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"Low-income and underserved families will be our first priority, and these children will receive the first 300 season passes," TMG said in a flyer that Metro Council member Jessica Green included in a community notice email Monday afternoon.
The passes were for children 14 and younger, and recipients had to have a current Medicaid card to qualify.
Kentucky Kingdom spokesman Adam Birkner said the theme park was not behind the giveaway, and that TMG was giving away passes it had purchased.
"It was a fun thing for the community that they wanted to do," Birkner said.
But what ensued during the giveaway was anything but fun.
OneWest President and CEO Evon Smith, who works in the suite next to where the giveaway was taking place at 2028 W. Broadway, said she arrived to work at 8 a.m. to a crowd of 50 or 60 people.
Two hours later, she said, around 200 people were gathered in the parking lot. By noon, the line stretched from the front door, around the side and around the back of the building to Dr. W J Hodge Street, where it wound down the block to Maple Street.
The crowds were heavy everywhere. But they were worst at the front door of the business, where organizers let in ticket winners one by one.
The crowd at the door became angry at organizers, at the heat and at others who had cut the lengthy line. People were packed so tight that those inside the suite had trouble opening the door.
At one point a man inside held up a sign that said "BACK UP, GET IN LINE" in an attempt to settle down the crowd. Louisville Metro Police officers arrived shortly after 1 p.m., setting up yellow tape around the line and attempting to bring some kind of order to the chaos.
"It was probably a good idea, a good intention, just (organizers) not understanding the full impact of trying to do something like that and what it takes," Smith said. "But I would say there's no criticism here because that's a ton of money they gave out."
Police officers used a bullhorn to urge the crowd to form a more orderly line, with little success.
By 4 p.m., the crowd had thinned but more than 100 people were still in line, many packed around the front door.
A woman identifying herself as Teresa Bridgewaters took to the police bullhorn to make the announcement that organizers were shutting down the event.
Bridgewaters is listed as the president of TMG in state business records.
"We thought this would be a fun time for all the children to receive free signups for season passes," she said, later declining to fully identify herself or answer questions. "But there's too many people that do not want to follow the rules."
She told those gathered that TMG may have another sign-up event at a later date, with a different process but that nothing had been decided.
"I hope people will come and act like adults, with their own children with the required information," she said. "If not, the money will be given back to the donors who've helped support the event."
Tammy Sanderson, who arrived four hours before the event was supposed to start at 1 p.m., left empty-handed.
"They tried to just give away something free and expected everybody to just go by the rules — which they weren't," Sanderson said. "… They did it totally wrong. Now, if they need some suggestions, they could give me a call and I will politely tell them, 'Hey, this is how we should do this.'"
Sanderson estimated around noon that there were around 1,500 in line. She arrived at 9 a.m. after her mom called her a couple of hours earlier while she was driving by the Broadway plaza.
"She was like, 'Tammy, I see a line. Get up and go,'" Sanderson said.
It was hot for much of the afternoon, though clouds and a breeze cooled down the scene after 2 p.m. Lucretia's Kitchen donated five cases of water bottles for the crowd, Smith said, and OneWest also reached out to ice cream trucks and other traveling food services to help.
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Fouch, who was toward the front of the line and was one of the first to receive a ticket, said the voucher told her she could pick up her ticket at Kentucky Kingdom Wednesday. The organizers inside the room, with an angry crowd packed outside and down the block, were just as "irritated and agitated" as the people outside it, Fouch added.
She, too, said she would have put a little more effort into planning the giveaway.
"They had no organizational skills whatsoever," Fouch said. "I think they should have had a clipboard, everybody as they got here should have signed in, and they should have went down the list on the clipboard."
After the event had been canceled, Marsha Qualls stood in the parking lot holding a packet of social security cards, birth certificates and medical cards. She had arrived six hours earlier hoping to secure passes for her children and grandchildren.
"They were looking forward to going to Kentucky Kingdom and getting a free pass," she said. "It's something to do to get off the streets. The streets are bad."
She said she was leaving disappointed, wishing the event would have been better organized and the crowd would have been more cooperative.
"We stood in line. We had all the information," she said. "We did everything we were supposed to do."
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Reporters Darcy Costello and Matthew Glowicki contributed to this story.
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How much does 50 Cent make a year?
How rich is 50 Cent now?
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What kind of business does 50 Cent have?
How did 50 Cent get the Vitamin Water deal?
How did 50 Cent make so much money?
How much did 50 Cent make from Reebok?
Beyond his entertainment career, 50 caught the start-up bug early, investing in Vitaminwater, which was sold to Coca-Cola for $4.1 billion. His other ventures include footwear, headphones, Casper mattresses, Le Chemin du Roi Champagne and Branson Cognac. He also still records new music—"Crazy" is his latest release.
How Much Does 50 Cent Make?
Yearly Income
2017 $1.55 million
2019 $3.098 million
According to Celebrity Net Worth, 50 Cent is now worth $40 million, and we can only see that number expanding.
Eminem (Net worth: $230 million)
Will Smith's net worth is estimated at $350 million, making him one of the richest actors in the world. At 51 years old, Will Smith is an American actor, rapper, and songwriter.
The bullet-scarred mogul recently launched film-production company Cheetah Vision with producer Randall Emmett. The pair is set to develop eight movies, including The Dance with Nicholas Cage and 13 with Mickey Rourke. 50 isn't worried about the recession derailing his movie plans.
In the weeks and months thereafter, Lighty and Oza hammered out the terms of a deal. 50 Cent would take a stake in the privately owned company, one that would graduate over time and escalate if the company hit certain numbers. The two entities – 50 Cent on one hand and Glaceau on the other – signed an agreement of mutual confidentiality.
Over a decade later, he negotiated a different kind of phone deal: 50 Cent cellular ringtones to be sold for up to $2.99 per download. Lighty inked other agreements, too: a video game and a biopic with MTV Films and Paramount Pictures.
Pretty soon 50 Cent was raking in tens of millions as endorser/owner of a clothing line, G-Unit Records, a ringtone company, a video game, a movie studio and more. Meanwhile, a veteran beverage company executive named Rohan Oza was watching TV happened to see a Reebok commercial starring 50 Cent.
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In a recent post, I stated "these are very tough times, but the technology is there to be revolutionary and make great things happen for the business. I told them that they just need to be that revolutionary person to drive change.
In a recent post, I stated "these are very tough times, but the technology is there to be revolutionary and make great things happen for the business. I told them that they just need to be that revolutionary person to drive change." I've had a couple of comments online and more offline directly to me around innovation. I wanted to share some of my thoughts on being innovative and some things that you can do to help push the "innovation envelope" and create a dynamic IT environment.
I've been a noticing a lot recently that companies are only looking at what is going on today in their environments, instead of stepping back and getting a fresh perspective. Let's face it most companies in most industries have a kind of tunnel vision. They chase the same opportunities that everyone else is chasing; they miss the same opportunities that everyone else is missing. It's the companies that see a different game that win big. The most important question for innovators today is: What do you see that the competition doesn't see? In the book "The Art of Innovation", Tom Kelley gets a term from George Carlin; vuja dé; what does this mean? It means taking a look at something familiar with a new perspective as if you had never seen it before, and with that new perspective developing a new line of sight into the future.
Now I have to make this statement as it relates to IT, this doesn't mean that you need to be on the bleeding edge, and maybe you don't have the resources to invest in multiple areas of technology. Still, you need to ask yourself the question: What do we need to focus on to ensure the future readiness of your own IT organization and to enable the businesses we support to go forward?
I think Citrix has the technology to help you ensure future readiness and enable the business to go forward. I ask a lot of potential clients and current clients to look at Citrix with a new perspective. We all know how hard Citrix is trying to remove the 'one trick pony' stigma, and I think everyone that has the technology or was looking at the technology a while ago should experience some vuja dé and take another look.
When it comes to innovation in IT, I've seen customers actually form small teams within their IT departments that only focus on the future of technology. They work closely with their counterparts on the business solutions side to ensure that the technology will meet the business requirements and spur further productivity gains and competitive advantage. I call this planning today for tomorrow's new technology. This begs the question, "how far do you look into the future?" Well the quick answer is it depends. It depends on the role of your IT department in your company. I know that in some industries I've been engaged with can be at a serious competitive disadvantage if IT doesn't stay on the leading edge. These are the companies that are using radical innovation to alter industry economics and redefining for competitive advantage. The most creative executives I've met don't aspire to learn from the "best in class" in their industry—especially when the best in class aren't all that great. They aspire to learn from companies far outside their field as a way to shake things up and make real change.
One of the ways that I think IT departments and businesses in general can be innovative is to look again with a fresh perspective to a concept that has been around for a while; dynamic IT, and what this strategy can do for them around competitive advantage etc. There has been a lot of debate over the last few years whether IT "matters". I've seen cases where there is not much debate in the minds of some business executives, who recognize that IT is critical to the execution of business strategy. This isn't to say that Mr. Carr is wrong; he is most definitely on target with his theories and statements, but many business strategies – including collaborative product development, consumer-driven supply chain, and multi-tiered channel management and customer service – are actually impossible to execute without the support of underlying apps, data repositories, and workflow systems, that may not be a fit for "the cloud". That is a whole other conversation that is outside my scope for today.
What needs to be on the mind of every executive is a new, more innovative way to make IT dynamic and create that competitive advantage. Some companies are creating that "dynamic IT" with application, server, and storage virtualization technologies, but that is probably very innovative for the majority of some companies out there. Incremental innovation is better than no innovation at all I say, but I've said it before in an increasingly nonlinear world, only nonlinear ideas are likely to create competitive advantage.
o Focus on responding faster to changing business needs by improving the ability to quickly deliver and integrate applications, data, and workflow that support new business requirements, and improve productivity. We can do this with the Citrix Delivery Center.
o Use IT to monitor business performance and speed the business' operational adjustments to market changes and supporting policy-driven actions. This comes from developing key metrics in conjunction with the business side and proactively monitoring and making tactical adjustments as needed to ensure success.
o Focus on delivering higher service-level performance in support of the business and lowering the cost of infrastructure on which the business applications depend. Again, we can accomplish this with Citrix and other technologies.
o Link, monitor, and manage – end-to-end – all IT operational elements that support a business activity, from hardware and system software to business applications, data, workflow, and business process.
Again by taking the vuja dé concept and looking at what Citrix brings to the table today will provide the majority of a solid solution for your organization.
There are two key areas where I see IT management focusing. On the "business strategy automation and execution" side of things, they need to focus on using virtualization and other technologies to create new business value through IT by moving more quickly and cost-effectively in developing/integrating the applications, data, and workflow that support business process execution. From the "IT operations management and automation" perspective, we (IT) need to increase IT efficiency and performance. To do that we must deliver better IT operating performance in support of the business and lower IT operating costs by 1) automating labor-intensive tasks. We can use Citrix Workflow studio to get some of this done. 2) Develop end-to-end management capabilities. Again we can accomplish this with a mix of standard infrastructure management tools and Workflow Studio. 3) reduce the "hardwired" inflexibility through more virtualization, ie, Desktops, Storage, etc.
There are lots of challenges here and I'm hoping that with a little vuja dé you will see that Citrix and some other technologies can help put you more into the 'dynamic IT' set and make great things happen for your company.
I'm working on another paper to better outline my vuja dé concept of 'dynamic IT' and I'll hopefully be able to deliver that here very soon.
Nice post, i have to say i agree with most of what you say, and i do think that one of the things that might be worth mentioning is the fact that we(it) need to see the IT business as more of a whole, there is no end-to-end monitoring and development with segmented it-departments.
I like the idea of the small teams that work across to provide business oriented solutions and with the focus of the future of the business, rather than the next 'cool concept' ;-) I hope we see more and more it-directors seeing the value of IT supporting the business growth on a strategic level.
That shouldn't be "vuja de" (ugh, and terrible French) but "jamais vu" - "never seen".


