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Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we'll provide the jams.
I'm pretty sure this is the full version of the song we see the band singing when The Bride comes to have her showdown with O-Ren at the House of Blue Leaves.
For some reason, the detail that the band is doing all this rocking out barefoot just makes them more badass. My feet always get cold.


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Eli fought for the Union in the Civil War. Eli was a philanthropist. After Eli was a soldier, and before he was a philanthropist he did something extraordinary. When he was a soldier he saw the awful stuff that passed for medicine. Then he watched his wife who was pregnant with their second child die of malaria.
What did Eli do that was so extraordinary? Eli was a pharmacist? How can a pharmacist be extraordinary? After a few years of working for others, he decided to start a business. Eli didn't open a pharmacy to sell to the general public. He made drugs and sold them to other pharmacists. That sounds pretty ordinary doesn't it? Well, OK, it is ordinary now. But when Eli did it, it was extraordinary. Eli lived in a world without gelatin coated capsules, fruit flavored medicines or sugar coated pills. So he invented them. One of the early big selling drugs Eli's company produced was quinine, the treatment for malaria. In 1881 Eli decided to incorporate his growing company. His name for the company was unoriginal though. He gave it the name of Eli Lilly and Company.
Eli Lilly created the pharmaceutical industry and retired to be a philanthropist. He changed the world, and created a legacy which made the world a far better place by his work as a pharmacist and as a philanthropist. We need more rich people like him, not less.

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Asparagus Soup
Just because it's easy to make this asparagus soup doesn't mean they have to know, nor does it make the final presentation any less elegant. You need to take care with the garnishes though, or it will just be a bowl of green glop. Swirl the crème fraîche around in a spiral. Shave some asparagus to create wisps in the center. Asparagus soup is a good starter to your meal with the in-laws. With two cups of crème fraîche within the soup, it's not a light one either.


