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This will be short but angry heh. I am sick and tired of this country using us, the police as their scapegoats. It's public employees ruining the pension system, public employees with cadillac health coverage, police abuse of power, and so on.
Now this worthless, terrorist president Obama is getting his nose where it just doesn't belong. Tell us again idiot about how that little criminal could have been 'your' son again?! Send more white house representatives to another CRIMINAL funeral.
THe mainstream media, liberals, uneducated swine and these darn sheep are really destroying this country. Listen I am by no means saying there are not shitty cops or crooked cops but for Christ sake stop sensationalizing all the poor media and making all of us out there look like that. 99% of the men and women in this profession are out there busting their butts trying to make a difference. Helping communities, developing rapport with people just trying to help.
NOW, this other fucking criminal, Eric. I won't even write his last name as I don't want any publicity heading to that filth. Executing an officer at his barracks. AND PEOPLE ARE SUPPORTING HIM! What the fuck is happening!
It seems to me, more and more people would prefer anarchy and lawlessness than have any government entity working to protect them. Does government suck, yes. Unfortunately, police get wrapped up as a government agency but the men and women working are good people with good values.
I work in a relatively safe community where the community does like us. The recent events in the world really worry me. Everyday when I leave for work I pray I make it home to see my wife and kids. I pray I don't get shot in the head while walking into the police department by some renegade scumbag. I pray I don't come across the mental patient that finally lost it and wants to die and wants to go out fighting a cop. Aside from all the other events I may have to deal with during a tour this just gets added.
The social media slime that keep posting on, "I wish more cops would be killed." or "Kill the pigs and target their families too." "Show them we are not to be messed with."
This is all based on a handful of media stories over sensationalized to the point of twisting evidence and investigations to make police look like we are all corrupt and just go around shooting unarmed people.
The public is against us, the media is against us, the government is against us. All we have is each other in the thin blue line and guess what. Even with the whole world hating us, we STILL will continue to run towards the danger, do everything we can to protect those who hate us. We took an oath. This county is in a dark time thanks to its current leaders, I pray we are able to dig out of this hole. I pray my children will grow up into a world of peace one day.


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Over the weekend, everyone who is an avid follower of Twitter Grader, noticed a significant change in the algorithm. In my original post I talked about what I noticed to influence the algorithm for twitter grader most heavily. I was quite surprised to see a comment from Dharmesh Shah, the developer for twitter.grader.com, who apparently read my post and said "it'll be interesting to reconduct the analysis once we go into beta".
Well, I don't know if they're quite in beta yet, but I know that my grade was at a 90 over the weekend, and now its at an 84! So there's got to be a reason! Here's what I think…
You will all remember my friend grouping from the last post? Here they are with updated numbers:
These numbers are all as of this morning 11–3, between 11:15 & 11:30 PST.
And just for reference, here is the original list from the last post:
So to start, we can see that there has been quite a bit of variation on the user accounts and on the scoring for almost all users. At the top end, we now have multiple users in the 99th percentile, with several other close to follow. And at the bottom end, scores went from being in the high 50's — low 60's to now being high seventies to low to mid 80's. This is obviously just a result of the user group being an extremely active sampling from twitter. Scores are bound to go up.
But, there are a few things to note that I think are interesting. For example, take a look at davesnyder, his following count went down, follower count went up, and he saw a significant grade change after the algorithm update. -> Clue #1
Clue #2: AussieWebmaster, interestingly enough, saw NO ACTIVITY on his account except for an increase in followers (can you tell me how you did that?), and sees a grade change of almost a full 2 points!
What does this sound like? It sounds like @onstartups read my post and implemented some changes! LOL! Which is good, I think that follower to following ratios should count toward their ranking system, which it clearly didn't before.
BUT, thats not to say that what I had discovered previously with the update ratios isn't still part of the algo..
If you take a look at martinbowling, with the most updates @ 10,862, he is up on followers & following less people, but only saw a grade jump of .9. Martinbowling was also a sufferer from the algo update, he was previously in the 99 point range until the update. (Sorry Buddy!) Compare him to oilman, who saw a similar rise in updates and followers, but is following more people, whereas martinbowling is following less, and oilman saw more than a 1 point gain in ranking. (FYI — before the algo update, oilman and martinbowling were .1 apart in score)
The only evidence I can take away from this, is that the update ratio still plays, although less significant than before. And now we also see the incorporation of a following to follower ratio.
I see this as good progress for twitter grader. My recommendation for the next algo update? Figure out a way to incorporate user interaction (@'s, retweets, replys) After all, it's all about the conversation
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Using 3–6 differences in essential fatty acids rather than 3/6 ratios gives useful food balance scores
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Nutrition & Metabolism 2012, 9:46 doi:10.1186/1743-7075-9-46Published: 24 May 2012
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Summer students are showing up at academic and industrial labs around the country right about now. A certain percent of them will blow something up within the next three months, and that percent will be several standard deviations above the ka-boom rate of the other lab members. I'm not trying to say mean things about summer students. I merely speak the truth.
I had a summer undergraduate working with me for a while in grad school, and he taught me several lessons, of varying utility. One day he needed some dry benzene for a reaction, so I helped him set up a still in my hood. One-liter round-bottom flask, some benzene, a little sodium. My intern, who I'll refer to as Toxic John, put a heating mantle on the thing and turned it on.
A little while later, I walked past my hood and noticed that the stuff was boiling merrily. A bit too merrily, actually - it was really hopping around in there. I turned down the Variac (basically a big dimmer-switch type AC transformer that's used to step down the voltage to equipment like heaters) and went on my way. But I came back a little while later, and it was still rolling away in there.
If anything, it was worse. I turned down the Variac again, wondering just what was going on, and why my guess about the inital setting had been so wrong. A few minutes later, things hadn't improved much. The benzene was really leaping around, splattering and erupting. I looked a little more closely at the Variac this time, and noticed something that had escaped me: the heating mantle wasn't plugged into the damn thing at all.
Nope, it was plugged right into the wall socket, as some of my experienced readers will have guessed. As soon as I noticed that, I dropped the lab jack that was holding the heating mantle, which gave me a good look at the glowing red coils showing through the woven glass lining. I could feel it on my face like a sun lamp. Cursing, I pulled the thing out of my hood and heaved it into the hallway, right into a shopping cart that we kept out there for visits to the stockroom.
I went looking for Toxic John as the mantle popped and clicked. It was cooling down, but I wasn't. "John!", I shouted (I was pretty crabby back in grad school), "you plugged the mantle into the wall! No wonder it looked like a volcano in there!"
