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The separation of church and state -- which may seem like a fig leaf in a city where groups with religious roots get hundreds of millions in city contracts -- has been ripped off entirely by the City Council. Through its member items, the council gives many thousands of dollars to groups whose stated purpose is to promote their religion -- and who use their religion to discriminate against gay groups. Such practices are legal -- though upsetting to gays and their allies -- if the group is truly private but not if it receives city funds.
City Council member-item funding went to three private, religious groups to run discriminatory St. Patrick's Day parades in contradiction of the council's own policy prohibiting such funding. When asked about this, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the practice, saying that the city may not discriminate against a parade's message even when city funding is involved.
The question, however, is not whether the parades should be allowed to take place -- no one disputes that -- but whether they can receive taxpayer money. Neither Quinn nor Bloomberg would respond to questions about whether giving member item money for such parades could open the door to city funding for even the most extreme messages, such as those of the Ku Klux Klan, who demonstrated in New York in 2004.
City Comptroller John Liu, several city and state legislators and the New York Civil Liberties Union criticized the funding, as did City Councilmember Daniel Dromm, a Democrat from Jackson Heights. But Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer stonewalled Gotham Gazette when asked about it.
Recently, press accounts have drawn attention to city and state funds going to Jewish organizations that discriminate against women. The instance of the parades, while involving smaller amounts of money, offers another vivid example of government officials sending taxpayer money to religious organizations, turning a blind eye to the groups' policies of violating city human rights law.
The Three Parades
At issue is City Council member item money going to the St. Patrick's Day Parade committees in Bay Ridge, which was funded by Councilmember Vincent Gentile; Throgs Neck, funded by James Vacca; and Staten Island, where the parade benefits from Deborah Rose's largess. Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro also funded the parade and would not respond to questions about the legality of the funding.
Unlike the St. Patrick's Day in Sunnyside run by St. Pat's for All and the observances of the holiday in Irish cities, each of these parades has declared itself a private, Catholic event. This allows the three to exclude any groups they want to -- most notably gays.
Many groups affiliated with religious organizations provide valuable services -- from running Little League teams to aiding the poor and the sick -- across the five boroughs. These groups receive city money. But their goal is not and may not be promoting religion, and they may not discriminate against any group, either in hiring or in the provision of services.
The City Council's discretionary funding policies and procedures say: "All public funds, however awarded, must be used for a city purpose" and must be "open to members of the public, regardless of race, creed, gender, religious affiliation, etc., without restriction, and which does not promote a particular religion."
The three parades clearly violate that policy, but Quinn, who as council speaker has the authority to review all member items, is trying to say that parades are somehow exempt.
Her initial reaction to the funding flap was conveyed by her spokesperson Nicole Kolinsky: "As we look toward the FY2012 budget, all groups receiving discretionary funding from individual council members will be under review for future funding." But she did not answer questions about the appropriateness of the current funding or how she felt about it going to discriminatory groups who say their sole purpose is promoting a religious message.
When pressed, Quinn's communications director, Jamie McShane, wrote an e-mail: "I spoke with our general counsel today, here's what I have: There is a rigorous review process for City Council discretionary funds. However, as a former member of the Human Rights Commission, you are likely aware that the courts have ruled that government cannot regulate the message of a parade."
Bloomberg spokesperson Jason Post took a similar tact: "The mayor believes that parades should be open to all, those beliefs are well-known and often-repeated. Recipients of City Council grants are thoroughly reviewed, but the administration does not evaluate [grants to the] council recipients based on their message or beliefs, nor should we. The Supreme Court has held that government can't regulate the message of a parade by requiring that its organizers be more inclusive."
What the Law Says
Intentionally or not, Quinn and Bloomberg seem to be confusing the right to hold discriminatory views and even to discriminate in a private parade with the right to city money, which under law entails an obligation to serve the public and be open to all. Art Eisenberg of the Civil Liberties Union said that the city "cannot provide city funds to an organization not open to the public or that promotes a particular religion."
As McShane noted, I am indeed a former member of the city's Human Rights Commission. In 1991, we ruled that the big Fifth Avenue St. Patrick's Day Parade run by the Ancient Order of Hibernians was in violation of the city's human rights law. It excluded the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization and continues to exclude any Irish gay group with a banner but receives unique support from the city above and beyond the police protection all are entitled to. The Hibernians argued in court that its parade was a private, religious event and prevailed in an appeal of that decision. The parade does not, however, receive direct city funding.
The United States Supreme Court ruled unanimously in a case involving Boston's St. Patrick's Day Parade that it has a First Amendment right to exclude whoever its organizers wanted.
For the record, I support that decision and the right of any group to control its message in a demonstration or parade and exclude who they want, but I boycott -- as most city officials do -- those that discriminate.
Brendan Fay is co-chair of the inclusive St. Pat's for All parade in Queens, which includes not just Irish but gay and Korean groups, among many others. He brought to my attention that three of the exclusionary borough parades received city funds and that all the information was available on Gotham Gazette's Councilpedia, which lists City Council member item money.
Following the Money
State Sen. Tom Duane of Manhattan, who noted that he was arrested with Quinn protesting the Throgs Neck parade in 1999 said flatly, "They shouldn't get taxpayer dollars. We shouldn't fund discriminatory activity."
Quinn's press office refused to say whether she had noticed that the Bronx event at which she had been arrested received City Council funds.
State Assembly Member Micah Kellner, who represents Manhattan's East Side, said that state legislators may not direct member item money to groups that discriminate. "If you're a Catholic hospital, you have to serve the LGBT community," he said. And despite the fact that the Catholic Church teaches that gay people are "evil" and "disordered," Catholic agencies receiving government funds know they may not discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation under city and state law.
Kellner said the issue of using state money to help fund a discriminatory parade has not come up, but that the Assembly's oversight arm is "looking to put together guidelines on it."
"I think it is dead wrong for city money" to be going to these discriminatory parades, he said. "They don't have a right to taxpayer money."
Liu's deputy comptroller, Alan van Capelle, said, "City funds shouldn't be used to discriminate against any people." But he said that his office only has oversight over relatively large contracts and that these contractors must <http://law.onecle.com/new-york/new-york-city-administrative-code-new-/ADC06-123_6-123.html>comply with the city human rights law. Given that grants for the local St. Patrick's Day parades are in the $2,000 to $5,000 range, he said, "The Human Rights Commission is responsible for enforcing the human rights law. And the City Council own internal guidelines should be used to enforce the rules around discretionary funds. I don't see a distinction for parades."
