Was hoping one of my Emory or not so Emory neighbors might be able answering a question of mine? Why did Theseus need a ball of thread to kill the Minotaur when, by definition, there is only one way in and out of a labyrinth? I've asked this question of THE REV. WM MCCORD THIGPEN “Mac” the rector of nearby St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church. "I don't know," was all he had to say about it.Before they upload to the Internet another picture of him standing on their labyrinth, I'm thinking this is an answer he ought to know?
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Hello James,
Your neighborhood Lead Patrick Noonan has removed your content from Nextdoor Mason Mill.
Posted on Apr 20, 2016
"I'm going to try posting...THESEUS... one deleted...TRICE... again. As this is a "thread" I've started, I really do believe I should have..."
Patrick Noonan marked this post as being Inappropriate with the following message:
"Jim Ed, please remove the profanity from this post, and it will be spared future deletions. Your "rights" on this public forum do not extend as far as you appear to believe; specifically, the Community Standards you agreed to when you signed up for your NextDoor account prohibit profanity."
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PATRICK NOONAN
- Professor in the Practice of Decision & Information Analysis
BIOGRAPHY
Professor Noonan came to Goizueta in 1993 from the faculty of the Harvard Business School, where he earned his Ph.D. in Decision Sciences. He also holds a BS in Engineering & Applied Science and an MBA, both from Yale University.
He served as Goizueta's first Associate Dean for Management Practice Initiatives from 2012-2015, and as Assistant Dean and Director of MBA Programs from 1996-2000. He has been a Visiting Professor
at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, and he has taught short courses at Aalto University (Helsinki), Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá), ESAN (Lima), and Universidad ORT (Montevideo).
Patrick's field is "decision analysis," which draws on both the wisdom and the analytical methodologies of economics, psychology, statistics, sociology and engineering to provide prescriptions for
improving decision making in business, in the professions, in health sciences, in politics and in life. The objective of decision analysis has been described as "facilitating a high-quality conversation about a
decision situation," thus marrying rigorous analytical thinking with the native human strengths of judgment and intuition, embedded in the interactivity of decision making in real world organizations.
His analytics coursework at Emory – which included decision modeling, game theory and data analysis –earned the Distinguished Educator award 13 times and “Last Lecture” speaker role six times. In
2001 he received the Adler Prize for Teaching Excellence. He has been honored by inclusion in Emory’s “Great Teacher Lecture Series” and earned the Keough Award for Excellence. In 2005 he was
awarded a Fulbright grant to serve as a Senior Specialist to a university in Uruguay.
Patrick's research and teaching in the area of managerial decision making combines his academic training with his real-world experience as a management consultant. He learned the profession at
McKinsey & Company in the 1980s, and later as a Director at Planning Technologies Group (which he co-founded in 1990 and sold to Knowledge Universe in 1998), and offers workshops in the "craft skills"
of consulting and problem-solving. He also is an expert on teaching & learning, especially in the business school context, and is a frequent facilitator of workshops for B-school and engineering faculty in
the techniques of case teaching and other active learning techniques. Noonan’s consulting and executive education clients have included such diverse organizations as Microsoft, Bertelsmann, NewsCorp,
The New York Daily News, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Merrill Lynch, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control), Sea-Land, Accenture, the Central Bank of Nigeria, the Economics Institute, Johns Hopkins
University and Greenpeace USA.
Prof. Noonan retired from his fulltime faculty role at Emory in 2015.
SPECIALIZATIONS
Decision making, data analysis, game theory, and the economics of negotiation & bidding
Production, distribution, and consumer behavior in the media & entertainment industries
Improving communication about risks and uncertainties
Strategic planning and executive decision processes
Management education and professional development
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Decision Science , Harvard University , Cambridge, MA 1992
Master's SM Engineering Sciences , Harvard University , Cambridge, MA 1989
Master's Public & Private Management , Yale School of Management , New Haven, CT 1984
Bachelor's BS (magna cum laude) Engineering & Applied Science (distinction in major) , Yale College , New Haven, CT 1977
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EMORY UNIVERSITY'S
RUB-A-DUB-DUB
From: Bugge, John M
Sent: Thursday, October 18,20129:23 AM
To: Lorena, Barbara
Subject: Code violations at 1840 Mason Mill Road
Dear Ms. Lorena,
I am writing as the President of the Mason Mill Civic Association, whose membership is made up of residents who live on, or on streets adjoining, Mason Mill Road in DeKalb County. Our hundreds of members are essentially unanimous in hoping that something can be done about the deplorable situation at 1840 Mason Mill Road, a property where the owner has filled his front yard with huge inflatable balloon characters, hung tasteless and offensive signs from large trees, and erected crosses with toy monkeys hung in nooses from the horizontal members.
