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It strikes me as odd to be back in school again. I'm a senior now, writing a thesis, and in about nine months I'll find myself facing the "real world" (unless I run screaming towards grad school). Yet again I find myself one of those few out and proud on campus, running organizational meetings for Amherst's queer political organization, choreographing a piece about gay teen suicide, and generally playing the role of "fag at large" in campus life.
However wonderful and accepting Amherst is, it is not San Francisco. There just aren't the numbers of LBGT people around here that I got used to over the summer. It's difficult going from a place where every night you have a choice of over a dozen clubs to hit to a place where there's only one gay bar and another club that has a gay night, or from living in a place where it's a common sight to see rainbow flags and same sex couple walking around holding hands to a place where such things are something of a spectacle. Oh sure, no one minds when I wander around with my freedom rings on or when I kiss my friends hello in the quad, but there are painfully few such occurrences, so I can't help but feel somewhat out of place.
I'm taking a class in black gay fiction this semester, and we were talking about the issue of "other-ness," or more specifically, what it meant to feel like an "other." A lot of people in my class objected to the use of the term "other" because it implies that some how you're the lesser site, i.e. there's "normal" and then there's "other," but I see it differently. For me, the binary falls along the lines of "majority" and "other." Given that, "other" carries both strengths and weaknesses. The weakness is obvious: If we're one in ten, then that leaves nine people to beat us up. But otherness carries a less obvious strength to it in that we as others are able to define ourselves and "know" ourselves with far greater clarity and we are the ones who define our position to the majority. I know that's a rather vague statement, so I'll try to explain it this way: part of the coming out process involves a realization that we aren't like "most people" are, and that realization triggers a need for us to figure out what we are, to define ourselves. The majority of people don't have to do that, because they never see themselves as different in the first place.
By now you're probably wondering what the hell I'm rambling on about all this for, or else you're wondering why I think the ability to define yourself is a strength. Well, the answer to the second question is simple: knowledge is power, and the more you know about yourself, the more powerful you become. The answer to the first is a bit more involved, and it's going to take me a bit of time to really get around to answering it.
I've also started working this year for the first time in my academic career. I work with an after-school arts program with a multicultural impetus. In the program we encourage the children to understand and celebrate themselves, but also to celebrate others for their differences. We stress the value of diversity, be it racial, cultural, religious, or sexual. I worked with the summer camp version of this program two years ago, and it was an extremely rewarding experience that I'm eager to continue. In a society so obsessed with it's standards of normalcy and the propriety, it's a truly wonderful experience to be in an environment where people accept and celebrate the wonderful diversity that we as human beings possess and the wonderfully diverse and yet equally valuable things that we can bring into our society.
In my last article, I wrote about finding ways to accept yourself for who you are, not who society says you should be. After I had written the article and reread it, I knew that it would probably be read by some as inflammatory and expected mail disagreeing with my stance. Nonetheless I was rather disturbed by some of the mail I received, most notably by one letter in which the person said that "stereotypes don't get a word in edgewise" and that it was those of us who practice stereotypical behavior that keep gays and lesbians from being accepted in our society. I was disturbed by this for three big reasons.
First, it showed a huge lack of knowledge of the history of the gay and lesbian civil rights movement. I mean, the movement as we know it today was started by a bunch of drag queens who rioted when the bar they were in was busted by the police the night of Judy Garland's funeral while the "normal" gays did everything they could to stay out of jail. The way the federal government and drug companies deal with new medicines especially for AIDS was revolutionized in the 80s by the militant queers (and women and people of color) of ACT-UP, a group that made no attempt to appease the majority. Second, the letter showed a lack of grasp on the reality of the situation facing gays and lesbians today. I know several people who have been gay bashed in the last five years, and they range from extremely stereotypical to extremely "straight-appearing." People dislike gays and lesbians because "what they do in bed isn't normal" whether or not the person in question is stereotypical or not.
But I think the third and most disturbing thing about the note for me was that I hadn't realized that the final goal of the gay and lesbian civil rights movement was assimilation. Personally, I thought the message was that we deserve equal rights because we're human beings just like you and we should be treated that way, not that we deserve equal rights because we can pretend we're just like you. Like my job, one of the reasons I love doing gay activist work is because what we're really striving for is the freedom to be who we want to be and love who we want to love and still have equal standing with the "heterosexual majority." We're striving alongside racial civil rights groups and feminist groups towards a society where we celebrate our diversity and the varied things each of us bring to better our society as equals instead of having to settle for the scraps we're given if we behave ourselves like "normal" people do.
So anyway, I'm back at school. My thesis performance involves a drag number and a homoerotic encounter between two of the characters, lovers, one of whom dies of AIDS at the end of the piece. I've been invited to do a drag number for the World AIDS day variety show. The queer political group I'm heading up is working on the campaigns of various gay positive candidates. I'm behind in classwork because I had mono at the beginning of the year. Things are back to normal. As they should be. Well, I could use a boyfriend...


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CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope in eastern Australia has detected mysterious 'flashes' of radio energy from the distant Universe that may open up a whole new area of astrophysics. The surprising finding, made by a team of scientists from ten institutions in Australia, the USA, UK, Germany and Italy, is published in today's issue of the journal Science.
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Four flashes were detected, each from a different direction and each lasting for only a millisecond (a thousandth of a second).
The characteristics of the radio signal — how it is 'smeared out' in frequency from travelling through space — indicate that the flashes came from up to 11 billion light-years away.
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These bursts all come from different parts of the sky. So they're not all from the same source. They might well be from the same class of sources, but they're not from the same part of the sky. What we think is happening is that one of these bursts is going off every ten seconds somewhere in the sky, and if that happens to be in the little patch of sky that our telescope is looking [at] at the right time, then we see it.
D. Thornton, B. Stappers, M. Bailes, B. Barsdell, S. Bates, N. D. R. Bhat, M. Burgay, S. Burke-Spolaor, D. Champion, P. Coster, N. D'Amico, A. Jameson, S. Johnston, M. Keith, M. Kramer, L. Levin, S. Milia, C. Ng, A. Possenti, & W. van Straten. "A population of fast radio bursts at cosmological distances". Science, 5 July 2013.