Betsy Hertzog, a spokesperson for the City Commission On Human Rights, told Gotham Gazette, "We will look into it."
Since the council is interpreting its own policy as not covering this kind of discrimination, it may be up to a taxpayer or an aggrieved party to press them on it. Gerard Mawn, whose rejected application to the Staten Island parade led Quinn and others to boycott it, said, "They shouldn't get city money because they discriminate." He said he was discriminated against and he was considering taking steps to file a complaint about it.
Donna Lieberman, the executive director of the NYCLU, said the group is open to a lawsuit on the issue. She also noted that her group filed a friend-of-the-court brief defending the right of St. Patrick's Day parades to include or exclude who they want, but that that is different from supporting government funding for them.
The Council Response
In fairness to Councilmember Rose, the Staten Island parade committee had not declared itself to be discriminatory until after she had directed $2,500 in member item money to it. In early March, Quinn held a press conference with Liu, de Blasio, and Stringer condemning the Staten Island parade for nixing the participation of Staten Island Pride Events, a gay group.
Rose said she spoke to Jim Haynes III, president of the Richmond County Ancient Order of Hibernians, which runs the parade, after it excluded Mawn's group. The committee, according to Rose, feels the parade "is an observance of a religious holiday." That alone ought to exclude the group from city funding.
"If we give funds to a group that is religious, they have to prove to the City Council through a vetting process that they are open to everyone regardless of religious affiliation," Rose said. In this instance, though, it seems the discriminatory parades were never asked by council overseers whether they were willing to comply with the city human rights law in the conduct of their events.
Rose said that she "could not in good conscience give them public funds if they" continue to discriminate. She added that discussions are going on about the parade's future, but would not commit to denying them future funds yet. Haynes did not return repeated calls for comment.
Councilmember Vacca said he was not aware of the discriminatory policy of the Throgs Neck parade to which he directed $5,000. He promised to "review it," but after weeks of follow up calls and e-mails he did not release the results of his review nor offer his view on city funding going to discriminatory groups.
The same goes for Councilmember Gentile, a Democrat of Bay Ridge, who dodged questions about the appropriateness of the $2,000 in city funds he directed to the Bay Ridge St. Patrick's Day Parade. In an email, a spokesperson for the council member echoed Quinn, saying, "As of now, all fiscal year 2012 funding and applications for that funding are currently under review and will be approved/allocated by July 2011" -- a statement of the obvious, not whether his funding was appropriate.
Councilmember Dromm takes a more active approach. "Before I appropriate member item money, I want to know what a group's anti-discrimination policy is," he said. He does give money to a Catholic senior center, for instance, but he said that it welcomes gay couples.
Fay's Lavender and Green Alliance applied to participate in the Bay Ridge Parade as recently as this year and got no response from organizers. Quinn, Liu and de Blasio, who are eager to be able to participate in all of these neighborhood parades, did not march in the Bay Ridge Parade -- or the one in Throgs Neck -- because they discriminate.
They Keep Marching
The support of city officials for the parades goes beyond the member items and police protection.
While some elected officials, including Quinn, Liu, de Blasio and Stringer, will not march in parades that discriminate, other officials continue to take part. (For more on that, see my. report in Gay City News.)
While Bloomberg may "believe" parades should be open to all, he marches in several that are not. After the gruesome anti-gay attacks in the Bronx last year, he wondered aloud where young people get the idea that it is OK to beat up gays. I asked him what kind of message he and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly send to young people when they march in anti-gay parades. Bloomberg said, "I don't think kids pay attention" to who marches in parades.
Quinn said at the press conference on the Staten Island parade that, although she would not march in it, she would not criticize those who do. Marching, she said, "is every individual's personal decision." She continued that she was not "going to judge any police officer or firefighter," who "would take a bullet for a gay person." But she added, "The organizers put people in a terrible situation."
Kelly has served as grand marshal of the Fifth Avenue parade. In response to a question about the exclusion of gays, he said, "Ideally, everybody should be able to go everywhere." But when asked if participating in a discriminatory event sends the wrong message, Kelly answered. "You have to look at the 250-year history of the parade."
Emmai Gelman of the group Irish Queers, which holds annual protests at the Fifth Avenue St. Patrick's Day Parade over its exclusion of gay groups, wrote to Kelly this year demanding that police and other city personnel stop marching in uniform given the discriminatory policy of the parade. She is not trying to stop individual members of the department from marching in civilian clothes or even from carrying a banner identifying themselves as from a police organization. The group has not gotten a response from Kelly and is contemplating a lawsuit.
More Groups, More Funds
The separation of religion and government has taken some other hits recently. Agudath Israel, the largest Jewish social service organization in New York, successfully got $18 million in the state budget this year for tuition assistance for rabbinical students despite such funding being nixed by Albany for years. City Hall newspaper reported that the funding was inserted by Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos in exchange for support from officials from Agudath for a Republican replacement for indicted Democratic State Sen. Carl Kruger of Brooklyn, a contention denied by Skelos' spokesperson.
The New York Times recently exposed the fact that the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council, a social service agency "that has received millions of dollars in government grants over the years," allows only observant male Jews who are either married, previously married, or over 30 to vote for its leadership. Eliyahu Federman, 26, a recent law school graduate, is challenging the male-only policy as unconstitutional.
The Crown Heights council, like Catholic Charities, is set up as a non-profit that is not a religious organization in order to qualify for government grants. It is obliged to operate in a non-discriminatory fashion in its hiring and in the provision of services.
Scores of groups with religious roots, from the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies to the Jewish Home and Hospital, provide valuable services in compliance with human rights laws. The ones that do not only come to light when someone who witnesses or experiences discrimination steps forward to complain.
Andy Humm, a former member of the City Commission on Human Rights, has been in charge of the civil rights topic page since its inception in 2001. He is co-host of the weekly "Gay USA" on Manhattan Neighborhood Network (34 on Time-Warner; 107 on RCN) on Thursdays at 11 PM.


