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Luxor ホステル
Al - Mansheyah
Khaled Ebn
West Bank
Al Baghdādī
An Nawāşir
Maḩaţţat Abnūd
Maḩaţţat al Ashrāf
Maḩaţţat al Jabalayn
Maḩaţţat al Maţā`inah
Maḩaţţat Armant
Maḩaţţat Armant
Maḩaţţat ash Shanhūrīyah
Maḩaţţat Fa'w
Maḩaţţat Isnā
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Everest Hotel
"… ます!" … "… at the hotel who can help arrange trips in and around Luxor with multilingual guides available. Trips and tours can also be arranged to Cairo, Aswan, Hurghada , Western desert and Sharam El Sheik for groups of all sizes. We come highly recommended in many guide books including; Rough Guide, Lonely Planet, Let's Go!, Tondok and numerous others. With everything you could possibly need for your Egyptian...
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Nubian Oasis Hostel
Al - Mansheyah
"A really friendly and funky place, in a great location. - This place ticks all the boxes. It's cheap, clean, welcoming, and -- important for new arrivals -- close to the train station too. Breakfast is the only meal served, but it's a good breakfast with bread, eggs, butter, jam, yoghurt, tea or coffee, and fruit juice. There are restaurants nearby but you can also ask to see the take-away pizza menu they keep, which is excellent value for...
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New Everest
"… TEAM" … "The New Everest hotel is easily one of the best hotels I have stayed in within Egypt. The rooms are very clean, very spacious and comfortable, and the hotel is ideally located within walking distance of the renowned. The hotel provides a good breakfast to begin your day with and there is relaxing outdoor lounge area, within the hotel, where you can mingle with other travelers, or just simply chill out in at night...
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Princess Hotel
"Princess Hotel is a simple hotel, clean and cheap, ideal for the backpackers. The french manager and the friendly staff will offer you all you need. A tourist information desk can answer all the question you have. You need to rent a bike? we have. You need to find a guide to visit the pharao's temples or tombs? we find for you. After a long day, you can go on the roof coffee shop to drink a fresh juice or a beer and smoke a water pipe...
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Bob Marley House Hostel
"… ようこそボブマーリーハウスへ。我々は最近、バックパッカー、クリーンルーム、タオル、トイレットペーパー、と石鹸で素晴らしい滞在を持っているために、このホステルを開いた。路地の終わりに、私たちはいくつかの平和を提供し、静かな活気ある都会の生活から歩いてすぐです。ルクソールが発生して長い一日の後には、冷たいビールと屋上にリラックスすることができます。フリーはどこルクソールから拾うだけでなく、他の情報のための私達に連絡すること自由に感じています。 すべてのベスト、 ジギーと彼のチーム。" … "Could have rated higher, but i'm fussy.and it wasn't home was it. - well it's been a year and i am still impressed with the courteous friends i and my daughter had made with Amr and...
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Boomerang Hotel
"… of the first to test the newest place in town. We have a great Aussie BBQ on the roof, there is Wifi throughout the hotel.. The owners are Australian and Nubian and aim to give you the best experience in Luxor; we also book tours and have a travel desk for your information. It is very very important to us that our guests are not ripped off and well looked after.. so you keep coming back....like the BOOMERANG note... if you book...
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Teacher Hotel & Club
"… internet, Warm breakfast everyday, free Soap upon arrival, free Shower after check out. West bank tours with air-conditioned minibuses and English-speaking guide -Bicycle and motorbike hire -Arrange for you to join a cruise on the Nile to Aswan -Traditional felucca sailing on the Nile -Hot-air balloon flight, an unforgettable view of the Nile valley and local archaeological sites. -We can help you to get a Student Card...
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Bob Marley Peace hotel
"The only place to stay in Luxor - This place is fantastic!! The location is great, right around the corner from the train station. And the building itself is really cool. Bathrooms on every floor with hot and cold water(in the summer in Luxor you'll be grateful for this on those 115 degree days!). The whole place is very clean and well kept by the fantastic staff, who are always seem happy to help with whatever you might need, whether that's...
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Venus Hostel drsefs
"… every little thing is going to be alright,' - peace, relaxation, quietness. Our service-minded staff gives you all the necessary information and overall support. We have a free breakfast as we have a 24-hour reception. Free Wi-Fi, Air-conditioned rooms, rooms with fan, rooms with shared bathrooms, rooms with private bathrooms. Please note: Cancellation policy: 48h before arrival. In case of a late cancellation or No Show,...
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Venus Hotel Luxor
"… *ルクソールの熱気球で空を飛ぶことや、クワッド、 4輪バイクに乗ること、またレンタル自転車や現地でラクダ、馬、ロバを借りることもできます。 *カイロ、アスワン、アブシンベル、 ハルガダなどの他の都市への1日観光ツアーや、砂漠オアシスでのサファリもあります。" … "… 私たちはルクソールでは鉄道駅から2分に位置しているタクシーで5分ほど歩いてください。ホテルまでタクシーで空港からわずか15分。 鉄道駅からタクシー10エジプトポンド(約$ 2ドル)を適正な価格を請求することがあります。ホテルから空港まで30エジプトポンド(約$ 6ドル)です。 詳細はご到着の前に(日付、時刻や駅)と配送を無料で、電話( 002 ) 019280085から0952361327または、電子メールへの書き込みを選ぶことができます: email@example.com" … "I actually didn't...
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Cleopatra Hotel Luxor
"… and the magical archaeology side, as well as the Valley of the Queens, Hatshepsut Temple, Tombs of Nobles.the Valley of the Artisans and Deir El Madina. Whether you're a family, couple, or a group, Cleopatra hotel will cater for your needs. Free Wi-Fi. Free breakfast We look forward to hosting you in our Hotel. We can also help you to organize all your tour needs, Nile Cruise, or any other activities anywhere in Egypt. Near our...
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Home Sweet Home Egypt
West Bank
"… of the pharaohs) and the helpful staff guarantee you an unforgettable time. This is the place to relax completely and to experience the life of Luxor. Home Sweet Home is managed by a Egyptian/Dutch couple. For more information you can check our website. If you are interested, or if you have a question please contact the Dutch owner Margreet de Ruijter. We hope to welcome you some day at Home Sweet Home, so you can experience...
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Al Salam Camp
West Bank
"… Al Salam camp ensures the safety of its guests. Be welcome and free from worry. - Hot & Cold showers, clean shared facilities - Enjoy home cooked food from our family kitchen - Cold Stella and fruit juices - Evening campfires - Smoking area - Cool places to relax in the shade, play board-games, read, listen to music, or just chat - First Hour of internet free then just 5LE per hour Be it land, sea or air, we can...
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Isis Club House
"We tailor make your trip to suit your individual needs, you can travel in a group or individually, you choose the package that suits you, the sites you want to visit and the activities you are interested in. Even on a day to day basis: Our goal is to help you partake in the culture and everyday life in complete freedom so that u can immerse yourself in Ancient and Modern Egypt with all its charm and magic. In a newly built traditional...
