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Metropolitan Green and the Regeneration of Urban Space
March 3, 2008
By Adam Brock
Is all the good space left in New York gone? With construction cranes and scaffolding as ubiquitous as taxis these days, it's easy to think that within a few years every square foot of space that can be built on will be. A closer look, though, reveals that even after a decade of manic development, New York's urban space is vastly underutilized. While condos and office towers continue to rise all over town, vacant lots with no sign of impending construction still abound in all but the densest of neighborhoods. Meanwhile, there are great opportunities for utilizing street space more intelligently, and thousands of acres lie untapped on city roofs.
And it's a good thing, too: the way we reinvent these underutilized spaces will be crucial in determining the long-term resilience of New York City. We don't need more condos for rich people from other countries. We need more trees, more green spaces to get away from the daily grind. We need to start growing more of our own food. We need to provide jobs for the working class that will lift them out of poverty while restoring the quality of the air, soil and water. In short, we need to figure out how to pastoralize the city as thoroughly as we've already urbanized the countryside.
The difficulty with making New York City greener is not a lack of space. Rather, it's a lack of control over the space that's available. In a city of dense, highly-prized real estate, decisions about how we manipulate our space are left in the hands of those who can afford to pay for it. The fate of the urban environment is determined by developers: entities which, constrained by the need for short-term returns, simply aren't designed to think about the longer-term social and environmental consequences of their actions. Meanwhile, the people that do care about these things – the people that actually live in urban neighborhoods – are rarely given more than a token voice in the planning process, and they rarely have the tools to envision how development might work better than it currently does. Even city governments, which used to guide the urban form through zoning, civic beautification, and urban renewal projects, have largely ceded control of the urban environment to the free market due to ever-tightening budgets and the lure of tax revenue from big-ticket properties.
Perhaps it's not such a bad thing that there's no grand plan for how our cities are evolving: design from the bottom up can have its merits. It might not grow the economy as much as luxury lofts and big-box stores, but elements like small businesses and owner-built houses bring vitality to a place that modernist monuments and slick corporate megastructures lack. On the other hand, only city governments have the ability to create and maintain the critical infrastructure necessary to keep a city functioning, and only government and business have the money to transform our cities on the scale that's necessary. The challenge for the 21st century, then, is to figure out a synthesis of top-down guidance and bottom-up authenticity, applying the knowledge and capital of government and business to the desires of the community.
It's a massively different process than the one that occurs today, and the transition will probably outlast our own lives. But while we're waiting, I think it's worthwhile to start imagining ways that we might, if given the chance, start to redesign our own communities. I began doing just that last semester with The Living Domino, an ecological concept plan for a vacant factory complex down the street from my house. My most recent design challenge, Metropolitan Green, takes the same values and shows how they can be applied on a somewhat smaller scale.
A few blocks south of the Bedford Ave L stop, there's a little triangular block where the slightly diagonal Metropolitan meets up with North 3rd street. Small and awkwardly shaped, the lot contains a mostly empty private parking lot and an overgrown triangle of a garden, and has thus far resisted development. The street to the north contains a bagel store, a lumber store and a laundromat, and sees hardly any traffic besides deliveries to these retail establishments. The result is a block of wasted space, an unsightly agglomeration of pavement, cars, and chain link fence in a space that's ideally suited for a public plaza. Currently, more than half of the surface area of the triangle is taken up by sidewalk and asphalt, neither of which get much use.
Metropolitan Green proposes an arrangement would combine biology and architecture, while giving Williamsburg residents some much-needed public green space in the process. The design integrates the block with the buildings to the north, erasing the street that divides them except for a small access driveway for the lumber store. A greenhouse would emerge from the south side of the bagel store, collecting heat to help keep the building warm and providing a pleasant space for eating outdoors and growing a small amount of food year-round. Just to the east of the greenhouse, a small pond and intentional wetland process the organic waste from the bagel store and lofts above it, while providing a home for several types of edible fish. A matrix of raised beds allow vegetables and herbs to be grown outdoors nine months of the year, while the southernmost portion of the block is left as an open park.
For all the recent excitement around the idea of sustainability, designs such as the Living Domino or Metropolitan Green are still considered too radical to be feasible – but that's no reason not to keep working at them. There's no doubt in my mind that the end of cheap oil and need to mitigate global warming will demand a reinvention of the built environment far beyond what's currently deemed politically feasible, and the more we can start to envision that eventual metamorphosis the better. Indeed, that metamorphosis might just happen sooner than we think: the economic climate seems to be changing even faster than the meteorological one, and it may not be long before crops begin to take the place of condos as the newest member of the urban fabric.
Revisioning City Planning, Open Source Style
November 20, 2007
By Adam Brock
I just discovered Re:Vision, a San Francisco-based site intent on utilizing the power of the masses to reinvent urban planning. Started at the beginning of 2007, Re:vision sponsors a series of contests around themes like transportation, commerce, and energy, with the final competition centered on a real site where the previous ideas can take root.
So far, two of the competitions have closed, and the winners are up. First place in Re:Volt, the energy contest, was an energy-producing playground that lights up using kid-powered LEDs. Re:Route, meanwhile, yielded Sniff, a wireless network that matches public transit riders to encourage interaction, and Intelligently Integrated Transport, a networked transit system involving car and bike rentals and real-time route info. Not a bad set of solutions, overall, though some seemed a bit unrealistic – do I really want MTA peeking into my iPod so it can suggest who to sit next to? More importantly, the contests seem to have overlooked one of the core principles of ecodesign: that it is unavoidably, unapologetically site-specific.
