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Real Estate Trends
March 2011
Government Shrinkage Not unexpectedly, the shrinkage of government will represent a major drag upon the economy during the next few years. This follows a period in which we experienced major economic stimulus from tax rebates, massive grants and the spending associated with two wars. State and local governments are facing huge deficits and one-by-one austerity plans are cutting jobs and programs or raising taxes. However, these deficits pale when compared to the shortfall the Federal government is facing. The President's proposed budget cuts and revenue enhancements run the gamut from small businesses to housing counseling programs. And that is just the first salvo. Congress has lined up hundreds of bills, many of which propose to cut much further.Let's advance a couple of points here. First, with the economy entering a stronger recovery phase, to keep that momentum the economy must overcome a second significant factor besides housing -- the shrinkage of government. There is no choice. Lack of action would result in higher rates that would constrict the recovery even further. Think of the situation as the government getting out of the way so that the economy can expand after the government has helped business up to their feet during the fiscal crisis we experienced. Second, as severe as these cuts sound, they don't even represent a significant dent in the longterm deficit picture. That is because the vast majority of the budget can't be changed by simply cutting spending. Social Security, Medicare, interest on the debt and non-war defense spending, take up too large a percentage of the budget for these cuts to be effective. That means we must make some really hard choices, including raising revenue, in order to solve the problem. An immediate cut in spending is a necessary first step. We face a very important and difficult balancing act comprised of cutting and preserving the recovery.
Remodeling Coming Back
Remodeling may seem passé as the economy strives to recover from the crisis, but research findings along with insider's expectations show it is anything but. Far from a stagnant activity it is "poised for growth." That is the main finding of the latest report by the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, which indicates growth after a double-digit decline that followed the 2007 peak of the industry.Research findings indicate that everyone from homeowners, investors, and real estate owned managers are ready to take action in the next few years. JCHS said remodeling expenditures could increase at an inflation-adjusted 3.5% average annual rate, which is lower than the pace seen during the housing boom, "but sharply recovering from the recent downturn." And as the industry starts to "return to a more typical pattern of growth," its main characteristics will also change. If in the past remodeling was driven by higher-end markets, going forward, demand in lower-end markets also will generate considerable demand. In the next five years, "the focus of remodeling spending will shift from upper-end discretionary projects to replacements and systems upgrades.Source: NationalMortgageNews.com
Is Now THE Time to Buy?
If you're into bottom-fishing, now may be the time to start trolling for real estate. At least that's the advice of Michael Corbett, author of Before You Buy: The Homebuyer's Handbook for Today's Market. "I'm pretty comfortable saying that five years from now, people are going to be saying, 'Damn, if I had just bought in 2011,'" said Corbett, who is also host of the "Mansions & Millionaires" segment on the syndicated TV show Extra. "Prices are bumping along the bottom and rates are really low," he said. "When you have those two together, you have the perfect buying opportunity." Housing prices may not have hit rock bottom, Corbett acknowledged. But he thinks that people who wait to find the market's bottom are likely to miss out on current low rates.And rates can be every bit as important to the cost of a deal as price. You might think you can snag a great deal by lying in wait, hoping that the owner of a $500,000 listing will get desperate enough to accept $450,000. But if rates rise 1% during the time you wait, you'll end up shooting yourself in the foot. Assuming you finance $400,000 of the purchase price of that home, the 1% difference between a 5% and a 6% loan will cost you more than $90,000 over the life of a 30-year loan. "It's hard to tell where the bottom of a market is, until prices start going up," said Dianne Patton, a consumer real estate specialist with Coldwell Banker Real Estate. "But the stars are aligned for buyers right now." Source: LATimes.com
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Seahawks bring back Dwaine Board an assistant D-line coach, add Chris Cash and Andre Curtis as assistants in secondary
The Seahawks announced today they have brought back out of a Bay Area high school their defensive line coach from 2003-08 Dwaine Board to be the assistant defensive line coach. They also hired Chris Cash to be an assistant coach in the secondary working with cornerbacks and Andre Curtis to be an assistant coach with the safeties.
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Growing Up Resourceful Is Priceless
(I'm currently working at a call center where everyone makes more than minimum wage, but not by much. I tend to be frugal and get along ok on this wage. There are times I've had to get by on less, but I know a lot of my coworkers really struggle. On this particular morning, there is a visitor from corporate who is chatting with some of my coworkers. I've just walked in in the middle of the conversation.)
Visitor: "Man, when I get back home I need to have my nails done again. It costs me $80, but it's worth it!"
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Visitor: "I should be mad at my grandmother; she's the one who got me into that. She took me to get my first manicure when I was 13. I did the math once, $80 every three weeks, I've spent nearly $20,000 on manicures over the years!"
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Visitor: "You know, you don't think about that when you're getting one. I mean, it's only $80."
Coworkers: *still not sure how to react without being rude*
Visitor: "I've had to cut back on some other stuff, though. This economy and all. I've cut my maid service down to every 3 weeks instead of every 2, I cancelled my membership to the tanning salon, and I even downgraded my membership at the fitness center. I'm saving over $3,000 a month just with little changes like that!"
(The visitor gets called into a meeting. The rest of us still aren't sure what to make of her.)
Coworker #1: "$80 is a full day's paycheck for me."
Coworker #2: "I don't think I spent $3,000 on my whole car!"