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El Luxor Hotel
"… check-in age is 18 years old. the charges below are not included in the overall room price. they will be charged by the property at check-in or check-out. Charges can vary, for example, This property they will charge you for the following: Christmas Eve (24 December) Gala Dinner per adult: EGP 450 Christmas Eve (24 December) Gala Dinner per child: EGP 250 (from 5 to 12 years old) New Year's Eve (31 December) Gala Dinner per...
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Villa al Diwan
west bank
"… Luxor. Villa Al Diwan has a direct view of the Nile river, from the terrace of the villa one has a beautiful views over the Nile valley, the Theban mountains, the green fields, and the natural life around the villa. Our geographic position is absolutely exceptional, we are close to the Theban Necropolis, the world-wide renowned cultural center, just the Nile river separate us from bustling town of Luxor, which makes it so easy to...
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Little Garden Hotel
"… 2番目には完全にエアコンされ、私たちの1階と3番目はルクソールの街の景色と屋根の上のレストランです。また、お客様は、エジプトの間を必要とするすべてのツアーを手配することができます。 私たちはあなたをお待ちしております!" … "I have stayed at this hostel on a regular basis during the past 1 1/2 years. The service is excellent, the people are really helpful and honest and it is run to the highest standards. Really excellent value for money." … "This is the place which I found a very kind people, very nice service, excellent...
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Arabesque Hotel
"The atmosphere of the hotel is Orientel. Has an Orientel Kitchen & Resturant that present Orientel & Egyptian food. The swimming pool using is included at the accomodation. The hotel has a Roof Terrace that looks over the Nile & the panorama of Luxor Temple." … "The hotel locates in the centre of the city( the east side ). Looks over the Nile river , looks over Luxor Temple. 20 minutes away from the airport, 7 minutes away from the...
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New Mustafa Hotel
"… you to the sights, in groups large or small.Other Facilities include: - Roof garden- Free use of hotel washing machines 4.00p.m. to 5.30p.m. - En-suite bathrooms, air conditioning, - Hotel safe. As always your comfort and enjoyment is our first priority.We hope you enjoy your vacation to the fullest Located in the center, five minutes walk from down town and station .10 K.M from airport. The hotel boasts 40 rooms with private...
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St. Joseph Luxor Hotel
"A really nice hotel, very friendly, good food, excellent value. I would recommend this hotel to anyone." … "… the Nile. All rooms consist of a double bed, air-conditioning, telephone, cable TV, direct phone, music channel, minibar, work desk, safe deposit box, smoke alarms and sprinklers. Private shower or bathtub and WC. In the hotel you can find following facilities: Nice restaurant where you can enjoy your breakfast and...
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Happy Land Hotel
"Wonderful! - This place was great! Breakfast was wonderful, rooms were clean, price was great. It was difficult to find, but locals will help you on your walk from the train station. On a quiet street and only a block or two from the Nile. As some guide books mention, Happy Land's price is firm. You can trust the owner to purchase Hurghada to Sinai ferry tickets for you with no mark up (seriously, we checked). Also, the arranged tour offered...
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Oasis Hotel Luxor
"Good, friendly - The hotel is very basic but good value for the money. Rooms are clean, there are working showers and toilets, air-con and ventilators. The roof terrace is a great place. Breakfast is sufficient and the dinners are very good. And quite valuable in Egypt, personnel are friendly and helpful and don't ask extras for all kinds of services (for carrying luggage or cleaning the room). During our stay Mohamed was always present on...
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Emilio Hotel
"… telephone service, Express Check-In, Express Check-Out, Front Desk-24 Hours, Guest Laundromat, Luggage Storage, Wake up serviceRoom Facilities: AC, Cable TV, Direct Phone, Channel Music, Attached BathRoom, Shower, Bath Tub, Shower/ Bath Tub, Mini Bar, Work Desk, Safe Deposit Box, Smoke Alarms, Sprinklers, Double Bed, King BedAs well, custom made tours can be arranged through Emilio to:East&West bank of luxor, Aswan,Cairo,...
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Gaddis Hotel, Suites & Apartments
"… Wi-Fi回線を提供して、持っている。 全室、ジュニアスイートとアパートメントにはリネンで、清掃とタオルは毎日交換しています。幼児用ベッドもリクエストに応じてご利用いただけます。 レセプションは:医師への旅行、タクシーから、数多くの多様な要求に対処する、 available24時間ですとすぐに作用している。セキュリティ:ご宿泊のお客様の安全·安心は私達にとって最も重要である。ホテルのセキュリティスタッフは、ホテルのすべての分野をカバーし、勤務1日24時間である。夜間のセキュリティはすべての床と正面玄関が設けられている。 ビューティサロン:有能なスタッフは、常にプロフェッショナルリラックスした環境であなたのヘアスタイル、マニキュア、ペディキュア、マッサージを論議して幸せです。 コーナーショップは:一般的な供給がリーズナブルな料金で購入することができますホテルの隣に位置しています。 銀行、 ATM...
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Golden Palace Hotel
"Good deal for 60 LE. Don't go for the tours offered here, the guides have terrible English - more later. Breakfast can be skipped (jam and dry bread, coffee/tea), the pool was in definite need of a cleaning (I wouldn't swim in it). For internet go to the shop across the street, it's 3LE an hour or so. The A/C works, but the plumbing in our room (304) didn't work faucet just spins...The best thing about the hotel is the rooftop bar. For...
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Nefertiti Hotel
"… ろすプールのゲームおよび清潔、エアコン、最上階のラウンジは簡単です。 証言日の上昇照明ルクソール神殿は、毎朝覚えているシーンはナイル川の水面に映る、朝食は、屋上庭園や、あなたのツアー一日の始まりにゆったりとした午後を過ごすのに、お楽しみに夜を最適な方法を提供しています喫煙シーシャ(水パイプ)。あなたがネフェルティティホテルに歩いて一度は確実に暖かい雰囲気をフレンドリーな感じになります。私たちの主な目的は、常に、新しい友人や家族を持っています!" … "… to the oases, Cairo, Sinai, and Jordan." -Rough Guide Egypt 2011 Recommendation "This Hotel really left me out of words to describe it. The staff is as friendly as humanly possible, the...
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Mara House
"… everyday and we will not be taking you anywhere to make "commission" on you! Mara House is a private house which we have endeavoured to furnish in a style which reminds you what country you are in and we do the same with our food......From 26 August 2008 our Salahadeen Restaurant will provide a traditional, authentic 4 course Egyptian Feast every night at 8pm in luxurious surroundings and the Salahadeen fully-licensed bar will...
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Queens Valley Hotel Luxor
"OPENED:20/12/2005 58 Double Rooms all with full bathroom/showe facilities.(Single & Triple rooms available). Each room equipped with: Central Air-Conditioning, refrigerator, Satellite T.V, Central Music System, table and chairs, built-in closets, storage for luggage, extra linens for beds. Queens Valley Hotel Luxor has its Main Restaurant with 150 covers, full Ala Carte Menu, (children's Menu available). Hotel Coffe Shop/Bar that has a...
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Lotus Hotel Luxor
"… have 58 rooms and suites all with balcony or terrace overlooking the Nile (40 double rooms and 10 royal suites and 8 triple). All rooms consist of a double bed, air-conditioning, telephone, cable TV, music channel, minibar, smoke alarm, private shower, bathtub and WC. In the hotel we have a very nice restaurant where you can enjoy your breakfast and dinner,restaurant capacity of up to 150 guests. The hotel offers a variety of...