Fortunately, that weakness is set to be resolved for the final contest, in which Re:vision intends to partner with a municipal government and developer to sponsor a competition for a real city block. If they succeed in securing such a site, the game would change significantly. The swarm intelligence of open-source design talent paired with a site to channel that talent seems like a pairing that just might change the way we think about the design process.
Or it might not. If there's one thing I've learned from the Domino project, it's that developers aren't too keen on visionary thinking, and it could prove difficult to find one willing to finance a project based on an online competition. But whether or not Re:vision gets it right the first time around, there's no doubt that it's on to something really revolutionary – putting the planning and development process back into the hands of the people, and giving our cities a fighting chance at sustainability in the process.
Trouble in Shangri-La
November 15, 2007
When GDP growth declines in the U.S., we hear about it all over the place, from the newspaper headlines to the voices of glum news anchors. Contrast our reality with the nation of Bhutan, which quantifies its well being using a "Gross National Happiness" index. The index incorporates things like the preservation of cultural traditions and ecological health, in addition to economic variables. Interestingly, just as a housing downturn threatens to send the U.S. economy into a recession, Bhutan too has seen its official level of happiness decline in recent years.
Many attribute the shift to the infiltration of western media and entertainment, which began with the introduction of television and the internet throughout the country in 1999. According to a story on the NPR program Marketplace, the country has since seen a recorded increase in the breakup of families, as well as violent crime.
The story of declining national happiness accompanying a rise in national wealth is not new. In fact, it has been observed across many economies. Economist Richard Easterlin told Marketplace that the mechanism underlying this trend is fairly simple:
Increases in income are matched by increases in aspirations for income. And the net effect is no change in happiness.
Certainly, Bhutan was never a perfectly happy, peaceful country. The expulsion of thousands of Nepali-speaking minority citizens from the country in recent years is a case in point. But if they're not achieving total happiness, at least they're exploring more comprehensive ways to measure it. So are myriad other countries, among them Canada and the U.K. In the U.S., apparently, official methodology remains focused on conventional economics. And despite the impression you might get from the nightly news anchor, it just ain't that simple.
Paying the Climate Bill, Equitably
October 29, 2007
The biggest question currently confounding the human attempt to deal with climate change is not one of technology or economics. Repeated analyses have shown that we can achieve substantial greenhouse gas reductions by ramping up existing technologies, for a fairly modest cost in terms of Gross World Product (GWP). Rather, the most difficult question facing us is one of ethics.
Who is responsible for dealing with climate change? This question is as old as the problem itself, and it evokes many muddy ethical issues. Should rich countries responsible for most of our greenhouse gas emissions be the ones to pay, or should rapidly industrializing nations like China and India also chip in? Such questions have undermined international agreement on the issue since the Kyoto Protocol was drafted in the late 1990's.
But what if we could attack this seemingly subjective question quantitatively? An organization called Eco-Equity has taken an initial step in that direction by developing an index called the 'Greenhouse Development Rights Framework.' I saw Eco-Equity co-founder Paul Baer speak at the NYU Law School last week, where he explained the assumptions behind this new tool for allocating climate change responsibility.
Inequality of wealth is widely acknowledged as a cause of inaction on climate change, since no poor country wants to sacrifice their right to economic development to solve a problem caused by rich nations. Thus, Eco-Equity assumes that no global solution will work if it makes inequality worse. The Development Rights Framework reasons that people with incomes below a certain 'development threshold' (about $9,000 annually) should not be required to pay to address climate change.
The idea that poorer nations shouldn't pay was incorporated into the Kyoto Protocol. But in allocating responsibility among individuals rather than nations, the Eco-Equity approach picks up on an important fact: It's rich people, not just rich countries, who contribute disproportionately to climate change. Therefore, anyone with an income above the development threshold should be required to contribute, including rich people living in poor countries.
So how does this approach change the way we allocate responsibility? Take the case of China vs. the United States. China may be emitting more greenhouse gases than the U.S. at present, but becuase of historical emissions rates and per capita wealth, they are required to pay a relatively smaller portion of the bill than we are. For example, if the total cost of climate change were 1 percent of GWP, China would pay $42 billion to the U.S.'s share of $214 billion.
Given the historical role of inequality in limiting progress on climate change, the Eco-Equity approch assumes that dealing with it may be the key to a solution. As Baer put it when he spoke at NYU, rich people are the only ones with the means to deal with climate change. Unless they step up to the plate, it's likely that no one will.
The Living Domino
October 11, 2007
By Adam Brock
There's a big empty industrial complex down the street from my apartment called the Domino Sugar Factory. Nobody tends to give it much notice; it's just a row of empty buildings of in an out-of-the-way part of the neighborhood. But with the pressures of redevelopment creeping into the area, the six-square block waterfront site is a fast becoming a developer's dream. With a project of this scale, the fate of Domino will easily determine the fate of the rest of the neighborhood – and right now, the view from where I live ain't looking so good.
Domino is currently owned by a group called the Community Preservation Corporation, although, in typical developer doublespeak, community preservation seems to be the last thing on CPC's mind: their plan calls for four several-hundred-foot towers, each one taller than the Williamsburg Bridge they're adjacent to. Cumulatively, the uber-development would double the neighborhood population, stressing an already overtaxed sewer and transit infrastructure to the breaking point. And while the proposed 660 units of affordable housing are a plus, the impact of the other 1,750 units would likely displace thousands of the area's current residents, as shopkeepers and tenants alike are booted to accommodate an influx of new wealth.