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"Bailey Family" -- Bill and Stacie Bailey have demanding jobs and an even more demanding family. Bill is a police officer, and Stacie teaches at the local elementary school. But when they return from long days on the job, the real work begins - raising Billy and Jadyn, ages two and six. "Billy can be very sweet - then there's the devil," says Stacie referring to her son's epic tantrums. Daughter Jadyn, according to Stacie, is "already hitting the moodiness of puberty," plus the youngster has a major sleeping problem. She sleeps everywhere but her own bed, preferring her parents' room or even the hallway floor! Will Bill be able to police his children's behavior? How can educator Stacie teach her children respect and discipline? When the parents run out of answers, it's Jo Frost to the rescue, on "Supernanny," MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21 (10:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.
Supernanny Jo Frost catapulted to fame when the U.K. version of "Supernanny" debuted in 2004, and she's considered by many to be a godsend to U.S. parents and media, counting Oprah Winfrey, Kelly Ripa, Newsweek and reporters nationwide among her fans. In addition, her new book, Supernanny: How to Get the Best from Your Children, is already No. 2 on the New York Times Bestseller List.
On the television program, Jo observes how parents handle their day-to-day obstacles with their children. Once she's assessed the pitfalls, she works with the parents, instilling her tried-and-true methods for transforming unwanted behavior. Then, after demonstrating just how well the new style will work and getting unbelievable results from the children, the parents must fly solo with the Supernanny techniques. For several days they try to implement Jo's suggestions, and she revisits them at the end of the program to help keep them on track for the future. When parents witness Jo's results and -- even better -- achieve them on their own, they are true believers in the Supernanny way. Best of all, children and adults alike can enjoy the lasting benefits of a more harmonious family life.
Nick Powell is the creator and executive producer of both the American and British versions of the show. Craig Armstrong is executive producer of the American version. "Supernanny" is produced by Ricochet, Ltd.
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Tahoe Douglas hires new fire inspector
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Sylvia Lee has been hired as Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection District's new fire inspector.
Lee has relocated from Las Vegas, where she was previously the entertainment coordinator for the Bellagio. For the past five years, she has worked as a fire inspector for Clark County Fire Department, during which time she was involved with code enforcement, permitting and public education. She recently served as the treasurer of the Fire Prevention Association of Nevada and she is fluent in Spanish.
"Sylvia's experience will be a great asset to the Fire District and our community" Fire Marshal Eric Guevin said in a press release.


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Wu Minxia is close to crowning herself China's new diving queen.
Wu and her partner He Zi won the first diving gold medal of the London Olympics on Sunday, putting the country on a path toward a possible sweep of the eight medals.
They led throughout the five-dive round and totaled 346.20 points in the 3-meter synchronized event.
"It's kind of if they mess up, then you have an opportunity," American silver medalist Abby Johnston said. "Anything can happen in this sport, so you still have that possibility."
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It was Wu's fifth Olympic medal, leaving her one away from tying countrywoman Guo Jingjing's record of six medals. Guo was China's superstar diver until her retirement 1 1/2 years ago.
Wu has three golds, one silver and one bronze. She could earn another in the individual springboard event, where she has medaled twice before and will compete against He.
"It feels normal," Wu said in Mandarin. "I really don't have that many emotions."
China won seven of eight golds as the host country four years ago in Beijing and swept the golds at last year's world championships in Shanghai.
"I am impressed by them," Johnston said. "I watch their video. That's one of my training methods, just watching them and how they do it."
Johnston and Kelci Bryant finished second with 321.90 points, ending the country's diving medal drought that extended to the 2000 Sydney Games. It was the first-ever Olympic synchro medal for the Americans.
"Our curse is out of the way," said Bryant, who finished fourth in springboard synchro with a different partner in Beijing.
"Abby and I just kicked it off with this event and I think the rest of the team is going to come through," she said. "After 2008, all of us were really close and we needed to fine-tune our training."
Laura Wilkinson's gold on 10-meter platform in Sydney, where she upset the Chinese despite a broken foot, was the last U.S. medal. The Americans were shut out for the first time ever four years later in Athens and again in Beijing.
"This is a new beginning," U.S. high performance director Steve Foley said. "We've got to forget the great USA diving history because really that was 20-plus years ago. It wasn't just 12 years ago when Laura won because they only got one medal, so the glory days were gone a long time ago."
After receiving their medals — Bryant cried and Johnston smiled broadly on the podium — Bryant reminded Johnston to hold up her prize as they posed for a gaggle of photographers on the deck.
"Ahhhh!!! So happy for our girls!!" tweeted American David Boudia, who will compete in 10-meter individual and synchro. "Great start."
The U.S. duo was third after the first round, then moved up to second and stayed there despite a mere 1.5-point lead over Canada after the fourth round. Bryant deliberately didn't watch the scoreboard during the competition.
"I have all the faith in the world when I get up on that board Kelci is going to hit her dive and I'm pretty sure she thinks I'm going to hit mine," Johnston said.
Emilie Heymans and Jennifer Abel earned the bronze with 316.80 for Canada's first medal of the games.
Heymans claimed her fourth career Olympic medal, making her the first female diver to earn a medal at four consecutive games. She took silver on individual 10-meter in Beijing, bronze in synchro platform in 2004 and silver in the same event in Sydney, the first year synchro diving was added to the Olympic program.
"It's really great and I hope it's going to inspire the other athletes to do well," Heymans said.
Foley had emphasized achieving success in synchro since coming on board after Beijing.
"It's scary they were listening to me," the Australian said jokingly.
Foley focused on partnering divers who can match each other's quality of dives and consistency. Each of the three synchro teams — the U.S. didn't qualify a team in women's 10-meter synchro — has one veteran Olympian and one rookie. Four years ago, 10 of the team's 12 divers had never been to the pressure-packed Olympics.
"He told us to dive well," Johnston said of Foley. "If you have the performance of your life you're going to be happy. We had the performance of our lives and I'm ecstatic."
Unlike the individual events, synchro diving goes directly to the final at the Olympics, with no preliminaries or semifinals.
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Game On
The Harvard field hockey team returns home, looking to even its Ivy League record against Penn Saturday at noon at Jordan Field. The Crimson then gets a visit from Bryant on Sunday at 2 p.m.
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Free live statistics and subscription-based live video will be available for both weekend games at the links above.
Last Time Out
Kyleigh Keating tallied two goals to help Harvard (2-3, 0-1 Ivy League) rally to tie twice, but Amanda Danziger scored with five seconds remaining in regulation to give Quinnipiac a 4-3 win Sunday in Hamden, Conn. Noel Painter also scored for the Crimson, while Cynthia Tassopoulos made nine saves and Molly Stansik added a defensive save.