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CSIRO's 64-m Parkes radio telescope. Credit: John Sarkissian, CSIRO.
Using the Parkes radio telescope we've discovered four flashes of radio emissions originating from the distant universe. Nobody has ever seen these before at these large distances and we are a little bit unsure as to what their origin is, we can only guess at where they might come from, so it's opening up a new window into the universe.
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Graco is an American brand of baby products company owned by Newell Rubbermaid. It was founded in 1942 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Russell Gray and Robert Cone (hence the name) as Graco Metal Products, a company that fabricated machine and car parts. After Gray left the company in 1953, Cone moved the company in a different direction, manufacturing the first automatic swing for children, the Swyngomatic, designed by Harold Kosoff in 1982. In 1987 the company developed the Pack N' Play Portable Playard portable playpen designed by Nate Saint. It also developed the combination stroller and child safety seat called the Travel System in the mid 90's. In 1998 it acquired the Century Car Seat company. It was acquired by Rubbermaid in 1996, which later became Newell Rubbermaid in 1999.
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This time last year Ferrari and McLaren arrived at the Hungaroring fresh from their head-to-head battle in front of the FIAs spygate hearing. McLaren had initially emerged unscathed from the scandal, but an appeal against the World Motor Sport Council decision was already in the offing. And over the race weekend the British team would find themselves embroiled in yet another controversy.
As for the drivers, Lewis Hamilton was confident he could extend his lead in the drivers championship, while both Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen were hopeful about the improved form of the Ferrari F2007. Further down the field there were changes afoot with BMW Sauber third driver Sebastian Vettel replacing Scott Speed at Toro Rosso and former Jordan and Super Aguri driver Sakon Yamamoto stepping into the breach for Spyker following the exit of Christijan Albers.
Slippery track conditions, a light rain shower and a spin for Hamilton meant the first day of running in Budapest was particularly difficult to judge. BMW Saubers Robert Kubica topped the timesheets in the morning session, leading the two Ferraris and then the McLarens. But after lunch, it was McLarens Fernando Alonso who was quickest, finishing over three-tenths ahead of Renaults Heikki Kovalainen.
Saturday morning saw a Ferrari fight back, with Massa setting the fastest time ahead of Alonso, Hamilton, Nick Heidfeld and Raikkonen. Behind the frontrunners the times were even tighter, with Williams Nico Rosberg, Toyotas Jarno Trulli and Ralf Schumacher, and Red Bulls Mark Webber leading the pack. The scene was thus set for an intense qualifying session.
In the end it was the McLarens who had the edge in terms of pace, with Alonso just pipping his team mate to P1 - but only after some rather unusual goings-on in the pit lane which left Hamilton feeling somewhat aggrieved. Alonso was very slow to get away from his final Q3 stop - so slow in fact that Hamilton, who was forced to wait behind him, was unable to complete a final flying lap, and hence missed out on pole, despite having dominated up to that point.
There were problems at Ferrari too. Massas F2007 stopped in the pit lane in Q2 after a misunderstanding with his crew over refueling. It left him languishing down in 14th place. Raikkonen, meanwhile, found himself usurped by Heidfeld and would start the race from fourth. Rosberg continued to shine in fifth, ahead of Schumacher, Renaults Giancarlo Fisichella, Trulli and Webber.
On Sunday morning Hamilton had cause for cheer, after stewards deemed Alonso to have deliberately impeded him during their qualifying pit-lane incident. The Spaniard was stripped of pole position and demoted to sixth on the grid. McLaren were also punished and prohibited from earning any constructors points from the race. In a separate incident, Fisichella was also demoted five grid places for impeding Yamamoto (on track) during Q1.
With pole back in the bag, Hamilton proved insurmountable in the race, leading from lights to flag to take victory from Raikkonen. The Finn had easily passed Heidfeld at the start, but couldnt overtake the Englishmans rapid McLaren, despite some hair-raising dueling in the Grand Prixs dying moments.
Heidfeld successfully held off the challenge of fourth-placed Alonso to secure BMW Sauber their first podium finish. Team mate Robert Kubica nabbed fifth place to consolidate BMWs best-ever result, while Schumacher took sixth for Toyota, ahead of Rosbergs Williams. The final point went to Renaults Heikki Kovalainen.
His Hungarian victory, the third of his debut season, saw Hamilton extend his championship advantage to seven points over Alonso (80 to 73), ahead of Raikkonen (60) and Massa (59), who finished in 13th. In the constructors championship, McLaren, unable to bank any of the 15 points they scored, retained their lead over Ferrari but by a reduced 19-point margin.


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Jay's Movie Review: "Super 8″ is Super Enjoyable
By Jay Fralick on June 16, 2011
It's the summer movie season. "Event" movies are being released almost every week. Unfortunately, the number of releases this summer forces the casual moviegoer to be discriminating in their selection. Even the hard-core movie lovers must be careful not to blow their proverbial entertainment load too early in the season. I guess it is the same every summer and holiday season; it just makes it easy to miss good films because we spent the money to see the latest uber-hyped remake or sequel.
Someday, maybe I'll be considered important enough to receive media passes for films, but while tickets are on my dime, there are times when the cinema trips will be sparse, as I'm sure is the case with many.
The latest movie to catch my interest and to receive my money was Super 8. I remember seeing the teaser trailer what feels like a year ago. A crashed train car, metallic banging – door flies off and something large climbs out.
The thing I thought was great about this one is that the actual story was kept somewhat under wraps until right before release. The marketing campaign relied heavily on the names of writer and director J.J. Abrams and producer Steven Spielberg.
Super 8 centers on a group of kids in 1979 who, while filming a zombie movie on their super 8 camera, witness a horrific, non-accidental train crash (read – visually awesome). It turns out that the train was a military train, transporting some strange cube shaped, metallic objects as well as the aforementioned "something large".