This sounds like the beginning of a sad story told a million times over. But it doesn't have to be this way, especially with the buckling housing market making 2,400 new units seem fiscally questionable. There's another way to develop Domino: one that listens to the needs of the surrounding community and ecology while still turning a profit. That's the premise behind the Living Domino Project, the first cut of which I've shown below. From the ground up, the design I'm working on takes a whole systems approach, looking at how flows of water, waste and energy can be continuously cycled. I aimed to preserve as many of the existing structures as possible, with the new ones positioned to capture the riverfront views and take advantage of the site's ample sun exposure.
Here's an overview of how the project would take shape:
The southern two blocks of the site, as well as the upland block, would be devoted to a mixture of public open space and affordable housing. Ideally, Living Domino can match the 660 units promised by CPC, although this might mean building higher than the 8 or 9 stories I've sketched out. Similar to London's heralded BedZed development, the housing units would have attached south-facing greenhouses to help heat the building and provide space for growing food.
The recently-landmarked refinery structure (and the iconic concrete-and-glass tower behind it) would serve primarily as an arts and cultural center, along the lines of the vision laid out at dominosugar.org. With hundreds of thousands of square feet between the two buildings, there could be extensive galleries and performing arts space, with plenty of room left over for a public library, offices, or a magnet school.
The roof of the refinery, covered in PV and solar hot water heaters, would serve double duty as a rainwater collector. After a storm, the water would flow down sculptural "green gutters" (thank you, USBK) and into a public fountain. From there it enters the site's greywater system and could be used to flush toilets or water plants.
The northern two blocks of the site would house a Center for Urban Ecology, complete with a prototype vertical farm providing jobs and fresh local produce to the surrounding community. There'd also be an amphitheater, with the existing figure-8 footprint of two old storage towers as stage. Finally, the five blocks of public waterfront would accommodate a water taxi stop, a plaza, commercial tilapia culture, and a marina.
The Living Domino Project is, of course, quite embryonic, and the concepts presented here are likely to evolve greatly in the coming months. But more important than any of the specific features is the idea that the Domino site has massive potential for catalyzing a healthy, sustainable community. Rather than creating yet another agent of gentrification as CPC plans to do, the opportunity exists to create something truly groundbreaking, something that serves as a jewel of Williamsburg and the New York City waterfront. It's not too late to make Domino come alive – but the clock is ticking.
Why Do We Hate Limits?
September 21, 2007
As I see it, the central challenge for those of us interested in creating a liveable and prosperous world is to reconcile the need for growth with its historically harmful consequences. More specifically, we need to find a way to provide the benefits of growth–material prosperity, the right to an education, and many others–without actually growing, at least not indefinitely. The problem is that at least in the U.S., the idea of limits has not historically been a part of our national mythology. In fact, it is a powerful American cultural narrative that we are a nation of industrious and increasingly productive citizens, destined to ride the wave of expansion off into the sunset.
In Break Through, a new book that has been getting a great deal of buzz lately in environmental circles, Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus (the authors of the controversial 2005 paper "The Death of Environmentalism,") argue that appealing to the American people to act on global warming cannot be couched in terms of limits, but rather should emphasize Americas own glorified vision of itself , which holds that, as they put it, we are great at "imagining, experimenting, and inventing the future." Our spark should be encouraged, not constrained.
That spark, or whatever you want to call it, keeps burning even as we argue over what do do, and it manifests itself as growth. I've been seeing its consequences everywhere I turn lately. Close to home, my own university, NYU, is initiating a long-term planning process to prepare for the next 20-odd years, in which its planners project it will need 6 million square feet of additional space, and will grow by abouut 5500 students. One of the school's strategies for controlling the student population around the central campus is to double the percentage of students who study abroad by 2031, essentially externalizing the impact of their presence across national borders.
Our growth is also manifesting itself on the scale of cities. Los Angeles is currently in the throes of its driest year on record, and has grown by 3 million people since 1990 the lack of local water nothwithstanding. Encouragingly, the Metropolitan Water District is supplying the same amount of water annually that it was in the year 1990, despite the millions additional customers. As the population has grown, per-capita consumption has fallen sharply, thanks to efficiency standards that the city imposed after past droughts. But the future looks less bright. By the year 2050, California is expected to grow by 77 percent, to nearly 60 million people. Against this background of continued growth, improvements in efficiency can only work for so long.
What do these examples teach us? Neither the university nor the city are sinister creatures; they exist to provide education, basic material well being, and jobs for their members and citizens. They are simply growing to accomodate a growing population. And while we can certainly de-materalize our economies while continuing to grow, it seems unlikely that we'll ever achieve "sustainability" without confronting the population question head on.
But how can we frame the need to stop growing in aspirational terms? How can we inspire people about the need to impose and respect limits, in the same way they are inspired to open new factories and penetrate new markets? I certainly can't say, but I suspect Shellenberger and Nordhaus may have some advice. That's why their book "Break Through" will be next on my reading list when it comes out October 4th.
