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Monday, October 30, 2006
Ross Fadner, October 30, 2006, 11:45 AM
In a recent
column, venture capitalist Martin Sosnoff, who has invested in Google, Microsoft, Comcast, Akamai and IBM, says "anyone who sells his Google stock now and pays capital gains taxes is feckless." The search giant, currently trading at a near-record high of around $475, is still a buy, as its "numbers are dancing far above what even the most bullish analysts had construed for its September quarter." He adds that its acquisition of YouTube for $1.65 billion "is a petty cash transfer."
But it's also a potential headache. Following the decision of Viacom to force Google to remove its content from YouTube, other media companies may follow suit. If they do, YouTube could start losing audience. Others may choose to sue. It remains to be seen how much lawsuits like these would cost Google.
Still, the risk reward is potentially huge, says Sosnoff--"maybe 100 million 20somethings' eyeballs. Advertisers must be licking their chops." Many are waiting to see what YouTube will be able to safely offer besides a banner ad.
Read the whole story...
Interactive agency EVB has developed an integrated ad campaign for Major League Soccer sponsor Adidas in partnership with creative teams C-TRL and Eclectic Method. In it, MLS teams that reach the playoffs have been paired in a video mash-up with a song and video from a local artist. Creative Director Jason Zada said the idea was to bring American soccer to light during the most crucial part of the MLS season, by pairing the teams with underground bands from each of the cities represented.
The end product is actually seven total mash-ups appearing on a special MLS Mash Ups Web page. To drive traffic to the site, Adidas bought ads on popular soccer Web sites like ESPN Soccernet, SI.com and Fox Sports. The apparel maker also allows fans to upload the mash-ups to their MySpace pages.
New videos are being edited and uploaded to the site within about 24 hours of the results of each team's progression down the playoff ladder. The final is Nov. 12. The New England Revolution has been paired with the band Mates of State; The Chicago Fire is paired with Academy Is; FC Dallas wit Polyphonic Spree; The Colorado Rapids with Vaux; The Houston Dynamo and Solange Knowles; Chivas USA and Ozomatli; D.C. United with Spank Rock, and the New York Red Bulls with Lordz.
Read the whole story...
Here's an example of how Google's acquisition of YouTube is changing things for the viral video site's users: Thousands of clips from Comedy Central shows like "The Daily Show," "The Colbert Report" and "South Park" were taken down over the weekend. Instead, users were greeted with the following message: "This video has been removed due to terms of use violation." Users who uploaded the Comedy Central content were also informed that if they attempted to upload video from the Viacom unit again, it would result in the immediate deletion of their accounts.
Apparently, Google CEO Eric Schmidt and co. were unable to convince Viacom that an ad rev-share agreement would be worthwhile. This is the largest purge of American content to date from YouTube, and other media outfits may follow Viacom in their forceful request to have their valuable content removed.
It's also a rather abrupt change of heart from Comedy Central, whose executives used to see YouTube as a great promotional vehicle for its shows. "Getting it off the Internet is no different than getting it off TV," Jon Stewart, host of "The Daily Show," told an interviewer recently. But TV shows are losing more audience and ad revenue to the Internet, and now that YouTube is owned by Google, Viacom seems to have changed its tune.
Read the whole story...
The British Broadcasting Corporation, Britain's largest media outlet, has come under fire from its own employees for plans to sell ads on its Web site. Employees circulated a 10-page document condemning the proposal, which they say could lead to "less serious journalism" and might damage the BBC's reputation. More than 170 BBC Web site employees signed a petition protesting the idea.
Say what you will about the quality of American journalism relative to the BBC, but if American news media outlets operated that way, they would all be virtually bankrupt. Remember, the BBC is one of the world's largest publicly funded media outlets, financed mainly by television licensing fees by British TV owners, as well as by grants from the government. It does not carry ads on its TV programming--although it does sell them on BBC World, its international broadcasting arm, as well as in its magazines.
Like the BBC World arrangement, the new Web proposal calls for ads to be sold only in front of non-UK readers. So what's all the uproar about? BBC journalists are worried that the quality of the content may suffer from increased commercialization. "There has to be a chance that advertisers wouldn't care about us doing stories on poverty and African politics, they'd want us to do more stories on Madonna and Kylie," one dissident said.
Read the whole story...
Late last week, Google preceded its decision to remove Viacom's material from new acquisition YouTube with tough talk over its policy for copyrights. Nikesh Arora, vice president of Google Europe, told reporters the search giant would not tolerate copyright violations.