"What's the matter," he asked me. "Benzene doesn't burn, does it?" "Doesn't. . .burn. . ." I said slowly, as a nearby post-doc put a warning hand on my shoulder. "Well," said John, making his case, "it's inert to bromination!" That line of reasoning didn't impress me much, and as I recall, I told him that if he had any more insights like that we were going to find out if he was inert to bromination himself. Then I went off looking for the professor who'd just taught him sophomore organic chemistry, to let him know that his work, once again, had been in vain.
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1. Sigivald on June 13, 2005 1:19 PM writes...
So, uh, for us non-chemists, what was narrowly avoided? The specifics of the boom, that is?
2. Derek Lowe on June 13, 2005 3:53 PM writes...
Well, benzene really does burn nicely, which is why I wanted to strangle my summer student. And that heating mantle was getting mighty toasty.I suspect that the cold-water condenser on top of the still would have become overwhelmed with the volume of hot benzene vapors it had to deal with, and benzene would have started venting out the drying tube on top. When that dripped down to the blazing hot apparatus below, then Whoomph.There's always the possibility that the fuse wire that the heating mantles are furnished with would have melted and shut off the current, but it didn't show any signs of doing that. Makes you wonder how hot they have to get before they give way. . .
3. SRC on June 13, 2005 5:48 PM writes...
As a new faculty member I had an undergraduate in my lab who decided to "simplify" a literature procedure. I'd had my back to him while he was weighing stuff, and turning back to continue the directions, I saw, to my horror, that he was proposing to pour the solvent over the solid reactants in a round bottom flask!
Not only that, but he had taken the carboy by the fingerhold and, holding it on his arm and shoulder moonshiner-style, was about to pour an indeterminate amount of solvent onto the mixture of reactants.
Needless to say, he was gently but quickly set on a library project. Some people just don't have the common sense to be allowed into a laboratory.
4. PsychicChemist on June 13, 2005 6:04 PM writes...
One of my fellow postdocs down the hall, had the bright idea to use his cigarette lighter to soften the tygon tubes on the THF and ether stills. Fortunately, someone got there in time to stop him from blowing himself up.
On the other extreme, a second year graduate student insisted on attaching a reflux condensor to every reaction she ran - even if the reaction was being run at room temperature.
5. Bill Tozier on June 14, 2005 9:03 PM writes...
You just set this up so you could collect stories, right?
OK. Here you go. You can explain the scary inside information to the laymen. [Laymen: this is all very very scary.] So one colleague, back in my organellar DNA isolation days, decided to distill phenol. In a laminar flow hood. Wearing sandals. Speeding it up with a bunsen burner. And the flask broke. And spilled on the floor. And his feet.
Guys in white suits were crawling all over the brand new building for hours, and I had the sad/pleasant duty of escorting my idiot colleague, who ended up with about 10 mls of very pure phenol on his feet, to the hospital, and watching the look on his face when they told him how close he'd come to real quick permanent death. From just that little bit that spilled on his skin.
Shoes, people.
Then there's the intern who decided to sonicate a 2-liter culture of papillomavirus-infected cells, when I was doing time at ThreeNamed Drug Company in Pennsylvania. And not in any hood at all. He's probably dead from that, by now; the rest of us were all pretty close to just locking the door in order to let the air settle, regardless of what happened to him.
But my favorite -- and it's not even the one that resulted in the hundred-thousand tiny fragments of polystyrene that are still embedded in the skin and muscles of my hands and forearms -- was Back In The Day when there was this new method for prepping electron microscope samples using liquid propane. There was a demo going on in [another] lab across the hall, and all of a sudden the door slammed open and all the students and the instructor ran out yelling "Run!". We all ran. Apparently the procedure (still in its early days) involved just pouring the liquid propane into an open styrofoam ice chest. And as the instructor was dipping some samples into it, it "turned blue", indicating that just the wrong mix of atmospheric oxygen had dissolved into it to make it into a Big Nasty Bomb.
White suits again, that time. But the smart instructor did a very cunning and foolish thing: she ran down the hall, decanted out some liquid nitrogen, and went back in the lab and used that to de-oxygenate the propane. Saving the top two floors of the building, apparently....
6. Phil-Z on June 14, 2005 11:17 PM writes...
I'm not that old, but I remember seeing a co worker eluting a chromotography column with a mix of hexane and ether while Bogarting a cig.
My boss used to heat water for tea on the hotplate we used to develope TLC plates in the hood.
I caught another boss, a new PHD, weighing out about an ounce of DCC outside the hood.
Thats when I switched to the mass spec lab.
7. pyrokinetics on June 15, 2005 12:11 AM writes...
this little post makes workin in a lab sound extremely dangerous. So what's the mean life span of a chemist these days?
8. Novice Chemist on June 15, 2005 3:46 AM writes...
Here at the National Organic Symposium, Jerrold Meinwald put up a photo (during his talk) of Woodward and a colleague looking at a distillation apparatus while wearing suits and ties. Woodward has (apparently) the ever-present cigarette in his mouth. My, how times have changed.
9. Derek Lowe on June 15, 2005 9:13 AM writes...
I should do a post on life expectancy of chemists, which is actually quite high. But if you spent your entire career around clueless undergrad summer students, that might cut into it a bit. . .
10. Colby Cosh on June 21, 2005 10:01 PM writes...
Even a non-chemist with a good spider-sense might have suspected the problem (and the point of the story). Benzene... Benz... early internal-combustion engines (emphasis on the "combustion" bit)... geddit?
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John, you have graduated from the ridiculous to the just plain stupid. Some of you lefties just cannot stand people with religious convictions. While it is not something I would do, I don't see the need to mock them for their beliefs.
I always look forward to see John's cartoon everyday. Today's made me laugh out loud.
The value of every wedding has been cheapened to this level. I hope everyone feels better now….
No one is being mocked for their beliefs, but rather their ragingly obvious hypocrisy.
I don't feel sorry for that clerk at all, she martyred herself by her own choice.
VR, I don't quite understand what amounts to the, "ragingly obvious hypocrisy" you are alluding to. An individual personally, and on religious grounds, objects to the concept of same gender "Marriage", and has requested that she not be asked to perform such ceremonies, which apparently can easily be attended to by others.
Wouldn't it be more hypocritical, on her part, if she presided over such unions considering her held position?
Town clerks are paid by the taxpayers…ALL taxpayers. And they take a vow to uphold the constitution and the laws. If the laws are impossible for you to follow…RESIGN. I'm so sick of all politicians that thump the story book known as a bible. Remember the separation of church and state?
The "ragingly obvious hypocrisy" being alluded to is quite simple. The Guilderland town clerk who recently resigned at least recognized the untenability of her position, and quit. While her Catholic faith didn't prevent her from joining men and women from all faiths and walks of life in a civil context (some of whom undoubtedly had sex before marriage, practiced birth control and had abortions), she suddenly hides behind her religious rites and rituals as an excuse for her own homophobia. At least she did the right thing, and quit. Seems quite clear and understandable to me.