Saving Domino… with Heirloom Tomatoes
September 4, 2007
By Adam Brock
A couple nights ago, a friend and I were wandering around Williamsburg, trading summer adventure tales and picking wildflower bouquets from vacant lots. We rounded a corner and came upon the old Domino Sugar Factory, a hulking brown edifice on the waterfront just north of the Willamsburg Bridge. Personally, I've always found it comforting that Domino, one of the last major relics of the neighborhood's industrial past, is still around. As the rest of the once-scruffy W'burg waterfront begins to take on the glitz and glamour of the skyline across the river, the Domino complex remains, stubbornly resisting the inevitable.
No more. According to Atlantic Yards Report, the site has been bought by a developer and is now slated for a gargantuan redevelopment plan – 2.8 million square feet, to be exact. Turns out that the very lot I was picking flowers from, currently surrounded by modest walkups and 1-story warehouses, is slated to be a 120-foot tower. No wonder the Atlantic Yards folks are paying attention – the "New Domino" is looking like a sequel to Bruce Ratner's vilified megadevelopment a couple miles to the south.
Now forget, just for a moment, that the real estate industry has this town in the palm of its hand. Forget the fact that the development plans are already underway and, as Curbed put it, "prying it loose at this point will take an effort of herculean force—not to mention hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars, presumably from city coffers." Let's just take a moment to think about what, hypothetically, could be done with this building: a major waterfront landmark in a diverse, rapidly growing cultural district, in a city that (in theory, at least) is finally beginning to support the development of green, walkable communities. If this were Europe, the municipal government wouldn't let developers anywhere near a site with this much potential.
But this is New York, and so it's up to us, the concerned citizens, to convince the city that the Domino site deserves more than another set of towers. A group of local artists have begun doing just that, rallying to put up a giant "save domino" sign on a nearby apartment and putting together an alternate proposal calling for a massive cultural center in the vein of London's Tate Modern.
Sounds like a good start to me – but integrating culture into the development plan is only the half of it. I see acres of potential for agritecture, providing the neighborhood with jobs and fresh produce. I see a native plant green roof, attracting wildlife and absorbing stormwater. I see those two industrial chutes turned into children's slides, like in Germany's acclaimed Landschaftspark. And I still see plenty of room left over in the six-square-block site for affordable housing, overpriced yuppie housing, a museum, and performance space.
Part of the philosophy of ecodesign is to harmonize the many interests at stake in a project – those of the developers, the artists and the working class, but also those of the waterfowl, the climate, and future generations. Sounds idealistic? Look at nature. Natural systems are constantly maintaining a balance between seemingly opposing forces, creating a dynamic equilibrium that works to everybody's benefit. Extending that approach to social systems means sitting down with all the interested parties (or their human representatives) and getting people talking.
In the case of Domino, I have no doubt that it's possible to provide both housing and cultural amenities, to design a development that enhances the community while still turning a profit – but only if everyone involved is willing to work together. Can Domino be saved? At this point, probably not. But as an exercise in imagining what our city could become with the right support, it sure doesn't hurt to try.


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LOS ANGELES, March 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Demonstrating its ongoing commitment to creative and cross-cultural expertise, Ogilvy & Mather West announced today that Karla Ballard has joined the agency as Senior Partner and Director of The Impact Studio.
The Impact Studio is a newly formed cross-discipline initiative with a clear mission –to extract emerging trends in entertainment, fashion, pop-culture and technology from one of the world's largest creative economies, Los Angeles. The Studio also offers clients cross-cultural strategies, opportunities to collaborate and creative ways for brands to engage consumers in the marketplace.
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Ms. Ballard is an appointee to the Federal Communications Commission's Committee on Diversity in a Digital Age. She also has managed the national broadband adoption campaign aimed at diverse communities and implemented by a coalition of groups including the NAACP, National Council of La Raza, National Urban League, Asian American Justice Center and the League of United Latin American Citizens."Karla brings significant experience working at the intersection of corporate social responsibility and cross-cultural communities which is a growing area of importance for our clients," noted Nathan Friedman, Regional Managing Director of Ogilvy PR West. "We are thrilled to have someone with her background and knowledge as part of our growing leadership team." In addition to her role on the Committee at the FCC, Ms. Ballard also worked for the One Economy Corporation, a global non-profit organization that leverages the power of technology and connects underserved communities with information that will improve their lives. She has been a visiting speaker at Harvard and is a current board member of the nation's second largest Community College, Northern Virginia Community College and has had years of experience organizing grassroots coalitions, particularly focused on multicultural communities. "Creative and effective programming comes in all shapes, sizes and colors," noted Ms. Ballard. "I'm excited to join Ogilvy in breaking through our industry sector silos to provide impactful solutions that challenge norms and paves a road for unrestricted success."
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So, I may or may not be late posting this recipe because I was sitting and gabbing with 3 of my 10 siblings this morning.
And sneaking bits of frosting.
I may or may not be late posting this recipe because…I was sitting around eating cupcakes.
Not suggested during swimsuit season. Ach, why not…who cares. I'll be the girl with
a bit of an extra gut. But, gosh darn I will be happy. Cause I just had a cupcake.
Okay, let's talk Margarita's.
Lime, and Tequila, and salt, and other "stuff".
Roll that up into a cupcake…bliss!!!