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Royal House Hotel
"My girlfriend and I have just stayed at the Royal House in Luxor and it was fantastic. I actually cant believe how nice a hotel can be in this price range. Much better than the others we have used in Egypt. Friendly, helpful staff." … "… on-site restaurant. The hotel offers an outdoor pool and a children's pool. Guests can also enjoy a massages service. Other services offered by the Royal House include laundry and ironing...
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Morris Hotel
"… an open buffet, which is served daily for breakfast and dinner. Specialties include Asian, European, and Middle Eastern Dinner Buffets. The French Restaurant: An elegant a la Carte restaurant, with a 2 week rotating 4 and 5 course menu. The Italian Restaurant: An a la Carte restaurant that reflects the culinary diversity of Italy, by serving a variety of Italian food , including Pasta, Pizzas and large selection of Italian wines and...
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Sun Set Hotel
Khaled Ebn
"… hour reception and room service Restaurant and coffee shop on site Free Wi-Fi is available throughout the entire hotel free of charge Non-Smoking Rooms Rooms/Facilities for Disabled Guests Elevator Express Check-In/Check-Out Safety Deposit Box Luggage Storage Air conditioning Designated Smoking Area Security on the door Tours and transport can be arranged Tours and Travel Desk Service Features: Room Service Meeting/Banquet...
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New Radwan Hotel
"… is 3 star hotel but livel look like 5 star hotel We have a large swimming pool as well as a Restaurant & Bar & Lift / Elevator There are 30 rooms in total and every room has private bath room & mini bar & hot and cold water & TV & Telephone & central Air condition & balconies. We offer you free Pick up from Luxor Airport to our Hotel and free pick up from Train Station or Bus Station to our...
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Nile Valley Hotel & Restaurant
"エジプトの観光名所の近くにあるエジプトオランダの管理監督、小型、クリーンな家族経営のホテルです。テレビ、冷蔵庫、電話、随時更新してWi - Fi接続を備えた18室のエアコンルーム、で構成される。リラックスして自分でプールで、または屋根の上のレストランを楽しみにして、素敵な食事をしているナイル川とルクソール神殿の壮大な景観を楽しみながら。すべての予算の旅行者に適したモダンなホテルは、エジプトでは、快適で楽しいご滞在を保証します!" … "Clean family hotel with swimmingpool,rooftop restaurant with splendid view on the Nile and Luxor temple. Swimmingpool in the garden behind the hotel All rooms have a bathroom (budget rooms outside the room)...
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Fontana Hotel
"… 置しており、我々は英語とフランス語を話す非常に専門エジプトマネージャによって管理されるサービスの非常に高い標準を提供しています。我々は、当社のインターネットアクセス、いつでも介して他のバックパッカーや学生、満たす、または友人とコミュニケーションを是非専用バスルームとクリーンルーム、エアコン、非常に静かなホテルを提供する朝食を食べ、ホットパンや新鮮な野菜を試してみてくださいホテルの施設のすべては、ゲスト一度使用に利用可能な家の中でです!" … "Fontana Hotel is located in the heart of Luxor and we offer a very high standard of services, managed by a very professional Egyptian Manager who speaks English and French. We provide a very quiet hotel...
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Hotel Kareem
West Bank
"… panoramic views. Relax and gaze at the Temple of Queen Hatchepsut and the Theban Necropolis where the Tombs of the Pharaohs are situated as you enjoy lunch or a quiet drink. See daily life pass by as you look at the Cruise boats coming and going on the majestic River Nile and watch the sunset over the sand dunes from your peaceful vantage point. Our clean and comfortable rooms come with a few options to chose from....... Single,...
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Hotel Sheherazade
"… purposes and has fantastic views all around - across the river to the Temple, the beautiful agricultural scenery and across to the Theban Mountains. The 28 rooms offer a variety of double bed, twin or triple beds, or Family Rooms, all ensuite. The property provides free Wi-Fi and a 24-hour front desk. Tours can be arranged to Luxor and Karnak Temples, and to the attractions of the West Bank including the Valley of the Kings. The...
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Marsam Shiek Ali Hotel
West Bank
"… ancient sites of the West Bank, making it the perfect little oasis after a long day exploring tombs and temples. We can arrange hot air balloon flights, bicycle hire, horse/camel riding, tour guides, feluka (sail boat) trips and transport to Kings Valley. We can also arrange trips to the Red Sea, Oasis, Abydos and Dendra and Aswan. We have 36 rooms - so we are a small hotel, which allows us to focus on our guests and their needs....
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New Grand Hotel
"… from train station ** Free Tea ** Free map with information about Luxor. ** Free internet access ** Breakfast available: Fresh bread, omelet, jam, butter, tea or coffee and milk. ** Use the kitchen: Super-market, vegetables, bakery and other type of shops are around our area. ** Washing machine and iron for guest use. ** Free luggage storage ** Roof terrace ** Free shower and use of hotel facilities after...
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El Mesala Hotel
"… relaxing on our roof terrace overlooking the Nile and Luxor Temple. El Mesala is also home to a range of exciting events. Ask reception what's in store this week! We are proud to offer our guests: free welcome drink, free wifi, free breakfast, bar and restaurant, and a range of other services. All rooms include: en suite bathroom, AC, satellite TV, balcony, mini bar, and free parking. We are proud to offer our guests: free...
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How Not to Conduct Civic Engagement
I'm so disillusioned with my Town Board right now.
The story starts late last year. One of the newest amendments to the New York Constitution, approved by voters this past November, has paved the way for construction of up to four casinos upstate, including (probably) one in my region. Predictably, some high-powered private partnerships, together with their "host" municipalities, jumped into the competition. One of those municipalities is my town.
Now I have always thought of casinos as a terrible idea, for the usual reasons cited: gambling addiction, crime, property value decline, etc. So, during a morning with Google Scholar, I was surprised to find that the research paints a very mixed picture. Casinos can deliver economic benefits, but intensifying competition is limiting their ability to do so. Addiction is serious business, but the percentage of problem gamblers is around 1-3%. Etc.
So I was more open to the idea of a casino in my town. And I looked forward to our town leaders doing similar web searches, engaging in similar thinking, listening to constituents, and making a reasoned decision.
Apparently, it didn't turn out that way.
First came an unannounced Town Board meeting during which the members voted unanimously to endorse a casino in the town. In the face of vocal opposition, the Board scheduled a developer presentation and one public hearing with the typical "three minutes at the mike" format. Days later, the Board took a revote, required for technical reasons, and again endorsed the casino unanimously.
Except for the first meeting, this might sound innocuous. The real fly in the ointment, though, was the lack of response to residents' concerns exhibited throughout the process. During the public hearing, Board members said barely a word. Many of us sent detailed emails asking the Board to conduct due diligence; I (and presumably others) received a form email in return. Most communication about the casino has come from the developers, not the Board. And meeting notes, made public via a Freedom of Information request, seem to indicate that the Board served as marketing partner for the developers from the very beginning—no hint of due diligence or objective analysis whatever.
What can we learn from this?