When two people genuinely love one another – black, white, tan, polka-dotted, striped, two men, two women – whatever – shouldn't they all have the same legal rights afforded to any other 'traditional' union? A little more officially recognized love in the world doesn't seem to be a bad thing. I think even Jesus might approve.
"When two people genuinely love one another…"
Two people? Only two? Get ready for three or more loving people demanding the right to equality, as protected by our constitution. It's right around the corner. Step right up and say you are for it right now! Unless you do, I guess that makes you a bigot.
It must be really wonderful "R" to be able to see, so clearly, into the minds of others. I presume you must have been able to read deeply into the Guilderland Clerk's mind, or know her very well personally, to make such a damning accusation, (homophobia). Otherwise you'd be acknowledging you'd be a complete fool to make such an accusation without any direct knowledge.
I wasn't aware that the Catholic faith required practitioners to pass judgment on everyone else or to pry into their personal behaviors, in fact I seem to recall one of the lessons, in Diana's "story book" suggesting exactly the opposite, but that would suggest you are just babbling about things you actually know precious nothing about which really wouldn't fit someone so all-knowing, as apparently you believe you are.
Actually, I have to wonder if Diana, despite all her ill feelings about any reference to the Bible, has the foggiest idea of what the concept of, "separation of church and state" actually means and more importantly DOESN'T mean.
"I wasn't aware that the Catholic faith required practitioners to pass judgment on everyone else"
Then why is it OK for her to use her Catholic faith to pass judgment on same sex couples? At her job that requires her to apply the secular state law equally to everyone?
Please explain.
Because this is what makes her appear to be hyporitical, which I thought R spelled out pretty clearly and civilly.
Last I heard, she was staying on the job but asked to recuse herself of issuing marriage licences, leaving that to other clerks who are willing to perform all their job duties.
If she resigned all together, then good for her. She made the choice she wanted to make, and therefore I still reserve no sympathy for her.
Albert, I was able to make a statement I believe is true without calling other people names. I have an opinion and my ancestors fought and died for me to have the right to speak it. I will let you say what you want and I'll do the same.
The "judgment", VR was in presuming that what motivated someone to reach a conclusion was based on their being homophobic, without any evidence to back that conclusion up. Actually the entire post was based on some very specific conclusions and accusations that don't seem substantiated.
I don't question your disagreement, or your right to disagree with the decision that was made, or her right to make her own choice, based on whatever her beliefs and/or principles may be, but when someone starts assuming that decisions were made for negative reasons, with nothing to back those assumptions up and starts accusing someone of a specific negative behavior, without any evidence to support that conclusion, it strikes me as being somewhat hypocritical itself.
Diana, are you suggesting your reference to the Bible as a "story book" was not intended as a slight? As for your "Separation of Church & State" suggestion, Article 1 of the U. S. Constitution simply states, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof".
Perhaps you can connect the dots, from there to your above observation, for me. It's good that you remember a lot of people fought and died so you, as well as the Guilderland Clerk, could express their opinion freely. The hope was that when someone expresses that precious right, they have some idea of what they're talking about.
The question still stands.
If you're so dead set against the judgment of others here, why is it ok for the town clerk to use her religion to pass judgmement on same sex couples?
"but when someone starts assuming that decisions were made for negative reasons"
For the record, I wasn't the one to use the "trigger word" homophobia.
But is there a positive reason for refusing to issue a legal marriage licence to same sex couples? The Guilderland clerk thinks that only men/women couples are worthy of what she calls the sacrament of marriage. How is that a positive attitude toward same sex couples? Please explain.
And, I ask this as respectfully as I can… can you stick to the topic at hand (the clerk) instead of ignoring the questions and working to turn the focus on me and other commenters? You come here with a different perspective than us about her actions, the best way to get us to understand that perspective would be to actually address the original subject.
Thank you. I look forward to a productive discourse.
Where did I say I was dead set against the judgment of others. I'm not all that impressed with obviously rash judgment at any level, but unless they have a very solid personal understanding and direct knowledge of how this particular individual feels about an issue, making unfounded and speculative conclusions and specific accusations doesn't seem like appropriate behavior.
I believe the reason given for choosing not to issue licenses was that doing so conflicted with her personal beliefs. You may not agree with that conclusion, but you don't get to decide it was wrong for the person making it. There are any number of people who may consider that extending a list of secular privileges and benefits to same gender couples would have been far less divisive and more appropriate by means other than totally changing the basic definition of "Marriage". Who are you to declare they are wrong? The new law will be the law and we are all expected to accept it as the law, but there is no requirement everyone has to agree with it.
Have you been authorized to decide that EVERYONE must have, "a positive attitude about same sex couple"? I thought we each got to decide that for ourselves based on our impressions of specific couples, be they same gender, Married, or opposite gender. I didn't, "come here with a different perspective than us about her actions", I came here because I was dismayed by YOUR reaction to her actions and what seemed like a very personal decision.
As for the clerks decision, assuming it was an honest decision based on her belief system and personal convictions I have no complaint with it. If it causes a serious problem with the discharge of her duties, that would be something for her employer to respond to, not me. If it's something they decide they can work around without detracting from the service they are charged to deliver, why should my perspective be relevant, or yours.
If it causes a real problem, that may alter that decision, but I have no direct knowledge of any of that in either direction, so what good would my spouting off, one way or the other accomplish? I don't need to know anything about anyone else's perspective to decide whether, or not, I choose to behave respectfully and civily. That's something I exert total and complete control of by myself.
My "original subject" was a response to what I consider an overly aggressive, harsh and judgmental reaction to an individuals, seemingly, honest and personal decision, I'm not sure I know what your original intent was.
OK, you're pretty all over the place above. I'm going to try to stick to the main subject instead of following you too far on your divergence.
Your original question was what about her actions amounts to a ragingly obvious (to some only apparently) hypocrisy.
First, start with this.
The answer to your question is that she did not previously measure the worthiness of all the couples she previously issued marriage licenses to by Catholic doctrine. She would have everyone believe that she objects to serving same-sex couples on the grounds of her faith, but if that were really the case, she would have been turning away so many other straight couples from the start who didn't measure up to Catholic standards as well. I believe that is evidence enough to confidently conclude that she is attempting to put on a false appearance of virtue/religion, thus making her actions hypocritical.
If that offends her sensibilities or yours, well I'm sorry, but the truth does that sometimes.
Clearly she is objecting on some other personal grounds, which you alluded to above that they were indeed probably negative. BTW, I don't think everyone is required to have positive attitudes toward gay couples, so don't waste your time having that imaginary argument.
However, people should not act on those negative feelings and withhold equal application of the law, ESPECIALLY if it is their job to apply the law, even if they don't agree with it. That is discrimination, plain and simple.