Super 8 is much more than a monster movie, though. It is a good story, aside from the monster aspect. It is a story of friendship and loss and how a few young people try to help a young person move on after tragedy. It is the story of how a man tries to cope with loss as well as being thrust into a situation for which he has no frame of reference.
Elle Fanning stands out as Alice Dainard, a girl caught between acceptance and her father's guilt. Kyle Chandler plays the grieving Deputy Jackson Lamb and the heretofore unknown Joel Courtney plays his son Joe, our main character of sorts.
The few complaints I have heard about this one center on the lens flares and the appearance of the monster, neither of which bothered me at all.
If you like Abrams, monsters, kids or movies, go see this one. I think this is one that deserves to be seen in the theater.
How much would I pay to see this one again? Out of $10, I'd pay $9.75. Go for Abrams and Spielberg, stay for the story and the credits.
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I loved this movie and probably will go see it again, at some point. It really is a reminder of the sort of movies that Spielberg used to make. It's both nostalgic and new, all at the same time.
I too loved this movie. It was just plain fun. The cast of kids is UNBELIEVABLY good. espeically the lead actor. Wow. Very fun summer movie.
And stay for the credits!
I hope to catch this one, maybe this weekend?
Check out the opposing viewpoint to this review in animated form at Spill.com
Now the question is, do I see Super 8 this weekend or Green Lantern?
Kevin W: go with Super 8. Im stoked for Green Lantern and cant wait to see it but early geek buzz isnt really that good. With Super 8 i can give my 100% nerdist backing that you'll have a good time.
Super 8 is a wonderful movie. Yes it has alot (A LOT) of similar setups/feelings of old school Speilberg flicks but thats a good thing, not a bad as some critics would claim. The kids are amazing. The story is tons of fun. And the credit sequence pay-off is worth the price of admission alone. It rocks.
hey dood thanks for the review, this will be my first trip to the movie theater since zombieland!!!
I couldn't help but be underwhelmed after Fringe and Cloverfield, especially when it got to the end. It just feels like this kind of story and theme is… dated. Not so much a homage as it is an exhuming.
I guess I just didn't expect it to be so… 80's Spielberg. Too saccharine and disjointed for Abrams, or for me. I'm glad other people are enjoying it, though!
Saw this tonight in a very full theater (early show, Hanover NH).
LOVED IT. Great movie start to finish and the performances, particularly from the kids, are fantastic. Looking forward to owning the BluRay…. this one is a keeper.
I saw a sneak preview and loved it! Sure, it was a love letter to Steven Speilberg, but it was the kind that you read over and over until your last days. Everybody bitched about lack of payoff, but the adventure was the whole point! Fantastic and made me feel like movies from the 80's do
Wow, I saw this movie last night and thought it was bad, bad, bad. The best thing, IMHO, was the zombie movie at the end.
I'm sorry but I absolutely hated this movie during the 3rd act. I'm not going to go into super detail here but if you haven't seen the movie YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! THIS COULD RUIN SOMETHING FOR YOU!
The first 2/3rds of this film are borderline perfect. I don't mind the lens flare at all, I love the visual style and the story telling here. The coming of age story alone would be enough to keep me involved but then there's this great mystery about this creature that is also equally intriguing and kept me wanting to know more… and then the two stories meet and it is a master piece of vader pussy (*read as cluster fuck).
The entire third act where this coming age tale about these rival fathers and their kids come together and acceptance is great, and then the monster element fits and it is this massively misguided attempt at creating a jaws like character and then demanding the audience feel the same way they did about King Kong. He's a terrorizing havoc creating people eating beast and now we're supposed to feel something for it? That's bad story telling.
The way this this is fully introduced in the final act involves seeing this thing grip a human leg by the ankle and chow down on it like it's a fucking drum stick from KFC! And then literally moments after that we're supposed not see it as a terrifying creature? Sorry but that's bullshit. That's bad story telling. There are too many mixed messages here.
Also let's go with Joe and his communication with this thing… they don't match up. I'm not going into specifics again here but Joe is dealing with some pretty heavy shit in his life, and while it's only been four months, he's actually handling his shit pretty damn well. He's got his locket, he's handling his sense of grief and loss better than most kids his age, and better than even his father is. He's not a social fuck tard. The girl in the film, Alice however is dealing with a situation of being terrorized and verbally and emotionally abused. That related a fuck ton of a lot more to the monster creature's story in fact it parelels it almost exactly in the second act and that's where the story takes it mistep.
J.J. had a magic chance to turn the story on it's head in the best way and make the girl the lead of the story or at least on equal importance to Joe's character and instead he pushes full force into one of the sappiest most misguided endings in recent memory.
You know the shot I'm talking about too. we'll call it the "letting go" scene. Not needed and completely destroyed in it's simplicity, beauty and elegance by one last hurrah of destruction and chaos.
I heard in an interview on NPR that J.J. Abrams had this as two different stories in his mind and they both come from a similar place, his childhood. If you've never seen Abrams TED TALK I recommend googling it because it is one of the most inspirational talks any creative person could ever hear. He talks about the mystery box which is essentially the ethos for how he makes his movies. He also talks about his grandfather giving him a super 8 camera as a young boy. He then goes into showing a scene from Jaws where Cheif Brody is sitting down at the dinner table and asks his son for a kiss and his wife is looking on at him and her son from the kitchen and it's a beautiful moment.
These are all ideas that clearly went into making Super8 and this was a talk from 5 years ago just after he finished making Mission Impossible 3. I truly wish Abrams had made a monster movie, and a coming of age tale as two separate films because that's how they feel here. He has his law officer trying to take down the big monster who we never truly see while at the same time having a boy making movies with his friends… they don't necessarily belong together.
That being said I also saw the film in D-Box which was one of the best coding I'd seen yet and the film is beautifully made, brilliantly acted and I think Elle Fanning is a far better actor than her sister is at this point (yeah she was good in Sam I Am… then what? Twilight? Fuck off!).
