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Friends of Thomson Park Volunteer Work Dates
** News From The Mason Mill Civic Association
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The Civic Association encourages all neighbors to join in supporting the Friends of Thomson Park. This is an especially good way for neighbors to become better acquainted with each other. Here's the latest work schedule from the Friends:
Greetings Park Friends and Neighbors!
With the arrival of autumn, we begin our new year - our SIXTH year as an official "Friends of" group - tending to our wonderful W. D. Thomson Park. I hope we can again count on the great support, in its various forms, from all of you.
First, our work schedule for the year: We will be simplifying the timing this year, so that our *regular* work day will always be the first Saturday of each month, October through June, from 9a-12p.
We will shift in January to coincide with the MLK Day service tradition, and of course we will be organizing additional days around the availability of any group that would like to pitch in. (In particular, some of our local friends from the Orthodox community have requested some Sunday afternoon work sessions, and we definitely will add such opportunities, with our thanks.)
Please put these work days on your calendar:
* October 7
* November 4
* December 2
* January 15 ( = MONDAY, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day)
* February 3
* March 3
* April 7
* May 5
* June 2
There is much more news to share, and more specific things to ask of you, but we'll save that for our next email updates.
However, I'd like to thank our exceptional volunteers from the 2016-2017 season:
* Overall, volunteers put in 345 hours of work, blowing by our 2015-2016 record of 271 hours.
* Two organizations - Community Bucket, and the Univ. of Tennessee - contributed big chunks of time that helped set that new record.
* Our biggest individual contributors of time were Reed O, Craig G, Carol U, Emily K (and family!), and John B.
* New Volunteer of the Year award goes to Jody C of Mason Woods Dr.
* Special shout out to Parlee C for her cheesecake and healthy snacks, and to the amazing Mary S for baking something new & different & delicious EACH & EVERY MONTH!
* The DeKalb County Parks department and Park Pride, too, have been terrific partners once again.
And thanks to everyone who has supported the park work through donations of time, money, expertise and ideas.
Patrick S. Noonan
coordinator & chair, Friends of Thomson Park
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PATRICK NOONAN
Professor in the Practice of Decision & Information Analysis
P: (404) 727-0549
1300 Clifton Road
Atlanta, GA 30322
Atlanta, GA 30322
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 Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 1992
- Master's Science Engineering Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 1989
- Master's Business Administration Public & Private Management, Yale School of Management, Yale University, New Haven, CT 1984
- Bachelor's Science Engineering & Applied Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT 1977
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If there are only three way of making money:
- Be First
- Be Smarter
- Or Cheat
It's practically his backyard!
http://minusfleshequalswaterandspirits.blogspot.com/2016/05/nextdoorcom-mary-hinkel-closed.html
If you carefully read all the comments posted up to a Nextdoor.com tread against my property started by President of Mason Mill Civic Association Mary Hinkel, you will notice that I thanked everyone having taking the time, uploading to the Internet, their thoughts on inappropriate signage 1840 Mason Mill Road.
Then take the time noticing how our coordinator and chair of Friends of Thomson Park, Patrick Noonan, went about thanking these very same comments uploaded against my property.
http://minusfleshequalswaterandspirits.blogspot.com/2017/09/helpnextdoorcom.html
Also realize that everything posted in red were comments of mine calling out the perniciousness and prevarications by these next door, not so next door, Nextdoor.com neighbors of mine ... DELETED ... before eventually ending up banned from Nextdoor.com entirely.
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Amy Swartz from Mason Mill21 Mar
M Ayres Gardner from Mason Mill22 Mar
Bobby Rasulnia from Mason Mill22 Mar
Staci Ollar from Mason Mill22 Mar
Jon Carr from Mason Mill22 Mar
Chris Condon from Mason Mill22 Mar
Nancy Sokolove from Mason Mill22 Mar
Amy Swartz from Mason Mill22 Mar
Bobby Rasulnia from Mason Mill22 Mar
David Marier from Mason Mill22 Mar
Amy Swartz from Mason Mill22 Mar
David Marier from Mason Mill22 Mar
Amy Swartz from Mason Mill23 Mar
Diane Benjamin from Mason Mill24 Mar
Not that I am inviting him home for tea . . .
Bobby Rasulnia from Mason Mill25 Mar
Jonathan Dubin from Mason Mill26 Mar
Nancy Sokolove from Mason Mill26 Mar
Bobby Rasulnia from Mason Mill26 Mar
David Marier from Mason Mill27 Mar
Bobby Rasulnia from Mason Mill27 Mar
In 2012, our household, the elderly couple forced to leave due to his stalking behavior, and the former president of the mason mill civic association (John Bugge) took him to court. He was fined $1500 for code violations and later charged with violation to a restraining order.