I think I've said all I can say to fully clear up all of your original misunderstandings about my perspective on the matter. And if you don't think my perspective is relevant to begin with, then I expect you won't waste any more of your time trying to correct me on it.
Have a good weekend.
Clearly, VR, you know as little about, "Catholic doctrine" or "Catholic standards" as you do about "rash judgment". Yes, my initial comment was critical of an assessment of "ragingly obvious hypocricy" about someone, based on published news reports, and my impression of that behavior stands.
The "evidence" you bark about only serves to magnify the ignorance of your assumptions, or am I wrong in assessing that you have precious little actual knowledge of whatever may guide this persons decision process. Your argument is totally built on the shoulders of a "straw man" created deep within your personal imagination. If you insist on railing about that which you KNOW so little about, you might consider learning a little first about that which you seem so compelled to complain about.
As previously suggested, whether this clerks actions, intentions or understanding of her job responsibilities have been violated is a matter to be addressed by her superiors, not me and certainly NOT YOU. You have every right to disagree with her behavior, her actions and her decisions, but UNLESS YOU HAVE A DEEP PERSONAL UNDERSTANDING OF HER INNERMOST THOUGHTS you behave like a gossipy fool declaring, your personal interpretations, of what is your pure SPECULATION abour what her motivations may be.
Sorry, but your own writings, as well as those of "R", clearly suggest both of you have strong feelings about this clerk's position and unfortunately allowed your emotions and imagination to create a case against this clerk, with precious little if ANY personal knowledge of the decision process, that is based totally on your own personal speculations fueled by emotion and imagination.
I truly couldn't possibly care less about what your "perspective on the matter" is, and would simply hope, should you care to share additional thoughts on this, or any other subject, you consider keeping your public thoughts within the borders of your knowledge about whatever you are discussing.
"I truly couldn't possibly care less about what your "perspective on the matter" is"
Yeah, ok, I believe you.
Outlining all the hypocrisy (yes, hypocrisy!) demonstrated above would take up too much of my time. But I hope you feel your life has been enriched for all the time you've taken to chastise me for my opinion… which again, you supposedly don't care about.
JDR, I understood the message in your cartoon. Keep up the good work.
"OK, you're pretty all over the place above. I'm going to try to stick to the main subject instead of following you too far on your divergence."
If you plan to spend much time debating Albert, then get used to that. Diversion is one of the main weapons in his arsenal.
I don't know, Reepdaggle, despite a lot of interactions, I don't know that we've ever "debated" anything that would serve as reference.
When you suggest a position I disagree with, I may choose to challenge your position. Your response to most challenges immediately takes the shape of some sort of accusations, that usually involve insults, mischaracterizing anything I may have suggested, not necessarily related to the position under discussion, but just as frequently to allow you to fire additional insults and accusations.
There's usually several references either to my (or anyone who dares disagree with your position) ignorance, inability to comprehend or your own assessment of your superior intellect. Searching for an eye in your hurricane, I can attest that you are consistent, as there are multiple kernels of my experience in just about any "debate" you engage in with anybody.
VR, I wasn't chastizing you about, "your opinion", that is what it is and is your's alone to shape it. I do acknowledge, I was less than impressed with the manner and tone in which you chose to share it.
Oh, is that what all the fuss above was really about?
That's OK by me, I can live with that.
From the point of view of the state, Marriage is a civil contract. You can be married by a priest, a rabbi or by an appropriate religious figure of your choice. You may also be married by a Justice of the Peace or some other civil official. In the eyes of the law, it is the same thing.
People have felt very strongly about issues and have taken stands for or against laws. People have supported and opposed laws both good and bad according to their conscience. In the end they must decide what to do. If she feels that she can't grant marriage licenses to same sex couples, it is her choice. Choices do have consequences, it is part of her job to grant marriage licenses to people who meet the legal criteria set out by the state.
I disagree with her position, but I am impressed by her conviction and courage. She has strongly held beliefs, and is willing to make sacrifices and accept the consequences of those beliefs. Her beliefs conflicted with her duties as town clerk and she obviously felt that she could not compromise those beliefs. She has made the choice of where she was willing to compromise, her beliefs or her work. This is the same choice faced by people in the past and will be faced by people in the future. You act according to your conscience and live with the results, good or bad.
"From the point of view of the state, Marriage is a civil contract. "
Dear lord, don't tell Albert that! Sorry, I couldn't resist…
I've always understood that Marriage is a civil contract -R, and for the last couple of thousand years the parties to those contracts, with some rare exceptions, were defined as being a man and a woman. That definition has been scrapped, in the State of NY, for a couple of weeks, and a new definition is officially in effect.
Are you suggesting there should be some sort of purging, demonizing or targeting of those who may disagree with that change? I wasn't aware that this, or any legal ruling, prohibits disagreement, at least not in the USA.
"I don't know, Reepdaggle, despite a lot of interactions, I don't know that we've ever "debated" anything that would serve as reference."
I stand corrected. Debate with you is impossible. That would require you to NOT constantly talk down to people, to NOT create imaginary conversations out of thin air, to NOT keep changing the topic away from the one actually being discussed, and to NOT keep lobbing insults immediately after criticizing everyone else for doing so. In other words, to NOT do all of the things you just put on proud display in #19.
So, you're right. We don't "debate". You consistently make sure that it isn't possible, despite anyone else's best efforts to do so.
"Are you suggesting there should be some sort of purging, demonizing or targeting of those who may disagree with that change?"
Huh? By what bizarre inferential logic do you come with that question?
To say you have a rather poor sense of humor would be generous at best. I can hardly wait for the diatribe on today's editorial cartoon…
It seems, -R, a simple "no" would have answered what was a fairly direct and simple question, unless of course, you have a problem with a simple, "no".


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An electrical malfunction is suspected as the cause of a fire in a dental laboratory in the Pan Am building on Kapiolani Boulevard overnight.
Four floors of the 17-story office building suffered extensive water damage from the sprinkler system as a result of the blaze, a fire department spokesman said today.
Firefighters responded to an alarm at the building at 11:27 p.m., said Capt. Terry Seelig.
The alarm was activated on the 11th floor, however the fire actually started on the 13th floor in the offices of DenTek International Inc. dental laboratory and was extinguished by building's sprinkler system, Seelig said.
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Yesterday, I received an email from one of our dear supporters that attended our Frontlines of Change bus tour. She said, "I loved the van tour. LA is a real bubble town, and we do not feel connected to the causes LHF supports when we just write checks. I always get fired up after a van tour."
It was thrilling to read her comment because I've felt the same way. Liberty Hill is a wonderful place to work and as a staff member, I've shared this same guest's sentiments – sometimes not feeling connected to the work. But there are moments, whether it's talking to a supporter of Liberty Hill or attending as a guest at the Leadership Institute or being at a van tour hearing from one of our grantees that sparks that fire!