Anyway I understand entirely why people like the film, and I'm really rambling now… sorry.
Like you, I've been waiting impatiently over the past year, so I am Super stoked to go see this one. Glad it has the J.C. seal of approval!
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Each quarter members of the Discovery Club will receive a special Discovery Club Box direct to their door, which will contain five samples of the latest fragrances, complete with info cards and exclusive discounts.
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I can't help but think this is quite insulting to shopper's intelligence really. You can easily stroll around your nearest department store on a Saturday afternoon and come home with no less than 20 samples with minimal effort, and change in your wallet. The promise of a booklet offering me up to £25 off (if I happen to buy all five featured fragrances) doesn't excite me in the slightest.
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Privatizing of PTC victimizes city's taxpayers
There has been a trend to create new cities in the north metro Atlanta suburbs during the past five years. The newly incorporated cities of Sandy Springs, Dunwoody, Johns Creek, Milton and Brookhaven seem to have appeared overnight.
Grass-roots efforts helped establish the new charters through enabling local legislation by the General Assembly followed by an affirmative vote by residents of the proposed cities.
The shiny new cities have promptly elected mayors and councils, hired employees and selected private companies to provide key services to constituents.
A majority of residents of the new cities are happy to distance themselves from inept county governments such as DeKalb and Fulton but find that operating cities is an expensive proposition.
Cost effective?
Outsourcing government services to private sector companies is not always cost effective because the service providers must make profit beyond the actual cost of the work.
The arrangement also requires cities to maintain staff to oversee the contracts, monitor the work and respond to public complaints.
More is lost in costs than is gained in efficiency and some Peachtree City residents are coming to the same conclusion. Outsourcing services in Peachtree City is not working well and is overrated in cost, level of service and responsiveness to residents.
Peachtree City's first significant experiment with outsourcing was the brutal firing of landscape maintenance employees in the Public Works Department followed by the sale of top of the line New Holland tractors, flail mowers and other equipment at a pittance.
The City Council convinced the public that contracting with a commercial landscaping company to cut grass and maintains right of ways would save the city more than $800,000 annually.
Privatizing neatness
How did that work out? Look at the unkempt landscape areas around town, compare the present situation to five years ago, review the expenditures for the contract including extra services and the cost of staff to oversee the service and draw your own conclusions.
The question for citizens to ask is "Why did the Public Works Department budget increase from $2,872,249 in FY2010 to $3,746,841 in FY 2012 excluding the cost of stormwater expenditures and engineering?" This reflects a 30 percent increase in two years.
The City Council's second major exercise in outsourcing services involved firing most of the Building Department staff in another alleged cost savings maneuver.
No-bid contract for fees
It followed this classless act by promptly adopting a new fee schedule for construction plan review and building inspections which almost tripled the fees passed along to homeowners by remodelers and home builders.
Council members subsequently outsourced construction plan review and building inspections to SAFEbuilt, Georgia, Inc., apparently without reading the contract.
Meeting minutes reflect that council simply approved a motion to authorize the mayor to execute a contract with SAFEbuilt for services. The actual contract was not part of the agenda package that is normally seen by council members and made available to the public.
A 90% share of fees
The original SAFEbuilt contract was not competitively bid and was an absolute sham. It permitted SAFEbuilt to retain 90 percent of the proceeds of most fees while the city retained only 10 percent.
The City Council clearly violated the city ordinance requiring competitive bidding for service contracts. Some city insiders were also miffed because of the cozy relationship between the mayor and SAFEbuilt representatives.
The Board of Directors of the Home Builders Association of Midwest Georgia engaged an attorney to make an issue of the no-bid contract. After more than a year of evasiveness and foot dragging, the City Council agreed to follow the law and bid the contract competitively.
Company influenced fees?
The request for proposal for the new bid was advertised using specifications and requirements influenced by SAFEbuilt representatives.
The council spit in the face of local builders and their clients by basing the bid on the same escalated fee schedule. It is significantly higher than fee schedules in nearby cities using SAFEbuilt services and the same building code criteria.
The number of bid finalists was two and ... you guessed it ... SAFEbuilt won the bid over competitor Charles Abbot Associates, Inc. in a unanimous vote by the City Council last week.
The split of proceeds set forth in the new proposal is a more reasonable 70 percent for SAFEbuilt and 30 percent for the city. Draw your own conclusions about the events that led to this sorry situation!
Something is amiss
This writer has concluded that something is amiss. Those who sense corruption may be on the right track.
The third major effort to privatize city services was the Recreation Department fiasco. The city fired several recreation employees and outsourced programs for senior citizens to Fayette Senior Services on a contract basis.
Fayette Senior Services is a private "non-profit" organization that outsmarted the mayor and council in contract negotiations.
The taxpayers now pay too much for managing senior programs in addition to agreeing to totally renovate two city-owned buildings for exclusive use by the private organization. The renovation is being done on borrowed money!
A major selling point expressed by one City Council member was that Peachtree City seniors will be in great hands with Debbie Britt as head of Fayette Senior Services.
Outsourcing seniors
Debbie Britt recently nullified that argument by resigning from Fayette Senior Services for a job at the hospital.
How did the outsourcing of senior programs work? Are senior citizens better off today than they were a year ago? Check with a senior citizen and draw your own conclusions.
It is obvious that some elected officials in Peachtree City have gone privatization crazy at the expense of taxpayers.
Finances just don't add up
Cash reserves are being reduced, long term debt is up, fees are up and services are reduced while the city budget continues to increase. The finances just don't add up!
It is no surprise that the city property tax millage rate was again increased by the City Council.
Peachtree City citizens have an option that is not available to the new cities north of Atlanta. We are blessed with an effective and efficient county government compared to Fulton and DeKalb counties.
Sometimes this writer thinks Peachtree City residents should throw in the towel, ask Representative Matt Ramsey to introduce enabling legislation to de-charter the city and go through the steps to become an unincorporated part of Fayette County in exchange for less hassle and a reduction of property taxes.