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Foreign Economic Association Draft Report
This report is a draft of a staff paper for the Foreign Economic Association prior to its termination at the end of WW II. Written by Walter K. Schwinn, David Gordon, Roy Dangerfield, and Askley E. Bayne, the report provides an overview of the economic intelligence operations of BEW/FEA during the years of U.S. involvement in the war.
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We are seeking individuals at the Consultant level to join our Capital Projects practice. Candidates should have the ability to listen to, understand and incorporate client needs and objectives into work plans and to execute the work. The candidate should also have the ability to participate in client service teams performing tasks with some oversight and supervision. Our goal is to provide a variety of experiences that will allow you to learn and understand our practice. Consultants will be staffed on engagements where they will have the opportunity to provide an array of program and project management services.
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A Freshman Heads Home To Defend G.O.P. Agenda
Grabill, Ind.
Rep. Mark E. Souder, R-Ind., returned to his hometown last week prepared to make a few enemies.
With nearly 100 people gathered in the Grabill Missionary Fellowship Hall here, Mr. Souder convened a "town meeting" and delivered his message--for the sixth time that day: As the House makes massive cuts in federal programs in an effort to balance the federal budget by 2002, everyone will feel the pain.
"That's why I say, 'If I don't make everyone in this room mad, I'm not doing my job,'" he said.
Like other House Republicans, Mr. Souder headed home this month for the first major recess after his party's first 100 days in power to celebrate--or defend--their efforts to chip away at the federal budget.
For the first-year representative from northeastern Indiana's predominantly rural, conservative 4th District, that meant meeting with constituents in Avilla, Albion, Ligonier, Rome City, and Kendallville before the meeting in Grabill, where he grew up and still owns an interest in the family's old-time general store.
Over all, Mr. Souder had used the recess to hold 31 such town meetings in the district--where Amish buggies are just as likely to cruise the streets as Ford trucks.
An evangelical Christian who calls himself a "grassroots" conservative, Mr. Souder is the vice president of a 73-member House G.O.P. freshman class that has vowed to reduce the influence of the federal government and place greater power in local hands.
As a member of the House Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities and the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, Mr. Souder is in a particularly good position to figure in the debate over federal education programs.
He has already weighed in on one popular program. Republicans have taken a great deal of criticism for a plan to replace school-meals programs with a block grant, but Mr. Souder wanted to go further. He suggested proposing an annual 2 percent increase for school lunches rather than the 4.5 percent that G.O.P. leaders say their bill calls for. (See Education Week, 3/29/95.)
In Indiana, Mr. Souder said the federal government can usefully play a "bully pulpit" role and that it should probably continue funding research and administering college aid. But, he said, House Republicans will engage in a three-part strategy to limit the federal role in education--reducing spending on education programs, reducing the number of programs, and moving to eliminate the Education Department.
In several towns, he found support for that philosophy.
"Typically, if it's based out of Washington, it's a bad idea," said one Kendallville man who declined to give his name.
Residents also expressed deep suspicions of the Clinton Administration's Goals 2000: Educate America Act, a concern that Mr. Souder shares.
"There would be less concern if the federal government said everybody needs to learn to read and write, everybody needs to learn basic math. But no, they wouldn't leave it at that," Mr. Souder said in Grabill. "Behind this is a lot of social engineering. They want to attack the family structure, attack capitalism."
Defending Programs
However, like many of his colleagues, Mr. Souder found that some constituents' distrust of government is outweighed by their interest in particular programs.
Bill Creigh, a roofing contractor and a member of the Rome City town council, repeatedly questioned why the federal government would provide millions of dollars in foreign aid and simultaneously cut domestic programs.
"I'll spend my money on education, but you're going to cut it," Mr. Creigh said. "You're cutting stuff that means a lot to us."
Doris Goins, the director of the Kendallville library, asked for more federal spending on libraries, arguing that "our particular state has no interest in libraries and we've been fighting that for years."
But, Mr. Souder said, as federal funds become scarcer, library spending is likely to be reduced.
"If I have to cut [money for] handicapped kids or a fax machine for the library," he said, "I'm going to cut the fax machine for the library."
The Party Line
Mr. Souder has also proved himself to be unafraid to buck his party's leadership. He was one of two Republicans to vote against amending the Constitution to require a balanced budget. He said he opposed the decision to remove a provision requiring a three-fifths majority to increase taxes.
When sponsors of a family-privacy bill dropped language that would require written parental permission for students to participate in federal surveys--an item in House Republicans' "Contract With America"--he restored it with a floor amendment.
And when he objected in a G.O.P. conference to the leadership's unwillingness to call for a vote on efforts to bail out the Mexican economy, Mr. Souder said he produced 55 signatures and forced a conference vote, which he lost.
"That really pissed them off," he told constituents proudly.
"I liked him. He's not like some people who try and tell you something that pleases you," said Lee Reyes, 18, a senior at West Noble High School in Ligonier.
When the House begins work again next week, Mr. Souder acknowledges that he will probably contribute anew to divisions within his party as he turns his attention to the agenda of the freshman "family caucus."
Chaired by Rep. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., the caucus is closely aligned with the Washington-based Family Research Council, a conservative research and advocacy organization, and Mr. Souder said it will seek to enact legislation supporting "pro family" views on such topics as sex education, religion, and education reform.
Caucus members, Mr. Souder said, will fight to give these divisive issues prominence as the leadership seeks to concentrate on economic matters and the federal budget.
"I know a lot of you are concerned about social issues, and, frankly, I'm very afraid of where we're going. We did not deal with those much in the first 100 days," Mr. Souder told his Grabill audience. But "we're going to force votes on some of these things whether the Republican Party likes it or not."
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Brooklyn Accelerator News: Spark Prize Application Clinic | Upcoming Events | Job Openings + More
Moving Brooklyn's Nonprofits Forward
Grant Opportunities!
Apply for $100,000 Spark Prize April 10th - May 12th
Our Spark Prize returns this spring as we once again honor 5 outstanding Brooklyn nonprofits with $100,000 each in general operating support, in addition to up to $5,000 in matching grants for the 20 finalists.
The Spark Prize recognizes nonprofits that are dedicated to Brooklyn's communities, demonstrate strong organizational values, are deeply committed to equity and justice, and have a dynamic vision for the future of their work. Brooklyn nonprofits of all backgrounds and focus areas are encouraged to apply.
This year's application is open April 10th - May 12th to organizations with five years of service to Brooklyn's communities and annual operating budgets over $350,000. Get started at SparkPrize.org.
Application Clinic
If your organization is interested in learning more about this unique funding opportunity, sign up now for our Application Clinic on Thursday, April 20 from 2-3:30pm. Registration is required and space is limited. Sign up now to secure your spot.
Action Fund: Up to $2,500 for Civil Resistance and Organizing
With our $1-million Immigrant Rights Fund, we have launched a new Action Fund to provide swift and flexible support for community organizing and civil resistance activities that include:
- protest planning and logistics
- outreach and community building events
- bystander trainings
- public education programs
Grants of up to $2,500 are awarded on a rolling basis with rapid turnaround for immediate use. Applicants are asked to apply in partnership with immigrant-serving nonprofits or fiscally sponsored groups. Costs can include supplies, printing, and transportation.
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We're Hiring!
Brooklyn Community Foundation is seeking a Director of Major Gifts to develop and execute an individual major donor program in support of our the mission to spark lasting change for a fair and just Brooklyn.
Learn more about this exciting opportunity to join our team!
Ben and Jerry's Foundation supports organizations working to bring about progressive social change by addressing the underlying conditions of societal and environmental problems. One-year grants of up to $20,000 will be awarded to nonprofit, grassroots community-organizing groups in the United States working to further social and environmental justice and in support of sustainable and just-food systems. Pre-proposals must be received no later than April 14th.
Apply for the 2017 New York Community Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards to strengthen your organization's management performance. Winners share innovative and replicable practices and compete for $60,000 in prize money as well as scholarships to Columbia Business School's nonprofit management courses. Applications are due by April 21st at 5pm. All operating 501(c)(3) nonprofits in New York City, Long Island, and Westchester are eligible and encouraged to apply.
The J.M.K. Innovation Prize is an initiative of The J.M. Kaplan Fund, a New York-based family foundation. In 2017 up to ten Prizes will be awarded to those – nonprofits and mission-driven for-profits – tackling our country's most pressing needs through social innovation. The Prize will provide up to three years of support at $50,000 per year, as well as a $25,000 "bank" of funds available for technical assistance or targeted project expenses. Interested individuals or teams may apply through April 28th.
The Hill-Snowdon Foundation, in partnership with the General Service Foundation, is launching the Defending the Dream Fund to provide expedited resources to grassroots organizing groups that are working to protect targeted communities in the Trump era and defend the core principles of equity and justice. The Fund is a one-year initiative and will make grants up to $10,000 each. Requests for funding are accepted from March 31st to May 1st and from July 31st to September 1st. Learn more and apply
MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award is accepting nominations until May 1st. The $250,000 award will go to a person or group engaged in extraordinary disobedience for the benefit of society. Specifically, action that changes society in positive ways and is consistent with a set of key principles that include non-violence, creativity, courage, and taking responsibility for one's actions.
Applications are now open for Brooklyn Arts Council's 2017 East Brooklyn Capacity Building Award. Organizations are invited to describe a project that uniquely supports the overall stabilization of their operations. Awards of $5,000 will be distributed for direct costs related to a project that addresses the organization's capacity-building needs. Deadline: Friday, May 5th.
The CRE Rising Fund was developed out of CRE's mission to serve nonprofit organizations that have deep roots in their communities and are working to fight poverty and advance opportunity. Through the fund, expert CRE consultants partner with small nonprofits to complete no-cost consulting engagements. To apply, organizations are asked to define a specific project that they would like CRE's assistance with. The deadline to apply is April 28th. Click here for more details and to apply.
The NYC Capacity Building Collaborative is offering two workshops from the Management Center designed to support new managers to take their skills to the next level, especially managers of color and staff who are in line to take over as the organization's next executive director. Trainings are free to grantees of the Brooklyn Community Foundation, Cricket Island Foundation, Daphne Foundation, Korean American Community Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, New York Foundation, New York Women's Foundation, North Star Fund, Scherman Foundation, and Stonewall Community Foundation:
- Managing to Change the World: April 25-26, 10am-5:30pm - A two-day training on key management practices that help visionary leaders deliver on their aspirations. Through this highly practical training, participants will explore and practice tools that differentiate high-performing organizations—from effectively assigning roles and responsibilities and setting goals, to hiring a diverse team of superstars, managing across lines of difference, and giving effective, and unbiased feedback
- Owning the Work: April 28th, 10am-5:30pm - A one-day crash course designed to leave staff empowered and equipped to drive their work forward even more effectively. Participants will learn practices for getting aligned with their manager and broader teams, clarifying roles and goals, managing their time, and being a proactive player in pushing through roadblocks in the work.
The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) is accepting submissions for the CUP Fellowship for Change in Design, a new initiative to support the development of a pipeline of talented individuals from historically under-represented communities into the design fields, and to dismantle the systemic biases that stand in the way of their advancement as leaders in these fields. This is a paid, year-long, training fellowship. Deadline to Apply: May 1st.
PennPAC's teams of University of Pennsylvania alumni-volunteers are ready to tap into their intellectual and business acumen to help your nonprofit thrive. PennPAC is now accepting applications for Spring 2017 consulting grants to NYC-based nonprofits. The deadline to apply is May 22nd. Projects launch in October 2017 and run 8 weeks. Learn more and apply.
Around Brooklyn
New York Immigration Coalition invites you to the Key to the City: Family Resource Day on Saturday, April 8th from 9am-1pm at PS 109 in Flatbush. Free immigration legal consultations, resources for healthcare, English classes, and Know Your Rights workshops. Learn more.
Young Dancers in Repertory presents "Celebrating Diversity Through Dance" on Saturday, April 8th from 10am-3pm at the Sunset Park Recreation Center. Some forms of dance to be featured are Native American, East Indian, Caribbean, West African, Mexican, Greek, Russian, Middle Eastern and Flamenco dance. This event is FREE.
On April 13th, JFREJ will be holding a giant Seder in the Streets at City Hall Park to celebrate a 5777-year history of resistance and demand that political leaders stand up to the administration and create real sanctuary, real safety and real justice for all New Yorkers. RSVP here.
The Brooklyn District Attorney's Office brings Begin Again to Bedford-Stuyvesant on Friday, April 14th and Saturday, April 15th from 9am-3pm at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church to give Brooklyn residents an opportunity to deal with summonses for low-level offenses quickly and easily right in their community.
Join criminal justice advocate Marlon Peterson (a member of Brooklyn Community Foundation's first Incubator Project cohort) for Decarcerated: What Justice Looks Like on Tuesday, April 18th at 7pm. The event is part of the BRIC's weekly Stoop Series. Free with RSVP. 647 Fulton St.
Theatre of the Opressed NYC's annual Legislative Theatre Festival features original plays based on actors' lived experiences of discrimination in New York City. Audience members act onstage alongside actors to offer alternative responses to systemic problems, and submit ideas to representatives from City Council, the Mayor's Office and the federal government. Saturday, May 13th, 2-5pm at BRIC, 647 Fulton St., featuring performances by Crown Heights Mediation Center Troupe. RSVP here.
Join North Star Fund and our partners on Saturday, May 20th from 11:30am-5:30pm for Resilient New York, a forum to advance grassroots organizing as a key strategy to protect the dignity and rights of all New Yorkers. The event is a call to community members, organizers, donors, and grantmakers to unite around a proactive shared vision to support the grassroots for the next four years and beyond.
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Reel Works Teen Filmmaking - Development & Communications Associate
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Audre Lorde Project - Manager of Development
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New York Foundation - Program Officer
New York Immigration Coalition - Manager, Legal Initiatives; Director, Immigration Advocacy
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Being Resilient
HeadStart Champions and BounceBack at North Beckton Primary School
Life throws a lot at young people and sometimes they may struggle to overcome problems and challenges. HeadStart and BounceBack offer young people in Newham the opportunity to develop new skills so they can overcome challenges and 'bounce back' from tough situations.
Headstart Champions
HeadStart Champions can help support the development and delivery of a school's resilience and well-being strategies. Being a HeadStart Champion helps you to develop problem solving and communication skills, creates stronger peer relationships and is an achievement young children can ultimately reflect on and be proud of.
Bouceback is a fun way for primary aged children to learn different tools and tricks to help them look after themselves. BounceBack makes building resilience an exciting experience; helping pupils with problem solving, setting goals, improving peer relationships and self-awareness. By doing so, young people can feel proud as they set new goals and achieve them and make new friends!