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~Participants sharpen their nature photography skills both in the classroom and the field~ Relative newcomers to digital SLR (single lens reflex) nature photography will be able to build on their skills at a two-session nature photography workshop to be held at Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center on Dec. 18 and 19, 2014. Only five photographers may participate in the two-part class, which will address nature photography techniques led by reserve educator and photographer Dave Graff. The classroom session will teach a variety of photography techniques including spot metering, composition and depth of field, among others. A discussion about the ethics ... Read More »
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Ask The CFP® Practitioner Darcie Guerin firstname.lastname@example.com "What we've got here is a failure to communicate." - From the1967 film, "Cool Hand Luke" starring Paul Newman. Question: I'm trying to organize my financial life and am worried that I'll overlook something important. Help! I'm losing sleep. What suggestions can you make? Answer: If something is keeping you up at night, it is definitely time to take action. The most common concerns people have are not running out of money and leaving a legacy or inheritance. To address these and other issues, begin with what's on your mind by prioritizing fiscal ... Read More »
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COASTAL COMMENTS Donna Fiala email@example.com Many have already heard or read rumors and innuendos about a supposed "parking garage" at South Beach. Being that I've been involved from the start, let me tell you how it began and where it is now. Will it happen? We have no idea. As your county commissioner, I was approached by some property owners on Marco Island who explained all the problems they were having with parking spaces for the South Beach area. They asked how the county would feel about building a parking deck over the parking spaces on our side of the ... Read More »
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Letter to the Editor: In Memory of Mike and JW….
City Manager Roger Hemstadt visited our Rotary Club lunch and gave a fine speech. In the Q&A a hot topic was the issue over the Marriott expansion. Frankly the sentiment seemed to be: Why is this even an issue? The Marriott plan would boost the local economy. So why pay attention to any spoilers? Over the past few days I've chewed over the nature of the spoilers, points a, b & c. a) Always we have some Luddites, mad about innovations, more technology. They complain, "It's too much traffic, tourist, etc." I suppose these luddites are befuddled by the competence ... Read More »
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LCEC Update: Ospreys and Power Outages
By Noelle H. Lowery firstname.lastname@example.com Many in the Marco Island community have wondered what happened to the osprey nests that were once perched on top of various power poles throughout the island. A quick email to Karen Ryan, LCEC's public relations manager, solved the mystery. According to Ryan, LCEC has a long history of looking for a safe, effective and gentle way of dealing with the birds, theirs nest and power outages. "At LCEC, birds/animals are consistently one of the top five causes of outages system wide," she explained in her email. "On Marco Island, this year, the number one ... Read More »
Sea Cucumber Management Changes
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) at its April meeting near Tallahassee established a commercial daily trip and vessel limit of 200 sea cucumbers in both state and federal waters. This change will go into effect June 1. The rapid, unregulated development of sea cucumber export fisheries elsewhere in the world has led to fishery collapses and sea cucumber depletions. Sea cucumbers are vulnerable to overfishing due to their sedentary nature, and they are also ecologically important, as they help cycle nutrients in nutrient-poor tropical reefs and oxygenate sediments. More information about the issue is available in the "Sea ... Read More »
Before the Calusa, Who Was Here?
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Come Experience Marco Island's Living Beaches
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Tyler MacDonald Featured at Festival of the Arts
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Jury deliberating in Carlos Rivera murder trial
Updated On: Jun 12 2013 06:07:07 PM EDT
The murder trial of a man accused of killing his girlfriend's 11-month-old boy is almost in the hands of a jury.
Assistant state attorney Cheryl Caracuzzo presented her closing arguments to the jury Wednesday morning, claiming Carlos Rivera, 22, beat the boy to death in Boca Raton in 2009.
Caracuzzo and her team of prosecutors said Rivera was fed up with the child, striking him on the head so hard that he fractured the child's skull, leaving him unconscious.
"How do you then come in here and say, 'Oh, but I didn't mean to kill him,'" Caracuzzo said to the jury. "You couldn't have had any other intent. It's an 11-month-old boy, and you are a grown man."
Attorneys for Rivera have painted an entirely different picture during the trial, placing the blame on the boy's mother, who allegedly dropped the child three days before he died.
The defense started its closing arguments Wednesday afternoon.
Rivera faces life in prison if convicted.
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The LA Times is launching the first ever e-commerce site run by a publisher. Don't be fooled, it's all about advertising opportunities and dollars.
After the big jump towards branded content at newspapers like the New York Times, Vanity Fair and the Washington Post, it's the Los Angeles (LA) Times' turn to make the headlines, but they didn't quite take the same route. In an unprecedented move, the media group is launching into e-commerce with a view to provide the best online environment for native ads and branded content. A two-hit move.
The Los Angeles Times Media Group announced in a self-published article that it is launching District West, a digital shopping destination that will serve readers with curated fashions and goods made locally.
Not an app but rather a responsive website (which adapts automatically to the user's screen size), the e-commerce initiative is a great opportunity for advertisers to tap into a specific LA-minded audience who care about owning distinctive pieces and consuming hyper-locally – mirroring the slow food movement started there, only this time for non-edibles.
Items will be sourced from "distinctive LA neighborhoods including Santa Monica, Silver Lake, Downtown and Culver City," says Jennifer Collins, the LA Times vice president, Revenue Development. "We are focused on diversifying our revenue streams and excited to leverage the marketing power of our properties to establish District West as a unique digital shopping experience."
To bring it up a notch, the LA Times will be feeding in with the shopping experience "tips and advice from savvy bloggers." This, in itself, is another opportunity for the publication to push branded content to its readers, while securing a reassuring recommendation element from market experts. Clearly, it's also another conversion booster, beyond the smart fact that purchases can be made seamlessly from the newpaper's site, with just a swipe.