(Later that evening I was talking with my mother and told her the story. Afterwards…)
Me: "Hey, Mom?"
Mom: "Yes?"
Me: "You remember those times when I was a kid and we were struggling, and we had to be really resourceful to make it work because we didn't have enough money to go around?"
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On Thursday morning, before the Tigers' series-closing 8-4 loss to the Pirates, Kirk Gibson had a friendly disagreement with Brad Ausmus during the manager's media availability.
7/2/2015 | Tigers know spark can restore winning ways
At the time, Tigers manager Brad Ausmus hoped Sunday's walk-off win over the White Sox was a turning point toward more positive results. Following Thursday's 8-4 loss to the Pirates, which completed a three-game sweep at Comerica Park, Ausmus admitted Detroit is still searching for that inspiration.
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Francisco Liriano tossed seven scoreless innings, and a four-run ninth weathered a late comeback attempt as the Pirates completed a three-game sweep of the Tigers with an 8-4 win on Thursday afternoon at Comerica Park.
7/2/2015 | Blue Jays meet winter trade partner in Detroit
The Tigers and Blue Jays will meet on Friday night for the first time since the offseason trade that saw Anthony Gose and Devon Travis switch sides. This could be a series in which both players have an opportunity to make their former organizations pay just a little bit more for the deal. The Tigers will be looking to jump back over the .500 mark after being swept by Pittsburgh at Comerica Park.
7/2/2015 | J.D.'s quietly strong year not lost on Ausmus
While answering a question on Wednesday about Yoenis Cespedes' All-Star candidacy, Tigers manager Brad Ausmus paused to support another one of his players. "Really, we probably have a right fielder that's an All-Star, as well," Ausmus said.
7/2/2015 | Improving Avila on verge of rejoining Tigers
Catcher Alex Avila will serve as the designated hitter on Thursday night for Triple-A Toledo, likely setting up a return to the Tigers for this weekend's series against the Blue Jays at Comerica Park.
7/1/2015 | Tigers lament pitching woes against Pirates
Earlier this season, Tigers manager Brad Ausmus called Alfredo Simon the most consistent pitcher in his rotation. Not anymore. The Pirates tallied 21 total on the night -- a season-high -- in a 9-3 loss at Comerica Park.
7/1/2015 | Wilson becoming an important piece for Tigers bullpen
The 3 1/3 scoreless innings of relief was, by all accounts, an atypical outing, even for a long reliever. But that has become the norm for Alex Wilson, who has pitched in nearly every situation imaginable this year -- from starting, to eating up middle innings, to ameliorating high-pressure situations.
7/1/2015 | Ausmus not concerned about hit-by-pitches
Tigers manager Brad Ausmus agrees with Victor Martinez -- both believe Pirates right-hander Gerrit Cole plunked Detroit's designated hitter intentionally on Tuesday night. But, in Ausmus' opinion, that's yesterday's news, and he doesn't plan on giving it much thought during the remainder of the series. "I moved on the inning after it, so I'm not concerned about it," he said Wednesday afternoon.
7/1/2015 | Walker leads Bucs' 21-hit attack in win over Tigers
Second baseman Neil Walker's two-homer night propelled the Pirates to a season-high 21 hits as the Buccos topped the Tigers, 9-3, on Wednesday night at Comerica Park.
7/1/2015 | Liriano, Ryan face off in matinee in Detroit
Southpaw Kyle Ryan once again steps out of the Tigers' bullpen to make his fourth start of the season; he lost his only decision as a starter and allowed 14 hits in 17 innings. He will be opposed by veteran lefty Francisco Liriano, who is 3-2 with a 2.27 ERA in his last seven starts.
7/1/2015 | V-Mart unhappy with hit-by-pitch
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31524373.comments2015-05-21T13:42:46.018-06:00 Michelle's Quilts & StuffMichellehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-31524373.post-91876978206998543962015-05-21T13:42:46.018-06:002015-05-21T13:42:46.018-06:00I'm sitting here, washer clunking in the basem...I'm sitting here, washer clunking in the basement, with my Bonnie Hunter book open to Texas Tumbleweeds, and I'm Googling, looking for color options and here is YOURs! And I think I've already commented on yours earlier this month?? Anyway, my colors are more jewel-ly, but I LOVE yours. Your quilts are always especially lovely - you have a good sense of color, or perhaps I just LIKE your choices. Thanks for eye once more!

Elaine Adair, western Nebraska, where our snow has finally melted, again! R & Ehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-31524373.post-87342053810881872922015-05-18T08:14:55.884-06:002015-05-18T08:14:55.884-06:00So many great finishes! Love all of your projects....So many great finishes! Love all of your projects. Hope the move goes well.Jeannehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-31524373.post-11388212131589843672015-05-16T06:35:26.380-06:002015-05-16T06:35:26.380-06:00You certainly have been busy...all of your project...You certainly have been busy...all of your projects are truly fun and wonderfulBarbhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-31524373.post-26054756923257180772015-05-16T06:35:20.489-06:002015-05-16T06:35:20.489-06:00You certainly have been busy...all of your project...You certainly have been busy...all of your projects are truly fun and wonderfulBarbhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-31524373.post-72961461234996054942015-05-13T06:18:14.540-06:002015-05-13T06:18:14.540-06:00Love all your projects and must be sad taking down...Love all your projects and must be sad taking down your machines....good luck with your move and will look forward to hear how it goes!gailsshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-31524373.post-69987733521019933472015-05-12T14:46:06.045-06:002015-05-12T14:46:06.045-06:00It seems like you just moved in and now here you a...It seems like you just moved in and now here you are packing all up again. I feel your pain. Christinehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-31524373.post-31541770396080671582015-05-12T06:49:55.690-06:002015-05-12T06:49:55.690-06:00Such lovely gifts. Can't wait to see where yo...Such lovely gifts. Can't wait to see where you set up 'shop' next.