One Board member complained about the impossible time frame for the whole bid process, let alone any attempts at dialogue or civic engagement, and she has a point. Her objection led me to the handy Engagement Streams Framework, published by the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (where I'm a board member), to see what dialogue processes might have accommodated the compressed schedule. At first glance, the pickings are somewhat slim: a scaled-up version of Conversation Café might have worked, or maybe a variant of the Wisdom Council.
In some ways, though, that's beside the point. Even if many dialogue processes can't happen in crunch time, basic communication can: that's why we have the Internet. More fundamentally, even the best and most efficient dialogue process assumes a personal orientation to listen. That was what our Board members have, from what I've seen, failed to demonstrate.
As a caveat: I attended most of the public meetings but not all of them. I do not know the Board members personally. They might have a compelling backstory that would make sense of their actions in a way residents could respect. Communicating that backstory might have mollified a lot of the hostility—or at least indicated the Board's sincerity in serving its constituents.
As it is, there are a lot of questions and, in response, an unfortunate silence.
(As always, your comments are welcome. In this case, comments from Board members are most welcome. I would love to hear your take on the situation.)
I Went to a Flame War the Other Day…
…and a civil dialogue broke out.
A few weekends ago I took part in an event related to my hobby. From what I could see, it was very well run, the venue was ideal, and everything went off smoothly. Many people praised the organizers on Facebook, where our colleagues tend to gather.
Then there was Joan (not her real name). In a hobby replete with colorful eccentrics, Joan is one of the most polarizing. Many perceive her as negative, hostile, and the source of much trouble. Others get on quite well with her.
During the event in question, she took issue with one of the requirements for participation. The last night of the event, she took her frustration to Facebook in a long post that derided the organizers for their policy and many other matters.
Things quickly got out of hand. The patter at the bar was angry and occasionally unprintable. Many charges and countercharges were exchanged. The flame war spread to several Facebook pages.
At some point, a light went on in my head. Personally, I thought highly of the requirement that sparked the uproar. But despite all her bluster, I could see that Joan and her allies had a point. Maybe there was a way to make the requirement optional for certain participants—not to appease, but because the situation demanded it. So I threw the idea out there.
Almost immediately, the tone of the conversation changed. Commenters started parsing out alternatives and considering the ramifications of each. Other ideas were raised. There was a decent exchange of views.
And—this is the cool part—the people engaging in this dialogue were the very people involved in the flame war. Joan included.
My usual caveat applies: it may have been my comment that changed the tone, but this is not about me. It's about the fact that something rather miraculous happened. But what was it? And what can we learn? A few thoughts:
- In an emotional firestorm, a quiet, thoughtful comment has way more power than you'd expect under other circumstances. It makes room for lurkers, who may be intimidated by the hostility, to speak up. By presenting a third way (in which, hopefully, both sides can see merit), it gives the flame participants a dignified way to stand down. And it simply creates a pause, during which passions may subside. It's a variation of "a soft answer turns away wrath" (Proverbs 15:1), unpacked.
- For whatever reason, we (we Americans? we postmoderns? we humans? I'm not sure) quickly make most issues an either/or. The irony is that few issues actually are either/ors. There's usually a both/and, or a third alternative, or a middle way. It saves us energy if, right from the get-go, we can look at an emerging either/or standoff and think, "What else might be a solution here? What would a both/and look like?"
- We (this is definitely we humans) attach ourselves to so many things: our possessions, our relationships, our body image—and our convictions. There are times at which upholding and defending our convictions is of the utmost importance. But many things we attach to are, in the grand scheme of things, peripheral. Buddhism has long articulated the value of non-attachment, and I think it applies here. If we can approach our ideas and opinions with non-attachment, we can be more flexible in letting them go when the situation requires it.
What do you think? What lessons do you draw from this story? Feel free to share here.
Dialogue, Our Deepest Convictions, and a Knock on the Head
Lately I've been drawing lines in the sand.
This is not like me. Being a dialogue guy, I tend to hear news reports and imagine the complexity of an issue, the not-unreasonableness of all sides, the way in which my view could be wrong.
But suddenly, when yet another sexual assault charge goes south, I think, "This has got to stop." When NPR reports the Department of Defense's research into robots that can wage war, all I can think is "No, no, NO." Damn the subtleties of the individual case. It's time to take a stand.
Part of this, I think, is the concussion. Last month, I went headfirst into the snow while cross-country skiing and sustained what, in the grand scheme of things, is probably a mild concussion. Whatever mild means. As is typical of concussions, symptoms seem to come and go at random, you go two steps forward and one step back, it can take weeks to make progress.
I know what this sounds like. It sounds like the concussion made me unable to handle nuance—clear evidence that drawing lines in the sand is the domain of stupid people.
But obviously that's wrong. Some of our brilliant thinkers have written about the power of convictions and not giving ground. (Shameless plug: I wrote about two of these thought leaders recently, both theologians, and how their thinking about "convicted civility" doesn't go quite far enough.)
And the more I write, the more appreciation I have for the value of convictions. They represent, in many cases, a lifetime of wrestling with ideas. They form an important part of what we bring to the world. At the same time, I'm all too aware of the destructive power of holding one's convictions with an iron grip, impervious to other ideas or even hard data.
Maybe what I'm saying is this:
Maybe my line in the sand is not conviction so much as it is impulse: not impulse as in impulse buying, but impulse as an involuntary reflex of the soul. Such an impulse would come from an unutterably deep place within us—a place common to all of us. We respond from this place when we think of children abused by sexual predators, or Syrian civilians caught in a barbaric crossfire, or frail people with no support system and nowhere to go.
The impulse says: Something is wrong here, and must be made right.
This impulse does not remove the importance of hearing all sides, of considering the nuances of each individual case. But it is a cry for universal values among us: a cry for justice, a cry for compassion, a cry for community.
In fact, sometimes the impulse shapes the dialogue. Example: Many state pension funds are losing the ability to fulfill their obligations to retired employees. On one level, this issue comes down to math: if you don't have the money, you don't have the money, and retirees will have to find another way. But I hear the impulse saying: dammit, Government, you made a promise to these people, and promises must be kept. Suddenly we have two powerful, countervailing forces—one a function of cold hard realities, the other a function of moral imperative—and thus a place to start a robust dialogue.
This is new to me, and yet a very, very old idea in general. (Look at how zealous the God of the Bible is about making things right.) What do you think? How does all this fit together?
Interfaith Dialogue in One's Own House
Sometimes, when we least expect it, we are called to live out what we say or think. Some people do this very, very well.
Professor Paul F. Knitter had explored and taught interfaith dialogue for many years when his wife converted from the Catholic faith they shared to Buddhism. As he writes, it was not enough for him to accept his wife's change of heart. It was not even enough to actively affirm it. He had to engage her newfound faith—and let it reshape his own. What happened as a result is one of the best illustrations of dialogue's possibilities that I've seen. So I will get out of the way and let Professor Knitter tell you his story.
More to the News Story than Meets the Eye
It doesn't feel good to criticize The PBS NewsHour. The program is one of my favorite sources of news and insight; the producers take extraordinary care in selecting guests for each segment, bringing together experts that together present a careful, balanced, in-depth analysis.