This ongoing display -- it only seems to get more flagrant as time goes on -- is a clear safety hazard for motorists passing along Mason Mill, as many drivers will come to an abrupt halt in front of the property to look at the weird figures and signs. Drivers following behind down the steep hill at this point are in danger of rear-ending the stopped cars.
Of even more concern to our civic association, the bizarre display at 1840 Mason Mill has made the immediate area less attractive to prospective home buyers and renters. The elderly couple directly across the street (at 1841 Mason Mill) have moved to a retirement home, but still cannot sell or rent their house because whenever people come to look at their property they cannot fail to see what is just across the road. And they have invariably said that, no thanks, they wanted no part of what they saw there.
The owner of the property, Mr. James Edward Avery, should at the very least be legally enjoined from continuing with these displays, and immediately.
More important, perhaps, he should be required to submit to psychological or psychiatric therapy. There is ample eVidence, which I won't go into here, that he is severely mentally disturbed and(apparently by his own admission before a DeKalb County judge) a user of illegal drugs. His internet blog, which is available for anyone to read, contains disturbing suggestions about his possibly violent intentions toward his neighbors and the community at large. And his behavior to some of those same neighbors has seemed at times borderline psychotic.
It is the duty of the County government to take action in this case for the common good, and before the situation escalates.
Yours sincerely,
John Bugge
Professor Emeritus of English
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From: Noonan, Patrick S.
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 10:40 AM
To: Lorena, Barbara
Subject: RE: Code violations at 1840 Mason Mill Road
As Immediate Past President of the Mason Mill Civic Association, and as a 14-year resident of that neighborhood, I want to weigh in with my solid support for what John has said in his note to you.
We have tolerated this situation for a long time, and our association does not take lightly the issue of infringing upon neighbors' rights to free expression and free speech. However, as these expressions have become steadily and increasingly offensive and intrusive to others' equally-important rights, and as evidence mounts that the resident in question has become a potential danger for hurtful actions and not just hurtful speech, we must insist that the County take steps necessary to right the situation.
I ask you to please expedite the appropriate actions to end the most visible affronts to the neighborhood, and to ensure the safety and well-being of the people of the County by addressing the competence of and risks posed by the neighbor in question.
Thank you most sincerely for your urgent attention to this matter.
Patrick S. Noonan, PhD
Professor in the Practice of Decision & Info. Analysis
Associate Dean, Management Practice Initiatives
Goizueta Business School, Emory University
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From: Gary, G Robert [ggary@emory.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 3:07 PM
To: Lorena, Barbara
Cc: Gary, Janet S.
SUbject: Complain against Jim Ed Avery
Dear Officer Lorena,
I am George Robert Gary Sr. my spouse, Janet S. Gary, own the house at 1841 Mason Mill Rd. Decatur, Ga. 30033. My phone # is 404-634-9865.
I want to present some important information to you regarding Mr. Avery. Is it more effective to speak with you by phone or email to you a number of concerns that are detrimental to the property value of our house. We are trying to rent 1841 for almost a year. At least ten families have loved our house but the subject of the weird house across the street always comes up. We tell them the truth of the situation and answer their questions.
DeKalb County Court granted us a Protective Order against stalking against Jim Ed Avery. He continues to stalk through all the signs and inflated animals. He has been seen in his yard with his rabbit ears on when people come to see ourhouse. People with children were afraid of him.
Please give us some direction on how best to get our concerns before the appropriate people.
Rub-a-dub-dub, three men in a tub,
And how do you think they got there?
The butcher, the baker, the candlestick-maker,
They all jumped out of a rotten potato
'Twas enough to make a man stare.
From: Gary, G Robert [ggary@emory.edu]
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 8:29 PM
SUbject: RE: Complain against Jim Ed Avery
I am Janet S. Gary, wife of George Robert (Bob) Gary, Sr. who wrote to you earlier in the day.
We own the house at 1841 Mason Mill Rd., directly across from Mr. Avery's 1840 Mason Mill I-louse.
My husband and I have been increasingly harassed by Mr. Avery ever since an incident when he came to our house during the Thanksgiving holidays, 2010. Bob was not home and I, not knowing Mr. Avery's mental state, let him in. He stayed and hour or more, rambling, saying he was a crackhead, wanting to establish a "Trinity" with me and my husband. I told him I couldn't understand him and that he needed help, which only increased his rambling, attempts to persuade me, etc. I told him I needed to go take my Parkinson's medications and he still wouldn't leave. I then just left the room, told him I was going upstairs to take my meds and couldn't listen anymore, He said "Okay, but I am leaving my stuff (a basket full of rubber duckies wirh names.)" I said no, to take them with him I was afraid to tell him directly that he should leave, because I did not know what kind of reaction he would have. I went upstairs and heard him leave then locked the door,
When my husband came hOlne, I told him about it .When Jim Ed came back, they had a confrontation and Bob and I followed up with an email telling him he should not return to our house again. He did not respect that, leading to our getting a protective order against him. He violated it with an email, and we had him arrested. He was let out on bail and that case is pending. Dec. 11 iis the date.