PamThe Queen Beehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-31524373.post-13617468488956787062015-05-12T06:36:51.600-06:002015-05-12T06:36:51.600-06:00You certainly have been busy while getting ready t...You certainly have been busy while getting ready to move! Love your "Wyoming" Tumbleweeds! Kevin the Quilterhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-31524373.post-31634501292088992562015-05-11T15:25:21.753-06:002015-05-11T15:25:21.753-06:00Good luck on the move. It looks like you got to &...Good luck on the move. It looks like you got to "stopping places" on several projects. I always hate packing up projects that are underway. I feel like I'll lose pieces in the move. (Acutally, its my mind that I lose--I have trouble figuring out 1-2 months later just what it was I was working on.)JoAnnehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-31524373.post-82949843755592159782015-05-11T14:40:15.169-06:002015-05-11T14:40:15.169-06:00You have done a lot of moving, I know, so that is ...You have done a lot of moving, I know, so that is probably why you sound so composed about all this. I have rarely moved in my life and it would put me in a tizzy to be going so soon. I can't believe all the sewing you have completed. Wyoming Tumbleweeds is a perfect name!
Love the book and the baby quilt you made based on the fabrics--and a tote bag besides! Wow!
The bitty bear paw blocks are too cute--and so many of them!
All of those zippered pouches--I've never even made one. That row of them boggles my mind!
You are amazing, girl! Safe journey to you, and I am still sad that we didn't get to meet up while you were within less than a days drive. : (Janet O.http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-31524373.post-60821342740864635572015-05-06T15:49:07.352-06:002015-05-06T15:49:07.352-06:00what timing! I am currently planning a Texas Tumb...what timing! I am currently planning a Texas Tumbleweed and enjoying all the various color ideas - Yours turned out very pretty! Oh no, a move? I don't envy that chore but good luck to you - hope all goes well and that we see you back again!!!R & Ehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-31524373.post-16237997853123570582015-05-03T11:52:31.570-06:002015-05-03T11:52:31.570-06:00Where are you headed now? I missed itWhere are you headed now? I missed itSundae Quilterhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-31524373.post-12698230492776177132015-04-25T20:24:46.670-06:002015-04-25T20:24:46.670-06:00Your quilt turned out wonderful!Your quilt turned out wonderful!Missy Shayhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-31524373.post-67827022290942364432015-04-24T17:40:40.723-06:002015-04-24T17:40:40.723-06:00Very nice home! Congrats and good luck on the mov...Very nice home! Congrats and good luck on the move! I love, love , love Texas Tumbleweeds. Oh how I would love to know where you got the pattern! Huckleberry stitcheshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-31524373.post-9380052078130336932015-04-22T04:33:50.488-06:002015-04-22T04:33:50.488-06:00Another beautiful home! Will keep you in my thoug...Another beautiful home! Will keep you in my thoughts and prayers as you make another move. New adventures lie ahead!Connihttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-31524373.post-29592170258914165772015-04-21T17:44:36.481-06:002015-04-21T17:44:36.481-06:00You always seem to find the most classic, good loo...You always seem to find the most classic, good looking homes! Good luck with your move. I hope to visit Millstone Quilts when I get back to Virginia. You made a nice haul!MARCIEhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-31524373.post-1612340661229952832015-04-20T22:13:30.177-06:002015-04-20T22:13:30.177-06:00Nice to see you back blogging and looks like you h...Nice to see you back blogging and looks like you have been really busy...good luck with your house hunting and know how important certain space can be. Love your quilt and yes, see where you would need to replace some reds....love them. I really like the next top and wow...looks like lots of half square triangle for each block. Nice way to use them up though....gailsshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-31524373.post-34553177120542774592015-04-20T15:05:05.669-06:002015-04-20T15:05:05.669-06:00Love your fabric finds and your quilt projects! T...Love your fabric finds and your quilt projects! The house looks lovely and I'm sure you will make it a home in no time with quilts and fabric and cats and your longarm :)Gretchenhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-31524373.post-33861775116702132132015-04-20T13:23:14.172-06:002015-04-20T13:23:14.172-06:00Michelle, good to hear from you! Where is the new ...Michelle, good to hear from you! Where is the new home located? Don't know if I have heard where you will be next. It looks like a beautiful home.
Looks like you gathered some lovely fabrics in your travels to replace what you used up in that wonderful quilt for your friend!
I have always been drawn to the Scrap Crystals pattern and it is gorgeous in R/W/B. Wow, I love it!