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Q: Fluent NHibernate XML Field Is there a way to map an XML field using Fluent Nhibernate.
If you have an XML field in MSSQL database, how would you Map using Fluent NHibnernate?
Example
        Table("Address");
        LazyLoad();
        Id(x => x.AddressId).GeneratedBy.HiLo("1000");
        Map(x => x.AddressLine1).Length(100).Not.Nullable();
        Map(x => x.AddressLine2).Length(100).Not.Nullable();
        Map(x => x.AddressLine3).Length(100).Not.Nullable();
        References(x => x.AddressPerson).Column("PersonId");
        Map(x => x.ReferenceXML)//Map to XML Type in my Domain

A: Ayende has some sample code that shows how one can use the XML SQL Server type here.
It uses XML-based NH mapping.  To see how to implement IUserType in fluent nHibernate see this page or this page to see how to implement a fluent nh "convention".

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Anna has made a new accessory and thought (correctly, I might add) that we would all be interested in it. If you've ever watched Japanese cartoons, you've probably seen women wearing "tenugui". Guys wear the headband type with slogans, but women wear them when cleaning or gardening, as a head covering plus sweatband plus keeping dust out of their hair.
In Japan they're usually made of double-sided print fabric (so it looks the same on both sides), or plain white cotton. Anna bought one online that was too cute to chance wearing out, so she decided to make her own from quilting fabric. They're surprisingly comfortable and you can run up a couple in a few minutes. Read more about tenugui at Tofugu.com.
To fold it: Hold it up longways, then drop one top corner over and grasp the bottom corner on that end. Then wrap it around your head and tie at the back, tucking the ends under. The one pictured above is "for the tourist trade" so it's pictorial instead of a repeated print, and only printed on one side, which means it isn't as pretty when folded.
Anna decided to make her custom one a little longer. (She thinks her head must be bigger than Japanese ladies'!) She also doubled the fabric so the back side of the fabric doesn't show. Traditional tenugui aren't hemmed on the short sides; the fabric is allowed to fray naturally, but Anna hemmed her's when she got it.
Personally, I love this idea. It's like wearing headbands, or wrapping a handkerchief here in the US, but I think it could be a lot of fun with the right fabric. I can think of a few dyed woven fabrics that would be lovely, and even like the idea of making one with a double layer of fabric in something very lightweight, like a cotton lawn.
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Yes, I think lawn would be a good choice, as the grey one is a bit heavy, really (as well as using quite a lot of fabric!). I bought the pictorial one online at japonmania.com, where they also sell gauze towels that can be used for tenugui. But having invested in the book I mentioned, that will have to wait until at least Christmas!


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The land, 602 acres of which are contiguous, will be offered in nine tracts, ranging from 16 to 212 acres. One tract has a home as well as support buildings.
"This farm, about 50 miles south of Chicago and east of Grant Park, has large contiguous fields, along with a couple of wooded tracts that provide good hunting opportunities. Of the 602 contiguous acres, more than half of the land consists of Class A soil types," said R.D. Schrader, president of the company.
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Q: Why do some packages in Gnome/Ubuntu not have the same name in the file system than in their path? How to revert it? I'm taking the example of the so-called "Videos" packages while it is in fact called totem in usr/bin/totem.
But there are dozens of others, e.g. "Terminal" which is really called gnome-terminal, etc...
This is extremely misleading and, I'm sure, has made thousands of people lose hours because of this.
Where is this "name symbolic link" made, and is it possible to remove it ? If so, how ?

A: This is done because:

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*Videos is much easier for users to remember, instead of /usr/bin/totem.

*Terminal is much easier for users to remember, instead of /usr/bin/gnome-terminal.

Videos and Terminal are closer to the actual functionality of those applications.
Also, when searching for applications via the Super key, if you enter the search string "videos", you may actually come up with multiple hits, depending on what applications you have installed. You wouldn't normally search for "totem" (although that would work).
Update #1:
To see where the names actually get changed... we look at a partial snippet...
Note: the "Name=", and "Exec=", and "Icon=" lines...
cat /usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Totem.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Videos
Comment=Play movies
# Translators: Search terms to find this application. Do NOT translate or locali
ze the semicolons! The list MUST also end with a semicolon! Do NOT translate or
remove the application name from the list! It is used for search.
Keywords=Video;Movie;Film;Clip;Series;Player;DVD;TV;Disc;Totem;
Exec=totem %U
# Translators: Do NOT translate or transliterate this text (this is an icon file
 name)!
Icon=org.gnome.Totem

A: Ok, thanks for the help some provided in the comments.
So I found 2 methods for knowing the actual command of a Gonme/Ubuntu app :
1) As @pomsky indicated you can do that in GUI with Nautilus :

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*Open nautilus ("Files" in Gnome menu)

*Navigate to /usr/share/applications

*Right click on the app of your choice and select Properties

*The actual terminal command is shown in the "Command" field

2) More tricky, you will need to reverse find the name of the app in the list of all commands that are aliased.

*

*Open a Terminal

*grep -l Pattern /usr/share/applications will output any file that contains the Pattern, which needs to be the App you are searching for.

*grep Exec File, where File is (one of) the file you got on last step.

*You can now see the actual command run by the system when you launch an App in the menu !