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"Think Different—Accept Uncertainty" Part XIII: Miracles As Signs to Be Interpreted
Today, as a part of the overall series entitled "Think Different–Accept Uncertainty," I want to begin to press this mini-unit on the miracle stories of the gospels toward a conclusion. My concern has been to show modern readers that these miraculous narratives found in the gospels were always symbolic, interpretive stories rather than supernatural accounts arising out of the lack of knowledge present in that pre-modern world, filled as it was with fear and superstition. The first thing we noted was that the miracles attributed to Jesus in the New Testament fell into three distinct categories: nature miracles, raising of the dead miracles and making people whole miracles.
Our next insight came from looking at the miracle stories found in earlier traditions in the Hebrew Scriptures. There we noted that, for the most part, miracles in the Bible were centered in three cycles of stories. First, there was the Moses-Joshua cycle where the miracle stories all seemed to involve power over the forces of nature. Here we found such things as the plagues on Egypt, the splitting of the Red Sea to allow safe passage across the water for the fleeing slaves and the raining down of heavenly bread called manna. These "natural miracles" dominate the Moses cycle of stories. When we arrived at the Joshua cycle we found additional feats of natural power that included the splitting of the waters of the Jordan River, the collapsing of the walls of Jericho and the stopping of the sun in the sky in its journey around the earth to allow more daylight for Joshua's troops to massacre more of his enemy's soldiers on the battlefield. Then looking at the nature miracles attributed to Jesus in the gospels we saw in them echoes of these Moses-Joshua stories. Jesus also was said to have had power over water. He did not split seas and rivers, but he could calm the storm and walk on the water. Like Moses, Jesus could also feed the multitude in the wilderness with finite amounts of food, which could expand to any needed dimensions and the supply never be exhausted just like manna in the wilderness. The power of nature was thus depicted in the gospels as subservient to the power of Jesus. Like Moses, Jesus could command the forces of nature to do his will.
The second cycle of miracle stories in the Bible was found in the accounts that gathered around the persons of Elijah and Elisha, who were thought of as those who started the prophetic movement. Here most of the miracles were once again nature miracles. Both Elijah and Elisha could part the waters of the Jordan River and they could both expand the food supply so that it did not give out. They could also control the weather and even call down fire from heaven to serve their purposes. Two dramatically new miraculous powers, however, were added to the accounts of Elijah and Elisha. Both were said to have been able to raise the dead. Elijah raised from the dead the only son of a widow. Elisha raised from the dead the twelve-year-old daughter of a wealthy woman who had befriended him. Elisha was also the first person in the Bible who was said to have performed a healing miracle. He healed the leprosy of a foreigner, a man named Naaman the Syrian. We looked earlier in this series at the relationship between these Elijah-Elisha stories and the gospel narratives and began to see the close connections. Jesus, like Elijah, raised from the dead a widow's only son, a story told only in Luke. Jesus, like Elisha, raised from the dead a child in a narrative recorded in Mark, Matthew and Luke. I might also add that Luke alone told the story of Jesus cleansing the leprosy of ten people, but that story turned on the fact that one of them was a foreigner, a Samaritan, and he, like Naaman the Syrian, was the only one to recognize the source of healing power. The Elijah-Elisha stories appear to have shaped these gospel narratives dramatically.
Most of the best-known miracle stories in the gospels that surround Jesus, however, had to do with healing individuals or making them whole. Jesus was portrayed with some frequency as being able to give sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, the ability to leap and walk to those with lame or withered limbs, and to enable the mute to speak or sing. What do we make of these stories? Well, the fact is that they too grow out of the Hebrew Scriptures and were presented in the gospels as signs that Jesus was the appointed messiah.
For this analysis, we have to go to I Isaiah (Isaiah 1-39). Someone must have asked this eighth century BCE prophet how people would recognize and know just when the Kingdom of God on earth was beginning. In Jewish mythology to inaugurate the Kingdom was the primary role assigned to the figure they called the messiah. I Isaiah wrote his response to this question in the 35th chapter of his book in beautiful and poetic language. You will know that the Kingdom of God is at hand and that the messianic age is beginning, he said, when these things occur: First, water will begin to flow in the desert enabling the crocuses to bloom there and the gift of life will be celebrated from Mt. Carmel to Sharon. The second sign will be just as dramatic: Human wholeness will begin to replace human brokenness. "The eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped; then shall the lame man leap like a hart and the tongue of the dumb sing for joy" (Is. 35:5-6).
That specific messianic tradition was lifted out of I Isaiah quite intentionally by the interpreters of Jesus and its content placed into the gospel tradition by the authors of both Matthew and Luke when they re-introduced John the Baptist into their narratives. According to this story, John had been imprisoned by Herod for his preaching against Herod's illegal marriage. While John was in prison, these two gospel writers tell us, John's confidence began to waver as to whether or not Jesus really was "the one who was to come," that is, the expected messiah, or whether John and his followers must begin to look for another. With these doubts motivating him, John the Baptist sent messengers to Jesus asking him to clarify his messianic status.
Jesus did not answer John's question directly. Instead he told the messengers to return to John and tell him what they had seen and heard and let him draw his own conclusions. Then, he referred them quite specifically to this Isaiah text. The blind that came in touch with Jesus were enabled to see; the deaf were enabled to hear; the lame could walk and leap, and the mute could talk and sing. The signs of the messianic age were in fact breaking out all around Jesus. In this narrative, Matthew and Luke were making specific claims about Jesus as messiah and they were quoting this passage from Isaiah to demonstrate that Jesus indeed was the expected one, "the one who was to come."
If healing were to accompany the inauguration of the Kingdom of God and if Jesus was believed to have been that promised one, then he had to be portrayed as the bringer of wholeness. This means that miracle stories had to be attached to the memory of Jesus in all three of the Old Testament categories: Moses stories, Elijah- Elisha stories and messianic expectation stories. Jesus was messiah was their claim and for supporting data for this claim they cited stories that demonstrated that he commanded the forces of nature, he raised the dead and he was the one who could and did bring wholeness to the brokenness of human life.
That is what those miracle stories were employed to communicate and that is why they need to be read as interpretive symbols, not as supernatural acts. That was also why no miracles were connected with the memory of Jesus until the eighth decade. It took that long for this interpretive process to get established. That is why Paul seems to know nothing of Jesus as a miracle worker. Miracles were an eighth decade addition to the Jesus story, introduced first by Mark, then copied within a decade or so with no additions by Matthew. By the time Luke wrote in the late 80's to early 90's, more Elijah-Elisha stories were added to the memory of Jesus. That is why only in Luke did Jesus like Elisha, heal not one, but ten lepers. Only in Luke did Jesus raise from the dead the only son of a widow just as Elijah did. When Luke arrived at the climax of his gospel he once again adapted an Elijah story, magnified it and then retold it as a Jesus story. That is why, only in Luke, did Jesus ascend into heaven, just as Elijah did, except that Luke says that Jesus did it without the help that Elijah received from a magical, fiery chariot drawn by magical fiery horses and propelled by a divine whirlwind. Jesus, as the new Elijah, could ascend without any supernatural aids. After Elijah ascended, he was said to have poured out a double portion of his powerful, but still human spirit on his single disciple, Elisha. In Luke's climactic narrative, Jesus, the "new Elijah, poured out the enormous gift of God's Holy Spirit in sufficient quantities to transform the entire community and to last throughout the centuries. In the telling of these Ascension and Pentecost stories, Luke tipped his hat overtly to the Elijah source from which he was drawing his material. He even took the whirlwind that propelled Elijah's chariot heavenward and he turned it into the mighty rushing wind that filled the upper room on the day of Pentecost. He took the fire from the magical chariot and horses and turned it into tongues of fire that were said to have lighted on the heads of the disciples as a sign of the presence of the Holy Spirit.
A close examination of the miracle stories of the New Testament thus reveals that they were not written as the memory of literal events. They were, rather, created as interpretive narratives presenting Jesus as the new Moses, the new Elijah and the expected messiah. They are to be read not as supernatural tales, but as interpretive symbols. Suddenly the miracles begin to look very different and we are able to read the gospels in a new manner. To see this, however, we must "think different" and "accept uncertainty."
We will continue this series next week.
~John Shelby Spong