Hey, did you get my email about what to do with the pattern?Janet O.http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-31524373.post-50341228763848939712015-04-20T12:39:00.743-06:002015-04-20T12:39:00.743-06:00There's so much going on, I don't know wha...There's so much going on, I don't know what to comment on first! LOL The house looks great...the fabric you bought looks wonderful! The quilt top you finished is beautiful, and the new block you've started on looks great too! Go you! :0)Terryhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-31524373.post-32797579261998194022015-04-20T10:45:37.684-06:002015-04-20T10:45:37.684-06:00Lots of progress going on in your efforts! It look...Lots of progress going on in your efforts! It looks like a sweet new home with some lovely trees to enjoy. Love the Texas Tumbleweeds!Lorishttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-31524373.post-50610810501065344192015-03-25T13:43:52.280-06:002015-03-25T13:43:52.280-06:00Love the Texas tumbleweed blocks. I made my kids ...Love the Texas tumbleweed blocks. I made my kids some dolls quilts for their soft toys when they were toddlers, but when about four years old I found they prefered sleeping bags for their toys. I found a free pattern on the web and didn't bother with a zip, kids loved them and so did my friends kids, was a great way to use up scrap wadding and binding!Sue SAhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-31524373.post-85245209053955772422015-03-25T10:34:03.399-06:002015-03-25T10:34:03.399-06:00How fun! A family vacation as adults is so much d...How fun! A family vacation as adults is so much different than when you are a kid! Congrats on your quilt raising that much money! What a wonderful feeling that must be!Kevin the Quilterhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-31524373.post-22524547864097094932015-03-25T08:13:23.636-06:002015-03-25T08:13:23.636-06:00You've been busy...I love the little houses! :...You've been busy...I love the little houses! :0)Terryhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-31524373.post-74224217290681889102015-03-25T06:51:45.782-06:002015-03-25T06:51:45.782-06:00Good to see you back and looks like you enjoyed yo...Good to see you back and looks like you enjoyed your FL visit....can't complain with the weather here:))) Love your little doll quilt and those house blocks are adorable.gailsshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com


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23 April 2015
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15 April 2015
Buyout major Bain Capital has hired former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick to head up a new business that will invest in projects that deliver attractive returns as well as having a "significant, measurable social impact".
24 March 2015
Lower mid-market mezzanine investor Huntington Capital has confirmed a $91.7m final close for its third fund, the biggest vehicle it has raised to date.
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13 March 2015
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North Dakota has no plans to alter Sioux logo:
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"A nine-member panel appearing before the U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on environment and hazardous materials expressed concern that the current trend of varied state and local laws targeting e-waste management would breed inefficiency, confusion and higher prices for consumers.... The best approach, [Renee St. Denis of Hewlett-Packard] said, is for federal lawmakers to create a system in which the manufacturers themselves set up recycling programs and bear the necessary costs."
Deal for Public Toilets in New York City. Only 20 toilets, but it's a start. The winning company will rebuild all city newsstands and bus shelters, too — and sell the ad space. Not sure how I feel about a private corporation owning all that public space — but then the NYC gov pays nothing. More on the the long history of trying to build public toilets in NYC here and here.
Alcaldía favorece proyecto de biogas. Nicaragua's biggest garbage dump in the Barrio La Chureca in Managua could be used to create enough electricity to illuminate the nearby municipality of Ciudad Sandino. The joint U.S.-Nicaraguan company Conjuris says they can create four megawatts of electrical energy from the gases emitted by burning the garbage. The company is willing to invest US$5.25 million in the project in return for a twenty year contract.
It's great to see graphic designers come together at displaceddesigner.com, the AIGA, and Design Observer to help other graphic designers affected by Hurricane Katrina. I'm all for community and solidarity. But then it's really not the professional designers that are hurting the most, no?
Only one more month until the October 31 deadline to submit your radical graphics to Reproduce & Revolt. And it looks like Favianna has joined the project!
The CrimethInc Gender Subversion Kit #69-B is a 23"x14" two-color poster on the outside and a line art illustrated coloring book on the inside.
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Eliot reminds me that I never did blog this. An image I sent in to the No RNC Poster Project one year ago. Feel free to download and distribute.
Christopher DeWolf has a nice little editorial on posters and the political struggles around them in a couple of Canadian cities:
"Posters are the city. For community groups, musicians, activists, small businesses, and hell, even people who've lost their cat, they're often the only way to get a message out. They cover lampposts, service doors, construction hoardings and blank walls, livening up grey and depressing winters and turning underused spaces into interactive bulletin boards where the city's goings-on are announced to anyone who might be interested. Despite their importance to civic and cultural life however, posters are an all-too-easy target for municipal politicians and bureaucrats who want their city streets as bland and orderly as a Lego metropolis. Posters might seem innocuous, but they are in fact a sign of a city's vitality and diversity — how municipalities deal with postering is a measure of just how willing they are to accommodate that vibrancy."
DeWolf privileges "freedom of expression" and a "diversity" of voices but I would take it further and say that this is a matter of democracy itself — of ownership of the means of communication and the of the physical space of our communities, of building community and political power.
Via Visual Resistence I found this call for entries:
"SAW (Street Art Workers) is seeking posters for an international street art campaign about land and the effects of globalization. We want you to design and submit posters that will be printed and wheatpasted in cities across Europe and North America. The strongest designs will be published as a mass produced, newsprint poster collection. This will be a 24 page, 2-color newspaper which will include up to 30 posters. SAW will pay for the printing, and volunteers will distribute the posters. The majority of posters will be wheatpasted in public by participating artists and folks who just want to paste up their city.