We feel that what Mr. Avery is doing now in his yard and on his blog are aimed directly at us and at his next-door neighbors with whom he is also angry. His blog has become threatening. We have moved out of our home into a retirement community and are trying to rent our house. When people who are initially enthusiastic see the yard across the street and ask us about it, we tell the truth and we believe it is the main deterrent for a number of people who looked at our house.
I will be happy to tell my story to the judge, if allowed to do so!
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Mary Hinkel, Director,
Campaign Communications Services
Mary Hinkel is director of campaign communications services at Coxe Curry & Associates, helping clients develop effective campaign marketing materials and proposals. She has prepared campaign materials or
proposals for these clients: Atlanta Ballet, Atlanta BeltLine Partnership, Atlanta Community Food Bank, The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation, Atlanta Habitat for Humanity, Piedmont Park Conservancy,The Salvation Army, Spelman College, The Whitefoord CommunityProgram, The Woodruff Arts Center and the YMCA.
On behalf of numerous Coxe Curry clients, Mary has written successful proposals to such national foundations as the GE Fund, Getty Foundation, The Kresge Foundation, The Wallace Foundation and
the National Endowment for the Arts.
Formerly, Mary was director of research and records at Coxe Curry, overseeing the team of researchers that provide in-depth research reports on corporate, foundation and individual prospects for fundraising campaigns conducted by the firm.
Prior to joining Coxe Curry, Mary was marketing coordinator and then director of marketing for the
Atlanta office of Touche Ross, an international accounting, tax and consulting firm. In those positions for nine years, she researched local industries, businesses and individuals; wrote business proposals and marketing newsletters; and developed the community relations and corporate contribution programs for the firm.
Mary earned a Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude from Smith College where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Mary also earned a Master of Librarianship from Emory University. She remains involved in alumni fundraising for both institutions.
Active in the Atlanta community for over four decades, Mary has served on the boards of these organizations: Alliance Theatre, Arbor Montessori School, Arts Festival of Atlanta, Association of Emory Alumni, Friends of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library, and Junior League of DeKalb County. She currently serves as a board member of VOX Teen Communications.
She is married to Dan Hinkel, vice president and legal counsel for ING Investment Management, and has one son, John Henry.
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Mary Hinkel, I'm going to address this posting to you.
Why are you encouraging Susie Scarr taking the lead on behalf of our neighborhood regarding my signs and behavior? Acting as if you didn't
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APR 22, 2016 | 12:09AM PDT
Garrett replied:
Hi James,
Thanks for your email.
I’m not really sure I understand what your email is about. Your account was placed in suspended status for multiple violations of the Neighborhood Guidelines.
We received multiple reports on Wednesday from your neighbors about your post and successive comments.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Garrett
Nextdoor
APR 20, 2016 | 10:03AM PDT
Original message
James wrote:
Your neighborhood name: Mason Mill
Description of content:
I've been protesting religious issues for the past six years with signs place in my front yard along with a large cross nailed to a tree having three sock monkeys positioned in the see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil position hanging by their necks. Everyone continues believing this is racially motivated, when in fact, it is not. And I have told many people walking the sidewalks front of my house, including the police the seveal times they have been called out to my place, the meaning behind these monkeys hanging by their necks. They generally mean being of sound mind, body, and action. They can also mean looking the other way, refusing to acknowledge, feigning ignorance. When combining the two perspectives into a single narrative, they end up cancelling each other out. You might as well hang them. And my neigborhood is proving this to be, unfortunately, true. Impossible haviing a truly geniune discussion having positive results, long term, about anything because of everyone tag teaming the two perspectives off each other; too easily having ones language censored/ negative postings flagged and deleted. And I'm suppecting just a select few in complicity with our neighborhood leads. Have another signs that says, GOD HAS GOT TO BE THE B*GG*ST M*TH*R F*CK*R OF THEM ALL~(!?!)~ which is just a diffferent way of describing "GOD" as having ominipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, omnibenevolent qualities which most people of faith do not even understand. Well I joined Nextdoor only because of a neighbor informing me of a thread started by one of our leads allowing neighbor to complain about my signs. And I should have evey right calling out the many who did take advantage of this thread complaining about my signs for their prevarications and pernisciousness using whatever language I"m feeling necessary as I had given the lead herself an opportunity discussing my signs with me before she starting this thread without giving me the opportunity being a part of this discussion herself. This is manipulation and deception eliminating consent. A form of censoring!