E.g :
$ grep -l Videos /usr/share/applications

org.gnome.Totem.desktop
totem.desktop

$ grep Exec totem.desktop

Exec=totem %U
Exec=totem --play-pause
Exec=totem --next
Exec=totem --previous
Exec=totem --mute
Exec=totem --fullscreen

I can now see that the actual command launched by "Videos" is totem :).
PS : Verified on Ubuntu 18.04


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Inspired by a reader's friction with her family regarding financial and lifestyle decisions, today we'll jump down a rabbit hole with this multi-faceted case study illustrating how various upbringings and ranges of financial experience have played out in people's lives over the years.
My grandmother's family lost everything in the Depression of the 1930's, and she thinks I'm crazy to invest money for retirement because the bank will lose it all. Meanwhile my parents come down hard on me for being "frivolous" with my money and living like I do, working odd jobs then taking long-term trips. They want me to get a "real job" with a pension. I can't do anything right, and I'm second-guessing everything!
You know, it's interesting: I received surprisingly little backlash or judgement when I announced to my family and friends that I was selling everything to travel full-time.
It even seemed a counter-intuitive decision at the time; I was running a financial planning practice that had started really taking off, and technically all I had to do was sit back and watch the money roll in. Instead, I sold the lot in favour of a life of being proverbially homeless, and an eventual career as a writer (which is not exactly a ticket to riches).
But I think the decision I made to travel full-time, and the subsequent reactions I got from my family, had a lot to do with my upbringing, background, and financial experience.
But it also conjures up the mindfulness expression "wherever you go, there you are"….and I think every decision we make – whether it's to travel, or how we travel, or not to travel at all – depends on our inner programming. And since money makes the world go round, that programming is often directly related to our financial experience.
Before I delve into the fascinating stories of the people below, I'll tell some of my own story, which shows how my financial experience and upbringing played a key role in creating my (unconventional) life.
Both my parents are entrepreneurs – musicians, in fact. This means two things: 1) we never had much money (but neither did we experience financial hardship), and 2) I grew up in a household where writing your own paycheque was a way of life. So it stands to reason that I embraced an entrepreneurial lifestyle myself, early in my 20s.
By contrast, Mum was a spender. From her, I learned the art of living for today, sharing generously, and enjoying some of the finer things in life. She encouraged me to join a high-school trip to China – an experience that inspired the travel bug and would change my life insurmountably.
Being raised between these two financial extremes allowed me to sample the best of both strategies, and taught me my #1 greatest financial and life lesson: Everything in moderation. Plan for tomorrow, but not at the expense of living for today.
So while I saved and invested money, and strategically chose the best credit cards which I paid off every month without fail, I also enjoyed a fantastical life filled with experiences like competitive skydiving, motorcycle racing, acting/singing/dancing, and eventually, full-time travel. To this day, I continue to write my own paycheque, save for my future, and also to live each moment to the fullest.
I'm not the only one whose life has been coloured by the past. Below are the stories of eight people who grew up all over the world and have lives as varied as their upbringings.
What surprised me – and perhaps might surprise you as well – is the sheer variety of experiences, and the unpredictable ways they played out over the years.
Cory Varga grew up in Romania as part of a working-class family who struggled financially. Travel was an impossible dream. "I realized that I won't ever be able to see pristine islands or the Far-East," she said of her childhood.
While she did attend university in England, those years were lean as there wasn't any financial aid and she had to work full-time concurrently with studying full-time. Even with a decent job after university, Cory spent years digging herself out of the debt she'd acquired and she struggled to pay rent.
As an adult, she wanted her own children to have the same experiences, and she racked up a ton of credit card debt in the process. "It took us a while to figure out how to get the value of the experience rather than spending a lot of money," says Annick. Luckily she figured it out, and now shares her ideas and strategies for travelling in an affordable way on her website The Common Traveler.
Lou Haverty's parents emphasized saving and not spending recklessly. But they did honour life experiences, and took at least one big family vacation each year; conscious of keeping costs low by avoiding expensive hotels and travelling by car.
Lou's upbringing not only inspired smart travel spending, but also a financial savvy that forms the basis of his website Financial Analyst Insider.
Bonnie Truax had a rough go of it, growing up well under the poverty line, and then marrying a man with overwhelming debt. She bottomed out at the age of 30 when she left her husband, was penniless, and even briefly homeless.
This experience actually helped Bonnie to take some risks that paid off. "[It alleviated] some of my fears of losing it all again. It gave me the confidence that life can go on, I can get back up. It is sometimes worth it to risk it all," she says.
In the next 13 years, Bonnie enjoyed a great career and met her next husband. Together they worked towards financial freedom, and ultimately retired at 43. They have been travelling full-time for the last two years.
Bonnie and her husband now chronicle their travel adventures at 43 Blue Doors.
Cori Carl's parents had their priorities, which included both financial security and travel. They saved for retirement and paid off their mortgage early, but they also found ways to travel as a family without being extravagant.
"My mother was a German teacher and took her students to Europe every four years. Both of my parents would go for free as chaperones, so my parents only had to pay for my sister and I," she says. Her dad also traveled for work and often turned his business trips into family vacations.
While the sharing economy keeps Cori's travel expenses low and allowed her to spend a lot of her 20s backpacking, she's quick to point out that she still paid off her mortgage at 30, inspired by her parents' example.
Cori now works remotely (also inspired by her Dad, who had a remote career in the 90s) and travels at will. She inspires others with her knowledge at Remote Swap.
Antonella Pisani had a middle class upbringing, and her mother made it a point for the family to travel. "She always wanted us to explore. My mom was raised in Nicaragua, and I think [travel] was a huge luxury for her," says Antonella.
"As an adult, I was fortunate enough to find myself in a high paying career, and the travel bug bit me hard. My trips became much more exotic through the years," inspired by the travel-centric foundation her mother gave her.
Antonella took this travel bug to new levels when she left the corporate world behind to embrace the full-time travel lifestyle as a digital nomad, running a consulting business and an inspirational product company called FACT Goods.
Rachel Smets was raised to get a job for life, and to prioritize financial security and certainty above all else. Imagine their surprise when Rachel moved abroad at 24 years old! "My family didn't talk to me for a year as this didn't fit into our family behaviour," says Rachel.
Find out more about Rachel's fascinating career and life abroad at Rachel Smets.
In examining the stories of all the people above (including my own), I realized that there is no one "formula" for how our financial experience influences the life decisions we make. This final story illustrates this concept beautifully.
Suzanne Garber and her brother grew up in the same household, but their lives went in opposite directions as a direct result of their upbringings. Their parents were expats, and between the ages of seven and 13, they lived in Spain, Egypt, Algeria, and the Dominican Republic.
For Suzanne, travel was a way of life, and she went on to found an international healthcare technology firm (Gauze.net) that helps people find hospitals abroad when they get sick while travelling. Her brother, by contrast, is a stay at home dad who hates to travel.
Going back to the reader's question of how to reconcile our background and family values with our lifestyle, I can only conclude that there is no right or wrong answer.
Some people profiled here did the opposite of what they were raised to do.
Others upheld the exact family values that were instilled in them.
While I still believe our inner programming is directly related to our upbringing and financial experience, I also think the variety of outcomes ranges so widely that there is no clear-cut path. The greatest guidance we can get in life is from ourselves.
Thank you for sharing my story living abroad and financial importance!
Love the way you write. I'll be sharing it…correction: I AM sharing it as we speak!
Absolutely agree. For example, I have a friend from a wealthy household and well educated parents. But all he wants to do is to repair motors.
Good for him! We have to do what makes our heart sing. Perhaps it's his well-heeled background that has given him the courage and freedom to choose his path in this fashion.
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High School Senior Suspended For One Year, Won't Graduate on Time, Because He Hugged a Teacher
"Hug a teacher today" may be a thing, but it didn't help Sam McNair
Ed Krayewski | 12.13.2013 7:17 PM
(CBS Atlanta)
CBS Atlanta
A seventeen-year-old student giving his teacher a hug might not be nearly as self-evidently innocent as one six-year-old kissing another on the cheek, but it's hard to imagine how the action justifies a one year suspension. Via CBS Atlanta:
A Duluth High School senior has been suspended for one year and won't graduate on time for hugging a teacher last month.
Sam McNair, 17, was suspended last week when a school hearing officer found he violated the Gwinnett County Public Schools' rules on sexual harassment…
According to a discipline report, the teacher alleged McNair's cheeks and lips touched the back of her neck and cheek.
McNair denied he kissed his teacher or sexually harassed her.
McNair said he regularly hugs his teachers and has never been disciplined for it in the past.
According to the discipline report, the teacher alleged she warned McNair that hugs were inappropriate but he disputes that.
April McNair, Sam's mother, said she was dumbfounded when she was informed of the suspension and believes the district had a responsibility to notify her if her son's hugging was becoming problematic before it suspended him and derailed his college plans.
You can watch surveillance video of the hug that's part of the news segment here (screen capture's to the right).
McNair's mother makes a salient point. A one-year suspension for a non-violent act is certainly a gross over-reaction, more so given that McNair appears to have been otherwise scheduled to graduate at the end of the school year, even if he had previous (non-sexual harassment related) suspensions. His mother even believed her son, a student athlete, may have been able to qualify for college sports scholarships, a hypothesis that won't even be able to be tested now. And Sam McNair won't get as much "due process" for the claim of sexual harassment against him as teachers tend to.
The whole premise of public schools is to offer universal access to education. Some opponents of charter schools complain that their ability to "select" students contributes to disparities in access to education. The argument is flimsy. Around the country, school choice is becoming more popular. In two of New Jersey's poorest cities, Newark and Camden, a full one in five students now attend a charter schools, much to the satisfaction of those students' parents. Demand for charter schools almost always outpaces supply, which is artificially throttled by government restrictions. But here's a public school that's decided to deny a student access to education for an entire year for something that didn't physically harm anyone or anything, for something, in fact, that some teachers advocates actually encourage. "Hug a teacher today", after all, is a thing, one for which restrictions clearly apply.
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Ed Krayewski is a former associate editor at Reason.
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Hugh Akston
The whole premise of public schools is to offer universal access to education.
Are you sure it's not to train kids to comply with anything that anyone in authority tells them to do? Because that seems to be what actually happens.
Episiarch
I thought the whole premise of public schools was to force people who don't have children to subsidize parents' government-provided day care through property taxes. The authority bit is just a bonus for the statists.
As usual, you're spectacularly wrong, Epi. The carrot and the stick aren't different objects, but rather the same object viewed from different angles.
Giving parents 'free' daycare is a way to snare their kids into indoctrination institutions, where you feed them a narrative that helps them accept the limits you impose on what they can do with their lives.
I'm still mystified as to why you aren't a public school teacher, Hugh. It seems so perfect for you. You have the pulse of the schools so perfectly. Wait, are you a public school janitor? That would explain it!
Epi, you know perfectly well that, due to certain legal statutes, I don't qualify for any job within 1,000 feet of a public school.
I thought that had expired.
Cyto
The sole purpose of public schools is to provide a work force for the factories. This is not a secret… not even an open secret. The entire point is to provide minimum literacy, an ability to show up on time and follow a schedule and to do as you are told.
When we were an agrarian country with an illiterate populous that was used to working to the rhythms of the farm, not the factory clock, this made perfect sense as a way to lift the nation and its people. It quickly became a way to ensure that there were two tiers to education – a public education for the workers and a private education for those who would be leaders.
Agammamon
Your narrative falls apart when you realize that public schools don't even achieve that minimal level of competency.
well, I think he means they DID at first
and like everything else, once the system started, it STILL continues to this day, regardless of how well it's working
A+ analysis!
General Butt Naked
SusanM
Technically, that is an education.
Acosmist
Charter schools are the least libertarian of the options, so I'm not sure why you're in favor of them.
Bo Cara Esq.
-Charter schools are the least libertarian of the options, so I'm not sure why you're in favor of them.
There are some libertarians, Milton Friedman comes to mind, who supported public schools in their Libertopia. I imagine that comes with a premise that under any 100% market system there would be a fair amount of children whose parents could, or would not, procure anything resembling an adequate education.
If one accepts this, then there would have to be some kind of public schools, but competing charter schools would, at least, be there.