Based in the U.S., SAW is a network of printmakers, stencil artists, graffiti writers and painters who use the streets for art and activism. We are taking back our cities and towns from the businessmen, cops and politicians who define public space for their own benefit. As a volunteer-run group, we make street art for political campaigns and post each other's work across North America. Since 2001, our projects have talked about prisons, the mass media and utopian ideas for the future.
We want posters that build connections between international struggles and actual organized projects with high profile publicity. We especially want to see multilingual submissions and work from the perspective of women, Third World communities and indigenous/First Nations. We suggest that artists collaborate with grassroots, social change organizations of their choosing to make posters. We want posters that are both imaginative and relevant to "on the ground" organizing around issues of land, housing and globalization. Working with an organization is not required, but it is encouraged.
It could be argued that Christopher Columbus began our current age of globalization when he washed up on the shores of the New World. The slave trade, imperialism and resource theft that followed in Asia, Africa and America were a brutal beginning for globalization. Today imperial conquest has been refined into cold, impersonal corporate bureaucracies. In the last 30 years these corporations have become economic giants more powerful than many countries. Setting up global assembly lines, today's corporations move freely around the world forcing countries, rich and poor, to surrender their land, resources and labor. In the process, corporations have made massive profits shifting wealth from the global south to the industrialized north, from the impoverished and working people to the rich and powerful.
SAW wants to look at how this form of globalization has affected our lands and how people are fighting back. How has it affected land in the cities — especially housing? How has globalization impacted land and workers in the countryside with farming, mining, drilling, logging and other resource extraction? What are the connections between land struggles in the global south, indigenous nations and the industrialized north? What are some of the connections between the landless peasants movement of Brazil and the squatter movements of Europe and North America? What links together the struggle against dams in India, hydroelectric projects Canada and water privatization in Latin America and South Africa? How are farmers and campesinos resisting industrial agriculture, like biotechnology and GMOs (genetically modified foods), in the U.S., Mexico and India? What organizing strategies have worked and hich ones have failed? These questions are a starting point. We want to see more questions from you and some hard-hitting answers. We want powerful ideas and inspirational art that we can broadcast directly to the streets in 2005."
The deadline for submissions is September 1, 2005.
For more info, visit streetartworkers.org
On May 27, a group of concerned citizens hijacked a million dollar Leo Burnett ad campaign designed for the Chicago Housing Authority, turning it into a scathing critique of Chicago's public housing policy and privatization practices.
They created and changed out over a dozen large format bus shelter ads (5 in downtown Chicago in broad daylight!), put up thousands of ads on the trains, printed a newspaper of information and reproductions of the flipped ads, and created a mock Web site for the Chicago Housing Authority in the style of the official site.
See the old ads, download the new ads, and find out more about the campaign at ChicagoHousingAuthority.net:
"In late 2004, the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) initiated a public relations campaign to put a new face on their Plan for Transformation, a plan that drastically reshapes the state of public housing in Chicago.
This PR campaign, authored by the advertising giant Leo Burnett, fused Chicago Housing Authority's acronym 'CHA' with the word 'change', resulting in a new brand identity: CHAnge. There are undoubtedly big changes happening with public housing in Chicago, including massive organizational restructuring within CHA and the tearing down of all high-rise public housing buildings.
Unfortunately, the priorities of CHA haven't changed at all, and public housing residents are still at the bottom of the list. While the CHAnge campaign has attempted to put a 'resident empowerment' spin on the Plan for Transformation, in reality the majority of public housing residents have been adversely affected by the massive restructuring. If you are a single working mother displaced by a home demolition, waiting over 6 months for a voucher to relocate as your children are shifted from school to school, CHAnge feels a lot more like CHAos....
The Plan for Transformation is a $1.6 billion blueprint that includes the demolition of 14,000 public housing units and the displacement of over 20,000 people. Not unlike the 'urban renewal' master plans of previous decades, the Plan For Transformation has linked motives. It is pushing poor people out of the now-coveted inner city neighborhoods and increasing the exchange value of existing public land through privatization. Developers such as Dan McLean are making millions building on the land adjacent to former CHA high-rises and getting huge city tax credits to subsidize their development. In addition, the city is making money by selling or leasing former CHA public land to private developers. In this way, large amounts of our city's housing budget are being transferred into private hands. CHA CEO Terry Peterson was personally implicated in this when he was caught giving CHA bids to contractors like the Habitat Group in exchange for political contributions."
Compare and contrast:
This is a crowd.
This is a movement.
There's just nothing like a bold design to let them know what you want and when you want it.
Today's excercise brought to you courtesy of Lincoln Cushing.
In that last blog item I'd written a line disdaining "media that dazzles instead of informs."
I've been thinking about the AIGA MOVE conference, a two day affair on motion graphics design. It was painfully hip — lots of twenty-something, white guys with bad 70's hair talking about their animated films, music videos, and electric art happenings. The reigning criteria seemed "Funny, Weird, or Cool." The most useful and informative session was the only one on narrative — an odd number for an event billing itself on "stories in motion."
But I struck out the line. It read as if I was saying these are mutually exclusive, which, of course, they are not. For a designer, I tend to be awfully suspicious of style — particularly of work that privileges style over clarity. But one musn't forget the heart in the struggle for hearts and minds.