Last Saturday's tour was incredibly informative – rich with historical information, inspirational work and stories of impactful change, inspired by the mystery novels of Walter Mosley. Who did we hear and learn from? Community Coalition's, President and CEO Marqueece Harris-Dawson and Community Organizer, Karume James. We went from the Westside into South L.A. covering the streets from Central, Florence, Manchester, Broadway, Crenshaw, Martin Luther King Blvd. and more. With every turn, new and interesting information was provided by our well versed guides. The streets that one could easily drive by without a second look suddenly had greater meaning. Along the way, we learned tidbits like…
- African American churches are known as "commuter" churches because although the population has changed in the area to over 60% Latino, African American churches want to maintain history and culture so continue to remain where they once started. Many "commute" to their home church.
- Fremont High School was built to house 1,500 students, but serves over 5,000 students year round and that even accounts for the over 60% dropout rate of students!
- The Goodyear manufacturing plant left to be replaced by the US Postal Office, which was a hard battle wone and only scratched the surface on replacing the number of jobs that were lost.
- While there are empty lots that seem feasible for positive development for the community, unfortunately, many are brownfield locations that are polluted and cost an overwhelming amount of money to mitigate.
- Gang conflict shouldn't always been seen as a Black vs. Brown issue, because often times, it's really a territory regarding underground economy "businesses" (read: prostitution, drugs, etc.)
- Former Mayor Hahn's mother lived in S. Los Angeles until she died a few years ago. She didn't agree with white flight and thought it would have been wrong to leave.
The above information barely covers the incredible amount of information that was shared. Marqueece and Karume's knowledge on the depth and breadth on S. Los Angeles, the Civil Rights Movement, investment and disinvestment in the community and the positive work of Community Coalition was amazing!
We didn't just tour S. Los Angeles. We stopped in Leimert Park and were welcomed by Richard, co-owner of Lucy Florence Cultural Café. Not only did we enjoy lunch there, but we were able to browse and purchase African American art, jewelry and clothing. We even had a few minutes to stop by an independent bookstore, EsoWon bookstore.
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To measure purple fringing caused by lens chromatic aberrations and sensor blooming, we photographed a test chart, left, with areas of very high contrast. We tested each lens at its widest and longest focal lengths with the aperture wide open using a Canon EOS-5D in Aperture Priority mode. The crops are taken from the upper left corner of the chart and presented here at 100%.
All three lenses exhibited small degrees of fringing at wide angle, although nothing to be concerned about. Zoomed-in to their longest focal lengths, the 17-40mm and 24-70mm delivered very clean results, leaving the 24-105mm with a small amount of fringing - again, little to be concerned about though.
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I like the sound of a Titanium Jetboil!!! If I had to average it all out, we would probably boil 3 cups of water twice a day. I have been leaning toward the LiteMax, which is my go to stove. I...
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I'm probably over thinking this, but curious what others think. I'm planning a 3 week JMT trip and the stove options are giving me the most trouble. I own a MSR Dragonfly, a Snow Peak Lit...
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I was reffering to the VVR tent cabin. Thanks for the good info Robert. I had never thought about from Glacier. Can you get a permit from Glacier.... hike down to the valley and start the JMT ...
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A comedy in the vein of Hitchiker's Guide, Adventure Time and Archer. We made a 25-minute pilot, help us animate episode two! Read more
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A comedy in the vein of Hitchiker's Guide, Adventure Time and Archer. We made a 25-minute pilot, help us animate episode two!
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"Sam Sweetmilk" uses science fiction adventure to tell the story of two exceptional characters with incredibly fluid animation, and layered with smart, subtle humor throughout."
- Channel Frederator, creators of Bravest Warriors
What is this?
The full 25-minute animatic/animated episode:
Following the exploits of Sam Sweetmilk - cocky amnesiac and captain of the starship Goldfish - his long-suffering robot first mate Ghostworth, voiced by Kevin R Mcnally (Pirates of the Caribbean, Supernatural, Downton Abbey) - and a young alien heiress named Vela, voiced by Tricia Pierce (Bleach) - Sam Sweetmilk is a sci-fi comedy cartoon series chronicling the rising significance of the only human in a huge and uncaring galaxy. Our influences include the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Archer, Adventure Time, Cowboy Bebop, the Venture Bros and Red Dwarf.
With the release of our 25-minute animatic episode 'Classic Ghostworth', containing 4 minutes of full-quality animation, we're looking to Kickstarter to fund a fully animated sequel episode, 'New Ghostworth'. This will both complete the story arc and demonstrate to networks that we can not only pitch Sam Sweetmilk, but that we can produce it as a studio on-deadline and with minimal resources.
- Our Youtube channel has been adopted up by Channel Frederator - makers of Bravest Warriors and Bee and Puppycat - and we will now be publicised by them!
- The pilot was on the front page of Laughing Squid, and they tweeted about us to 443,000 followers!
- We hit the front page of Reddit and got 73,000 views in one night! We also did an AMA!
- We got a great write-up in Gorilla Mag!
"Believe it or not the comedy elements are actually funny... ...containing 4 minutes of full-quality animation (and it looks very sexy indeed"
- Someone bought our top $4000 tier, and their name will now be a swear word in the Sam Sweetmilk universe forever!
Who are we?
Jason Lee Weight.
Writer/Director/voice of Sam
Stephanie Turner.
US Producer.
Toby Nicholas Clayton
Concept Artist/Character Designer
Haakon Ziegler.
Lead Animator.
Michał Golec.
Patrick Gleeson.
Nathan Fustec.
Sound Designer
See our pilot's credits for a long, long list of further talented people.
Risks and challenges
Getting our current episode to completion took one year, and ran over deadline by 2 months. This was due to one thing: financing. It's hard to make a cartoon in central London on a zero-budget.
By planning our budget meticulously, creating a tight and well-informed production schedule and strictly keeping to it, by employing economic animation technique and by presenting ourselves professionally and reaching out to production companies during the episode's creation for help and extra funding, we can sidestep the problems that caused delay during Classic Ghostworth's production.
One challenge which does not directly risk the noncompletion of the project but is just as important is the quality of our episode. In observing what does and does not entertain our test audiences during this production, it's become apparent that certain elements of our pilot reached short of the standards we aim for, due in part to financing and certain disagreements during the storyboarding process. With this next episode we plan on realising our potential in ways we weren't conscious of before, with robust, nuanced delivery in voice acting, audio that always has foreground and background, depth of field and an engaging range of motion in storyboards, more visual and audio gags, and better understanding and exploration of the relationship between the characters.
This caused minor delays during production (though not in the same way as the financing issues).
Work contracts will be in place this time around that ensure this does not happen again. The contracts will go both ways, of course, protecting artists by guaranteeing pay and nullifying the contract if payment is not delivered.