Yeah, I don't see why charter schools would be the least libertarian option. Absent a "no public funding" option a voucher system would be the next most libertarian option, with charters next in line. The current location-based system with busing for various social engineering reasons is probably the least libertarian system you could imagine short of Harrison Bergeron.
-The current location-based system with busing for various social engineering reasons is probably the least libertarian system you could imagine short of Harrison Bergeron.
Exceedingly well put.
the teacher alleged McNair's cheeks and lips touched the back of her neck and cheek
That's certainly reason to suspend the kid for a year, fuck up his graduation, and fuck up potential sports scholarships. Absolutely. In fact, she should have accused him of rape so that he could have the stain of sex offender attached to him for life. I mean, he hugged her. The gall!
Given the festering petri dish that is the typical high school, she should be wearing a hazmat suit
Tejicano
Given the way this teacher is ruining this kid's life, for the sake of all the other children she should be made to wear a Hazmat suit.
David Brooks yearns for a dictatorship.
Fukuyama describes what you might call the demotion of Pennsylvania Avenue. Legislative activity could once be understood by what happens at either end of that street. But now power is dispersed among the mass of rentier groups.
In other words, diffuse power is evil. How dare people petition government for redress of grievances? It's not like there's a constitutional amendment about that or anything.
But there is a way out: Make the executive branch more powerful.
Here begins the rabbit hole.
So how do you energize the executive? It's a good idea to be tolerant of executive branch power grabs and to give agencies flexibility. We voters also need to change our voting criteria. It's not enough to vote for somebody who agrees with your policy preferences. Presidential candidates need to answer two questions. How are you going to build a governing 60 percent majority that will enable you to drive the Washington policy process? What is your experience implementing policies through big organizations?
Wow. We're living in a period with the most powerful presidents of all time after the Bush/Obama powergrabs, and Brooks is such a delusional fascist that he thinks the problem is not enough unilateral power.
Eduard van Haalen
And he uses the ocare fiasco in *support* of his thesis!
Eduard, I am a bit surprised you oppose Obamacare. You seem sympathetic to ending or limiting abortions via governmental regulation in other contexts. Do you realize that if a pro-life administration could win the White House then just as the Obama administration could promulgate regulations defining insurance plans must offer contraception the next one could similarly declare that no insurance plan could offer abortion coverage, or could say that all insurance plans must cover and mandate ultrasounds before abortive procedures, or only cover abortions at providers with hospital admittance privileges. I would not be too hasty to get that overturned if I were you.
That's not even wrong. It's just the sound of your ideological onanism.
I am being serious. If you support states passing laws requiring these sort of things, then why not support Obamacare as a way to do it nationally?
You should join the NoFap initiative. Right now, your comment simply boils down to "Oh God, I'm so clever, but I'm the only one who appreciates my sparkling wit…oh, oh, ohhh…*moan*"
Again, if you are in favor of states doing it by statute, why oppose a perfect vehicle to do it federally? Every recent GOP administration has been ostensibly pro-life and they could impose these measures you approve by administrative fiat.
Fap, fap, fap…"nobody else understands my liberal word salad, they must not be geniuses like m…mmm…mmmmmeee, oh God…"
You can simply say you have no intelligible principle upon which to answer.
Was it good for you? Do you want to cuddle yourself now?
LilDebbie
Hi, Bo. I just wanted to take the time to point out that you are in fact alone here.
Maybe try not hanging out on campus on weekends. Go and see the real world. We have cookies!
-I just wanted to take the time to point out that you are in fact alone here.
What a sad comment, is this like a school to you?
Like a huge high school in a crappy teen movie.
The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc
Surprisingly, the comments are pretty solidly against Brooks.
Perhaps they realize there's a good chance the next president is a Republican.
It's also because it's David Brooks.
You see, Brooks has a reputation for being the Times' "conservative" even though he's as big government as they come, just in a different way than liberals. This means it's socially acceptable to criticize David Brooks when he says something stupid.
On the other hand, if Dowd or Friedman said the same nonsense, you wouldn't see any negative comments. I've seen Friedman say the most ludicrous things I've ever read and the comments are 90% on his side.
Well, because Friedman is the quintessential American 'public intellectual!'
On a more serious note, I am not sure Brook's arguing for a more 'energetic' or powerful executive disqualifies him from being a conservative. It was not that long ago that it was the Right championing a 'unitary executive.' Brooks may be guilty only of not flip-flopping on this now that the executive has a 'D' by his name.
I think David Brooks is a pure statist, not a conservative in any real way.
There are liberals and conservatives who are in favor of government power in certain instances. David Brooks is in favor of government power in all instances.
This is the guy who literally used the term 'National Greatness Conservatism.' That phrase is so fascist it reads like a literary goosestep.
Well, we differ in that I do not see being conservative 'in any real way' as naturally falling outside of the statist camp.
As an undergrad I took a seminar course that happened that semester to be a history of conservatism in the US. We read Russell Kirks The Conservative Mind and Gary Nash's the Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945. I would be hard pressed to name prominent conservatives we learned about that did not favor state power to, inter alia, enforce traditional morality and preserve national security.
You're missing my point. David Brooks shares statist beliefs in common with conservatives. He also shares statist beliefs in common with liberals.
The reason he isn't a conservative isn't because conservatives aren't statists. It's because conservatives are statists about some issues and not about others.
David Brooks is a firm believer in the total state. His belief in the wonder of government not only exceeds conservatives, but I'd argue it exceeds progressives.
David Brooks honestly might be more statist than the progressive left.
David Brooks: the unholy offspring of the pairing of the statist TEAMs. Pure statist.
The Immaculate Trouser
Well that's nice, Bo.
If you could please find me some prominent American progressives or leftists who were socially liberal (in the classical sense of the term) during the 30s, I'd love to hear about them. FDR, JFK, and just about every political figure on the left was just fine using government to enforce social edicts (traditional and otherwise), and doing it any other way was not particularly associated with the left until ~1960-1970.
BTW, conservatism in the US for all intents and purposes didn't exist until the New Deal. Conservatism until (and even including) the 30s was an intellectual vanity project more than an actual movement. To get to the modern conservatism as a mass movement, one must look at the general anti-communist and fusionist movements in the 50s.
-BTW, conservatism in the US for all intents and purposes didn't exist until the New Deal.
Where do you get that from?
-If you could please find me some prominent American progressives or leftists who were socially liberal (in the classical sense of the term) during the 30s, I'd love to hear about them.
Let us play this a bit differently. Can you name me any conservatives that were? I will give you a chance to respond and then I would be happy to name some prominent liberals who were.
I should also say it is a bit 'ginned up' game you are playing when we are talking about 'traditional edicts' and you pick liberals of the 1930's, no (of course even liberals of 80 years ago were more traditional than now, it was 80 years ago)? But I will play even by your tilted rules.
Fuck you, your comment explicitly referenced pre-1945 conservatives — that is why I noted 1930 progressives. Have some internal consistency.
Where did my comment reference pre-1945 conservatives? I mentioned Nash's book which says 'since 1945' in the title.
History (Eric Hobsbawm's acclaimed histories of the 19th century and Paul Johnson's History of the American People, in particular). There is not a single political party that self-identified (or that can be identified as) conservative until the New Deal. Our country was governed by a series of classically liberal parties until ~1900. Americans would have identified their system as unique and in contrast with both the continental European system and the Anglo monarchy, the Revolution was identified with the Whigs in general (Radical Whigs in particular), etc.
Let us play this a bit differently. Can you name me any conservatives that were?
Let's not, because the *fact* of the matter is that the time period you reference does not contain many political figures and movements dedicated to social liberty in a classically defined manner. In the US, very few embryonic conservatives or New Dealers preoccupied themselves with license for sexual acts or most other kinds of social liberties; they defined themselves in terms of economic program and support/opposition towards managed societies on the lines being developed by radical centrists in Europe and by various proto-socialist reformists. Indeed, members of both groups routinely accused the other of being social libertines; do recall that the Jim Crow South was the region which cast the most votes in favor of FDR.
I would agree with most of your first paragraph (with some caveats, there were a handful of significant figures and movements that were socially liberal, especially for their day, up to 1900; but yes for the most part the dominant positions of major parties would have been one that strike us as conservative today [again, note the tilted playing field there, of course as we go back in the past everyone is more conservative in that sense]). I am not sure though what the relevance of all that is to our discussion.
-In the US, very few embryonic conservatives or New Dealers preoccupied themselves with license for sexual acts or most other kinds of social liberties
Well, since you asked, Margaret Sanger, Henry Wallace, and John Dewey came to mind. Would you like more?
SweatingGin
"How are you going to build a governing 60 percent majority that will enable you to drive the Washington policy process?"
Put my opponents in camps. Next question.
So, David Brooks posted this article on twitter. Here's one of the comments:
Dr. Scott Ralph ?@oolitic 21h
.@nytdavidbrooks we have best President in decades. Flawed for sure. Not good enuf for U though. Of course Repugnatins get a pass. #putz #fb
I have a feeling this guy is not a real doctor.
It's a doctorate in homeopathic medicine.
"You've got a degree in baloney!"
+1 bag of moon sapphires.
Habeas Dorkus
A liberal black woman empowered by the state to take down another black man because of her adherence to socially "progressive" ideals and victimization.
And this is a surprise how?
I mean, if he's gonna get that kind of punishment, he at least should have stuck his fat cock right in her tight ass and yanked some hair out of her empty head for a souvenir.
Be afraid.
Colorado gunman spotted running "military style."
I imagine he must have run like those green, plastic WWII toy soldiers I had a child that had their bayoneted guns over their head (what were those figures supposed to be up to, wading through a swamp I guess?).
Media Matters declares victory in its War on Fox News
Since its founding in 2004, the progressive watchdog group Media Matters for America has been a thorn in the side of Fox News. Its dozens of staffers monitor the network's leadership, hosts, guests and financial dealings incessantly, calling out misinformation, conflicts of interest and evidence of a partisan agenda, in a bid to shed light on the workings of the right-wing echo chamber.
But in the coming years, Fox will no longer be the center of Media Matters' universe. That's because the group believes it has effectively discredited the network's desire to be seen as "fair and balanced."
"The war on Fox is over," said Media Matters Executive Vice President Angelo Carusone. "And it's not just that it's over, but it was very successful. To a large extent, we won."
According to its strategic plan for the next three years, a copy of which was provided to The Huffington Post, Media Matters envisions shifting its focus to new, increasingly influential targets, including Spanish-language media, social media streams, alternative online outlets and morning and entertainment sources. It will enhance its state media and issue-based monitoring, as well as continue its focus on right-wing radio and legacy outlets.
They won? You wouldn't guess that based on Fox's ratings.
This is a silly statement from Media Matters, but I do not care much for the counterargument that something's popularity demonstrates winning in any debate.
Smilin' Joe Fission
How else do you define winning? The number of people who voluntarily watch the network is the only metric.
Do you think the contestant that gets the most votes and wins American Idol is necessarily the best singer?
No, but the one who gets the most votes is the winner.
Why are you splitting hairs with New Tulpa? Are you lonely?
I find this comment interesting. As I noted about you the other day you seem committed to not engaging in any actual debate with anyone that disagrees with you about any point of political policy or philosophy. You usually just curse the person out or snark and that is it.
Given this is a website devoted to political policy and philosophy, how lonely must you be to come on and engage in not a thing it is set up for? Do you just take time to show up here to express your position or feelings like some twitter moment?
playa manhattan
Snark? He's right. You just don't recognize when you've had your ass handed to you.
My *ss is 'handed to me' by 'Why are you splitting hairs with New Tulpa? Are you lonely?'?
I have seen more substantive, less-self referential arguments on How I Met Your Mother.
Apatheist ?_??
Did you just censor the word ass? Holy fuck.
Fuckin a right!
I mentioned this on another thread. It may surprise you but I was raised, and continue to be a member of, quite conservative (theologically speaking) churches, and I do not swear (and my notion of what a swear is may be more broad than yours).
So you have a principled stance on naughty words (a stance which has nothing to do with the Bible or Christianity, btw — which does contain plenty of 'strong language' in the original languages from which it derives), but can't be bothered to articulate a stance on partial birth abortions.
That's fucked up, yo.
-but can't be bothered to articulate a stance on partial birth abortions.
What are you getting at specifically? I imagine it has something to do with a previous conversation we have had that you did not care for.
Well I didn't read that thread. I still think there is no difference between typing *ss and ass. It's swearing either way. Why not just substitute butt or something.
-Why not just substitute
Well, then I imagine I might hear about not accurately quoting someone.
Don't bother, playa. He's abjectly incapable of getting it. It's both hilarious and sad. I prefer the hilarious part, though.