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. . . to throw away my magazines. It's really a problem.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
I refuse . . .
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Sunday, June 20, 2010
The down-side of using yarn as packing material . . .
. . . is that when our move date gets pushed back I can't knit anything. I am nearly finished with Baby Notre Dame Letterman sweater number 2, and eager to start on the "Golden Dome" hat I have half-designed in my head (see below for details). I was hoping to use either beige or gray yarn for the bottom; however those specific skeins are being used to pad certain fragile objects packed in boxes, stacked in my bedroom. Problem is I don't know which boxes contain which yarn. I didn't think to document which skeins were padding which boxes, because I thought I would be UNPACKING them soon!!! sigh.
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Friday, June 11, 2010
Carnegie Mellon University
So I got an interesting email yesterday:
Date: 10th June, 2010
Hi Mollie,
We're putting together an exhibition celebrating Steelers fan art, homemade creations, and collections. We really enjoyed your Baby Steelers Jacket, where we found, http://www.flickr.com/photos/molliiieee/4441505751/.
Is this jacket available for inclusion in the exhibition this fall (late August 2010 through January 2011) at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University? If so, we can discuss shipment and crediting details.
Looking forward to hearing back from you.
Jon Rubin and Astria Suparak
Whatever It Takes: Steelers Fan Collections, Rituals, and Obsessions
More info:
WHATEVER IT TAKES: Steelers Fan Collections, Rituals, and Obsessions is an exhibition of creations made by fans of the Pittsburgh Steelers, showcasing the extraordinary passion and anything-goes creativity that surrounds the team (such as homemade merchandise, lawn sculptures, basement collections, tattoos, pre-game superstitions, tailgating rituals, international Steelers bars, etc.). The exhibition will be on view at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University this Fall 2010.
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Tuesday, June 8, 2010
When I can buy yarn again . . .
So I'm not allowed to buy yarn at the moment. First, because my husband and I are buying an apartment and I can't justify the extra expense just because "it's so pretty!!!!" Second, I don't want to pack and carry more than I have to. We are on a trajectory to have no food in the house on move day, just so we don't have to carry any extras down to the truck. Even though yarn is light, and makes for nice padding material for fragile things (see below), I figured I should cut back.
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Thursday, June 3, 2010
Granny Square Lingerie
Snagged from Craftzine via Sara London.
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A woman I'm sponsoring is sending me her gratitude list daily. It's helpful to put into perspective my day's activities and emotions -- and to remind me of my own gratitude sources. I just came back from a trip I found to be a real joy. Obviously, there were issues with the trip, more with this trip than with some, and my own negligence and trust-placing caused some of the surprises. Still, it was an awesome experience, an opportunity to observe the world's beauty and vastness, My travelling companion acknowledged the beauty, but dwelt on the inconveniences. What a loss!
Perspective is important in looking inward as well as outward.
- Yesterday I got a test copy of a product I put together. Most of it looks great. My mistakes, though, are what I think of first, but they'll be corrected -- that's why we went to the expense of getting a test copy anyway! And the final product will be glorious.
- I got a check yesterday made payable to an entity that has no bank account. But hey, I got a check, and the bank can expand the allowable names on the account, I bet!
- I left a small bowl of chili out last night, necessitating it's being added to the dogs' breakfast rather than a later meal. That was stupid. But I put the majority of the unused chili in the refrigerator appropriately. Yeah, the waste was still stupid. But the financial loss is not worth the emotional enmity.
I'm okay. I'm REALLY okay. Look how far I've come! A car in front of me this morning slowed down unexpectedly to enter the AM Donuts parking area. Two years, six months and a couple of weeks ago, that would have been my car. I no longer felt any need to go there, thought "My car doesn't make that turn anymore." I amended the thought, though -- there's a fruit vendor in the same lot. But I have no need for the donuts. Thank God! One of the glories of the trip was I reveled in creation, in people, in new experiences -- not in new dishes or in stuffing all the food I encountered into me. I ate no sugar, and I didn't eat more than I needed. Thank God!