Crimson Capsule
Bridget McGillivray and Noel Painter lead a balanced Harvard attack with five points each. They have scored two goals apiece, as have Sydney Jenkins and Kyleigh Keating. Carly Dickson and Katelin Wahl have recorded two assists each. Twenty-two players have taken the field for Harvard this season.
Cynthia Tassopoulos ranks fourth nationally with 9.4 saves per game and 18th with a .770 save percentage. She and Jenn Hatfield, who debuted by stopping each of the eight shots she faced Saturday at Yale, have Harvard tied for third in Division I with 11.4 saves per game.
History Lessons
Carly Dickson scored a goal and assisted Georgia McGillivray on another to lead the Crimson to a 2-0 win against the Quakers last season in Philadelphia. Cynthia Tassopoulos made three saves in the shutout. Harvard held an 8-7 edge in shots, but Penn owned a 5-3 corners advantage.
Harvard leads the all-time series against Penn, 19-13-2. The Quakers have won two of the last three meetings since ending a 10-game series win streak for the Crimson from 1996-2005.
Bryant is visiting Jordan Field for the third straight season. The Crimson defeated the Bulldogs, 4-2, in 2009 and, 5-2, last season. Chloe Keating '11 paced Harvard with a hat trick in last season's win, while Carly Dickson and Emma Keller each had a goal and an assist. Elise Boissoneau and Courtney Landi tallied for Bryant. Boissoneau's goal tied the game at 1-1 in the first half, before Harvard reeled off four straight goals in the second half.
Scouting the Quakers
Penn (1-5, 1-0) found the perfect time for its first win of the season, in the Quakers' Ivy Legaue opener against Cornell last weekend. A second-half goal by Emily Corcoran was enough, as Kieran Sweeney made nine saves and MaryRose Croddick had a defensive save in the 1-0 win. Corcoran leads the squad with five points and two goals this season.
Scouting the Bulldogs
Bryant (3-4) has won three of its last four games, including a 3-2 victory at Brown in its last contest. Kayleigh Ballantyne scored the tie-breaking goal with less than 15 minutes remaining. Rosie Bird also scored against the Bears and has a team-high 16 points and seven goals. Ballantyne has seven goals, while Emily Charpentier paces the squad with three assists.
Around the League
Dartmouth, which opened Ivy play with a 2-1 win against Princeton, visits Brown Saturday. The Tigers look to rebound against Yale, while Columbia looks to build on last week's 3-1 win against Brown when it visits Cornell.


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March 11, 2010
Joe Cool and the slug trails
I think this kid is super cool. Seriously- he is like a little mini Bill Cosby. He moves like Bill- he has that same Bill Cosby grin. He draws laughs like a comedian. He is a ham. Miles is really into entertaining people. If you would have told me that same little, sad kid I met almost a month ago would be the ham in our family, I would have thought you were crazy. Just goes to show what a little love and some goldfish crackers can do for a kid.
You see how shiny and glisteny little Mister is? The week we came home his poor skin got so cracked and dry. It was awful. I tried just about every lotion and oil known to man. I was stopping every poor, unsuspecting African American woman in every store I went to polling them on what they put on their skin. One lady turned me on to a shea butter solid that worked really well. The stuff is about the same consistency of Crisco. It really helped his dry skin and smelled pretty good, too. The drawback to this is that you have to put it on at least twice a day for it to keep working well. Miles loves getting rubbed down with lotions and creams- it is really good bonding time for us. But keeping up the routine twice a day was really time consuming. Plus- the kid left a trail like a slug every time he went anywhere with all that glisteny slick cream. He was so oily I felt like I was getting ready to put him in a pan and fry him. So I thought I'd try something else. In my quest against ashiness (is that a word?) I have found the most amazing stuff! Here's our new magic bullet:
It is JR Watkins Natural Green Tea and Aloe shea butter body cream. I loved the shea butter but the consistency of the solid turned me off. This is a really thick cream and is easy to apply and isn't greasy. It leaves his skin super soft without being slick. So no more slug trail! And it only has to be applied once a day! I bought this at Walgreen's. The only scent they sell is the Green Tea and Aloe, but if you buy it off their website you can get the same formula in other scents. It is $9 for about 3 1/2 oz. Not super cheap, but not super expensive either. Now...if only I could figure out a way to get paid for this endorsement!
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
My Mets Journal in the NY TIMES!!!!!
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Hey Joe...you can add Buenos Aires, Argentina to your list. Congratulations! Great stuff...Let's Go Met's!ReplyDelete
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Awesome. The Times sent me here, and I'm grateful. Great work.ReplyDelete
Wow, first the WSJ and now NYT...hittin' the big time! LETS GO METS!!!ReplyDelete
Great work here. I hope to see a lot more color than black and white for the rest of the season!
Found out about your blog through the NYT article online (I live in Florida). Great way to start my morning. Had to share it with my friends on Facebook -- great work! Thank you!ReplyDelete
Love this blog. If I can't see a game I can get a great run down of it w/ some fantastic art as well.ReplyDelete
Shared it on FB as well.
The angst, the camaraderie, the colorful characters, etc....All enough to make this Yankees fan a little jealous!ReplyDelete
Great blog, hope you don't mind me stopping by, as the Yanks have no one like you, Joe!
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The NY Times just discovered what all of us knew already...
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- AnonymousJune 29, 2011 at 3:49 PM
kudos to your blog and your commitment to the Mets! It's lifelong fans like you that make the sport meaningful.ReplyDelete
- from a lifelong fan of a certain NL team located two hours away from NYC.
Joe: If not done already, add SAN FRANCISO to your city fanbase-- I'm HUGE Mets fan and your site, sent to me by my father (who for the life of him can't figure out how his 2 sons became Mets fans, as he is a Yanks diehard). The Mest are in town next week, and I'll be wearing the blue and orange with a Mr. Met cap! LETS GO METS!ReplyDelete
Found you in the Times and I'm so glad. You can count two fans in Portland, OR! Love the colour ones and hope to see more!ReplyDelete
Saw the article in the times. Great great stuff. I do a basketball comic myself and I'll be coming back here just to check out your great art. Thanks.ReplyDelete
Great NYT article- there are a few of us rebel NL fans here in Vermont (where 49.5% of the fans are for the Red Sox and 49.5% are for the Yankees)ReplyDelete
When I stumbled upon this blog via the NY Times article I said to myself, "Oh my god the spirit of Bill Gallo lives on!" As I read through each and every post this year I felt myself being transported back to that feeling of "Magic" that first made me a fan of the NY Metropolitans. "Ya gotta believe!" A wise man once said. You have drawn me back into the fold -so to speak- of Mets fandom. Thanks. P.S. I can't believe you designed the '86 uniforms!