According to its audience stats, the combined publications of the Los Angeles Times Media Group reach approximately 5.2 million or 38 percent of all adults in Southern California. The Los Angeles Times' online version itself has over 22 million unique visitors monthly and a combined print and online local weekly audience of 4 million. Do the maths: with the price tag for District West pieces at $200 or less, figures quickly add up, both in terms of potential direct sales revenue and in terms of advertising revenues.
At least, the daily is very clear on its intentions – Collins simply states that "District West provides advertisers with an online environment perfectly suited to native advertising content and brand integration." A candid approach that might make their platform even more attractive to discriminating buyers, especially amid the native advertising debate for transparency.
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Beatrice Bruteau is an American philosopher and author best known for her work in spiritual evolution. With a background in Vedanta, Catholicism, and the natural sciences, Bruteau has advanced a "global spirituality" in which social inequities are examined through a metaphysical lens with the intent of creating mutual respect within communities. Dr. Bruteau's philosophy might be characterized as nondualist, though she has said that it is a "complex non-dualism" rather than monism. Rather than feeling the self engulfed into the whole of the universe, the goal of the spiritual search is recognize that spiritual evolution is unending. Her writings have appeared in International Philosophical Quarterly, Cross Currents, and Cistercian Studies.  ( Wikipedia article )
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~The Halo Effect~ 8
Allistor heard the first customer of the night coming through the stained glass door. He expected it to be someone fresh out of work ready to drown his troubles in alcohol or get a little buzzed before heading on back home. This time, however, he couldn't be sure what to make of this person taking a seat in his usual stool right in front of him.
"How's it going, Allistor?" Mathias greeted his old friend with a usual, tired smile.
The bartender gave him a look of disapproval.
What business does he still have here? he wondered. Then, he thought about it. It didn't take a genius to remember that ____________ had stayed over at his apartment. Even Mathias would have remembered that. He must have been here to clear things up if ______________ didn't get around to it.
"What'll it be, Mathias?" Allistor asked in his usual bartender-to-customer tone.
"Nothing," Mathias said. "I'm just here to talk."
"I figured as much," Allistor muttered.
"It's about ______________."
"Aye, I know."
Mathias didn't say anything for a while. He just leaned his arm over the polished counter staring at his own reflection and his friend's from the other side.
"How long have you been in love with her?" he suddenly asked.
Allistor chuckled. "Long before you even knew who she was."
"Then why didn't you say anything?"
"Do you want some water?"
"I— " Mathias caught himself. "Yes."
After Allistor handed his friend a clear glass of ice-cold water, he resumed where he had left off with his question.
"She deserves better."
Mathias raised an eyebrow. "Better than what I can offer her?"
Allistor gave his friend a disapproving frown. "After what I've seen you do to her, I know she does."
"That doesn't give you a right to tell her what to think of me," Mathias growled. "You know I love her, too, and no matter what she really thinks, I'll always be the better choice."
"I know," his redheaded friend said. "I used to think that your level of 'better' was good enough." Then he tapped a spot just above his collarbone in the exact same place where Mathias had bitten _____________. "But it wasn't necessary to hurt her. It's done more than leaving a mark on her skin, it's hurt her heart."
Mathias cursed under his breath. "That's in the past."
"Really?" Allistor smirked. "And you expect things to stay the same? People change, Mathias. They move on. I suggest you do the same."
"And once I do, is that when you'll make your move?" Mathias assumed.
"I'm fine just being her friend."
All of a sudden, there was a sharp noise of metal scraping against cloth as Mathias scooted out of his seat and seized his friend's collar.
"Bullshit," he hissed. "If you were just happy being her friend, then you wouldn't have tried to drive her out. You wouldn't have fed her those lies about me and driven the wedge between us. ______________'s wrong: I'm not the problem here; you are."
"Heh," Allistor sneered. "What are you going to do? Apologize to her over and over again? It hasn't been working, I'm guessing. She's better than that."
"No, we're fine."
This caught Allistor's attention. He was sure that he had planned it carefully. Unless she was stupider than he had thought, ______________ had no reason to take Mathias back. No amount of promises should have been able to sway her the other way. Perhaps, however, he had forgotten to keep the halo effect in check. He was a guy, after all.
"She took you back?" he asked.
"Yeah," Mathias smirked, though by his tone, it was hard to tell whether he was telling the truth or not. "She forgave me. I've got one last chance, and I'm not going to screw that up." He let go of his collar. "I said I came here to talk, but I've got some parting things I need to say to you before leaving."
His friend grumbled and straightened out his collar. "And what would those be?"
Mathias leaned over the counter and crossed his arms. "The first is that I came to say goodbye. I can't afford to mix myself with a bad crowd, and neither can _____________. Once I go out that door, we won't be friends anymore."
"Fine with me," Allistor snorted. "I'm sick of seeing your face, and I'm sick of seeing you with _______________."
"Which leads me to the last bit," Mathias continued. He took his water and drank the last of its contents. When he finished, he opened his mouth again. "It's going to take some time, but when the time is right—and I'll know when it's right—I'm going to propose to _______________."


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How Finish-Install Actions are Processed
Finish-install actions for a device are processed in the same way by an installer (a class installer, class co-installer, or device co-installer), regardless of whether the installation was a hardware-first installation) or the installation is initiated by running an installation program such as the Found New Hardware Wizard, the Update Driver Software Wizard, or a vendor-supplied installation program (a software-first installation).