It's basically prey drive. I try to control it, but sometimes I can't.
It surprises me your bluff is not called here more often.
If more people are watching Fox now than before Media Matters campaign, Fox has won. There is no other metric to judge a TV network.
How do you figure Fox hasn't won here?
-There is no other metric to judge a TV network.
It depends on what you are measuring them on.
Do you think Duck Dynasty to be a better television show than Breaking Bad? The former has much higher ratings.
I can't imagine Fox News fares any worse in public opinion polls than CNN or the lunatic asylum that is MSNBC.
Who could possible think Ed Schultz, Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, and Melissa Harris Perry are more trustworthy and less biased than O'Reilly, Hannity, and Megyn Kelly?
All of those people are pundits paid to provide commentary on news events.
If your criteria is popularity then yes ratings answers the debate, but it is also circular. I think you can see from the example I mentioned (Duck Dynasty v. Breaking Bad) that media can be judged by criteria other than popularity.
Okay, but it's all subjective. What makes the people who prefer Duck Dynasty to Breaking Bad objectively wrong?
You can't even compare the two since one is reality TV and the other is scripted drama. Both are entertaining in their own separate ways.
Comparing Fox to MSNBC and CNN is like arguing about which trashy VH1 reality show is more edifying.
Let me use another example: if Reason runs an article refuting, point by point, some numbskull's article at Daily Kos, would the fact that Daily Kos still had more hits or readers establish anything?
Entropy Void
Demographics, shithead, demographics.
It is clear that Media Matters won because nobody would admit to watching Fox in polite company. And by "polite company" they mean anywhere in the country where liberals dominate, like the northeast, south Florida and the pacific coast. That and the persistent use of the "Faux" insult-spelling in online posts are clear indicators of a resounding victory.
As I said, I think Media Matters saying they 'won' against Fox is (characteristically) silly of them. My only point is that I do not think that anyone wins any debate by criteria of popularity.
Michael S. Langston
Bo –
You're being purposefully obtuse – others have explained and failed…. I'll likely fail too, but here goes.
If Fox markets itself as "fair and balanced" and MediaMatters claims to have destroyed that, then Fox should've lost viewers.
So ratings is an objective measure of MediaMatters' success, even though MediaMatters could be correct and Fox wrong on every single disagreement they've ever had – the metric is still a fair measurement given MediaMatters' supposed purpose for being.
Of course MediaMatters proved themselves years ago to be untrustworthy to the point that even skimming anything the publish is time better spent banging your head against a wall… but for some reason I cannot resist your tripe on this one.
Ratings fair metric.
Why? Because of MediaMatter's stated goal and stated success.
If MediaMatters were a President, right now they're Bush standing in front of a "Mission Accomplished" banner – but for some reason you don't see that (or actively choose not too – starting to lean in that direction).
Or maybe like others have noted, you think this is clever? To try to pick very specific, narrow arguments in order to "win" against the libertarians while supporting some group they hate?
If so – you should know it doesn't make you look clever – it comes across only as hubris combined with ignorance.
Ted S.
If Fox News were supporting Obamacare and had higher ratings, I might say Media Matters won. (I'm not saying this is what actually happened, of course.)
If your goal is to discredit a news network, and that news network has only gotten more popular and influential during the last 8 years, then I'd say you've lost the argument.
Unless their goal was just convincing a generation of smug liberals that anyone who disagrees with them lives in a 'right-wing echo chamber' funded by KKKorporations.
Do even conservative Republicans think Fox is giving them reliably unbiased news? The ones I know who watch acknowledge that it is biased and one sided, but they like that bias and side.
If they are still watching Fox, than Fox has not lost. The only thing that matters to Fox is ad revenue. If they are continuing to increase their viewership, their ad revenue is increasing. How is this not winning for Fox?
That's what "Fair and Balanced" means. You don't balance something unbiased. It doesn't need balance. It's neutral, zero, nada.
"Fair and Balanced" means "we're +1 but we have -1 here to give you the other perspective in order to achieve a net 0."
How exactly did you get into law school with such a tenuous grasp on the English language?
Do you think Fox watchers think that is what it means? Most I know wink when they say that phrase, what they mean is 'Fox levels the media playing field.'
Generic Stranger
Watch as Bo the Tedious reads the minds of millions of people and decides he 's better than them! Be astounded as he routinely misses the point! Try to control your urge to vomit as he repeatedly picks nits in a desperate attempt to make himself sound intelligent!
When you use phrases like "To a large extent, we won.", it means you lost.
Also, how do they feel about the direct payments to "journalist" Ed Shultz?
OldMexican
Re: Bo Cara Esq.,
[…]but I do not care much for the counterargument that something's popularity demonstrates winning in any debate.
When discussing facts, the popularity of a cable channel becomes very relevant to the discussion.
You're confusing ratings with an Ad Populum fallacy, where the latter refers to arguments per s? and not the objective measure i.e. ratings or purchases.
Bramblyspam
I almost wish the rest of the students would arrange to play this at graduation.
It's quite a shame how the atmosphere has changed since that song came out. These days nobody would get away with making a song like that, and ABBA was such a squeaky-clean group too.
Songs about bitches and hos are alright now, though. Shall we celebrate the progress?
Francisco d Anconia
Everything today needs to be an outrage. I suppose it's to be expected with instantaneous news cycles, 24/7 reporting and uncountable news sources. In order to be successful in such a market you need to sensationalize everything. Controversy sells better than sex.
Gentlemen, there is a solution to this sort of extreme, third wave feminist bullshit and many of you already know what it is: leave the bitches alone.
Completely alone. Until they go crazy talking to their cats well into menopause.
Don't touch them. Don't talk to them. Don't look at them. Don't acknowledge the vast efforts they go through to look pretty. The only time you should acknowledge one of these bitches even exists is to point and laugh at them when they trip and fall in a puddle or struggle to open a pickle jar.
Gun-controllers are finally building local infrastructure after Newtown, and they're ready and waiting.
Ready and waiting for what, you ask?
A leader of one of the groups (Third Way) says: "if there is a tragedy that specifically involves one of the policies we're talking about, were [sic] going to see more swift action."
California Congressman Mike Thompson, head of a Dem gun violence task force, says: "I hope there's not a next time, but if there is we've laid the groundwork, we've got momentum across the country."
http://www.politico.com/story/…..01153.html
If we had just made a law against murder, Newtown would have never happened!
If we had banned schools in Newtown that massacre would never have happened. /derp-squared
Mind. Blown.
I waded through a couple articles in that link. Too funny. They write about the NRA the way a televangelist talks about satan.
I love how the left has to paint a faceless, monolithic picture of their opponent. This tells me they simply cannot accept that what they are opposing is the will of the majority of Americans. That gun ownership has become so much closer to the mainstream than their fevered fantasies try to imagine it.
Many liberals say they admire organizations run by passionate, informed, non-partisan grass roots.
Well, the NRA is probably the most grass-roots political organization in this country. Its members are likely the most informed about the issues they care about than any other. And they are genuinely non-partisan, willing to support Democrats if they have good records.
I honestly believe that this is part of their ire, and why they have to focus on the NRA as not human. To see it as the type of issue-focused organization supported primarily by donations from millions of individuals would make them feel the the effort is futile. Worse yet, it would make them feel wrong.
They are Animist Fundies, just like Westboro, and should certainly be treated as such.
Gee Golly Willikers, Mikey! You've laid groundwork? You're sure gonna take a naturally paranoid demographic or people who spent the last five years stockpiling food, weapons, and ammunition by storm.
We'll never see it coming.
The Beer Topped Burger
PYT is a Philadelphia restaurant known for its wackier menu offerings, like bacon taco shells and spaghetti bun burgers. According to Grub Street, its latest creation is called a "beerger." Customers must show ID, validating that they are of drinking age, before ordering the new offering. The burger apparently features a whole lot of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer that is frozen, then covered in wonton wrappers along with cheddar cheese. The beer package is then breaded in crushed pretzels and fried. The outcome is then placed atop a burger.
Would you try PYT's beerger?
PBR? Really? I guess it's economical and you wouldn't taste it.
So it's basically a burger with ice cubes?
Also, this food would be exempt from drinking age laws.
Not with PBR, no way in hell. Ugh, just the thought of that swill makes me sick.
The article did say that the restaurant was known for "its wackier menu offerings".
"Wackier" would have been to use Petrus sour ale or Ayinger Celebrator. Not fucking PBR. If they wanted to really be disgusting they should have used Rainier.
I don't really have much of a tolerance for novelty foods. I find them stupid and pointless. For example, when traveling about 10 years ago, my brother (the older, lame one) insisted on eating at the restaurant with the "world's largest cheeseburger". It was so big that they serve it like a pizza (wedge shaped slices). It was exactly as disgusting as it sounds. Pounds and pounds of flavorless, under seasoned, utility grade ground beef. I was so fucking pissed.
Novelty foods are absurd. There are reasons for the size and ratios of particular dishes, and "novelty" dishes specifically turn that on its head. What's the point of such a huge cheeseburger? It certainly isn't flavor, which is sort of the, you know, main point of enjoying food. Or the world's hottest chili, for instance; again, what is the point of something so hot you can't even taste it?
Give me my foie gras and uni and I'm happy, because FLAVOR and TEXTURE.
Really hot chilis actually have awesome flavor. It's just either having a tolerance or using dilution.
I make a flank steak marinade with fatalis, ghosts, lime, cumin, cilantro and garlic that is barely spicy. It's so fucking good I've had panties thrown at me at bbqs.
Everybody knows that poblanos and arb?ls have the best flavor. Everybody.
It's a different sort of flavor.
A lot of the hots/supers have a very citrusy smell and taste. It's good for mixing with fruit.
If you can get some, try some fatalis (sp? whatevs). They are really fucking good. I've concentrated on growing them in the past few years as they are extremely versatile. They are a bit hotter than strong habaneros (not the little orange ones from walmart).
I basically take a flank steak, score it diagonal to the grain and throw it into a ziploc bag. I then toss in about 4-5 peppers, the juice of 4 limes and their rinds, a couple medium crushed garlic cloves, a couple tablespoons of soy sauce and then flavor with the cilantro and cumin until I can smell them in the marinade.
I also make a bloody mary flank that's really good. The marinade is just a bloody mary but with some extra worchestire and tabasco. Cook both rare and thinly cut against the grain.
Thanks I'll have to try it next time I pick up some fresh peppers from my granddad.
Those things Warty is throwing at you only look like panties.
But then there are some flavors and textures I have no interest in knowing about. Like the street vendor in Bangkok with a wok full of frying scorpions. It could be like a cross between corn chips and buttery lobster but I just lack the adventurous tongue to go there.
I don't really have much of a tolerance for novelty foods.
And yet you rave about sriracha. :-p
Your glib, contentless, 80 character reply isn't up to the philosophical standards that this comment section strives for. Instead of some brainless proto-tweet, why don't you explain to us, from first principles, why this burger makes you sick? Or are you intellectually incapable of providing a logical argument?
Why don't you just go back to insulting the members that enrich Reason's intellectual environment and bashing David Brooks? You're much more suited to that than attempting an argument.
General, is it all right if I call you New Tulpa 2? Or New New Tulpa? Or Tulpa III? Just as long as I stop calling you Shirley.
I wanna be Tulpa DCLXVI: The Reckoning
In a world of lawless glibertarians, one man has the courage to bring law and order to anarchy…
That made me think of this.
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Could I get it made with a Julius Echter?
At least there would be wheat in the bun.
Archduke von Pantsfan
This is beyond parody.
Progressive group uses Mandela's death to rally against racist Republican voter ID laws; turns out Mandiba might not have agreed with that assessment
I think the shirt Mandela is wearing references voter registration but the laws the left here oppose deal with ID for actual voting.
South Africa allows only three forms of official identification to be used for the purposes of voting, and that does not include passports and driver's licenses. By contrast, Wisconsin's proposed voter ID requirement allows driver's licenses, military IDs, passports, certificates of naturalization, student IDs, and tribal IDs.
I stand corrected, mea culpa. It is a pretty embarrassing stance for the Wisconsin group then I would say.
JeremyR
Are libertarians the only people in the world that don't believe in voter fraud?
Every other country in the world does. Democrats do, they are just in favor of it.
But according to Libertarians, nope, not a problem, let everyone vote as often as they want. And then they turn around and say voting is meaningless, anyway.
Lots of libertarians here and otherwise favor things like voter ID laws, though some, myself included do not. For myself it is part of generally disliking the 'papers please' stance of the government. Also, my work on LP ballot drive attempts has taught me that both of the Big Two work hard to suppress votes and options, and many of these ID laws come coupled or are sponsored by the same people/groups that limit third party ballot access and drives.
Big Two work hard to suppress votes and options, and many of these ID laws come coupled or are sponsored by the same people/groups that limit third party ballot access and drives.
So you're against it because if it passes some groups might enforce it?
RishJoMo
In come the bottom feeding, blood sucking attorneys!
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That was for you, Bo.
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my mom in-law was like really bringing home money in their spare time
Is your mother-in-law a MPD sufferer?