This past Friday, though, one segment disturbed me—and, in the process, served to remind me of the need for a "balanced media diet."
The story concerned the recent violence in Iraq's Anbar province, and the role of al-Qaeda therein. I was delighted with their choice of guests: former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker and former Marine Captain Bing West, who spent a great deal time in Anbar and has written extensively on the war.
The longer they talked, though, the less I could escape the nagging sense that a huge part of the story was missing.
This nagging sense didn't come in a vacuum. Last September, at a conference on communication and conflict, I heard a penetrating analysis by Ahmed Hassin, a researcher at Australia's Deakin University, on the role of traditional clans in supporting the nascent democracy in Iraq. Ahmed's presentation astounded me with a level of nuance that is almost impossible to find in American reporting on the Middle East.
That nuance haunted me as I listened to the NewsHour guests. So I decided to take a look at Iraqi news sources to see what they had to say.
Sure enough, there was a lot more to this story than met the eye.
Crocker and West spoke confidently about al-Qaeda overplaying its hand, the clans united against al-Qaeda, and even "good guys" and "bad guys." Aswat al Iraq and Iraq Daily described Sunni-Shiite tensions over the lack of Sunni representation in government, security forces' breakup of a Sunni protest site, the resignation of 44 Members of Parliament over said breakup, etc.
Were Crocker and West wrong? Not necessarily. It's hard to dispute calling al-Qaeda "the bad guys," of course. Widespread clan resistance to al-Qaeda may still be in place. Still, the Iraqi news media made it clear that the situation is more nuanced—and perhaps less boldly optimistic—than the NewsHour guests described it.
The point here is not so much to sort out the "real story" in this specific situation as it is to point out the value of the "balanced media diet": news from sources diverse in terms of geography, nationality, political orientation, culture, even ethnicity and gender. When we absorb this diversity of news, we see that few stories are as simple as one news segment from a single source will make them appear. Certainly few stories are as simple as partisans make them out to be.
Once we see the depth and nuance behind an issue, we realize what we know and, more important, how much we don't know. This realization, in turn, can fuel our curiosity—and our willingness to hear others whose views may not be the same as ours. Over time, we start looking for depth and nuance in other issues, which gives rise to nagging discomfort like the type I felt during the NewsHour segment.
Have you ever noticed this? Did a news story leave you with the feeling that something was wrong, or at least incomplete? Feel free to share your story here.
Why We Must Listen, and Listen, and Listen Again
This isn't about aural listening per se, but I think the lesson still applies.
Today my church's lectionary (a fixed order of sacred texts for each day of the year) prescribed the reading of Matthew 19:1-12, in which Jesus speaks out on divorce. In keeping with the monastic tradition that I'm associated with, Igive these lectionary passages a slow, contemplative reading, listening to how the passage speaks to my heart more than my head.
The first time through, the liturgy from weddings past echoed in my mind: "That which God hath joined together, let no man put asunder." The second time through, I heard what I've always heard in this passage: Jesus holds marriage as sacred, regards divorce as a necessary evil, and has some tough words about remarrying—the sort of thing that does not go down well when your country's divorce rate hovers around 40 percent.
Something, though, made me linger.
As I wandered through a third time, another insight emerged. Nearly every reference has to do with a man divorcing his wife—not the other way around. As noted in Breakthrough: The Bible for Young Catholics, "Women in Jesus' culture had very few rights and were basically considered the property of their husbands." A divorced woman would have been extremely vulnerable economically and socially.
Maybe this passage isn't about divorce in general, then. Maybe it's about men and the imperative for them to treat their partners with reverence—along with the implicit message that the women they thought were their property really are much more.
So which interpretation is correct? Both? Neither? I can't tell you for sure—even the notes in my Bibles don't agree. The point here, though, is this:
There's a risk in thinking we've listened enough. Just when we think we "get it"—whether "it" is the meaning of a familiar sacred text, the situation of a friend in crisis, or the experience of historically oppressed groups—we may suddenly stumble upon a deeper perspective, or a whole new level of nuance, or a different side to the issue that has completely escaped us. Which calls us to listen first, last, and always.
In any isolated instance, of course, we may have to wrap up our listening for reasons of time or schedule. But we're on thin ice in thinking we've "arrived" at enlightenment on any given issue and therefore need listen no more.
As you've probably noticed, I've been away from this page for a couple of months. One reason for that involves a difficult experience that I'm starting to think—and write—my way through; you'll see more on that in cyberspace over the next weeks and months. Another reason has to do with the strategic planning I've been doing with regard to The Dialogue Venture. As a result of that planning, you will probably see more of me in places like HuffPost Religion and, I hope, the Christian Century blog (my first post for them—yay!—is here) and the Doing Dialogue blog for the Public Conversations Project and various other places. Because I'm only one person, though, that means I'll be blogging here on an occasional basis rather than the weekly or biweekly articles I've posted till now. Please feel welcome to stay in touch, watch this page, and check my screed elsewhere on the web too.
When the Givens Aren't Given
Think of something you accept as a given: a universal truth, "just the way it is."
Now ask yourself this: is there any chance that your given is not universal? What would it take to make you see it differently? What might happen if you did?
At the beginning of this month, I had the pleasure of attending the 3rd Global Conference on Communication and Conflict, sponsored by Inter-Disciplinary.Net. About 25 scholars came and presented from all over the world. We heard about topics from media in Brazil to terrorism in Indonesia, from active listening techniques to the role of the human heart in communication. It was brilliant, warm, and collegial.
And it challenged some of my universals in ways I never could have anticipated. Consider these tidbits:
- Remember the flap over Somali pirates a few years back? (If you don't, you soon will, given the upcoming movie.) If ever there were a clear case of good vs. evil, this was it, right? Not so fast: according to Sarah Craze of the University of Melbourne (Australia), the pirates see themselves not as raiding on the high seas, but rather as safeguarding the marine rights and economic security of their clans in a stateless society. Most telling is the Somali word for these "pirates," which translates to something like "coast guard."
- For those of us in the U.S., it is easy to hear "Arab tribes" and immediately add the word warring—as if warring is all Arab tribes did. But Ahmed Hassin, who teaches at Deakin University, detailed the essential role of Iraqi tribes in managing conflict and preserving what stability there is in the country after the 2003 U.S. invasion.
- Richard Harris of Japan's Chukyo University spoke about the spaces—physical, cultural, geographic, etc.—in which communication takes place. In the process, he discussed profound variations among regional understandings of what we might think of as givens. Take, for instance, the concept of home: for billions of people, it's not a single-nuclear-family dwelling with a dog and a yard.
It is tempting to read these papers and wonder whether the whole notion of universals is obsolete. Personally, I wouldn't go that far. The overwhelming majority of the world, for instance, has come to the point of asserting that murder, human sacrifice, and slavery are wrong. Monastics and mystics across many traditions seem to agree that compassion, self-giving, and a concern with equity lie at the heart of the divine essence. Neither of these examples is ironclad, but they are enough, I think, to render "everything is relative" overly simplistic.
The point here, though, is that there are fewer universals than we think. And few things open our eyes to this more convincingly than dialogue across boundaries of culture, geography, ethnicity, and faith. The encounter with something radically different from our own world, when heard open-heartedly, can dislodge us from our certainties. We realize that "even where I am sure, I could be wrong."