This may have been the case five years ago, when violence, irony and general adult themes were less common in mainstream animation. Thanks to the headway made by the Adult Swim subnetwork, Archer and Cartoon Network's Adventure Time, there is now a solid 18-35 animation audience. Archer has even disproved the theory that animated shows can only survive in groups, riding to success on the FX channel. Admittedly the UK is still catching up to the US on this, but luckily we're currently online-only and can entertain an international audience.
The underlying theme in our cartoon is the importance and fragility of memory, which extends at one time or another to every individual character. While we realise that the episode we created doesn't always maintain this concept - it'll be farcical at one moment and violent the next - further episodes focus heavily on character growth. We hope our series can grow outward from its initial form and into something more complex and gratifying. The potential for animation as a medium is limited by the public's perception of it as suitable only as being for light sitcom, or something solely for children. We want to help change that.Learn about accountability on Kickstarter
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DIGITAL DOWNLOAD OF THE EPISODE ON RELEASE + ART - We will send a delicate, DRM-free expression of our electronic feelings for you, along with concept sheets for the main characters. The file size will likely be 500MB to 1 GB for 1080p so make sure you have space before clicking the email link, when the time comes.Less
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ALL ART + DIGITAL DOWNLOAD - All the visual concept and production material of the first and second episodes (episode soundtrack, concept designs, pre-animatic, animation tests, scripts, background paintings in wallpaper size + alternative concept art) for you to download, PLUS your name in the credits of 'New Ghostworth'!Less
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DVD OF THE EPISODE, INCLUDING EPISODE ONE "CLASSIC GHOSTWORTH" AND OUR FOUR PROMOTIONAL VIDEOS + DIGITAL DOWNLOAD + ALL CONCEPT ART, SCRIPTS FOR BOTH EPISODES ON RELEASE, STORYBOARDS FOR BOTH EPISODES, SOUNDTRACKS AND BACKGROUNDS + YOUR NAME IN THE CREDITS Delivered hot from the oven, melted into a puddle on your welcome mat. We're looking forward to making cover art! Individually-produced DVDs cost ~$18/£12 to produce and package/deliver, hence the price.Less
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POSTER! + DIGITAL DOWNLOAD + ALL CONCEPT ART, SCRIPTS FOR BOTH EPISODES ON RELEASE, STORYBOARDS FOR BOTH EPISODES, SOUNDTRACKS AND BACKGROUNDS. You will receive a near-A1-sized poster (24"x36"), straight to your door! And then probably straight under a weighted blanket for a few hours to flatten it out. Posters will be roughly $19/£12 each to produce and individually package/deliver, hence the price tag.Less
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BE DRAWN BY SAM'S DESIGNER TOBY NICHOLAS CLAYTON IN THE COCKPIT OF THE STARSHIP GOLDFISH, WEARING SAM'S UNIFORM - With an optional caption of your choice, delivered on an A3-size art print, plus all lower tiers. A good way to propose, dictate a will or announce you are gay. Very proud of you, by the way. Includes all lower tiers.Less
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APPEAR IN THE EPISODE - A likeness of your actual face will appear on an alien in the episode. You'll get at least ten seconds of screen time. After you die, your descendants may view it and be like… isn't that grandma? Totally worth it. High fives forever in the afterlife. Includes all lower tiers, including reward #6. That's $388 worth of lower tiers!Less
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YOUR NAME BECOMES A SWEAR WORD IN SAM SWEETMILK, FOREVER - There is only one of these. If you can afford this you are a crazy oil prince and we ought to exchange details. In the long run this is the coolest thing we offer. We will use either your first name, surname, or both - whichever sounds funnier as a swear word. Includes all other tiers, including #6 and #7. That's $1107 worth of lower tiers!Less
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In major metropolitan areas, the BlackBerry at lunchtime is a force to be reckoned with. And now it can be a device to help those urbanities actually find a place to eat with the launch of Urbanspoon for BlackBerry. (Techcrunch11/10)
Karaoke fans will soon get the chance to turn their iPhones into full-fledged karaoke machines, thanks to an upcoming new application called iOKi. This is no wannabe karaoke app either — music sensation Lady Gaga has partnered with iOKi to launch her own fully Gaga-ized version of the app featuring some of her most popular songs, which will make its debut alongside the upcoming release of her new album on November 23. (Techcrunch 11/10)
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For the women out there, I think this site/app will particularly resonate. Ever been out on a Friday night with a need to run to the bathroom but a fear that the one you choose may look something like the bathroom scene from Trainspotting?
Yah, me too. Here's a site that hopes to help you on your way to pristine porcelain. The site recently launched an iPhone app in the App Store October 19th for the necessary bathroom on the go. Blackberry app to come. So far, the drawback is the fact that they don't have an extensive collection of neighborhoods included. I searched for the East Village in the list and came up short. The cities included for the time being are San Francisco, Dallas, Atlanta, Miami, New York, Seattle, Chicago, and London. I'd much rather see this sort of functionality worked into an existing application like my beloved Urbanspoon.
If you want the chance to win an easy $500, just add a toilet to the list. Paying for location adds. Tres smart.


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Welcome to my page.
As fashion and glamourphotographer I have already 25 years experience in taking pictures of models. I am always interested to work together with models in "glamour" style photography. This is what I feel best in and I like the challenge of it. To let the model look on her best side in a glamourous and sexy way, seducing and a little bit provocative. Any models who are interested in this kind of photography may always contact me, maybe we can work something out.
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Spouses of U.S. citizen members of the U.S. armed forces (service members) may be eligible for expedited or overseas naturalization.
Children of service members may be eligible for overseas naturalization.
For information on the general naturalization requirements and procedures for spouses of U.S. citizens who do not qualify for expedited or overseas provisions, or for general information on acquired or derived citizenship for children of service members, see the "Citizenship" section of our website.
For information on citizenship for surviving spouses or children of deceased service members who died as a result of injury or disease incurred in or aggravated by military service, see the "Survivor Benefits for Relatives of U.S. Citizen Military Members" page.
Expedited Naturalization for Spouses of Military Members
Spouses of U.S. citizen service members who are (or will be) deployed may be eligible for expedited naturalization in the United States under Section 319(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).
In general, an applicant for naturalization under section 319(b) of the INA must:
Overseas Naturalization for Spouses of Military Members
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 added Section 319(e) to the INA which allows certain eligible spouses of service members to naturalize abroad without traveling to the United States for any part of the naturalization process and also treats qualifying residence abroad as residence and physical presence in the U.S. for purposes of naturalization.
In general, to be eligible for naturalization abroad pursuant to section 319(e) of the INA, the permanent resident spouse of a member of the U.S. armed forces must:
Section 319(a) applies to spouses of U.S. citizens who have been permanent residents for 3 years immediately preceding the date of filing the naturalization application and who have lived in marital union with their citizen spouses for at least those 3 years. Section 316(a) applies to spouses who have been permanent residents for 5 years immediately preceding the date of filing the naturalization application.
