The Boys and Girls Club is an awesome organization and they need help. I don’t want to see them go under along with many other excellent groups caring for youth. If any of you want to donate or volunteer, please do! Please pass this on to your friends too.
Now that we’re all moving towards transportation and density again, why don’t we do away with our huge expressways and other excessively wide streets (Capitol, Almaden, Monterey, etc.)? They’re a blight on this city/valley. If they were boulevards lined with shops and served by BRT, that’d be great. Instead, they’re hideous pseudo-freeways lined by dirt and cyclone fencing. We don’t need ten-story tenements to build an urban environment for everyone. We just need walkability and neighborhoods worth walking in. Let’s have a little respect for ourselves and do away with the dirty and depressing cartopia of the ‘70s.
According to the Mercury News, the city of San Jose commissioned a public art installation by Mr. Elahi for the airport’s new terminal. Mr. Elahi claim to fame is he published the details of his life to the web because he thinks the US government is going to send him to Guantánamo Bay for being a terrorist.
Unfortunately Mr. Elahi’s art rests on the irrational notion that if he were a terrorist, he would be posting an incriminating stream evidence to the web while an innocent man would post a boring stream of nothingness.
If the city of San Jose and Ms. Goldstein have money to buy public art celebrating the paranoid, I hope there are at least two installations celebrating the brave.
The future of the Mercury News? From a New York Times column about Pasadena Now outsourcing local news reporting to India:
But then in October, Dean Singleton, The Associated Press’s chairman and the head of the MediaNews Group — which counts The Pasadena Star-News, The Denver Post and The Detroit News in its stable of 54 daily newspapers — told the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association that his company was looking into outsourcing almost every aspect of publishing, including possibly having one news desk for all of his papers, “maybe even offshore.”
The crescent moon will join Venus & Jupiter in the southwest evening sky Sunday night- a rare and beautiful spectacle and you can’t beat the admission price.
It’s good knowing there’s still something left that can’t be screwed up by pandering Democrat politicians.
#6- John Galt,
Christian and I saw this beautiful event Sunday night! We were driving in the Saratoga Hills when we spotted it. It really is a beautiful sight. And yes, the admission price works for me too! See John, even we Democrats can agree with you Republicans on something’s!
The Martin Luther King Jr. Association is hosting these up coming events in order to raise money for scholarships for low income, and minority college students. Please join them in their efforts by coming, and by helping us to get the word out to the community! Thank you!
Come Join Us for our 25Th Anniversary
The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Association of Santa Clara Valley is celebrating Dr. King’s birthday and our 25Th anniversary during the week-end and holiday of January 17th Saturday- January 19th Monday 2009.
We have three exciting events planned for the week-end.The first is a brunch planned for the morning of the 17th,Saturday, from 10:a.m. to 1:00 p.m. This is a departure from our previous breakfast dates on Dr. King’s birthday before the “Freedom Train”. This year the brunch will be on Saturday the 17th Our speaker will be Dr. Harry Edwards a noted speaker and author dealing with the sociology of sports. The brunch will take place at the Holiday Inn Mediterranean room at 1740 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95112. Tickets $55.00 or $550.00 per table.
The second event, also on Saturday the 17th is our Spiritual Night. A Gospel concert will be held at San Jose State University in the Theater at 6:00 pm. on the 17th We are co-sponsoring this event with the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library.The theater is next to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library on 4th and San Fernando. The concert is free and parking is available in the parking garage across the street.
The third event is the “Freedom Train”. This signature event of the King Association will take place on January 19th. The train will leave San Jose at 9:30 am. This is a change from our previous “Trains” which left at 10:00 am.
Scheduling for the train is as following: San Jose 9:30 a,
Sunnyvale 9:45 am, Palo Alto 9:59 am, San Mateo 10:22 am, arriving at San Fransisco 10:55 am. Tickets are $5.00 and can be purchased at the African American Community Service Agency in San Jose at 6Th and Julian. Their number is 408-292-3157. Or they can be bought at Emmanuel Baptist church at 467 N. White Rd. in San Jose, CA. 408-272-1360.
You may reach the association at P.O. Box 32306, San Jose,CA. 95152, 408-435-7499.
US NEWSPAPER AD SALES FALL A RECORD $2B in 3Q
By The AP 01 Dec 2008
LOS ANGELES – U.S. newspaper advertising revenue collapsed by nearly $2 billion, or 18 percent, in the third quarter, according to the Newspaper Association of America, an industry group. Even online ad revenue made a small U-turn for the second quarter in a row.
The year-on-year quarterly percentage decline is the worst since since the NAA has been keeping such records and represents an increasingly rapid deceleration that began in the third quarter of 2006, when total ad spending dropped 1.5 percent.
The figures, updated on the day before the Thanksgiving holiday, show total ad spending at newspapers fell 18.1 percent to $8.94 billion, down from $10.92 billion in the third quarter last year.
The last time total quarterly ad spending fell below $9 billion was in the first quarter of 1996.
Print ad revenue dropped 19.3 percent to $8.19 billion from $10.15 billion. Online ad revenue fell 3 percent to $749.8 million from $773.0 million a year ago — a remarkable turnaround since the steady double-digit growth from 2004 to 2007.
The Boys and Girls Club is an awesome organization and they need help. I don’t want to see them go under along with many other excellent groups caring for youth. If any of you want to donate or volunteer, please do! Please pass this on to your friends too.