Once that door to uncertainty cracks open, we can suddenly hear our dialogue partner's radically different viewpoint clearly. More than that, we want to hear it clearly. We are poised to hear her explanation, what she might have to say, what ramifications may arise, how it might affect or expand our own wisdom. It is an exhilarating moment if we let it be.
It is not easy to react this way. But it is tremendously rewarding. And the connections it creates can lead to mutual understanding, a slightly better understanding of the truth, and one extra brick in the foundation of peacemaking across divides.
Hard Questions from the Dialogue Trenches: When the Other Side Is Wrong
I cherish the difficult questions that readers and listeners raise. Occasionally, though, a question goes from difficult to cringeworthy, and it takes me to places I don't want to go.
A listener to my New Dimensions radio interview posed one of these queries:
What if the two different opinions [in a dialogue] are at such intense odds with each other that there can be no middle ground to achieve any sort of mutual progress? For instance if I were speaking to an individual who was a member of NAMBLA, there would be zero desire to understand his position more deeply. It's wrong, whatever his position is…period.
I had never heard of NAMBLA, so I did an online search and found myself face-to-face with the North American Man-Boy Love Association. That's when I cringed. YIKES. Talk about pushing the point.
Truth be told, I'm not ready for a dialogue on this topic. For one thing, a central practice related to this organization is illegal throughout the U.S. For another, the whole topic strikes a lot of raw nerves for me, including some from my faith tradition. My book includes a couple of chapters on when dialogue fails—or, perhaps better, when we fail at dialogue—and for me, this may be an example of failure.
So is the questioner right? Is zero dialogue on this topic the way to go here? Is zero dialogue with such a person the way to go? At all times, in all places, for all people? I'm still not sure. Here's the gist of my response:
Yes, particularly from the vantage point of a worldview such as Christianity, some things are wrong. More broadly, there's a general (if not universal) consensus about the evil of certain actions: murder comes to mind. With that baseline, I still see value in dialogue even with people whose practices and opinions are noxious to us, for a few reasons:
- We can disagree vehemently on one issue and yet agree—and even work together—on other issues. If our NAMBLA member had a wealth of knowledge on providing services to the homeless, and I was passionate about homeless issues, would it not be worth exploring whether we could collaborate despite our differences over NAMBLA?
- Dialogue allows us to understand what we oppose in greater depth—and thus oppose it more persuasively and more effectively. However, that leads us to the next point (and hear me correctly here):
- Truth isn't always what we think it is. Remember when faithful Christians thought the holy words of Scripture approved the practice of slavery, or the subjugation of women? Now, I don't ever want to come out of a dialogue with, say, Bashir Assad thinking that the use of chemical weapons is a good thing. But there are many other instances in which authentic dialogue, where we listen to the other person openheartedly, can move us closer to a greater understanding of the truth—whether or not that truth is what the other person is saying.
- We dialogue with other people because, no matter how noxious their opinions, we share at least one common bond with them: we are all human beings, worthy of being valued in our humanness as God's creatures. Here the command of Jesus to "love [even] our enemies" is evident in all its implications—from the profound depth of its compassion to its equally profound capacity to make us squirm.
I can't say that these points leave me in a comfortable space—not in this instance, anyway. But dialogue has never promised us comfort and ease. It does offer a way forward with our fellow human beings, however right, wrong, or otherwise they may be. It offers a way to practice the most fundamental imperative of nearly every wisdom tradition: compassion.
Letting Our Cherished Convictions Go–a la Thomas Merton
I had a great blog post planned for this week—until a quote from a friend got in the way.
If you've read my book or other things from me, you probably know what I think about our most cherished convictions. We invest a lot of our lives in forming them. They guide us as we try to navigate through life. They may well reflect a piece of Reality and, as such, must be taken seriously.
But ultimately, we are one person among billions, with one set of convictions among billions. Our ability to know The Truth as a whole, on our own, is negligible. So when we enter into dialogue, we set aside those convictions—at least temporarily—to open ourselves fully to hearing the truth that the other has to offer. On a grander scale, holding our convictions lightly enables us to listen more open-heartedly to Reality as a whole, which in turn aligns our deepest selves toward that Reality.
I've said all this before, but then, today, a friend sent me a quote from Thomas Merton—Trappist monk, prodigious writer, and towering intellect on the contemplative life. In his book Thoughts in Solitude, he wrote the following. The first two sentences relate directly to holding things lightly; see what you can make out of the rest of the quote.
We cannot see things in perspective until we cease to hug them to our own bosom. When we let go of them we begin to appreciate them as they really are. Only then can we begin to see God in them. Not until we find Him in them, can we start on the road of dark contemplation at whose end we shall be able to find them in Him.
What thoughts does this quote bring up for you?
A Starting Point on Race for White People, Maybe
Maybe it's that I'm reading Alice Walker's incredible The Color Purple just as the commentary around Trayvon Martin has taken center stage again. Whatever the reason, the loud, angry cacophony about race in America has cut me to the heart—and rattled my cage.
Like many white people, I first grew aware of this cacophony because of the O. J. Simpson verdict, with the stark difference in interpretation of the evidence along racial lines. Since then I've read some, listened to wisdom from some great thinkers (like Judith Katz, a pioneer of the idea of white awareness), and have some grasp of what I should do and how I should think around this issue.
The shoulds can be useful guides. Ultimately, though, whatever I do and think has to come from me—from my deepest self. I am just starting to glimpse what that is. And one part of it may be helpful to white Americans like me who are struggling to understand, on a heart and gut level, the dimensions of the conversation on race.
So, white Americans, here's an idea to chew on:
Each of us grows up with a story. It tells us who we are, who our family is, and particularly what our society is and how it works. For those of us with things in common, our stories hold some things in common—especially about society.
This is true of us as white people. We've learned that the policeman is our friend. We know that there are no limits to how far you can go or what you can do. We've heard that we live in a post-racial society.
That is our story.
Over the years, we have heard it a lot. So often, in fact, that for us it becomes a given. It is no longer a story about reality; we think it is reality—"the way things are."
Then we get the O. J. trial. And Trayvon Martin. And suddenly we see that at least one other group of people—African Americans—has a different story. On many points, their story contradicts our story.
All this is indisputable.
The question is what we do with it. And for people of dialogue, the answer is surprisingly clear.
As people of dialogue, we know that each of us is exactly one person among billions, with one person's perspective among billions. Our knowledge is fantastically limited, our ability to be certain even more so. Those simple facts drive me into dialogue with you—because if I know so little, I want to hear what you know, so together we may get closer: to the truth of the situation, to a way forward, to mutual understanding.
In this case, as white people of dialogue, what we do next is listen. Long, intently, without interrupting.
This is particularly important in the U.S., where the dominant story—the white story—so often drowns out the other stories. Where for large swaths of our history as a nation, those other stories were seen as nearly sacrilegious, and their storytellers threats.
How do we start to listen? As my friend Paige Baker has pointed out to me, volumes have been written about these other stories. It behooves me to read them. I need giant portions of Alice Walker and Maya Angelou and others like them.