Of course, the video-sharing site owes much of its rapid growth to the existence of thousands of clips uploaded from old TV shows by its users. However, most believe YouTube was able to escape copyright lawsuits because it is a new business with little cash. Little cash--but a lot of potential, and Google's task is now to convince copyright owners that it's in their best interest to partner with the viral video site. YouTube's massive, loyal user base is a major reason--although some content owners, perhaps Viacom, may decide to go it alone.
To deal with the copyright problem, YouTube is devising technology that will allow it to block copyrighted videos from being uploaded. Its policy to date is to take down copyrighted material as it is flagged by the owners, but YouTube has been criticized for not being diligent enough.
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Representative Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri revealed on MSNBC Tuesday that lawyers from the ACLU, IRS administrators, and even Attorney General Eric Holder will soon be speaking with hundreds of pastors in the African-American community on how they can best comport themselves throughout the 2012 election.
"We will have representatives from nine denominations who actually pastor somewhere in the neighborhood of: about 10 million people," he said, "and we're going to first of all equip them with the information they need to know about: what they can say and what they cannot say in the church: that would violate their 501c3 status with the IRS." [Emphasis added]
While they won't specifically tell people whom to vote for, the respected speakers will discuss "draconian" (hint) voter identification laws, and the Congressional Black Caucus expects the move will only help the Obama's campaign.
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Pooh had just come to the bridge; and not looking where he was going, he tripped over something, and the fir-cone jerked out of his paw into the river. 'Bother,' said Pooh, as it floated slowly under the bridge, and he went back to get another fir-cone which had a rhyme to it. But then he thought that he would just look at the river instead, because it was a peaceful sort of day, so he lay down and looked at it, and it slipped slowly away beneath him, and suddenly, there was his fir-cone slipping away too.
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Bloomberg's lawyers would have appealed the contempt motion regardless of the court's makeup. But they're sure to get a sympathetic ear from the Pataki-era bench as to why the city shouldn't be punished for violating a judge's order that they were keeping too many in jail for too long for too little.
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Family-friendly, old-fashioned 4th of July celebrations never go out of style. Here are some of our recommendations this year — where does your family love to celebrate America's Birthday?
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What's not to like about the 4th of July? Fireworks and watermelon, parades and picnics. This year the Rockies or Bust tour stopped to celebrate Independence Day in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
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Congress has passed President Obama's payroll tax extension. Many analysts see it as a victory for the President, but some see the $143 billion measure as a defeat for the federal workforce. The legislation requires newly-hired federal employees to contribute an additional 2.3 percent of their salaries towards their own retirement.
"GOP lawmakers, for most of the last year or so, targeted federal employees, saying they're overpaid, saying they're over-compensated and that is a way to get savings, to do some of these things," said Bernie Becker of The Hill newspaper. He joined The Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss the impact the legislation will have on the federal workforce.
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There are many reasons why Majora Carter's TED talk, Greening the Ghetto is so popular. This extraordinary young woman tells a classic American story about a poor kid making good and doing so in and for her own community. And her accomplishments are extraordinary. She's young and she is black and she has, she says, "embraced her inner capitalist," despite the odds against which she had to fight to make her contribution to society.
What struck me most strongly about her talk was this.
When I spoke to Mr. Gore before breakfast, I asked him how environmental justice activists were going to be included in his new marketing strategy. His response was a grant program. I don't think he understood that I wasn't asking for funding. I was making him an offer. Don't get me wrong, we need money. But grassroots groups are needed at the table during the decision-making process. I have come from so far to meet you like this. Please don't waste me.
So it is that I finally (finally!) come to the post that gave rise to this one over at Harvard Working Knowledge, Taking the Fear Out of Diversity Policies.
Considerably understating the matter, Lakshmi Ramarjan, an assistant professor of organizational behavior at Harvard Business School says that "talking about and studying diversity is often complicated and raises a fair amount of anxiety for people."
A lot of times the context of the conversation is around diversity as a problem—isolation, prejudice, conflict—that seems to be so closely associated with working across group lines and group differences. And I think that makes a lot of people wary.
In a new working paper, A Positive Approach to Studying Diversity in Organizations, Ramarajan and fellow HBS professor David Thomas "argue that focusing on the benefits of a diverse organization will lead to workplace policies that embrace diversity, instead of grudgingly accepting it or pussyfooting around it."