In addition he has been banned from the church on Emory campus, your church, banned from going on to the Emory campus due to hate speech toward the Emory president, DEA agents have swarmed his house, and homeland security paid a visit.
Jim Ed has continued to push limits with his illegal behavior and hate speech to the point where the community and neighborhood now accepts it as his legal right to freedom of speech and "performance art". We have an opportunity to work with the county to end it. It's time to take our neighborhood back by stopping this nuisance.
Ron Mihelic from Mason Mill27 Mar
Mary Hinkel from Mason Mill27 Mar
I also spent an hour and a half talking to Jim Ed in January 2015 to try and understand how we could resolve this matter. And, we have welcomed him to neighborhood picnics, hoping that it would help for him to get to know us and we to know him, thereby leading to changes in his behavior.
As many of you know, it is hard to follow his logic and even harder to persuade him to consider the community's concerns. He told me he considers himself the Lorax (character out of Dr. Seuss) responding to all the trees being cut down on your property. (While the tree removal may have been done in compliance with DeKalb regulations (?), he was/is angry about this.) That may have sparked his public displays, but I'm sure there other reasons he continues to make them. For example, his anger toward St. Mark's and Emory. (They seem able to obtain restraining orders against him, something our neighborhood as a whole cannot do, since he lives here.)
Anyway, it is my understanding that code enforcement can't "make" a property owner change his behavior; code enforcement can only continue to cite and fine the property owner to "motivate" him to change behavior.
Speaking for the civic association, I would say we don't know how to help here, other than to facilitate the communication process and support property owners in any court hearings that occur.
Could you ask the code enforcement officer, and I'll follow up with Comm. Rader and Gannon's offices, to determine what other steps we can/should be taking here? I do think at this hearing we can raise the issues of his use of vulgar, obscene words; the large number of signs cluttering his property; and the placement of signs beyond his property lines on the sidewalk along Mason Mill. And, anyone wishing to take on drafting a petition is welcomed to do that. And/or if there are any lawyers in our midst who have thoughts about what to do here, we'd appreciate hearing from you. It is a complex matter, and I think most of our residents appreciate our difficult, and how unfortunate, this particular situation is. I also know we are all grateful we don't live next door to him, and with that in mind that is one reason I personally want to support Bobby and Charlie and those other residents who do.
Bobby Rasulnia from Mason Mill27 Mar
Diane Benjamin from Mason Mill27 Mar
Code enforcement may have been to see him yesterday morning. Does anyone know what the results were?
Meanwhile, so long as he doesn't trespass on my property, or swear at me or my children, I ignore him.
Alice Wright from Mason Mill27 Mar
David Marier from Mason Mill27 Mar
Ron Mihelic from Mason Mill28 Mar
Praveen Ghanta from Mason Mill28 Mar
The issue you may want to press is that lately it seems the gallery of imagery has been left out unattended. But if our neighbor is out with his props, he is within his rights.
James Avery from Mason Mill29 Mar
mmmmmmh?
Are you guys aware I had gone downtown Decatur December 8th and file a complaint against myself. Personally letting them know that I was in violation of county code ordinances. That I even insisted they make it "high priority" the same as James Wagner's "high priority" complaint.
When I didn't hear from them, I went back again December 22nd trying to get a copy of my file. Was told by a Supervisor Adams that they couldn't let me have a copy or even inspect this file until after the case had been closed; but was told a Officer Gordon had been assigned the case. I even explained to Supervisor Adams the reason why I filed the complaint against myself was because I was wanting them to come out and write me up for a citation for having five signs out in my yard (one sign over the four I'm allowed).
Why are they waiting several months later as well as responding to someone else complaint.
First they ignore my complaint about Mr. Bliss violation of the green laws. Now they have even ignored my complaint against myself.
And the fact this action took place right after President James Wagner of Emory University just happened to be taking his vintage automobile for a dirve through our neighborhood one Saturday afternoon as I'm doing my flagging dance and cluelessly stopped and talked with me. Well as usual, I did all the talking. He mostly just tried to get away. LOL
Was not even aware that the Emory Police had an active file against me they won't let me inspect either; FOR STALKING JAMES WAGNER!
LOL! LOL! LOL!
We talked some about how the crime scene figures James Wagner having parked his vintage automobile on top of represented the nine black Methodists killed recently in Charleston, S.C. by a twenty-one year old Confederate flag waving youth. Talked some about how we agreed that we were against the death penalty. Then I brought up the one exception with me; the recent execution of Kelly Gissendaner who was the only woman Georgia had on deathrow. How with her, it was "FRY BABY, FRY!." How it was important to me that the preachers didn't get their confirmation bias.
You should have seen James run after I showed him the [SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO PICK THE GUN UP BEFORE YOU CAN PUT THE GUN DOWN] sign next, pointing out to him that standing in front of the [WHITE METHODIST "GOD SPECIALIZES IN HAPPY ENDINGS] sign where two pastors of Glenn Memorial UMC.
