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Forget Bay to Breakers -- it's time for a Thong Parade!
Well, OK -- if you're a nudist you'll probably be doing Bay to Breakers on Sunday. It's one of the few sanctioned city events you're allowed to attend in your birthday suit.
On Saturday, however, in order to draw attention to the absurdity of banning nudity in the city while still keeping it legal on its most crowded and family friendly days, the organizers of "Bare as You Dare: Thong Parade" are encouraging people to don their best mankini or panties and join them at Jane Warner Plaza in the Castro, noon-2pm tomorrow, Sat/18. "Come hang out with us!" Press release after the jump:
Saturday, May 18, 2012 From Noon to 2pm
Starts at Jane Warner Plaza, San Francisco
The THONG PARADE happens the day before the Bay to Breakers, so you have two great reasons to be in SF that weekend!
Some city officials claim the nudity ban was implemented to protect public safety by totally eliminating the huge crowds that gather because of the naked people. Leathermen, drag queens, tattooed persons and lots of other citizens draw attention.
Tell your city leaders you don't want San Francisco sanitized!
Wear a thong, a jock strap, a g-string, a cock sock, panties, briefs, boxers. Organizers have applied for a sidewalk parade permit.
Bring a sign or paint a message on your body for a group march around the Castro neighborhood, along Market Street and the City Hall/downtown area. Route maps will be provided at the event.
Be a part of the resurgence of fun and quirkiness in the Castro and beyond!
Parade group meets in JWP at noon. Parade will take place on the sidewalk and we'll be walking through the Castro and surrounding areas and then return to conclude at Harvey Milk Plaza under the Pride Flag. Come hang out with us!
men from exposing themselves to children in public, but you surely realize that your view is a minority in SF. Else of course the ban would never have passed.
how our system of representative democracy works. That said, the point is that they're NOT banned during Bay to Breakers because they're actually beloved. I've already forgotten your point because responding to you is stupid of me.
specific events like B2B and Folson St. fair. But even in the Castro (where I live and was active in this issue) there was a clear majority in favor of the ban. In other neighborhoods, even more so naturally.
So if there wasn't even the support in the Castro for this, you can bet there wasn't elsewhere. You need to accept that you lost this one, and calling it "absurd" means little more than you don't like it, because most people support the ban.
I do know that I have a choice not to go near the vomiting frat boy fest that is bay to breakers.
I've seen naked guys wandering afar from Castro and Market to lower Haight and down towards 16th and Valencia.
If you don't want to see naked guys, and puking idiots stay away from Bay to Breakers is better then, if you don't want to see naked guys stay indoors.
Couldn't a race be designed that doesn't completely cut the city in half?
It would only do it for an hour or two.
Instead all these people walk the race looking ridiculous and taking hours.
All those people looking ridiculous (to you) are what gives B2B its local character, and separate it from every other cookie cutter marathon in every other city.
I actually live in the path of it, and I don't find it disruptive. Yes, parking isn't very easy for one night. But I found parking on the next block, within sight of my home. And yes, it took me ten extra minutes to get to where I was going because I needed to drive a little slower. Big deal.
Now what I really can't stand, is that infernal Nike Women's Marathon. The participation is orders of magnitude less, and yet Nike feels the need to commandeer blocks and blocks of parking. Parking goes from being a minor hassle with B2B, to a serious nightmare. And for what? To facilitate the promotion of a mega-corporation whose workers are abused in Chinese sweat shops? Nike gets good PR for being oh-so-supportive of women; meanwhile its female workers in China get slapped across the face by their bosses with the soles of Nike shoes. And residents of San Francisco are forced to participate in Nike's whitewash at their own expense.
I'll take B2B over that shit any day!
You're consistent, if nothing else.
I'm defending the Chinese women who are being abused in Nike factories. You think it's hunky dory that Chinese women get slapped across the face in Nike factories with the soles of Nike shoes. You're the one who's anti-Chinese, not me. You racist pigs are all the same, trying to deflect your own vile racism by calling others racist.
I'm sure they have people in their lives that love them, but if you can show me 10 citizens of SF who honestly consider these guys "beloved" for showing their flabby old asses, I'll donate $20 to a charity of your choice (sorry, but no terrorist groups. I already donate to them when I pay my taxes).
You seem to think it's hypocritical to allow nudity at a City sponsored public event like Bay to Breakers, yet not allow it in the Castro on a daily basis. Sorry, but San Franciscans have decided that they don't want to look at those nasty nut sacks every fucking day. Deal with it.
p.s. - Are you guys seriously using SisQo as your poster-boy? Your credibility might take a hit on that one and, to be perfectly frank, you guys can't afford to lose what little you've got.
So it's ok for trim, athletic young men to expose themselves to children?
Nudity is as old as civilization, if not older. Check out NatGeo sometimes: some kids are raised with nude adults and live their whole lives with a string on their nuts, and that's it.