My thoughts about de-chartering quickly disappear when I think about the new county commission. It isn't much better than the Peachtree City mayor and council.
Enough said!
[Scott Bradshaw, a resident of Peachtree City, is a real estate broker and residential real estate developer. His mother's family has owned property in what is now Peachtree City since 1820, before there was a Fayette County. He may be contacted at email@example.com.]
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. . . for mayor in the next election. I know he will resist, but maybe we'd get lucky and persuade him to serve.
Terry Garlock
I echo your suggestion for Scott would be be the ideal candidate.
Surely, one of out elected Council has the courage to make a retort to Scott's article. Well, maybe not because if they blame the previous administration a correlation could be made to another empty suit that we elected at the federal level.
Mr Bradshaw makes some very valid points concerning outsourcing, and two of our elected members of our city council have even posted under this headline but failed to address his concerns. Would one of them dare to address the thirty percent increase in the budget for the Public Works Department since firing twenty-five employees to save an estimated $800K? Come on Mayor, you were on Council and voted to fire those city employees.
Care to comment on SAFEbuilt? The discontent among seniors with the Recreation department? Heaven forbid an enlightenment concerning corruption. Scott is correct fees are up, service is down, cash reserves are reduced, long term debt has increased, and the millage rate for home owners keeps rising.
Do we have an elected member of our city council who will take responsibility?
We are already term limited to 2 consecutive terms.
Thank you
I encourage you to keep posting.
It appears you have a shadow?
If I do, I'll take it as a form of flattery.
I'm not entirely addressing you, but....
Term limits are what the minority screams for
when "Democracy" isn't going their way.
I submit this for consideration, As with the Federal government
Executive Branch (level)positions should have term limits to prevent Kingdoms
however, representatives (council members) should have the opportunity to represent as long as they are receiving 50% +1 of the Vote.
Allow me this scenario..
Mr. Buymyvote, gets elected, he knows that he is limited to 2 terms, so to insure re-election he seems to be fiscally responsible and has the public's best interest in mind, so he's a walk in his last re-election. Now, all the behind the scene deals he and others on the ______ can be brought forward,
Zoning's are approved in a legal manner that will benefit Mr Buymyvote, and his family for Decades if not centuries. Why not do this , his job is already gone....
Folks are talking about Obama and his next LAST 4 years and the fear they have of this,,now imagine 1/3 of the Senate,1/2 of the House,and 3 of the 5 Counsel Members KNOWING this IS their last term,,no matter what..
Talk about an INSTANT way to create "legal criminals" term Limits WILL DO and have done exactly that
I wasn't advocating one way or the other. The current charter already provides term limits for the city's elected officials.
Sir I completely understand your lack of advocacy either way,(rightly so) it's just your comment allowed me to pontificate my inner personal thoughts on Term Limits
That's your right, and the community is better off when people share their thoughts and opinions. Thanks for sharing yours.
Well said.
I would add with term limits many try to create an heir apparent, so the name may change but not the thinking.
It is the duty and obligation of the voters to set term limits at the ballot box. They need to know and think before they vote.
If a person is doing a great job, why not let them stay? Is booting them out to put in a terrible official an improvement?
If someone then runs unopposed, is that good?
Look at the State Legislature elections over the last decade alone. Many ran unopposed. In some areas they had zero candidates and they had to go begging to get anyone to run at all.
Look at local elections. Many run unopposed for reelection. We had one Post, last election, with only one candidate.
And no pay? Civic mindedness? Only the rich can run?
Really? A number of the places where no one ran for the Legislature was because no one could afford the pay cuts to run.
Age old debate. I don't think it is going to go away until the electorate get more seriously involved. People do need to think it through.
This is a serious issue. It is not a blood or blog sport to see who can be destroyed.
Pay attention, understanding that one's life is not JUST "the wife and kids, and work, and soccer, and planning vacations, it HAS to be community involvement, which may ONLY mean PAYING ATTENTION.
and Thank you your Honor, for the Kind words
(Guy in the Black Hat)
The quality of the public pools in PTC went downhill when they outsourced the lifeguards and management about 10 years ago.
How about revising the city charter to:
1-1 term limits for council and mayor
Let's get back to the concept of public service!
politics and political aspirations = loss of focus on true service and plain old supidity in PTC and Fayette.
Haddix would be overpaid.
2ndly, how would our fair City recover expenses from him?
and the idea of public service.
I think two terms would be better. If someone is really good, why get rid of them. However, 8 years is enough
Agree no salaries. I think you can get some intelligent business people or retirees to take this job and any younger people who want to get into politics can use this as a stepping stone.
I have no problems with aspirations. However, we need problem solvers, not finger pointers.
It bothers me, but hey, my taxes are supposedly $20 cheaper a year. Big deal.
I am not sure that I would go as far and say that anyone at the city is corrupt regarding the RFP's for the building permit review and inspections proposals. However, I would say they were unprepared or lazy.
When the city chose to let go of the Bldg Dept personel and privatize the dept they most likely didnt have the time to put together an RFP. They probably contacted a few firms that do this and Safebuilt had the best salesperson. I call that unprepared.
However, a year later when they were forced to put this out for competitive bidding, the city didnt have a clue how to write this proposal or the timing of this was bad due to the cutbacks. After all, Safebuilt has been taking people to lunch once a week and becoming friends with people at city hall. Safebuilt, hears that they could be out of a job and sends thier salesperson over to meet with the city and over lunch offers to help the city write the RFP so that the city can compare bids that are "apples to apples". The city thinks that this is a good deal as it will save someone in city hall the time it take to put the proposal request together. Safebuilt has a year under their belt and now knows how to work the system. Safebuilt modifies thier proposal which was written to thier benefit and there you have it folks. I call this lazy.
This happens every day in corporate america. A hardware salesman goes into an architects office selling his product so that the architect specifies the salesmans product on his next job. Architect complains that he is in a bind and needs some assistance on the hardware for some large project coming up. Salesman offers to write the specifications for the architect and architect agrees because it will save him time and he will save money on his fee. Salesman then writes specification to promote his product over others.