How he bolted!
LOL! LOL! LOL!
James Avery from Mason Mill30 Mar
Ronald, I would love very much to see this video of me taking neighbors trash from the curb. Should someone maybe videotape the county picking up garbage from the curb and showing it to you.
"It's Charlie's money and he can spend it however he want."
~(Bobby B. Rasulnia)~
And the neigbors between us having cut down all the trees. They had received permission from the county cutting down fourteen tree from this property. The day I made my second call to the county reporting Mr. Bliss had gone beyond fourteen trees and still cutting down more, the county claimed helpless to stop them in spite of the green laws. Before they were done, they had cut down twenty-four trees. Then I just happened to be home that last day they stopped mid-afternoon, then seeing, the foreman getting into the bobcat, driving it up against a tree and spinning the treads out. Backing it up against another tree and then spinning the treads out again. He kept doing this over and over until he had done all the remainig trees left.
"I'M INCREASING YOUR PROPERTY VALUE! I"M INCREASING YOUR PROPERTY VALUE! I"M INCREASING YOUR PROPERTY VALUE!"
~(Charles W. Bliss)~
"TREES ARE DANGEROUS! ALMOST DIED BECAUSE OF ONE!"
~(Charles W. BLiss)~
Ronald, use your brain. Why do you think the foreman was doing this?
And sure enough they continued cutting down trees after moving in. And since then, top half of three different trees three different storms have broken off onto my property disfiguring my trees and even onto my house crashing the master bedroom ceiling onto my bed.
Ronald, use your brain. Are you thinking that I'm no longer being affected by a decision made ten years ago?
I don't know about the rest of you, I personally consider our trees to be "FAG ENABLERS' maybe even enabling that mutt of Ronald and Erin.
Such a shame a tree missed one.
"This is a person who is a known and self admitted meth addict."
Ronald, I am a known meth addict because I'm the one who self admitted it. Do I not get any points at all for this. You know what Ronald, I wouldn't mind once, just once, fucking you stupid. Certainly wouldn't take long. You're such a "DOUBLETHINK."
I'm telling you guys now, you are not going to be able resolving these issues you are having with me until you are able including me in on the conversations. How about we just have a meeting at the park where each one of you can confront me in person in front of everyone at the same time. At the moment, all you guys are doing is triangulating your congeniality bias off each other. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
I consider myself a progressive and thought I was living in a progressive neighborhood. I'm beginning to see now that I lean so far left in my political views that I make even the progressives and liberals nervous. I'm beginning to feel assured the rare ones driving by giving me big thumbs up along with big smiles yet not stopping and chatting with me are probably conservatives thinking they are the ones encouraging me to keep doing exactly what I'm doing as they sit back and enjoy a show in which they see as a bunch of progressives and liberals going at each others throat. And one thing they have proven to me is that our so called liberals and progressives, at heart, are just as much so hypocrites as they are if not more so.
And Ronald, you should really be ashamed of yourself. If that had been one of your dogs I saw having gotten loose that night I rang your doorbell, I would have still tried catching it and returning that dog back to you regardless how I feel about you. I'm certainly not going to hold the dogs responsible for your behavior. However, II will hold your African Grey responsible for your language(thoughts). As repetition is the correct way teaching a parrot to talk, don't be surprised you hear of me screaming at the traffic driving by our homes and not just at you...
"GET OFF MY PROPERTY!" "GET OFF MY PROPERTY!" "GET OFF MY PROPERTY!"
along with any other conservative doublethink I can come up with...
"SOCIALISM EQUALS TAXATION AND TAXATION EQUALS LOSS OF FREEDOM!"
"BABY KILLER!" "WELFARE QUEENS!"
"HELL I WORKED HARD FOR MY MONEY AND I DESERVE TO KEEP IT!"
"HELL I CAN DO CHARITY BETTER THAN THE GOVERNMENT!"
"IF WE OUTLAW GUNS, ONLY CRIMINALS WILL HAVE GUNS."
"WHAT PART OF ILLEGAL IS IT THAT THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND."
as I pretend being your African Grey from my stretch of sidewalk.
Hopefully some of our neighbors will be able finding a way laughing with me at our conservatives and not just at you.
I mean it now. Don't delete this posting. To do so would be manipulation and deception eliminating consent!
James Avery from Mason Mill6d ago
TAO~g(PROJECT EZEKIEL 33)d~OG
James Avery from Mason Mill4d ago
James Avery from Mason Mill4d ago
James Avery from Mason Mill4d ago
I'm going to throw you guys another bone. What follows is a conversation between me and my mother (whom I'm now refusing any contact with since a confirmation service we attended at Glenn Memorial UMC March 2014 ) that took place a good while back:
"Mother, you should have been here to see this. By the time I was done killing that snake (a copperhead), that shovel was...SMOKING!."