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We had a great day of witnessing yesterday downtown Colorado Springs. The high schoolers were in session, so we had new "schools" of fish to witness to. Everyone got a chance to preach and we gave out lots of Gospel tracts and had many discussions one-to-one. Open air preaching is very scary and controversial, and we hear all the time that is not "effective". But it is certainly Biblical as Jesus(Sermon on the Mount), the Apostles(Acts 2, Acts 17) and many preachers have done it over the years(Spurgeon, Moody, Whitefield, Wesley, Billy Graham). If you are being lead by the Lord to preach in the open air…do it. Even Paul the Apostle was scared when he witnessed. Paul said to the Corinthians, that when he came to them, that he came with "weakness, fear and much trembling"(1 Corinthians 2:3).
I had a discussion with someone yesterday about this subject, and she said that Jesus would never open air preach like what we were doing. So I showed her in the Bible in John 7, where Jesus stood up and cried out, If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink! Whoever believes in Me, the scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water"(John 7:36). It says later in the text that everyone was freaking out and Jesus almost got arrested for it. Sounds familiar, huh? Well, we certainly do not compare ourselves to our Lord Jesus Christ, but we can follow His example and His command to proclaim the Gospel to all creation. Sometimes the open air proclamation of the Gospel is exactly the right thing to do. Most of the kids hearing the message do not go to church, and even if they do, most of the churches are not preaching the Gospel. Most of the churches nowadays(not the church I go to, however, praise God) preach a man-centered message to make everyone feel good and come back next week. We are preaching the TRUTH of the Gospel. Something desperately needed nowadays.
Robert Moran from the Street Church joined us yesterday and took some video of the preaching. Notice later in the video the Buddhist monk guy we were witnessing to.
Some dos and don'ts of Open Air Preaching. (Hint…hecklers are AWESOME. I always pray for a good heckler)
• Do talk to people, not at them, or worse, down to them.
• Do speak in a lively, confident manner. Fire and energy will hold a crowd. Cold, tedious preaching will not.
• Do be snappy and brief. If you dwell too long on any one point, you will lose your crowd. Speak intensely with short sentences and with simple, direct points. "The chain of thought must be taken to pieces and each link melted down and turned into bullets" (John Wesley).
• Do speak with the right tone. What you say to a crowd is just as important how you say it. Let them hear the passion and concern in your voice. Find a tone that is loving but firm, gentle but bold, humble but uncompromising.
• Do remind your hearers of your motives. You don't want their money. You're not telling them to join a church. You are there only because you care about their eternal welfare.
• Do find the right volume level for your voice. Speak loudly enough for people to hear you while still using a pleasant, conversational tone. Don't yell, scream, or strain your voice.
• Do be wise as a serpent but gentle as a dove (Matthew 10:16)
• Do speak from your stomach rather than from your throat. If you don't eat beforehand, you should end up with strained stomach muscles when you are done. This is a good sign that you are using your diaphragm to project your voice rather than your throat. If you • Do use lots of illustrations and word-pictures.
• Do expect some "street wit" (smart alecks or jokers in the crowd),solely use your throat, your voice may not last very long and you may do damage to your voice.
• Do use hecklers to draw a larger crowd, but handle them with patience, gentleness, and humility (2 Tim. 2:23-26). Smile and ask a heckler his name as a sign of respect (bless those who curse you). If you are stumped by a heckler, be humble enough to say "I don't know the answer, but I'll look into it".
• Do be patient with hecklers. Remember that sinners are spiritually blind, incapable of seeing the truth. So you must instruct them gently and patiently (2 Tim. 2:24-26).
• Do keep bringing the conversation back to the sinner's conscience and his responsibility to God on Judgment Day.
• Whatever happens, never lose your temper! When you get angry, your message looks weak. If you stay calm, your message looks strong.
• Do teach as well as preach (2 Timothy 2:24-25; Psalm 51:13; Acts 5:42; Matthew 13:23). It's not enough that sinners hear the gospel, they must understand it (Acts 8:30). If the sinner fails to understand his need for a Savior, your preaching is like a loud gun that misses the target.
• Do quote Scripture frequently. Never underestimate the power of the right verse quoted at the right time.
• Don't let the meeting be broken up. If an interruption occurs, do your best to hold your ground and keep the crowd.
• Speak boldly but don't antagonize.
• Don't be dull! Be energetic, use illustrations and humor.