Unprepared or lazy? Probably. Corrupt? Hopefully not.
Scott: I always appreciate your perspective. I think the long pole in the tent on this one is that most companies/municipalities just cannot deal with the burden of employee benefits and pension plans. And now ObamaCare has added to that complexity on the private side of the equation.
So when you ask if we are better off... If I can look at our balance sheet and say that we have not incurred a durable debt of pension or benefits... The answer has to be yes.
By the way, I have no connection with anyone in office or seeking office... Just a concerned and observant citizen.
Thanks for your continued care and concern for our city.


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Dialectic Intervention
Submitted by Ubuntu on Thu, 02/07/2013 - 00:38To Liberty Lovers:
What is a Constitution? A Constitution reflects how a People choose to arrange its Politics. What is Politics? Politics is Greek from "of, for, or relating to Citizens." Who may be Citizens?
Politics is sometimes referred to as the art or science of influencing people, either on a civic, moral, or individual level. Aristotle wrote a book and named it Politics. He highlights that Politics involves a lot of Rhetoric. Plato asserted that Rhetoric was immoral, dangerous, and unworthy of serious study. Aristotle wrote Rhetoric anyway. The first line of the book reminds readers that Rhetoric is a counterpart of Dialectic. Dialectic is a method of argument to solve disagreement.
In other words, Dialectic needs to intervene. We need discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about something, who wish to establish the Truth of the matter -- guided by reasoned arguments. But what is Truth and who defines Reasoned? Is Truth and Reason our highest values? We the People can establish or discover the Truth through reason and logic. I pray that We the People really come to know Truth. A People intent on finding Truth would find a lot of Dialectic in Politics.
We the People must foster and support leaders who appeal to logic, not emotion. A Government executing a Constitution is a reflection of its Citizens and the People's actions. When the well-being and affairs of a State are in question, only We the People have the Answer. We must find Truth.
So what is a Constitution? It is was the People hold it to be. As a soon-to-be lawyer, I will be required to take an Oath to the United States Constitution. I cannot wait!
For Liberty,
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"We the People" can't reason...
...because "We the People" watch too much TV.
The liberty movement needs rhetoric, since that (and not reasoned argument) is how to get the support of the masses. Wish it weren't so, but it is.
"Alas! I believe in the virtue of birds. And it only takes a feather for me to die laughing."
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Ayn Rand ...
... categorized philosophy into 5 branches:
Metaphysics - reality (everything that exists)
Epistemology - knowledge (how we identify what is true)
Ethics - what we *should* do, based on the truth about reality
Politics - how society should be structured, based on what is valid ethics
Aesthetics - artful representation of what could be
The idea of politics as "how society should be structured, BASED ON WHAT IS VALID ETHICS" is the single biggest failure of modern politics. The morality of something is hardly ever discussed.
It is the big dividing line between individualists and collectivists. Individualists start with ethics and then arrive at political solutions based on ethics. Collectivists try to arrive at political solutions based on a fuzzy non-ethics sort of ideology where collectivism is a goal unto itself.
What do you think of that analysis?
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I agree.
I actually have very close people in my life that say "as you would say, this is a morality issue." I have convinced many of my friends and family members who are not political per se to see the morality question behind our modern governmental actions... drone strikes is actually a hot topic right now. It used to be the debt. I think having questions of morality and ethics interwoven with political decisions MUST happen. Morality can be objectively reasoned, just as much as it can be divine. Either way, we need it...
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." George Washington
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Harry Shum Jr. Says 'Glee' Definitely Inspired His New Show 'Remixed' [VIDEO]
"Glee" star Harry Shum Jr. has a new YouTube show that he dreamt up himself called "Remixed," that pairs exceptionally talented dancers with equally gifted musicians to collaborate on a single performance. "Glee" is another show that effortlessly combines singing and dancing so we asked Harry if "Glee" served as any inspiration for "Remixed."
Harry Shum Jr. Says Kevin McHale Is The Funniest Guy On The Set Of 'Glee'
"I definitely got a lot of inspiration from 'Glee,'" Harry told us. "'Glee' in itself is music and dance. I think with that we wanted to showcase these two wonderful arts and to be able to put it on the stage." Harry sent us an exclusive clip of the show that you can check it out below and a new "Remixed" hits the D Studio Dance Channel on YouTube tonight at 3e/6p. Search DS2DIO to check it out!
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My strategy of trying to find spots in the hall for conversation is not working, since I haven't spoken to the OG since Monday. So I'm going to need to find something else. I just don't know what. And I'm getting lost, and worried that the only person I can actually be around without being reminded of the flaws in humanity is vanishing. I'm lonely and my misanthropy is growing. Swans is helping a bit, for now.
In other news, I watched They Live, and I was pretty disappointed, but it was still an alright movie. Just very naïve and simplistic in its criticism of capitalist society (especially the end that just gave up trying to be a metaphor and stopped explaining anything), and it was incredibly cheesy during about half of the running time. It was good for the '80s, though, so that's almost saying something.
I also listened to a few good albums that I had been planning on listening to for a while. I was not disappointed.
I had some success today, and found an ideal and reliable spot to meet in the hall. So my mood went from absolutely fucking depressed to happy and positive in just about a minute. (I do still miss the memories of when I got to spend a whole period near him, though.)
Ironically the song I was listening to was "I Won't Ever Be Happy Again".
Anyway, that isn't the point I'm trying to express. My reason for writing this is that I realized something, the reason why I never did get much desire for a personal relationship with this guy: contrary to my previous guesses, I do not feel any form of love for this person. It's turned out to be much more abstract than that. This sudden shift in emotion and outlook on the current situation helped me figure out that I'm actually in love with is the state of mind that I recently discovered another person can bring me to. It seems that I can no longer explore my mind alone the way I could just last month; that's over and done. But maybe I'm finally ready to explore with someone else. I had never even considered that before, but it seems possible now. And it's strange how much internal impact a specific person can have on me. I don't know why my mind started doing this, but it's simultaneously euphoric and terrifying.