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TIDES ARE GETTING BIGGER along the West Coast and global climate change is the likely culprit.
Engineering Prof. David Jay says the amplitude of tides from Alaska to Mexico has increased, meaning the change between the highest and lowest tides is bigger. Though the rise in global sea levels is well documented, the tides themselves were, until now, thought to be constant.
Jay came upon the tidal change almost by accident. He was training a high school student in how to run a tidal analysis program when the student's results indicated an increase in tidal amplitude near Astoria. Jay had him recheck his work, and then suggested analyzing data from a San Francisco site. There, too, tidal amplitude was increasing. That began a five-year project to collect and analyze historic tidal readings along the West Coast. Study findings were published in a Geophysics Research Letters article early this year.
The growth in tidal amplitudes may accelerate coastal erosion, says Jay, especially in areas along the Oregon coast where the sea level is rising and storm waves are growing larger. Tides also play an important role in oceanic processes related to healthy ecosystems, but the role larger tides may play in these complex processes, and what effect the increased tides may have on nutrient supplies and fisheries, requires further study.


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The Best Historical Drama Movies of All Time, Ranked
List Rules Your favorite historical drama films, regardless of box office gross or popularity.
Moviegoers rank the best historical drama movies and period pieces of all time below. So what makes a good historical drama movie? Some would say period-accuracy is most important while others may assert plot and emotion should be priorities. These differing opinions are why it is difficult to rank the best historical drama movies of all time.
Do your due diligence and vote up your favorite historical dramas. These are the top films in the historical drama genre, meaning that each and every one of these is either tells a story from history or is a period piece. We have included details such as cast, year, director and more. This list of historical drama films also contains plot summaries and miscellaneous information. Original trailers for the movies included when available.
Many of these hit historical drama movies are available for streaming on Netflix and Amazon Prime. Don't agree with this list? Feel free to rerank it to your heart's desire. You can either copy the historical drama films or add your own. This list, though, contains the best historical drama movies of all time, as voted on by fans of the films. Make sure to rock the vote by voting up the greatest movies on this list (according to you). List of historical drama films includes historical drama movie titles that can be clicked on for more information about the film. After you've voted for your favorites, share the list on Facebook, Twitter, or any other social networks. Aside from this list of the best historical drama movies, you can also take a look at the Best Family Drama Movies, The Best R-Rated Drama Movies, and the Best PG-13 Rated Drama Movies.
All sorts of directors have taken on Historical drama movies. Examples include Orson Welles, Martin Scorsese, and Robert Redford.


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The Case of Amnesty InternationalVestergaard, Anne (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The development of corporate communication in recent years has brought about a fading of the division of labor between commercial and non-commercial organizations. While the practices of commercial organizations are becoming increasingly ethicalized, so the practices of non-profit organizations are becoming increasingly commercialized. This paper explores the use of media discourse for the communication of ethical messages by humanitarian organizations, caught, as they are, in a tension between, on the one hand, the commercial strategies of visibility and still greater dependence on the media, and, on the other hand, the public's skepticism toward mediated morality and what is commonly referred to as compassion fatigue. The issue is investigated through an analysis of a TV spot produced by the Danish section of Amnesty International in 2004. This spot is taken as an example of how the organization's branding strategies testify to a high degree of reflexivity about the conditions of what Luc Boltanski calls a Crisis of Pity. The analysis illustrates how, in the face of compassion fatigue, the organization manages to carve out a new space for itself in the marketized ethical discourse, and leads to a discussion of the consequences of such rebranding for the construction of morality by the organization. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6965
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I am excited to announce that I have been invited to participate in the Holiday Pet Shoppes 2012 show! The show takes place this Saturday, December 8 at the Sheraton Boston Hotel (at Prudential Center) from 12pm-6pm. This show is sponsored by Cityside Subaru and will feature over a dozen carefully selected pet vendors from throughout New England. You will be able to view my beaded doggie designs as well as a select number of my beaded artworks, all of which will be available for sale. Please check the event page to learn about all of the vendors, as well as special guest, Lilly the Hero Pit Bull. 🙂
This will be my first show on rather short notice, so I have been running around like crazy trying to prepare. I don't have a lot of money to spend, so I used what I had around the house to create a display for my beaded pet pins. I simply covered a canvas with felt and displayed it on a tabletop easel. I can now attach my pins and pendants to the felt using U-pins. It's a simple idea, but I think it will serve its purpose for a one-day show. What do you think?
I will also be offering one of my latest designs at next week's show – a new beaded Labradoodle pin! I used size 11 & 15 seed beads to created this piece. Beadwork is layered on the dog's head & ears to create more dimension. I posted a photo of this on my Facebook page, and learned that this piece could actually pass for several different dog breeds. What kind of dog does it look like to you? 😀


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ESSAY- Locally shot: The Zen horror movie that works
As we snowball to financial, social, moral, and material apocalypse, a storyteller can offer us the modest comfort that if everything's not going to be precisely okay, at least the networks won't launch any new CSI spin-offs next season.
And what medium does local best, but indie film? The neo-localist movement, with its home-knit mittens that fit like Ziploc baggies and heritage tomatoes that look like malignant tumors, gives us more than wormy produce and scratchy sweaters. It gives us Brian Wimer.
This guy is brilliant. Six foot four (he edges out our other best local filmmaker, Johnny St. Ours, by about a half-inch), raffishly handsome (Errol Flynn with aberrant facial hair), he's a Hollywood slickster (I tried to buy a ticket to his show and wound up asking for his autograph). He also has a serpentine mind for juggling people and ideas, and nobody likes him.
Charm, poise, genius, and universal loathing. Who could ask for better in a visionary, someone who looks good in Armani while you're stoning him to death? And, in a way, he's receiving a stoning: he makes great art, and nobody notices.
Mantra is his latest work, and it's making a solid showing at U.S. festivals, winning awards and audience acclaim. His advertising of it reveals his own twisted cleverness. He's too confident to fear labels, and he deliberately taunts a potential audience to ignore the film by printing his cinematic formula: zombies, tits, and gore at ten minutes apiece. And he delivers, by the second-hand on my watch, each of these.