Maybe bald, fat middle aged men need to organize to fight this kind of overt discrimination.
Everyone deserves the right to expose themselves to children: after all they were probably made by nude adults in the first place.
Castro and Market is a busy intersection.
Progressives complaining about too many laws and the city banning something...
Nudists are fine and natural, why forbid this
and that we live in a democracy where that matters more than what you personally think.
There are still places where you can be legally naked. Go to one of those places.
as a castro resident, please do not promote this event or events like this that bring so many bridge and tunnel weirdos into my neighborhoodhood and using it as their playground where anything goes. this is my neighborhood. please respect it. these same people would not behave like this in their own communities. thank you.
You don't even live in the Castro, and your real names aren't even Edmund and Mark. You post this on every forum so please STFU already.
It's very easy to claim that the "majority" of San Franciscans supported the nudity ban but substantiating that is much more difficult. During his obsessive and decidedly unethical campaign to eradicate urban nudists, Scott Wiener made numerous statements about "mass support" but these were largely exaggerations, half-truths, and outright lies. The most egregeous was the "endorsement" of the Castro business owner's group MUMC. That endorsement was approved at a meeting where around 30 members out of over 250 showed up. Two thirds of those at the meeting indeed supported Wiener. That's 20 people out of over 250. My guess is that most members were savvy enough to appreciate that nudists' money is just as good as anyone else's and in a sagging economy, they weren't too keen on chasing away potential revenue. Nudists buy things just like everyone else and they'd love to shop at stores that (god forbid) might welcome them.
Now let's take a look at what the public really supports, this time with verifiable facts. A recent scientific study of San Francisco residents (performed by a respected polling firm) showed that 49 percent strongly supported the right to be nude in public while a further 15 percent supported it less emphatically. That's 63 percent who are fine with urban nudists.
As far as the ban being the result of our "system of representative democracy" nothing could be further from the truth. Scott Wiener disgracefully hijacked the public opinion hearing where supposedly objective members of the the Board of Supervisors were to listen to citizens and respond accordingly. He managed to replace the one subcommittee member (of three) who had ever expressed support for nudists and then in an act of unfathomable arrogance proceeded to run the very meeting where his own legislation was being vetted! Not surprisingly, 63 percent of those who came to speak opposed the ban (see poll above). But of course no amount of evidence or testimony would have made the least bit of difference in the process because Wiener already had the five colleagues he needed in his pocket. Those votes were promised well before the sacred public hearing in November. There's your "representative democracy" in action.
The "Thong Parade" was intended to demonstrate the utter pointlessness of the ban. Thanks to Scott Wiener, you'll no longer see the handful of naked people who chose to roam the streets of the city on warm afternoons. You will, however, see far more folks wearing the tiniest fluorescent colored outfits that barely cover (and actually draw attention to) the very body parts that Wiener's fans are so offended by. You'll also see people wearing strap-on dildoes and other novelty apparel. All of this is totally legal but simply choosing to enjoy some fresh air and sunshine "au naturel" is against the law. Try to explain that logic to your children.
And before you go off on me about the "harm to kids", let me point out that numerous respected studies have clearly shown that children raised around non-sexual nudity tend to grow up with fewer emotional hangups and a better sense of body acceptance and self esteem. Heaven forbid we should teach our children that the bodies they were born with are nothing to be ashamed of.
Sooooooo, be careful what you wish for. Scott Wiener undoubtedly hoped the free-spirits of the city would simply roll over once his ban took effect. Regrettably for him, there are too many of them out there. Nudists would most certainly have preferred NOT to wear idiotic and provocative outfits but since their right to be naked was taken away, they'll probably resort to this more and more. Which would you rather look at?
it's fairly clear that families in St. Francis Wood will feel the same way even more so.
This issue has nothing at all to do with gays or straights. The "urban nudists" I've met represent all lifestyles.
And as far as any majority supporting the ban goes, I guess I just haven't seen signs of that yet. In all of the visits that my wife and I made while nudity was legal, we encountered one woman who was not happy and voiced that to us. To her credit, she actually took the time to dialogue with us and we agreed to disagree. Conversely, we encountered a great many folks who expressed their approval and shared that they were proud of their city's forward thinking tolerance of alternative lifestyles. They told us that folks like us helped to differentiate San Francisco from all other large cities and keep it unique. We heard that from men and women, gays and straights, young and old, even families with children. We didn't roam around nude for reactions, we did it because it was a wonderful feeling of freedom that only this very special city allowed. On a warm afternoon, it simply felt nice to be free of confining clothing.
During the Thong Parade, I was very careful to really watch the response of the public. For two hours, the group wandered around the Castro with their silly outfits and signs and what I saw was an overwhelming sense of either support or indifference. Only one person was verbally abusive and of course that's to be expected with this kind of stretching of social boundaries.