• Don't read or use notes. Commit your message to memory.
• Don't be soft! An open-air meeting is no place for a nice, namby-pamby preacher. A soft, gentle tone is good for one-on-one discussions but terrible for open-air preaching.
• Don't talk too long. Ten minutes is often more than enough.
• Don't get caught up in arguments (2 Timothy 2:23). Such "rabbit trails" will take you off of your main topic (the gospel), and the crowd will quickly lose interest. Apologetics can "bait" the crowd, but the "hook" must be the gospel.
• Don't let an angry listener shake you. Anger is often a response to conviction of sin. "If you throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one who yelps is the one who got hit".
I always try to be elevated by standing on a box or bench. Elevation is great as it gives you some distance from the hearers. If you are not elevated, sometimes people come up to you and grab or push. Elevation also give you some authority and everyone can see you. I also like to draw a box in front of me with chalk, so a heckler has a place to speak. It works great!
Beware of "Christians" in the crowd. Sometimes a professed Christian can start doing crazy things like cursing or asking questions that are meant to take you on a "rabbit trail". If you identify yourself with a "Christian" in the crowd, then if they start doing crazy stuff, your message is diminished.


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HOUSTON The bicyclist who was killed by a Metro Light Rail train has been identified as a 20-year-old Rice University student.
Vivian Ziwei Guan was hit by the train Monday morning when she crossed the tracks at Main and Walker on her bicycle. She had just gotten off the northbound train with her bike and was struck by the southbound train, according to Metro.
Guan would have been a junior at Rice in the fall. She was architecture major.
Vivian was very special in the way that she combined such enthusiasm and intelligence in her work and also for the energy that she brought to the school, remembered Dean of Architecture Sarah Whiting in a written statement from Rice. We will greatly miss her.
Vivian was one of those rare students who stood out from the rest because of her incredible intuitive talent, intellect and optimism, said Rice Professor John Casbarian. She was an absolute joy to have in studio, always curious and so excited about every challenge ahead. It s hard now to imagine school without her.
Guan was working as a summer intern at Ziegler Cooper Architects.
Whenever we placed Vivian on a new assignment, she mastered it with a quick study and was always ready to take on something new, Rice alumnus and firm employee Scott Ziegler recalled. Her enthusiasm was infectious, as was her curiosity about architecture and the world about her.
Guan was looking forward to returning home to New Zealand to be with her family before the fall semester.
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I am Captain Casey M. Copsey of the Skipjack Caleb W. Jones. A recently restored Chesapeake Bay skipjack. I am seeking crew for the annual skipjack race in cambridge this weekend. My first mate suffered a heart attack early this week and will unfortunately be unable to sail with me. Duties are incredibly easy and really only consist of keeping me company and awake. Perhaps a limited amount of time on the helm. My original sail plan was to leave thursday morning and either stop in solomons for the night or continue on straight through to cambridge. Meals will be provided for anyone who might be available to make the trip. I can leave early friday morning if i must to accomodate an individual who is unable to free up thursday on such short notice. The race will be Saturday morning, I will either leave saturday afternoon or early sunday morning. Depending on my energy level and number of crew I am able to round up. My ship will depart from cobb island maryland and arrive their. Though i can potentially make a stop somewhere further south in the potomac or north in the chesapeake to accomodate potential crew.
This is an incredible opportunity for anyone with a passion for historic boats or wooden boats in general. Accomodations are fairly modest. Crew need to bring their own sleeping bag/blanket, and foul weather gear. All else will be provided by myself.
Thanks for reading this thread and hopefully someone out their might be willing to help a young captain out for the weekend.
P.S. If there are any sailors in the cambridge area that can make the race portion of the trip only feel free to contact me. I can get the boat their myself but she is a large ship to single hand during a race, and the course is fairly tight leaving a very small margin for error
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I think it will happen in Europe first in a few big team sports before the US. The US tends to be more puritanical about such matters and Americans play a lot of team sports that others don't get involved in (NFL, Baseball, etc...). Look at the fuss Tiger got just for a few text messages and having a bit of fun on the side. in france it would have been one paragraph on the 5th page of the newspaper... it's a personal matter... It's 2013.
we'll just have to wait and see. mark this thread please so you can refer to it.
Thing is with football especially is they are pretty religious. Thats where alot of the dislike for gay people comes from. yes there is the its a gay dude in the locker and all that jazz but for almost all these sports in the US you hear guys thanking jesus and god. So your not gonna get them to support gay guys in their league.