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_11098715?nclick_check=1
Now that we’re all moving towards transportation and density again, why don’t we do away with our huge expressways and other excessively wide streets (Capitol, Almaden, Monterey, etc.)? They’re a blight on this city/valley. If they were boulevards lined with shops and served by BRT, that’d be great. Instead, they’re hideous pseudo-freeways lined by dirt and cyclone fencing. We don’t need ten-story tenements to build an urban environment for everyone. We just need walkability and neighborhoods worth walking in. Let’s have a little respect for ourselves and do away with the dirty and depressing cartopia of the ‘70s.
No matter how good a cook you are, by Saturday the turkey leftovers are just plain disgusting!
Three things you shouldn’t charge and why:
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Banking/CreditCardSmarts/3-things-you-shouldnt-charge.aspx?page=1
5 things you should never charge to your credit card and why
http://www.askmrcreditcard.com/creditcardblog/5-things-you-should-never-charge-to-your-credit-card/
I thought you might be interested in this article. It has some great advice for newly laid off people.
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SavingandDebt/ManageDebt/laid-off-your-works-just-starting.aspx
According to the Mercury News, the city of San Jose commissioned a public art installation by Mr. Elahi for the airport’s new terminal. Mr. Elahi claim to fame is he published the details of his life to the web because he thinks the US government is going to send him to Guantánamo Bay for being a terrorist.
Unfortunately Mr. Elahi’s art rests on the irrational notion that if he were a terrorist, he would be posting an incriminating stream evidence to the web while an innocent man would post a boring stream of nothingness.
If the city of San Jose and Ms. Goldstein have money to buy public art celebrating the paranoid, I hope there are at least two installations celebrating the brave.
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_11103605
The future of the Mercury News? From a New York Times column about Pasadena Now outsourcing local news reporting to India:
But then in October, Dean Singleton, The Associated Press’s chairman and the head of the MediaNews Group — which counts The Pasadena Star-News, The Denver Post and The Detroit News in its stable of 54 daily newspapers — told the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association that his company was looking into outsourcing almost every aspect of publishing, including possibly having one news desk for all of his papers, “maybe even offshore.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/opinion/30dowd.html
The crescent moon will join Venus & Jupiter in the southwest evening sky Sunday night- a rare and beautiful spectacle and you can’t beat the admission price.
It’s good knowing there’s still something left that can’t be screwed up by pandering Democrat politicians.
#6- John Galt,
Christian and I saw this beautiful event Sunday night! We were driving in the Saratoga Hills when we spotted it. It really is a beautiful sight. And yes, the admission price works for me too! See John, even we Democrats can agree with you Republicans on something’s!
The Martin Luther King Jr. Association is hosting these up coming events in order to raise money for scholarships for low income, and minority college students. Please join them in their efforts by coming, and by helping us to get the word out to the community! Thank you!
Come Join Us for our 25Th Anniversary
The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Association of Santa Clara Valley is celebrating Dr. King’s birthday and our 25Th anniversary during the week-end and holiday of January 17th Saturday- January 19th Monday 2009.
We have three exciting events planned for the week-end.The first is a brunch planned for the morning of the 17th,Saturday, from 10:a.m. to 1:00 p.m. This is a departure from our previous breakfast dates on Dr. King’s birthday before the “Freedom Train”. This year the brunch will be on Saturday the 17th Our speaker will be Dr. Harry Edwards a noted speaker and author dealing with the sociology of sports. The brunch will take place at the Holiday Inn Mediterranean room at 1740 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95112. Tickets $55.00 or $550.00 per table.
The second event, also on Saturday the 17th is our Spiritual Night. A Gospel concert will be held at San Jose State University in the Theater at 6:00 pm. on the 17th We are co-sponsoring this event with the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library.The theater is next to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library on 4th and San Fernando. The concert is free and parking is available in the parking garage across the street.
The third event is the “Freedom Train”. This signature event of the King Association will take place on January 19th. The train will leave San Jose at 9:30 am. This is a change from our previous “Trains” which left at 10:00 am.
Scheduling for the train is as following: San Jose 9:30 a,
Sunnyvale 9:45 am, Palo Alto 9:59 am, San Mateo 10:22 am, arriving at San Fransisco 10:55 am. Tickets are $5.00 and can be purchased at the African American Community Service Agency in San Jose at 6Th and Julian. Their number is 408-292-3157. Or they can be bought at Emmanuel Baptist church at 467 N. White Rd. in San Jose, CA. 408-272-1360.
You may reach the association at P.O. Box 32306, San Jose,CA. 95152, 408-435-7499.
More to point by #8:
US NEWSPAPER AD SALES FALL A RECORD $2B in 3Q
By The AP 01 Dec 2008
LOS ANGELES – U.S. newspaper advertising revenue collapsed by nearly $2 billion, or 18 percent, in the third quarter, according to the Newspaper Association of America, an industry group. Even online ad revenue made a small U-turn for the second quarter in a row.
The year-on-year quarterly percentage decline is the worst since since the NAA has been keeping such records and represents an increasingly rapid deceleration that began in the third quarter of 2006, when total ad spending dropped 1.5 percent.
The figures, updated on the day before the Thanksgiving holiday, show total ad spending at newspapers fell 18.1 percent to $8.94 billion, down from $10.92 billion in the third quarter last year.
The last time total quarterly ad spending fell below $9 billion was in the first quarter of 1996.
Print ad revenue dropped 19.3 percent to $8.19 billion from $10.15 billion. Online ad revenue fell 3 percent to $749.8 million from $773.0 million a year ago — a remarkable turnaround since the steady double-digit growth from 2004 to 2007.