I guess my only question to ban supporters would be . . . what harm are the nudists causing? Please don't respond by saying "I don't like looking at naked people". There are a good many things I don't particularly care to see on the streets but I certainly wouldn't support banning them unless they were causing harm or damage. Society has room for all kinds of people. Just because you don't happen to agree with my lifestyle choices doesn't give you the right to censor them.
If there's such an overwhelming support for Scott Wiener and his ban, why did he feel the need to act in such a dishonest and manipulative manner during his quest to abolish nudity? Why did he offer to let the nudist leaders work on self-policing the few "bad apples" and then only three days later submit his city-wide ban legislation? Why did he even show up at the public opinion hearing, let alone take over and run the show? Whether you support nudity or not, you have to see that as a serious conflict of interest and a disgraceful dismissal of the foundation of why he was placed in office.
If the public truly wanted the ban, it seems like the designated process should have taken care of it on its own. If the majority opposed nudity, why were two thirds of the speakers at the hearing there to speak out against the ban? Incidentally, most of those folks weren't even nudists. They just valued their city's famed tolerance. It was clear that Scott Wiener and his two confederates had virtually no interest in listening to citizens who happen to want San Francisco to remain free. Their minds were made up long before that hearing.
Nudity has been legal in the city for over 100 years. The public didn't effect a change to that status; six elected officials made that happen.
This is a non-issue. I don't even know a single eprson who supports these attention-seeking egomaniacs, and I live in the Castro.
Move on.
You don't know a single person who is okay with the nudists?! Even I will admit to having friends who oppose public nudity.
Why do I devote so many words to this issue? While it may be trivial to you, it matters a great deal to a lot of folks, otherwise it would have died a quiet death on February 1st when the ban took effect.
People like you make sweeping statements about "everyone" opposing the nudists yet I haven't seen any evidence of this mass hatred. And as far as the nudists "moving on" goes, I wouldn't bet on it. You got your ban so you won't have to look at anyone's genitals but you better be prepared for an onslaught of outrageous thongs (and worse) in the coming months.
After all, we are all naked sometimes.
I do not know anyone who supports the "rights" of far, bald, ugly middle-aged men to stand around naked in a public street in a blatant exercize of self-absorption.
Deliberately trying to offend is adolescent.
. . . urban nudists were all young, slim, had a full head of hair, and were visually attractive? If that was the case, would you still feel that those folks were "deliberately trying to offend"? Clearly, you have no capacity to appreciate why someone might wish to be free of clothes on a warm day.
Your message reflected more ignorance and hatred than any semblance of an intelligent dialogue and that speaks volumes.
Everyone I speak to has said the same thing - why is it the people you would least want to see naked that do it?
Warm day? Give me a break? You can walk down the street now with the skinniest of swimming trunks and nothing else, and that is fine. It's not about keeping cool, and in fact worry about sunburn.
It's okay to walk down the street in what amounts to a tiny little brightly-colored cloth sack covering JUST your genitals but it's illegal to simply be nude. How does that make ANY sense at all? How does that solve ANY issue the conservatives had in the Castro? For goodness sake, someone can legally wear a strap-on dildo and take a stroll but they cannot sunbathe nude! Doesn't that seem just a little bit ridiculous?
You and I will never agree on the merits of being nude in public but what would you rather see on the street? A naked person out for a walk, or someone with an outfit designed specifically to draw attention to their private parts? Trust me, there will be FAR more of the latter out in force than there ever were simple nudists before the ban.
offend others and upset children should find a place to be an exhibitionist where it's OK to do so like, say, the Folson Street Fair.
Children are NOT harmed by the sight of nudity nor are they naturally "upset" by it. They have to be taught that the human body is something to be ashamed of and to cover up. Studies have consistently shown that kids raised around nudism tend to have a more positive attitude about body acceptance and a healthier self-esteem. Isn't that what a parent wants for their children? I know I certainly do.
With that said, there are still people who will abuse the privelege of being nude in public and they should be dealt with. There are laws in place to handle genuinely inappropriate behavior but simple nudity does not constitute lewdness and California courts have supported this. Choosing to be nude when allowed by law does not make one a deviant, pervert, or even an exhibitionist. It's just a choice. Sadly, that choice has been taken away but it won't mean the nudists are going to disappear from the scene.
As far as "offending" others, there are a great many things people do on the streets every day that might irritate or offend others but do you really want to see the government start to ban them all? You happen to be very offended by public nudity and want to see it banished. What if someone said they can't tolerate tattoos? Or maybe they were offended by cross-dressers? Drag queens? What ban comes next in an effort to "sanitize" our community and turn it into the "Middle America" that Scott Wiener's supporters seem to want?