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Case #566087
Subject: jimedavery@att.net
Your message:
APR 22, 2016 | 08:05AM PDT
Original message
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Physical Address (including unit number, city, state, zip): 1840 Mason Mill Road
Description of issue:
Currently believing I have been banned from Nextdoor.com by Neighborhood Lead Patrick Noonon? Did get an email informing me content has been removed; but nothing about no longer being able to log onto Nextdoor.com. Although I'm am aware of violating posting etiquettes repeatedly, it's important that you understand that I only joined Nextdoor.com in the first place after it having been brought to my attention by two of your Nextdoor.com members becoming concerned, even alarmed, at what they were seeing within a flurry of postings by other neighbors of ours also members of your website to a discussion started about me by one of your neighborhood leads against someone yet still to have been invited joining in on these neighborly discussions. PLease keep in mind that I'm living in a neighborhood having many residence associated one way or another with our near-by Emory University. Although not going so far as claiming these neighbors of mine to be bad people, or claiming any of them void of actions able proving them active wise, they are still a cliquich bunch who can be both wise and elitist pricks/cunts!
Anyway, whether you agree to my rights using whatever language I'm feeling appropriate with these neighbors of mine, calling them out on their use of perniciousness and prevarications, just needing to know whether I'm still a member or not; unable logging on for some other reason having nothing to do with your congeniality biased loaded Leads having ?selfless? intentions/plans of their own.. ?
10 And he called the people to him and said to them, “Hear and understand: 11 it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.” 12 Then the disciples came and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?” 13 He answered, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up. 14 Let them alone; they are blind guides.[c] And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.” 15 But Peter said to him, “Explain the parable to us.” 16 And he said, “Are you also still without understanding? 17 Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled?[d] 18 But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. 19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. 20 These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.”
Having gotten all I'm needing, this little Nextdoor.com posse your Mason Mill Neighborhood Leads having whipped into a frenzy can now have your site back all to themselves.
It's begining to appear that I've learned how to loop God into a circle and hanging him from around our necks, or maybe it's just mine, like an albatross.
Just another way of saying, "You hypocrites."
email address :
jeaverydvm87@att.net
This message was sent to jimedavery@att.net in reference to Case #566087.
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APR 26, 2016 | 11:04PM PDT
Garrett replied:
Hi James,
Your access was taken away for one reason and that was because you violated the Neighborhood Guidelines multiple times.
There was a comment of yours that was removed more than once and you continued to post it. You used profanity in a few comments that were removed. And many of your comments were also not on topic or about the neighborhood altogether. All of those are violations of the guidelines.
It’s quite possible that Nextdoor isn’t the right place for you.
Please let me know if you need help with anything else.
Thanks,
Garrett
Nextdoor
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IF YOU'VE GOT TWO OF THE SAME THING, YOU ONLY NEED BUT ONE!
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Dr. James Avery, D.V.M.
1840 Mason Mill Road
Decatur, GA 30033
I received your public records request for four Emory Police reports. The relevant statute, O.c.G.A. 20-8-7, which governs "public disclosure of campus police records," provides that:
"Law enforcement records created, received, or maintained by campus policemen [sic] that relate to the investigation of criminal conduct and crimes as defmed under Georgia law and which are not subject to protection from disclosure by any other Georgia law shall be made available within a reasonable time after request for public inspection and copying."
One of the reports you requested, regarding case number 1102044, documents an investigation into a crime as defined under Georgia law. A copy of that report is enclosed.
Since the other three reports you requested do not document allegations of criminal conduct, they are not subject to release under the statute.
Edward M. Shoemaker
Records Manager
Emory Police Department
1784 North Decatur Road, Suite G-01
Atlanta, Ceorgia 30322
NARRATIVE
On 5/17/2011 at 1335 hours, I met with Stephen Sencer, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, in reference to a stalking report. Sencer said that on 5/16/11 at 1610 hours he was asked by Audrey
Turner, Business Manager for the President's Office, to speak to a male subject who wanted to see President Jim Wagner. Sencer said that the male subject, later identified as James Avery, told him that
he wanted to see President Wagner. Sencer said he asked Avery, "What do you want from Jim Wagner?" Sencer said the subject started rambling that the president had not responded to the earlier
package he left. See case number 1102003
Sencer said at that time he advised Avery that he was not going to be able to see President Wagner. Sencer said Avery gave him an envelope to give to President Wagner. He escorted Avery down the
stairs and out of the building. Sencer said that he did not feel threatened by Avery, but did say Avery appeared to be confused.
Detective Meeks retrieved the paperwork that Avery left with Stephen Sencer for investigation.