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Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron has recently embarked upon the process of renegotiating the terms for Britain's EU membership. This process will be followed by a national referendum, by the end of 2017 at the latest, asking whether Britain should remain an EU member or leave the Union.
Why did Cameron and the Conservative party put the referendum question on the table in the first place? What reforms and opt-outs is Cameron seeking in his talks with the other EU member states, and what are the main obstacles to agreement? What are the likely consequences, for Britain and for the EU, should the British people vote to leave?
Julie Smith is a Fellow of Robinson College, where she is a Graduate Tutor and Director of Studies. An expert in European politics, she was Head of the European Programme at Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs) from 1999 until 2003. Smith is a member of the House of Lords.
Smith read PPE at Brasenose College, Oxford, and took both her MPhil and DPhil in Politics at St. Antony's College, Oxford. She was a Hanseatic Scholar in Hamburg and prior to coming to the Centre in 1997, Julie taught in the International Relations and European Studies Department of the Central European University in Budapest.
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Motz considers the fed's new gun legislation a failure for public safety
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By Justin Seward
Southern Alberta Newspapers
The federal government announced the introduction of a new gun control legislation Feb. 16.
The amendment will allow to make communities safer, while at the same time, respecting law-abiding gun owners.
The proposed legislation would combat intimate partner and gender-based violence and self-harm involving firearms by creating "red flag" and "yellow flag" laws.
"These laws would allow people, such as concerned friends or relatives, to apply to court for an immediate removal of an individual's firearms or to ask a chief firearm officer to suspend and review to suspend and review an individual's licence to own firearms," it was stated in a recent media release.
If the legislation is passed, it would fight gun smuggling and trafficking by increasing criminal penalties, support safer communities with those that ban handguns through bylaws restricting storage and transportation in their jurisdiction, giving young people the opportunities and resources needed to avoid criminal behaviour, the complete prohibition of assaultstyle fire arms and protect Canadians from gun violence.
"Too many Canadians have been killed or injured because of gun violence, and we need to take every reasonable step to stop more Canadians from suffering the same fate.
These concrete measures we're announcing build on actions already taken to address some of the most serious firearms safety issues and are part of our government's detailed firearms strategy that will help make our communities safer for everyone," said Bill Blair, Canada's minister of Public Safety.
"It's again another failure," said Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner MP Glen Motz.
"They (federal government) are ignoring the real problem and their focus is completely misguided on this issue, significantly. In the midst of (a) pandemic, (the federal government), is changing the channel, trying to take people's minds off of their own failures of how they so miserably messed up this pandemic response, that now they're going to throw some legislation out on Bill C-21 on firearms."
Motz said you'd think the legislation would be something that would address public safety — but again, they've missed the mark.
"There's no statistics to support again what they're doing — like the May 1, 2020 Order of Council gun ban," said Motz.
"The vast majority of gun crimes committed in this country are within legally-obtained firearms. So taking firearms away from lawabiding citizens does nothing to stop criminals and gang members who obtain their guns illegally."
The Conservatives will always support common sense firearm policies that keeps guns out of the hands of dangerous people and that's never been an issue, said Motz.
The feds are considered a"lazy government" to Motz.
"The other thing is they have a lazy government that downloads responsibility for something to other levels of government," said Motz "Without consulting the provinces, because if the federal government had consulted the provinces, they would have recognized it's the provincial authority all over municipalities, not federal. So by (Prime Minister Justin) Trudeau standing up and saying we're going to give municipalities the option of instituting their own hand gun ban, is laughable."
According to Stats Canada, firearms were used in over 40 per cent of homicides in Canada in 2019.
It was for that reason last May the Government of Canada banned 1,500 models and variants of assault-style firearms and some of their components.