Also American athletes in the big sports tend to put out the tough guy persona. The everything testosterone good vibe. Gay men are not seen as fitting into that crowd. They very well could and odds are there are a few right now doing it but they aint gonna come out of the closet while playing and risk alienating their teams.
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Stairways Software has released , an update to the powerful system utility for Mac OS X that offers three functions: powerful macros, program and windows switching, and clipboard switching. Using Keyboard Maestro's macros you can control applications, windows, or menus; insert text; open documents, applications or URLs; execute scripts; control the system, iTunes, or a PowerMate; and more--using keyboard, mouse, scheduled/repeating, or application triggers. The Clipboard Switcher lets users select from a number of named clipboards, storing information away for later retrieval. It runs on Mac OS X 10.2 or later and is available for $20. Upgrades are free for purchases after July 1, 2004 and $10 for other registered users.
Keyboard Maestro was acquired by Stairways Software on 30 June 2004. Version 2.0 represents a complete rewrite of the internal engine to support multiple Macro Triggers including traditional Hot Keys, application launch/quit events, scheduled events, a context-sensitive macro palette, and more. It also allows users to manipulate Windows (resize, close, zoom and more), simulate button clicks, simulate scroll wheel action, and use a named clipboard.
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Once one of the most celebrated movie palaces of New York City, the RKO Keith's Theatre in the Flushing section of Queens, is only a ghost of its former self.
Opened as the Keith-Albee Theatre on December 25, 1928 with Clara Bow in "Three Week Ends" on the screen and Keith-Albee vaudeville on stage. By the 1970's, the theatre had been tripled, and as legend has it, in 1986, after almost sixty years of showing movies, the theatre was closed and sold. Soon after, its owner attempted to demolish it before a hearing could be held to decide its fate.
Having already damaged its famous facade and with work commencing to gut the theatre, the demolition was halted by the city. The owner soon forfeited the property, and the damaged and stripped RKO Keith's Theatre has sat and waited for its final demolition for almost 30 years.
Several plans have come and gone to convert the building into apartments, but it sits to this day.
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It makes me crazy when I see how they've restored the Kings in Brooklyn and now they're going to restore the Brooklyn Paramount as well. Perhaps I should be hopeful that the tide is turning and perhaps there's a chance for the Keith's as well, but with the complete lack of neighborhood interest and the fact that it's QUEENS after all, I'm not going to hold my breath.
Not all the proposed projects make it to completion: the Paramount in Stapleton, Staten Island was killed by bureaucracy; the Times Square on 42nd Street reno also died. I agree that it's encouraging when you hear about some of these projects but I think the Keith's is just too far gone with no real push.
With all the damage you see in different photos, Im sorry to say it will just be way too much to restore this place. And a question, how did RKO triple this place? Under the balconies?
Some places created auditoriums on the stage area or in dressing rooms. Both present here.
The Keith's was triplexed by dividing the orchestra level in half right down the middle. The balcony was left intact with a false floor added in front of the first row railing to enclose the twinned orchestra level below and a screen hung from the top of the original proscenium. The balcony was definitely the auditorium of choice in those days, as it was massive and still had the majority of the theater's architectural features and decor left intact.
As for comparing what is happening with theaters in Brooklyn to the fate of the Keith's… Hasn't Queens always received short shrift in matters of preservation???
Big problem is there is no community push. The thing with Queens, it is the most diversely populated borough with the majority of the people of more recent origin than when the Keith's was functioning.
Thanks Ed Solero. It sounds similar to what Loews did to the Jersey in Jersey City N.J.
Good lord I can't believe I have not visited this site in over three years. Glad to see the comments and debates are still going on, and also glad to see Ed Solero and others still here! I have been exiled to red state hell and it sucks the big watoozi. I am going to check back here more regularly to still get the feeling I am living in my NYC hometown. Dang…I never got into the Keith's to photograph! My loss.
Uploaded day and nighttime photos of the period when a triplex. Didn't realize the boxy marquee was over the shell of the original humpback/turtle.
Sad my first movie in there was James Bond for your eyes only roger Moore. N be for it closed goast busters
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Marion Greene spent her entire childhood living abroad — in India, Morocco, Brazil and Pakistan. She spent her early adult years living in Pennsylvania and New Mexico.
While living in New Mexico and working for Bill Clinton's presidential campaign in 1996, she thought about someday running for public office, but realized a hurdle in her way.