I think dialogue as a habit of the heart can play an important role here. As white Americans, we have heard our story for many years. It will take years for us to absorb the other stories. That calls for an inner orientation toward listening that enables a continual readiness. Whenever the conversation comes up—with a friend, in the media, wherever—we are ready to listen because our whole selves are tuned that way.
So. Can we listen for a while? A long while? Do you see the value?

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It looks like 2014 will be a sold growth year for the national economy as well as the North Bay counties.
Santa Rosa office awaits boost from job gainsMarch 24, 2014
The Santa Rosa office market remains in transition gaining momentum as the first quarter of 2014 comes to a close.
The past few years have been some of the most challenging for office building owners in decades.
However, since the first of the year, we have seen an increase in tenant demand and office-space tours.
Vacancy falls near Sonoma County AirportMarch 24, 2014
The Sonoma County Highway 101 north corridor real estate office market saw a decrease in fourth-quarter vacancy rates in 2013 from 2012, and industrial vacancy there decreased dramatically.
Southern Marin welcomes priced-out SF tenantsMarch 24, 2014
Rental rates for premium office space in central and southern Marin continue to increase, and the data indicates that trend will continue for the near term. As the limited supply of quality office space continues to decline, landlords continue to raise pricing.
Petaluma becomes target tenant marketMarch 24, 2014
Through a series of purchases, developments, and leases, Petaluma suddenly became a target market.
We will see a steady market throughout the balance of 2014 without too much upward pressure on price for office and minor upward pricing on industrial.
Tech leads north Marin office dealsMarch 24, 2014
Both San Rafael and Novato experienced increased activity from a leasing and sales perspective for office buildings in 2013 and through the first quarter of this year.
Biotech companies led the sales and leasing charge.
Expect office buildings to sell at the highest pricing levels since 2007.
Large Santa Rosa office projects to beginMarch 17, 2014
SANTA ROSA — Major renovation of the former AT&T telephone switching building in downtown Santa Rosa and American AgCredit's 120,000-square-foot new headquarters north of the city are poised to move to construction in the next month.
Investor buys 69,000sf Rohnert Park medical buildingMarch 13, 2014
ROHNERT PARK — A San Ramon-based developer and owner of medical real estate on Thursday said it purchased a 69,000-square-foot medical office building in Rohnert Park and plans to bring a new tenant into half of it.
BioMarin completes $116M purchase of San Rafael HQMarch 11, 2014
SAN RAFAEL — BioMarin Pharmaceutical (Nasdaq: BMRN) completed its $116.5 million purchase of the 13-acre San Rafael Corporate Center campus with headquarters for the developer of treatments for rare diseases, the seller said Tuesday.
Rafael Town Center sold for $50MFebruary 24, 2014
SAN RAFAEL — A San Mateo-based investor purchased Rafael Town Center, a downtown San Rafael mix of luxury apartments and commercial space, for $50 million.
Commercial Real Estate: Industrial space market sizzles in 2013February 24, 2014
Not surprisingly from the flurry of deals related to industrial uses in the North Bay in recent months, industrial space had the biggest improvement in vacancy in the North Bay in the fourth quarter. …
Mark Koenig, who has been brokering larger-sized retail leases and sales in the North Bay for two decades, in early February moved his affiliation to San Rafael-based Meridian Commercial. …
In one of the larger industrial leases for the fourth quarter, blow-molding equipment servicer Pur-Fect Plastics is consolidating to 10,000 square feet of newer, better-equipped space in Petaluma. …
Six acres of vacant land behind The Home Depot store in Windsor, the site of a mixed-use project once known as Shiloh Sustainable Village, sold to a Southern California couple. …
BioMarin to buy San Rafael complex for $116 millionDecember 30, 2013
SAN RAFAEL — BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc. (Nasdaq: BMRN) made a big signal toward its future plans for its Marin County base of operations when it agreed to pay $116.5 million to purchase the four-building San Rafael Corporate Center complex where the creator of treatments for rare diseases moved its headquarters just over a year ago.
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You can almost smell the Brylcreem in Joseph Sterling's photographs of Chicago teenagers in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
They are a time machine back to an era of drive-ins, sock hops and soda fountains, filled with boys who tried to look like James Dean, and girls who wanted to be Natalie Wood.
World War II was over. Employment was high, and so was disposable income. As sure as Elvis had a pelvis, U.S. teens were becoming an economic and cultural force.
The photos in his book The Age of Adolescence are a mix of "West Side Story" and "American Graffiti." There are leather jackets. Ratted hair. Ducktails. Cigarettes. Acne. All displayed by the kind of in-your-face greasers whose lives were celebrated in a musical that traces its origins to Taft High School: "Grease."
Some of the youths look challengingly at the camera, like wannabe JDs -- 1950s slang for juvenile delinquents. In fact, Mr. Sterling was boy-handled when he shot some of the pictures.
"He got roughed up, and then they turned around and gave him a couple of dollars to bring back pictures" of themselves, said Paul Berlanga of Chicago's Stephen Daiter Gallery, which carries his work.
Mr. Sterling, 74, died Monday at Advocate Condell Medical Center, Libertyville.
He took the photos that would become his masterwork when he was barely out of his teens himself. "He was only two or three years older than a lot of these people. He fit in," Berlanga said.
Mr. Sterling shot the pictures in Chicago and his native Texas from 1959 to 1964. They made up his master's thesis at Chicago's Institute of Design, said Art Institute curator Elizabeth Siegel.
After his school years, he did commercial, industrial and business photography. So he was delighted when the adolescent photos caught the attention of Greybull Press -- nearly half a century after they were snapped. Publisher Roman Alonso was entranced when he happened across a vintage catalog of Mr. Sterling's work. Greybull tracked him down and put together Mr. Sterling's first book in 2005, when he was 68.
Mr. Sterling came to Chicago to study after one of his teachers in El Paso showed him photos by Harry Callahan, an instructor at the Institute of Design, said photographer Joseph Jachna.
The Institute was "the single most influential school of photography in the U.S.," Berlanga said.
Mr. Sterling studied with Callahan and Aaron Siskind, "among the first artist-photographers in the Midwest," said filmmaker/photographer Bob Tanner. "They really looked at photography as an art form."
Mr. Sterling's shots are remarkable for their intimacy, experts say. "You know how these greasers could be," said Tanner. "But you know, he was a big guy, and he was persistent, and after a while, they left him alone. He just became a fly on the wall."
"Once you see Joe's pictures, they'll be embedded in you," said Jachna.
A famous print, dubbed "Legs," shows teen boys looming over girls at the beach. One of his shots of adolescent youths appeared on the cover of Aperture magazine in 1961, Siegel said.
Many of the photos were snapped at the beach, and they have a tactile quality that makes the viewer feel sand on skin. "He loved the beach because people were relaxed there, and you could mingle, and you could get all kinds of angles and emotions," Berlanga said.
His work is in New York's Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and George Eastman House.
He is survived by his wife, Deborah. A funeral service is scheduled at 11 a.m. today at Kristan Funeral Home, 219 W. Maple, Mundelein. Burial will be in Ivanhoe Cemetery.


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The story of a little boy in need of a special piece of equipment that insurance wouldn't cover touched a lot of hearts. WOWT 6 News viewers have stepped forward with a solution.