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"News of the theft" - continues Don Cereda - "has resonated across the globe, as an expression of love for Don Bosco. This is the meaning of a relic of a saint: to offer a visible and tangible element to encourage the invocation and imitation of the saint. It is so with Don Bosco, who continues to be loved and invoked for young people, especially the poorest and most needy."
The Rector Major's Vicar concludes: "We hope and pray for this relic to soon return to its rightful place, at Colle Don Bosco, precisely where Don Bosco himself was born."
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Roxborough State Park is a gigantic geology jigsaw puzzle. It's like the world-famous Red Rocks, which are just up the road, only without the crowds. I've hiked it several times, but on the first hike, I couldn't help but think I'd stumbled upon a geological gem. Roxborough State Park is where the prairie meets the mountains in a unique setting of beauty, ecological diversity, and serenity.
It's only about a 40-minute drive from downtown Denver. On the day I went the weather was cool and cloudy, and greening up nicely as is typical in May. Roxborough State Park is a hiking only park. The trails range from the mellow Willow Creek Trail to the strenuous Carpenter Peak Trail which gains 1000 feet in elevation. At the entrance, I asked the ranger which trail I should hike. He immediately said South Rim Trail was his favorite and I quickly found out why.
I started from the visitor center sitting at 6,200 feet. The first part of the trail meandered through the scrub oak trees.
It suddenly opened up to a lush grassy meadow with a stunning view of millions-year-old sandstone monoliths jutting dramatically skyward. Wildflowers are already popping up along the trail. Seemed a little early, but it is wonderful to see yellow and even a few purple splotches against the lush green and rocky landscape.
Along the trail there are benches perfect if you need a break, just want to soak in the view, or enjoy a picnic. I saw one under a tree in the meadow then shortly after I crossed a footbridge and started climbing up the hill. Take a moment to breathe like I did and enjoy the stunning views of the green valley, rolling hills, and striking sandstone spires and monoliths.
The trail continues to gradually wind up the rocky outcrops of the Dakota Hogback. From the ridge, you get amazing views of the Fountain, Lyons, and Dakota formations.
The red-rock formations are the focal point of Roxborough State Park. The Fountain Formation is the most striking feature in the park. The tilted sandstone began over 300 million ago as the Ancestral Rocky Mountains began to erode. As the result of millions of years of uplift and erosion, today the red sandstones stand at a sixty-degree angle. Even the views looking east as the rolling terrain turns flat are incredible.
From the ridge, the trail quickly winds down into a valley. You still get to enjoy great views as you wind your way down for the final stretch of the 3 mile loop hike.
Near the end of the trail, there was a small red bridge over a creek. Couldn't help but wonder where the trail will take me next!
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Home / North West / Property / Property firm relocates to riverside base as part of expansion
Property firm relocates to riverside base as part of expansion
Paul Lea, left, and director Rob Farnham
Liverpool property firm Venmore Group has relocated its head office to a new site as part of an expansion for the 171-year-old business.
After years of trading from its Dale Street office in the city centre, the company has moved to Prospect House, in Columbus Quay, a modern and open space that boasts incredible views across the River Mersey.
Coinciding with the group's ongoing growth and increased headcount over the past few years, relaunch of its property management service, expansion of its financial services arm and selling more properties on Merseyside than any other agent, it says, the move to the near 13,000 sq ft building is seen as the beginning of a new era for the company.
Founded in 1849, The Venmore Group now boasts eight offices across the region with property services including residential sales, lettings, auction, financial services, survey and commercial consultancy.
Chairman, Paul Lea, said: "The opportunity to purchase an office building with incredible views and, more importantly, 48 car parking spaces, doesn't come along very often.
Venmore sells but talks continue
Property briefs: Eddisons; Bruntwood; Innov8; Venmores
"The property will house our head office and auction teams whilst the rest of the space will be let to local businesses on very competitive rent levels.
"We have already started discussions with several companies and expect the building to be fully let by September 2020."
He added: "It is our view that a post-COVID world will see more agile and imaginative use of space, so the fully-refurbished building will have breakout rooms, flexible working spaces and, of course, it's a very quick commute into the city centre."
Melanie Morris, solicitor at Bermans, assisted Venmore Group.
Land deal paves way for construction of 117-homes scheme
Former farm offering tourism potential comes to market for £1.8m
Mayfield Manchester developer launches major restructure after...
Approvals signalled for major city centre developments