Favianna reminds me so:
"As a political poster artist, it is important for me to remind myself of ways to develop art that speaks to a mass base of people, so that my the art becomes something functional and not something to be purchased and sold. My posters don't belong in galleries, they belong in schools, in the streets. Art in this country is commodified and transformed into something for commercial consumption. Our role as artists is to use our art to transform and inform a radical consciousness and to move the people."
William Thake sends notice of this spectacular image promoting EuroMayDay 2005:
See a bigger JPEG here or download a high rez PDF here (1.5 Mb, zipped).
The central image is drawn from a Chinese new year poster from the early 1970's, celebrating both scientific prowess and folkloric tradition.
It's interesting that the same image works for both Chinese statism and European anti-statism. Both are exuberant, celebratory, futurist, and utopian. But the European image is more self-consciously 'kitsch' than the Chinese. Is the European use ironic? Perhaps a comment on globalization? Kinda ambiguous, but it looks like fun.
A map of May Day events around Europe is posted here.
Josh MacPhee is collecting submissions of graphics, illustrations and art for a book of freely reproducible graphics to be published by Soft Skull Press in late 2006.
He writes:
"Reproduce and Revolt!: Radical Graphics for the 21st Century is a graphic toolbox to be launched into the hands of political activists. The book will contain over 300 new and exciting high-quality illustrations and graphics about social justice and political activism for activists to use on flyers, posters, t-shirts, brochures, stencils or any other graphic aspects of political campaigns. All the graphics will be bold and easy to reproduce, in addition to being open source/anti-copyright. The book will come with clear instructions on how to best utilize the images so as to improve the graphic qualities of political campaigns. It will also contain a short history of political graphics, an archive of political flyers and posters throughout history, as well as information about and a bibliography of further reading for all of the social justice issues the art will cover....
Reproduce & Revolt! is not intended to be a who's who of well known and successful political artists, this call is open to all levels of artists."
Materials are due by October 31st, 2005. Contact 'reproduce [at] justseeds [dot] org' for more information.
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"I got this recipe off of the Nestle Toll House White Chocolate chip bag. There was a similar recipe on recipezaar but the poster had reduced the amount of cocoa powder by a considerable amount. This, in my books, is sacrilege! The more chocolate, the better. The cooking time is for one cookie sheet."
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It's a soft spring day in a leafy part of Bradford, and on the streets there's little sign yet that electioneering is about to begin. But in a meeting room at the newly rebuilt Titus Salt school, all blonde wood and natural light, pupils are wrestling with an election-related question. And it's a thorny one: would they be happy to see a candidate from a far-right party such as the BNP walking in through their school gates?
Josh Parkinson, 13, thinks he would. "The way I've been brought up is that we need to listen to different people's views, even though we might think some of them are racist," he says. "Why shouldn't we listen to them? Personally, I want to know more about politics while I'm young."
Elisha Lau, 16, doesn't agree: "I think it should be up to the students of the school to say if the BNP should be allowed in. I don't think many people would like for them to come in, because nobody agrees with what they say," she says.
It's a question that will exercise many schools across the country in the coming weeks – and one that will cause extreme discomfort in some. In the past, schools like Titus Salt have often invited candidates to talk to their sixth-formers in the run-up to an election. And so far as the Guardian could ascertain, the BNP has never yet been invited to such an event.
That could change if schools follow new guidance from the Citizenship Foundation. According to the charity, which works with schools to promote social cohesion and which received more than £1m last year in government funding, if a group's activities are legal, then its views should be represented alongside those of the mainstream political parties.
"Unless and until the law decrees any political party to be undemocratic, illegal, or in contravention of human rights law, schools must treat all parties equally," the guidance says. Schools taking a "no platform" stance against racists may be accused of being "oppressive, selective, 'politically correct' and anti-democratic", it adds.
At most schools, including at Titus Salt, staff are clearly hoping the question won't arise. The BNP hasn't yet declared a candidate for the Shipley constituency in which the school stands, though in 2005 it polled 2,000 votes here – 4% of the total.
The school's deputy head, Ian Morrel, says that in the past, the mainstream parties have been invited in to talk to A-level politics students. But in the light of this new guidance, he seems unsure what they would do in the future.
"Fundamentally, what we want to do is to challenge those opinions, and it is about allowing people to tackle extremist views," he says. Would Titus Salt school invite in a BNP candidate? "It wouldn't be an autonomous school decision. It would have to be a corporate view from the local authority," he says, a touch uneasily.
Yet this is not a school that wants to avoid uncomfortable conversations. Through an organisation called the Schools Linking Network, it has been involved in a series of projects with predominantly Asian schools from other parts of the city, aimed at bringing together young people with different ethnic backgrounds – and different views. It is not uncommon to hear racist views expressed, Josh Parkinson says – and for him the project has been about learning to confront them.
In the past, schools have been able to largely ignore the existence of organisations such as the BNP, but that stance is becoming harder to sustain. Last month, the schools secretary, Ed Balls, accepted the recommendation of an independent review that BNP members should not be barred from working as teachers.
