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"Thank you for your kind comments, Jenn.  We've worked very hard on making our new building something that our patients will appreciate and we're glad to here that others find the building beautiful as well." - Aldon Hynes

"Personally, I use #Eav" - Aldon Hynes

"Kimberly is my wife and we often discuss politics together. We even manage to do it without name calling." - Aldon Hynes

"I am keeping up. As you quoted, "on which she still serves". This means she is not a "former Board of Education member", like you said. It means she still serves on the board, and hence is a current Board of Education member." - Aldon Hynes

"I don't see any place in the article where there is a mention of a former Board of Education member. Ms. McCreven continues to serve on the Board of Education. Nor do I see any place where it says that she is against gun safety or gun safety classes. The article is about the proposed location of a gun store. The article states Ms. McCreven is "member of the Amity Teen Center board of directors". That is very different from working for the non-profit. Checking the IRS I-990 of the teen center reveals that board members are not compensated." - Aldon Hynes

"You can call things what you will. I'm more interested in what the law calls things. According the National Conference of State Legislatures, the definition of lobbying in the State of Connecticut is "communicating directly or soliciting others to communicate with any official or his staff in the legislative or executive branch of government or in a quasi-public agency, for the purpose of influencing any legislative or administrative action". The Facebook page does not do this, so, from a legal basis, this is not lobbying. As I noted in a reply to a different commenter, if you know otherwise, please come forward. The quote from the center's treasurer, likewise does not say that the Teen Center as an organization opposes the gun store. To say that, they would most likely need to have a meeting and vote of the board. I do not know if the board has had such a vote. If you know otherwise, please share it. As to the compensation of board members, I mentioned in a different comment that the..." - Aldon Hynes

"Whether or not the teen center is receiving public funds is a very different question from whether or not those funds are used 'to attack the 2nd amendment'. If you check the I-990 form filed by the teen center with the IRS, you will see that the board members are not compensated for their work. Likewise, there is no indication in this article, or anywhere else that I've seen, that individual tax payers who are freely expressing their opinions are doing so in any official capacity. If you can provide information contrary to this, I'm sure the reporters at the New Haven Register will be interested. As I noted above, what I find particularly disturbing is when individuals defending one Constitutional right, that of bearing arms, do so by attempting to prevent others from exercising their Constitutional right of freedom of speech." - Aldon Hynes

"It is interesting to look at the issue of individual rights here. NRA members are quick to defend their rights to bear arms, as guaranteed in the Second Amendment, yet they do not seem as quick to defend the First Amendment rights of Freedom of Speech. Does Ms. McCreven have the right to express concern about about a shop going into her community? Is that right different if it is about an Adult Entertainment store or a gun shop? Does she lose her rights by becoming a board member of a non-profit organization? Do other board members and staff members retain or lose their rights of Freedom of Speech when they become board members or take employment at a non-profit? Or, is the lawyer alleging that public funds are being misused by the Teen Center? If the lawyer is alleging this, he or she really needs to state so publicly, instead of making allegations while hiding behind a pseudonym. With that, I do applaud the idea of gun clubs and NRA members that are opposed to the teen center to..." - Aldon Hynes

"I have been using Disqus on my blog for quite a while and have been very pleased with it. I'm glad to see that it will be used for the Middletown Press as well.<br /><br />It will be interesting to see how this impacts the quality of discourse here." - Aldon Hynes

"There is a different list,  http://www.peerindex.com/icaru... seems similar.  I'm on that list, but I'm not on the list you mention (yet) http://www.peerindex.com/ahyne..." - Aldon Hynes

"Yesterday, I head a tweetchat about where we talked about how black men are the most likely have colorectal cancer. Some of my long time friends who have been fighting hard to address health disparities were on the call. Needless to say, I was shocked when the reporter suggested that race has nothing to do with health care. It was enough to make me question the whole interview." - Aldon Hynes

"I like the, forget about it approach most.  Although really, a bunch of them approaches are all closely related.  Specifically, I like to approach things tangentially.  Forget about the approach you were working on.  Try to find something distantly related to what you were working on, and work on that.  Often, that provides a path for the idea to come to you." - Aldon Hynes

"Nice summary.  I've been a long time fan of QR codes, when done well.  I particularly like colored QR codes.  You are right, the invite, and where you are invited to are very important." - Aldon Hynes

"Thanks for the update, I appreciate the quick reply.  I'm really liking Streamzoo and I look forward to the new version, and particularly for the easy export to Flickr.  Adding an API would be great as well." - Aldon Hynes

"Thanks, Dan.  When used to find and share stuff you find interesting and you believe your audience will find interesting, Triberr can be a really great tool.  I found, and shared, some really great posts as a result of it." - Aldon Hynes

"I've checking out your photos on Flickr.  Glad to see them here as well" - Aldon Hynes

"I like the first one best.  The second is a little too sparse.  The third has too much text." - Aldon Hynes

"I've often encouraged people to avoid false dichotomies.  Showing and telling shouldn't be considered either or.  On the other hand, too many people seem to put more emphasis on the telling and not enough on the showing. As an side, today I read a recent blog post by my daughter about storytelling and teaching.  Check out http://definingcommunityart.bl..." - Aldon Hynes