And on that note, I find it somewhat troubling when I hear angry Castro residents claiming the nudists have added an "undesirable" element to their ostensibly "family-friendly" neighborhood. Don't get me wrong. I LOVE the Castro and always have, but it's decidedly NOT conducive to what I would call traditional conservative family values. I walk down the street and see numerous porn shops with graphic window displays, head shops, and power poles covered with VERY provocative posters for sex shows. There was talk of the nudists "taking over" Jane Warner Plaza simply because they enjoyed relaxing there, just like everyone else. With them gone, the seats are now often occupied by the unfortunate homeless folks who were displaced when Scott Wiener heartlessly had the benches removed from Harvey Milk Plaza.
I guess I don't see nudists as the "blight" that some claim them to be. They're certainly unique and I'll admit that no other large city in the country would have allowed them to roam free, but what is it that differentiates San Francisco from all of those other urban areas? What makes this place so special and makes folks want to come from all over to see it. I believe it's the things that they can't find anywhere else. One of those things was the street nudists.
Again, nobody wants to ban nudity in private places and special events like B2B and Folsom.
But it's just common decency not to do that on a public street, and what is really sad about this is that we had to pass a law because a small number of people wouldn't behave respectfully.
This is a recurring theme that simply doesn't hold water. Kids have no natural aversion to nudity and in fact if they were left to their own devices, many of them would probably be running around naked all the time. It's adults who teach them that our bodies are a shameful thing.
My wife and I always tried to be respectful and steer away from kids while out on the street. More often than not, however, they'd simply giggle. I never saw a single child who appeared the least bit traumatized or bothered by our nudity. One young mother with two kids in tow smiled at us and said "Lovely day for a walk!". How 'bout teaching children that the world is full of all kinds of people who lead a multitude of varied lifestyles? After all, that's what they're going to find when they grow up.
Frankly, I'd like to see anti-nudity folks just cut to the chase, admit that they simply don't want to look at naked people, and leave it at that. Using children as the primary reason to eradicate public nudity is pretty cowardly, and claiming nudity is an afront to the "family values" of the "new" Castro is utter nonsense.
Most nudists are reasonable and courteous folks. Even though nudity was technically legal anywhere in the city, there were many neighborhoods where I wouldn't have taken a naked stroll either for safety reasons or out of respect for the residents. Places like St. Francis Wood. The Castro happened to be one of several areas that were welcoming and this felt like a win-win to me. My wife and I brought our hard-earned dollars and spent them at businesses who were enlightened enough to allow us to do so.
Opponents would say the nudists were "taking advantage" of the Castro's unusual acceptance of alternative lifestyles but I believe that very tolerance was a point of positive distinction for the famously open-minded neighborhood. And whether you like it or not, it also helped to draw in a good many tourists from near and far. Folks who delighted in chatting with the offbeat SF "street nudists".
Opponents would also argue that we'd never think of strolling naked in our own neighborhood and of course that's true . . . because we weren't allowed to! How is the rare tolerance San Francisco is famous for a bad thing?
But when someone does it in a public place knowing that there is widespread opposition, then it just becomes an ego issue.
These guys don't want to be naked - they want to be noticed and notorious.
. . . . . where is the "widespread opposition"?
And is it so difficult to grasp why someone might prefer to be nude on a warm afternoon? Why does that make them some sort of deviant or pervert? My wife and I have no desire to be notorious, or even "noticed". The nudists I've spent time with would just prefer to be accepted as yet another element of society.
The nudists I hang around with are all decent folks.
As soon as Supervisor Wiener is done banning horrible street noise, he needs to focus on the canine genitalia on display at EVERY dog park in the city. You thought Castro & Market was bad? What about Noe & Duboce? Lest someone think I'm joking, what if a school field trip were to walk by? How would the chaperone explain why some dogs still have their testicles? This city needs to mandate diapers for dogs, and massive fines for owners and walkers who think our domesticated animals can shamelessly strut their pereniums in public.
Before a child playing in a park gets seriously bitten.
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Rahway's Food for Friends may have to close their doors before the holiday season due to a lack of funding and donations.
The organization posted a message on its Facebook page last week saying: "Our Food program is going through hard times, with donations at it lowest we may not be able to continue to help our clients...As it stands now we only have enough supplies to last until the end of the year. We are looking for support from the community to continue our hunger prevention program. If you can help, please contact us and please keep us in your Prayers."
"Basically, some of the large funding we have always banked on, we're not getting that anymore," Tremarco says, adding, "Budget cuts in Trenton have affected them."
The volunteer chef at Rahway's Food for Friends said that not only has the need increased there, but the demographic mix of the needy has also changed.
On a recent visit, some people at a free hot dog lunch were displaced from Hurricane Sandy and others who had fallen on hard times and lost their job.
There were also a lot of elderly people because Rahway has a lot of lower income housing for people who are on a fixed income.
Many people are unable to donate to these places like they used to, and some are even turning to places like Food for Friends themselves for help.
New Jersey is the third richest state in the nation, yet the unemployment rate is higher than the national average. The poverty rate, at a 50 year high, is the seventh highest in the country, and New Jersey has the highest cost of living in the United States.