The Maurice Smith review on preventing the promotion of racism by teachers found that in the last seven years, only four teachers and two school governors have been identified as being members of racist organisations, and only nine incidents of teachers making racist remarks or holding racist materials have been subject to disciplinary action by schools. Smith, a former chief inspector of schools, thought banning BNP members from teaching would be "taking a very large sledgehammer to crack a minuscule nut".
Don Rowe, co-author of the Citizenship Foundation's new guidance, says the far right is becoming increasingly hard to ignore.
"Since the last election, the issue of the need to treat the BNP as an existing political party is much clearer in the sense that there are MEPs," he says.
He suggests that teachers, who tend to be anti-BNP themselves, may be going too far in promoting anti-racist views – and in not giving pupils opportunities to form their own opinions on issues such as immigration. "I think teachers feel you can't give much space to the argument that immigration is damaging the fabric of the country or the culture," he says. "But the task of the citizenship teacher isn't to create left-of-centre citizens in their own image. There's a clear duty to introduce young people to the arguments that are going on in our society."
The 1996 Education Act says pupils must be given "a balanced presentation of conflicting views" if controversial issues are raised in the classroom. Rowe argues that this means where race or immigration are discussed – for example in citizenship lessons – the views of organisations such as the BNP need to be included. He concedes that there may be tension between that requirement and schools' statutory duty under the 2006 Education and Inspections Act to promote community cohesion, but insists schools should talk to all the political parties in the run-up to the election, or none.
"There isn't a strong case for prohibiting the fair treatment of all the political parties if schools decide to set up that sort of debate," he says.
The National Union of Teachers has been campaigning for a ban on BNP membership among teachers and school governors. Last week, delegates at its annual conference renewed the calls, and claimed the far-right party had already gained a foothold in schools in some areas. The union's assistant secretary, Amanda Brown, said it had been recently investigating the law on school election debates after phone calls from members asking whether they needed to invite BNP candidates into their schools.
"There's a difference between whether a class is talking about policy or about general election processes," she says. "There's no legal requirement that schools have to treat all electoral candidates with equity. You could choose not to have someone from the BNP, so long as you can demonstrate that you've reached a well-reasoned decision," she said.
The issue is one about which few people want to talk publicly; several schools in areas where the BNP is strong declined to comment on the issue, as did the BNP itself. And a quiet consensus is growing that this year there won't be many schools' general election debates in constituencies where the BNP has candidates. Brown says some schools have already told her that if there's a question of having to invite the BNP, they simply won't invite anyone.
Others in the education system share her view – and many of them believe schools will actually be the poorer for it. At Matthew Moss school in Rochdale, there's a feeling this response to the new guidance will be widespread: "The reality for most schools will be if we feel under pressure to invite the BNP, schools aren't going to invite anyone," says Mark Moorhouse, the school's deputy head. "An election time is rich with learning, but the conversation [about inviting the BNP to election debates] would be: 'Do we have to?' and that's enough to put people off doing it."
Matthew Moss is a very different school from Titus Salt –a third of its pupils are from ethnic minorities, and about 35% are entitled to free school meals. And the school also has the perhaps uncomfortable distinction of being one of the very few state schools whose pupils have actually canvassed the views of the BNP during a lesson.
The conversation took place during a practice run for a BBC schools' news day in March, during which a group of girls decided to report on the French ban on headscarves in schools. Supervised by a teacher, they conducted a telephone interview with the BNP's deputy leader, Simon Darby. Darby's comments were subsequently dropped from their report, not because they were racist, but because he completely failed to answer their questions, instead talking in general terms about school uniforms.
The incident sparked a flurry of headlines, but despite the unwelcome publicity, the headteacher, Andy Raymer, says it was a useful educational exercise and one he would happily repeat. He believes the debate about whether schools should or shouldn't talk to organisations such as the BNP underlines a deeper malaise within the education system.
"Learning isn't a risk-free activity, and if you remove the risk, you may also remove the learning," he says. "Any really successful lesson has to deliver people prepared to take risks, critically curious people who are prepared to engage with the process of learning and to think about themselves within it. If you don't let people find out, all they'll have in their heads is superficial, misinformed stuff. Are we happier with that?"


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Jeffrey William Carroll '81, 56, of Arcadia CA, passed Monday, March 2, 2015, after a long and heroic battle with cancer. Jeff was born in Los Angeles, CA on February 1, 1959 to William A. Carroll and JoAnn B. Carroll. He graduated from Arcadia High School in 1977 where he was awarded Athlete of the Year. He earned a B.S. Degree from Santa Clara University in 1981, while lettering in both soccer and football.
He is survived by his loving wife Debbie of 26+ years, and their two children, Alexander Jeffrey and Matthew William. He is also survived by his Father, William A. Carroll '58, stepmother, Louise Bannan Carroll '62, siblings, Richard Carroll (Connie), Colleen Lambert (Jeffrey), Kathleen Roussel (John), Mark Carroll '97, '98 (Colleen), Lisa Arnerich (David), stepsisters, Patricia Pascale (Matthew), Virginia Harvey (Jonathan), Joanne Vogt (Erik), Mary Bruno (Philip), many cousins, nieces and nephews. He is proceeded in death by his Mother, JoAnn (1987) and sister, Laura (1987).
Jeff loved life to the fullest and touched everyone in his path. He was a true family man and sports fanatic. He was an avid skier, soccer player, and his true love in life, besides Debbie and his boys, was golf.


