Saturday randomness

[erastes]

OK - so I'm still reeling from lee_rowan informing me that Edward Pellew was a real person.  I've been reading Hornblower since just about since I don't know when - at least from age 10 or so - and it never occurred to me that there were real people (other than Nelson) in the books.  Stupid Erastes!

Got my packet ready for the Agent, will give to Dad to post for me tomorrow. I left the bells thing in, it was stupid to worry about it, it's the bloody writing/subject matter/profitabilty they will be looking at, not stupid nit picky details. And there's a naked teenager on page one! What's not to like?

Paypal are issuing postal strips!  This is such good news for a couch potato.

Heritage of Pride Forced to Cancel PRIDEFest 2007 - I'm disgusted about this. Another step backwards.


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Updated: May 11, 2007
Contact: Dennis Spafford, Media Director
212.807.6468
media@hopinc.org

Heritage of Pride Forced to Cancel PRIDEFest 2007New York City’s Mayor’s Office and the Community Assistance Unit, denied a permit for Heritage of Pride’s 15th annual PRIDEfest street festival, which was to be held in Chelsea onJune 23, 2007.
The General Membership of Heritage of Pride (HOP), the producer of New York City’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Events, had decided on a May 11 deadline for the city to reverse its decision. This date was chosen in order to give the organization enough time to produce the event as it had been planned.

HOP received a formal notification for the denied permit on Thursday, May 10, and is in the process of filing an appeal for symbolic purposes. PRIDEfest has most recently been held in the West Village on Washington and Greenwich Streets, a venue that has major safety issues due to the narrowness of the street, potholes, and other logistical problems. The area also offers few amenities to the hundreds of thousands of LGBT residents and
international tourists who attend this annual Pride event. After serious consideration, HOP determined to move both the location and date of PRIDEfest to better serve the community.

PRIDEfest filed the necessary permit for the Chelsea location and date with the Community Assistance Unit of the Mayor’s Office on December 20, 2006. During a meeting with the NYPD on April 27, HOP organizers were told by representatives of the Community Assistance Unit that their permit would not be approved. Despite several meetings and phone calls with various City agencies, the Mayor’s Office continues to ignore the community’s need for a safer, more accessible event. In addition the Mayor’s Office is insisting on labeling this 15-year-old event a new event and denying the permit on these grounds as well.

HOP remains firm in its stance that holding PRIDEfest at its former location is not safe, not accessible, and not acceptable.

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