"People are usually from somewhere when they run for office," she thought at the time. "And I'm not from anywhere."
She moved to Minnesota a few years later. Earlier this January, 11 years after moving to the state, she was sworn in as Minnesota's state representative from district 60A, which runs from Uptown north into the Bryn Mawr and Loring Park neighborhoods.
Greene, whose parents flew in from Maryland to watch the ceremony along with her husband and other relatives, said the experience was exciting and also reminded her that Minnesota is her home.
A resident of the East Isles neighborhood, Greene takes the seat formerly held by Margaret Anderson Kelliher. Kelliher is the former Speaker of the House who ran unsuccessfully for governor last year. She is now the president of the Minnesota High Tech Association.
Greene, a health policy analyst, previously worked as campaign manager for Kelliher.
She takes over during a difficult time in Minnesota. The state faces a $6.2 billion budget deficit. More than 200,000 Minnesotans are unemployed. City governments across the state are cutting budgets and raising taxes. Minneapolis recently raised taxes by 4.7 percent — which hit homeowners even harder — while eliminating 80 positions, mostly police officers and firefighters.
Minneapolis's legislative delegation returned to the Capitol in early January for its legislative session scheduled to end in May. Things are different this year, as the all-DFL Minneapolis delegation serves in the minority since Republicans took control of both houses after the November election.
While Greene learns to navigate her way through the Capitol and its processes, seasoned Minneapolis DFLers will assume new roles in the minority.
State Sen. Larry Pogemiller (DFL-59) began his 30th year representing Northeast Minneapolis. While Pogemiller has seen most everything over the years, the 2011 session will be the first time he has ever been in the minority party. The Minnesota Senate was in the hands of the DFL for the past 40 years.
State Rep. Diane Loefller (DFL-59A) began her seventh year in office. The lifelong Northeast resident knows that cutting $6.2 billion — roughly 17 percent of the state's general fund — will be no easy task.
But Loeffler and Pogemiller are optimistic that DFL Gov. Mark Dayton and the Legislature will be able to work out a compromise before the end of the session in May.
"It requires people reaching across that policy and philosophical divide and coming to an agreement on a compromise that everyone call feel like 'it's OK, nobody got everything they wanted, but we all feel like we left the state in good hands,'" Loeffler said.
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The Republicans in the majority of both houses have said they do not favor any tax increases to deal with the deficit. Minneapolis legislators, however, are strong supporters of income tax increases or other revenue sources to help balance the budget.
Dayton favors a mix of tax increases, budget cuts and reform.
Pogemiller said taxes will rise one way or another. He favors an income tax hike on higher earners. If not, the Legislature will be forced to cut its aid to local governments.
"If you cut (Local Government Aid) you will raise property taxes," he said.
Pogemiller said Minneapolis lost about half of its Local Government Aid during the Tim Pawlenty administration.
Loeffler also favors new state revenue, and she cited closing corporate tax loopholes and raising fees and permitting costs as possible solutions.
"Property taxes have been going up dramatically even though peoples' housing values have been flat or gone down," she said. "That's not fair. It's one of our least progressive taxes."
Even with new revenue sources, Minneapolis legislators say reforms and tough cuts will be coming.
Loeffler, Greene and Pogemiller spoke of the importance of funding education. However, K-12 Education funding makes up 38 percent of the state budget and higher education makes up 9 percent of the state budget.
Pogemiller said state health care costs are rising by 8 percent annually. Because of the state's aging population, it's unlikely to make any real cuts to the health and human services budget, which is about 29 percent of the total budget.
"I would love to see a bill that addresses the $6.2 billion deficit without raising taxes, but I just don't think it's going to be possible," Greene said.
No support for Vikings stadium
Minneapolis legislators say finding public funding for a new Minnesota Vikings stadium is at or near the bottom of their list of priorities.
Loeffler said it's not the state's job to finance stadiums, but rather to fund the public services the state offers.
"It's funding the education system, making sure the University of Minnesota is affordable and accessible to people, ensuring the needs of people with developmental disabilities are met. Once we get all that out of the way, we've got to say, 'is there anything left, and what's fair?'"
Loeffler and Pogemiller said a football stadium does not boost the local economy the way some think. They pointed to the undeveloped area around the Metrodome as an example.
Still, Pogemiller said, the Vikings are a valuable cultural asset to the state.