"Note: I wrote this before reading the news about DOJ taking down Megaupload and Anonymous retaliating by taking down DOJ. I think this illustrates a few other things.  DOJ doesn't need SOPA to fight international piracy.  The battle over the Internet may well be much larger and complicated than people realize. There are risks that people confront when stepping outside of officially sanctioned use of the Internet.  Bills like SOPA/PIPA may make the risks and rewards of stepping outside of officially sanctioned use of the Internet greater." - Aldon Hynes

"The infographic has some interesting statistics.  Unfortunately, it continues the false dichotomy of between computer mediated communication and face to face communications.  When I communicate with people via Facebook, or even comments in blogs, it is real communications that I'm doing in my real life.  For more on this, see my blog post #RLToo http://www.orient-lodge.com/no... where I share a great TEDx talk about the topic." - Aldon Hynes

"Great post.  Here are a few of my various thoughts:  First and foremost, make sure you know what you want to be optimized in.  What search terms do you want people to find your website using?  Too many people just want to be on top, without thinking about what they want to be top of.  Another thought, if you are using a blogging platform or content management system, make sure to take advantage of the SEO tools available.  CMS can greatly enhance SEO efforts." - Aldon Hynes

"Here is the message that I sent to Sen. Blumenthal: Sen. Blumenthal,   For years, you have served Connecticut as Attorney General, protecting consumers against unfair trade practices and fighting to make sure that we all have access to due process.   In is in light of this, that I am writing to you to urge you to oppose the Protect IP Act.  This act places large communications corporations at an advantage over individual consumers in the creation, distribution and compensation for intellectual property.   For more thoughts on this, please read my latest blog post,SLAPP SOPAhttp://www.orient-lodge.co... Hynes" - Aldon Hynes

"Social media is here to stay, whether you like it or not.  So, if students are running into issues around social media, schools that are committed to education will recognize they need to help their students learn how to effectively use social media, and not ban them from using it, causing their students to be at a disadvantage when they enter the work force." - Aldon Hynes

"Great reply! Thanks! Now, it is interesting to carry this over to the blogger, a person who is constantly putting up new material which may change to lighting around his other posts. For that matter, you spoke about how your understanding of Liberty has evolved. I don't know how much this is available and reflected in your writing, but it further amplifies what we need to think about when we try to more fully understand the idea of the 'author'. With many great writers, we hear about the 'early' writer and the 'later' writer. Wittgenstein comes to my mind as a great example. To what extent do we see this online? You can find stuff I wrote online back in 1982. It is very different from what I am writing now. The very early 'ahynes1' versus the later 'ahynes1'? Perhaps this will become more pronounced with the generation growing up today. People who have been online since they were young; people who have done stupid things and posted them online. Will this come back to haunt them? Will..." - Aldon Hynes

"Dennis, Thanks for the reply and for continuing the discussion. I suspect the indication that the page hasn't been visited is from the Blog Catalog widget. That widget appears to be broken, and I'll probably take it down soon. Your suggestion that "The author is the source of authority" is interesting. To a certain extent it makes a lot of sense, particularly when establishing some new discourse. However, if I authored a blog post on Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, would I be an authority on the subject? Maybe in my own mind, but probably not in the realm of experts on Lacan. This then leads to the topic if individual freedom. How do we understand freedom within a community? Am I free to proclaim myself an expert on Lacan in a community of people that have studied Lacan for many years, and if so, does my proclamation make sense, have meaning, or have any weight? Perhaps this leads us back to the idea of the social contract again. I hope to be spending a lot of time exploring these..." - Aldon Hynes

"Thanks for the comment.  This leads nicely into the areas of semiotics, structuralism and post-structuralism I hope to spend more time exploring.   You say, "All writing is merely marks on a piece of paper until given meaning by a thoughtful reader.".  Yet doesn't the author write what he reads?  Does the intent of the author matter?  At all?  Just a little bit?Then, there is the question of how words, and phrases, get associated with meanings.  Where does symbolism fit in?  How does this relate to context?I hope to be writing more about this soon." - Aldon Hynes

"Great blog post! Happy Anniversary!" - Aldon Hynes

"I started writing a quick comment about my history and languages I like.  Quickly, it grew to the equivalent of a long blog post, so I put the blog post up, and am sharing a link here: Free Computer Gifts for Kids http://www.orient-lodge.com/no... Enjoy.  I'd love to hear what you end up doing as well as the age and interests of your nephew." - Aldon Hynes

"When anyone tramples the rights of American Citizens to peacefully assemble to express their grievances, as protected in the Constitution, whether it be campus police, the national guard, or other groups, and whether they use pepper spray, dogs, water cannons and cattle prods, or bullets, it is the responsibility of all of us who love our country and its Constitution to vehemently denounces those tactics." - Aldon Hynes

"If you are doing social media for your brand already on sites like Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn, setting and populating a Google+ page is really easy and straight forward.  Every brand should be doing it. I've just set up a Google+ page for the health center where I work.  I would encourage others to do the same, and let us know where your page is.  CHC's page is at  https://plus.google.com/112495..." - Aldon Hynes