The middle class is the most likely to donate to organizations like food banks, but with the middle class shrinking, donations are also on the decline.
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It is unfortunate that Libby Mitchell has stooped so low trying for votes by defaming Paul LePage's character. I would say that it is not working.
This Democrat is voting for Paul LePage because Mitchell just proved that Democrats are dirty players (much like Barack Obama). Why she thinks she can talk dirt about someone to make herself look good is beyond me. Shame on her.
I notice that LePage is not saying anything dirty about Mitchell. He has professionalism and has already proven himself.
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Duke got its revenge on North Carolina in the ACC Tournament final with a convincing 73-58 victory that should propel the Blue Devils to a No. 1 seed on this Selection Sunday.
Duke got 20 points and 10 assists from Nolan Smith in the win, and the Blue Devils' National Player of the Year candidate led all scorers despite making just six of 18 shots. Kyle Singler and Seth Curry each added 11 points for Duke.
North Carolina has less success. Harrison Barnes followed a 40-point outburst in the semifinals with a quiet 16 points, and John Henson's 18 rebounds were not enough to keep the Tar Heels in this game.
After that result, it will be very hard to deny Duke a No. 1 seed in the 2011 NCAA Tournament. The Selection Committee has a slightly harder job before it with North Carolina: the Tar Heels' white-hot finish was tempered by a miserable loss at the very end, and could make a team that was talked about as a No. 2 seed entering today into a No. 4 seed by the time the bracket is released tonight.
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President Barack Obama survived a tough reelection battle this year—but scientists say an ancient lizard named for him met a far crueler fate. When a 10-kilometer-wide asteroid struck Earth 65 million years ago, killing off the dinosaurs, scientists thought that lizards, snakes, and other so-called squamates mostly survived the impact. But a new study shows that more than 80% of squamates also died in the mass extinction, including one that researchers christened Obamadon gracilis (center). The tiny animal with tall teeth, whose second name means slender, was discovered in ancient rocks in Montana about a year ago. Mammals' evolutionary explosion, which began within 1.5 million years after the impact, is well documented, but it turns out that the squamates had their own postimpact evolutionary bounce. By comparing hundreds of species of lizards and their kin before and after the impact, the team uncovered both the squamates' mass extinction and the rise of new species of squamates about 10 million to 15 million years later. That group gave rise to the ancestors of modern snakes and lizards, the researchers report online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. But poor Obamadon remains a relic of ancient history.
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Kevin Durant's 3-pointer at the buzzer lifted Oklahoma City to a 104-102 victory over the visiting Dallas Mavericks Thursday night at Chesapeake Energy Arena.
The Thunder trailed 102-101 with 1.4 seconds remaining when Durant rubbed off a screen and launched a fade away from about 28 feet. The shot was perfect and kept the Thunder perfect at 4-and-0.
Dallas jumped out to an early 17-to-5 lead before the Thunder used a 20-to-6 run to take the upper hand. Oklahoma City would lead by eight in the second quarter.
But the Mavs fought back in the second half as Jason Terry knocked down a 3-pointer with 39 seconds to cut the lead to 101-99 and Vince Carter added a trey of his own with 1.4 seconds left that set up the game's final moment.
Durant scored 30 points to lead all scorers and also had a team-best 11 rebounds. Russell Westbrook and Serge Ibaka each added 16 points and James Harden scored 15 points off the bench.
Dirk Nowitzki scored 29 to lead the defending NBA champion Mavericks, who slipped to 0-and-3 with the loss.
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Haiti (MNN) — Almost 700,000
Haitians who lost their homes in the 2010 quake are still living in squalor.
President Michel Martelly, a
novice in politics, was sworn in a few weeks ago, in mid-May, and immediately he pledged to speed up
earthquake reconstruction, develop the impoverished countryside, and build a
modern army.
However, the action that was
taken may not have been what he had in mind. In the first week of June, "The mayor in Port-au-Prince had the police force move out the people from two of the tent cities
down there," says Ron Sparks with
Baptist Haiti Mission.
Hundreds were evicted amid heavy
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sides to the story. Sparks explains
that "many of these people, who were perfectly able
to get back to their own homes and start restoring their lives, were just kind
of hanging out in the tent cities which has become a chronic, ongoing thing."
Where will these refugees
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volunteer teams that have come along and worked through Baptist Haiti Mission,
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is growing, now that hurricane season is here. Sparks notes, however, that their teams won't be forced into making panicked
decisions. "If the hurricanes
come again, as they did on the heels of the earthquake last year, then we
just have to deal with that. It's kind
of a way of life down there in Haiti, and we have to do the best we can day by
The changing landscape is kind of
a reflection of what's happening on the spiritual front. "That's one way
that I really believe the Lord uses to soften and open people's hearts to the
truth of the Gospel: through hardship," Sparks says, adding, "We've been continuing to see a very positive
response and openness to the Word of God and to the Gospel."