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This qualification, accredited by the Naturopathic Nutrition Association, set at a minimum of a Level 4 qualification is a distance learning course with a 2 day tutorial.
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Accredited by the Naturopathic Nutrition Association, and the General Naturopathic Council, our Advanced diploma course has distance learning and tutorial based clinical practice.
Short courses
Three great introductory courses for those who want a taste of natural therapies without committing to an expensive course. Ideal if you'd like self-help tips for your own personal interest.
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The Moment You Realize You're Grateful It All Changes
Gratitude. Boom! Who knew it was so powerful?
I woke up in my lovely Paris apartment this morning safe, sound, healthy, birds chirping, sun shining, new book just released, Nespresso freshly poured…Whew! Grateful.
So far, I've lived the most incredible life. Really, I've been stupid blessed. And, I have to admit (because we keep it real!), that the majority of it I've spent bemoaning what I've had, who I've had or didn't have in my life, what I didn't have, what I wanted, etc. Get the picture? I absolutely know I'm not the only person on this planet whose walked around in what I like to call "The Gratitude Void".
The Gratitude Void is all hazy, dark, pitiful, definitely dingy and makes your head hurt.
Not sexy at all. Oh! And we're not alone in The Void. Say hello to my little friend fear, cousin doubt, aunt disappointment, her BFF frustration, and the rest of their gnarly crew. The Void is so dark and dense with negativity, that it's super hard to see the squint of light at the end of the tunnel begging you to come closer. And that's where all the good stuff hangs out!
Listen, I get it. We are all living this life. Stuff happens. Bad stuff happens. Really sucky, don't want to get out of bed, stuff happens. I get it! And, what I have to come know is that the more we can seek that light, look for, appreciate and celebrate the good stuff, the more rockstar our lives become. Here's the good news (and there's always good news!)…
We create The Gratitude Void so we can skip out of it at any time.
Here's what helps me and I hope it serves you:
- Stop. Open your eyes. Look around. When I think back on times when my "Void" brain thought I had nothing or not enough, I just shake my head. Ridiculous. And it still happens from time-to-time to all of us. So when it does, get in the habit of taking a minute, a day, a vacation and survey the landscape. Look at your life, the people in it, your accomplishments and victories, the people you've helped, and those who have helped you. Watch that light at the end of the tunnel get brighter as you do.
- Practice. Create a daily gratitude ritual. It could be an affirmation like "I'm so freakin' grateful for …", or "Wow! Look at the beautiful people in my life. Thank you Universe!", or even "Yes! Full tank of gas!" Get where I'm going with this? Start speaking it, out loud. Get in the habit of noticing and practice seeing the big and little things each day.
- Take a look in the mirror. See that face? Ummm, you're still living! This, my love, is the best news of all. How Awesome is that! You get to welcome a day that others may not see. You still have breath to get out bed, move your body, stimulate your mind, and help others. That face and your presence are powerful and can move mountains. You already have!
I'm not the first to say that gratitude is the key to life. We can choose to hang out in the "The Void" or we can wake up each day and go to bed each night all pom poms up with "How Awesome is my Life? AWESOME!" And watch how it changes everything.


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In the vicinity of Bayside, first contact:
South Oakleigh Wildlife Shelter phone 0411 600 591
AWARE Wildlife Rescue (based in Frankston but covering Bayside) phone 0412 433 727
Animalia Wildlife Shelter Frankston phone 0435 822 699
Other support:
AEC (Animal Emergency Centre, formerly Southern Animal Referral Centre)248 Wickham Rd, Highett VIC 3190 phone 03 9532 5261. For injured possums or other wildlife.
Bayside Duckling Orphanage Animal Rescue Cheltenham. For ducks and ducklings.
Let Companion Birds Fly Paris Yves - Mornington Peninsula - phone 0413 530 419. For companion/pet birds, but can refer wildlife birds to registered wildlife carers. Provides free bird behaviour advice.
Rob and Prue Sinclair Hampton phone 0401 555 901 8am - 8pm. For possums in need of care, but not injured.
Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) list of animal rescue organizations
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Basic First Aid
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When I was a child in the 1960s, there was a photo in my history book. "Man market in the 1930s" was its title. Younger and older men were standing on a marketplace in their poor clothes, waiting for a richer man who would hire them for a day's labour. This photo reminded me of the pictures of the slave markets in the American South a century ago.
In the 60s life was restricted but secure in socialist Hungary. There was full employment in the country, everybody had a job and accommodation, and nobody was forced to sell his muscle at a market like this. There were many sad photos in our school history book, images of executions, death camps and destruction in war. But this photo from the prewar, capitalist system with its silent sadness frustrated me the most. I almost cried thinking about those poor men, standing for hours in the marketplace, competing with each other for a lousy dime, offering the capacity of their hard work for some fat exploiters.
The memory of this photo came back many years later. In the early 90s, 1.5m jobs were lost in a country with only 10m inhabitants and whole industrial sectors disappeared during the capitalist transition. Homeless people slept all over Budapest (before 1989 I had never seen them except in my trips to western Europe), former schoolmates and friends lost their jobs, the state-run workmen's hostels and trade union rest-houses were either privatised or just demolished, old pensioners tried to sell their cheap dinner services on the street to earn some money. One day on the Moscow Square, near to my flat in Budapest, a huge man market was opened. Hundreds of poor men were standing there waiting for a day of labour – exactly like on that old photo. Capitalism hadn't changed too much during the 40 years Hungary was absent from its empire.
On the political surface the transition to democracy was successful. As a journalist I was satisfied with the flourishing free media. The daily newspaper Magyar Hírlap was privatised and bought by Robert Maxwell himself. As a shop steward of the editorial board I was able to learn the spirit of capitalism from a rather tough master – he fired many good colleagues, but on the other hand modernised the paper and the printing house.
We had a freely elected parliament from 1990 and our newspaper became the flagship of the left-liberal press attacking the new conservative government for its incompetence. While the debates were concentrated on ideological issues, the deepening gap between the few rich and the growing poor seemed to be a marginal question for the political elite. Parties had long debates on whether or not to put the holy crown into the arms of the republic, but the mainstream politicians didn't touch the topic of lost jobs and their social consequences. By the mantra of the new system politics should not interfere with the mechanism of the market: the market wisely regulates itself, and any kind of state intervention is a bad reminder of the communist past. After four years of the amateurish conservative rule the people voted the socialists back in, but the former reforming communists rigorously followed the neo-liberal dogmas. The socialist finance minister then, Lajos Bokros, is now an MEP who sits with the British Tories in the new rightist group – without changing his views.
After 20 years of transition most Hungarians are disillusioned with the new system – partly because of the worldwide economic crisis, but that alone doesn't explain all the poverty, corruption and political hatred. For ordinary people the Hungarian society already worked as a semi-capitalist system by the 80s, providing market competition for the willing and state protection for the weak. But the advantages Hungary's domestic semi-capitalism provided over other former "communist" countries were all but wiped out by the massive invasion of the foreign capital. Foreign corporations take out 7-8% of Hungary's GDP in profit annually. Many disillusioned people blame not neoliberal, foreign-capital-based economics but democracy itself for all these troubles. The gap between the rich and poor has slightly decreased under the socialist government but this hasn't lessened the general disillusionment. Rightwingers with their nationalist slogans blame foreign capital, while neglecting social problems and the awful conditions of the Roma population.
Very few Hungarians realise the dual nature of the 1989-90 transition. We should be proud of the democratic changes; but there is no reason to follow the capitalist dogmas of the 1980s which characterised our economic transition. The ideal answer would be democracy without capitalist dogmas; but this, of course, is not only a Hungarian challenge.


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Usually their Twitter profile can give you an idea whether the person is a real human being or a spammer, or whether the person is actually interesting or just posts links to someone's RSS feed. If you're having a tough time though and want an easy way to determine if someone is worth following, take a look at Foller.me, a Web service that shows you some basic information about the user, what they commonly tweet about, some of their recently used tags, and where their followers are from.
Foller.me doesn't tell you whether or not you should follow someone, ultimately that's for you to decide. However, if you're followed by a Twitter user who seems like a real person and seems like they might be interesting but you can't tell by their most recent tweets, Foller.me can help you figure out what they talk about.
Just type the user's name into the text box and the service will scrub the user's most recent tweets. When it's finished, you'll see some basic information about the user, like their number of followers, the number of people they're following, and how many updates they've posted. You'll also see a list of their recent frequently used words, so you can see what the person is likely to talk about. Additionally, the service shows you the user's recently used hashtags, so you can see the types of conversations they participate in.
Additionally, Foller.me gives you a peek into the person's social interaction and the users they most commonly respond to or mention in their Twitter posts. You can tell the user mentions one person or topic more than another because the word is displayed larger on the page.
Finally, the service shows you a Google Map of the user's Twitter followers, and where across the world they're located. You can click on any of the pinpoints on the map to see which person is located in which country. For example, I have Twitter followers all over the globe, including a few friends in Japan and one in South Africa.
Foller.me doesn't show you in-depth information about the user's tweets, and it could improve a bit if it showed some heavily re-tweeted posts, or even a few sample tweets from the user's Twitter page. Even so, it's a fun way to learn a little about someone before you follow them and to learn something you may not have known about your own Twitter stream.