The child's mother, Ericka Clark, cried tears of gratitude Wednesday as she told us, "It's just that he's probably going to be able to walk now."
As a single mother and student, Erika couldn't afford a $5,000 Gait Trainer for her son Zane. The two-year-old has epilepsy but a therapist says daily home use of the device could help him walk someday.
Zane's grandmother, Julie Clark, said that's her wish, "for him to be independently mobile."
As Fact Finders reported, United Health denied insurance payment for the trainer saying it's not proven effective for Zane's condition. So Erika's friend Maria set up an online fund-raiser.
Since our story aired Tuesday night, there have been 14 donations to Zane's fund. The last one was for $5,000. That came from John Anderson who told Fact Finders that he hopes for a special thank you from Zane someday.
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The online fund for Zane now totals $6,500. That's more than enough to buy the Gait Trainer and help with future costs of his care.
Julie Clark said, "Once he's old enough to realize what people have done for him, he's truly going to appreciate the investment they made in his future."
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James Brolin said his son Josh is doing fine in the wake of his impending divorce from Diane Lane, calling their split "mutual."
Brolin – who accompanied wife Barbra Streisand as she performed at the Oscars Sunday night – said his son, 45, was watching the Academy Awards show at a party with famed film directors the Coen brothers and his daughter.
"He's great," Brolin said. "You know, everything is mutual. It's all okay."
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In order to earn a spot in the PEOPLE.com Oscars Best Dressed gallery, a gown must do one of two things: get the unanimous approval of the entire PEOPLE.com style staff…or wow one editor so much that she's prompted to start a campaign to get that star's look on the list (cough, Kerry Washington, cough).
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AFP Photo / Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung / SurreySomeone known as the 'Cookie Monster' has reportedly sent a second note regarding a giant cookie sculpture stolen from one of Germany's best-known food companies. The 'Monster' promised to return the emblem to the Hanover headquarters of Bahlsen.German daily the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung has reportedly received a second letter from the quirky thief. The Hannover police reported that a local newspaper also received a picture of someone dressed like the Sesame Street character holding what appears to be the stolen cookie."Because Werni loves the biscuit as much as I do and now always cries and misses the biscuit so badly, I'm giving it back to him!!!" the letter reportedly said, referring to Werner Michael Bahlsen, the head of Bahlsen, which makes the famous Liebnitz brand of cookies. According to Spiegel Online, the initial letter demanded, among other things, that the company provide the treats to all the rooms at a local children's hospital if it ever wanted to see the golden cookie again. Although the head of Bahlsen offered to donate 52,000 packs of biscuits to different organizations upon the emblem's safe return, he said that the company "refused to be blackmailed" and was not going to meet the thief's demands.
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Economics - comparative advantage is slaver ideology
One of the most sacred doctrines of mainstream economics is the theory of "comparative advantage", first developed by Adam Smith and then by David Ricardo in the early 1800s. At the time, American economists from Free States denounced the theory as "British imperialism" because it tried to justify a never-ending British domination of manufacturing.
Under a system of perfectly free commerce, each country naturally devotes its capital and labour to such employments as are most beneficial to each. This pursuit of individual advantage is admirably connected with the universal good of the whole. By stimulating industry, by regarding ingenuity, and by using most efficaciously the peculiar powers bestowed by nature, it distributes labour most effectively and most economically: while, by increasing the general mass of productions, it diffuses general benefit, and binds together by one common tie of interest and intercourse, the universal society of nations throughout the civilized world. It is this principle which determines that wine shall be made in France and Portugal, that corn shall be grown in America and Poland, and that hardware and other goods shall be manufactured in England. - David Ricardo, 1817
The is the ur-text of "comparative advantage" and it is obviously false. Just 50 years after publication, "hardware and other goods" were being manufactured in and exported from America in defiance of the laws of economics. In fact, the USA had become a world leader in manufacturing and technology. How did this happen? Only because the political struggle between the Slave State Interests (happy to be exporters of raw materials) and the Free States was partially won by the Free States. Tariffs on imported manufactured goods, government investment in industrial infrastructure (like canals), and direct public purchase of manufactured goods (mostly military) jump started US manufacturing and protected it against the comparative advantage of the Brits. The military success of the Revolutionary War and Civil War United States armies defeated British economic policies that were designed to keep America as a provider of raw materials and captive customer of British manufacturing. In contrast, the military defeats of Indian states allowed the British to destroy the existing manufacturing economy in India and flood the country with British goods.
The theory of comparative advantage as Ricardo develops it, tries to define what are actually modifiable differences between economic capabilities of nations as fixed universal truths that are determined by unchanging laws of economics. In a world where the Netherlands has retained a profitable industry based on export of flowers - despite the comparative disadvantage of its miserable climate, and where China has through a huge government investment in education, infrastructure, and corporate finance, created leading high technology industries from zero, it should be obvious that comparative advantage is as much political as it is geographic or demographic. But Ricardo's theory is still championed by modern mainstream economists who use it to advocate "free trade" and attack "industrial or manufacturing policy" just as Ricardo did.
It is obvious why a wealthy British investor, like Ricardo would have found the theory of "comparative advantage" so appealing. This theory says that it is natural economic law for the UK to export high value manufactured goods and import cheap raw materials. And, similarly, the Slave States were also big fans of the theory - the slavers were the other party to be able to profit from comparative advantage. They sold raw materials to the UK and imported luxury goods. Their wealth was based on low taxes and exports of raw materials produced by slaves. In fact, the massive US export of slave grown cotton was highly profitable to the plantation elite, the British textile manufacturing industry and the complex financing/shipping industry that tied them together. The Constitution of the Confederate States of America, the so-called government of the slave holders rebellion, is basically the same as the US Constitution except for its guarantee of slavery and of slave economics - comparative advantage.
Article 8 which enumerates the powers of Congress, just as in the real Constitution, was modified to forbid manufacturing policy.
nor shall any duties or taxes on importations from foreign nations be laid to promote or foster any branch of industry
And the Commerce Clause was specifically changed to say what the current neo-confederate members of the US Supreme Court want it to say today:
(3) but neither this, nor any other clause contained in the Constitution, shall ever be construed to delegate the power to Congress to appropriate money for any internal improvement intended to facilitate commerce; except for the purpose of furnishing lights, beacons, and buoys, and other aids to navigation upon the coasts, and the improvement of harbors and the removing of obstructions in river navigation; in all which cases such duties shall be laid on the navigation facilitated thereby as may be necessary to pay the costs and expenses thereof.
That passage even has the love of "tolls" still carried on by modern Conservatives.
Comparative advantage from the colonial side consists of squeezing wealth from slaves and forbidding manufacturing policy - because it would impose taxes on the wealthy and disrupt existing lucrative trading patterns. Strangely, modern economic doctrine, even in the hands of people who consider themselves liberals has so deeply internalized Ricardo's propaganda for British economic power that it is widely held, as a matter of principle, that manufacturing policy cannot work. This despite the overwhelming historical evidence that it does work. In fact, manufacturing policy is the only thing that works if your objective is general prosperity and not just the wealth of a certain class and the success of exploitative trade.
See also: Manufacturing, Economics, and Democracy and Economics on the Slant.
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