Overseas Naturalization for Children of Military Members
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 amended Section 322 of the INA to allow certain eligible children of service members to become naturalized U.S. citizens without having to travel to the United States for any part of the naturalization process.
Under section 322 of the INA, a parent who is a U.S. citizen (or, if the citizen parent has died during the preceding 5 years, a citizen grandparent or citizen legal guardian) may apply for naturalization on behalf of a child born outside of the United States who has not acquired citizenship automatically under section 320 of the INA. The general conditions are that:
Pursuant to section 322(d) of the INA, a child of a member of the U.S. armed forces who is abroad with the service member pursuant to official orders is not required to be present in the United States pursuant to a lawful admission, and the U.S. citizen parent service member may count any period of time of residence abroad on official orders as physical presence in the United States. For more information, including how to apply, see the "Overseas Naturalization Eligibility For Certain Children of U.S. armed forces Members" page.
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text: Acquire a part of the Holy Land with this polished Jerusalem Stone wall cross. Jerusalem Stone is a limestone material found in the areas between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, and between Galilee and Haifa. This stone was excavated by the Israelites as early as 1000 to 2000 B.C, and used to construct such historical religious sites as the City of Jerusalem and King Solomon's Temple. Today this treasured stone is used in all modern construction within the city of Jerusalem. A beautiful reminder of our faith heritage. This cross is laser engraved with a Celtic cross and can be personalized. Comes with a certificate of authenticity. Quarried in the Holy Land and handcrafted in the USA.


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"[O]ne that comes to mind is the story of Ruby Wise. Last year her son Chris was charged with her murder. And what he had done, essentially, is let her rot to death. He was her sole caregiver, spent his days, among other things, playing Internet poker and living off her pension while she literally was imprisoned, by her dementia, in her bed and developed huge pressure sores, many of which were bone-deep, exposing her bones. And she cried out for help loudly for weeks before she died . . . to him, and the neighbors heard. They closed their windows, they didn't respond, and her son put in earplugs."
This account should be enough to sicken anyone with a basic sense of moral decency, particularly those with an ethical grounding in the Christian religion. Christians, maintain that all human beings are of infinite worth, value and dignity. Our value stems not from the level of our economic productivity, but from the fact that we are created in the image a God who loved us so much that he sent His Son to die for us, notwithstanding our sin and frailties. This value is not dependent on our age, size, or level of function. It is unaffected by where we fall on the age continuum and undiminished by the ravages of time.
It will be difficult to muster momentum on the problem of elder abuse in a cultural milieu that embraces a utilitarian spirit and a sliding scale of human dignity. Nevertheless, Christians must be prepared to uphold the rights of the elderly as vigorously as they uphold the rights of the unborn, for surely the elderly are to be counted among the "least of these" to whom we owe a duty of care and concern.
Let us find inspiration in the work of heroes like Marie-Therese Connolly as we strive to raise the issue of elder abuse to the same level of social awareness as that of abortion, human trafficking, and other human rights issues that the Church has worked so hard to eradicate in this world.
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I had the good fortune of interviewing Rich Kiker, an amazing high school teacher from Palisades School District, about the use of wikis. I have embedded the interview below-- Rich has some really great information to share!
As for the tool, here are some suggestions for its use:
- Use a microphone headset-- you can hear some feedback from me and Rich
- Try not to move your head TOO much-- it makes the picture "break up"
- Remember to look at the camera and NOT the image on your screen or you will appear to be looking at the floor


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2012 Christmas Raffle winners
These are the lucky winners of the 2012 Christmas Raffle:
- 1st prize: £10,000 to spend at your leisure
Ticket number 1066603 - Mrs E M Telfer
- 2nd prize: Hotel break for two at Waddesdon Manor*
Ticket number 1070159 - Mrs JR Brooks
- 3rd prize: Stay in a National Trust Holiday Cottage*
Ticket number: 1816091 - Mr D Glenn
- 4th prize: JustGo! Coach Break*
Ticket number 1854805 - Mr IH Salmons
- 5th prize: Annual subscription to ancestry.co.uk*
Ticket number 749362 - Mr MF Farmer
- 6th prize: A case of Laithwaites wine*
Ticket number 1027033 - Miss HM Dockrell
- 7th: National Trust Gift Voucher worth £50*
Ticket number 1853370 - Mr BF Topple
The 2012 Christmas Raffle raised £183, 624
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- A luxury stay in the Five Arrows Hotel and a tour of Waddesdon Manor: Dinner, bed and breakfast at the Five Arrows Hotel in Waddesdon, with a personal guided tour of Waddesdon Manor. Includes lunch in the Manor restaurant and afternoon tea prior to departure. Subject to availability and only available between Wednesday and Friday from 1 April 2013.
- National Trust Holiday Cottage: Your prize is a holiday in a National Trust holiday cottage worth up to £750. You can choose from any of the cottages within our portfolio, subject to availability and the designated prize value of £750. If you wish to book a cottage holiday worth more than £750 then you may do so but the difference in price must be paid for by you. This prize cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer or promotion. By booking a National Trust holiday cottage, you are bound by all of our terms and conditions which can be found in our brochure or online at www.nationaltrustcottages.co.uk.
- JustGo! Break – Your prize is a four day JustGo! National Trust coach break for two. You can choose between a double or a twin room for you and your guest. Alternatively you can opt to go on your own, though please note that the prize is for up to two people on one break only and cannot be used as a single place on two separate breaks. This prize also does not cover any additional services you may wish to purchase through Just Go! Holidays, i.e. insurance.
- Annual subscription to ancestry.co.uk: Essentials membership subscription to Ancestry.co.uk for one year.
- Case of Laithwaites wine – One case of wine kindly donated and delivered by Laithwaites. Recipients must be 18 years or over.
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Alcoholic beverages could soon be served at more Martin County community facilities
MARTIN COUNTY — A host of parks and community centers could soon be serving up beer and wine.
Officials with the Martin County Parks and Recreation Department hope allowing the consumption of alcoholic beverages at the Jensen Beach Community Center and Sailfish Splash Water Park will help keep taxpayer costs down and the respective operations more profitable.
And representatives from other facilities also want changes to allow them to serve alcohol.
"Over the last two years, we've missed a lot of opportunities for wedding receptions, adult milestone birthday parties and bachelor parties," Parks and Recreation Department Director Kevin Abbate said. "We probably we could have netted somewhere around $20,000 in additional revenue for the community center, and we believe we have opportunities to lessen our impact on the taxpayers."
The county commission voted 4-1 on Nov. 20, with Commissioner Ed Fielding dissenting, to have county staff prepare two separate ordinances on the issues for a public hearing at a future date.