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If you love music while you're in the car, the radio is the easiest way to find it. But trying to find a certain type of music on the radio when you're visiting in an unfamiliar place can be frustrating. Rolling through the dial takes time because you have to stop an listen to commercials or a DJ talking before the next song is played and you can decide whether that music is your vibe or not.
We've got you covered in Charlotte, though, with this list of local FM radio stations. Here you will find the stations' dial numbers, call letters, and genre. Charlotte offers a banquet of choices, with gospel, classical, jazz, country, classic rock, hits, urban oldies, alternative rock, religious, and local and national talk radio and news all on the FM dial. So scroll down the list and dial up your favorites for some great listening in Charlotte and environs.
Charlotte Radio Stations on the FM Dial
South Carolina Public Radio
Classical Public Radio
National Public Radio
No. 1 Hits
Classic Rock
New Country
News and Talk
Classic Rock
Up 98.7 (WRFX-HD2)
All Genres
Urban Oldies
Alternative Rock
Talk and Music Mix


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In a recent post, emarketer quoted a study by Deloitte stating that TV was still the lead influencer of purchasing decisions by consumers, even in the US.
I beg to differ.
Studies on the share of TV in media consumption do not differentiate enough as to the level of attention that the medium is consumed with. So many households have TV running virtually all day with a minimum of attention as opposed to an online usage that is still predominantly active, targeted (in the sense of the user pursuing a search or e-commerce activity), or socially interactive, that the two types of consumption cannot be equated – it's comparing apples and pears.
The is all the more true if we consider the demographics, with a larger portion of low-income households letting the TV running indiscriminately. Besides, if you discount the number of TVs running 12 hours a day in Bars and Restaurants, I would wager that in terms of full attention media consumption, online has already overtaken TV.
We lack a study that compares – from the vantage point of an advertiser – conversion rates on campaigns running on TV and non-display-ads online.
The trend will increase with the further roll-out of online video.
The "Gretchenfrage" most discussed in the advertising industry right now is whether we will have a full-fledged downturn in advertising spending across all media, or whether there are niches and segments of the advertising /media industry that could even benefit from the recession. This being the 2nd downturn that I have experienced in my career, I am firmly convinced that the latter will happen.
I make this assumption based on several factors:
The coming year will see providers of Web 2.0 campaign solutions and media ad placements achieving disproportionate success considering the downturn and cutbacks of media budgets. This will happen for precisely the reason that in the past 1 ½ years many showcases of Social Marketing have been started that have proven or will prove to have been successful to an unexpected degree. After the Beacon disaster these showcases will turn the tide, much in the way keyword advertising established itself in 2002 – 2004.
Our best reference is http://bmw-web.tv, which generated considerable brand awareness for our client BMW. BMW itself doubled that success by creating, at the same time, a national web TV project that was equally successful called BMW TV which greatly enhanced traction to its own site. For confidentiality reasons I cannot give you figures, but trust me the impact was measurable.
Advertisers of the old school often argue that performance marketing or traditional lead generation marketing does not help the brand gain emotional traction and awareness. That dichotomy is of the past. Social relevance, rich media and video formats allow the digital sphere to create a branding experience that is as emotionally compelling as television and as measurably successful as search engine marketing. That has always been the holy grail of advertising, and we seem to have found it.
If you want more information or need help achieving that success, contact me.
Technical, economic and social developments, which are only inadequately described by IPTV, Web TV, Digital Special Interest Channels, and Web 2.0, are leading a fundamental structural change in the relationship between consumers/viewers and providers.
Until now, the value creation of television was geared towards offering content in order to gain the highest viewer attention percentage possible and to market a portion of this attention through advertising formats (e.g. TV commercials). As long as there were only a few TV stations available, this was a successful business model.
Today however, the viewer has the power to decide when and which media content he "consumes". He/she can actively suppress advertising, zap or click to any media environment he prefers. At the same time, technology enables active navigation of media content, empowering the user even more:
- search,
- On-Demand streaming and download,
- and interactivity of content
These navigation tools offer viewers and consumers a completely new dimension of content relevance. The future belongs to
"Long Tail" specific, on-demand offerings, with context-relevant services and interactive ad formats that are targeted and relevant
These enhanced "program formats" are increasingly determined and – even outside the context of User Generated Content – "coproduced" by the users in increasingly differentiated clusters. This is the priciple that unifies the various new approaches from YouTube to Joost to sevenload.
Die technischen, wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Entwicklungen, die mit IPTV, Web TV, Digitales Spartenfernsehen und Web 2.0 nur ungenügend beschrieben werden, leiten einen fundamentalen Strukturwandel im Verhältnis von Konsumenten /Zuschauern zu Anbietern.
Bislang war die Wertschöpfung des Fernsehens darauf ausgerichtet, Inhalte anzubieten, um die Aufmerksamkeit eines möglichst hohen Anteils der Zuschauer zu gewinnen, und einen Teil dieser Aufmerksamkeit werblich zu vermarkten. In der Zeit nur weniger Sender war dies sogar ein erfolgreiches Geschäftsmodell.
Heute entscheidet der Zuschauer viel differenzierter, was er wann medial konsumiert. Er blendet auch aktiv die werbliche Vermarktung aus. Gleichzeitig bieten die technischen Möglichkeiten
- zur Suche,
- zum Angebot On-Demand,
- und zur Interaktivität
dem Zuschauer und Konsumenten eine völlig neue Dimension der Relevanz von Inhalten. Die Zukunft gehört dem
"Long Tail" spezialisierter, On-Demand angebotener, mit Zusatzservices und relevanten interaktiven Werbeformaten
angereicherter "Programmformate", die überdies von den Nutzern in immer differenzierteren Clustern mitbestimmt werden. Das ist das Prinzip, das die unterschiedlichsten neuen Ansätze, von YouTube über Joost bis sevenload, vereint.
The world is abuzz with the changes spurred by the (third) arrival of video to the internet. There is truth in the perception, but many questions are unanswered by the hype.
The way we see it, three factors will create the actual value of video on the web:
1) ubiquity: it will evolve from a feature to a standard component of every website
2) involvement /interactivity: the business models that will succeed are those that combine the emotional appeal of moving pictures with a wide and differentiated range of interests reflecting long tail segments which in their combination reflect any given markets population diversity
3) cannibalization of existing markets: there is still no new money out there, so startups have to decide who's pockets they're after. The Advertising World? Media Budgets? B2C Entertainment? E-Commerce -> Retail? That is the Gretchenfrage.
Incidentally, that's the exciting part of
the board of which I just joined. they will beat YouTube in Europe, not as a copy. Al Ries in "The Origin of Brands":
"If you want to beat the incumbent, you have to be the enemy of the incumbent"
So be it.