But somehow, in what time remains on the clock, he shocks the audience into disbelief that they've just seen a DIY genre-piece. At a sparsely attended showing at Vinegar Hill, audiences seemed not to know what the hell to make of it, but in the out-procession nobody said "zombie" and nobody said "slasher." About the most literate critical comment I heard was "whoa," and that was from a UVA professor.
A handful of average-looking actors get into an average bus and go off on an average New-Age Retreat. Wimer plays the guru, and in five screen-minutes steals the film; to the extent that the hoariest part of the suspense in the oeuvre is the edge-of-seat hope that Wimer might appear again, and again, and again on-screen to wow us more. The film unrolls, and stuff happens.
We're never quite clear what that stuff is, and it makes not the slightest difference to enjoyment of it. There are Zen pronouncements that while delivered with irony somehow manage to settle on the viewer like the real thing; I found myself repeating them as if I'd just sat at the knee of Dalai Lama.
Flashback, flash-forward, funny interactions between realistically differentiated characters, long-angle shots of faces twisted into boredom-shock-confusion-beatitude, those infinite moments of camera stillness watching someone stir a pot, then a frightening downpour of synesthesia and jumpcuts and just-plain-weird visuals.
Then the final credits roll. Abel Okugawa's music haunts the thing, a trance of temple-bells and three-chord Ommms.
Was there a plot? Maybe. Did the film start-develop-culminate-resolve? Maybe. Did a character change? Maybe.
Did the audience leave wanting more, wondering more than they imagined they would, wishing they knew what the hell was going on? Absolutely.
Wimer buses us in and buses us out, and we wonder where we've been for over an hour: pure escapism and pure art, the art of out-of-body transport, an abduction.
Mind this: Mantra uses all the tricks of the horror film for suspense and the avant-garde film for art. It is as horrific an art film as I've seen, and as artful a horror film as I've seen. Yet somehow Wimer's Hollywood-without-Hollywood wit knows better than to make Mantra wholly either. It is not a didactic or exploratory yawn. It is not a formulaic or re-tread nail-biter.
We see breasts but can't take the time to notice whether they are shapely or perky, see gore and barely notice it's gory, violence and barely notice it's violent.
And that is Wimer's gift to us, that somehow he delivered absolutely on his promise that Mantra would be every zombie-gore film you've ever seen, and that you'd never have a second's sense that you had just seen one.
This is the most polished Charlottesville film work I've seen to date: cinematographically gorgeous; a created world of its own, perfectly consistent and drawn; unique and differentiated characters, doing smooth acting; a lush-lush-lush soundtrack.
I'm not sure we need to care, and I'm not sure Wimer would care, that we don't have a clue what it's all about. In The Big Chill, a 1983 movie with too much plot and too much soundtrack and too much to tell us, William Hurt delivers flawlessly that film's anti-thesis, and it sticks to Mantra: "Sometimes, you've just gotta let art kinda flow over you..."
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1867 Pavel in St Petersburg
The eldest son of a peasant family, Pavel Michailovitch Kousmichoff left home at the age of 14 to look for an employment in St Petersburg. There he found work as a delivery boy for a tea merchant. The shop manager soon realized that the boy had enormous potential and taught him the art of blending tea.
Pavel continued to work for the tea merchant until his marriage to Alexandra, the daughter of a successful paper merchant.
His employer was so happy to see him marry into such a good family that he gave him a small teahouse on Sadovaïa Street. And that is how the P. M. Kousmichoff teahouse started in 1867. Alexandra gave him six children, including his son Viatcheslav (1878) and his daughter Elisabeth (1880) for whom he created the special blend that soon became the tsar's tea, Bouquet de Fleurs .
By 1901 Pavel owned 11 teahouses as well as a large building big enough for his entire family. He was very rich and his company was one of the three largest tea companies in Russia.
1907 Viatcheslav in London
In 1907, he sent his eldest son to London to learn about tea. Viatcheslav started by opening the company's British subsidiary, P.M. Kousmichoff & Sons at 11, Queen Victoria Street. At the time, the City was the world capital of the tea trade, which helped Viatcheslav to become a master tea blender.
Viatcheslav returned to Russia and after the death of his father in 1908 took over the family business. He successfully built up the company to own a total of 51 teahouses in all major cities of Russia.
1917 A new start in Paris
In 1916, sensing disaster, Viatcheslav transferred part of his fortune to the company's London office and in 1917 opened a workshop in Paris, the Maison Kusmi-Thé. While he spent most of his time in Paris, his family remained in Saint Petersburg and on the eve of the Revolution, without realizing how right his instincts were, he decided to send them spend the summer in the Caucasus just as the Revolution broke out. As the Reds moved south Viatcheslav organized his family's escape, first to Constantinople and then to Paris in 1920.
In Paris, Viatcheslav and his wife lived the life of the wealthy with their three children, Constantin, Nadia and Vera. The children had tutors and enjoyed sport and music, Constantin and Nadia playing the violin and Vera the piano. Vera attended the Paris Conservatory where she met Rachmaninov and went on to become a famous opera singer.
1927 Between the wars in Berlin
The family prospered during the interwar years, opening offices in New York , Hamburg and Constantinople . However, Viatcheslav decided to settle his main business in Berlin since there was a large Russian community there.
Viatcheslav Kousmichoff died just after World War II in 1946 leaving his son Constantin to take over a family business much weakened by the war years.
But Constantin didn't have the same business acumen as his father or grandfather. He was a man who loved life and burned the candle at both ends. An artist and a tea lover, he just didn't understand figures. On the brink of bankruptcy in 1972 he sold the business for a pittance.
During the years that followed, the Kousmichoff company continued to sell Kusmi teas with uneven success. Like Constantin, the people who had bought the company were artistic and had a certain understanding of flavors, but their management skills left a lot to be desired.
They took up the challenge to carry on the traditions of Pavel, Viatcheslav and Constantin Kousmichoff and to develop an international reputation for the Kusmi Tea brand.


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There are a many differences between touring independently around the wine country in France and touring in the New World, notably along the organized wine routes of South Africa, Australia, California or indeed anywhere in North America. One of the biggest challenges is actually how to find the winery you planned to visit, and second to that is working out how long it takes from one place to another, and trying to be on time.