After 8 episodes of Season 4 Game of Thrones, 4x soppy movies, 1x trashy celebrity mag, 1x fashion mag-Harper's Bazaar, and a few chapters of the book; 'The Real Life MBA', I'm finally here! WHHOOO HHHOOO!
After an hour long trip, I've arrived at the hotel,' L'Arrivee', Dortmund. I'm certainly glad to be out of the car, after my first experience on the auto barn! Scared out of my wits, it certainly was an experience for this Sydneysider! Travelling at speeds of 170kms, with the young man, at times driving one handed, and texting, I think I saw my life flash before my eyes at least twice!
With my feet firmly on the ground, over the next few days, I'll be visiting one of the world's oldest and specialised padlock factories ABUS. I'm here with Peter and Paul from Locksmith Supply Company (LSC are one of Mister Minit's valued supply partners) who are also on a similar scholarship.
Over the next few days we will see the manufacturing of a range of quality ABUS products, along with a retail study tour, of similar shop styles to Mister Minit here in Australia and New Zealand. I'm looking forward to seeing what other likeminded businesses are doing here in Europe, as well as just looking, and seeing how the other side of the world goes about doing business.
In November 2016 another severe earthquake rocked New Zealand, with tremors being felt as far as Auckland. Among the cities to fare the worst was Wellington, which incurred significant damage including the destruction of part of the Queensgate Shopping Centre. The large shopping complex in central Lower Hutt continues to remain partially closed with many areas taped off, and retailers losing their livelihood so close to Christmas.
Fortunately the Mister Minit property team thrive on a challenge, and live and die by our tagline of "Real People Fixing Problems". So when the Mister Minit store was affected by the damage, what do Real People do to fix a VERY big Problem? Give it a crack of course… with gusto!!
Despite the challenges inherent with a busy Christmas retail season, the Mister Minit team began by solving the first part of the puzzle of where else in the centre to locate – a challenge Mister Minit's Property Manager, Shane McMillan overcame by securing a kiosk site on Level 2 of the Centre.
What can we do to get something up and running ASAP was the question posed to the team, with many ideas floated before agreeing to build a new kiosk from scratch with the bits stashed locally in NZ and the friendly Bunnings team at Nae Nae.
The Mister Minit Queensgate store is now in full swing, led by Mister Minit's very own leading man Hamish, Construction Manager.
"We salvaged some essential items for the kiosk – such as a "shoe care unit" and a "merchandise display" which were at the time sharing a shed with lambs, chickens and cows at my Dad's house," said Hamish.
A few hours later, the truck was packed and after the Christmas trading hours had ended at 10pm the Mister Minit team began setting up the new kiosk at the Queensgate Shopping Centre.
All in all the Mister Minit property team are truly living the Mister Minit philosophy or Real People Fixing Problems. As Mister Minit is an everyday needs business we hope that by reopening quickly, we can support all our customers this Christmas and continue to support the community.
P.S. A big shout out to Bunnings, Nae Nae, Phil, Paul and the rest of the team who literally saved the day! You're a big factor in why we opened this side of Christmas, and we're eternally grateful!
In a recent online survey 32% of respondents don't have a spare car key, and the number 1 reason for not having a spare car key (scarily enough) is 'Because I don't need one' (47%). With Christmas officially over for another year, and many of us enjoying some R n R with our loved ones (belly full of course), how many of you could afford to part with up to $2000 at this time of year, to have new keys written to the body control unit of your car, boat or motorbike?
I know that I don't! And if I did, I would prefer to spend that amount of money on making something delicious for my family, or buying myself that dachshund that I've been wanting for years!
If your current key for your motorbike, boat or car is cracked, broken or worn out, relying on one/original key is definitely a recipe for disaster.
Car keys aren't what they used to be. These days, car keys are high tech, high security electronic immobilisation devices that prevent the bad guys stealing your car. They are made up of multiple technologies integrated into the one key. The integration of multiple technologies and utilising key aspects of the vehicle systems has made the humble car key more secure than ever. The process of duplicating modern car keys has also evolved, to ensure quality, and maintaining the high level of security, a process including precision key cutting, transponder programming as well as programming of the keyless entry system. The evolution of the car key has come a long way in the last decade. The advancement in automotive security technology has sustained a steady decrease in light vehicle theft in Australia each year.
Whilst car key technology is continually improving, the downside to this is if you were to lose your only working key, the cost to get a spare set written to your car is extremely high, and can be totally avoided! 1 working car key + 0 spares = time, money and grief!
2018 New Year's Resolution, new car key is going to the top of the list!


Can you bring the make-a-treat bar to my home, office, or event?
We have two options for making cupcakes at your place instead of ours. We offer make a treat "kits" that include 6 cupcakes, a tub of frosting, and 6 toppings of your choice. You can order as many kits as you need for your purposed. We are also able to cater large events and staff the make a treat bar at your venue. For more information on catering options, please email info@treatcupcakebar.com.
Yes! While our seating is first come, first serve, we welcome large groups to enjoy our café for their celebrations. Anyone in the group can choose to pick a treat or make a treat at our cupcake bar.
You do not need to make a resercation. We are able to accommodate groups of any size coming in to make or pick cupcakes in our café.