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In this upcoming November election, Propositions 5 and 10 are on the ballot that may address housing issues, including rent control. In this article, real estate specialist Olivia Patterson-Ryans will take a closer look at these two important initiatives.
Historically, landownership has represented power and wealth. Back in the day, the rulers, the Kings and Queens owned the land and controlled the "Kingdom". He who owns the land controls the people; where they live, what they eat, how they make a living.
Fast forward to modern day California, USA. The average landlord is not necessarily wealthy. They have been regular folks working and building a business, rentals as the product. In 2018, we are in a radically different era, one in which the new wave of landlords are large corporate investors. These new developers and corporate investors are being accused of rent-gouging, running up rents to unaffordable levels to increase profits at the expense of middle- and low-income tenants. Thus! the emotionally charged Proposition 10 is put forth on the November ballet. Rent control in California was first introduced in reaction to the rapid inflation of the 1970s. While the goal was to slow the rise in housing costs, highly restrictive rent control rules in several cities severely reduced property incomes. This led owners to convert rental properties to condominiums and more-profitable commercial uses, reducing the supply of existing rental housing. Meanwhile, new development stalled because developers could no longer justify the cost of construction.
In response, Democratic State Senator Jim Costa and Republican Assemblyman Phil Hawkins co-sponsored a bipartisan compromise: The Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act.
California law known as the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act limits how far cities and counties can go when passing local rent control laws. As a result, rent control cannot apply to single-family homes or to housing built after January 1995. Local laws also cannot restrict the rents landlords charge when new tenants move in. Proposition 10 would overturn Costa-Hawkins, freeing local governments to set rent control laws without state restrictions.
Proposition 10
Myth Dispelled:
Prop. 10 does not mean mandatory state-wide rent control. It gives the local cities and counties the authority to enact rent control if they choose to do so. It does not REQUIRE them to do so. Prop. 10 would return power to cities by allowing them to set their own rent control rules. Proposition 10 also requires that rent control laws "to allow landlords a fair rate of return".
While many say rent control can help to keep housing affordable, others point to evidence from across the country that demonstrate; rent control actually reduces the supply of existing rental housing and impedes new development. Specifically:
Rent control reduces property values and decreases tax revenue for local governments. Rent control hurts mom-and-pop businesses, encourages property owners to neglect building maintenance, and can lead to deteriorating neighborhoods.
Rent control is not based on income, so the benefits often accrue to high-income households. Moreover, if applied to single-family homes, rent control could eliminate rental housing for many families and decrease property values for California homeowners.
While some dismiss these concerns and argue that only large corporations would be hurt by rent control, the reality is that stock in publicly traded real estate investment trusts (REITs) is owned by public employee and teacher pension funds, non-profit endowments and the mutual funds that are in most 401(k) portfolio.
The California Association of Realtors® is trying to solve the low housing inventory shortage that we are currently experiencing in California. The theory is that older homeowners are not placing their homes on the market due to the low tax benefits they are currently receiving through Proposition 13, thus contributing to our housing inventory shortage.
Proposition 5
Prop 5 extends Proposition 13 by allowing senior and disabled homeowners to transfer their low, existing Proposition 13 tax assessment to a new home anywhere in the state and using the option as often as they choose.
Supporters say, if older homeowners have a tax advantage to move without fear of increased taxes, this would allow young families to purchase these homes at current market value and therefore, increasing taxes paid to the government.
Opponents of the proposal say that by allowing lower taxes on homes valued much greater than the original purchase price of the home, the government would stand to lose significant tax revenues that is used to pay for public schools, etc. A conservative estimate is a loss of $1 to $2 billion dollars in revenue annually to the State. They also say that it is unfair for people not to pay their fair share in taxes, and that taxes by home value is needed to support the increasing cost demands for government services, such as public schools. It has helped make California unusually dependent on income taxes and has offered its most abundant benefits to the very wealthy.
The above is intended to stimulate your interest how California law can affects real estate, and how you can make a difference by going to the polls and making your decision known. OPR


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DEVICE_STATE_XXX Constants
The DEVICE_STATE_XXX constants indicate the current state of an audio endpoint device.
#define DEVICE_STATE_ACTIVE 0x00000001 #define DEVICE_STATE_DISABLED 0x00000002 #define DEVICE_STATE_NOTPRESENT 0x00000004 #define DEVICE_STATE_UNPLUGGED 0x00000008 #define DEVICE_STATEMASK_ALL 0x0000000F
The audio endpoint device is active. That is, the audio adapter that connects to the endpoint device is present and enabled. In addition, if the endpoint device plugs into a jack on the adapter, then the endpoint device is plugged in.
The audio endpoint device is disabled. The user has disabled the device in the Windows multimedia control panel, Mmsys.cpl. For more information, see Remarks.
The audio endpoint device is not present because the audio adapter that connects to the endpoint device has been removed from the system, or the user has disabled the adapter device in Device Manager.
The audio endpoint device is unplugged. The audio adapter that contains the jack for the endpoint device is present and enabled, but the endpoint device is not plugged into the jack. Only a device with jack-presence detection can be in this state. For more information about jack-presence detection, see Audio Endpoint Devices.
Includes audio endpoint devices in all states—active, disabled, not present, and unplugged.
The IMMDeviceEnumerator::EnumAudioEndpoints, IMMDevice::GetState, and IMMNotificationClient::OnDeviceStateChanged methods use the DEVICE_STATE_XXX constants. These methods enable clients to obtain information about endpoint devices that are in any of the states represented by the DEVICE_STATE_XXX constants.
However, a client can open a stream (for example, by obtaining an IAudioClient interface for the device) only on a device that is in the DEVICE_STATE_ACTIVE state.
The Windows multimedia control panel, Mmsys.cpl, displays the audio endpoint devices in the system. Disabling a device in Mmsys.cpl hides the device from the device-discovery mechanisms in higher-level audio APIs, but it does not invalidate any stream objects that a client might have instantiated before the device was disabled. For example, if a stream is playing on the device when the user disables it in Mmsys.cpl, the stream continues to play uninterrupted.
In contrast, disabling a device in Device Manager effectively removes the device from the system.
To use Mmsys.cpl to view the rendering devices, open a Command Prompt window and enter the following command:
control mmsys.cpl,,0
To view the capture devices, enter the following command:
control mmsys.cpl,,1
Alternatively, you can view the rendering devices or the capture devices in Mmsys.cpl by right-clicking the speaker icon in the notification area, which is located on the right side of the taskbar, and selecting Playback Devices or Recording Devices.
Mmsys.cpl always displays endpoint devices that are in the DEVICE_STATE_ACTIVE state. In addition, it can be configured to display disabled and disconnected devices.
To view endpoint devices that are in the DEVICE_STATE_DISABLED and DEVICE_STATE_NOTPRESENT states, right-click in the Mmsys.cpl window and select the Show Disabled Devices option.
To view endpoint devices that are in the DEVICE_STATE_UNPLUGGED state, right-click in the Mmsys.cpl window and select the Show Disconnected Devices option.
To view only endpoint devices that are in the DEVICE_STATE_ACTIVE state, deselect both the Show Disabled Devices and Show Disconnected Devices options.
To enable or disable an endpoint device in Mmsys.cpl, click Playback or Recording, depending on whether the device is a playback or recording device. Next, select the device and click Properties. In the Properties window, next to Device usage, select either Use this device (enable) or Don't use this device (disable).
Client: Windows Vista
Header: Include Mmdeviceapi.h
See Also
- Enumerations and Constants
- IMMDevice::GetState
- IMMDeviceEnumerator Interface
- IMMDeviceEnumerator::EnumAudioEndpoints
- IMMNotificationClient::OnDeviceStateChanged