Baptist Haiti Mission focuses on partnering with local leaders to strengthen
their community's church. Church leaders
are faced with the task not only of rebuilding, but also keeping compassion
fatigue at bay with resourcing partners. They need help on all frontiers. "We're
always concerned about the safety and wellbeing of the missionary team and the
Haitian workers. Beyond that, just pray that people's hearts would be open to
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11-year-old Lizzi Boomsma is ready for 6th grade, but during the Summer Lizzi set up shop in the yard by the road near her home at Lake Madison. Her business is 'Busy Lizzi's Snack Shack.'
She makes money selling food snacks to the public. This Summer she made a profit of $67.
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NEW ALBANY, Ind. (WDRB) -- The cost of two high-profile murder cases, the erosion of property tax revenue and the purchase of a new government center are only a few reasons elected leaders here say Floyd County faces a $3.6 million budget shortfall.
Tuesday night, the Floyd County Council passed a budget that pared down that deficit, but didn't erase it.
After adopting a budget, the county is now facing a $2.9 million shortfall that council members say will force the county to revisit the budget in February when state assessors will likely demand the books are shored up.
The budget adopted during Tuesday night's council meeting called for a 25 percent cut across the board on selective services -- including things like office supplies, travel expenses and books for county offices.
"This can is going to get kicked down the road and we're going to be sitting here in March talking about the same issue," said Council President John Schellenberger.
County employees, who attended the meeting, are upset with the lack of clarity on what areas are being cut. The contingent of workers also reminded the council they haven't had a raise in several years and are frustrated with the process.
"It might be a public meeting but it didn't make a lot of public sense," said county employee Cheryl Mills. "So where you have a general fund to work with, we are the worker bees who put that there for you."
David Camm's acquittal on triple murder charges, his two previous trials and appeals have cost this county $4.5 million.
The murder trials for William Clyde Gibson have only added to that, close to $450,000 so far. (Gibson was convicted of the murder of Christine Whitis and sentenced to death Tuesday. He still faces two other murder trials).
The budget passed reduces the county's shortfall from $3.6 million to $2.9 million, meaning state assessors with Indiana's Department of Local Government Finance will likely be back in February with demands to shore up the rest, which could lead to deeper cuts.
"So at that point, be ready, because I don't know where we are going to get $2.9 million," said another council member, Jim Wathen.
Still some county employees left the meeting without a clear indication of what areas are being cut.
"There's not clarity with the county council, there hasn't been and until there is, I'm going to be back at every meeting," Mills said.
The council president says the council ran out of ideas and time with an October 31st deadline.
"At some point you have to realize there is not a good option and you have to do what you have to do," he said.
Schellenberger is still hopeful that a committee formed might be able to raise money from the county by selling off some of its assets.
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Boccia star Smith hails 'perfect' Games
9:20am Monday 10th September 2012 in Sport
BOCCIA star David Smith believes London 2012 has whetted the appetite of the British public to see greater coverage of his sport all-year round.
The Eastleigh man was forced to settle for silver in the individual BC1 event at the weekend, after being beaten 7-0 by Thailand's Pattaya Tadtong.
But as in the team discipline, when Smith helped win British bronze last week, the ExCeL was once again packed to capacity and full of home fans willing on the 23-year-old.
Though disappointed to miss out on the title of Paralympic champion, Smith was more than keen to reflect on a satisfying second Games appearance.
And after being amazed by the support and the coverage boccia has received over the past week, the world number two wants to see it remain in the public conscious.
"I love the game and with all of this coverage people are starting to know about boccia," said Smith, who won team gold in Beijing four years ago.
"Hopefully over next four years there will be coverage in all we do, and not just Paralympics.
"Boccia gives people a great opportunity and as long as the public get involved we can see it becoming a successful game.
"The whole Paralympics has been perfect and in my opinion much better than Beijing. "The village, the environment and the crowd have all been fantastic.
"The crowd has been extremely knowledgeable as well and not just people bunged in, they knew what was going on. Hopefully what we have given to them will see their interest remain."
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Reviews by tavernjef:
4.1/5 rDev +12%
Slightly dullish lemony gold hue with a quick to slip whitish foamy top. Some small bits and globs of lace stick to the glass.
Fresh, crisp, cracker, biscuity, hay-like malty aroma. Developes a heavier, deeper nose as it sits along with a bit of dry hoppyness. Quite nice and well established, as it doesn't take much to wiff its freshness.
Taste is much like many other German style Munich Helles. Nicely rounded with a whole grain breadyness laced with touches of bicsuityness, cracker-like dryness, dried hops, and a mild pale malt sweetness underneath. Making for a well balanced and rounded, crisp, wholesome, fresh taste. Quite yummy.