"Is there a mechanism to do a Vikings stadium that is economically wise?" Pogemiller said. "There may be. But it would be challenging in this budgetary environment."
Neighborhood funding
It's unclear if the city of Minneapolis will need legislative approval for the move it made to freeze about $15 million in funds it had previously allocated to neighborhood organizations.
Loeffler said she took part in the legislation that originally authorized the city to continue funding neighborhoods and she hopes the city will reconsider its decision.
Should it be determined that the city needs legislative action to freeze the funds, Loeffler will not support the city.
"I really feel like our citizens right now need neighborhood level revitalization funds more than ever since housing values have sunk below peoples' mortgages, the home improvement loans and grants that have been available through the neighborhood groups have been the only thing that's available to a lot of people to replace that worn out furnace, or to fix the roof that's got an ice dam," Loeffler said.
Pogemiller said he's sympathetic to the city as it struggles with raising property taxes as well as the neighborhood organizations that improve the housing stock and help police communities. But he said he didn't expect it to be a legislative issue.
"I'm under the impression that they are not coming to the Legislature this year," he said. "So it seems to me it's not going to be a legislative issue, it's how they deal with it locally."
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Police say Patrick Steven Shuford, 26, of Newton, broke into a mobile home at 4489 Athens Drive in Newton about 11:30 a.m. Monday demanding money from Greg Allen Beard, 29, who lives at the residence.
ŌĆ£He came in and was shouting ŌĆśWhereŌĆÖs my money? WhereŌĆÖs my money?ŌĆÖŌĆØ said Catawba County Sheriff Coy Reid.
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The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake was 3.7 miles deep. Shaking was felt at the White House and all over the East Coast, as far south as Chapel Hill. Parts of the Pentagon, White House and Capitol were evacuated. The quake was in Mineral, Va., in Louisa County.
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Sam Christopher, 3, plays with a toy car on Monday inside the newly-opened Love-N-Care Child Development Center (CDC) in Conover.
The St. Stephens volleyball team won its third match of the season, but Maiden didnŌĆÖt make it easy on them.
After winning the first two games 25-14 and 25-19, the Lady Indians (3-0) fought tooth-and-nail with Maiden (0-1) for the third and deciding game.
St. Stephens persevered past the Blue Devils to win the game and match, 29-27.
ŌĆ£The last game was a nail-biter,ŌĆØ said Lady Indians coach Denise Mullins. ŌĆ£I am really proud. All the girls really showed their ability. They showed how hard they came to play.ŌĆØ
Oscar Wilson, "Sonnie Boy," 53, of Newton passed away Sunday, Aug. 21, 2011 at Catawba Valley Medical Center. Burke Mortuary in Newton is serving the Wilson family.
Rosemary Elaine Warren Holt, 64, of Newton went to her eternal home Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011 at Carillon Assisted Living in Newton. Burke Mortuary in Newton is serving the Holt family.
More political and sandwich board signs may be popping up around Maiden after officials passed a new signage ordinance this week.
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The Tigers defeated the Knights 25-6 on Friday, marking the teamŌĆÖs first win since Oct. 23, 2009.
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Illinois Sen. Kirk to return a year after stroke
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CHICAGO (AP) - Nearly a year after a stroke left him barely able to move the left side of his body, U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk is expected to climb the 45 steps to the Senate's front door this week _ a walk that's significant not just for Illinois' junior senator, but also for medical researchers and hundreds of thousands of stroke patients.
It's estimated only one-third of patients return to work after a stroke, said Dr. Elliot Roth, medical director of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago's New Patient Recovery Unit and AbilityLab, where Kirk recovered.
The 53-year-old Republican will return to the high-profile, demanding life of a Washington lawmaker after an experimental rehabilitation so intense it's often compared to boot camp, Roth said. Patients keep grueling schedules, often spending eight hours a day or more re-learning how to walk, talk and do other tasks.
Because there are risks to going back to work unprepared, patients do "practice runs" of what it will be like to be back on the job. If and when they successfully return to work, Roth added, "It's like having a great symphony play and recognizing it's all the practice beforehand that went into it."
Kirk will walk back into a Congress that has grappled for weeks over how to avoid going over the "fiscal cliff," a series of across-the-board tax increases and spending cuts due to take effect Tuesday. President Barack Obama indicated Monday afternoon that a deal was in sight, but not yet finalized. But House Republicans said they will not vote on the issue Monday night, and it remained unclear whether the Senate would vote Monday.