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On the 48 guides to French wine regions you will find on the main website, each recommended wine producer, place to stay, eat or shop, and attraction has its own Google map which is generated from the GPS codes. It is true that these GPS codes cannot be guaranteed to be 100% accurate for wine producers located in the middle of the countryside, but we have done our best, and I reckon over 95% will get you very close indeed to the destination.
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Haad Son Resort
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Koh Phangan, Suratthani 84280
Haad Son Bay
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Haad Son Resort is located on its own secluded white and bay on the poplar sunset coast of Koh Phangan. The resort has been established for nearly a decade and the rich tropical gardens and wonderful natural surroundings have matured with time, harmonizing with the environment and creating a special private paradise. The Haad Son Resort Koh Phangan is equipped with standard in-room facilities to meet guest's expectation. All guestrooms are nicely-decorated offering essential features. Haad Son Resort prides itself on its great service and friendly family atmosphere, so no matter what room you choose, you are guaranteed to enjoy your stay at this most luxurious and beautiful location.
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Date of stay:
May 13, 2017
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I booking standard room with breakfast,but i upgrade Deluxe room 450 Bath per nicht. The standard room have notting comfort (this good for 1 night) the people show me the last high hill room!Verry bad for me, no frigo,no tv, no safty box, Sawadee.com mistake with picture outside standard room, this familie room. The breakfast verry bad,this only 65 a 80 Bath for me, 4 set where you 1 can take, with toast 7 eleven bread, the caffe only nescafe, outside restaurant good caffe. When i tell the staff, why the restaurant outside, good food ,breakfast sale, the staff tell the people pay, i not pay?Yes i pay!Room with breakfast. The hotel overprice,for the poor service, Dear the holiday make the beach only me happy, good for snorkeling, but go dear for 1 day visit, and in the outside restaurant where the food exelent en staff ok, But not stay in this hotel. I give point for the standard room not deluxe room,(this not waterkooker with tea and caffe).Room cleaning every 2 days, but can change towels every day. Bifor i move off exelent resort to and bad resort.
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Check picture webside outside standard room,thanks. This was me first holiday what i booking with sawadee.com that i not happy with the service hotel .
May 15, 2017
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Mar 13, 2017
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Nice Resort for relaxed Holidays. Staff was very friendly and the Restaurant koh raham is a must see on koh phanghan.
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All was reliable and professional.
Mar 17, 2017
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Heidi Renten
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Aug 11, 2016
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Resort superbe excellent service
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Aug 14, 2016
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Jun 22, 2016
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Old-schooled room, really need renovation. The only two nice things was terrace and sheets. Oh and also the green parrot that lives in the hotel area and sometimes visits your terrace. On the other hand you get what you pay so probably everything was just ok.
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Jun 25, 2016
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Jan 03, 2016
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We were 3 friends staying here and stayed in 2 beach front villas and 1 beach front room. Both were fantastic with the villas being the ultimate! Both directly opposite the beach apart from a small leafy path in between. The grounds of the hotel are built on a hillside and outcrop over the sea. So it s a bit of a steep climb up to the road but good for the legs! The grounds are so beautiful and relaxing!! lots of palm trees and jungle plants. Really wonderful atmosphere in the bar and also the restaurant which is right out over the sea. There are wonderful swings hanging from the palm trees, hammocks dotted around and the tables could be found in little nooks and crannies around. I LOVE this resort!
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Sawadee.com I think did their best but I followed up a number of times to get another beach front villa and they were not able to secure it for us. Yet when we arrived they had another one available. Maybe it was just our luck but perhaps the agent could have secured it for us prior to arrival with a little more follow up from them.
Jan 06, 2016
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Emma Curtis-Smith
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Aug 18, 2015
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we stayed 3 nights, and our room was clean, and well preparated. pool was even clean & ok very nice beach
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very good and proper
Aug 30, 2015
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Thomas Buchner
Date of stay:
Mar 02, 2015
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Point forts : piscine, proximité plage et snorkling, bar très sympa en bord de mer. Petit déjeuner correct, avec vue sur la mer Les moins : Accueil un peu glacial, chambre un peu en dessous de la qualité attendue, et entretien général laisant a désirer.
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Les photos du site n étant pas a jour concernant les lits disponible, nous avons failli payer un extrabed pour 500 bahts de plus. Merci pour l intervention de phangan-guide qui a résolu le problème. Très bons conseils de visites du guide qui nous ont permis de visiter les coins sympas de l île pendznt toute la semaine.
Mar 05, 2015
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Apr 02, 2012
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Apr 14, 2012
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Lam Kwok Keung
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Mar 22, 2012
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Very good Accommodation. The only hotel on the beach, nice to chill. Good room quality. If I come back, I would choose it again.
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very simple and no problems
Mar 31, 2012
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Linda John
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Sep 25, 2011
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Fantastic view from the ocean-view villa balcony! Lots of places for privacy and relax, splendid views again. Almost no service, but our stay was in low season period. Some shops and restaurants not far from the hotel, but be ready to go up and down the hills! Anyway I think of coming back some day))
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Oct 07, 2011
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Elizaveta Egorova
Date of stay:
Feb 02, 2011
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Loved this resort, their seafront restaurant was lovely and the Thai food was great. Friendly, chatty staff. Good beach next door and only a short walk to the busier beach for nightime drinks
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Feb 10, 2011
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Susan Doggett
Date of stay:
Jan 02, 2011
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Stuff was not serviceminded. They act like rookies . The galadinner´s on christmas eve and new year was very expensive. The food was almost cold on christmas eve and both dinner were ill-prepared.
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Jan 08, 2011
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Haad Son Resort
is located on its own secluded white and bay on the poplar sunset coast of Koh Phangan. The resort has been established for nearly a decade and the rich tropical gardens and wonderful natural surroundings have matured with time, harmonizing with the environment and creating a special private paradise.
From island style huts to luxury air-conditioned villas, there is a great variety of accommodation options with the emphasis on style and quality.
Haad Son Resort
prides itself on its great service and friendly family atmosphere, so no matter what room you choose, you are guaranteed to enjoy your stay at this most luxurious and beautiful location.
Over the years Haad Son Resort has gradually added new buildings to their resort resulting in a great variety of well maintained new or nearly new bungalows that are either right on the beach or the beach or positioned on the hillside so that all have wonderful sunset sea views.