Crisp, tender, medium bodied, with a wholesome, smooth, easy going texture and carbontation that's lightly bready sweet and just dry and crisp enough to add some welcome depth. Leaves the mouth with a light biscuity fluffy dryness and crisp grainy texture. And definately leaves you wanting more. Very drinkable stuff. As most Helles lagers are; and this 3F creation is no different and fitting within the scope of most 3F brews that hit the mark for style.
09-04-2011 00:39:52 | More by tavernjef
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4.13/5 rDev +12.8%
On-tap during the fabled Dark Lord release last weekend. I was excited to try my first 3 Floyd's lager. Arrives in my glass a crisp golden color with a small white head on top. Upon first sniff I get aromas of roasty pale malts and a spicy, herbal hoppiness. The hops lead the way and are an interesting depature from the normal huge citric hops.
First sip brings a clean maltiness along with a hefty dose of hops. Spicy, floral and just quite yummy. There are plenty of malts to give this lager a nice body with a bit of chewiness.
Mouthfeel is smooth and crisp. Easy drinking and quite refreshing. A good change of pace from all the huge beers I was sampling earlier in the day. I look forward to some more interesting brews from the ever expanding Floyds. (Plus it's hard to resist telling your buddies to Gorch Fock off) :-)
05-03-2005 03:03:18 | More by orbitalr0x
3.75/5 rDev +2.5%
08-09-2014 06:16:23 | More by chip26
3.5/5 rDev -4.4%
08-06-2014 04:02:43 | More by 77apm
3.98/5 rDev +8.7%
22 oz bomber pours a chill hazed pale yellow body with a small and fleeting white head. Only a few flecks of lace are left on the glass. By far, the palest looking TF brew I've ever laid eyes on.
Simple aroma of grainy pale malts and floral and lemony hops.
Mouthfeel is light to light medium in body with a crisp carbonation.
Taste features grainy and crackery pale malts with a floral and spicy hop bitterness that softly kisses the palate with a finishing hint of lemon. Tastes more like a freshly brewed German kolsch than a helles.
What a change of pace for Three Floyds here. I really like this one, but as other reviewers point out it's a bit pricy. Very accessible and highly sessionable if the price wasn't so steep.
10-05-2007 15:10:01 | More by merlin48
4.28/5 rDev +16.9%
the frosty head went away fairly quickly and left little lacing.
as someone who is not a fan of lagers in general this is what i expect when from one when i drink them. it is a clear, light golden brew with the perfect amount of carbonation for a zesty bite.
it smells like it tastes, crisp but not light or wimpy and just the perfect mouthfeel to encourage mass amounts of drinking which i did the first night we tapped it.
if i could buy this in six-packs i would keep more of this in the house during the summer.
10-31-2011 20:57:54 | More by amidabha
1/5 rDev -72.7%
09-08-2012 14:16:39 | More by Gvice13
5/5 rDev +36.6%
12-16-2011 00:20:34 | More by tyleeis
3.5/5 rDev -4.4%
10-08-2012 23:22:25 | More by BillMueller
2/5 rDev -45.4%
12-29-2011 03:20:51 | More by MyTBeerDrinker
3.03/5 rDev -17.2%
(Served in an American pint glass)
A- This beer has a crystal clear bright straw yellow body with a dense carbonation of tiny bubbles. There is a thick film of snow-white head that last for a good bit and sticks to the glass for a few sips.
S- The smell of pale malt and lemon dish soap is interesting and not offensive. There is a nice green bitter hops smell in the finish but it is pretty soft.
T- This beer has a soft pale malt flavor with a light lemon tartness and a hint of biscuit malt comes in as it warms. There is a nice green hop note in the finish that increases as the beer warms.
M- This beer has a light mouthfeel with a slight creamy texture in the finish.
D- This beer has a nice smooth flavor and with a slightly stronger taste of hops than malt. The flavor and aroma are both very light and there isn't much depth to either of them and I don't get that fresh malt and hops flavor that I like to see in lagers.
09-12-2007 03:13:04 | More by rhoadsrage
2.63/5 rDev -28.1%
Shared with beachbum1975.
22oz. brown bomber poured into a pint.
A: Light yellow pour. No head or lacing.
S: A bit of oats. Oats? Grainy, a touch of sweetness. No hops. FFF?
T/M: It's a light beer. Or is that lite? There might be a touch of hops in there... lightly floral. Grainy and lightly sweet. I still think of oats. Light body is lowered carbonation.
D: It's light but not good enough to want to drink.
11-21-2008 22:45:45 | More by pwoods
3.75/5 rDev +2.5%
07-30-2014 18:39:43 | More by Iparedman
3.43/5 rDev -6.3%
This beer pours a light straw color with a loose head. It smells grassy and clean. The taste is pleasant and refreshing and the mouthfeel accentuates these qualities. The finish is fast and clean. This beer is an easy drinker. Not one of my top lagers, but it is not bad.