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Daily Tous les Jours, a Canadian interaction design group, creates wonderful multi-disciplinary media projects in public spaces. According to the designers, the idea is to harness mass participation to create one-of-a-kind musical events. At the same time, they also totally change the character of public spaces, getting people to have fun.
The group just created 21 Balancoires, a "giant collective instrument" for Montreal's Quartier des Spectacles festival (see video above). For the piece, people swing to activate the music. They write: "When in motion, each swing in the series triggers different notes and, when used all together, the swings compose a musical piece in which certain melodies emerge only through cooperation."
Daily Tout les Jours worked with Luc-Alain Giraldeau, an animal behavior professor from the Université du Québec à Montréal's Science Faculty, to explore how cooperation really works and how to make it happen. Their research found that "cooperation emerges when the behavior of each individual depends on the decisions of the rest of the group: it's a game where, from the start, you need to adjust to the actions of others."
The giant swing instrument brought together people of all "ages and backgrounds," redefining a public space by creating a new space for play in the middle of the city.
The groups' other recent projects are equally as amazing, and pretty funny, too. For the Minnesota State Fair, the group created Giant Sing Along, which used a field of 32 microphones, welcoming attendees of the fair to "sing their hearts out, karaoke style, celebrating the magic of singing together." In this mass singing experience, "participants connect with one another, building upon the contagion of this uplifting activity and sharing in a collective musical experience. Beyond beautiful voices, it's about living a communal experience." And it was designed to make everyone sound great: Apparently, sound processing software was used to "auto-tunes the voices, lightly adjusting the pitch and reverb so that anyone, even the ones less skilled at singing, can sound good."
In Radio of Songs, which was presented at a festival in Berlin, a unique "capsule installation" captures our collective "ear worms," those songs you just can't get out of your head. "According to mores, there are two cures for 'ear-worms': either singing the song aloud or listening to the song." Anyone passing-by could slip their heads inside and let out their inner Barbara Streisand or Neil Diamond. The songs are immediately collected using an "automated telephone system," which visitors to the installation call to get directions on how to record their performances.
Lastly, one of their non-musical pieces worth highlighting takes the typical amusement park end-of-ride photo opportunity, but makes it urban. In Memorama, a series of observation platforms offer access to "hidden landscapes" where people can create their own postcards.
Presented during another cultural festival in Montreal, these platforms have camera systems that frame unique shots up above.
The photos are then immediately available via a web platform that enables sharing online.
Image credits: Daily Tout les Jours


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Saturday was a night of celebration on-stage and off for Su Teatro, Denver's 39-year-old Chicano theater company. It was their opening performance since taking ownership of the Denver Civic Theater "el corazon de la ciudad" — in the heart of the city — at 721 Santa Fe Drive.
In front of a rare capacity crowd at the long-neglected Civic — a boisterous throng of 325 that included Interior Secretary Ken Salazar — Su Teatro offered a glimpse of the expanded artistry we can expect now that they're performing on a stage four times bigger than the one they've left behind at the old Elyria school in north Denver.
This original, bilingual musical production, written by longtime writing partners Anthony J. Garcia and Daniel Valdez and running through Oct. 30, is a celebration of Sacramento poet laureate Jose Montoya, best known for "El Louie." It's a wrenching, angry poem about the discrimination and disregard a Chicano soldier faces during and after serving in the Korean war. He's a pachuco, from that marginalized generation of Mexican-American youths who sported zoot suits and developed their own gangster culture in the 1940s.
Louie is a popular playboy whose life falls apart trying to reassimilate in a country that doesn't value him. Unable to find a job, lost in addiction and discrimination, he sells his combat medals and dies alone of a heroin overdose.
Gringos have "Death of a Salesman." Montoya offers "Death of a Street Kid." But while I've never seen a "Death of a Salesman" that's left any crowd cheering, clapping along and dancing in the aisles, that's the cumulative effect of what's sure to become a signature Su Teatro work — even if it is still a bit nebulous in concept.
The evening consists of three semi-related stories told by a cast of 15 that includes longtime Su Teatro regulars and a welcome infusion of gifted newcomers. The second act offers Montoya's brief burial poem "Los Vatos," followed by Valdez and Garcia's musicalized stage interpretation of "El Louie." It's narrated by nationally acclaimed spoken-word artist Bobby LeFebre and stars an engaging Jose Maria Aguila as the impeccably dressed, Cagney-loving Louie. We follow him to Korea, where he's always sent to front lines with his expendable brown brothers. But he's not brought down by enemy gunfire; rather by his lethal personal demons back home. His is not the tragedy of an American hero but that of an unnoticed, lost life.
What leaves this crowd so invigorated is not the tale of an all-too-common downfall but that it's being told at all. That and the infectious sounds of an eight-piece house band that includes horns, piano, drums and guitars.
The first act, which would have greater impact and meaning if presented last, is "The Lamented Last Dance at the Rainbow Ballroom." In it, Valdez and Garcia take the main characters from "El Louie" and imagine them in the final days of the Rainbow. That was a mainstay in many cities, including one at Fifth Avenue and Broadway in Denver. It was a place where Chicano youths learned to dance, fight and fall in love.
Narrator Manuel Roybal plays an old janitor who takes us back to the early 1950s at the Rainbow. Like in the Broadway hit musical "In the Heights," we meet simple, stock neighborhood characters like the lady-mauling Fat Richard (Joaquin Liebert), feisty barkeep Lola (Yolanda Ortega) and the ghost of her late husband (David Carrasco). In this imagined story, "Louie" is their playboy son. He's harassed by a Red Scare government man (Phil Luna) with lines like, "Just because you were drafted and killed some (bleeps) does not make you an American)."
The club's crooning, comic MC (Jesse Ogas) keeps things moving in an upbeat, vaudevillian style that allows the house band, called Los Tirilis, to jam out original and period tunes ranging in style from salsa to mambo; doo-wop to jazz; blues to pop standards. A female quartet looks and sounds gorgeous.
As always, Su Teatro takes pains to make sure lines spoken in Spanish are quickly repeated in English. The songs are more Spanish-specific, though it's never difficult to follow. The most profound musical moment comes during "El Louie," when Amy Luna sings "I'll Be Seeing You," against a war montage.
As is often the case at Su Teatro, it's a light-hearted evening with a definite political undertone. It's a significant undertaking, one that shows Su Teatro is growing nicely into its new space.
John Moore: 303-954-1056 or email@example.com
"El Louie and Other Post Pachuco Dreams" *** (out of four stars)
Bilngual musical. Presented by Su Teatro at the Denver Civic Theatre, 721 Santa Fe Drive. Written by Anthony J. Garcia and Daniel Valdez, based on the poetry of Jose Montoya. Through Oct. 30. 2 hours, 15 minutes. 7:30 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays. $17-$20. 303-296-0219 or suteatro.org


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Cappellini, Lanotte win ice dance short program
SAITAMA, Japan (AP) European champions Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte of Italy finished first in the ice dance short program Friday at the Figure Skating World Championships.
Cappellini and Lanotte received 69.70 points to edge Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje of Canada by just .50 points. Nathalie Pechalat and Fabian Bourzat of France were third with 68.20 points.
Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitri Soloviev, the top-ranked Russians in the event, were forced to withdraw after Soloviev sustained a groin injury in the morning practice.
Defending champions and Olympic gold medalists Meryl Davis and Charlie White of the United States are not taking part. The ice dance concludes on Saturday with the free dance.
The men's free skate is later Friday. Japanese teenager Yuzuru Hanyu will be bidding to become the first man to win the Olympic gold and the world title in the same year since Alexei Yagudin did so in 2002.