worried about them and their happiness. Her grandchildren meant the world to her, and she loved them with all her heart and the happiness they gave her. She was known as one of the best cooks in town.
She worked all her life and now she can finally rest in heaven with her heavenly father.
Terresa was preceded in death by her father, Harlon Ray Uptain; husband, George Elmer Ashley; and niece, Heather Elaine Colburn Royster.
She is survived by her mother, Dorothy Mote Uptain; daughter, Melissa Ashley Short (Mark); son, George "Bubba" Ashley (Christy); sisters, Debra Smith (Ralph) and Brenda Beavers; brother, Ray Colburn; grandchildren, Logan Ashley, Madelyn Ashley, Savanah Short, Raven Green, Cody Freeman and Colton Freeman; nieces, Stephanie Burgett and Kim McDaniel (Tim), Courtney and Tyler Maddox, Adleigh and Amira Maddox; great-nieces, Mackenzie Burgett, Hannah Burgett, Autumn McDaniel and Faith McDaniel; and great-nephew, Austin McDaniel.
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Police arrest two on suspicion of drug offences after flat above empty shop in Malvern Link is raided
3:14pm Thursday 17th July 2014 in News
TWO men have been arrested on suspicion of drugs offences after a daylight raid on a flat in Malvern Link.
The men, one aged 37 and from the Malvern area, and the other aged 24 from Birmingham, have not yet been charged, and have been released on police bail until September 4.
The raid happened early yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon and passers-by saw police officers accompanied by a dog entering the flat, above an empty shop premises, formerly a hairdresser, in Richmond Road, just off the main road junction in the Link.
A spokesman said that, although no drugs were discovered on the premises, drug paraphernalia, including scales and wrapping materials, were seized.
An amount of cash, thought to be in the region of hundreds of pounds, was also confiscated.
Seven officers took part in the raid, including a dog handler with a dog trained to detect drugs.
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7:29pm Thu 17 Jul 14
Geep says...
If the police really want to do a drugs bust, why don't they simply follow their noses (no need for a trained dog) around certain estates in the Malvern/Worcester area. DOH!!!
7:34pm Thu 17 Jul 14
Geep says...
A bit of a non story, isn't it? I usually have scales & clingfilm in my kitchen, as does most of the UK population.
If the Police wish to do a drugs bust, following their noses on certain estates in the Malvern/Worcester area would work, without even a trained dog being needed.
11:05pm Tue 12 Aug 14
Dr Martin says...
Geep wrote:Why don't you inform the police then?
So, no drugs. Wrapping material? Probably clingfilm. Scales - wow, I've got both of those in my kitchen...as no doubt have most of the population.
If the police really want to do a drugs bust, why don't they simply follow their noses (no need for a trained dog) around certain estates in the Malvern/Worcester area. DOH!!!
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I, along with so many others, was relieved upon the announcement by our president on Sunday evening. I do however, take no comfort in the fact that that the elected leader of our great country has been forced to cry "uncle" by a pack of faux "patriots"!
I no longer savor my tea, realizing the threat these folks pose as they defy rational logic and threaten the basic beliefs of our founding fathers in an effort to accomplish their personal agenda and goal, which seems to consist of spreading dissention.
Flexing their muscle and digging in their heels have demonstrated that the tea party candidates are no different than children, lying on the floor, kicking, screaming, holding their breath and turning blue as they insist on having their way!
Having raised nine children, I remember a sober solution offered by my pediatrician at one point -- that being, that I should dash a glass of cold water on my rather upset toddler when he frightfully used these tactics in an effort to have his way.
Reluctantly, I found my doctor's method necessary to employ (child cruelty?), but it worked and I never had to do it again !
It is my personal hope and prayer that voters in future elections will be aware of the cold water method and not allow candidates to intimidate them by their out-of-control methods so that some degree of sanity can be restored to our governing body and leadership.
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Million: Pipeline denial won't affect plans
Million said he plans to file a formal application with the commission that he expects will receive approval.
"FERC's ruling doesn't affect us from the standpoint of continuing to move forward," Million said in a phone interview.
The commission on Thursday denied Wyco' request for a re-hearing on the proposed 500-mile water pipeline from Wyoming to the Front Range.
"We are not persuaded by any of Wyco's unsupported arguments that it should be issued a preliminary permit," the commission said in its filing.
Wyco in March asked the commission for a rehearing on its application after the commission rejected the proposal in February.
Million on Friday said the latest ruling has given his team a better understanding of what it must include in its formal application.
"We'll address the issues and keep heading through the permitting process," he said.
Large engineering construction firms involved in the project remain interested, he added. He declined to name them, citing confidentiality agreements.
The pipeline would help meet the water needs of Colorado, which faces a water supply shortfall, Million said. It also would bolster flows in the Poudre River.
Environmentalists contend the project would lessen Green River flows. Groups such as Western Resource Advocates, National Parks Conservation Association and Colorado Environmental Coalition oppose Wyco's application.
Stacy Tellinghuisen, water and energy policy analyst for Boulder-based Western Resources Advocates, called the pipeline "harmful to the environment" and "not necessary for meeting future water demands."
Million said the Green River already enjoys "full legal protection" and that it would take only "5 to 7 percent" of water in the Flaming Gorge Reservoir in Utah and Wyoming annually.
"The project has huge some benefits to the Poudre River system and protection of that system," he said.
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The United States lost for the second straight World Cup in extra time, this time to Belgium, who advance to play Argentina in the quarterfinals.
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The Group of Death. Through this the United States must pass. But don't worry, John Brooks has got us covered.