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Central Art Gallery
Central Art Gallery hosts a varied temporary exhibition programme, you can find out more about the individual exhibitions on this page either by clicking on the titles below or scrolling further down on the page.
- Generation Air 30 April - 4 July 2015
- The Rutherford Gallery - permanent exhibition
Generation Air
30 April - 4 July 2015
EVER wondered what it would be like travel about inside the human body like Stephen Boyd did in the classic sci-fi film "Fantastic Voyage"? Tameside Council's new family-friendly exhibition "Generation AIR" gives you the chance.
It's a multi-sensory experience complete with magical sound and lighting that allows visitors to go inside inflatable tunnels shaped like human bones where there are cushions in the form of huge blood cells. You can handle parts of the soft sculptures and the exhibition is designed to be enjoyed by young children just as much by adults.
Generation AIR has been created by Spacecadets, an innovative group producing incredible inflatable structures and sculptures for visual, arts and cultural events in Britain and abroad.
A Tameside Council spokesman said: "Contemporary art galleries are often seen as places families can't enjoy. It's sometimes felt that children are expected not to touch things or make a noise.
"With the Generation tour we are making our exhibitions as family-friendly as possible and ensuring our galleries are places where people, and especially children, can be themselves as well as inspired by the amazing artwork.
"We worked with staff at St Peter's Children's Centre, Ashton, when we commissioned the exhibition. Their staff helped us draw up a shortlist of artists to interview and Spacecadets were one they really wanted us to select."
AIR is the second Generation exhibition to be shown at the central gallery. Last autumn during Generation Noise, which featured wooden sound machines, visitor numbers increased by 50 per cent.
The Rutherford Gallery
Gallery dedicated to Harry Rutherford
Permanent exhibition
Harry Rutherford was a nationally renowned artist who came from the Tameside area. His career was long and varied, working initially as a draughtsman and then training with the eminent artist Walter Sickert.
The Rutherford Gallery situated in Central Art Gallery is a celebration of a 20th century master, an artist whose talent allowed him to experience many avenues of artistic life. The works on display will span his entire artistic career. Many will have never been on public display before.
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T. H. Samar-TZ.v DENTAL HAND PIBGS.
Patented Sept. 5, 1882,..
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.UNITED y STATES- PATENT OFFICE.
SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters P atent No. 263,814, dated September 5, 1882.
` Application filed April 20, 1882. (Model.)
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, THEoDoRE HENRY SCHMITZ, of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Dental Hand-Pieces, of which the following is a specication.
This invention relates to that class of handpieces or tool-holders which are used in oonnection with a rotary lleXible shaft and a ilexible sheath or jacket which loosely surrounds the shaft.
The object of the invention is to avoid the rapid Wear of the hand-piece and the frequent breakage of the shaft, which occurs in consequence of the sheath being attached to the hand-piece bya rigid connection or by a swiveljoint, as usual; and to this end the invention y consists in joining the hand-piece and the ilexible sheath by a loose Vtelescopic connection, permitting the one to both rotate and play endwise in relation to the other. The connection is preferably made by means ot' a loose cylindrical cap or thimble applied to the end of the sleeve and seated loosely in a corresponding recess in the end of the hand-piece, as shown in the accompanying drawings; but the devices may be varied in their details, prol vided the mode of action stated is retained.
In the drawings I have represented the improvement in connection with a hand-piece of my own design well known in the trade; but it is to be distinctly understood that the invention may be applied to any other handpiece of the same general character.
Referring to the drawings, Figure l represents a longitudinal central section ofthe handpiece and its' connections with my improvement incorporated therein. Fig. 2 represents a perspective view of the forward end ot' the flexible sheath and the cap thereon. Fig. 3 is a cross-section on the line a; w.
A represents the rotary flexible drivingshaft, sometimes known as the cable,77 designed to be attached to and driven by any suitable motor, as usual.
B represents the toolcarrying spindle, secured by soldering or otherwise to the end of the shaft to revolve therewith in the ordinary manner.
C represents the tubular non-rotating body of the hand-piece, mounted upon and around the spindle,vand provided with theusual appliances to prevent end motion thereon and to secure the tool in the spindle. At its rear end the body C, surrounding the end of the shaft, is bored out smoothly to forni a large cylindrical opening or mouth to receive the end of the sheath D. This sheath consists, as usual, of a tubular body ot' llexible material loosely surrounding the shaft. At its forward end it is provided with a metal thimble or cap, a, held thereon by friction or otherwise,which is seated loosely in the mouth or end of the body C in such manner as to turn and slide endwise freely therein. This loose connection of the sheath D with the body ot' the handpiece constitutes the essential feature of the invention.
I am aware that a hand-piece and a flexible sheath have been united by means of a swivelconnection,`which permitted la rotary motion between the parts, but prevented them from moving endwise in relation to each other.
I am aware that a hand-piece has been pro vided in its end with a tapering socket or opening, into which a correspondingly-tapered cap or head on the sheath was inserted and held by friction.
My construction differs from the above in that the connection is cylindrical and adapted to permit a free motion between the sheath and hand-piece in two directions during the action of the instrument.
Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- In combination with the dental hand-pieceV lpermit both a rotary and a longitudinal lnotion between the parts.
THEODORE H. SCHMITZ. Witnesses:
JN0. MoYER, ROBERT BRUNNEE.
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