There are 47 rooms in total all coming with en-suite bathroom and in numerous styles providing a great variety of accommodation options. Ranging from Island style huts with fan for the budget traveler up to air-conditioned bungalows with twin double beds, mini-bar, hot water and UBC satellite TV for those who want to live it up a little.
Although there are many rooms care has been taken to ensure that the wonderful natural beauty of the area remains and the bungalows have been positioned so as to blend in with the landscape and rich tropical gardens.
:: Standard Bungalow (24 sq.m.) - 12 Units ::
1 DBL, A/C, Hot Shower (Max. of 2 adults + 1 Children).
:: Superior Bungalow (24 sq.m.) - 4 Units ::
2 DBL, A/C, Hot Shower, CTV, Mini Bar (Max. of 2 adults + 1 Children).
:: Deluxe Garden Bungalow (24 sq.m.) - 8 Units ::
1 double bed, air-conditioning, hot water, mini-bar, cable TV. (Max. of 2 adults + 1 Children).
:: Deluxe Room with Balcony (24 sq.m.) - 24 Units ::
Double or twin beds, air-conditioning, hot water, mini-bar, cable TV. (Max. of 2 adults + 1 Children).
:: Deluxe Beach Front Hotel (24 sq.m.) - 5 Units ::
2 beds - 1 single and 1 double, air-conditioning, hot water, mini-bar, cable TV. (Max. of 2 adults + 1 Children).
:: Deluxe Beach Front Villa (36 sq.m.) ::
:: Deluxe Clubhouse (32 sq.m.) - 4 Units ::
Double or Twin Bed, Air-conditioned, CTV, Hot water, Bathtub, Mini-bar. (Max. of 2 adults + 1 Children).
European / Authentic Thai Cuisine
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The restaurant, A fully air conditioned room and outdoor open air is adjacent to the beach.
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07.00 am. - 10.30 pm.
There are two restaurant areas at Haad Son Resort, set into the hillside and commanding stunning sunset sea views over the Island of Angthong National Marine Park.
Whether you wish to sit out on the sun terrace, lounge on the traditional Thai 'tiang - nang' raised platforms or chill out at the poolside restaurant, there is plenty of space to relax while you enjoy any number of culinary delights from the extensive menu.
The experienced team of chefs are equally at home cooking both Western and Thai cuisine, serving a vast range of Thai and Asian dishes and using imported cheese, herbs and other delicacies for authentic taste.
Their daily choice of fresh seafood is a tantalizing selection of everything from giant prawns to the locals favorite of Mackerel steak.
The swimming pool is impressively set into the hillside, perfect for a sunset dip with amazing sea views. It is complimented with a small children pool and there are plenty of sun lounges for those who want to chill by the pool. If you would rather see a bit of beach action, there is volleyball, badminton and even the occasional game of football - or great swimming, snorkeling and even kayaking!
There is a beach bar so that during the day you are only footsteps away from a cooling cocktail and it is a great place to watch the fishing boats light up the night sky. The resort is also fully equipped with satellite television, internet and international telephone and fax services.
The beach of Haad Son Resort is one of a very few on the Island which has remained undeveloped and it presents a perfect picture of an idyllic desert island cove. The resort occupies the north end of the beach whilst the central and southern areas completely uninhabited, leaving a 300 meter long stretch of virgin white sand fringed with tall shady coconut palms.
A live coral reef vibrant with mesmerizing corals and amazing tropical marine life lies about 70 meters from the shoreline, providing an easily accessible gateway into the fantastic underwater world of scuba diving and snorkeling. Either side of the broad beach, huge granite formations form protective arms around the cove, cutting is off from the neighboring beaches and adding to the feeling that it is your every own private bay!
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Thai & Western cuisine.
Well stocked Mini-bar.
Safety Deposit Box.
Convenience Store.
Credit Cards Accepted: Visa, Master and American Express
Fishing Trips.
Island Boat Trips.
Waterfalls & Jungle Trekking.
Transportation service.
Samui Airport - Haad Son Resort
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Samui Airport - Bangrak Pier
Unscheduled Private Speedboat (30 Mins),
Cost / one way trip, Maximum 8 persons
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Samui Airport - Bangrak Pier
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Lomphayah - Catamaran
Samui Airport - Maenam Pier
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Land transfer by Haad Son Resort Car / Van
Thongsala Pier - Haad Son Resort (20 Mins)
Haad Rin Pier - Haad Son Resort (45 Mins)
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According to a Humboldt County Sheriff's Information Bulletin, dated Feb. 22, 2012:
On Feb. 21, 2012 the Humboldt County Drug Task Force received a telephone call from Oregon State Police Department, regarding a subject named, Keith T. Carpentier age 39. Oregon State Police Department said that they had stopped Carpentier for a traffic violation when he was driving on Interstate 5 near Eugene, Oregon. During their contact of Carpentier, Oregon State Police Department searched Carpentier's vehicle. Officers discovered 15 pounds of processed marijuana in his vehicle. Carpentier was placed under arrest for possession for sales and transportation of marijuana. Through their investigation with Carpentier, Officers in Oregon learned that Carpentier lived in McKinleyville, California.
Humboldt County Drug Task Force Agents then wrote a search warrant for Carpentier's residence which was located in the 2200 block of McKinleyville Avenue, McKinleyville. When Officer's served the search warrant at the residence they discovered a commercial indoor marijuana growing operation. Officers contacted a subject, who they identified as John Paul Krekeler age 49 at the residence. Officers seized 102 growing marijuana plants from inside of the residence that ranged in size from 4 inches to 3 foot in height. Officers located 15 individual one pound bags of processed marijuana in the residence along with approximately 40 pounds of drying marijuana plants that had been recently harvested. Officer located one shotgun and one pistol in the residence. Officers located $19,730 dollars in currency that was seized for asset forfeiture.
Humboldt County Building and Planning Department was contacted and responded to the scene, because of the possible fire hazard caused by the electrical indoor marijuana growing operation. Once the Building and Planning Department arrived on scene they determined that the marijuana growing operation was a possible fire hazard and they then contacted PG&E to have the electricity removed from the residence.
Krekeler was arrested for cultivation and possession for sales of marijuana and was transported to the Humboldt County Correctional Facility. An arrest warrant will be sent to the Humboldt County District attorney's Office for Carpentier's arrest for cultivation and possession for sales of marijuana. This case is still under investigation by the Humboldt County Drug Task Force.
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