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The Point (Sexism, Lesbians, & Chris Brown Grammys Controversy)
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Rob Delaney (comedian, writer) explains that reducing sexism and misogyny can help the world, and Mollie Thomas explains why she decided to be the first openly lesbian Miss California competitor. Finally, is there an issue with Chris Brown performing at the Grammys 3 years after his infamous assault of his then girlfriend Rihanna? The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur leads this week's panel discussion on The Point with guests Kelly Carlin (host of The Kelly Carlin Show on Sirius XM Radio, and daughter of George Carlin), Andrea Meyerson (producer, director, and president of StandOut Productions), and James Golden (author and journalist).
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While the Retina MacBook Pro is easily the most desirable 13-inch Mac laptop to date, the high price and lack of discrete graphics make it a tough call versus either the more powerful 15-inch Retina Pro or the more affordable 13-inch Air.
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The future is looking bright for the students of the Little Cypress-Mauriceville Consolidated Independent School District.
Voters approved a proposed $56 million bond election on Saturday, May 11, by a margin of 1,306 for to 954 against. This bond will help address multiple security concerns at campuses across the district, as well as help replace and repair aging facilities on each campus.
Each campus has its own set of proposed projects, according to initial plans from the bond proposal committee.
At LC-M High School, funds would be used to provide a secure front entrance by relocating the current entrance, which faces the parking lot and woods, to face State Highway 87. It would also lead to the demolition of the library in the center of the campus and enclose the same area through the construction of new classrooms and a new library.
Other items included call for the demolition, construction and equipping of a new, state of the art kitchen and cafeteria, as well as a new gymnasium. The cosmetology building and field house would also be connected to the main building.
Plans for Little Cypress Junior High include a secure front entrance as well by relocating the current entrance to face Meeks Drive.
New construction is also planned for the campus including new classrooms, offices, library and more, while connecting the two existing gymnasiums and the cafeteria to the new building.
The cafeteria and kitchen will be upgraded, and bleachers in the gymnasium will be replaced. Remaining buildings will be demolished and parking added.
Little Cypress Elementary and Little Cypress Intermediate will see big changes as the campuses will be connected as exterior awning is extended. Each campus will have improved traffic flow for students being dropped off or picked up by parents and for school bus loading and unloading.
Mauriceville Middle School and Mauriceville Elementary would also become connected campuses through the extension of exterior awning. Each campus would receive new, secure front entrances as well.
The elementary have new classrooms constructed, while the current 200 building classroom wing would be demolished. Existing buildings would be connected and traffic flow improved for both campuses.
A new gymnasium, band hall and science lab would be constructed at the middle school campus, along with renovations to the offices and nurse's office and new equipment. Existing buildings would be connected and parking added.
A new, state-of-the-art cafeteria and kitchen would be constructed to be utilized by both campuses.
"LC-M has never passed a bond over $12.5 million before, and that was in 1999," said Dr. Pauline Hargrove, superintendent of the LC-M Consolidated Independent School District. "And that bond was unique because it didn't raise taxes."
Earlier this year, The Little Cypress-Mauriceville Consolidated Independent School District's Board of Trustees voted to call for a $56 million bond election to help repair, and, in some cases, replace aging facilities throughout the district which were built between 30 to 60 years ago, depending on the campus.
A priority of the bond was in improving safety at each facility by providing for the construction of secure main entrances at all LC-M CISD campuses. These improvements will be made by connecting buildings together and eliminating exterior walkways between classes.
Taxes will increase for patrons of the Little Cypress-Mauriceville Consolidated Independent School District. The average market value of a residence within the district is currently $109,842.
According to information provided by the district, if the bond election is approved by voters, taxes on a house valued at $100,000 would increase by $266 per year.
However, this rate increase would not apply to district patrons who are ages 65 and older or disabled.
"I think people realized we, as a district, were in a position where something to be done," Hargrove added. "We are responsible for making our community members understand the situation and what programs and services we are able to offer. We would be negligent not to provide for the safety and education that our students need."
Hargrove and supporters of the proposed bond, which included a standing room only crowd inside the board room of the LC-M CISD Administration building later that night, were on pins and needles in anticipation of the results. The topic was one of great interest to the community as approximately 20 percent of the registered voters went to the polls.
"We knew it would be tough, but we believed in our families and our supporters and knew this is what we had to do," she continued. "This whole effort has been undergirded in prayer. We are rejoicing and giving thanks to the Lord and each and every person who helped make this possible. It was truly a united effort."
A proposed $40 million bond election failed to gain voter approval in May 2008 and fell short by 56 votes.
The earliest timetable for any potential construction now that voters have approved the bond would be in the spring of 2014.
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October 22, 2010
The following post comes from Field Intern Sydney Morauer: On Wednesday night, Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY hosted an incredibly moving vigil for the teens who have recently committed suicide as a result of relentless bullying and hatred. The Skidmore College Pride Alliance and the Christian Fellowship co-hosted the event to support lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students on campus.Continue Reading ►
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October 22, 2010
The following comes from HRC Associate Director of Membership Operations, Jason Lott: I just returned from a fantastic trip to Jackson, Michigan, where I was deployed to engage our membership for the upcoming fall elections. While out, I had the opportunity to talk with our members each day, making sure that they had everything that they needed for Election Day, and filling them in on HRC-endorsed candidates.Continue Reading ►
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This week, HRC members in the greater Philadelphia area joined in on another phone bank to help turn out HRC members in this critical election. Across the state, HRC members are being plugged into key races, working hard to ensure that pro-equality are elected to represent us. With just under two weeks left, the energy is high and we're working harder than ever to make sure our people get out to vote.Continue Reading ►
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