Windows processes finish-install actions after all other installation operations have completed and the device has been started, including:
- Core device installation (also known as server-side installation), in which the driver for the device is installed and loaded by the system's Plug and Play (PnP) manager components.
- All finish-install wizard pages that are provided by the installers for the device have been shown to the user.
Prior to Windows 8, finish-install actions were processed based on the following system-supplied items:
The DIF_NEWDEVICEWIZARD_FINISHINSTALL and DIF_FINISHINSTALL_ACTION device installation function (DIF) codes. For more information about DIF codes, see Handling DIF Codes.
The DI_FLAGSEX_FINISHINSTALL_ACTION device installation flag.
The device is flagged to perform a finish install action.
Note Starting with Windows 8 and later versions, finish-install actions must be completed by an administrator (or a limited user that can provide administrator credentials to a UAC prompt) who must go to the Action Center and address the "Finish installing device software" maintenance item.
Windows completes the following steps to process an installer's finish-install actions:
At the end of core device installation, Windows calls SetupDiCallClassInstaller to send a DIF_NEWDEVICEWIZARD_FINISHINSTALL request to the installers for the device.
DIF_NEWDEVICEWIZARD_FINISHINSTALL is the only DIF code that is sent in both the context of core device installation and in the client context. Therefore, a class installer, class co-installer, or device co-installer must indicate that it has finish-install actions during DIF_NEWDEVICEWIZARD_FINISHINSTALL processing, instead of during DIF_INSTALLDEVICE processing.
If an installer provides finish-install actions, it sets the DIF_FLAGSEX_FINISHINSTALL_ACTION flag in response to a DIF_NEWDEVICEWIZARD_FINISHINSTALL request. If the DIF_FLAGSEX_FINISHINSTALL_ACTION flag is set after all the installers have processed a DIF_NEWDEVICEWIZARD_FINISHINSTALL request, the device is flagged to perform a finish install action.
For more information about this operation, see Marking a Device as having a Finish-Install Action to Perform.
After core device installation is complete for a device, Windows checks whether the device has been flagged to perform a finish-install action. If it has, Windows queues a finish-install process that performs the finish-install actions specific to the device. The process executes in the user's context.
In Windows 8 and later versions, finish-install actions are not automatically run as part of device installation, and the SetupDiFinishInstallAction function has been removed. Instead, an administrator (or a limited user that can provide administrator credentials to a UAC prompt) must go to the Action Center and address the "Finish installing device software" maintenance item in order for the finish-install action to be run. Until then, the finish-install action will not run. For example, if a user plugs in a device that installs a driver that includes a finish-install action, the finish-install action will not automatically run at that time. Instead, the finish-install action will run at some later point when the user manually initiates it. Thereafter, when Windows runs the finish-install action, the action has that single opportunity to run. If the action fails then it must take appropriate steps to allow the user to try again and finish later. Similarly, installing supporting software that should accompany a driver can still be accomplished with a finish-install action, but it will also not be installed automatically.
The finish-install process runs only in the context of a user with administrator credentials at one of the following times:
- The next time that a user who has administrator credentials logs on while the device is attached.
- When the device is reattached.
- When the user selects Scan for hardware changes in Device Manager.
If a user is signed in without administrative privileges, Windows prompts the user for consent and credentials to run the finish-install actions in an administrator context.
If the device has been flagged to perform a finish install action, the finish-install process starts and completes any finish-install wizard pages for the device, and then calls SetupDiCallClassInstaller to send a DIF_FINISHINSTALL_ACTION request to all installers for the device, as described in Running Finish-Install Actions.
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Standing in Grace
"Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God." ~ Romans 5:1-2 (NLT)
"Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God." ~ Romans 5:1-2 (NLT)
Thursday, August 14, 2014
Christ & Coffee
I invite you to check it out, to join us if possible, or to even start your own public Bible study.
There is nothing quite like starting the day in the study of the Word of God with other believers, openly discussing our faith and praying together in a public forum.
In a day and age when Christians around the world are increasingly being persecuted for their faith, it is all the more important to make use of the incredible freedom that we have in this nation to gather together anywhere at any time to live out our faith.
Love in Christ,
Pastor Joe
Sunday, August 3, 2014
"A Different Gospel" by Chuck Swindoll
by Charles Swindoll
(from "The Grace Awakening: Believing in Grace is One Thing. Living it is Another.")
Saturday, July 26, 2014
Pray Together
When was the last time you prayed with believers?
"I also tell you this: If two of you agree here on earth concerning anything you ask, my Father in heaven will do it for you. For where two or three gather together as my followers, I am there among them." ~Jesus (Matthew 18:19-20)Pray for one another. Pray with one another. It is more than merely a religious practice. It is intimate conversation with the Creator of the universe, and in corporate prayer, the Bride of Christ is communing with the Bridegroom.
Love in Christ,
Pastor Joe
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
"Fulfill" – An Exchange and An Example
Below is a brief comment on a comment that I made earlier this evening on Facebook. I'd momentarily thought about writing a lengthier blog post around the word "fulfilled," but I realize that this is already well covered elsewhere.
I think that the interaction speaks for itself. It is in response to one of the most common arguments made by people who believe that the Christians are still under the Law of Moses.