Maybe this is some derivative of love, I don't know. But it isn't quite like before.
Many emotions arise in your teen years... but sorting them out and making sense of them can be quite confusing. If you find that this is a subject shared by your friend, talk it out with him. But it might be a good idea if these discussions would make up only a small part of your overall time together: books, music, sports, concerts, movies, politics, play...
In time you'll discover whether it is love, friendship... or something else.
Good luck!
I didn't know you had such a good sense of humor.
Anyway, though the Neutral Milk Hotel concert last night cheered me up, during the encore I was standing right behind a young gay couple, so that made me slightly lonely. But I was also listening to Ghost, so I didn't care.
I don't know how much time will be spent together, though, because I've only gotten two conversations in one week, both of which were probably shorter than one minute.
I was assuming you do read for enjoyment... but, could be mistaken.
Why don't you take a look at Hugh Howey's series: Wool, Shift, Dust (should be read in this sequence).
So... from where you were standing, I hope you were encouraged by what can be. Believe me, it will/can happen!
Just completed a couple hours of grueling PT; hopefully home next Wednesday!
But how to you turn that into a social activity? Reading is something that's meant to be done alone, with the company of only one's own mind and the author's.
Anyway, I hope you're right.
but I was thinking of discussing the books you've read and liked. Other activities could substitute.
My object was for you to find additional shared likes that would help serve to keep your hoped-for eventual friendship alive.
It's conceivable that you could become FBs... but if you want the relationship to last it really should be based on much more than lust. (And... I'm not denigrating this... it can be a great ancillary if mutually shared as equals).
He mostly does sports (swimming and kayaking), and I enjoy playing with him. But those always require full teams, and can't really be done with just two people. And he listens to a lot of music I enjoy (like Soundgarden, Radiohead, Silverchair, and Derek & the Dominos). Again, he's said that he'd like to be able to play guitar, which could be a common interest.
Also, what is FBs?
Just find activities that you both enjoy; "books" was nothing but "a shot."
we could go walking around this 7 mile lake trail nearby. Both of us have been around it before, and it's a pleasant place with trees and the kind acceptance of nature.
It was quite a disappointment when I awoke. Not a surprise, though.


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PHOENIX -- Sunday was a day of mixed emotions for Dodgers manager Don Mattingly.
On the bright side, Carl Crawford had two hits on Sunday, including a solo home run, in his second start in left field after missing most of 2012 following surgery on his (left) throwing elbow. He also made a handful of solid throws from the outfield.On a less promising note, starter Josh Beckett gave up seven runs on six hits in four innings of Los Angeles' 7-4 loss to the Oakland Athletics at Phoenix Municipal Stadium.Beckett had strong efforts in his three previous spring starts, but the right-hander couldn't get many of his pitches to work this time around."He couldn't get the breaking ball over. That's a big weapon for him," Mattingly said. "It slows guys down. The fastball, slider and cutter are all on the same plane, and this one really isn't."Mattingly had played catch with Crawford about 10 days ago and could sense he was close to being ready to play in the field."The ball had carry on it. It carried through me. I knew he was going to be fine. Today there were a couple of throws (that Crawford could have rushed), but he didn't get into a hurry. If you didn't know (about the surgery), you wouldn't know anything by his throws."Crawford began last season with Boston, playing in 31 games before having surgery. He came to the Dodgers in a trade with Beckett.Right fielder Andre Either hit his first homer of the spring off Griffin in the first inning, but the A's countered with a two-run homer by Jed Lowrie, who is looking more and more like he will start somewhere in manager Bob Melvin's infield on opening day.Crawford connected off Oakland right-hander A.J. Griffin in the third inning, but the floodgates opened on Beckett in the bottom half.Oakland scored five times on four hits, including a two-run homer by catcher Derek Norris, his fifth of the spring. Norris is expected to split time with John Jaso this season.Griffin, who rose from Double-A Midland to win seven games in 15 starts last season for the A's, said he is making progress after giving up four runs on five hits, walking one and striking out eight in 4 2/3 innings.Someone pointed out that Crawford's homer might have stayed in the park had it not been for the dry, desert air."You can't really use that as an excuse," Griffin said. "There are going to be other places we play where the ball carries."He said the pitch to Crawford "was a poorly executed curveball. I should have `dirted' it ... what it all comes down to at the end of the day is that you have to keep the ball down."Game notes
The A's optioned middle INF Jemile Weeks and OF Shane Peterson to Triple-A Sacramento after the game. The move eases a logjam in the middle a bit. Weeks never was quite able to return to form after bruising his right shoulder early in camp. ... Oakland closer Grant Balfour made his second appearance of the spring, pitching another scoreless inning with a strikeout. ... A's pitchers have walked 72 batters, putting them among the major league leaders for fewest free passes. ... The Dodgers released RHP Mark Lowe before the game and now have 38 players remaining in big league camp. ... LA rookie OF Yasiel Puig, among the major league leaders in a handful of offensive categories, had his hitting streak end at seven games with a 0-for-2 outing, dropping his average to .527.
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Don Myers raises alfalfa, corn and soybeans on a picturesque parcel in Pennsylvania. The 80 acres of tillable land on the small farm he and his brother, Joel, own is largely surrounded by woods. Yet the majority of it produces high-quality bale silage.
A part-time hay grower, Myers nevertheless exhibits a full-time fascination with baleage, haymaking, machinery and agriculture in general. Even his bread-and-butter career is ag-related; he sells real estate, specializing in farms and farmettes.
"I can spend hours talking about baleage and hay production. I find it fascinating to look at what other people are doing," he says.
Raised on the 180-acre farm he and Joel operate outside of Spring Mills, Myers can reel off the haymaking equipment his family has owned since the mid-1950s. Talk mower-conditioners and balers with him and you're likely to learn a machine's history, which manufacturers produce the best models today — and why.