08-10-2011 07:40:15 | More by mentaltraveller
3.75/5 rDev +2.5%
10-20-2012 13:26:29 | More by imbuckeye
2.5/5 rDev -31.7%
10-04-2013 01:38:55 | More by Ross79
1.53/5 rDev -58.2%
A- Straw colored, nice fine pure white head.
S- Fruity smelling, is this a lager? Banana, estery, tones throughout. Hot fermentation maybe?
T- Is this supposed to be some weird type of belgian? Estery fruity flavors. Sulfur is evident. Not what I am expecting from a beer labeled as a helles. This tastes like bad homebrew.
M.F.- Dryed out. Clears the palate quickly. Im sorry but the flavors take anything positive away from this beer.
D- I poured the rest of this down the drain. For $9.99 a bottle I would expect something way better.
12-12-2010 20:40:29 | More by nicnut45
2.25/5 rDev -38.5%
11-11-2012 22:54:53 | More by Deetz
North Carolina
4.03/5 rDev +10.1%
Picked up at the brewery on a fantastic day of great beer, great food and great company. I already have expectations about this, as Three Floyds never does anything in the normal way (befitting of their "it's not normal" slogan); I'm assuming that includes even a low-ABV German-style lager. [Opening to the tune of "anticipation, an-ti-ci-pay-yay-tion"...]
Appearance is your run-of-the-mill golden-yellow with a thin head that sinks to a skim quickly. Nice haze in the body, with thin dots and strings of lace here and there.
Honey, straw, white grape (champagne), yellow cake batter, and something like "skunk"-- but not as in bad skunked beer.
What the malt does in this beer is wonderful, definitely the most appealing aspect of the flavor. It's like cookie dough, sweet and bready, also resembling cake batter as in the aroma. Lemon-drop candies, young green apple and a touch of honey also. Hops are crisp and fairly sharp, well-balanced with the malt side, while the dry finish provides a sizzling burn. Texture is very nearly soda-like, thanks to the sharpness of the bubbles, but its buttery slickness balances things out, and reminds you you're dealing with a quality lager.
Okay, so it's not as left-of-center, style-wise, as something like Gumballhead. And not your typical Three Floyds offering in any way. It's not overloaded with hops and/or alcohol, but very much like most other Three Floyds stuff in that it's a quality product, expertly conceived and lovingly crafted. The name and label, as with all 3F stuff, is just awesome icing on a tasty cake.
10-01-2008 22:21:06 | More by Metalmonk
Ontario (Canada)
3.83/5 rDev +4.6%
Jon's bottle. A very good lager, so unfortunately not the best rating range. Cloudy yellow with a big white bubbly head. Fresh aroma. Very fresh tasting. Some lace lines. This starts with a slight, but cumulative building bitterness, that leaves orange. Munich malts, saaz hops. Niceley carbonated. Points on balance.
Had on tap 1.5 years later and not so great.
02-23-2010 01:27:48 | More by Sammy
3.63/5 rDev -0.8%
bomber poured into tulip cup
A- Pale straw yellow with good carbination and white head. No lacing
S- Many levels of maltyness
T- Classic pale German Lager taste. Layers of malt... sweet.. little bitter
M- Bit more on the wet than dry side for a lager. Good carbination.
O- Good for the german lager style. Not my go-to style, so I may be under-rating this beer.
07-01-2014 23:50:45 | More by PBRmeasap1980
North Carolina
4/5 rDev +9.3%
08-21-2013 23:28:57 | More by tdm168
3.35/5 rDev -8.5%
Pours a moderately dark yellow with a nice white head. Smell is doughy, sweet malt with traces of hops. Fairly simple but well executed. Taste is quite as clean. Mouthfeel is light to medium with good carbonation and nice body. Good drinkability but not my favorte Three Floyds beer.
08-11-2012 19:01:41 | More by WoodBrew
4.75/5 rDev +29.8%
10-25-2012 04:00:03 | More by norinco
3.5/5 rDev -4.4%
Bright and milky gold, similar to a hefe, only it's not cloudy, just white-ish. Mostly opaque. The head is bright white, a finger thick at best, and peppers out quickly.
Smells like a spring day. Flowery, honey, somewhat biscuity. No real smell of American hops, just the savory Noble variety.
It's all lighter malts and Noble hops. You can taste that it was the German answer to Czech pilsners as it's sort of got that pilsner taste, but with a heavy dose of savory hops. Has an Earthy flavor.
Complete lack of sweetness, the malt is just a platform for the hops, but it's not overly bitter. The Noble hops provide minimal bittering qualities, instead giving the beer a savory feel and a crisp finish. Slight citrus feel mid-sip. Refreshing.
German lagers aren't my thing but I've learned to appreciate the use of Noble hops. Overall, it's an easy drinker. It's crisp and refreshing, making it ideal for a warm day. It's also relatively low (by today's standards) in alcohol so you can sit back and enjoy several and not end up in jail.
01-05-2013 04:09:47 | More by RickS95
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