More importantly, this arguing over the meaning of words is typical of fringe and cult belief systems. As Joyfully Growing in Grace articulates so well in the article, "Hebrew Roots Movement – Messin' With the Word":
"One of the things that is really important to be aware of regarding this and other heretical movements is that they engage in the re-definition of terms. Once that is accomplished, those re-defined terms become fields in which seeds of questionable doctrine can be cultivated. And it's the perfect set up for the same thing cults do: Convince you that what you know isn't true, or is "incomplete", then come in with fresh revelation based on previously "hidden" information."
Do you believe fulfill means "destroy"? If so, here is the scripture you're talking about: Jesus did NOT say, "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to destroy." ~Matt 5:17 AT (Apostate Translation)
Nobody said "destroy".
Fulfill = as in "I owe a debt, and on the day said debt is paid in full (either by me or someone else), the obligation of the debt is FULFILLED. Meaning I no longer owe it, and I am no longer under the terms of the debt. Nothing about the former debt can ever be used against me."
It doesn't mean the historical fact that I previously owed a debt goes away, but the debt loses any power or authority over me the moment it is FULFILLED.
Another example - I place an order with a vendor on Amazon, and I've paid for it, but I haven't received it yet. When the vendor ships it to me, he has FULFILLED the order.
So it is with Christ -- when He declared "It is finished!," the power and legal authority of the Law was FULFILLED.
I share this partly because it is an example of why we need to preach, defend, and confirm the Good News about Jesus Christ.
"Dear friends, I had been eagerly planning to write to you about the salvation we all share. But now I find that I must write about something else, urging you to defend the faith that God has entrusted once for all time to his holy people." (Jude 1:3)
For more Scriptural precedent for addressing false teaching, check out: http://www.openbible.info/topics/exposing_false_teachers
Love in Christ,
Pastor Joe
Monday, July 21, 2014
Churches and Garages
A quote I've seen shared more than once on Facebook reads, "Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile."
I'm sure I've clicked "like" to that sentiment at some point. Heck, I'm positive I've even shared it at least once.
In recent years, though, that saying has bothered me more and more, though I couldn't quite explain why. It sounded reasonable enough, but still, it ate at me every time I saw someone else share it or 'like' it.
It recently dawned on me that the saying uses a very poor analogy. A person, no matter how many times they may walk into a garage, will *never* become a car. A person who goes to church, on the other hand, may well become a Christian.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not nitpicking. I understand that the general idea is that there may be those out there who assume (out of misinformed ignorance) that any involvement with a church, even just annual attendance on Christmas or Easter, will somehow get them into heaven. The truth is, though, that I've never met even one such person. Not one.
Instead, I think that this quote belies an underlying judgmentalism about those who actually DO attend church. It has become all too easy for us as a society to loosely toss around the term 'hypocrite,' especially in regard to regular church-goers. This quote seems to imply that some of these very people who show up to church are really just self-deceived at best, if not out and out false Christians. Perhaps that's not at all the context in which the original quote comes from, but that's how it seems to be used these days.
I can't tell you how many people I've encountered in the last 25 years of ministry who stay away from church "because of the hypocrites."
What a shame.
Let me draw you back to the analogy of the car for a moment. While standing in a garage will decidedly not make you a car, I want you to think about what you DO with a car to keep it running smoothly. Yes, you may be able to drive a car for many miles without ever taking it to a garage, and you may be able to get some extra miles out of it by doing some of the work yourself, but you'll never have the same mileage you'll have if you take it to the garage.
Just like we take our cars into the garage for maintenance and repair, so we need to take our selves to church. No, the pastors and elders are not the mechanics. But neither are you. God is the master mechanic, and He uses His body, the church, to minister to His people. The church, as a collective body of people with unique giftings and skills, is able to fulfill the "one another" commands of the Bible in a way that we simply cannot as individuals.
Finally, a word about that poor, ignorant, misguided, self-deluded person standing in the church….
"But how can they call on him to save them unless they believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them?" (Romans 10:14)
Where better for them to be, but to be where they can clearly hear the Good News that "If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by openly declaring your faith that you are saved. … 'Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.'' (Romans 10:9-10,13)?
No, standing in a garage will NOT make you a car, but getting yourself to where Jesus Christ is preached very well may be part of the process of how God transforms you into a Christian.
And, as for you, Christian, you are part of that heavenly pit crew.
"Freely you have received, freely give."
Love in Christ,
Pastor Joe
Sunday, July 20, 2014
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Pastor Joe
Monday, July 14, 2014
Do Atheists Exist?
"Scientists Discover that Atheists Might Not Exist and That's Not A Joke"
"Cognitive scientists are becoming increasingly aware that a metaphysical outlook may be so deeply ingrained in human thought processes that it cannot be expunged.
"While this idea may seem outlandish—after all, it seems easy to decide not to believe in God—evidence from several disciplines indicates that what you actually believe is not a decision you make for yourself. Your fundamental beliefs are decided by much deeper levels of consciousness, and some may well be more or less set in stone."
Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God's work from beginning to end. (Ecclesiastes 3:11)
They know the truth about God because he has made it obvious to them. For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God. (Romans 1:19-20)
Only fools say in their hearts, "There is no God." (Psalm 14:1)Science and faith are NOT mutually exclusive. Rather, the former is simply the study of the mechanics of the latter.
Believe like a child, but don't check your brain at the door.
Love in Christ,
Pastor Joe