The county currently allows alcohol consumption at The Mansion at Tuckahoe in Indian RiverSide Park and at the Port Salerno Community Center, but these do not serve all county residents, Abbate added.
"A lot of our customers could not afford the cost of renting out our mansion," he said. "We also found they wouldn't travel to the Port Salerno Civic Center because it's too far to the south."
District 3 Commissioner Anne Scott and District 5 Commissioner John Haddox expressed concerns about alcohol consumption at Sailfish Splash, but Abbate emphasized the county could prohibit the operation of the attractions during the after hours events.
"A lot of the socials would not be using the facilities in terms of the amenities," Abbate said. "A lot of them would use them as a social environment, sort of like a luau, when you're not in the water. We could certainly limit it to that type of environment."
Along with Abbate, representatives for the Elliott Museum, the Charles and Rae Kane Center and Jonathan Dickinson State Park also asked the county commission to consider rezoning at their respective sites to allow alcohol consumption.
Stuart attorney David B. Earle explained to commissioners the importance of alcohol sales for the entertainment venues at the museum and the Kane Center.
"The Kane Center with the Langford Theater, is the focal point of the community for many artistic, cultural and other social events," Earle said. "The Elliott Museum, which will have the Langford Café and host various events in the community, want to be able to serve alcoholic beverages — not on a routine basis, but in conjunction with appropriate events."
Mark Nelson, park manager of Jonathan Dickinson, emphasized the importance of alcohol sales to the park's bottom line.
"Our current concessionaire wants to expand into a restaurant facility and sell alcohol along with food in his restaurant," Nelson said. "We do this in a number of other parks, and it is very similar to the county's parks and recreation department having to do a lot more with a lot less. We're looking at revenue streams wherever possible."
Senior Assistant County Attorney Krista Storey told commissioners they would only need to add the community center and the water park to the county's current ordinance, but a zoning change would be required to fulfill the desires of the other establishments.
"The parks ordinance establishes the specific venues where it would be permissible to allow the consumption of alcohol on the premises," she said. "The issue of the Kane Center, the Elliott Museum and Jonathan Dickinson is the matter of their zoning, and these establishments do not currently have the right zoning district."
Growth Management Director Nicki Van Vonno informed commissioners any change to the zoning would potentially affect all properties within the district. Storey said it was up to commissioners to craft any limiting language on either of the alcohol consumption issues facing them.
"Without your direction, we just haven't explored that completely," Storey said. "You could craft language and specific type of use. You have many options."
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Wow, its been a while since I updated this blog.
I've spent a lot of time mulling over whether or not I would even come back and ever update this place. I've changed a lot since I was last here, my life has changed since I was last here. I've achieved things I never thought I would.
I stopped writing under this name and to be perfectly honest it was probably one of the best decisions I've ever made. That's not to say I won't ever come back to it, I will. I have a sequel to The Violet Line in the works and I plan on taking what I know now and applying it to this name. What will happen when I do that, I don't know, most likely nothing and that's fine.
I have a quite a few pen names now and I make a full time living writing. A full time living means different things to different people, my income is the equivalent to the CEO of a very successful company. And that's how I view writing, it's a business, I am a business person. I'm not an 'artist', I don't want to be an artist because it won't put money in my bank account.
I will however say that I'm a storyteller, I'm a good storyteller but there's always room for improvement and I constantly strive to get better. The day I think I know it all where writing is concerned is the day I stop writing.
My one goal when I sit down to write a book is to entertain my audience. The reader and their experience is the only thing that matters. Many writers will tell you otherwise, they'll say story, or plot, or even the technical side of writing like grammar etc is the most important aspect and perhaps for them it is. That's the level they're at and I can't fault them for it.
It's not where I am.
When a reader picks up one of my books, I don't want them to be able to put it down. I want them to read cover to cover in one sitting, I want them up all night because they have to know what happens next to the character, I want them invested and I want the experience to be as real and as raw as possible. And that's what I constantly strive to give to my audience.
The point of this blog post, well it doesn't really have one other then to say where I am in my career. Over the next few posts I write, I'll go into some detail over what methods I used to get myself to the point of being a full time writer. It's a lot of hard work and a heck of a lot of letting your business head over rule your heart but it's worth it.
It's worth it for the emails I receive telling me how much they loved the book, or the characters. It's worth it for the messages that tell me I helped them through something difficult, that a book I wrote got them through a dark time. It's worth it for the connection I create each and every time someone opens one of my books and begins to read. And I wouldn't change it for the world.
Monday, 23 June 2014
How I live now… Writer!
Posted by Bilinda Ní Siodacaín at 07:28
4 comments:
- GeraldG said...
I am really looking forward to your upcoming posts. I am a writer so any information, tips and advice you have to offer will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
- 14 July 2014 at 05:22
- Bilinda Ní Siodacaín said...
Thanks, Gerald, I hope you can get something out of it :)
- 20 July 2014 at 11:23
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- Carrie Cox said...
Really inspiring, Bilinda :)
I would love to hear more about your journey when you have the time to update.
- 18 December 2014 at 12:11
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PRICE - Our favorite radio personality (DJ), David Burton Smith, aka The Green Eyed Monster and Captain Morgan, passed away peacefully on Thursday, June 26, 2008, from congestive heart failure.
David was born Feb. 1, 1947 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, to Bill M. and Maxine Turner Smith. He married the love of his life, Becky Bowersox, on July 3, 1964.
He was a member of the LDS Church.
David's passion was radio, starting in the early '60s at KVOG, and he worked at almost every radio station in Ogden, Salt Lake City and the intermountain west. He was last working in Price at KASL. He also owned radio stations in Evanston, Wyo., and received many awards for his work in radio.
David loved his family and friends and lived to see others laugh.
Surviving are his wife, Becky; sons, Bill and David; daughter, Jennifer Johnson; eight grandchildren, Jeremy, David, Ashli, Fallen, Jacob, Russell, Ian and Daniel; his mother, Maxine; and sister, Fawn. He was preceded in death by his father, Bill; and sister, Starr.
Funeral services will be Tuesday, July 1, at 1 p.m. at Lindquist's Ogden Mortuary, 3408 Washington Boulevard. Friends may call at the mortuary Tuesday from 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Interment, Lindquist's Washington Heights Memorial Park, 4500 Washington Boulevard.
As David would always say: "I'll see you awhile ago."
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Timothy Miller and Maceo Scott have been sentenced Thursday in Kent County Circuit Court for the stabbing death of Santiago Zapata Jr.
The 50-year-old Zapata was found slain Sept. 25, 2012, in the basement of his Grand Rapids home.
Separate juries convicted Miller and Scott in April of murder and armed robbery. Authorities have said Miller and Scott each blamed the other for Zapata's death.
Zapata was a 19-year employee with GVSU's education college.