The Illinois senator's return will be inspiring to fellow stroke patients, said Frank Watson, the former Republican leader of the Illinois Senate who resigned from office after his 2008 stroke.
"For us in the stroke fraternity, we're very happy to see this occur, to see somebody taking their life back," Watson said. "There are so many people who don't make it back."
Kirk, who won President Barack Obama's former Senate seat in 2010, checked himself into a hospital in January 2012 after feeling dizzy. Tests revealed that the avid swimmer had suffered a major stroke. Surgeons had to remove two small pieces of destroyed brain tissue, and temporarily removed a 4-inch by 8-inch portion of his skull to allow for swelling.
Doctors said movement in Kirk's left side was severely limited. He was in intensive care and would need speech therapy, but they expected he would make a full mental recovery.
Within days, they said Kirk was asking for his Blackberry. In May, Kirk released a video updating his progress and showing footage of him walking with the help of a harness, a cane and Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago staff. It also included clips of Kirk speaking while sitting in a chair, his left shoulder lower than his right and the left side of his face still largely paralyzed.
Kirk said in the video that his staff had counted the steps from the parking lot to the front door of the Senate. It was his hope to climb all 45 of them someday, "to fight for the people of Illinois."
In a separate video released three months later, Kirk was shown climbing stairs at the RIC and working in his home office. He said he had moved back to his home in the north Chicago suburbs, and that he was talking to his staff several times a day and keeping up with business in Washington via email. He also touted the experimental therapy, through which he had logged almost 15 miles and 145 flights of stairs.
Roth said the study represents a new approach to stroke rehabilitation, which has traditionally been slower and more cautious. In the study, one group _ which included Kirk _ was pushed harder and walked more, in an effort to see if it led to a quicker recovery.
In November, Kirk climbed 37 floors of stairs inside Chicago's Willis Tower as part of an RIC fundraiser. One of his therapists called it "remarkable progress."
Kirk has said little to the media throughout his rehabilitation. Through his staff, he declined to comment about his return to Washington. They have said he'll walk the steps Jan. 3, when the new Congress convenes.
Watson, who was in a wheelchair for months after his stroke, said it will be important for Kirk to take it slow and make time for continued rehabilitation, noting "it's not over."
Watson's stroke affected his emotions, prompting him to break down in tears at times he previously would not have. It's something that still happens a little, he said.
Moments later, talking about the significance of Kirk's return, Watson began to cry.
"We need success stories," he said, "and Mark's one of them."
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Or how about Hawaii?
This is an immensely popular wintertime destination for snowbirds, while families with school-age kids love it during summer vacation. Avoid these crowds (and the accompanying peak airfares) by traveling during the fall and winter, and you'll save. Tip: Avoid the increasingly popular spring break periods, which are definitely not dead zones.
Another tip: Many locals say Hawaii's weather is at its best during April and May, and September and October, but to be honest, I've never been there when the climate was anything less than spectacular.
Then there's Europe: Fly the dead zone of winter and save. Prefer Paris in the springtime? Or London when it's warmer? Then try to take advantage of the end of the dead zone in late March, which coincides with the traditional seasonal price breaks on fares to Europe. In order words, check the fares; by flying in late March, you might spend hundreds less than someone flying just a day or so later.
Not sure how to find the dead zone for a trip you have in mind? Simple: Just fly when most people don't want to. If you're not sure when that is, visit an airfare search site like mine (FareCompare) and shop by day and price with our flexible calendar search. It's kind of fun to see how the prices change day to day and how much you can save by simply being flexible.
Another way is to follow the deals: Earlier this week, for example, JetBlue featured a special one-day only sale on vacation getaway packages, which might as well have been called "dead zone deals," since the dates were limited to Dec. 5-14.
One more thing: Set some real-time airfare alerts for your favorite destinations, and pounce when you see a fare you like. Chances are pretty good some of the best fares will be smack in the middle of a dead zone.
Depending on the indoor-outdoor activities you favor, you can create a true bargain vacation, and if you play your cards right, you won't have to wait in hours-long lines behind screaming kids in mouse ears, either.
This work is the opinion of the columnist and does not reflect the opinion of ABC News.
Rick Seaney is one of the country's leading experts on airfare, giving interviews and analysis to news organizations that include ABC News, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, the Associated Press and Bloomberg. His website, FareCompare.com, offers consumers free, new-generation software, combined with expert insider tips to find the best airline ticket deals.