His daughter, Amy, a music teacher who rakes hay and helps haul and wrap bales for her dad in summer, talks about the operation and Myers with equivalent enthusiasm. Asked how she'd describe her father, she doesn't hesitate: "He's particular and detailed," she laughs, "but in a good way."
"I am particular in how I farm," admits Myers, current president of the Pennsylvania Forage and Grassland Council. "It's in my nature." He researches, studies and experiments to optimize his crop management, quality and harvesting efficiency, with a goal to improve some part of the operation each year. Most years, he says, he achieves that goal.
One year, for example, he bought a wheel rake to more than cut his raking time in half. A few years ago, he no-tilled alfalfa into frozen ground. "We had the best stands we ever had," he says.
Nearly 10 years ago, he moved away from producing dry hay, retiring his small square baler in favor of a round baler, a bale wrapper and a tractor with a bale fork.
"It's a tradeoff because it costs me more to produce baleage." He and two others can easily mow, rake and bale 25-30 acres of bale silage in two days where it took three days to harvest 10 acres of dry hay, he says. He needs one less laborer and increases quality by being able to get the hay off the field faster.
As a self-employed realtor, Myers has the flexibility to be in the field when he needs to. At the same time, he brings his ag background to work when potential buyers want to talk soil type and crop production.
He markets the baleage by advertising in the local paper when needed and also refers customers to a Web site that he built, offering a posted newsletter and alfalfa and baleage production tips.
A Myers-produced DVD called "Profiting From Alfalfa" is available for sale on his Web site, www.myersfarm.com. It expands on the tips mentioned above, quotes university research and gives viewers a taste of Myers' enthusiasm.
"I won't skip church or Sunday school to make hay, but if the hay's fit after that, I'm not going to leave it sit in the field. To me, farming isn't work. I would far rather be in the field running a mower-conditioner or baler than sitting on a beach watching the ocean," he says.


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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Jacinta Monroe said she couldn't remember the ending, the details of a frantic finish quickly going blurry in her mind.
It'll come back to her someday -- since it was her shining moment.Monroe scored Florida State's final four points of regulation to save the season, then got the gamewinning shot to fall with 28.9 seconds remaining in overtime as the third-seeded Seminoles beat sixth-seeded St. John's 66-65 in a wild second-round NCAA women's tournament matchup on Monday night.There were 19 ties, 19 lead changes and drama until the very final moment, when Da'Shena Stevens' shot that would have won it for St. John's banked off the backboard, then off the rim, and the Seminoles could finally celebrate being off to the semifinals of the Dayton Regional."I'm not sure there are enough w's," Florida State coach Sue Semrau said, "to put at the end of 'phew!'"Phew, indeed.Monroe scored a game-high 16 points for Florida State (28-5), which got 15 from Alysha Harvin and 10 each from Chasity Clayton and Alexa Deluzio, along with nine assists from Courtney Ward -- including the one setting up Monroe's gamewinner."I tried to play it cool," Monroe said. "But I was shaking and thanking the heavens when she missed it."Nadirah McKenith scored 15 for St. John's (25-7), which was trying to reach the NCAA round of 16 for the first time. Stevens had 14 points and 10 rebounds despite spending much of the second half and overtime battling leg cramps, and Joy McCorvey added 13 for the Red Storm.Those cramps might have played a role in the last shot: Stevens' final try was a bit short."I've never really cramped before in a game, that much," Stevens said, choking down tears. "It's probably because there was so much intensity out there. Everybody played hard. I just left everything out on the floor and the last shot, I don't know, I thought Nadirah was going to go all the way but I got the ball, it was just a tough shot and I missed it."She wasn't the only one playing hurt for the Red Storm after halftime. Shenneika Smith scored 10 points on 4 of 16 shooting, and may have hurt her left knee seriously trying to make a steal early in the second half. Smith returned to the game anyway, though clearly hobbling."I really thought we had something special," St. John's coach Kim Barnes Arico said. "I thought that we could do some damage in this tournament. We got a unique group and I've been through this kind of before. Five years ago we were here, and the following year we had a bunch of injuries, had a bunch of different things happen and we won eight or nine games. You never know when the opportunity is going to present itself again."Semrau grabbed the house microphone moments after the game ended, telling the home crowd that they couldn't have gotten "there" without them."There" for Florida State is defined as Dayton: The Seminoles next play in Sunday's Dayton Regional semifinals, where they'll meet the winner of Tuesday's game in Pittsburgh between Ohio State (31-4) and Mississippi State (20-12).To say it was close throughout would be a bit of an understatement.Neither team ever went on a big run, nor was there ever a moment where it seemed like one team was on the cusp of taking control.And for St. John's, that won't make losing any easier to accept.There were 10 ties and 12 lead changes in the first half, St. John's never leading by more than three, Florida State never by more than four."After the first four minutes ... I kind of figured it was going to come down to the wire," McCorvey said. "It was a great game."Florida State scored six straight points over a 3 1/2-minute stretch in the second half, the last four of those points coming from Cierra Bravard, to take a 55-53 lead with 6:18 remaining.Then it was the Seminoles' turn to go scoreless, at the absolute wrong time.Florida State didn't score for the next 4:39, falling behind 60-55 before Deluzio's 3-pointer from the right corner cut the margin to two with 1:39 to play. Monroe did the rest, tying the game at 60 a half-minute later, and after St. John's hit two free throws, Monroe delivered again with 16.7 seconds left in regulation and sending the teams to OT tied at 62.Monroe made sure they found a way to prevail."I was just in the right place at the right time," Monroe said.Copyright by STATS LLC and The Associated Press
Team Stat Comparison
Points | 65 | 66 |
FG Made-Attempted | 24-62 (.387) | 25-58 (.431) |
3P Made-Attempted | 0-4 (.000) | 6-16 (.375) |
FT Made-Attempted | 17-24 (.708) | 10-12 (.833) |
Fouls (Tech/Flagrant) | 14 (0/0) | 20 (0/0) |
Largest Lead | 5 | 4 |
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