~(Simply Jim)~
"I'm surprised you killed it."
~(My Mother)~
"I have cats now...MOTHER! That's like having children. NOW...I understand Lady MacBeth."
~(Simply Jim)~
"Jim, you ever talk to yourself?"
~(My Mother)~
"Talk to my cats..?"
~(Simply Jim)~
It's even gotten around back to me that I'm actually "hitting" Janet Gary that day alone inside Janet Claire Segers Gary's house with Rev. George Robert Gary, Sr. ThD's wife unwelcomed the whole one hour and fifteen minutes Thanksgiving 2010.
And I can't help but wonder just what it was their daughter's (Senior Pastor Mt. Zion UMC) husband (with whom she is now co-owner of this house directly across the street from my house) was talking about with our Code Enforcers the morning of Holy Saturday after Supervisor Jerry Silvers and his men having just missed an opportunity writing me up for code violations which I'm understanding could be like $1000.00 per sign over four signs.
What is the right thing to do? I'm having to admit...
that's a tough one.
Patrick Noonan from Mason Mill2d ago
James Avery from Mason Mill2d ago
Let me ask you this questions since you are so involved with this tree planting project at Thompson Park; how do you feel about this property next to mine, this Hollywood House, being referred to as an "oasis"?
It's my thinking that it was already an "oasis" long before any of us even born!
Oh! One other thing! Be sure to take the virtual tour of this Hollywood House. I especially like picture number twenty-two. You can see Norman Bates window from here!
Mary Hinkel from Mason Mill1d ago
James Avery from Mason Mill1d ago
Now since you've aready mentioned our meeting within this forum, please, show me how you would rewrite my deleted posting which was calling you out for your own perniciousess and prevarications regarding this meeting between us about my signs for it to be acceptable without it being dismissed by others as my own perniciousness and prevarications.
Then re-post it yourself.
You know how much trouple I went to typing that posting deleted. Good thing I'd saved it.
If only you guys knew how lucky you are to be having me as your neighbor instead of someone else. That's a major "trigger" no-no!!
Said another way, the same as saying, "FUCK YOU." There are many ways to say, "FUCK YOU!," Mary. Did you know that?
PLEASE....humor me.
James Avery from Mason Mill1d ago
Occupation: Attorney, retired Magistrate Judge
My favorite thing about living in Mason Mill is: the forest in W. D. Thompson Park
Your house backs up to the forest in W.D.Thompson doesn't it, Your Honor.
Oh how I would love for the two of us sitting down together for a talk. Hearing your take on some of my observations during my court hearings and non-hearings.
Mrs. Gardner, why were you quoting a repair man when you were best situated asking me yourself? Over and over and over agains, if needed, understanding my behavior?
"YOU DO NOT CONCLUDE UNTIL UNDERSTANDING. ONCE UNDERSTANDING; YOU DO NOT JUDGE."
Now I worry about some of your rulings..?
James Avery from Mason Mill1d ago
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
I want to, first, thank Diane Benjamin for being the one introducing me to this phrase "Épater la bourgeoisie" :
[Épater la bourgeoisie or épater le (or les) bourgeois is a French phrase that became a rallying cry for the French Decadent poets of the late 19th century including Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud. It means to shock the bourgeoisie.
The Decadents, fascinated as they were with hashish, opium and absinthe, found, in Joris-Karl Huysmans' novel À rebours (1884), a sexually perverse hero who secludes himself in his house, basking in life-weariness or ennui, far from the bourgeois society that he despises.
The Aesthetes in England, such as Oscar Wilde, shared these same fascinations. This celebration of "unhealthy" and "unnatural" devotion to life, art and excess has been a continuing cultural theme.]
The above is everything Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, has to say about this fitting phrase, so fitting, it must have been made for me to be in it; Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) May he rest in peace.
[In Marxist philosophy the bourgeoisie is the social class that came to own the means of production during modern industrialization and whose societal concerns are the value of property and the preservation of capital, to ensure the perpetuation of their economic supremacy in society. Joseph Schumpeter saw the creation of new bourgeoisie as the driving force behind the capitalist engine, particularly entrepreneurs who took risks to bring innovation to industries and the economy through the process of creative destruction.]
Wikipedia had a lot more say about the bourgeoisie, but I stopped here; it was fittingly perfect enough!
Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.
Second, assuming Diane's words speaks for all as I've yet to have been nvited to tea anywhere, you might as well go ahead and kill the children yourself. Certainly would save someone else their own generations the trouble of being villified having done it for you instead.
James Avery from Mason Mill23h ago
James Avery from Mason Mill23h ago